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Pentagon propaganda program orders soldiers to promote Iraq war while home on leave The program, coordinated through a Pentagon operation dubbed “Operation Homefront,” ordered military personnel to give interviews to their hometown newspapers, television stations and other media outlets and praise the American war effort in Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 8:46pm PST
2005 in Review: Power, Politics and Resistance Today, part one of our special look back at 2005, including George W. Bush's inaugeration and protests against election fraud, the occupation of Iraq, the conviction of attorney Lynne Stewart, the appointment of John Bolton to the UN, the revelation of Deep Throat, the conviction of Edgar Ray Killen for killing the three civil rights workers in 1964, and much more....
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 8:01pm PST
low level chemical sprays to begin shortly in the west --------------------------...
Posted: Fri, Dec 30, 2005 2:18pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the Field - 12/29/05 he days between Christmas and New Years have provided a welcome respite on the Yellowstone border. Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) patrols continue to rise before the sun to stand with the buffalo, and we've been basking in the quiet time spent in their presence....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 11:59pm PST
San Jose's Rodney King Moment When a jury found a state drug agent not guilty of shooting a Latino man in the back, the city was outraged -- but didn't riot. Multi-ethnic organizing, the writer says, kept the focus on a growing, successful movement toward police accountability....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 5:32pm PST
Another Execution Nears -- Where Are the Protesters? African-Americans who rallied for clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams must do the same for Clarence Ray Allen, a non-black, 76-year-old blind man just weeks away from execution, the writer says....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 5:28pm PST
Stripping Grandma's Cupboard -- Congress Cuts Food Money to Grandparents Raising Kids Among the budget cuts that squeaked through Congress just before Christmas was a provision that will take food -- $400 million worth -- out of the already-bare cupboards of grandparent-headed households....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 5:26pm PST
Pentagon Shakes Up Emergency Hierarchy "A little-noticed holiday week executive order from President Bush moved the Pentagon's intelligence chief to the No. 3 spot in the succession hierarchy behind Rumsfeld. The second spot would be the deputy secretary of defense, but that position currently is vacant. The Army secretary, which long held the No. 3 spot, was dropped to sixth."
Little noticed? (see the Armegeddon Plan below). I would suspect that these people are going to put forward another false flag episode like th...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 4:45pm PST
Reverend Billy Preaches on Shopocolypse Tour of the Country Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir went on a holiday circuit to preach against corporate consumer culture from Wal-Mart to Disneyland. The Reverend joins us in our firehouse studio....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:54am PST
Crime without Conviction: U.S. Makes Deals With Corporate Criminals Instead of Prosecuting Corporations that commit securities and accounting fraud can now expect to get sweetheart deals from the Justice Department, and they don't face public exposure for their misdeeds. We speak with Russell Mokhiber of Corporate Crime Reporter....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:53am PST
Journalist Robert Bryce Discusses the Death of Enron and the Firm's Close Ties to Bush Enron's former chief accountant Richard Causey may now testify against Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. We look at the fate of President Bush's corporate biggest campaign donor with the author of "Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:52am PST
New Orleans police gun down mentally ill man A New Orleans man, described by relatives as mentally ill, was gunned down by police on Monday. Anthony Hayes, 38, was killed after allegedly lunging at police with a three-inch blade. Three bystanders videotaped part of Hayes’s confrontation with some 18 police officers, three of whom fired nine shots at the man....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:51am PST
Tentative contract a setback for New York City transit workers The tentative settlement announced by Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 President Roger Toussaint Tuesday night represents a significant setback not only for New York City’s 34,000 bus and subway workers who struck the city’s transit system for two-and-a-half days last week, but for the working class as a whole....
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 7:49am PST
Cindy Sheehan's Message For the New Year 
Cindy Sheehan: "Like Michael Moore, I want to be a fly on the wall when Bush and company are hauled out of the White House in handcuffs. Impeachment is not necessary for people who never were elected - eviction is what is needed. If you can't join us in Crawford, set up your own Camp Casey near you."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 12:08am PST
Support for Indymedia reporters We have got to start acknowledging indy reporters as professionals. To only pay middle class male organizers and attorneys in activism is not good. I am an indy media reporter. I am low income. I would like very much to cover the trials in Eugene of the environmental activists. But I simply cannot afford it, which leaves me sad......
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 11:40pm PST
Bush Step Down! Protest Jan. 31st and Feb. 4th! Begin organizing your community to drown out Bush's State of the Union on Tuesday, Jan. 31st! Demonstrations followed by mass protest in Washington, DC on Feb. 4th. www.worldcantwait.org for info on what's going on in your community!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 9:03am PST
JANUARY 31 State of the Union Date Set! 1) State of the Union date is set!
2) WCW OpEd in this week's Bay Guardian!
3) Copies of NYTimes ad available
4) DVDs available...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 8:09pm PST
US Xmas Ornaments Urge Pullout of Iraq Troops Dozens of Americans opposing the US-led occupation of Iraq had gathered over the past two days in Washington, D.C., and placed toy soldiers labeled "Bring Me Home" around each of the 56 Christmas trees in front of the White House....
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:30am PST
"It's An Excellent Relationship": NYPD on Police - CIA Links New York Police Department Deputy Commissioner for Public Information, Paul Browne, described the ties between the NYPD and the the CIA as "an excellent relationship" on today's edition Democracy Now!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2005 7:24am PST
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