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Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Greg Palast, Charles Goyette, Chris Hedges, Samantha Power
Huey Pierce Long, Jr., Greg Palast, Charles Goyette interviewing Chris Hedges, "American Foreign Policy and Amnesia: The Case of Iraq" by Samantha Power. Four audio parts which are each 27 minutes long....
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 6:50pm PST
Group Files Lawsuit to Get Information about Julie McDonald, Disgraced Interior Appointee
Julie McDonald, a corrupt Bush administration official who resigned from her position with the Department of Interior in April during a scandal over her meddling with Endangered Species Act listings, is the subject of litigation launched against the Department by the Center for Biological Diversity on December 27.
The Center filed a lawsuit in federal district court demanding that the U.S. Department of the Interior and one of its agencies, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, hand over pu...
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 7:01pm PST
US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan
Thursday, December 27, 2007 :The Bush administration is preparing to significantly increase US troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell growing popular hostility to the US and NATO occupying forces. It is doing so with full confidence that it will face no significant opposition from the Democratic-controlled Congress. On the contrary, much of the criticism from leading Democrats of the administration’s conduct of the war in Iraq has been based on the charge that the US preoccupation...
Posted: Thu, Dec 27, 2007 7:51am PST
New Energy Bill- Working People will Pay
The Democrats and Republicans have made it clear that they are the corporate parties and they only represent the interests of the capitalists and the billionaires. The new energy bill is another long term payment plan that will be required of working class people while the billionaires continue to collect....
Posted: Sun, Dec 23, 2007 12:34pm PST
America Doesn't Welcome Everyone Home For the Holidays
This is a press release from the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty released on December 10 (International Human Rights Day)...
Posted: Mon, Dec 10, 2007 7:47am PST
Mortgage Crisis Jeopardizing Working Class Families
If the two corporate parties, the Democrats and Republicans, take a wait-and-see attitude while the mortgage lenders and multi-billionaires take the hard-earned family resources of millions of Americans, the results will be catastrophic for working class families, and ultimately for our entire economy....
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2007 7:04pm PST
Dixon Downs Horse Racing Dumped by Voters!
The latest election in Dixon resulted in a defeat for Magna Entertainment Corporation (MEC), who was planning on building a horseracing megastadium in Dixon, CA. The residents of Dixon said "NO" to MEC's smog, nitrate pollution and cruelty to animals by voting against this planned development. Congrats to Dixon for thier victory!!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 24, 2007 3:28pm PST
Statement on Health Care Proposals in Legislature
At its meeting in Fresno on November 11, 2007, the State Central Committee issued the following resolution:...
Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 5:40am PST
NO MILITARY STRYKERS HAWAI’I ISLAND
No Stryker Brigade here in Hawaii. “It is for urban warfare. It is possible in the future that these kinds of weapons could be used here against our own people.” Says Hilo resident about the Stryker Brigade build-up in Hawai’i....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 1:40am PDT
Norman Solomon's "War Made Easy" Documents How Presidents and Media Collude in Waging War
Norman Solomon's "War Made Easy" documentary must be seen by everyone who wants to understand how the media and U.S. politicians collude in waging one war after another. This article appeared in the September-October edition of Because People Matter, a progressive newspaper based in Sacramento.
Photo: Norman Solomon and Cindy Sheehan in Sacramento in April 2007. Photo by Bill Lackemacher, Sacramento for Democracy...
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 6:24pm PDT
Modesto Anarcho Distro Catalogue!
Modesto Anarcho distribution catalogue. Various anarchist and radical texts and journals. Theory, analysis, parxis, and history....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 11:11am PDT
Carta abierta a Bush!
Fresno, California, Estados Unidos a 11 de septiembre de 2007....
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2007 7:20pm PDT
Alexander: US Government Should Protect Homeowners
Stewart A. Alexander, a presidential hopeful with Peace and Freedom Party and Social Party USA, says President Bush and Congress could do more to protect homeowners during this nationwide home mortgage crisis. Alexander has ruled out a federal bail-out of mortgage lenders and believes homeowners need federal protection; he is introducing several steps to ease this national crisis....
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 5:38pm PDT
Presidential Candidate Wants Iraq Vote on Ballots
Many top Congressional Democrats and Republicans are now taking the position that it will be necessary for the US to maintain a military presence in Iraq into 2009. Despite plummeting American support for the Iraq War, Congress continues to support the occupation and American imperialism. Stewart Alexander, a presidential hopeful with Peace and Freedom Party, believes it has become necessary to put the Iraq War vote in the hands of the American voters....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 11:06am PDT
United State's Social Forum: A Sacramentan's account
A Sacramentan's brief and personal description of the first day of the United States Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 9:29pm PDT
SOA/WHINSEC Vote Update: More Calls Needed Today!
This is the latest update from SOA Watch. The vote to defund the School of the Americas has been postponed until today. More calls to close the school are needed today!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 8:13am PDT
Alexander Applauds Michael Moore’s Movie “Sicko”
The major problem with Michael Moore’s new movie “Sicko” is that the movie is right on; the movie takes aim at America’s healthcare system and how profit and cost has taken priority over patient care....
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 6:26pm PDT
Where is the American Working Class?
The American media and politicians deliberately confuse working class identity to defuse and weaken class based politics....
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Candidate Alexander: LAPD Assaults May Day Supporters
Los Angeles police officers brutally assaulted peaceful marchers and supporters at a rally in Los Angeles creating outrage and anger from millions nationwide. Many of the people that were present in the park were mothers, children and babies. The cops were seen beating many with sticks on television; people and children that were offering no resistance. Also there were members of the press that were brutally assaulted....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 6:48pm PDT