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Impeachment: 'It's Not Up to Pelosi,' Say Grassroots Leaders Recently, Democratic legislator Nancy Pelosi, the incoming speaker of the House of Representatives, indicated she would not support the idea of impeachment, even though most voters in her constituency wanted her to take the lead on this issue. Many constitutional experts believe that there is a strong case for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney because both allegedly put themselves above the rule of law by failing to substantiate the justifications for war on Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 11:32am PST
Oaxaca Governor Ruiz Sends Massive Police Force to Crack Down on Protesters Demanding His We go to Mexico and our continuing coverage of the popular uprising in Oaxaca. On Sunday thousands of people marched to demand the resignation of State Governor Ulises Ruiz and the withdrawal of federal police. Ruiz sent a massive police force to crack down on the protests -- led by the Popular Assembly of the Oaxacan People -- APPO. We get a report from the streets of Oaxaca....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:59am PST
Democrats poised to lose control after Senator falls ill Senior Democrats were in a state of high anxiety last night as a Senator remained in hospital after undergoing emergency brain surgery - his condition raising the prospect that the Republicans could regain control of the chamber just weeks after they lost it in the mid-term elections....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:38am PST
Iranians go to the polls Iran is to hold elections for its municipal councils as well as the Assembly of Experts, the body that selects and supervises the supreme leader....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:31am PST
“Antiwar” candidate boosts illusions in a pro-war party: Kucinich runs again for Democratic presidential nomination Ohio Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich announced Tuesday he is once again seeking the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, preparing to repeat in 2008 the role he played in 2004 as a “left” prop for a thoroughly right-wing, pro-war party....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:25am PST
New Zealand opposition leader quits New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash quit politics late last month in the wake of damaging speculation over his future, and days before the release of a book that alleged links between him and the Exclusive Brethren religious sect. Brash had led the conservative National Party for three years, having been recruited from governorship of the Reserve Bank, but failed to oust the Labour government in last year’s election....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:23am PST
Blair questioned by police on day of 'burying bad news' Downing Street faced accusations of trying to "bury bad news" by using the release of the report on the death Diana, Princess of Wales, to overshadow a two-hour grilling of the Prime Minister by police as part of the "cash-for-honours" investigation....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 6:21am PST
Bakker, Brown: What the hell happened to Christianity? Jay Bakker, son of former Praise The Lord leaders Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Messner, is minister of Revolution Church and subject of a new documentary series, "One Punk Under God," on Sundance Channel. Marc Brown is a Revolution staff member....
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 11:55am PST
Third generation political Islam In the Arab world there exists a range of centrist Islamist parties that have harmonised democratic aspirations with the moral foundations of Islam, writes Khalil El-Anani*...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:41am PST
The end of Annan The outgoing UN secretary-general bowed out with a pugnacious speech at the Truman Library in the US, yet the world remains divided on the worth of his legacy, writes Gamal Nkrumah...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:40am PST
A Senator's Illness Threatens the Democratic Majority Tim Johnson of South Dakota undergoes emergency brain surgery, as Washington waits for a prognosis that could affect the balance of power...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:36am PST
Latino Voters Bring Victory to Texas Democrats Democrat Ciro Rodriguez’s upset victory over Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla in the December 12th run-off election has huge national implications – in light of this year’s massive immigration protests. What it demonstrated, more than anything else, is how Latinos are leaving the Republican Party in droves. While it was also an embarrassing set-back for Tom DeLay’s partisan re-districting shenanigans, Bonilla did not just lose because the 23rd Congressional District in Texas was re-drawn ...
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 9:11am PST
Iraq Study Group Members Profit from Secret UK Defense Lab George Tenet, Frank Carlucci, and James Baker benefit from the privatization of sensitive UK defense assets finalized shortly before 9/11. On July 1, 2001, a portion of the British "Defence Evaluation and Research Agency" was privatized and renamed QuinetiQ. Former DCI George Tenet is one of its' directors....
Posted: Thu, Dec 14, 2006 1:51am PST
Democratic US Senator Takes Ill, Could Change Congress Control A Democratic US senator took ill Wednesday afternoon with a possible stroke, raising a chance that his seat could become Republican in the event he cannot continue in office.
Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, 59, was taken to George Washington University Hospital "suffering from a possible stroke," a statement from his office said....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 6:39pm PST
US scientists reject interference Some 10,000 US researchers have signed a statement protesting about political interference in the scientific process....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 6:24pm PST
2008 Presidential Ticket Quiz The largest online quiz in history happens to be the most comprehensive tool for speculating about the upcoming 2008 Presidential elections in the US. Contains 768 possible Presidential tickets with witty, insightful descriptions....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 9:30am PST
AFP brass raise Reds, terror bogeys: Ex President and Senate President to Join the Rally THE Armed Forces warned on Wednesday that leftists and terrorists could try to infiltrate the scheduled Sunday mammoth protest prayer rally against Charter change and other planned demonstrations. The AFP chief, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., aired the warning as Mayor Jejomar Binay of Makati announced that many corporations would let their workers out on Friday to join a human chain against Cha-cha on Ayala Avenue in the country’s financial district....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 8:16am PST
Florida’s Vote-Counting Fiasco: the 2006 Edition ust when you thought that the 2006 elections were over and the Florida recount a distant memory, there is one unresolved Congressional race – in Katherine Harris’ old district. While the outcome won’t determine which party controls Congress, the implications are extremely frightening and need to be addressed immediately. Republican Vern Buchanan was declared the winner in Florida’s 13th Congressional District by a 369-vote margin, but strong evidence shows that Democrat Christine Jennings pro...
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 7:46am PST
Will Hillzilla Crush Obambi? : MAUREEN DOWD And More DOWD: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama both straddle two worlds, trying to profit from both.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE...
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 6:37am PST
Japanese prime minister faces sharp fall in opinion polls After just three months in power, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is confronting a sharp drop in his approval ratings. Questions are already being raised in ruling circles about Abe’s ability to push ahead with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) agenda of militarism and free-market economic reforms....
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2006 6:23am PST
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