Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
827 of 1072 
“Scooter” Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby is facing up to 25 years in prison following his conviction on Tuesday in the CIA leak case. Jurors found Libby guilty of four felony counts of making false statements to the FBI, lying to a grand jury and obstructing a probe into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal nearly two decades ago. We get reaction from investi...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:49am PST
Washington Softens Stance on ICC While the US will not let the Hague war crimes court prosecute Americans, it is more positive about plans to charge Sudanese leaders....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:19am PST
Liar in the White House: Cheney aide found guilty in CIA leak case Saga of Washington's discredited WMD claims leads to the conviction for perjury of Dick Cheney's key aide...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:18am PST
Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies The conviction of former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis Libby is the first case in which a top Bush administration has been found criminally culpable for lies related to the war in Iraq, but it should not be the last. A Washington jury handed down the guilty verdicts on four counts Tuesday, after ten days of deliberation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:10am PST
Former Japanese PM advises unpopular Abe to ignore public opinion Amid plummetting support in opinion polls for Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his predecessor Junichiro Koizumi had a word of advice for the incumbent. He told a top-level meeting of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on February 20 that Abe had to defy public opinion and press ahead with the government’s unpopular policies....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:08am PST
35 Vermont Towns Vote to Impeach In a movement similar to small towns rebelling against the Patriot Act, 35 Vermont towns have voted to impeach President Bush...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 10:23pm PST
Libbygate: Now to the Real Story 
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."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 6:35pm PST
Washington No Match For Big Oil Most of the Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are reluctant to challenge big oil, insurance companies, health care providers and many of the big corporations that are driving up inflation because these candidates for president will be relying on the same big corporations to contribute the hundreds of millions necessary for a successful campaign in 2007 and 2008. The Democrats and Republicans are selling America to the highest bidders....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 12:42pm PST
Ghana Celebrates 50 Years of Independence 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....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:41am PST
The March 26 Quebec elections and the Canadian elite’s turn to the right Canada’s minority Conservative government and the most powerful sections of the Canadian ruling elite are seeking to use the March 26 Quebec provincial election as a means of shifting politics sharply further right in Quebec and across Canada....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:34am PST
New Zealand’s Labour-led government loses parliamentary majority 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...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:33am PST
Fijian military junta imposes austerity budget The Fijian military regime’s finance minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, introduced a revised 2007 budget on March 2, imposing the brunt of the small Pacific island state’s disastrous economic situation on public servants and working people in general. With Fiji’s Reserve Bank warning that the economy will contract by 2.5 percent of GDP this year, the budget represents a desperate bid by Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama’s junta to deliver the requirements of investors....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:33am PST
JFK Really Did Bring Obama’s Dad to America 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...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 9:29am PST
Elections and Abstentionism for Irish Freedom A video discussion covering the last free All Ireland election (1918) and abstentionism as a tactic to achieve Irish freedom/ unity....
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:51pm PST
AJLPP-USA Nationwide Mobilization for March 17 -18 Protests in Four Major US Cities 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...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:55pm PST
IMPEACH I* M* P* E* A* C* H
"Seven little letters gonna set us straight"...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:15pm PST
Impeachment Rally/March on Eshoo's Office Lytton Plaza
University x Emerson, Downtown Palo Alto
Eshoo's Office, 698 Emerson Street...
Event Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:18am PST
Leno Kicks Off State Senate Campaign Assemblymember Mark Leno has formally announced on March 2 that he will be challenging State Senator Carole Migden in the June 2008 primary. Calling himself “the best candidate for change,” Leno proposed to “reinvent” the office of State Senator by linking progressive constituencies in San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma Counties. In a thinly-veiled reference to Migden, Leno said he was committed to “bringing people together,” rather then “tearing them down or belittling them.” Migden supporters ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:21am PST
Kucinich on the Issues 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...
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 4:26pm PST
Sen. Clinton and Corporate America: Hillary, Inc. Just as the Democrats could never seem to get a handle on Ronald Reagan in his sixteen years as Governor of California and President, the Republicans cannot get a handle on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton....
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:41am PST
827 of 1072