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The British newspaper the Guardian reports today that Jimmy Carter, who has been in Israel and just met with top Hamas officials in Gaza, said of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent speech: “My opinion is he raised many new obstacles to peace that had not existed under previous prime ministers. … He still apparently…
Today, President Obama spoke before the American Medical Association. ANNE SHEETZ, MD, via Jim Rhodes A Chicago-based physician, Sheetz only does house calls to elderly home-bound patients. She is protesting with others today across from the AMA convention, where Obama noted that a single-payer option works in other countries but stated that we in the…
PATRICK DOHERTY, via Kate Brown Deputy director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, Doherty co-wrote today’s Washington Post piece “The Iranian People Speak” with Ken Ballen of Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion. The piece states: “The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people.…
President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at the American Medical Association in Chicago on Monday. AARON CARROLL, M.D., M.S. Lead author of a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on doctors’ views on a national health program, Carroll is associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Center for Health Policy and…
VICTOR AGOSTO Available for a limited number of interviews, Agosto, a soldier based at Fort Hood in Texas, is publicly refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He recently wrote on military forms: “There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is immoral and unjust. It does not make the American people any…
MUHAMMAD SAHIMI Sahimi is professor of chemical engineering at the University of Southern California. Several of his articles about the election are available here. He also recently wrote a New York Times oped titled “Iran’s Power Struggle.” He contrasted Iran’s election system with U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. NIKI AKHAVAN Akhavan is…
LEONARD ZESKIND Zeskind is author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. More Information DAVID NEIWERT Neiwert is author of the just-released book The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right as well as three other books on right-wing extremism and its effects on…
The current version of the supplemental spending bill contains about $100 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan and also about $100 billion for the IMF. A House vote in May passed with overwhelming Republican support and 51 Democrats voting against — but this did not include the IMF funding, which Republicans are opposing. This…
On Wednesday, a House subcommittee dealing with health is scheduled to hold a hearing titled “Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option” at 10:30 a.m. Also on Wednesday, there will be a briefing on healthcare reform, “How Do We Pay For It?” at 2237 Rayburn House Office Building at 1:30 p.m. Interviews are available with…
Obama administration envoy George Mitchell is traveling to the Mideast. Rep. Donna Edwards recently returned from Gaza. As Obama was traveling to Cairo, the Palestinian group Hamas, which won the most recent Palestinian election, sent a letter to President Obama through the feminist peace group CODEPINK, which just had a delegation in Gaza. Here is…
