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Restore the Delta Action Alert - Public Meeting in Sacramento on Jan. 16 Here's the latest action alert from Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Campaign Director of Restore the Delta....
Posted: Fri, Jan 12, 2007 11:57pm PST
Report: Gates Foundation Causing Harm With the Same Money It Uses To Do Good The Los Angeles Times has revealed the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has made millions of dollars each year from companies blamed for many of the same social and health problems the Foundation seeks to address. We speak with the lead reporter on the LA Times investigative team that broke the story....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 9:11am PST
Community Celebration for Inauguration of Mayor Ronald V. Dellums TICKETS $25 All mail order tix will be held at the door.
Lake Merritt Hotel
1800 Madison Street and Lakeside Drive
Oakland, California...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 13, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 7, 2007 12:14pm PST
The Timely Death of Gerald Ford: FRANK RICH - Saigon to Baghdad + RICH: Our long national nightmare in Iraq, far from being over, is about to get a second wind.
THE COMPLETE ARTICLE WITH ALL HYPERLINKS AND MORE...
Posted: Sun, Jan 7, 2007 5:59am PST
Six-party talks on North Korean nuclear program reach dead end Six-party talks in Beijing on North Korea’s nuclear programs broke up on December 22 without any progress or any firm proposal to reconvene. The latest round of negotiations, which involved the US, China, North Korea, South Korea, Russia and China, were the first since late 2005 and ended in deadlock after the US refused to budge on North Korea’s demand to lift financial sanctions....
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2006 9:18am PST
Climate Change: Rising Seas creates 70,000 Climate Refugees 
Rising seas attributed to human induced global warming have submerged Lohachara island, once the home to 10,000 people. Unhinhabited Suparibhanga has also vanished, while the inhabited island of Ghoramara has lost two thirds of its area to the rising seas in the Bay of Bengal....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 3:56am PST
As Hundreds Die in an Oil Pipeline Explosion in Lagos, A Look At the Fight Over Nigeria's Natural Resources Sandy Cioffi, the director of the film "Sweet Crude," joins us in New York just hours after she returned from Nigeria. She talks about how the popular resistance movement in the Niger Delta continues to fight multinational oil companies for control of the country's natural wealth....
Posted: Tue, Dec 26, 2006 9:51am PST
Chavez announces United Socialist Party of Venezuela After the massive electoral victory on December 3, Chavez has put a big emphasis on the need to turn towards socialism. As part of this he is proposing a new party, built from the bottom up, to bypass the bureaucracy....
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2006 8:06am PST
Russia won the SHELL game Soon it will be announced that SHELL in Russia has made an energy 'deal' with Putin's government. But it is 'an offer they can't refuse'. SHELL lost this important geopolitical fight for energy resources and must surrender control over Sakhalin-2, the only foreign owned huge oil and gas fields in Siberia....
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 9:57am PST
The Mystery of the Disappearing Sacramento River Salmon State and federal scientists, as they finish doing salmon carcass surveys on the Sacramento, American and Feather rivers this fall, will be analyzing why this year's salmon returns were so poor as compared with their pre-season ocean abundance estimates....
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2006 4:49pm PST
México Bravo? Barbarous River? In Matamoros with the Zapatista Other Campaign A landscape like a blank page. Between Matamoros and the Rio Bravo delta (known as the Rio Grande north of the border) there seems to be no more than a desert of brown shrubs, lost in the smoky mist of the horizon, held up by the sun. The passengers of the Trojan Rocinante, as I have christened our bus, began to doze off to the humming of the motor as we drove down the long and monotonous highway. Suddenly, like a mirage amid the desolation, a great funeral procession paraded past us in the o...
Posted: Mon, Dec 4, 2006 7:04pm PST
The Physics of 9/11 
Activist, physicist and frequent CounterPunch essayist Manuel Garcia, Jr. intensifies debate by professing his objections to theories promulgated by the 9/11 Truth Movement about the destruction of Buildings 1, 2, and 7 at the N.Y. World Trade Center on September 11, 2001....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 10:50pm PST
Journalist Peter Lance on How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, Green Berets, .. New details have emerged about how an al Qaeda spy named Ali Mohamed penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets and the FBI before the 9/11 attacks. We speak with investigative journalist Peter Lance about his new book, "Triple Cross."...
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 7:22am PST
Venezuela, Elections 2006: Anarchists Speak From the Commision of Anarchist Relations (Comision de Relaciones Anarquistas) and its organ El Libertario, we disseminate three texts in which we publically express our perspective on the upcoming Venezuelan elections of December 3, 2006....
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2006 10:28am PST
National Nurse-In at delta ticket counters! your local airport, at the Delta Airlines ticket area...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 21, 2006 10:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 11:24pm PST
CALL FOR NURSE-IN AT DELTA TICKET COUNTERS NATIONWIDE!!! this is a national call-out/press release for a nurse-in scheduled for tuesday, nov. 21st. A woman was illegally kicked off a delta airline for breastfeeding her child, and nursing moms around the US are uniting to fight back....
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 8:33pm PST
Nigeria: Fire in the Delta (video/x-pn-realvideo 14.3MB) Unreported World reports from one of Nigeria's most unstable regions. [24m30s]...
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 7:19am PST
SF: Dr. Owens Wiwa and the Struggle for Nigeria’s Oil: The Politics of Bones Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia St,
San Francisco, CA...
Event Date: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 7:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 7:30pm PST
Fish Group Sues Department of Water Resources For Taking Endangered Salmon The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance opened a new offensive in the battle to save the Delta when it sued the State of California for failure to protect endangered salmon and Delta smelt....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 12:52pm PST
Fresno Peace and Social Justice Calendar 
Events of interest to the progressive community in the Fresno area....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 9:02am PDT