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Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union, Local 100, heads to jail today to serve a 10-day sentence for authorizing a strike in December that shut down New York City's Transit system for a little more than two days. Hours before heading jail, Toussaint joins us in our firehouse studio to discuss the strike, the future of the union and what he calls the "extortionist media."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:36am PDT
New Orleans held its first election after the Hurricane Katrina disaster on Saturday. Mayor Ray Nagin and Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu won the two top spots and will face each other in a run-off in May. Tens of thousands of displaced residents were no allowed to vote. We speak with Ted Shaw of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:34am PDT
CAIRO, April23 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has okayed three plans on terror combat, envisaging a significantly expanded role for the military and special forces outside war zones, a leading US daily reported on Tuesday, April23 ....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:28am PDT
For a growing number of US workers, dreams of a decent retirement are quickly evaporating as companies shift retirement costs onto workers, in the form of deductions from already declining wages, in order to maintain profits in a competitive global economy....
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2006 7:26am PDT
Alaska is a target for a Police State. It is far removed from the Lower 48 and the stories here are historical. The opportunity for misconduct is great. The reward is the Permanent Fund Money and property of victims to support a Government that needs to pay for the Governor's Jet and trips. It takes teamwork and it's here and running like a well oiled machine....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 11:47pm PDT
The future of your PEG community television stations
and your access to an open internet are being decided
this week in Congress!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 5:47pm PDT
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States is today's guest on Robert McChesney's weekly radio program about the media....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 10:51am PDT
Anthony Arnove's new book, Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal (The New Press, 2006) is tailored after Howard Zinn's 1967 brief against the Vietnam War. Arnove has worked closely with Zinn on Voices of a People's History of the United States and a collection of interviews, Terrorism and War. Zinn provides both a foreword and afterword to Arnove's book. Arnove spoke with Counterpunch from his home in Brooklyn....
Posted: Sun, Apr 23, 2006 8:55am PDT
Changes in White House personnel announced earlier this week represented a reshuffling of key Bush loyalists rather than any fundamental change in policy. The shifts began immediately after former budget director Joshua Bolten took over as the new White House chief of staff Friday, replacing Andrew Card, who announced his resignation last month....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 6:48pm PDT
Still staggering after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their city, New Orleans voters were yesterday selecting the candidate they want to lead one of the biggest reconstruction projects in US history....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 6:47pm PDT
"Attacks against corporations by animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists are costly to the targeted company and, over time, can undermine confidence in the economy. ... Although we have no specific, credible information at this time suggesting animal rights extremists and eco-terrorists are planning to target known corporations, we encourage private sector owners and operators to remain vigilant, report suspicious activity, and continue to enhance protective measures."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 12:36pm PDT
The other day during a brief press opportunity, President Bush expressed his concern about rising gasoline prices, assuring Americans that his administration feels the public's pain, while laying out three reasons for rocketing prices of the past two months....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:30am PDT
In the 1980s Melanie Dreher and colleagues at UMass Amherst began a longitudinal study to assess the well-being of infants and children whose mothers used cannabis during pregnancy. The researchers lived in rural Jamaican communities among the women they were studying. Thirty cannabis-using pregnant women were matched for age and socio-economic status with 30 non-users. Dreher et al compared the course of their pregnancies and their neo-natal outcomes, using various standard scales....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:28am PDT
CAIRO, April21 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – America's allure for the Middle Easterners has been waning with the economic rift between the Mideast nations and the United States opened after the9 / 11attacks has widened into a chasm, reported the Washington Post on Friday, April21 ....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:25am PDT
WASHINGTON, April22 , 2006 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The Central Intelligence Agency warned US President George W. Bush before the Iraq war that it had reliable information the government of Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, a retired CIA operative has disclosed....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:23am PDT
When Lewis Alsamari fled Iraq more than 10 years ago, he cannot have imagined that a terrorist atrocity would indirectly offer him the biggest break of his career....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 9:14am PDT
After nationally syndicated columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin posted the e-mail addresses and phone numbers of three members of Students Against War, they received a flood of obscene and harassing messages from around the country, including death threats. When a liberal Web site, in retaliation, published Malkin's cell phone number and home address, a full-blown blog war ensued.
"I am now forced to remove one of my children from school and move my family," Malkin wrote Thursd...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 7:06am PDT
1) Hunger Strike Calling for Blanco to Provide a Fair Election - Call to Join/Support evacuees
2) Katrina evacuees continue hunger strike at Louisiana state capitol
3) Tens of thousands of displaced New Orleanians will be unable to vote in Saturday's municipal elections; Governor Blanco can single-handedly prevent it. But she won't.
4) 'New Orleans is our Gettysburg'; A Generation's Defining Event -- by the Editors of The Black Commentator...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 11:38pm PDT
Flyers for May Day CACEROLAZO! In English and Spanish...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 10:08pm PDT
Cindy Sheehan asks us to get outside of our "comfort zones" and demand an end to human rights violations being committed by our government in our name....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 7:30pm PDT