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Dave Lindorff: "Make no mistake: this whole story has the odor of a "black op" designed to target the American people. If so it was an act of high treason."...

People across Ghana are celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from Britain today. On March 6th, 1957, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan country to gain independence from colonial rule. It inspired a wave of liberation struggles around Africa and the world. Just three years later, 17 more colonies had gained their independence....

New Zealand’s coalition government last month lost its outright majority in parliament following the resignation from the Labour Party of one of its MPs. Former Associate Minister of Immigration Taito Philip Field had been stood down from his duties by Prime Minister Helen Clark while facing a police investigation into allegations that he attempted to improperly influence immigration applications. He resigned rather than face expulsion proceedings after he told a television interviewer he wou...

At his March 4th speech in Alabama to commemorate the Anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, Barack Obama confronted the allegation that he is “not black” by connecting his family history to the civil rights movement. Some of what he said in the speech was technically untrue, but Obama was not trying to mislead the audience. While he implied that the 1965 Selma March – which occurred when he was four years old – caused his parents to first meet, Obama later explained that he meant to s...

The Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines (AJLPP), an alliance of Filipino American and allied solidarity organizations working for peace and justice, anti-war and racism in the United States and a member of the ANSWER Coalition will mobilize for the nationwide mass protests against the 4th year of the U.S Invasion and Occupation of Iraq and the 40th anniversary of the people’s march in Pentagon. March 1967 at the height of the US War in Vietnam. Los Angeles and Washingt...

Lytton Plaza University x Emerson, Downtown Palo Alto Eshoo's Office, 698 Emerson Street...

Dennis' stance on the issues 1. US out of Iraq * 12 point plan 2. Universal Health Care 3. Jobs and Withdrawal from NAFTA and WTO 4. Repeal the Patriot Act 5. Guaranteed Quality Education, Pre-K Through College 6. Full Social Security Benefits at Age 65 7. End the Drug War 8. Fair Elections with Paper Ballots 9. Environmental Renewal and Clean Energy 10. Restored Rural Communities and Family Farms...

We were surprised and delighted to see our local Alameda newspaper showing not only the courage to publish a powerful piece of artwork on it's front page, but their excellent editorial explaining their views on the issue in the opinion section. They call attention not to the art specifically, but to the response from some members of the community to first vandalize and then call the Secret Service, rather than attempt to engage in dialog. Sound familiar? Not unlike the typical behaviors we...

With less than two months to go to crucial French presidential elections, a number of prominent French intellectuals have declared their support for the right-wing presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP—Union for a Popular Movement)....

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks which are likely to cover the crises in Lebanon and Iraq and Tehran's nuclear programme....