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Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with Nomination of Alito Bush Puts Demands of Far-Right Above Interests of Americans with High Court Nomination of Right-Wing Activist Alito...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 6:37am PST
Green Hoosiers: Forging a New Democracy in the Heartland By STEVEN HIGGS...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 11:48pm PDT
Beginning of the End? Watergate 2005? Gotterdammerung for the Bushies? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 6:51pm PDT
Bush narrows Supreme Court selection to 2, sources say Rebounding from the failed nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, President Bush is poised to select between two of the nation's leading conservative federal appeals court judges - both experienced jurists with deep backgrounds in constitutional law - for what promises to be a bruising Senate confirmation battle....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 5:45pm PDT
Protesting Arnold in Fresno 
300 to 400 people protest the Gropenator in Fresno, Ca....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 2:56pm PDT
US Judge Reports Massive US Human Rights Violations to UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva Ginger says it is ironic that the Bush Administration demands reports from every grade school teacher on the performance of each pupil each year “And yet it refuses to file reports it made a commitment to file when the Presidents signed, and the Senate ratified three human rights treaties in 1992 and 1994. And it is particularly ironic,” according to Ginger, “since the three treaties simply spell out in detail the basic human rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights -- th...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 11:11am PDT
Harriet Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Nomination Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination Thursday to be a Supreme Court justice. She had come under intense criticism from the Christian Right and many Republican senators. We have a roundtable discussion on Miers’ withdrawal and the political implications, and what may lie ahead in the next nomination....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:55am PDT
U.S. and Key Allies Facilitated Profiteering in Oil For Food Program On Thursday, the independent inquiry investigating the United Nations Oil for Food program in Iraq issued its fifth and final report, charging the Hussein regime with collecting billions of dollars in kickbacks from oil sales to over 2,000 companies. We speak with Denis Halliday, former head of the UN Humanitarian Program in Iraq, about the details of the case and questions about U.S. complicity in illicit sales....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 8:53am PDT
Iraq war is the real “underlying crime” in the Libby indictment The indictment in the CIA leak investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, has deepened the political crisis of the Bush administration, while further exposing the methods of criminality and conspiracy that extend from the White House on down....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:59pm PDT
Libby Indictment Reveals State Dept told Libby of Agent's Identity - Bolton Implicated Breaking news and analysis on Plame gate/ Niger gate/War gate...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 12:00pm PDT
LIBBY INDICTED - obstruction of justice, perjury, LIES Rove remains under investigation but wasn't indicted...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 10:15am PDT
GOP Fundraiser Tom Noe Indicted For Illegal $$ to Bush Campaign CLEVELAND, OHIO--Charges of public corruption among Republicans in Ohio widened Thursday with a federal grand jury indicting Thomas W. Noe, a former Republican party fundraiser, for allegedly making illegal campaign contributions using conduit contributors....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 7:00am PDT
White House under fire: A crisis of legitimacy? Months ago it was apparent that the Bush administration was losing its initiative and momentum. Bush didn’t walk with the same old swagger and his much-vaunted political capital had lost much of its value.
Tensions and fissures were evident in the Republican Party — not an open rebellion by any means, but substantial enough that the single-mindedness that had been the signature of the Bush administration and Republican Party was less evident.
At the same time, the resistance to the admi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:26am PDT
10/29-11/8 Phone Banks & Precinct Walks to Defeat Arnold Props 73-78 (update) We have only 13 days before election day, including just 2 weekends, with thousands of people unaware of this important election, and an urgent need to identify all opponents of Props 73 through 78 so we can push them to the polls during Get Out The Vote Weekend. WE NEED YOU TODAY TO DO PRECINCTS BY PHONE OR ON FOOT....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 5:21am PDT
O'Connor Must Stay On Send a letter to Sandra Day O'Connor urging her to postpone her retirement and stay on the Court. NOW will hand deliver every letter to the Supreme Court....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 10:12pm PDT
Collapse of the Miers nomination: Bush administration bows to the ultra-right The withdrawal of the nomination of White House Counsel Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court is a powerful demonstration of the Bush administration’s extraordinary dependence on ultra-right and Christian fundamentalist elements, who enjoy effective veto power over key government decisions....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 9:55pm PDT
“Snowstorm” Planned to Highlight Support for Access TV. 
In a defiant gesture intended to highlight the danger three Bills now in Washington pose to access TV, the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) has called for a nationwide access TV “snowstorm”....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 7:13pm PDT
In Bush's mind Nothing can shake the conviction of the US president that everything he has done has been right, writes Amin Howeidi*...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2005 2:22pm PDT
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