By Hope Johnson April 30, 2009 FCJ felt right at home, like family even, at last weekend’s State Democratic Party Convention in Sacramento. Family, Sopranos style, that is. Larry Mazzola, Jr. took his childish resentment over his failure to qualify for the Golden Gate Bridge District Board on a road trip to Sacto, distributing anti-Chris [...]
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President Barack Obama Photo by Luke Thomas By John Pilger In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the power of advertising – from the effects of smoking to politics – as he reaches behind the facade of the first 100 days of President Barack Obama. April 30, 2009 The BBC’s American [...]
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By Luke Thomas April 29, 2009 The New Hampshire State Senate today approved a bill that would make marriage between same-sex couples legal. The bill, which passed 13-11, would establish a two-tiered marriage license system; one for civil marriages and the other for religious marriages. “As expected, marriage equality took another step forward today with [...]
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Valentino Achak Deng By Fanny Dassie April 29, 2009 Losing a friend due to a lack of food and water and coming across dead bodies lying along the roadside, is a reality that Valentino Achak Deng experienced as a refugee from war-torn Darfur in the late 1980’s, a first hand experience he discussed during a [...]
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By Stephen Lendman April 29, 2009 Self-promotion? Fair enough, but for a good purpose – to introduce more people to what the GRNH provides: – real democracy advocacy live, on-air, daily; – an antidote to government and corporate propaganda; – a force against war, injustice and inhumanity; – championing universal freedom; – a voice for [...]
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By Susan Vaughan April 28, 2009 In a partial victory for five men subjected to extraordinary rendition and torture, a three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously reversed today a lower District court ruling that denied rendition abductees the right sue to Jeppesen Dataplan for its role in aiding [...]
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Photo: Marco Ugarte/AP From the Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger April 28, 2009 As part of the state’s aggressive approach to addressing the swine flu, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today proclaimed a State of Emergency that will support and facilitate our state health departments’ response to this outbreak. While there is no need for alarm, it [...]
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