Articles Posted in the Opinion Category
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Happy International Women’s Day
By Cindy Sheehan March 8, 2009 International Women’s Day (IWD) is marked on March 8 every year. It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women. My…
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United States and Cuba after Fidel
Brothers Raúl and Fidel Castro By Ralph E. Stone March 4, 2009 Raúl Casto recently reshuffled Cuba’s government, replacing or moving twelve cabinet members a year after assuming the presidency from his brother Fidel. Supposedly,…
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City Budget Shock
Julian Davis By Julian Davis, special to Fog City Journal March 3, 2009 Hats off to the organizers of Monday’s City Budget Town Hall. Hopefully this gathering will help spark a more adequate response to…
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Stay Tuned: Honey Hauler’s Parisian Soiree
Hope Johnson Photos by Luke Thomas By Hope Johnson March 3, 2009 Matier & Ross ventured out of the Chron’s comfort zone Sunday, questioning Willie Brown’s Do as I Say, Not as I Do birthday…
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No Better Time to End Cannabis Prohibition
Commentary by Patrick Goggin March 2, 2009 After staring down the barrel at California’s $43 billion budget deficit for the past several months, rookie San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano last week introduced legislation to legalize…
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Former Ethics Commissioners Articulate Basis
for Lobbyist Reform“If the citizens are to know who is paying to influence City Hall, how much they are paying, who they seek to influence, and what exactly they seek to influence, it is the Ethics Commission…
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Systemic Failure: Capitalism “Lays An Egg”
Photo by Margaret Bourke-White By Stephen Lendman March 2, 2009 After the 1929 October 24, 28 and 29 market crash, the weekly entertainment industry magazine Variety (on October 30) published its most famous ever headline:…
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