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More trouble in Pelosi's privatized Presidio National Park If you want to stop needless, inappropriate luxury development in San Francisco's Presidio National Park, now's the time to send your comments, and here's where to send them....
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 5:12pm PST
On Best and Worst Presidents 
Is George W. Bush really the worst U.S. President? Werther, a Northern Virginia-based defense analyst, points out the complexities of answering that question....
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 9:36am PST
Nepali Maoists to lay down arms and enter the government After waging an armed guerrilla struggle for more than a decade, the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) last month signed a 10-point agreement to lay down its weapons and join an interim coalition government. The deal, known as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), is the result of months of negotiation after the broad outlines were agreed in June....
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 7:03am PST
Outsourcer in Chief: PAUL KRUGMAN And More KRUGMAN: Privatization through outsourcing is one reason the Bush administration has failed on so many fronts.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 6:22am PST
Philippines: Charter Change is Arroyo's Cover-up 
AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) today stepped up efforts to derail attempts at the House of Representatives to initiate Charter Change (Cha Cha), calling the move as nothing more than an attempt to cover up the seething political crisis hounding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA)....
Posted: Sun, Dec 10, 2006 4:55pm PST
Tuesday 12/12 noon Protest Pelosi's Vote Against Mumi Abu-Jamal Pelosi votes against Mumia
Barbara Lee votes for Mumia...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 11:59pm PST
US-Arroyo Regime Beat a Retreat : Stop Con-ass now President Macapagal-Arroyo, sensing grave political fall-out from her manuverings, had instructed her political affairs adviser Gabriel Claudio on Friday to “order” the lawmakers allied with her to drop the constituent assembly (Con-ass) as a means of changing the Constitution, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said yesterday.
News source reported that the President’s sudden withdrawal of support for Con-ass in the face of mounting opposition from Church and local government leaders appea...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 5:45pm PST
German Green Party congress: “Peace” from the barrel of a gun The German Green Party recently held its first national congress since national elections held last year, which led to the defeat of the coalition between the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens, who had governed Germany since 1999. For the first time in 18 years, the Green Party has no ministerial representation either in the national government or at the state level, but anyone expecting an attempt to draw a political balance sheet at the weekend conference in Cologne was sorely di...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 10:35am PST
Bay Area Fijians Embarrassed by Coup in Homeland Fiji may lose credibility internationally and the political situation may deteriorate even more as a result of the military coup, Fijians in San Francisco told New America Media’s Viji Sundaram....
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 10:29am PST
Iran's Upcoming Municipal Elections On December 15 Iranians will cast their ballots for municipal elections. Reformist candidates across the country, particularly in Tehran, have a credible opportunity to win, if their constituents emerge from their hibernation and actively participate in these elections. The government has hindered the domestic media's attempt to generate a celebratory environment for the electorates to exercise their constitutional right. Iranian media around the world need to realize that a dampened down ele...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 10:00am PST
Cynthia McKinney Introduces Impeachment Bill 
Dave Lindorrf: Breaking News! Outgoing Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has filed a three-article bill of impeachment against Bush in the closing days of the 109th Congress. Maybe that'll give a little backbone to her sheepish colleagues in the 110th this January. With Rumsfeld facing an ACLU torture suit in a D.C. Federal Court, this is a good week for America and the Constitution.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 9:29am PST
PRESS RELEASE: Cynthia McKinney HOLDING PRESS CONFERENCE ON ELECTION FRAUD? PRESS RELEASE:
PRESS CONFERENCE REVEALED: WILL CYNTHIA MCKINNEY BE TALKING ABOUT ELECTION FRAUD?
Cynthia McKinney, official Congresswoman of Georgia retires after sending an impeachment bill against President George W. Bush to the House Floor this Friday.
Subjects to be discussed are according to our sources, Election Fraud, Impeachment, Mark Foley, Jeff Fisher and word has it an expose on the Administration.
Is there something happening soon? It sure seems to be the case, foll...
Posted: Sat, Dec 9, 2006 1:50am PST
Peace and Freedom Party Launches Nat’l Membership Campaign As the Peace and Freedom Party begins planning for the 2008 Presidential campaign, it is launching a national campaign to recruit “Supporting Members” to strengthen the party’s base in California and around the country. The broad non-sectarian socialist party is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with some 60,000 registered members in California....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 5:57pm PST
Jeane Kirkpatrick, ex-ambassador, dies Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, an unabashed apostle of Reagan era conservatism and the first woman U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations, has died....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 8:12am PST
US vs. George W. Bush et al: Former Federal Prosecutor Drafts Indictment Against the President A former federal prosecutor named Elizabeth de la Vega has drafted an indictment of President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top officials for tricking the nation into war and for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Elizabeth de la Vega's mock indictment appears in a new book titled "United States v. George W. Bush, et al."...
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 7:19am PST
Canada: Parti Québécois seeks to rally business support The recent declaration of Parti Québécois (PQ) leader André Boisclair that it is necessary “to lighten the burden of capital” so as to make Quebec the world’s most-welcoming jurisdiction for investors has once again demonstrated the true nature of the PQ as a party for and of big business....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 6:22am PST
Sharp reversal for Social Democrats in Dutch elections Two developments dominated the Dutch parliamentary elections held on November 22. First, the outgoing conservative government was unable to profit from its exploitation of racism in the election campaign. Instead, according to polls, social and economic issues were the central questions in the election. Second, the social democrats in the Netherlands were unable to translate widespread social discontent into electoral support....
Posted: Thu, Dec 7, 2006 7:46am PST
An appeal to the Orange Revolution’s paymaster: Ukraine’s president writes in the Washington Post Viktor Yushchenko, the pro-Western president of Ukraine, wrote an opinion column in the Washington Post on November 29 marking the second anniversary of the so-called Orange Revolution, the American-orchestrated coup that brought him into power....
Posted: Thu, Dec 7, 2006 7:45am PST
Robert Gates Unanimously Confirmed by Senate Armed Services Committee; Testifies U.S. is Not Winning Iraq War The Senate Armed Services Committee has unanimously approved the nomination of Robert Gates to be the next Secretary of Defense. Gates testified before the committee Tuesday that the United States was not winning the war in Iraq and that all options remained on the table for dealing with the war. We play highlights of the hearing....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:13am PST
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