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Anti-gay wrath crumples loving episode of Postcards From Buster'
So this is what all the fuss was about....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:58am PST
Negroponte Comes Under Renewed Scrutiny on Human Rights
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 - Human rights advocates repeated longstanding criticisms on Friday of John D. Negroponte, President Bush's nominee as director of national intelligence. They said accusations that he covered up abuses as ambassador to Honduras in the 1980's had a new importance after recent cases of American abuse of detainees....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:48am PST
Jeff Gannon: A hireling, a fraud and a prostitute
Bush's agent in the press corps has given spin a new level of meaning...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:16am PST
From Lynne Stewart to Ward Churchill: Shock and Awe on Civil Liberties
NICOLE COLSON: February 18, 2005...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 10:55am PST
Repressing the Class Struggle
As the employers' president said, capital and labor have long been reconciled among us. He said this while employers forced down wages with the help of politicians, cut pension claims, reduced social benefits and extorted dependent persons by threats of dismissal....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 7:07am PST
Call On Liberman Broadcasting Corp. to Stop Violent Anit-Gay Broadcasts
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the National
Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) and a coalition of diverse
local and national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil
rights organizations today called on Spanish-language media group
Liberman Broadcasting Corp. to stop promoting physical violence
against and verbal abuse of LGBT people on its television shows "José
Luis Sin Censura" and "El Show de María Laria" (which recentl...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:31am PST
Oakland Gay Rights Law Upheld
A lawsuit challenging Oakland's ordinance protecting the rights of gays and lesbians work for the city has been dismissed by a US District Court judge....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:25am PST
HHS Backs Down On Gay Funding Threats
The Bush administration has backed down on a call for an LGBT suicide conference to remove the words "gay," "lesbian," "bisexual" and "transgender" from its material....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:15am PST
Bill Would Allow Florida Gay Adoptions
A state lawmaker has filed legislation that would allow gay people to adopt children under certain circumstances. Senator Nan Rich wants to amend Florida's 1977 law that bans gay people from adopting....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:12am PST
FBI targets pedophilia advocates
FBI targets pedophilia advocates
Little-known group promotes 'benevolent' sex...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:46pm PST
National Legal and Policy Center Reacts to Sentencing of Former Boeing CFO Sears
National Legal and Policy Center Reacts to Sentencing of Former Boeing CFO Sears; Ethics Group Broke Tanker Deal Scandal...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:39pm PST
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Dismayed by AMA President's Comments on Gay Med Studen
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association Dismayed by American Medical Association President's Comments on Gay Medical Student Group; Dr. Nelson's Clarification of Recent Remarks on N.Y. Medical College 'Not Really A Retraction'...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:38pm PST
Gannongate threatens to expose a huge GOP pedophile and male prostitution ring
Folks, This is the issue that we can CRUCIFY the Bushites with....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 5:59pm PST
Americans for Safe Access Update fr. Medical Marij. Week
WOW, The third annual Medical Marijuana Week! From state-based legislation
to public seed plantings, once again the nation was a buzz with activity
around medical marijuana this week....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 5:03pm PST
Israeli Interpol Fugitives in DC
Russian billionaire "oligarchs" -- Israeli citizens wanted by European police -- turned up in DC's corridors of power, hosted by ranking Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos. Why didn't the media tell us about this, and the explosive story behind it?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:53am PST
The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill Speaks
The Governor of Colorado has called for his "termination." Fox's Bill O'Reilly has attacked him consistently for weeks. He says he won't apologize and he won't back down. We speak with Ward Churchill, the professor at the center of the controversy over free speech and academic freedom on college campuses....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:23am PST
Ambassador of Torture: Bush Nominates Negroponte for Intel Czar
The Ambassador of Torture: Bush Nom
As President Bush nominates Ambassador John Negroponte, current U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as the first Director of National Intelligence, we look back at Negroponte's bloody history in Central America in the 1980s....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:22am PST
If We Don’t Change The Union, The Union Will Change Us
The Bay Area grocery workers' contract continues to erode workers' living standards and strengthens the employers' resolve. Only a movement from below will reverse this trend....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:12am PST
Protester Throws Shoe at Richard Perle
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Howard Dean, the newly minted leader of the Democratic Party, and former Pentagon adviser Richard Perle made clear their opposing views on the war in Iraq during a debate marred by a protester who tossed a shoe at Perle....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 8:37am PST
Was smallpox among Mandan an 'accident'?
One of the ways in which Prof. Ward Churchill has been criticized in the past couple of weeks was in an essay by assistant professor Thomas Brown of Lamar university who criticized the footnote Churchill used supporting the claim that the United States deliberately released smallpox into the Mandan and other tribes in the Missouri area in 1837....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 8:31am PST