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  • Poll: Americans Want Bush Impeached
    12 October 2005

    Poll: Americans Favor Bush’s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq
    By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans say that President Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
    The poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. (…)

  • BUSH wins
    11 October 2005

    —Saddam didn’t kick the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq.
    http://www.fair.org/activism/...
    But bush did.
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/-03-17-insp...
    — Saddam targeted extremist Shite al-Sadr & his militia
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.htm...
    So did bush.
    http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/portrait_...
    — Saddam wouldn’t let human rights groups into all prisons;
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/decade/sect4.htm...
    Neither will (…)

  • No Will, No Backbone:Washington’s War Dems
    11 October 2005

    by Joshua Frank
    These are tremulous times for the Republican establishment. A poll released this past weekend by Ipsos/Associated Press confirms that Bush’s agenda has slid right off the table and into the trash bin. The president’s popularity has plummeted to a meager 39 percent, the lowest of his tenure. At the center of Bush’s nose dive is the Iraq catastrophe, about which two-thirds of those polled strongly criticized Bush’s handling of the invasion and subsequent occupation. The (…)

  • hunger strike
    11 October 2005

    hi, Am busy right now, but am wondering why the mainstream media is not covering the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay?
    – http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en...

  • Gentrification Sweeps Streets of New Orleans Rolling in Cop Cars
    11 October 2005

    Midnight, on a nice summer night. The air smells sweet and the breeze is lovely. Millions of stars twinkle in the night. Silence amidth a few street lights and no one walking around that I could see. At the turn of the street, Newton Street to be precise, cops, guns and a couple of black young men handcuffed behind their backs, picked up from their home stoop... This was my first encounter as I laid foot in Algiers, New Orleans this morning, 5 hours after a curfew imposed at gun point.
    All (…)

  • Bellaciao GB - A message to all Italians in the UK and to their British friends
    11 October 2005

    Dear friends, we would like to ask your help in disseminating this message. There will be elections in Italy on the 6th of April 2006, and in preparation for this the coalition of the left is holding primaries to choose the candidate who will run against Berlusconi.
    We recently formed the Bellaciao Collective of Great Britain, a group dedicated to supporting the political activities of the progressive sections of the Italian diaspora in the UK (more on the group at the end of this (…)

  • Iran: Imperialism’s second strike
    11 October 2005

    by AIJAZ AHMAD
    U.S. President George W. Bush on the lawns of the White House.
    IRAN has played its diplomatic hand deftly. On the eve of the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on September 24, Iran’s highest authorities let it be known that in case countries which get their oil and gas from Iran vote against it, they might face retaliation. When India did vote with the European Union troika (E.U.-3) that has been fronting for the United States, the Iranian (…)

  • Death of America’s pre-eminent playwright
    11 October 2005

    by Brenda Payton writes for ANG newspapers.
    IT was probably predictable that the obituaries of August Wilson would describe him as the preeminent African-American playwright. It’s not that it’s an incorrect description, it just isn’t broad enough. Given the scope of his body of work and the remarkable accomplishments of his career, he is arguably the preeminent American playwright.
    Paradoxically, one of his major themes was addressing that discrepancy, making the point eloquently that (…)

  • ’What can they do to 40,000 teachers?’
    11 October 2005

    By PETTI FONG
    VANCOUVER — Teachers walked the picket lines, the NDP filibustered in Victoria and the school employers went to court yesterday in the first day of an illegal strike by the province’s 42,000 teachers.
    The provincial Liberals, after waiting out an all-night delay tactic by the NDP, passed the legislation that imposed a settlement on the province’s teachers, who have been without a contract since July, 2004.
    The school employers went to B.C. Supreme Court late yesterday to (…)

  • We Can’t Let It Happen Here
    11 October 2005

    What is beyond the looking glass?
    "And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room."
    Over a year ago, the comfort of my world severely diminished as I took my journey through the looking glass and discerned the ugly truths about the nation of my birth, the United States of America. “Logic and proportion” certainly seemed to have “fallen softly dead” (…)