El Salvador left wins big in March 16 elections

“Capital city of San Salvador won by FMLN.
10 of 14 major metropolitan cities go to former rebels.
FMLN advances in assembly.

Early results of the March 16 elections in El Salvador have supporters of the FMLN dancing in the streets.  The FMLN [Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation] swept to victory in ten of the fourteen major cities around the capital, winning the mayor’s offices in San Salvador, Santa Ana, Zacatecaluca, Tejutecupeque and Usulutan.  The FMLN won in the three largest municipalities in the country.  Santa Tecla and Soyapango went to the FMLN by two-to-one margins.

CISPES election monitors in the country reported FMLN victory parties going into the early morning hours as election results clearly indicated a major advance for El Salvador’s Left.  The FMLN carried out the armed struggle in El Salvador from 1980 to 1992 when a peace agreement was signed.  Since the war, the FMLN has made steady advances in the electoral arena as the second most powerful party in the country.”

Brazil, Venezuela, now El Salvador. Latin America is turning Left. Shhh, don’t tell the Bushies.

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Profiles in timidity

Remind me again why so many of the Democrats running for President call themselves Democrats, considering they are indistinguishable from Republicans? And seemingly unable to criticize Bush for anything? 

From Political Wire

“Sen. Joe Lieberman expressed his “full support” for Bush’s “decision to use military force to disarm Iraq”

Sen. John Kerry said “he would hold his fire against Mr. Bush’s foreign policy once shooting begins in Iraq”

Rep. Dick Gephardt said “there will be plenty of time later” to look at the Bush administration’s diplomatic record but that “now is the time to unite the country”

Sen. John Edwards called on Saddam Hussein “to choose peace by leaving Iraq and offered his prayers to ‘our troops, their families and our commander in chief’”

However, there is one notable exception!

“Howard Dean (D) said “war with Iraq will not silence his outspoken criticism of the presidential policies that led to it“

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VoteToImpeach.org

Ramsey Clark, Attorney General of the U.S. under LBJ, has drawn up the Articles of Impeachment.

He says:

 The U.S. Constitution provides the means for preventing George W. Bush from engaging in a war of aggression against Iraq, and from advancing a first strike potentially nuclear preemptive war. It’s called impeachment.

They are raising money to run full page ads in the New York Times and other major media. Please help if you can.

(Hmmm, The site just went dead… How…odd…)

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Send a pretzel to Bush, says French website!

Remember when Dubya choked on that pretzel and beat himself up? Well, a French website does! They plan to send pretzels to GW in honor of the event and to protest the war.

You can buy the pretzels online, with some of the money going to helping children. (Click the American flag top left for English)

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Civil disobedience and direct action being planned worldwide

Check the latest news! Then check IndyMedia. 

IndyMedia has hundreds of sites worldwide, each focused on a geographical location. They currently have much news and plans about the major actions to come.

I find it positively inspiring to see so many people in so many countries working towards ending this insane war.

Here’s some of the major Indymedia sites.

San Francisco
New York City
Los Angeles
DC
Chicago
United Kingdom

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L.A. gathering places when the war starts

Gather at these locations at 5 pm:

Westwood Federal Bldg: 11000 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles
(This will be the biggest)

Also
Pasadena: Central Park, one blk. So. of Green on Raymond
Downtown LA: La Placita Church, 535 North Main St. near Olvera St.
Downtown LA: Federal Bldg, Los Angeles & Temple
Claremont: Gather at Indian Hill Blvd. & Arrow Hwy.
Orange County: Anton and Bristol in Costa Mesa (6:00 pm)

Check ICUJP, top of home page for updates on these locations

Answer LA will have any fast-breaking information. Their office is staffed from about 10 am - 10 pm every day and they have three phone lines. (213) 487-2458.

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George W. Queeg

Paul Krugman in the New York Times

“There’s a long list of pundits who previously supported Bush’s policy on Iraq but have publicly changed their minds. None of them quarrel with the goal; who wouldn’t want to see Saddam Hussein overthrown? But they are finally realizing that Mr. Bush is the wrong man to do the job.

And more people than you would think — including a fair number of people in the Treasury Department, the State Department and, yes, the Pentagon — don’t just question the competence of Mr. Bush and his inner circle; they believe that America’s leadership has lost touch with reality.

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Money safe with us, say German banks, uh huh

Some German banks are rumored to be in major trouble, and it’s never a good sign when banks have to issue statements saying everything is peachy keen and thanks for asking. Stay tuned.

“Germany’s private banks told ordinary savers on Monday that their deposits were not in any danger and denied that a crisis that has involved talks with the government could lead to a state bailout of a bank.”

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A Weblog from Baghdad

Excerpt from Where is Raed?, a real life blog from Baghdad.

“No one inside Iraq is for war (note I said war not a change of regime), no human being in his right mind will ask you to give him the beating of his life, unless you are a member of fight club that is, and if you do hear Iraqi (in Iraq, not expat) saying “come on bomb us” it is the exasperation and 10 years of sanctions and hardship talking.

There is no person inside Iraq (and this is a bold, blinking and underlined inside) who will be jumping up and down asking for the bombs to drop. We are not suicidal you know, not all of us in any case.”

Puts a human face on it, doesn’t it?

On the home page is:

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do. - Samuel P. Huntington”

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