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With Control of Congress, Incoming Democrats Set to Elect Nancy Pelosi as 1st Female House Congress reconvenes today with Democrats in control of both chambers for the first time in 12 years. In the House, Democrats are set to officially elect Nancy Pelosi to become the first woman ever to run the House. Pelosi has already outlined an ambitious plan for the Democrats’ first 100 hours in power. We get analysis from San Francisco Chronicle Washington bureau chief Marc Sandalow....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 9:50am PST
Canada’s antidemocratic “national security certificates” and the impotence of official liberalism Mohammad Mahjoub, Mahmoud Jaballah, Hassan Almrei, Mohamed Harkat and Adil Charkaoui have a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads in the form of a “national security certificate” issued by the Canadian government....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 9:47am PST
Former separatist wins governorship in Indonesian province of Aceh Elections for governor and officials in 21 local districts in Indonesia’s province of Aceh have resulted in victories for candidates associated with the former separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). The poll was part of a deal, brokered in the wake of the December 2004 tsunami that devastated the province, to end three decades of fighting and bring GAM into the political mainstream....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 9:42am PST
Solomon Islands’ government dismisses Australian police chief The Solomon Islands’ government of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare effectively dismissed Shane Castles, the country’s Australian police commissioner, on December 27. Castles, who had taken leave in Australia, was barred from returning to the Solomons, and the government has since issued advertisements to find a new police commissioner....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2007 9:41am PST
Kevin Keating of "Giuliani Time" on democracy now AMY GOODMAN: Our guests are Wayne Barrett and Kevin Keating. Wayne Barrett has written his second book on Giuliani, Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11. Kevin Keating has done a film called Giuliani Time, which we're going to play an excerpt of. Kevin Keating, can you link this to the investigation you did in this film, the now explosive new battle plans memo that the New York Daily News got a copy of?...
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 3:55pm PST
Rudy Giuliani's Secret Presidential Campaign Plan is Revealed Journalist Wayne Barrett, author of "Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11," and filmmaker Kevin Keating ("Giuliani Time") discuss Giuliani's run for president and his handling of the 9/11 attacks....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 7:14am PST
Ford’s funeral: the hollow pomp of a corrupt and crisis-ridden establishment Sandwiched as it was between the obscene televised assassination-by-hanging of Saddam Hussein and the dismal although expected news of the 3,000th US soldier dying in Iraq, the attempts by Washington’s political establishment and its servants in the corporate media to generate a wave of patriotic feeling with the funeral of former President Gerald Ford fell flat....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 7:07am PST
Zapatista communities with the people of the world in Oventik, Chiapas, México. summary of the work table at the meeting of Zapatista communities with the people of the world in Oventik, Chiapas, México....
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 4:04pm PST
Daring to Change Minds and Move Millions: The Case for Impeachment Now But there is another force in society. There are people. Millions and millions of people. People who are sick of this war....
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2007 6:59pm PST
What Gerald Ford Really Stood For No one should get pleasure from the death of another, but workers have no reason to mourn the passing of Gerald Ford...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 1:13pm PST
Tell It to the Constitution State Rep. Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, drew attention as the first Muslim to be elected to Congress and drew further attention when he wanted to be sworn in using the Qu'ran rather than the Bible. NAM correspondent Paolo Pontoniere says he shouldn't be using either. Pontoniere is a New America Media European commentator....
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 11:04am PST
People's Court’ will try Garcillano for Cheating in Philippine Polls News sources reported today that Filipino revolutionaries want former Comission on Elections commissioner Virgilio Garcillano tried under a "revolutionary court’’ for his alleged role in the reported massive cheating during the 2004 presidential elections.
"Revolutionary justice authorities are considering proceedings against Garcillano, knowing fully well the outstanding nature of the case and the people’s widespread demand to punish the masterminds of alleged rigging of the 2004 electio...
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 10:44am PST
Germany: Left Party-PDS and Election Alternative agree on a common reformist program On December 10 the executive committees of the Left Party-Party of Democratic Socialism and the Election Alternative—Labour and Social Justice (WASG) agreed to programmatic guidelines for the planned merger of the two organisations in the middle of next year. Under discussion was not a finished program for the new party, which is to be known simply as the Left Party, but rather programmatic points, which give some indication of the organization’s future political orientation....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2006 10:22am PST
Gerald Ford Legacy is Nothing to be Proud Of While the nation's mainstream media is busy publishing gushing tributes to recently deceased former President Gerald Ford, it's important to point out that his legacy leaves nothing to be proud of. He pardoned of one of the nation's worst criminals, his predecessor and former boss Richard Nixon....
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 10:40am PST
Former US President Gerald Ford dies Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, died December 26 at the age of 93 at his home in Rancho Mirage, California....
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 9:18am PST
Democracy Now On Ford's Death Investigative Journalist Robert Parry on Gerald Ford's Legacy and the Bush Administration's Roots in the Ford White House...
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 6:06pm PST
Turkmenistan: New Leader Should End Rights Abuses (New York, December 21, 2006) – The successor to President Sapurmurat Niazov of Turkmenistan, who died on December 21, should make it a priority to turn around that country’s disastrous human rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. It also called on the government in the interim to take such measures as the immediate release of political prisoners....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 7:16am PST
Newsmaker of the Year: The Macaca Guy Did More Than Turn an Election It’s getting to that time of the year when various Indian American newspapers and magazines nominate their Indian American newsmakers of the year. Will it be Sunita Williams, only the second woman of Indian origin who just went to space? Or Congressman Bobby Jindal who romped home to re-election in Louisiana, one of the few Republicans to resist the November rout? I am sure quite a few will select Brooklyn-resident Kiran Desai whose novel The Inheritance of Loss just won the Mann Booker prize...
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 9:39am PST
The Women and a Few Good Men: 2007 Farm Bill Debate 
In the 2007 Farm Bill Debate, together we can eliminate forever low, low, low, low food insecurity in our nation food, farm, fuel and fiber industries....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 8:00am PST
Rape Victim's Mother Accused Arroyo of Siding with the U.S. -- News sources today, quoted rape victim's mother describing her family's continuing fight for justice as a bout between David and Goliath, the mother of rape victim "Nicole" on Monday broke her silence and scored the government for siding with the US on the custody dispute over her daughter's convicted rapist....
Posted: Mon, Dec 25, 2006 2:02pm PST
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