Podcast: Richard Becker. Is Syria next?

Richard Becker, west coast organizer of the ANSWER Coalition and PSL leader, spoke at a PSL Forum in LA last night on US attempts at, and plans for, regime change in Syria. He details the history of colonialization and imperialism…

Sri Lanka election

From DJ Mitchell, who ived in Sri Lanka for several years working with Sarvodaya, an organization working for peace. Mahinda, Chanrika’s choice for successor, won the election. Interestingly, he won because the LTTE forced a boycott of the election by…

L.A. – South Central Farmers benefit

From the press release:  Zach de la Rocha, Members of Ozomatli, Quetzal and others join 350 families in South L.A. to defend community farm. Concert to save the community farm @ 41st & Alameda.Tuesday, November 22nd event will mobilize the…

Fitzgerald calls new grand jury

Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in court filings that the ongoing CIA leak investigation will involve proceedings before a new grand jury, a possible sign he could seek new charges in the case. I bet some folks in DC won’t…

APEC protests

Thousands of farm activists and union workers hurled bottles in a clash with police near a meeting of Pacific Rim leaders on Friday and had to be quelled by water cannon. About 2,000 farmers and farm activists and 3,000 union…

Democratic hawk now opposes the war

Raising the temperature in Congress over U.S. policy in Iraq, a pro-military Democrat who once voted to back the war now says it is time to bring the troops home Good! But, like Bill Clinton, his reasons for now opposing…

Valerie Plame and WMDs

Lefti on the News blogs via The Wayne Madsen Report that Valerie Plame was outed because the CIA intercepted shipments of nerve gas into Iraq "which was intended to be hidden in Iraq and later used as evidence that Saddam…