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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi tendered his resignation Wednesday night after losing a Senate vote on his center-left coalition government’s foreign policy. The collapse of the nine-month-old Unione government came amidst growing popular opposition to its right-wing policies, both domestic and foreign....

f one judges the French Gaullist presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy on the basis of the above-cited Greek proverb, he emerges as a politician with firm links to extreme right-wing forces within European politics. One of Sarkozy’s closest political friends is Gianfranco Fini, the head of Italy’s post-fascist Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance—NA)....

Though Kucinich impresses audiences who see him speak, he refuses to take corporate contributions and cannot be bought. Because of this, the corporate-owned news media tries to discount his popularity. His best chance for winning the Democratic nomination is to speak to as many live audiences as possible between now and the primaries. The election of November 7, 2006 proved the voters can overrule the big donors and the news media. If 2008 brings a repeat of 2006, Dennis Kucinich will likely ...

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The U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security is corrupted by U.S. Intelligence Agencies at will; the Homeland Security Digital Library which touts the clause, "Securing The Homeland Through The Power Of Information" is a fraud (imho)....

One element that continues to amaze is how cavalierly the United States threw Shinzo Abe under the bus while negotiating the North Korea agreement. The abductee issue-which Abe had ridden to power and which forms the core of his image as Japan's new generation assertive foreign policy hard case-was dismissively pushed off to the working groups....

The International Students for Social Equality held a well-attended meeting at Berlin’s Technical University last week. In his opening remarks to the meeting, Peter Schwarz, an editorial board member of the World Socialist Web Site, stated, “Those who have followed the events of the last weeks can no longer have any doubts that the American government is seriously preparing for a war against Iran.” A lively discussion took place about the preparations for war against Iran and the building of ...

After an independent study commissioned by Mayor Gavin Newsom was released last week and reported clear favorable impacts of car-free space in Golden Gate Park, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick announced his intention to send Healthy Saturdays legislation, vetoed by the Mayor last year, back to the Board of Supervisors today....

End of Kerner toward Richmond Bridge away from the Cananl area Get off toward Richmond Bridge in San Rafael off - Don't get on freeway tht goes over Richmond/San Rafael Bridge, but get on turnoff to Bedlam, go under the freeway, take right toward bridge on Francisco, take 1st left, then right on Kerner to end of St., should see a lot marshland at end of St. If run into Canal St. instead, you went the wrong way....

The San Francisco Green Party collected over a thousand dollars in small donations on Saturday night, as a crowd of over one hundred people filled Dance Mission Theater to enjoy performances and speeches....