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U.S. House strikes member's remark that Bush stole 2000 election
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to strike a Florida representative's words from the congressional record after she said Republicans stole the closely fought 2000 U.S. election....
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 9:07am PDT
Building Bridges Radio - Boycott Liberty Apparel: National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
Building Bridges Radio presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Jul 19, 2004 8:14am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: G8 Summit Hides on Private Island
In Occupied Brunswick, site of several demonstrations opposing the 2004 G8 Summit in South Georgia, police and military units not only outnumbered protesters by a factor of 50 to one(!), there were more of them than actual Brunswick residents. Funny thing is, the Summit wasn’t even taking place in Brunswick....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 11:02am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: The Real "Spin Factor"
Subjecting a civilian population to collective punishment is an archetypal war crime, although American disdain for the Geneva Conventions has preceded Abu Ghraib by many decades...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:57am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Mass. Crackdown
A protester is arrested for refusing to show identification to a federal officer. An MIT alumna is arrested for leafleting the entrance of this year’s commencement. A college student who dressed as an Abu Ghraib prisoner is accused of falsifying a bomb threat, charged with felonies and required to undergo psychological evaluation. Eight housing activists who enter an abandoned building during a protest are held at gunpoint and charged with multiple felonies....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:50am PDT
Fault Lines Issue 2: Greece Wins the Gold in Repression
With just a few weeks to go before the Olympic Games in Athens, preparations for the world’s biggest athletic competition are well under way. So far, international media have focused on the delayed construction of the Olympic venues, mostly ignoring the Greek government’s ecological destruction and trampling of human rights....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 10:44am PDT
Another "SNAChU" in November?
Will SNAChU be what we see after the November 2004 election, as in 2000?...
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 9:46am PDT
The Powerful Never Make a Mistake
Rejoice, you internationalistas, states are ennobled by justice, not by cowardice and fear. Rejoice, you critics, social criticism and prophetic criticism are correctives to one-dimensional delusions, leaven in a culture of resignation and helplessness....
Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2004 6:43am PDT
Signature gatherers try to hide Nader’s name on petitions
A mysterious pair of men were gathering signatures on a petition Monday outside the Kroger store on Charleston’s West Side — apparently in an effort to get independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader on West Virginia’s ballot in November....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 11:58am PDT
Homeland Secuirty Questioning of Photo Student Challenged
SEATTLE - Ian Spiers had just hours to finish an assignment for his photography class. He was taking shots of a railroad bridge near the Ballard Locks when an officer with a German shepherd approached him, asked him what he was doing and requested some ID....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 11:51am PDT
Anti-Communist Democrats Illegally Challenge Socialist Candidate Petitions
The outrage of the fascist tactics of the stinking, rotten Democratic Party in keeping socialist, Greeen and the Nader-Camejo ticket off ballots has now reached Illinois, proving again that the only reason the Democratic Party exists is to keep the Reds and Greens out of office so as to perpetuate capitalism and the exploitation of the workingclass....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 8:32pm PDT
Will Martha Redecorate the Big House?
Martha Stewart sentenced to five months in federal prison....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Partisan NLRB Reverses NYU Grad Student Decision
Unlike the NYU decision, which was unanimous, this decision broke along partisan lines with the 3 Republican appointees expressing the majority opinion and the 2 Democratic appointees forcefully dissenting....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 2:22pm PDT
Mikulski votes for human rights
Senator Barbara Mikulski, whose sexual orientation is unknown, voted wrong in 1996, but redeemed herself in 2004....
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 10:26am PDT
Photo Gallery: Resisting the 2004 Coup d'Etat in Haiti
Images of the fight for the restoration of democracy in Haiti. After the U.S. led ouster of elected Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haitians in New York and other defenders of democratic rule in Haiti unite. These photographs document their ongoing struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 6:33pm PDT
Bush's Timber Czar chased out of Oregon
With the first auction of the Biscuit Sales (the largest logging project in the modern history of the Forest Service) set for Friday July 16th, it is Now or Never for Oregon's Wild Siskiyous!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 4:56pm PDT
Viet Nam: how the soldiers stopped the war
The Vietnam war was stopped by the very GIs who were ordered to fight it...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 11:43am PDT
Cold numbers show heavy price of Iraq war
Nearly 900 U.S. troops killed, more than 16,000 ill and injured. Some 9,000-11,000 Iraqis killed and an estimated 40,000 injured. The bill to U.S. taxpayers: $151 billion and counting.
These cold numbers are just the tip of the iceberg in a stunning new accounting of the devastating price we are paying for the Iraq war....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:14am PDT
So What happened to Peter Townshend? Too Old, or Too Rich? (or Just Too Dumb?)
So Peter Townshend, a Vietnam era rocker, supported the war. Hmmm? I didn't support the war. You didn't support the war. Millions around the globe didn't support the war, but he did. And now he rails against Michael Moore? Give me a break....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 8:13pm PDT
Fox News Libeled the Tehran Times :::Corrected:::
By Edward Campbell TUCSON, July 14—Fox News infotainment shock jock Scott Norvell commented on an article he never researched. Without contacting me, the Pentagon or the CNRRC he comes to the conclusion that naming a web server "Gestapo" merely suggests that one is a "geek" and not a white supremacist in an article published on FoxNews.com July 12....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 7:29pm PDT