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Scott Ritter Says U.S. Plans June Attack on Iran United for Peace of Pierce County (WA)
February 19, 2005
Scott Ritter, appearing with journalist Dahr Jamail yesterday in Washington State, dropped two shocking bombshells in a talk delivered to a packed house in Olympia’s Capitol Theater. The ex-Marine turned UNSCOM weapons inspector said that George W. Bush has "signed off" on plans to bomb Iran in June 2005, and claimed the U.S. manipulated the results of the recent Jan. 30 elections in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 2:39pm PST
Protests, Vigils to Mark One-Year Anniversary of Coup d'etat in Haiti Protests in Several Cities to Call for Investigation into U.S. Role in Last Year's Coup, Ending Discrimination Against Haitian Refugees
Speaking Tours, Vigils, Film-Screenings, and Faith Reflection Will Also Commemorate Haiti Solidarity Week 2005...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 1:23pm PST
Polar Bears May Become Extinct by the End of This Century The Center for Biological Diversity, a non profit conservation organization, filed a formal petition requesting that the polar bear species (Ursus maritimus) worldwide be added to the list of threatened species under the United States Endangered Species Act. Polar bears may become extinct by the end of this century because their sea-ice habitat is literally melting away due to global warming....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:54am PST
Reproductive Rights Conference A FREE conference that addresses reprodctive freedom as it relates to a broad range of social justice initiatives including economic justice, healthcare reform, racial equality, peace, freedom from violence, youth liberation, civil liberties, and LGBTQ rights....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:35am PST
cocaine in racing horses DawnWatch: Chicago Tribune lead story on cocaine in racing horses -- 2/18/05...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 10:08am PST
Hip Hop community joins protest of radio racism NEW YORK — Protesters were on the street outside the office of Hot 97 here Feb. 14, the second day back on the job for suspended morning show deejays.
The “Miss Jones in the Morning” crew on WQHT-FM sparked outrage last month when it played the “Tsunami Song,” a racist parody of “We Are the World” that made fun of the victims of last December’s South Asian tidal wave that killed almost 300,000 people. “We Are the World” had brought an array of stars together in the 1980s to aid victims of ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:27am PST
The Undiscovered Malcolm X: Stunning New Info on the Assassination On this the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, we spend the hour with historian Manning Marable who has spent a decade working on a new biography of Malcolm X. He is one of the few historians to see the three missing chapters from "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" that he says paint a very different picture than the book with Alex Haley and Spike Lee's film. Marable has also had unprecedented access to Malcolm's family and documents that shed new light on the involve...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:23am PST
Slideshow: The Heart of Iraq (video/x-msvideo 3.2MB) Images from Iraq combined with audio clips of Dubya's pre-war 'intelligence' make a powerful case for War Crimes Prosecution of the Bush Regime....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 7:41pm PST
Iraqi vet refuses and resists — does time 
Iraqi vet refuses and resists — does time...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 2:36pm PST
"Postcards from Buster" the Bunny Creates Nationwide Flap Controversy has been brewing this year, since the news came out that in one episode, called "Sugartime!," Buster goes to Vermont and learns about making maple syrup. Buster is visiting Karen, who used to work with his mom. Karen's partner is a woman named Gillian, and they have kids. (!!!)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:45pm PST
Breaking News: Homeless Camp in Brasil Raided, Two Killed, NYC IMC Volunteer Arrested 
Update: According to a comment posted to the Global Indymedia feature from CMI Brasil, "The two IMC volunters ... were taken to the Federal Police where their equipement was taken by the police. They have a lawyer there with them and they seemed to be ok."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:10pm PST
PDC demands: "Fight the Frame-up of Lynne Stewart, PDC Denounces Government Conspiracy Against Everyone's Rights, Demands:
"Fight the Frame-up of Lynne Stewart,
Mohamed Yousry and Ahmed Abdel Sattar!"...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 3:32pm 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
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
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