The L.A. 8 – 18 years of harassment

The L.A. 8 have been in court, on trial. and harassed by the feds for eighteen years. Even though courts have ruled that what they were doing was completely legal, the U.S., in a complete miscarriage of justice, is attempting to…

Greens, anarchism, and organizing

Peter Camejo, twice California Green Party candidate for governor and VP candidate with Nader in 2004 has published his thoughts on the current state of the GP, focusing on California where the vast bulk of registered Greens in the country live. The…

Quote of Note

“Why should placing bombs be illegal and bombing civilians from the air not be?” — Martin Varsavsky, via his blog , 7/7/05 Link – isen [isen.blog]

Sigh

The Group of Eight summit bowed to U.S. pressure on Friday by approving a declaration on climate change that avoided taking any concrete steps to fight global warming, such as setting targets or timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. All…

Homegrown

Investigators have concluded that the bombs that ripped through three subway trains and a bus on Thursday were relatively crude devices containing less than 10 pounds of explosives each. That finding supports a theory gaining momentum among the authorities that…

Will the terror on terror on terror continue?

Robert Fisk: The reality of this barbaric bombing If we are fighting insurgency in Iraq, what makes us think insurgency won’t come to us?  “If you bomb our cities,” Osama bin Laden said in one of his recent video tapes,…

UN troops storm Haiti shanty town

UN peacekeepers in Haiti have stormed a slum in the capital, Port-au-Prince, killing armed gang members loyal to the country’s ousted president. “Peacekeepers”?

Quote of the Day

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the…