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Britain: Behind the suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone
Every so often, an incident occurs that reveals issues more fundamental than those presented as its immediate source....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 10:35pm PST
Bush & Co have violated every major Republican Principle (audio/mpeg 323.6KB)
Jim Fetzer of 911ST.org on Real Republican Values. This is just a 41 sec clip from a two hour show.
He's says something to the effect of this:
The Bush administration is the most blatantly corrupt administration in US History.
AND they have violated many important Republican principles such as
balanced budgets
constitutional government
non-interventionist foreign policy
and keeping government out of peoples’ personal lives.
Why would any Republican support this Bush and his ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 6:51pm PST
Resolution to Impeach Bush-Cheney Passes 7-3
On Tuesday, February 28, 2006, the City and County of San Francisco became the first large municipality to call for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney, by a 7-3 vote. Supervisors Sean Elsbernd, Michela Alioto-Pier, and Sophie Maxwell cast the dissenting votes (Sup. Jake McGoldrick was absent for the vote). Sup. Chris Daly commenced his introduction of Agenda Item 27 with "I initially thought this ... would be a noncontroversial piece of legislation. Perhaps it still is, maybe...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:35pm PST
Candidate Filing Deadline is March 10
Last day to file for offices on the June 6, 2006 ballot is 5 p.m., Friday, March 10. If the incumbent does not file, the deadline is extended to 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 15....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 12:39pm PST
Snap election heightens political crisis in Thailand
A decision by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the national parliament and call a snap election for April 2 has only intensified the political difficulties confronting his government. The main parliamentary opposition parties have announced a boycott of the poll, calling into question the legitimacy of any result....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:20am PST
Step 2: Bush lied -- Congress must speak out
Thanks in part to your efforts, the breaking news about Bush's smoking gun Katrina warning is spreading rapidly. However, the media is largely not featuring what is perhaps the most obvious revelation of all: Bush lied....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:33pm PST
TRANSGENDER SOCIAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST FILES FOR ROY BLUNT'S SEAT IN CONGRESS
On Monday March 28th Midge Potts of Springfield traveled to Jefferson City to file for Missouri's 7th District U.S. Representative in the August 8th Republican primary.
Ms. Potts, whose legal name remains Mitchell, also filed the appropriate forms with the Missouri Secretary of State's office to have have he/r name listed as Midge on the official ballot. S/he has been living fulltime as a woman for more than two years.
"Anybody could represent Southwest Missouri better than Roy Bl...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 12:09pm PST
MILLIONAIRES FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA CLUB
A government of the people? No - Government of and for the millionaire? yes...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 10:51am PST
Video shows Bush was warned before Katrina struck
US disaster officials warned President George Bush in dramatic and sometimes agonising terms that Hurricane Katrina could breach New Orleans levees....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:57am PST
V.A. Nurse Accused of Sedition After Publishing Letter Critical of Bush on Katrina, Iraq
A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:46am PST
This is McCarthyism updated for a new age, says Livingstone
Ken Livingstone, who was suspended as mayor of London after comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard, yesterday accused leading Jews of pursuing a policy of "McCarthyism updated for a new age"....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:33pm PST
General Michel Aoun to ‘Monday Morning’:
He has the gift of facilitating matters. With him formalities and ceremonial go by the board. The conversation is quickly under way with the “General” at his residence in Rabiyé, which was thronged with young people and retired Army officers who remain devoted to him. There, one found those who had remained faithful to him, who had waited patiently for 15 years for his return from exile. I saw myself propelled back 16 years to Baabda Palace, with the same images and sensations. But that was a...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 9:04am PST
Bush travels to South Asia in pursuit of key strategic “partnership” with India
US President George W. Bush travels to South Asia this week with the aim of cementing a strategic and “global” partnership with India. According to his aides, the trip is among the most important that Bush has made in his entire presidency....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:55am PST
As New Orleans Mayoral Race Looms, Displaced Residents Urged to Vote Absentee
The race for the mayor’s office in storm-ravaged New Orleans may take on a different tone next month, with incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin trying to reach city voters strewn across the country while fighting a challenge from a feisty black minister, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor and a host of other candidates....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:40am PST
Your War in My Womb, My Middle Finger in Your Face
Your War in My Womb, My Middle Finger in Your Face
Mara Ortenberger, project collective...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 10:57pm PST
Bolivia After the Election of Evo Morales: What Way Next?
Bolivia After the Election of Evo Morales: What Way Next?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 10:45pm PST
AKBAYAN: to bury the truth, GMA killed Philippine democracy
AKBAYAN Party today denounced anew GMA's declaration of a State of National Emergency, saying that the draconian measures that the government imposed yesterday completely exposed the despotic inclinations of the ruling regime....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:52pm PST
Kurt Vonnegut horrified by the hypocrisy of US politics
In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics (Buy A Man Without a Country at the Guardian bookshop)...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 3:09pm PST
Peter Camejo Joins CA Governor's Race
This isn't a great article, but no surprise coming from Sacramento. Peter is an excellent candidate....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:44pm PST
Final Senate Patriot Act vote tomorrow!
[Capitol switchboard for all Senators: 202-224-3121 Also:
888-818-6641, 888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:56pm PST