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Cory Aquino to join Dec. 17 Anti Charter Change rally at Luneta , Philippines After the series of tropical storms, a new political storm is brewing in the Philippines.
The Icon Of Filipino People Power whose constiution of 1987 is named after ( The Cory Constitution of 1987) --the target of the US-Arroyo regime charter change yesterday said she would take part in the Church-led prayer rally on Dec. 17 to protest the Palace-backed move by administration congressmen, since withdrawn, to amend the 1987 Charter through a constituent assembly (Con-ass). In a brief state...
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2006 10:42am PST
Taking the Hill: New Doc Chronicles War Veterans On the Campaign Trail In November 2006, more than 50 veterans of the U.S. armed forces from around the country competed for seats in Congress. Since WWII, there had never been this many veterans running for national office at the same time. "Taking the Hill," a new documentary by the award-winning filmmaking team of Brent and Craig Renaud follows five of these candidates as they hit the campaign trail....
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2006 10:12am PST
Senator-Elect Sherrod Brown On Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld and Why He Voted For the Military Commissions Act Sherrod Brown is one of the six Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents in the Senate in November. Brown has served as a Congressmember in Ohio's thirteenth district since 1993 and has been one of the most progressive lawmakers on Capitol Hill. We speak with the incoming Ohio Senator about his election win, the Iraq war, Donald Rumsfeld's resignation and why he voted for the Military Commission Act....
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2006 10:11am PST
Jeane Kirkpatrick: from “social democrat” to champion of death squads Jeane Kirkpatrick, the acerbic right-wing former US ambassador to the United Nations, died December 7 at the age of 80.
Having begun her politically conscious life as a self-described socialist, Kirkpatrick ended up an advocate and apologist for military dictators, right-wing death squads and CIA-backed terrorists....
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2006 9:49am PST
Italian right wing mobilizes against Prodi government Eight months after losing the April parliamentary elections the Italian right are continuing to contest their defeat....
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2006 9:47am 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
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
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
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
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
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
Senate committee votes unanimously to confirm Bush nominee for Pentagon chief There is nothing ambiguous about Tuesday’s unanimous vote, 21 to 0, by the Senate Armed Services Committee to recommend that the full Senate confirm President Bush’s nominee to replace Donald Rumsfeld as secretary of defense....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:12am PST
Fijian government ousted in military coup The Fijian military yesterday overthrew the government of Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. Military head Commodore Frank Bainimarama declared himself interim president and appointed 77-year-old military doctor Jona Senolagakali as prime minister. Heavily armed soldiers are patrolling the streets of Suva, Fiji’s capital....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:05am PST
Opposition parties fail to oust Taiwanese president A third recall motion aimed at removing Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian for alleged corruption was defeated on November 24, after it failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority, or 146 out of the 218 parliamentary votes. The vote followed two previous failed attempts to remove Chen in June and October....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:04am PST
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