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This is McCarthyism updated for a new age, says Livingstone Ken Livingstone, who was suspended as mayor of London after comparing a Jewish newspaper reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard, yesterday accused leading Jews of pursuing a policy of "McCarthyism updated for a new age"....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:33pm PST
General Michel Aoun to ‘Monday Morning’: 
He has the gift of facilitating matters. With him formalities and ceremonial go by the board. The conversation is quickly under way with the “General” at his residence in Rabiyé, which was thronged with young people and retired Army officers who remain devoted to him. There, one found those who had remained faithful to him, who had waited patiently for 15 years for his return from exile. I saw myself propelled back 16 years to Baabda Palace, with the same images and sensations. But that was a...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 9:04am PST
Bush travels to South Asia in pursuit of key strategic “partnership” with India US President George W. Bush travels to South Asia this week with the aim of cementing a strategic and “global” partnership with India. According to his aides, the trip is among the most important that Bush has made in his entire presidency....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:55am PST
As New Orleans Mayoral Race Looms, Displaced Residents Urged to Vote Absentee The race for the mayor’s office in storm-ravaged New Orleans may take on a different tone next month, with incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin trying to reach city voters strewn across the country while fighting a challenge from a feisty black minister, Louisiana’s lieutenant governor and a host of other candidates....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 7:40am PST
Your War in My Womb, My Middle Finger in Your Face Your War in My Womb, My Middle Finger in Your Face
Mara Ortenberger, project collective...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 10:57pm PST
Bolivia After the Election of Evo Morales: What Way Next? Bolivia After the Election of Evo Morales: What Way Next?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 10:45pm PST
AKBAYAN: to bury the truth, GMA killed Philippine democracy 
AKBAYAN Party today denounced anew GMA's declaration of a State of National Emergency, saying that the draconian measures that the government imposed yesterday completely exposed the despotic inclinations of the ruling regime....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:52pm PST
Kurt Vonnegut horrified by the hypocrisy of US politics In this exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs, Kurt Vonnegut is horrified by the hypocrisy in contemporary US politics (Buy A Man Without a Country at the Guardian bookshop)...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 3:09pm PST
Peter Camejo Joins CA Governor's Race 
This isn't a great article, but no surprise coming from Sacramento. Peter is an excellent candidate....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:44pm PST
Final Senate Patriot Act vote tomorrow! [Capitol switchboard for all Senators: 202-224-3121 Also:
888-818-6641, 888-355-3588, 800-426-8073, 800-828-0498 and 800-SOB-USOB
(800-762-8762) (that's for Senate Office Building, not what you're
thinking.... :-)]...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 1:56pm PST
Chronicle Owes Readers an Explanation I wrote on February 24 that the San Francisco Chronicle’s front-page story falsely claiming “momentum” for Governor Schwarzenegger (See “A Bad Week for the Chronicle,” http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=2977#more ) was part of a long running, pro-Arnold disinformation campaign. Further support for this assessment comes in a story in the Sunday, February 26 New York Times, “Schwarzenegger is Forced Into a Political Tightrope Act,” that notes how the Governor is in fact“ politica...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:05am PST
Haiti: A basket to carry water In a well-ordered world, Gerard Latortue whould now be sitting quietly in a jail in The Hague, preparing to defend himself against charges of treason, terrorism, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and, possibly, genocide....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:16am PST
Cheney Exposed? White House "Discovers" 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney's office senior aides had sent in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald revealed during a federal court hearing Friday....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 6:56am PST
Schwab:Utah Senator Bennett,Overtock.con Patrick Byrne,Tangled Up in Striptease Stock Scam And one of the sleezy candidates Steve Wark touted like the cheap and worthless Nevada penny stock pump and dump scams he is now helping to fraudulently promote as victims of 'naked shorting also has a Cheetah Club connection.Lance Malone the defrocked ex- Church of The Latter Day Saints or Momon Church member who was ex-communicated for sleeping out of wedlock and thus creating a scandal that must have sent their Angel Moroni rolling in his grave was also himself a lobbyist for the Cheetah C...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 7:28pm PST
Silvio Berlusconi: The Italian Tycoon (video/x-pn-realvideo 29.3MB) A normal Saturday afternoon in the western world, and a man can go to the supermarket, return to his house, read a newspaper, flick between television channels and finally settle down to watch his favourite football team. All very normal, except in Italy one man provides all these services. They call it Berlusconism. It seems the current Italian Prime Minister has cornered the market in cornering the market. Silvio Berlusconi is the most influential man in Italy, and a national phenomenon. Th...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 5:24pm PST
Belarus: My Country, My Hope 
I am from Belarus and live in USA for one year. I wrote some articles in local newspapers about my country. I am looking for others who care- who worry and want to do something about the state of affairs in my native country. I hope you can help to me with it....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 2:59pm PST
Conservative Attacks on Leno Baseless Conservatives have long attacked San Francisco’s public officials as paragons of evil, for everything from their social liberalism to their adamant opposition to war. But the recent attacks on Assemblyman Mark Leno in blogs and op-ed pages across the country goes beyond the pale, both because of the level of vitriol within them and the deep misrepresentation of what Leno hoped to accomplish with the bill that prompted the outrage. AB 50, the source of the conflict, would strengthen protection...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:19am PST
Livingstone Suspension Triggers Constitutional Row The suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone for four weeks for comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard triggered an immediate constitutional row, reported the Guardian on Saturday, February25 ....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:38am PST
White House report on Katrina: no blame, no accountability for hurricane disaster At a press conference on Thursday, Bush domestic security adviser Frances Townsend unveiled a White House report entitled “The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.” It should come as no surprise to anyone who follows the Bush administration that the document—billed as a comprehensive review of the government’s response and a list of measures to prevent a similar debacle in the future—is a transparent cover-up....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:33am PST
Universal Health Access and Closer Ties with China Top Agenda at Ethnic Media Briefing Mayor Gavin Newsom promised that San Francisco will become the first city to provide health care access to all its uninsured residents, some 83,000 people. Speaking at a press briefing held by New America Media for the city’s ethnic media, he said he was taking small steps now by expanding hours at community clinics and enticing patients to spend a small amount of money to receive primary medical services....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:28am PST
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