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The significance of the World Court ruling on genocide in Bosnia The World Court has found no evidence directly linking Serbia and its former president Slobodan Milosevic to genocide against Muslims in the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on February 26 that there was no proof that Serbia or its leaders planned to wipe out the non-Serbian peoples of the Balkans, or that a chain of command existed linking them to the atrocities committed in Bosnia....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:19am PDT
Supervisors Scrutinize Ethics Commission Budget After a record number of independent hit-pieces were waged in the last election, Supervisors on the receiving end of such an avalanche want to help the Ethics Commission monitor these excesses. Yesterday, the Rules Committee held a hearing about the department’s finances – in preparation of setting up the City’s annual budget....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:16am PDT
Meetings held with Barbara Lee and Pete Stark Staff on case impeachment of Bush and Cheney Just this Wednesday, 3 /14 Members of a Bay Area Impeachment coalition met with Sandra Andrews of Barbara Lee's staff and Jo Casenave of Pete Stark's staff to lay out our position on impeachment....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:07pm PDT
Mauritania: New beginning, hopefully Mauritania's presidential elections, while inconclusive yet, show that the country is moving positively towards political democracy, writes James Martin in Nouakchott...
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 6:11pm PDT
Egypt: Before the vote Controversy over constitutional amendments proposed by President Mubarak, reports Gamal Essam El-Din, has centred on civil liberties being under threat...
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 6:09pm PDT
"The Real Scandal: Who Gavin Newsom is Screwing Over." Balazo Gallery 2183 Mission (at 18th St.)...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 3:43pm PDT
"The Real Scandal: Who Gavin Newsom is Screwing Over." Balazo Gallery
2183 Mission (at 18th St.)...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 3:41pm PDT
Demands mount for Gonzales’s resignation over US attorneys purge Mounting revelations concerning the political purge of eight US attorneys have led to demands by Democratic politicians and the editorial boards of a number of major American dailies to demand the resignation of US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:23am PDT
Presidential election contest in France: Panic grips the Socialist Party On the evening of March 12, Ségolène Royal, the presidential candidate of the French Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste—PS), spoke in the Japy sports hall in the 11th district of Paris to artists, scientists and intellectuals supporting her candidacy....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:21am PDT
Sarkozy stigmatises immigrants and glorifies the French nation In a TV interview last Thursday and at a rally before 10,000 supporters in Caen in Normandy the following Friday, Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate for the ruling Gaullist UMP (Union for a Popular Movement), announced his intention, if elected, to set up a new ministry of immigration and national identity and to further strengthen immigration restrictions....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:20am PDT
Barack Obama Rally Oakland City Hall Plaza, One Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 7:41pm PDT
All I Need to Know About the Democratic Party I Learned From the Grateful Dead The more I thought about it, the more I realized "Hell, who needs analysts? Who needs pundits, when everything I need to know about the Democrats can be summed up with a few choice verses from the Good Ol' Grateful Dead?"...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 5:57pm PDT
Love Life, Liberty? Impeach Bush/Cheney Rally/March in Palo Alto 
Activists will rally at Lytton Plaza in Downtown Palo Alto at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 14, 2007 to voice their opposition to government policies and demand that Congress launch the “Impeachment” of Bush and Cheney. The rally will conclude with a presentation of demands at Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s Emerson Street office. Like Pelosi, Eshoo doesn’t want to touch “Impeachment.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 8:19am PDT
Injured Tsvangirai vows to fight on for change in Zimbabwe Nursing serious injuries to his face and head, Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, made a brief court appearance in Harare yesterday and condemned the government's "sadistic attack on defenceless people"....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:55am PDT
The Repackaging of John Edwards "I'm proposing we set a national goal of eliminating poverty in the next 30 years. Like JFK challenging America to land a man on the moon, a national goal of eradicating poverty will sharpen our focus, marshal our resources and at the end of the day, bring out our best."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:52am PDT
ACLU Praises Protection of Freedom of Information Act WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today applauded the Senate introduction of the OPEN Government Act of 2007. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the legislation, which will both protect and strengthen the Freedom of Information Act....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:48am PDT
Quebec elections 2007: Quebec Federation of Labour officially backs Parti Québécois On March 3 a special convention of the Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL—Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec) voted overwhelmingly in favor of endorsing the indépendatiste Parti Québécois (PQ) in the March 26 Quebec election. With more than 500,000 members, the QFL is Quebec’s largest union federation and represents a majority of Quebec’s unionized industrial workers....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:34am PDT
Australia: Labor and Liberal plan NSW public sector job cuts New South Wales Labor Premier Morris Iemma and his Liberal counterpart Peter Debnam are both preparing major job cuts in the NSW public sector after the March 24 state election. They are also both cynically claiming this will not affect “frontline services” or social programs....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:34am PDT
States Introduce Numerous Bills to Regulate Genetically Modified Foods Following a two-year span where the corporate farming sector lobbied heavily in support of state bills aimed at keeping local governments from regulating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), 2007 state legislatures are now filled with bills confirming farmer and consumer concerns about such foods and crops....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 8:01pm PDT
The Kucinich Conundrum "Kucinich will run all the way, waiting for that moment when he transforms from punch line to President. And he insists that he isn't frustrated that it hasn't happened yet. 'Not at all,' he says. 'The real test of power is whether you can endure the setbacks and still meet each day with integrity and courage.' That, though, is the test of moral fiber, not the test of power."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 3:31pm PDT
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