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ABC Narrows the Field: Did Kucinich's Criticism of Koppel Influence Decision?

A day after ABC's Ted Koppel moderated a debate between the Democratic presidential contenders, the network decided to withdraw three off-air producers from the campaigns of Dennis Kucinich, Carol...

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Kucinich's electability

  Ask how many times Wesley Clark has been ELECTED.   How many times? None ! That's how many.   Ask how many times Howard Dean has been ELECTED.   How many times? Once ! That's how many.   How many...

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ABC Responds to Critics of Campaign Coverage

Under the headline "Fairness: It's What We All Want," the response addressed itself to supporters of candidate Dennis Kucinich, who have been the most critical of the network's decision to curtail...

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Are the polls wrong about Kucinich?

From Utne.com: Kucinich moves to second place in innovative candidate website activity ranking --By Rob Kall, OpEdNews.com December 2003 Issue The same internet statistics that predicted within less...

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WHAT ARE PRIMARIES FOR?

The Democratic caucuses and primaries are the time to support the candidate who has the best chance of defeating George W. Bush. Clearly, that candidate is Dennis Kucinich.  The primaries are not the...

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Prometheus Radio and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers

To: petri@prometheusradio.org From: pete tridish <petri@prometheusradio.org> Subject: [grc] prometheus radio and the CIW The radio barnraising  held by the Prometheus Radio Project and the...

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Step away from that computer, & support the troops

As Michael Moore points out in his article Letters From The Troops, the people who are feeling the brunt of Bush's policies are soldiers stationed in Iraq, & they are not thrilled to say the least....

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Dems Are Throwing Election to Bush

Here's a new press release from Dennis Kucinich.  if you don't want to read it, then don't, fraidy cat.

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The Democrats' Own Quagmire

Check out this article by Fareed Zakaria --.  It criticizes Howard Dean & other Democrats who think somehow that 'we broke it, so we must fix it' with fixing it meaning staying years in Iraq.  Why...

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Los Latinos Esta La Clave

This article by Joe Velasquez & Steve Cobble from the Nation says Democrats shouldn't look to the South for electoral votes, but to the Southwest.

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Theft of the Presidency

This is the original BBC story filed by Greg Palast showing how Jeb Bush & Katherine Harris, with the help of the company DBT, stole the 2000 election.

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Houston Chron: Behind scenes, Bush campaign arms for battle

Here's a story from my hometown paper the Houston Chronicle.  The Republicans are ready for a fight in 2004, but since the Bush Admin is arrogantly undercutting support from their base with their...

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Is Dean the 'New McGovern?'

Cartoon from the Houston Chronicle.

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Freep the Freepers

You may have heard that Margaret Cho spoke at the MoveOn.org BushIn30Seconds ad shindig, & for her efforts, was attacked savagely by Freepers.  Well, she put the e-mails up on a page at her blog,...

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Kucinich To The Rescue

Ralph Nader has declared he is running as an independent, & some Democrats are tearing out their hair because they see Nader skimming off the progressive vote & throwing the election to Bush....

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Gore Vidal speaks

http://christmascoup.com/mp3/20040222-gore_vidal.mp3 From the comedy groups' website (based at WBAI Pacifica Radio.) Wow.

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. .And then there were two.

Kucinich just keeps on going & going & going. Listen.

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Vanessa Kerry is a babe

If she ever wanted to explain why I should vote for her dad, I'd give her my full attention. Say, wait, do you think . . Vanessa is pretty, young, & blonde.  Do you think one day she visited her...

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Aristide in Jamaica

'Kingston, JAMAICA (March 15)--  Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman reports that Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has arrived in the Caribbean nation of Jamaica. Moments after his plane touched...

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Texas SD 15 convention votes for Kucinich platform

In Texas, the primary was on March 9 (due to redistricting), but voting for your candidate is only half of the story.  Delegates for each candidate are elected at a precinct convention afterwards.  I...

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Coming home in an invisible bodybag

The Bush administration is talking about sending more troops to Iraq to counter the new revolt of Iraqis against Bush's attempts at empire. What may raise the US counteroffensive against the Shiites...

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Rep. King (R-IA) needs to go

Interesting news in the paper about Rep. Steve King, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee.  He has been shooting his mouth off so much about trials over the constitutionality of the...

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Congressman Culbertson Californicates

All this month in Houston, rumors about sweeps by La Migra on construction sites, churches, & schools have caused panic in the immigrant community.  Construction sites, restraurants, & lawn...

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Greg Palast won't be invited to Reagan's funeral

Several posters have stated that it would be unseemly for the left/liberals/Democrats to react with glee at Reagan's death.  Well, Greg Palast begs to differ. He has written an article titled KILLER,...

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Mental ward laughed at Reagan

The Reagan anecdote from Oliver Sach's book THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT: The President's Speech - about a ward of aphasiacs and agnosiacs listening to a speech given by President Reagan....

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GayToday on Reagan's death

Ronald Wilson Reagan, Pioneer of AIDS Ignorance, is Dead at 93 Refused to Mention Virus for 5 Years; Did So on April Fools Day Catered to Punitive Religious Fanatics Such as Rev. Jerry Falwell

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Bush-ZombieReagan in '04

It's Morning in America... Again! Difficult times call for great leaders -- men of vision, strength and courage. Men like George W. Bush and the shambling, reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan. Welcome...

