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London: George W. Bush and Tony Blair might beg to differ, but pop queen Madonna thinks that if the two study Kabbalah, they would make better leaders and also improve their outlook on the world, especially in light of their handling of the Iraq war....

"It is time for all people of conscience to call upon America, come back home, come home America. I call on Washington today, I call on every man and woman of good will all over America today, I call on the young men of America who must make a choice today. Take a stand on this issue, tomorrow may be too late. Come home America." -MLK (1)...

As if the national election fraud scandal were not enough, we have a case of many missing ballots in the election of KPFA's Local Station Board that makes one wonder if it is a computer failure or a political program....

The We Are the Planet Festival took place the night of November 13 at the Henry J. Kaiser Center. It was a beautiful night of music and politics. Faultlines and Indybay had a table, below, where people in the audience watched "We interrupt this Empire" and "The Miami Model"—projected onto the wall—with great interest....

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 12, 2004 — Parents and students say they are outraged and offended by a proposed band name and song scheduled for a high school talent show in Boulder this evening, but members of the band, named Coalition of the Willing, said the whole thing is being blown out of proportion....

"God damn, well, I declare! Have you seen the like? Their walls are built of cannonballs; their motto is 'Don't Tread On Me'!" --grateful dead....

Many people in the KPFA listener community in the San Francisco Bay Area have asked me, Joseph Anderson, for a copy of my UC Berkeley "Daily Californian" newspaper guest column on Pacifica Radio's KPFA character Larry Bensky. At the time of its original publication, I knew nothing about Bensky other than how he came across on the air. I guess it is time for a confirming retrospective. Bensky hasn't changed a bit. This was written during the Pacifica Radio crisis of 1999, when Bensky...

Come out tonight to support your local YMCA! Check out artwork, performances and projects by local youth....

Join Fault Lines newspaper and Indybay for a day of powerful music, inspiration and activism at the second annual We the Planet festival at Oakland's Henry J. Kaiser Center on Saturday, November 13th!...

Sick of Bush Art? Sick of expensive cabaret shows? Need a break from reality so you can contemplate themes of evil, greed, revenge? Want to watch rich braggards get their just desserts? Then you need to hit up The Devil Take Them!...