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George Hawi: Photos from the Assassination Location in Beirut On June 21st, 2005 former leader of the Lebanese Community Party, George Hawi was assassinated in a car bomb in the Kola district of Beirut. Below you will find photos taken on the scene.......
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 7:23am PDT
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
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
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
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
BTL:Grassroots Movement Works to Focus Public Attention on... ...Downing Street Memo that Reveals Bush Administration's Dishonest Justification for Iraq War ~ Excerpt of speech Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Global Exchange, produced by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 7:34am PDT
Act Today To Prevent Tragic Confirmation Tomorrow We need your help TODAY for a Senate vote tomorrow (Thursday, June 9) to stop the confirmation of William Pryor, Jr., another terrible Bush nominee to the Court of Appeals....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 11:26pm PDT
Advocates in D.C. to Support Voter-Verified Paper Ballots More than 150 citizen activists concerned with
election reform have signed up for a two-day lobbying blitz
on Capitol Hill in support of H.R.550, the Voter Confidence
and Increased Accessibility Act, which would require voting
systems used in federal elections generate a voter-verified
paper ballot that could be inspected by voters prior to
their votes being cast....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2005 10:49pm PDT
Top Journalist Killed in Lebanon, Opposition Calls For President to Quit It is being called the highest profile assassination in Lebanon since the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Journalist Samir Qasir died after his car exploded. Now, calls are increasing for the country's president to step down. We'll speak for a colleague of Qasir's, Hisham Melhem, correspondent for an Nahar newspaper....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 8:29am PDT
Lebanon’s election and Washington-style democracy It is barely two months since President George W. Bush proclaimed that “the Lebanese people have the right to determine their future, free from domination by a foreign power.” He was extolling the so-called “Cedar revolution”—the protests in Beirut’s Martyrs Square against Syrian occupation that followed the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Last week, speaking at the International Republican Institute in Washington, Bush called for the new leaders of Lebanon to “build a la...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 10:40pm PDT
Filibuster Battle Comes to a Head, What's Next for Judicial Nominations 1. Filibuster Battle Comes to a Head in the Senate: What This Means
for the Supreme Court
2. Owen Nomination Squeaks Through, Brown and Pryor Votes Expected Next
Week
3. NWLC Launches NominationWatch.org Blog to Help Keep You Informed...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 9:49pm PDT
New PATRIOT Act Legislation Destroys Liberty The Fourth Amendment reads as follows:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 8:57pm PDT
Filibuster Wars 
Filibuster Wars
Power Grab at the Height of the Empire
http://rwor.org/a/004/filibuster-wars.htm
The Senate was heading for a major showdown, as the Republican majority and Vice President Cheney conspired to strip the Democrat minority of their ability to even filibuster the most extreme judicial nominees.
Then, after playing chicken for two weeks, a "Gang of 14" Senators suddenly announced they had reached a "historic compromise based on mutual trust" -- and they ...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 5:23pm PDT
Velvet Revolution Calls for Congressional Investigation Into Downing Street Memo Velvet Revolution -- http://www.velvetrevolution.us -- has joined a broad coalition of veterans, peace, and political activist groups to announce a campaign today to urge that the U.S. Congress launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war....
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 10:49pm PDT
Senate “compromise” on judicial nominations The agreement by 14 US senators Monday to stave off a full-scale battle over the filibuster of Bush judicial nominations is a textbook illustration of how spinelessness and lack of principle on the part of the Democratic Party prop up the Bush administration....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:33pm PDT
open letter to government This is a letter I actually sent to every Senator via email on May 22, 2005. After this posting I will send it to all the Representatives. Feels liberating! Is your organization working on these or similar issues? If so, please let me know how we might further your cause....
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 7:10am PDT
BTL:Big Oil Buys Influence in Washington, Crafting Legislation that... ...Adds to the Industry's Record Profits ~ Interview with Bob Williams, director of the Politics of Oil Project at the Center for Public Integrity, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Mon, May 23, 2005 6:34am PDT
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