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In the wake of viewing hours of highly-incriminating videotape surveillance from federal prosecutors, a jury convicted Dean Zimmermann of accepting bribes.  The former Green Councilman was indicted last January in the wake of an FBI corruption probe....

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Thousands of Lebanese, Palestinians and others made a kind of pilgrimage to Fatima’s gate in the summer of 2000 to celebrate the end of Israel’s 22 -year occupation of south Lebanon. ‘Fatima’s gate’ denoted a stretch of land on the Lebanon-Israel border newly controlled by Hizbullah after it pursued the retreating Israeli forces back into Israel. Yellow Hizbullah flags flew everywhere. The atmosphere was festive and light. People set up souvenir stands selling Hizbullah memorabilia – flags, k...

APPO calls for a RED ALERT in order to reinforce all current blocking of local, state and federal government buildings and Channel 9 amidst the threat of intense police activity in the states capitol....

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Three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman lost Connecticut's Democratic primary last night in one of the most closely-watched races in the country. He was defeated by Ned Lamont, a wealthy a telecommunications executive who has run largely on an antiwar platform. Lieberman has vowed to run as an independent candidate. We speak with former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader....

Even as progessives celebrate Rep. Joseph Lieberman's defeat to Ned Lamont in Connecticut, many today are ignoring GA Rep. Cynthia McKinney's defeat in the Democratic Party primary races yesterday. Here is a link to an AP story that suggests all McKinney and her supporters can do now is blame everthing and everyone that conspired against her re-election. What if the truth is insidious? McKinney a strong-willed antiwar spokesperson and a perrenial embarrassment to powerful war apologis...

The Christian Right is calling for a Christian Nationalist State Theocracy...

The key words here are, "The Lieberman campaign says." Could be a real attack by detractors, could be a desperate ploy for sympathy on election day by the campaign itself. Surely, they have other domains from which they send their last-minute emails to constituents. Whenever the site is back up, traffic will surely be increased from what it was before this hacking story hit the news. Will it be back up before the end of today's business day in CT, giving desk-jockeys who are evening voter...

On August 5, Mexico’s seven-member Federal Election Tribunal (TEPJF) in a unanimous ruling denied the demand of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the presidential candidate of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), for a full recount of the votes cast in the July 2 election....