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El Salvador Election Observers Detained!
Find out how you can help! Free elections are being threatened in El Salvador, once again....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 12:44pm PST
Aristide backers locked out of new government
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's U.S.-backed leader formed an interim government that excludes ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Lavalas Party — one that still commands a formidable following....
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2004 7:20am PST
South Koreans back impeached leader: Another Elected Leader Pushed Out Of Office By The US
Tens of thousands of South Koreans have poured into the streets in support of beleaguered President Roh Moo-hyun, chanting "Save our Democracy" and decrying the National Assembly's vote on Friday to impeach him....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 10:39pm PST
Socialists Oust Pro-War Party In Spain In Surprise Vote
One of the Bush administration's closest allies in Europe, Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, suffered a major defeat this weekend when his party was defeated at the polls by the Socialist Party. The vote came three days after 200 people died in bombing attacks in Madrid....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 11:13am PST
Socialists Score Spectacular Spanish Election Win
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish voters swept the center-right government from power on Sunday in a spectacular general election upset over last week's suspected al Qaeda attack in Madrid....
Posted: Sun, Mar 14, 2004 3:35pm PST
Riots In The Streets and Parliament In Korea As Leader Who Stood Up To The US Is Impeached
Mr Roh's election campaign was based on the promise of better relations with communist North Korea and a more equal footing with the country's biggest ally, the US....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 1:26pm PST
Howard Stern Becomes a Bush Critic
Howard Stern's schwing voters
The raunchy jockey is mobilizing his army of listeners against
Bush -- and they could make a difference in November....
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 12:31pm PST
The Constitution Project
The Constitution Project is a bipartisan nonprofit organization
that seeks consensus on controversial legal and constitutional
issues through a unique combination of scholarship and activism....
Posted: Thu, Mar 11, 2004 10:13pm PST
Dem Now! Covers E-Voting Issue Finally
David Dill only got to speak for small portions, and way too much time was given to the slow talking woman from San Diego who brought a voting machine home to her house. But overall it was pretty good. Dill got his points out, and the dire nature of the situation - paraphrasing: "Would you allow private corporations to take your votes and count them behind closed doors? Because that's what it is." And that makes you realize how much the corporate control of our lives is happenin...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 10:36am PST
Stop CAFTA, Stop the FTAA!
In the face of growing opposition from developing countries in
multinational forums such as CAFTA and the FTAA, the Bush administration is now turning to an
emphasis on bilateral trade deals in an effort to bully our smaller Central
American trade partners into accepting painful concessions on trade....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 12:17pm PST
Kerry Condemns Bush for Failing to Back Aristide
HOUSTON, March 6 — Had he been sitting in the Oval Office last weekend as rebel forces were threatening to enter Port-au-Prince, Senator John Kerry says, he would have sent an international force to protect Haiti's widely disliked elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2004 11:48am PST
HOW TO STOP BUSH’S 9-11 ADS
There's a wave of anger about these ads all over the media right now. The media need the pressure to ask the real questions, the ones that go beyond the ad itself. Do ONE thing towards this efffort, and keep the wave going....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:18am PST
Relatives condemn Bush 9/11 ads
Relatives of victims killed in the 11 September 2001 attacks have criticised George W Bush for using images from the tragedy in his campaign advertisements....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:57pm PST
Say No To H.Con.Res.371!
3/4/04 CFL ALERT: CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND ASK THEM NOT TO SUPPORT H.Con.Res.371....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 9:36am PST
Muslim leader speaks out at anti-BNP platform in Manchester, UK (video/x-pn-realvideo 3.7MB)
Watch the video...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 7:12pm PST
The candidates debate-fence or wall?
Dan Rather asks the democratic hopefuls-fence or wall...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 2:13pm PST
UK students get organised for electoral challenge to Blair and the far right (video/quicktime 30.1KB)
Anti-war students organise for electoral challlenge to the UK warmongers and the far right...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 1:09pm PST
Everything but Ralphing: Dems respond to Nader’s candidacy
If you turn south, squint your eyes, and open you ears, you can hear the not-so-faint sound of establishment liberals gritting their teeth. Ralph Nader’s decision last week to take a third run at the presidency has provoked a complicated collective temper tantrum that is interesting not just for its manifestations of plain-and-simple, ugly nastiness, but also for the way in which it has divided liberals into varying shades of Nader haters -- from the quiet regret of former supporters like Sus...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 10:23am PST
Canadian writer weighs in on Nader
Canadian journalist Carlo Bodrogi gauges the Democratic reaction to Nader's candidacy....
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2004 2:37am PST
A Transman Meets Dennis Kucinich
Here is an article I wrote about what happened when I met Congressman Dennis Kucinich in Massachusetts last week. Please vote for Dennis on Super Tuesday!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 1, 2004 1:54pm PST