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A New World Is Possible Cindy sheehan brings us hope from Caracas....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:50pm PST
Programmer Jeff Dean worked for chief of White House Plumbers unit Convicted of 23 felonies for computer crimes, Jeffrey Dean
was sent to prison for four years. Shortly after his release
from incarceration, his company was awarded one of the
largest ballot printing contracts in history....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 12:48am PST
Canada’s new Conservative government will intensify assault on workers’ rights Under the leadership of neo-conservative ideologue Stephen Harper, the Conservatives won a plurality of House of Commons seats in Monday’s general election, forcing Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce that his Liberals will soon turn over the reins of power to a minority Conservative government. In his concession speech, Martin, who has headed the 12-year-old Liberal regime since December 2003, also announced that he will soon step down as Liberal leader....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 7:06am PST
Diebold in Florida: "I Saw It Hacked" I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan)....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:44pm PST
BTL:Filibuster is Last Hope for Opponents of Alito Supreme Court Confirmation Interview with Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 5:58am PST
Canadian elections herald a dramatic intensification of class conflict Whatever the results of Monday’s federal election, whichever party or combination of parties forms Canada’s next government, the coming period will see a dramatic intensification of class conflict....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:27am PST
Man related to OK City bombing is free while supposed ELF & ALF members now on the hook Irony of Ironies:
Michael Fortier, who was in on the plot to kill over 150 people in Oklahoma City and did nothing to stop it, is out of jail in just over 10 years.
Meanwhile, Jeff Free Luers is sentence to 20 years for torching 3 SUVs, that were later repaired and sold, and over a dozen other activists have recently been indicted or arrested across the country for property destruction (http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1796764.php & http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.p...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 1:59pm PST
APPEAL LAUNCHED IN BUSH TORTURE CASE Litigating George W. Bush for war crimes....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 12:12pm PST
Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister? Who is Stephen Harper, the Conservative poised to be Canada’s next prime minister?...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:15am PST
Was the 2004 Election Fixed? As coincidence would have it, Mark Crispin Miller's new book, "Fooled Again" (Basic Books), documenting the Republican theft of the 2004 presidential election, arrived in the same mail delivery with the January 12 edition of the Defuniak Springs Herald, the locally owned weekly newspaper in a Florida panhandle county seat....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 8:37pm PST
Ex-British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray On Why He Defied UK Foreign Office We spend the hour with the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. The British government has stopped the publication of his book. In a Democracy Now exclusive, Murray tells why he defied the British Foreign Office by posting a series of classified memos on his website. Murray was fired as ambassador to Uzbekistan after he openly criticized the British and U.S. governments for supporting human rights abuses under the Uzbek regime....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:39am PST
Did the president break the law? On Monday, former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech about President Bush's recent admission that he's wiretapping American citizens without the warrants required by law. In the speech—which was sponsored by a coalition of progressive and conservative groups—Gore said it plainly: "What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compells the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law, repeatedly and persistently."...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 12:52pm PST
Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005): The Legacy of the Former Senator and Anti-War Presidential We look at the life of former anti-war presidential candidate, Eugene McCarthy. Hundreds gathered for his memorial service this weekend. We speak with a reporter who covered him for decades and SDS founder Tom Hayden....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 7:42am PST
Either He Lied on His Resumé or There's Been a Cover-Up: Alito's CAP I once had a legal dispute with a university department chairman over whether or not he had torn down the handbills I had posted announcing a campus talk I was scheduled to give. The chairman claimed he could not recall whether he had ripped down the notices. In the 9th Circuit Court hearing, Judge Stephen Reinhardt told the chairman's attorney from the Montana Attorney General's office that it was puzzling that the chairman's memory was so faulty....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:28am PST
The Bloc Québécois: populism and nationalism in the service of the Québec bourgeoisie If the opinion polls prove correct, the Bloc Québécois (BQ), the federal party which promotes the independence of Québec, will obtain its best ever result in next week’s election. When the federal elections were called, the BQ had 54 Members of Parliament—all of them from Quebec, which accounts for 75 of the House of Commons’ 308 seats....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:04pm PST
Bush administration domestic spying provokes lawsuits, calls for impeachment The Bush administration’s open defiance of federal law and the US Constitution, in proclaiming its right to conduct unlimited warrantless surveillance of telephone and email traffic, has begun to produce a political reaction within US ruling circles....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:01pm PST
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Becomes Liberia's President, First Elected Female Leader in Africa Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been sworn in as Liberia's new president, making her Africa's first elected female leader. In an hour-long speech after the ceremony, she vowed to tackle a national debt of $3.5 billion, fight rampant corruption and improve gender equality. We speak with Emira Woods of the Institute for Policy Studies. She is originally from Liberia....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:51am PST
Fmr. Political Prisoner Michelle Bachelet Elected Chile's First Female President In Chile, former political prisoner Michelle Bachelet has become the country first-ever female president. Running on the Socialist ticket, Bachelet beat her billionaire rival in Sunday's election. Bachelet is the daughter of an air force general who was tortured and died in prison after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. She too was imprisoned by Pinochet's regime before fleeing into exile. We speak with Chilean-American writer Ariel Dorfman, Chilean torture survivor Emilio Banda as well ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:49am PST
The Canadian elections and the phony gun-crime epidemic The terrible shooting death of an innocent bystander over the Christmas holiday has been fashioned by the media and the mainstream political parties as a key issue in the current federal election. Cynically exploiting this senseless killing, the parties and the corporate media have whipped up public alarm and advanced a common call for the strengthening of the repressive powers of the state to deal with a purported epidemic of gun crimes....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:36am PST
mp3 of Al Gore's speech on presidential powers (01/16/06) (audio/mpeg 45.7MB) Al Gore made an exceptional speech at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. Monday, January 16 2006 12:30 PM1/16/2006.
This is a 96Kbps MP3 (mono) with audio of the entire 1h 6m 35s speech delivered by al gore....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 12:20am PST
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