Articles Posted in the Politics Category
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Ethics Commission Airs Dirty Laundry
Inadequate Sunshine investigation may lead AG Brown to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Mayor Gavin Newsom By Joe Lynn May 7, 2009 By the end of an April 24th joint meeting of the Sunshine…
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Nicholas Olczak May 5, 2009 When Suraj Ghulam Habib was six years old, she saw what she thought was a can of food buried in the ground near her home in Afghanistan. The can…
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Recurrent Dilemmas at the Sunset Reservoir
A proposal by Recurrent Energy to own and operate a 5 megawatt energy-producing solar voltaic farm on the Sunset Reservoir in San Francisco, requires more scrutiny and analysis. Illustration courtesy Recurrent Energy By Julian Davis…
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Workers’ Rights and Immigration Reform
Combine for May Day ObservancesSan Franciscans took to the streets Saturday to rally support for workers’ rights and immigration reform. Photos by Luke Thomas By Luke Thomas May 2, 2009 Undaunted by inclement weather and fears of Swine Flu…
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Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age
By Steven Hill Editor’s note: The following article has been excerpted from Mr. Hill’s forthcoming book: Europe’s Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age (University of California Press), which…
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Stay Tuned: Wedges of Mass Construction
By Hope Johnson April 30, 2009 FCJ felt right at home, like family even, at last weekend’s State Democratic Party Convention in Sacramento. Family, Sopranos style, that is. Larry Mazzola, Jr. took his childish resentment…
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Obama’s 100 Days – The Mad Men Did Well
President Barack Obama Photo by Luke Thomas By John Pilger In his latest column for the New Statesman, John Pilger describes the power of advertising – from the effects of smoking to politics – as…
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