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  • Evo Morales, Lula Da Silva Hold Talks in Brasilia
    16 January 2006

    BRASILIA (PL)- Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales are analyzing Friday the possibilities to boost collaboration, reported the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
    Full Coverage: Bolivia’s President elect Evo Morales’ World Tour
    In an official note, the Brazilian entity expressed interest in cooperating after the MAS government’s inauguration January 22.
    It added that Morales’ visit facilitates tackling future cooperation in trade, investment (…)

  • Black Commentator vs. The Wall Street Journal
    16 January 2006

    By BC Associate Editor Bruce Dixon
    In their quest for absolute political hegemony in the United States, some elements of the Right now dare to claim to share with blacks - if not common cause - common conclusions about the state of race relations in America. In a January 8, 2006 piece weighted with the full freight of centuries of white supremacist delusions, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto claimed that BC’s January 5, 2006 Cover Story, "Katrina Study: Black Consensus, White (…)

  • Shut Them Down!: The G8, Gleneagles 2005 and the Movement of Movements
    16 January 2006

    by Dissent! and Autonomedia
    Bob Geldof’s appointment as an advisor to the Conservative party has provoked a reassessment of the momentous week last summer when the G8 met in Gleneagles. This reassessment is aided by the timely publication of a new book full of first hand accounts by those more interested in shutting the G8 down than lobbying it.
    David Watts, one of the books editors, commented: "There seems to be a growing sense of disillusionment with the legacy of the Live8 concerts (…)

  • Pants on Fire: the Liars of the Bush Administration will take the world down in flames if we let them
    16 January 2006

    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    Sam Alito is merely the latest liar on the block for Bush’s full spectrum dominance agenda. But the show-trial hearings on whether this proto-fascist ideologue should be allowed to shape US social and political development for a generation provide some nuggets of insight into how the corrupt junta’s pathological liars actually work.
    The first order of amazement is that the process can actually take place. Shouldn’t precedence be given to hearings on impeaching and (…)

  • Old, blind, crippled - and fit for execution
    16 January 2006

    Schwarzenegger accused of ’affront to human dignity’ as he rejects clemency plea
    By Andrew Gumbel
    California’s Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has denied clemency to the oldest prisoner on California’s Death Row, saying a murderer’s life should not be spared because he is old and ill. Although Clarence Ray Allen still has an appeal pending before the Supreme Court, the decision increases the likelihood that he will be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday, a day after he turns 76. (…)

  • Rolling their eyes
    16 January 2006

    By Haaretz Editorial
    It is difficult to know what eventually led the government to discuss the chopping down of Palestinian olive trees by thugs from the settlements. Perhaps it was the media coverage, or the change of guard at the head of the cabinet table. Or maybe it was the complaints filed by the Yesh Din human rights organization on behalf of the Palestinian victims that ended up on the table of the attorney general, or the fact that the chopping down of olive trees - as opposed to (…)

  • Bush rebuffs Merkel on Guantanamo
    16 January 2006

    US President George W Bush has rejected criticism over the Guantanamo Bay camp raised by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during talks in Washington.
    President Bush said it was a necessary part of protecting the American people.
    But the two leaders presented a united front over Iran resuming its nuclear programme, and commentators said they appeared to have got on well.
    It is her first official US visit since her election which, Mr Bush joked, much like his own, was not a landslide win. (…)

  • Watch CSPAN Monday noon January 16th - Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution
    16 January 2006

    Monday, January 16, 2006
    Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution
    WATCH LIVE ON C-SPAN Schedule date: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:00 PM EST 1:00 (est.) LIVE peech Civil Liberties American Constitution Society Albert Gore Jr., United States The beginning and end of this live program may be earlier or later than
    the scheduled times.
    – http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:80...
    – http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetR...
    Al Gore to Warn of President’s Threat to Constitution (…)

  • There is irrefutable evidence that the Bush Administration has violated numerous international laws
    16 January 2006

    There is a growing awareness among the chattering classes in the United States that President W. Bush may be guilty of war crimes. Democratic Congressman and ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, introduced resolutions calling for the creation of a panel to investigate Bush and Cheney’s handling of the war. Although a long way from framing articles of impeachment, it is an important first step.
    There is overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that (…)

  • This war as an unjust, evil and futile war: MLK on Vietnam/Iraq
    15 January 2006

    MLK 1 Unjust Evil and Futile War - mp3
    I will be discussing today one of the most controversial issues confronting our nation. I’m using as a subject from which to preach, why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam.
    Now let me make it clear in the beginning, that I see this war as an unjust, evil and futile war. I preach to you today on the war in Vietnam because my conscience leaves me with no other choice. The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In (…)