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Deaniacs: What should I tell Teresa Kerry tonight?

Teresa Heinz Kerry will be speaking about education policy tonight here in Santa Barbara, and I'll be helping set-up the event. I'm pretty sure I'll get at least a minute or two of face time with her,...

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Was Aristede 'Forced Out'?

(Crossposted at Not Geniuses)Aristide wasn't forced out - the headline of a story that Drudge has linked to from Jacksonville, North Carolina's Daily News. The piece quotes one source, Jim Refinger, a...

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Another Vicious Bush Lie

Crossposted at NotGeniuses.comPresident Bush, faced with slumping poll numbers over his handling of the economy, presented himself as a champion of free trade on Tuesday in a speech that warned of...

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More on Dean-Kerry Teamwork

Word is that there will be meetings taking place on March 24-26 between Dean fundraisers and various party officials and representatives of other organizations. The individual in the know, whose name I...

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Suicide Bombing Kills 10 in Israel

[Crossposted at NotGeniuses.com] Ariel Sharon and Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei were to sit down for negotiations later this week. Sharon never agreed to one-on-one meetings with the last...

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Should Spain Withdraw?

[Crossposted at NotGeniuses, but I was curious what Kossacks thought...] Spain's Prime Minister elect Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has promised to pull his country's 1,300 troops out of Iraq. I found...

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Baddest. Frenchman. Ever.

Baddest. Frenchman. Ever.A French motorist has been given a three-month suspended prison sentence for doing his level best to run over a pedestrian he mistakenly identified as Osama bin Laden. The...

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'Dear Disgruntled Blogger,'... from Kerry?

I received this in my inbox today: Dear disgruntled blogger, Please stop busting my balls about the ski trip to Idaho. I needed it. You know I needed. You know my top campaign staff thought I needed...

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LOL - Noam Chomsky is now blogging!

Wow, I never thought I'd see that day. Should be a fun read... "Turning the Tide" - http://blog.zmag.org/ttt/ Also, here's audio from a speech he gave on the 20th, if you're...

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Democrats Back Bill to Restore U.S. Trade Hammer

Hey Kossacks, I recently started up a new blog, Priority Wire, modeled after Goddard's Political Wire (while his deals with domestic politics, mine deals with progressive priorities - global poverty...

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Photo collage of int'l May Day celebrations

World Workers, whatever may bind ye,    This day let your work be undone: Cast the clouds of the winter behind ye,    And come forth and be glad in the sun. Now again while the green earth rejoices...

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McPanama

Panama's newest president is Martin Torrijos, the son of a former military dictator and a one-time McDonald's manager in Chicago, The Guardian reports. "'We have good relations with all countries of...

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Cheney Speaks at a Wal-Mart

This is just too rich (from Priority Wire - http://www.prioritywire.org - modeled after Goddard's Political Wire) ++++++"Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., as an example of the...

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Israel to Reveal Nuclear Arsenal to El Baradei?

From http://www.prioritywire.org - modeled after Goddard's Political Wire, except Priority Wire focuses on globalization and trade, global poverty and disease, and weapons/small arms...

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UN site hacked with torture shots by 'Moroccans'

Was browsing around and happened on this... The UN's Environment Programme's site:http://www.unep.org/ Nico Pitney Author of Priority Wire - http://www.prioritywire.org (Priority Wire is modeled after...

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Photo collage: Israel lauches largest Gaza offensive since 67

Israel is conducting its most extensive raids into the Gaza Strip since 1967. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Israeli military forces have...

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Georgia Gov. Cracks Down on G8 protests

Gov. Sonny Perdue (R-GA) has - get this - declared a preemptive state of emergency in advance of the G8 meetings being held at Sea Island, GA, in early June. I'll be following this and other stories at...

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Zinn, Jackson Jr, Hightower on new Workers' Rights Board

Cross-posted over at my globalization blog, modeled after Goddard's Political Wire: http://www.prioritywire.orgNew Activist-Oriented Workers' Rights Board to Launch On June 2, Jobs With Justice will...

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Events are Aligning that May Push Kerry to Advocate Withdrawal

Crossposted at my globalization blog, http://www.prioritywire.org +++++++++++++++ The LA Times today described John Kerry's "stark new challenge": "As President Bush has moved toward his position, the...

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Wal-Mart Pay Tweak is 'Shark Repellent Against Unions'

Crossposted at Priority Wire - a daily source for news on globalization and corporate power... +++++++++++ With more than 15,000 packed into the University of Arkansas' basketball arena for the...

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