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textNOW Applauds Kerry, Kennedy for Leading Filibuster Effort by NOW
NOW Applauds Kerry and Kennedy for Leading Filibuster, Calls on Women's Rights Supporters in Senate to Join Effort...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 9:41pm PST
textProtect Your Rights - Stop Alito's Confirmation: Senator's numbers to call by Boston Code Pink
complete listing of phone numbers:...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 5:25pm PST
textBTL:Former CIA Field Agent Asserts U.S. Intelligence Agencies Broken by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Interview with Robert Baer, former CIA agent and author, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 7:37am PST
textSaving Our Access TV Shows by Lyell Davies
Summary: FCC enters the debate on “local franchising” and could play role in shaping the future of Public, Educational and Governmental TV. Around the country Community Access TV advocates are vocal in opposition to legislation that would harm Access TV....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 6:12pm PST
textTell your senator (i.e. Feinstein) to filibuster on Alito, says NOW (Nat'l Org for Women) by N.O.W.
Without a Filibuster, A No Vote is a Yes Vote on Alito Alito Must Not Be Confirmed - Demand a Filibuster Today Please call your Senators today and ask them to support a filibuster in opposition to this nomination....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 4:07pm PST
textA New World Is Possible by Cindy Sheehan (Truthout Perspective)
Cindy sheehan brings us hope from Caracas....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:50pm PST
textProgrammer Jeff Dean worked for chief of White House Plumbers unit by BBV
Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean was sent to prison for four years. Shortly after his release from incarceration, his company was awarded one of the largest ballot printing contracts in history....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 12:48am PST
textCanada’s new Conservative government will intensify assault on workers’ rights by wsws (reposted)
Under the leadership of neo-conservative ideologue Stephen Harper, the Conservatives won a plurality of House of Commons seats in Monday’s general election, forcing Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce that his Liberals will soon turn over the reins of power to a minority Conservative government. In his concession speech, Martin, who has headed the 12-year-old Liberal regime since December 2003, also announced that he will soon step down as Liberal leader....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:06am PST
textDiebold in Florida: "I Saw It Hacked" by Susan Pynchon (reposted)
I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan)....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:44pm PST
textBTL:Filibuster is Last Hope for Opponents of Alito Supreme Court Confirmation by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
Interview with Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 5:58am PST
textCanadian elections herald a dramatic intensification of class conflict by wsws (reposted)
Whatever the results of Monday’s federal election, whichever party or combination of parties forms Canada’s next government, the coming period will see a dramatic intensification of class conflict....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:27am PST
textMan related to OK City bombing is free while supposed ELF & ALF members now on the hook by :/
Irony of Ironies: Michael Fortier, who was in on the plot to kill over 150 people in Oklahoma City and did nothing to stop it, is out of jail in just over 10 years. Meanwhile, Jeff Free Luers is sentence to 20 years for torching 3 SUVs, that were later repaired and sold, and over a dozen other activists have recently been indicted or arrested across the country for property destruction (http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1796764.php & http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.p...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 1:59pm PST
textAPPEAL LAUNCHED IN BUSH TORTURE CASE by Lawyers Against the War
Litigating George W. Bush for war crimes....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 12:12pm PST
textWho is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister? by wsws (reposted)
Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:15am PST
textWas the 2004 Election Fixed? by Counterpunch (reposted)
As coincidence would have it, Mark Crispin Miller's new book, "Fooled Again" (Basic Books), documenting the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential election, arrived in the same mail delivery with the January 12 edition of the Defuniak Springs Herald, the locally owned weekly newspaper in a Florida panhandle county seat....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 8:37pm PST
textEx-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray On Why He Defied UK Foreign Office by Democracy Now (reposted)
We spend the hour with the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. The British government has stopped the publication of his book. In a Democracy Now exclusive, Murray tells why he defied the British Foreign Office by posting a series of classified memos on his website. Murray was fired as ambassador to Uzbekistan after he openly criticized the British and U.S. governments for supporting human rights abuses under the Uzbek regime....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:39am PST
textDid the president break the law? by MoveOn
On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech about President Bush's recent admission that he's wiretapping American citizens without the warrants required by law. In the speech—which was sponsored by a coalition of progressive and conservative groups—Gore said it plainly: "What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compells the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law, repeatedly and persistently."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 12:52pm PST
textEugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005): The Legacy of the Former Senator and Anti-War Presidential by Democracy Now (reposted)
We look at the life of former anti-war presidential candidate, Eugene McCarthy. Hundreds gathered for his memorial service this weekend. We speak with a reporter who covered him for decades and SDS founder Tom Hayden....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 7:42am PST
textEither He Lied on His Resumé or There's Been a Cover-Up: Alito's CAP by Counterpunch (repost)
I once had a legal dispute with a university department chairman over whether or not he had torn down the handbills I had posted announcing a campus talk I was scheduled to give. The chairman claimed he could not recall whether he had ripped down the notices. In the 9th Circuit Court hearing, Judge Stephen Reinhardt told the chairman's attorney from the Montana Attorney General's office that it was puzzling that the chairman's memory was so faulty....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:28am PST
textThe Bloc Québécois: populism and nationalism in the service of the Québec bourgeoisie by wsws (reposted)
If the opinion polls prove correct, the Bloc Québécois (BQ), the federal party which promotes the independence of Québec, will obtain its best ever result in next week’s election. When the federal elections were called, the BQ had 54 Members of Parliament—all of them from Quebec, which accounts for 75 of the House of Commons’ 308 seats....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:04pm PST
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