Articles Posted in 2009

  • Stay Tuned: She Sells Sanctuary

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    Stay Tuned: She Sells Sanctuary

    Hope Johnson Photos by Luke Thomas By Hope Johnson April 1, 2009 Where is Waldo, anyway, our perpetually blue-suited, fancy-haired Mayor? Seriously, Mayor Newsom, some leadership is in order here on your intended policy toward…

  • Israel’s Illegal Annexation of East Jerusalem

    By Stephen Lendman April 1, 2009 So says a confidential EU report revealed on March 7 by The London Guardian’s Rory McCarthy. It accuses Israel “of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and…

  • U.S. Supreme Court Denies GGRA Emergency Stay

    By Luke Thomas March 30, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court today denied the Golden Gate Restaurant Association’s application for an emergency order that would have immediately halted the employer-spending requirement of the San Francisco Health…

  • What About the U.S. Drug Demand?

    Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force By Ralph E. Stone March 30, 2009 Recently, President Obama promised to send more money, technology, and manpower to help Mexico fight the drug cartels. This is not just foreign…

  • Not Legalize Marijuana? What’re You Smokin??

    By Jill Chapin March 30, 2009 President Obama recently responded in the negative to a query on whether it’s time to legalize marijuana. Being a smart, rational guy, I guess he knew better than to…

  • Pro-Zionism: Defending the Indefensible

    By Stephen Lendman March 30, 2009 This article responds to a March 15 Los Angeles Times Judea Pearl one headlined: “Is anti-Zionism hate?” Pearl teaches computer science at UCLA, is the father of slain journalist…

  • Post Office to the Poor: No Mail for You?

    Post Office to the Poor: No Mail for You?

    Joe Jackson, 70, is a retiree living on a fixed income in a Single Residence Occupancy hotel in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. Due to USPS fiscal shortages and service cutbacks, low-income tenants like Jackson are…