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Acting Locally: Will Chicago Push Back Against Iran Warmongering?
Posted by Shemuses from Alternet
A resolution introduced into the council by one of its members, Alderman Joe Moore, would put the city on record as opposing a preemptive strike against Iran by the US. The resolution urges all congressional representatives whose districts include parts of the city to "clearly express the will of the people of Chicago in opposing any attack on Iran, and urging the Bush administration to pursue diplomatic engagement with that nation."
Iranian Exiles Aren’t Terrorist Group, British Court Says
Posted by Shemuses from New York Times
After a seven-year legal battle, Britain's Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that the British government was wrong to include an Iranian resistance group, the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, on its list of banned terrorist groups.
Green Party staple opts for new Vision
Posted by Shemuses from Canada
For years, Andrea Reimer and the civic Green Party were inextricably linked in Vancouver politics. Not anymore. The 36-year-old activist left the party in March to co-chair NDP MLA Gregor Robertson's Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination campaign.
China's Olympic angel and demonised traitor
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
As the Olympic flame continues its tumultuous journey, the lives of two young Chinese women have taken centre stage in the black and white world of Chinese public opinion, which views one as an angel and the other as a traitor.
Alec Baldwin Has Political Aspirations (Photos)
Posted by gmc1
Alec Baldwin sat down for an interview with Morley Safer of the CBS show 60 minutes. Baldwin dishes on his ex wife Kim Basinger, talks about the cellphone message he left for his daughter Ireland and discusses his desire to enter politics at some point. Shades of Ronald Reagan perhaps?
‘Captain Sniffy’ and Western Australia’s blokey blokes
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
The addition to a welter of oafish indiscretions of sexist overtone by Western Australia's opposition leader Troy Buswell says plenty about the Liberal Party there, and adds to a lingering suspicions about the place that despite marketing itself as the State of Excitement is too often too willing to conduct itself as the State of Excess.
Costa, New South Wales Labor's good cop, bad cop or true blue?
Posted by devolved from Smh.com
New South Wales Treasurer Michael Costa's bully-boy tactics may have hurt Labor but not the Premier or the state government plan's to sell-off its power industry.
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