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Iran Presidential Race Heads to Unprecedented Runoff in Election Marred by Fraud Allegatio Allegations of vote rigging and fraud mar presidential elections in Iran that pit a hardline mayor against a former president in an unprecedented run-off election. We speak with veteran Middle East journalist Dilip Hiro and Iranian-American writer Roya Hakakian. Her family supported the 1979 revolution, then fled....
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2005 7:18am PDT
Activists Urge California Not to Use Diebold Voting Machines "If you value democracy you will not certify these hackable machines with secret mechanisms that are considered proprietary," said Berkeley's Phoebe Anne Sorgen. "You will dump Diebold Elections Systems and software."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2005 10:32am PDT
Desmond Tutu: Together, we can join forces to make Burma the new South Africa In 1988, Nelson Mandela reached his 70th birthday. He was languishing in prison, having already spent 26 years locked up by the apartheid regime in South Africa. In Wembley Stadium some of the world's greatest entertainers - Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Sting, Annie Lennox and George Michael performed for a political prisoner whose face the world hadn't seen for a quarter of a century....
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2005 9:48am PDT
TAKING BACK THE POWER - THE REAL WAR ON TERROR It is now widely understood that the Bush administration might never have succeeded in launching the historical abomination known as the "Iraq War" were it not for that administration's absolute contempt for truth, its calculated exploitation of public grief and its cynical manipulation of the American people under the guise of "patriotism."...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 12:18pm PDT
State Capitol Democrats Selling Out Teachers, Union Members, Pensions to Gut Term Limits Senate Pro Tem Don Perata and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez involved in meetings with Schwarzenegger so that they can present a bipartisan set of initiatives on the ballot in November, including one that would relax term limits, and allow them to accumulate more power by staying longer in one house...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 10:13am PDT
Iran Votes in Presidential Election Today's elections in Iran are expected to be the closest presidential election in the country's history. Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is the leading candidate to succeed President Khatami. We go to Tehran to get a report....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 9:12am PDT
VerifiedVoting.org to Brief Senators on Verifiable Elections On Tuesday, June 21, the Senate Rules
Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on publicly
verifiable elections from VerifiedVoting.org Founder David
Dill....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Swing to right-wing Christian leader Aoun in Lebanese elections Voting in the third round of the Lebanese general election saw an unexpected swing to supporters of the right- wing Christian former general Michel Aoun. Fifteen out of the 16 seats in the predominantly Maronite Christian area of northeast of Beirut went to candidates allied to Aoun in the complex sectarian-based voting system. Altogether, Aoun and his allies took 21 of the 58 seats that were contested in Mount Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 10:06pm PDT
Text Of The Downing Street Memo As Published in the The Sunday Times - Britain (May 1 2005)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 3:52pm PDT
Bush: Eight More Years? 
`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'”
Craig B Hulet is giving a public lecture July 8th at the Wyndham Commerce hotel in Commerce Calif. 7:30PM. See website for info....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 2:12pm PDT
Can Progressives Win “Yes” votes in November’s “Just Say No” Election? Governor Schwarzenegger’s call for a statewide special election in November could potentially reshape San Francisco’s local contests. An historically low off-year election turnout has been replaced by a contest that should bring masses of Democrats and Greens to the polls to defeat the Governor’s right-wing power grab. November would appear to be ripe for a series of local progressive initiatives, but there’s a problem: activists urging “yes” votes on local measures could be drowned out by th...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 11:58am PDT
Press Conference: National Campaign for the Vote of Mexicans Abroad Support democracy in Mexico and the U.S. by attending the news conference of the National Campaign for the Vote of Mexicans Abroad Sacramento, California...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2005 10:26am PDT
FBI Inspector General's Report: More Evidence of Government Complicity in 9/11 Attacks author: wsws
A report released June 9 by the FBI's Office of the Inspector General raises new questions about the role of the US government in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The internal FBI study provides several important revelations about how US intelligence agencies ignored and even suppressed warnings in the period leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed nearly 3,000 people....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 7:31pm PDT
CO-FOUNDER OF FRANCE'S GREEN PARTY EXPELLED FOR ANTI-SEMITISM AND NEGATIONISM A co-founder of France's Green Party in 1984, Ginette Skandrani, has been expelled after a trial by the party's regional administrative committee in the Ile de France region, which includes Paris and its suburbs, after formal complaints were filed against her, the center-left Parisian daily Liberation reported today -- under the headline, "A Green Too Brown for Her Party"....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 6:37pm PDT
The Downing Street Memo Comes To Washington; Conyers Blasts "Deafening Sound of Silence" We speak with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) who is convening a public hearing tomorrow in Washington on the so-called Downing Street Memo and other newly released documents that he says show the Bush administration's "efforts to cook the books on pre-war intelligence." We also speak with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern....
Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 8:57am PDT
Call for Demonstrations After Republicans Squelch Downing St Memo Hearings by Conyers Republicans have shut Conyers out of Capitol and forced him to hold his hearings in the Democratic National Committee. A protest will take place in DC at 5pm. Local demos are being planned now all over the country....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 11:07pm PDT
bush baby 4 ever 
this is kind of cool because this will set up an assassination close to the scum bag just like hitler was finally done in...
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 10:04am PDT
PRESS RELEASE NO. 8 (VOTING REFORM) An Announcement of the Honest Voting Act of 2005 Initiative Petition Drive...
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 6:55pm PDT
Former Bush Team Member-WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition author: Greg Szymanski
Highly recognized former chief economist in Labor Department now doubts official 9/11 story, claiming suspicious facts and evidence cover-up indicate government foul play and possible criminal implications....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 2:20pm PDT
Action alert: Ask C-SPAN to carry Thursday's Conyers' DSM Hearings John Conyers' Hearings on the Downing Street Memo, with members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, will occur this Thursday at 2pm ET. Please contact C-SPAN and ask them to carry the hearings live....
Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2005 8:16pm PDT
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