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With the tacit support of the Bush administration, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has recently arrested a number of political oppositionists and journalists and cancelled local elections scheduled for later this year The repressive measures are intended to serve as a notice to ordinary Egyptians that the regime’s promises of reform and democratisation are not intended to permit any genuine challenge to Mubarak’s rule....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:42am PST
Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu. The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu, the drug being bought in massive amounts by Governments to treat a possible human pandemic of the disease....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:38am PST
The Mission, The Bay View, The Western Addition and many other communities have had enought of the real blight Eminent Domain. Lets give the developers our message be gone, put away your greed we are fighting back. Just Say No To Eminent Domain In OUR, And Your Communities. Help get signatures spread the word....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:18pm PST
Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has died in the detention centre at The Hague tribunal....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 11:28am PST
A Lawless and Incompetent Leadership...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:55am PST
Is Washington backtracking on efforts to democratically transform the region or simply confused, asks Amira Howeidy...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:51am PST
The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterday to uphold the right of non-profit advocacy groups to practice law, handing a major victory to these non-profits and the people they represent. The case, Frye vs. Tenderloin Housing Clinic, began as an attempt by landlord attorney Andrew Zacks to stop the Clinic from representing low-income tenants. The attempt backfired, however, when more than 70 other non-profit corporations from across the state, ranging from the far-right Pacific Le...
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2006 10:13am PST
The Democratic leadership in Sacramento and Washington has become silent on issues in government that will protect the working class and organized labor; and now to have a voice in government, working people must look beyond the emerging one party system for political leadership....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 1:08pm PST
The Democratic leadership in Sacramento and Washington has become silent on issues in government that will protect the working class and organized labor; and now to have a voice in government, working people must look beyond the emerging one party system for political leadership....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 12:27pm PST
Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected, Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the world. That future -- at least for the next several years -- will be an accelerating nightmare of war, corruption, repression, atrocity and terror. That's because the loyal apparatchik has, with the stroke of a pen, guaranteed the perpetuation of the Bush faction in power in 2008 and beyond....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 6:28am PST
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the husband of a UK minister could face trial in Italy, following a request from prosecutors....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 6:24am PST
Impeach Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales on the 9 Constitutional crimes listed below...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 5:12am PST
Interview with Lori Allen, post-doctoral fellow at Brown University, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 5:05am PST
The lifting of Presidential Proclamation 1017 is a victory for the Filipino people! It was not the will of GMA, but the will of a determined people, who had continuously fought and challenged the proclamation and held protest actions to oust her from office, that made such lifting possible....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2006 1:28am PST
San Franciscans can kick off this year’s election season at a grassroots-level voter registration drive this Saturday in the Excelsior as progressive groups look to carry the success of last year’s special election to this year’s gubernatorial election....
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2006 9:15am PST
Bigger and Better Plan
We're making our election plan bigger and better with a new Spring TV ad program that will help break the Republican stranglehold on Congress. The blitz this Spring will cost $2 million. To get started we need to raise $500,000 this week. Can you join us?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 9:47pm PST
State Senator Alan Bates of Oregon and the San Francisco
Rules Committee are recommending impeachment of the Bush
Administration....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 3:14pm PST
People’s Lobby’s citizen-initiated World Service Corps (WSC) congressional proposals are non-partisan efforts to push Congress to enact legislation that will improve life in pockets of need at home and abroad and reduce the escalating spread of terrorism. Implementing the WSC could dramatically improve the world. It needs support from all parties and groups. If you have read this, read the companion “Why the Democrats need the WSC.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:24pm PST
People’s Lobby’s citizen-initiated World Service Corps (WSC) congressional proposals are non-partisan efforts to push Congress to enact legislation that will improve life in pockets of need at home and abroad and reduce the escalating spread of terrorism. Implementing the WSC could dramatically improve the world. It needs support from all parties and groups. If you have read this, read the companion “Why the Republicans need the WSC.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2006 1:07pm PST