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Anti-Bush, Anti-Ethanol-Cartel Protests in Brazil 3/8 and 3/9/07 
Riot police fired tear gas and beat some protesters with batons after more than 6,000 people held a largely peaceful march through the financial district of Sao Paulo. About 4,000 agents, including Brazilian troops and FBI and U.S. Secret Service officers, are working to secure Bush’s stay in the city that lasts about 24 hours.
Authorities did not disclose the number of injuries in Thursday’s demonstrations, but Brazilian news media said at least 18 people were hurt and news photographs sh...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 3:03pm PST
Asm. Mark Leno: “Let the Sunshine In” Trio of proposals would give the public greater access to government information,
and increase public servants’ accountability to the public...
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 12:15pm PST
Vermont towns vote for Bush-Cheney impeachment On March 6 at least 38 Vermont communities at their annual town meetings passed resolutions calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Several towns voted not to take up or opposed the measure and it was blocked from being introduced by bureaucratic maneuvers in a number of others....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 6:17am PST
A28: Nationwide Protests for Impeachment 
On April 28th, thousands of Americans will stand up to demand the impeachment of George Bush & Dick Cheney....
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 7:21pm PST
A Re-definition of Progressive -- An analysis of what is missing from the program of the current progressive movement -- in the hope that, by re-examining the past, we may rise up and seize the future. [First published in 1993 in the North Coast Express ] posted now, because it’s still goin’ on, Denny --...
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 3:00pm PST
Old Left Opposition to the Federal Reserve Bank During the 'teens, twenties, and 'thirties of the past century, radical political formations in America called for the nationalization of the Federal Reserve System and of Credit....
Posted: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 12:21am PST
MARIN GREEN PARTY COUNCIL MEETING In Kentfield Campus, College of Marin....
Event Date: Thu, Mar 8, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 10:33pm PST
Satur: I am innocent; GMA out to crush critical partylists 
PHILIPPINES -- House Deputy Minority Leader Satur C. Ocampo and lawyer Romeo T. Capulong today condemned as a clear miscarriage of justice the issuance of a warrant of arrest against the Bayan Muna solon in connection with purported communist purge in Leyte....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 10:00pm PST
Obama: The Race Is On - BlackState.com ...because its early and the media is looking for anything to knock down Barrack Obama as they did Howard Dean they have concocted a story that there is dispute over whether Barrack Obama is black enough. Media reports of whether Obama is black enough to the black community is at a minimum bizarre and at a maximum insulting and patronizing. Here we have CNN's Paula Zahn's espousing who is black enough whatever that means....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 5:42pm PST
Dellums Profits Handsomely From Government Service One of The Dellums Administration's First Priorities was Getting Him a Huge Raise in Salary...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 12:46pm PST
Bush/Cheney/Exxon War Crimes Tribunal Petition Should u.s. investigate government leaders for War Crimes?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 12:35pm PST
4 Years of War for Oil -- Enough! Basta! 
4 Years of War for Oil -- Enough! Basta!
End Chevron's Oil Crimes from Richmond to Iraq
STOP THE IRAQ OIL THEFT LAW!
1. NO BLOOD OR OIL! 2. CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! 3. TO STOP WAR, END EMPIRE!
MON MARCH 19, 7-11am
Protest, Rally, & Nonviolent Direct Action
Chevron World Headquarters, San Ramon, CA...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 11:28am PST
Local Impeachment group to meet with Barbara Lee Staff We have set up a meeting with Barbara Lee's staff. We invite involvment and help from the impeachment supporters in the 9th district and the Bay Area. Call our office at 510 845 4154....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 8:56am PST
Meet Eliot Cohen, Condi's New Deputy: "As Extremist a Neocon and Warmonger as It Gets" Afghanistan constitutes just one front in World War IV, and the battles there just one campaign. . . . First, if one front in this war is the contest for free and moderate governance in the Muslim world, the U.S. should throw its weight behind pro-Western and anticlerical forces there. The immediate choice lies before the U.S. government in regard to Iran. We can either make tactical accommodations with the regime there in return for modest (or illusory) sharing of intelligence, reduced suppo...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:56am PST
Monkey Politics: World in Crisis; Candidates in Denial With each presidential election US politics drifts further down the proverbial Egyptian river: Global warming; Middle East mess; deterioration of infrastructure and simultaneous disappearance of safety net; the decay of habeas corpus and First Amendment -- signposts of democracy. Indeed, 2008 presidential aspirants have yet to acknowledge the shady 2004 Ohio voting process that made Bush a winner. Voting for President, chief manager of the global empire nee democratic republic -- has become ...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:54am PST
Liberal Fables About Health Care: John Edwards' Big Lie When Ann Coulter used the f- word last week to describe John Edwards, she was just trying to sell Ann Coulter to her conservative base.
When Hillary Clinton morphed into a southern black preacher, she was desperately trying to sell Hillary Clinton to a southern black audience.
When John Edwards mailed out 70,000 DVDs advocating "universal health care" to Iowa voters this week, he was just trying to sell John Edwards to the corn belt.
All were scamming the public in pursuit of fame an...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:53am PST
“Scooter” Libby Convicted of Perjury, Obstruction in CIA Leak Trial Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby is facing up to 25 years in prison following his conviction on Tuesday in the CIA leak case. Jurors found Libby guilty of four felony counts of making false statements to the FBI, lying to a grand jury and obstructing a probe into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity. Libby is the highest-ranking White House official to be convicted of a felony since the Iran-Contra scandal nearly two decades ago. We get reaction from investi...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:49am PST
Washington Softens Stance on ICC While the US will not let the Hague war crimes court prosecute Americans, it is more positive about plans to charge Sudanese leaders....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:19am PST
Liar in the White House: Cheney aide found guilty in CIA leak case Saga of Washington's discredited WMD claims leads to the conviction for perjury of Dick Cheney's key aide...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:18am PST
Washington jury convicts top Cheney aide of four felonies The conviction of former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis Libby is the first case in which a top Bush administration has been found criminally culpable for lies related to the war in Iraq, but it should not be the last. A Washington jury handed down the guilty verdicts on four counts Tuesday, after ten days of deliberation....
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2007 6:10am PST
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