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In an hour long noon time press conference at the Islamic Center of San Francisco, one day after the London Train and Bus Bombings, All muslim organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area were joined by leaders of the Jewish, Christian and other Interfaith communities to jointly condemn yesterday's terrorism....

VFP issues call for impeachment and online petition....

Okay, it wasn't literally a war zone, just a bunch of extremely loud fireworks in every direction. As the very real war in Iraq continues to take lives and waste resources, Americans across the country delighted themselves in jingoistic small-town parades and/or shows of light and thunder in the night sky. In Oakland, neighborhood fireworks give the professional displays a run for their money. The threats of "zero-tolerance" for fireworks made by authorities beforehand apparently failed to...

Let the fun begin....

For this Fourth of July weekend, we are left to ponder the future direction of the SCOTUS (and gear up for some major fights for the future of America). It seems W will get to appoint at least two justices now that Sandra O'Connor has resigned and Renquist is expected to at any time. Replacing Renquist with another right-winger would not swing the court further to the right per se, but losing O'Connor's relative voice of moderation to a conservative nutjob will put many things such as repro...

A post-election headline from the Akron Beacon Journal cites a critical report by twelve prominent social scientists and statisticians, reporting: "Analysis Points to Election ‘Corruption': Group Says Chance of Exit Polls Being So Wrong in '04 Vote is One-in-959,000." Citing "Ohio's Odd Numbers," investigative reporter Christopher Hitchens, a Bush supporter, says in Vanity Fair: "Given what happened in that key state on Election Day 2004, both democracy and common sen...

Japanese socialist party politician Takako Doi, on preserving Japan's 'peace constitution', fighting for women's rights, exposing depleted uranium and remembering the lessons of history...

Tehran's conservative mayor won an upset victory in Iran's run-off presidential election on Friday. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad garnered 62 percent of 28 million votes, beating reformist former-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. We speak with Baruch College professor Ervand Abrahamian and Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy....

Supreme Jurisprudent Ali Khamenei gloated Saturday that the Iranian public had "humiliated" Bush by electing hard liner Mahmud Ahmadinejad as president. But in fact, the campaigning style of the two men suggests that in some ways they are soul mates....

Indonesian radical Islamists cheered news today that a hardliner won Iran's presidential election while a Muslim scholar suggested the landslide victory was driven by anti-US sentiment in the Middle East. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative mayor of Tehran, today beat his relatively moderate rival Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani to be declared Iran's next president....