Atlanta Progressive News

  Israeli war crimes during the Gaza massacre, widely reported at the time, are now being investigated and confirmed by many independent sources, including the testimony of Israeli soldiers themselves.  Here is a sampling of the many new disclosures (links and/or more info about the numbered items appear below):   1.  UN human rights official Richard Falk not only accuses […]

A new report from Campaign for America’s Future reveals 8,722 more Georgia students would receive Pell Grants if excessive lender subsidies are cut. Such a change would provide an average Pell Grant of $3,010 to 181,580 students across Georgia. The bad news is that the average cost of tuition in a public college in Georgia increased 19 percent from 2000 […]

President Obama announced Friday that the United States will send 20,000 additional troops into Afghanistan to fight Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.  In February, Peace Action, the nation’s largest peace and disarmament organization, bound together 19 other national groups to petition Congress to sign a letter to the president urging him to reconsider escalating forces in Afghanistan.  “The 2001 authorization to […]

Environmental Georgia, Georgia Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), Georgia Rural Urban Summit, and Health Care for America joined together Friday with a national campaign that urges Congress to support and pass President Obama’s 2010 budget. “The investments in our nation’s future that President Obama is calling for will help make America more energy efficient, make health care better and more […]

Remember the Atlanta Story? I do. It was a community paper started by the original founder of Creative Loafing in Atlanta, Debbie Eason. APN did a story about The Story when it stopped printing and went online-only. But apparently, now the Story is no more-y. It occurred to me I hadn’t heard anything from or about them in a while, […]

From the AJC (reprinted for informational purposes): The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said Wednesday it will cut its full-time news staff by about 90 people, or nearly 30 percent, to lower costs as it tries to regain profitability amid a severe revenue slump. The company also announced it will eliminate distribution to seven more outlying counties, reducing its circulation area to 20 […]

As previously reported on APB, three Georgia Republicans in the US House–Broun, Kingston, and Price–had supported a bill by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to audit the Federal Reserve. US Rep. Deal added himself as a cosponsor on March 23, 2009. This brought the total cosponsors to 44, including some progressive Democrats.

APN received an email from Glenn Thomas, who is running for Mayor of Atlanta.  We hope to bring you more information about him soon in our ongoing series with Mayoral candidates.  So far we’ve interviewed Caesar Mitchell, Kasim Reed, and Mary Norwood, with Norwood’s interview scheduled to run on the website tomorrow (Thursday). Thomas’s website, www.glennthomasforchange.com, so far reveals little […]

Wow, guess what? Another new online news service by a veteran AJC reporter and editor of investigations, Jim Wallis. He’s going after public corruption stories- awesome! Apparently, he used to write these kinds of stories for the AJC; you know, the research-based stories the AJC doesn’t run no mo’. Behold; seeing is believing: Atlanta Unfiltered. Maybe someone should have told […]

Tomorrow, John Monds, who ran for Public Service Commission in 2008, will announce tomorrow his Libertarian candidacy for Georgia Governor. “During his campaign for Public Service Commission (District 1) in 2008, Monds became the first Libertarian to break one million votes in the United States,” according to a press release obtained by APN. That’s a big deal. Other 2010 candidates- […]

Progressive economists (Krugman, Reich, Baker, Stiglitz) warn that time is running out on the Paulson/Geithner approach of trying to bribe the Lords of Finance who destroyed the economy with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to fix it.  The standard approach in such situations is nationalization/rationalization/ reorganization — the government temporarily takes over insolvent banks, fires the management, wipes out […]