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Francis Fukuyama: Running from the blood Francis Fukuyama's change of heart on Iraq comes too late and at too high a price, writes Firas Al-Atraqchi...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 7:01pm PDT
Why Are You Here? First-hand observations of how the Iraqi people have suffered show why Iraqis--for the past three years and despite a U.S. importation of democracy--have wanted the occupation to end....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 5:45pm PDT
Seeking an "Even Playing Field" in Haiti: Washington and UN build Anti-Lavalas Coalitions 
This article appears at Narconews and in French in Haiti Progres Weekly....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 4:19pm PDT
How a Wal-Mart Bank Will Harm Consumers Let me address two fundamental questions before the FDIC. One is whether the current regulatory treatment of industrial loan banks (ILB) is good policy or whether it is a bad loophole in what is otherwise good, prudential regulation. The other is whether extending an ILB charter to Wal-Mart amounts to a significant expansion of that policy....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 9:11am PDT
Black is White; White is Black: Bush and Freedom of Speech I suspect Andrew Jones and George W. Bush have never consulted one another on their plans. But I do know that they need each other. A founding member of the Bruin Alumni Association, Jones wants to pay students to monitor the speech of professors in order to uncover any ideologically inappropriate and/or seditious speech. Jones and I are also connected because we are both UCLA grads. But while I embraced disparate ideas at UCLA, Jones feared them....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 9:08am PDT
The End of the Internet? Net Neutrality Threatened by Cable, Telecom Interests The vital concept of net neutrality - universal and non-discriminatory to the Internet - is at risk. Phone and cable companies are lobbying Congress for legislation that would permit them to operate Internet and other digital communications services as private networks, free of policy safeguards or governmental oversight. We speak with Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:53am PDT
Village Voice: Top Journalist Fired, Writers Resign Following Merger with New Times Media We focus on the shakeup at the Village Voice, where one of the paper's top investigative reporters was fired and two of its prize-winning writers resigned following a merger with the New Times Media - a chain of weekly newspapers based in Phoenix. In this week's issues, about 20 staffers wrote an open letter protesting the dismissal of James Ridgeway - the paper's Washington correspondent and one of its chief investigative reporters covering national news. Ridgeway had written for the paper f...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:52am PDT
The Stake for Asian Americans in Immigration Reform The current immigration debate has huge implications for the Asian American community but they have largely been left out of the coverage of the immigration rights movement. On a teleconference call organized by New America Media and the Asian American Justice Center (AAJA), Traci Hong, Director of Immigration Programs for AAJA, told a group of 25 reporters and editors from the Asian press across the country that immigration was the civil rights issues of the 21st century and would affect all...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:48am PDT
Shared Struggle: Gays, Immigrants Each Can Be Labeled 'Illegal' Marta Donayre, Apr 12, 2006...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 8:47am PDT
Don't Attack Iran Cindy Sheehan: "The doctrine of pre-emptive war is an abominable doctrine... When our leaders go terrorist hunting, they kill innocent men, women and children, and they themselves become the very thing that they are trying to teach us to loathe."...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 6:22am PDT
BENEFIT SHOW for the BAY AREA COALITION TO FIGHT THE MINUTEMEN! 
FRIDAY, APRIL 14th BALAZO 18 GALLERY 6pm
(2183 Mission st, near 18th)
6pm-8pm: Chican@ dinner, short documentary:"New World Border", talk w/ film-maker and educator Jose Palafox about current border militarization and anti-immigrant repression, (also a veterano punkero and member of newly formed hard-core punk band- Baader Brains).
EARLY SHOW!!!
Bands start 8pm sharrrp! ends at Midnight! DJ's, dancing + drinking + cotoreando/flirting ;} continues till late...
Firme (headl...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 2:45am PDT
interview with melik rahim (audio/mpeg 9.7MB) great interview
21.08 minutes
64kbs...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 8:07pm PDT
Jeff Free Luers writes about State Repression - April 2006 By now everyone knows about the arrests and indictments handed down to 11 people charged with ELF actions. The SHAC 7 have been convicted on all counts for maintaining a website. Rod Coronado has been arrested for explaining how he committed his arsons. Activists have been arrested in Sacramento charged with thought crime. Not to mention the various Grand Jury investigations around the country....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 1:05pm PDT
Documentary and Weekend of Resistance Updates 
Friends,
We have just a few things we want to bring to everyone's attention. See below for more details.
1. The documentary '22/8: The Jeffrey Free Luers Story' is now available on DVD.
2. A general event flyer is now available for the International Weekend of Resistance Against the Green Scare (June 9-11, 2006). More flyers should be available soon, including a generic flyer with blank space to include the details of your event.
3. There are reports of Weekend of Resistance eve...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 1:01pm PDT
Classic Cointelpro - The Trial of Arlo Looking Cloud The US government tried Arlo Looking Cloud for the murder of Anna Mae Aquash the ranking woman of the American Indian Movement. Arlo was found guilty of aiding and abetting a murder. No evidence was presented a gainst Arlo. Testimony was hearsay and about the American Indian Movement, not Arlo. The trial was the mop up of a war game against the American Indian Movement. It is called cointelpro....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 12:24pm PDT
Border Concerns of Native Communities Addressed CORNWALL, Ontario - Since Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. government has taken many steps to secure the country and protect it from terrorists. Communities along both of the U.S. borders have been personally impacted by the changes, particular Native communities like Akwesasne....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:02am PDT
Washington Pulse -- Following Your Money Taxpayers beware: With tax cuts creating deficits instead of investments, our federal checkbook is not being handled responsibly in Washington. Mark Lloyd, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, teaches public policy at Georgetown University and is an award-winning broadcast journalist. He writes a monthly column for New America Media called "Washington Pulse."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:01am PDT
CEO pay in US continues its relentless climb in 2005 Few things expose the real character of American society and politics more clearly than the extraordinary and ever-increasing level of inequality, the accumulation of vast, almost incomprehensible, sums of wealth in the hands of relatively small group of people. The United States is a country in which the entire corporate and political structure is dominated by one overarching drive: the personal enrichment of a narrow oligarchy....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:35pm PDT
A Markerless Grave in Vacaville 
Cindy Sheehan answers her cruelest critics....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:00pm PDT
Generals as Private Contractors: The Fourth Plague Hits the Pentagon In Exodus, the Fourth Plague sent upon the Egyptians was a plague of flies. A similar plague of flies has settled on the U.S. military, in the form of a swarm of retired senior officers working as contractors. Not satisfied with their generous pensions, they wheedle six-figure contracts out of senior officer "buddies" still on active duty. In return for steam shovel loads of the taxpayers' money, they offer "advice" that is, overwhelmingly, flyspeck....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 5:56pm PDT
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