San Francisco Bay Area News, Arts, Culture and Politics
Cover illustration of the 2010 San Francisco Public Defender’s annual calendar, available for free! From the Office of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi January 21, 2010 An attorney argues…
Ignoring people needs during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration supports business, militarism, and homeland repression. He backs open-ended banker bailouts, aggressive wars, repressing dissent,…
The Democrats failure in Massachusetts is especially telling since a) Brown opposes national health care reform even though Massachusetts already has near-universal health coverage thanks to a law passed when…
Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in…
Ending months of speculation and rumor, San Francisco Board of Education President Jane Kim today confirmed her candidacy in the 2010 race for District 6 Supervisor.
California High Speed Trains: Business Plan. By Matt Drake, guest editorial January 18, 2010 In November of 2008, Californians voted yes on Proposition 1A, a bond measure raising $10 billion…
Disaster capitalism is triumphant everywhere from post-Soviet Russia to post-apartheid South Africa, occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, Honduras before and after the US-instigated coup, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, New…