California is seriously broke The winner of Tuesday’s election will have barely two months to propose at least $10 billion in budget cuts, tax increases and other “revenue enhancements” — and possibly as much as $20 billion, an amount equivalent…

This is not a joke, repeat not a joke Russia to monitor American electionsThe monitors are charged with assessing whether next Tuesday’s mid-term elections in Florida meet international standards of democracy “with a focus on evaluation of the actions the…

This should certainly advance the cause of peace Sharon asks Netanyahu to be foreign minister

Scientists find herbicide causes frog sex change One of the world’s most popular weedkillers, atrazine, is common in water and could be having a sex-change effect on amphibians. American scientists have discovered a strong link between atrazine and hermaphrodite tendencies…

Follow the money Court slams Laredo National Bank The attack by Laredo National Bank, its president Gary Jacobs, and the notorious Hank family empire of Mexico (subject of Federal Reserve Board actions regarding the Laredo bank) against press freedom and against…

US judge approves the politically motivated MS-DOJ settlement. This proves one thing.  As a society, we are still in denial about corporate abuses of power.  Law, like any other system is prone to distortion by the views of the people that…

Donna Warren on Three Strikes Donna is the Green Party candidate for California Lt. Governor November 1, 2002  Today is the 5th year anniversary of my son’s murder.  At approximately 1130 a.m., Ricarrlo Porter in my home, pointed an assault…

I Voted Touchscreen! That’s what the sticker says. They gave one after I voted today in Los Angeles at one of the twenty new touchscreen voting centers. They plan to roll them out county wide by 2004-5. They are easy to…

Uh, oh Preparing for the endgame on how to confront Iraq, the U.S. claimed Thursday that it has won two key swing votes on the Security Council — Ireland and Mauritius — giving it the necessary majority to pass its…

Republicans trying to depress Black voter turnout. It is a shame that instead of trying to change minds, the Republicans are resorting to trying to keep people from voting: Such ads don’t suggest what Republicans would do if they replaced…