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Wear black ribbon on Friday

I want y'all all to wear a black ribbon around your arm for Ray Charles on Friday.

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Ted Rall slimed by Right

Ted Rall has a pretty good cartoon about Reagan's death.  However, Drudge, Hannity, & Rush have commented negatively on it, causing Rall to be slimed by impressionable Rightwingers.  If you want...

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Bell vs Culberson-Texas fun

Today, KPFT (Houston's Pacifica radio station) had lameduck Congressman Chris Bell on to talk about the ethics charges he has filed agaisnt House Majority Whip Tom DeLay.  Spring Branch/River Oaks...

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Boondocks nails it

Al Gore lost because Katherine Harris hired Choicepoint/DBT to illegally block 58,000 people from voter rolls, claiming they were illegal felons.  Turns out 95% of them never committed a felony.  Thats...

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Right google-bombs F 9/11

According to Cursor.org and a website  it has linked to, Google is conspiring to bring up mostly anti-Moore websites when phrases like 'review of Michael Moore movie',' Fahrenheit 9/11 reviews','...

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I want you to be my girlie man

Music video begins with a beautiful sunset. A curvaceous figure is seen struting towards what looks like the California Governor's mansion. In the background is playing (sung by Prince): Ohh Ohh Ohh...

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Rev. Moon Arming N Korea

Go read this interesting entry by Bob Harris on This Modern world.  It seems N. Korea has introduced submarine-based nuclear missiles (which can reach the US)into its' military, & Rev. Sun Myung...

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Ex-diplomat reviews 9/11 Commission Report

I got this in an e-mail: 'The latest issue of California Monthly carries a review by me of the 9/11 Commission Report. It is also available on line (with additional footnotes) at...

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RNC leased Pier 57 to NYPD!?

Well, this is interesting. ". . .My husband called the NYPD to ask who had issued a Certificate of Occupancy or Fire Safety Inspection Certificate and who wasmanaging Pier 57. He was given the number...

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New Fix in Florida

The Republicans have discovered a new way to guarantee Florida for W: 'It doesn't take a heroic effort at extrapolation or a great imagination to figure out what the cabal's going to do. The zones of...

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Nader competitors in FLA

Ralph Nader may or may not be on the ballot in Florida.  But there are five presidential contenders who are already on the ballot in this important swing state:  MICHAEL BADNARIK, WALT BROWN, ROGER...

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I'm High Alright, But On the Real Thing . .

I thought this would get a laugh: Among the papers released Friday was a press release, sent to Houston newspapers in 1970 by the Texas Air National Guard, lauding the young Bush as a straight arrow....

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Mordechai Vanunu On KPFT

Israeli nuclear whistleblower & political prisoner Mordechai Vanunu speaks on Arab Voices.

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Republicans stunned by loss of moderates in Congress

Republican leaders in Congress are stunned by the defection of moderate Republicans from the Republican party.  The moderates have started a third party called the Moderates of the Republic, but have...

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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION COMMITTEE ARRANGED TO USE PIER 57

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/109307/index.php  2004 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION HOST COMMITTEE ARRANGED TO USE PIER 57        Close Associates Of President Bush Connected To Pier...

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Kerry Wins Ohio!

Fromn an e-mail: Two weeks after leaving listeners with an election night projection of "Too Close To Call" KPFK National Elections Coordinator M.T. Karthik announces that KPFK Radio is now ready to...

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White America

Tell me if I am getting too much from this. http://phong.com/imagery/gnn/white_america/white_america.html

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Tom DeLay's Boys at the Indian Gaming Tables

The Texas Observer magazine has a story online about Indian Casino money being used by Tom DeLay & his boys.  Go give it a read.  It will be worth it. And the Texas Observer's good ol' boys, so if...

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Lobbyist Big Con on El Paso Tiguas

The Texas Observer has published another article on how lobbyists connected to Tom Delay siphoned millions in cash  from a casino-owning Indian tribe.  This time, though, the lobbyists (Jack Abramoff...

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Checkout "Pimping the President" by the Texas Observer

In the side scandal of DeLay's lobbyist friends ripping off Indian tribes with casinos, it now looks like Jack Abramoff & Mike Scanlon got the tribes to pay $10 million for the priviledge of...

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Medical marijuana & pain medication

As you all may know by now, the Supreme Court has ruled against medical marijuana.  This despite the fact that cannabis seems to be the only cure for adrenal cancer, as attested in the case of Steve...

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Arise, you plaintiff lawyers! The Indian nations cry out for you!

I have just read the new article about the Indian Gambling scandal in the Texas Observer.  That is when I had an epiphany (a Cindy Sheehan moment?)  The plaintiffs lawyers should be rushing to the...

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Pelosi will be forced to put impeachment on table

Speaker Pelosi has said impeachment is "off the table."  With the Bush Administration saying that Congress can't use the Justice Dept. to enforce contempt orders, the mind jumps to the Constitutions...

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