2010 September | Progressive Voices

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 09 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Ecuador: “Obama Should Oppose Any Attempted Coup” 9/30

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ AFP is reporting: “Ecuador was plunged into political crisis Thursday as troops seized the country’s...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 09 28th, 2010 | No Comments

* Israel Seizes Jewish Boat to Gaza * UN Finds Israel “Executed” U.S. Citizen 9/28

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ REUVEN MOSKOVITZ, RAMI ELHANAN, LILIAN ROSENGARTEN, YONATAN SHAPIRA, http://jewishboattogaza.org; Information...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 09 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Repression in Honduras? Dinner at the White House 9/21

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ ADRIENNE PINE Recently back from Honduras, Pine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University....

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 09 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Poverty Jump and “Shredding the Safety Net” 9/16

Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ The New York Times is reporting: “Forty-four million people in the United States, or one in seven residents,...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 09 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Elections Are a Waste of Time — If… By Norman Solomon 9/16

A pithy idea — now going around in some progressive circles — is that elections are a waste of time. The idea can be catchy. It all depends on some tacit assumptions. For instance: elections are a waste of time if you figure the U.S. government is so far gone that it can’t get much worse. Elections...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members, Reposted from CommonDreams.org on 09 14th, 2010 | No Comments

Job Growth, Not GDP Growth by Dave Lindorff 9/13

Published on Monday, September 13, 2010 by ThisCan’tBeHappening.net Obama’s Rose-Colored Glasses: Growth Has Little or Nothing to Do with Jobs or Reducing Poverty by Dave Lindorff Faced with the bad, but hardly surprising news, that poverty has increased in the US on his watch, to a...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 09 13th, 2010 | No Comments

Right-Wing Republicans vs. Corporate Democrats vs. Progressive Populists by Norman Solomon

At this bleak political moment, gaining congressional power for progressives might seem like pie in the sky. More and more desperate efforts are underway to stave off a Republican takeover of Congress. But the necessity of trying to prevent right-wing rule on Capitol Hill should not obscure the need...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 09 8th, 2010 | No Comments

“Great American Stickup” Author: Obama Should Dump Econ Team 9/8

ROBERT SCHEER, http://www.TruthDig.com Editor of TruthDig.com, Scheer is author of the new book “The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street.” Scheer recently wrote the piece “They Go or Obama Goes,”...

Posted by admin in Articles/Commentary by Members on 09 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Europe Protests 9/7

RICHARD WOLFF, http://www.rdwolff.com Recently back from Europe, Wolff is author of the book "Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It." He said today: "Today's general strike across France represents a major escalation of mass opposition to governments seeking...

Posted by admin in IPA Analysts on Breaking Stories on 09 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Washington’s Mideast Talks 9/2

Amb. EDWARD L. PECK Available for a limited number of interviews, Peck was chief of mission in Iraq and Mauritania and deputy director of the White House Task Force on Terrorism in the Reagan administration. On May 31, he sailed from Athens aboard the M/S Sfendoni as part of the flotilla taking...

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