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Ex-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray On Why He Defied UK Foreign Office
We spend the hour with the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. The British government has stopped the publication of his book. In a Democracy Now exclusive, Murray tells why he defied the British Foreign Office by posting a series of classified memos on his website. Murray was fired as ambassador to Uzbekistan after he openly criticized the British and U.S. governments for supporting human rights abuses under the Uzbek regime....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:39am PST
Chronicle Writes Conflicting Stories on King Day Breakfast
The Chronicle has recently devoted considerable space to stories about faked memoirs (James Frey’s bestseller) and authors (J.T. Leroy) who do not really exist. It’s now time for the paper to explain how it wrote two stories on consecutive days that completely contradicted each other. On Tuesday, Carla Marinucci reported that the “New” Arnold Schwarzenegger got a “surprisingly warm welcome” from the heavily Democratic breakfast crowd. But on Wednesday, the Chronicle’s Matier & Ross reported t...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:32am PST
Did the president break the law?
On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech about President Bush's recent admission that he's wiretapping American citizens without the warrants required by law. In the speech—which was sponsored by a coalition of progressive and conservative groups—Gore said it plainly: "What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compells the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law, repeatedly and persistently."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 12:52pm PST
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005): The Legacy of the Former Senator and Anti-War Presidential
We look at the life of former anti-war presidential candidate, Eugene McCarthy. Hundreds gathered for his memorial service this weekend. We speak with a reporter who covered him for decades and SDS founder Tom Hayden....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 7:42am PST
Either He Lied on His Resumé or There's Been a Cover-Up: Alito's CAP
I once had a legal dispute with a university department chairman over whether or not he had torn down the handbills I had posted announcing a campus talk I was scheduled to give. The chairman claimed he could not recall whether he had ripped down the notices. In the 9th Circuit Court hearing, Judge Stephen Reinhardt told the chairman's attorney from the Montana Attorney General's office that it was puzzling that the chairman's memory was so faulty....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:28am PST
The Bloc Québécois: populism and nationalism in the service of the Québec bourgeoisie
If the opinion polls prove correct, the Bloc Québécois (BQ), the federal party which promotes the independence of Québec, will obtain its best ever result in next week’s election. When the federal elections were called, the BQ had 54 Members of Parliament—all of them from Quebec, which accounts for 75 of the House of Commons’ 308 seats....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:04pm PST
Bush administration domestic spying provokes lawsuits, calls for impeachment
The Bush administration’s open defiance of federal law and the US Constitution, in proclaiming its right to conduct unlimited warrantless surveillance of telephone and email traffic, has begun to produce a political reaction within US ruling circles....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:01pm PST
Snub for Bush as suicide law is upheld by judges
An Oregon law that allows doctor-assisted suicide, the only one of its kind in the United States, was upheld by the Supreme Court in an embarrassing defeat for the Bush administration, which has spent five years trying to overturn it....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 9:16pm PST
SF DEMOCRATS WARMLY WELCOME SCHWARZENEGGER TO
Why this is not the party to rescue our nation from the destruction being spearheaded by the Fascist Republicans...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 4:10pm PST
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Becomes Liberia's President, First Elected Female Leader in Africa
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been sworn in as Liberia's new president, making her Africa's first elected female leader. In an hour-long speech after the ceremony, she vowed to tackle a national debt of $3.5 billion, fight rampant corruption and improve gender equality. We speak with Emira Woods of the Institute for Policy Studies. She is originally from Liberia....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:51am PST
Fmr. Political Prisoner Michelle Bachelet Elected Chile's First Female President
In Chile, former political prisoner Michelle Bachelet has become the country first-ever female president. Running on the Socialist ticket, Bachelet beat her billionaire rival in Sunday's election. Bachelet is the daughter of an air force general who was tortured and died in prison after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. She too was imprisoned by Pinochet's regime before fleeing into exile. We speak with Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman, Chilean torture survivor Emilio Banda as well ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:49am PST
The Canadian elections and the phony gun-crime epidemic
The terrible shooting death of an innocent bystander over the Christmas holiday has been fashioned by the media and the mainstream political parties as a key issue in the current federal election. Cynically exploiting this senseless killing, the parties and the corporate media have whipped up public alarm and advanced a common call for the strengthening of the repressive powers of the state to deal with a purported epidemic of gun crimes....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:36am PST
mp3 of Al Gore's speech on presidential powers (01/16/06) (audio/mpeg 45.7MB)
Al Gore made an exceptional speech at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. Monday, January 16 2006 12:30 PM1/16/2006.
This is a 96Kbps MP3 (mono) with audio of the entire 1h 6m 35s speech delivered by al gore....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 12:20am PST
To End Death Penalty: Vote for Anti-Death Penalty Candidates & Parties
If you are serious about ending the death penalty, you have to vote for candidates of the socialist Peace & Freedom Party or the Green Party as those are the 2 anti-death penalty parties. Democrat Atty Gen Lockyer enthusiastically joins Republican Schwarzenegger in murdering human beings with our tax dollars, and is supported by pro-death penalty Senators Boxer and Feinstein, all Democratic candidates for President, the Democrats sitting on the US Supreme Court (Breyer dissented this time on...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:42pm PST
NEXT STEPS ON AB 583 -- CLEAN MONEY/FAIR ELECTIONS
On Tuesday, January 10, the Assembly Elections Committee voted 4-3 to pass AB 583, the Clean Money bill, to the Appropriations Committee. The Appropriations Committee vote may come as early as Wednesday, January 18! If the bill passes, it will go to an Assembly floor vote the following week. In order for AB 583 to remain viable, it must pass out of the Assembly to the Senate by the end of this month....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 6:34pm PST
Woman Socialist Elected President In Chile
Michelle Alba Bachelet will be the first woman president of Chile.
"A divorcee and a professed agnostic who has had a child out of wedlock, Bachelet cuts an iconoclastic figure in a devoutly Catholic country..."...
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 5:08pm PST
Berrnie Sanders speaking in Marin January 21, 2006
Bob Meyers of the Ruth Group writes: Bernie Sanders’ campaign to replace retiring Vermont Senator (and fellow independent) Jim Jeffords is the most important race of all in 2006. To explain Why Bernie? I was about to write a few paragraphs placing him the tradition of senators “Fighting Bob” La Follette (champion of the working poor and Bernie’s hero), feisty Wayne Morse (who cast one of two votes against Gulf of Tonkin resolution), J.W. Fulbright (who called our attention to the “Arrogance o...
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2006 5:54pm PST
HOW ARE WE SERVING JUSTICE?
January 17 is the scheduled execution day of Clarence Ray Allen however this event demonstrates how callus and unmerciful we have become as a society. Here is a man that is dying and now we are preparing to take his life. The system is not working....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 8:52am PST
Ralph Nader's Questions For Alito
Ralph Nader-- as concise and sharp as ever....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 12:14pm PST