http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp Giving voice to a world of new ideas! Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:51:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not long ago, the most prominent supporters of the public option were touting it as essential for healthcare reform. Now, suddenly, it’s incidental. In fact, many who were lauding a public option as the key to a better healthcare future are now condemning just about anyone who insists that the absence ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/zero-public-option-one-mandate-disasterby-norman-solomon-318 Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ The House is now debating a War Powers Resolution to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan. See live video: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN.aspx GARETH PORTER Porter recently wrote the piece "Fiction of Marja as City Was U.S. ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/now-congress-debating-afghanistan-war-310 By Stephen Zunes, March 4, 2010 It was a relatively short response to a question in a town hall-style meeting in Florida, yet it said much about President Barack Obama's lack of concern about human rights in his foreign policy. The question came not from a hostile Republican opponent, but from ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/obama-stumbles-on-human-rights-34 We just learned Doris Granny D Haddock, a wonderful human being, passed away today, and we are sad and sorry to know she is gone. She represented the best of grassroots activism for the common good and literally walked the walk of what she advocated by crossing the U.S. on ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/our-beloved-speaker-doris-granny-d-haddock-passed-away-at-the-age-of-100-39 Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ The Washington Post reports today: "House leaders will allow three hours of formal debate, probably Wednesday, on an antiwar resolution written by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio), one of the leading antiwar voices in Congress. The resolution, ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/afghanistan-withdrawal-debate-in-congress-39 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ ROBERT WEISSMAN, http://www.citizen.org Weissman is president of Public Citizen, which just released a statement: "Americans Need an Independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency." http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=3059 ROB JOHNSON, http://www.newdeal20.org/?author=11 ABC News ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/another-financial-crisis-on-way-strong-regulation-needed-33 On the web: http://accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=2183 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ KIM IVES, http://www.haiti-liberte.com Ives, a journalist with Haiti Liberté newspaper, just returned from Haiti on Thursday. He reports that with the rainy season coming, tens of thousands of Haitians ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/why-is-haiti-so-poor-31 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ MarketWatch reports today: "Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., has dropped plans for a separate, stand-alone agency to protect consumers against credit-card and mortgage fraud in a bid to restart stalled financial reform legislation." WILLIAM K. ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/having-consumer-protection-under-treasury-a-sick-joke-31 Playwright Lillian Hellman said: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.” The statement was in a letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The year was 1952. We tell ourselves that the McCarthy era was vastly different than our own -- but what about the ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/war-politics-numb-and-number-by-norman-solomon-225 Institute for Public Accuracy 980 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ STEFFIE WOOLHANDLER, M.D., M.P.H. MARGARET FLOWERS, M.D. QUENTIN YOUNG, M.D. MARK ALMBERG Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 17,000 doctors who support a ... http://www.speakersclearinghouse.org/wp/single-payer-advocates-excluded-from-summit-take-to-sidewalk-224