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ActWithUs To Manage Grassroots Political Campaigns
Bellingham, Washington, USA - ElevenCraft Inc. today announced ActWithUs, a web service for helping volunteers manage large grassroots political campaigns.Read More »
Glenn Beck Stages Rally on Martin Luther King Anniversary
47 years to the day after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously spoke at the Lincoln Memorial, Fox News commentator Glenn Beck was promoting his “Restoring Honor” rally along with tens of thousands of
Read More »White House Ducks Afghanistan Exit
by Tom Andrews It was difficult watching the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing of General David Petraeus today. The number one line of questioning – why the administration has established a date certain
Read More »Peter Orszag, White House budget director to resign
According to reports from Washington, Barack Obama’s most senior budget official, Peter Orszag is going to resign later this year. Mr Orszag has been one of the Obama administration’s more prominent faces and will
Read More »William Hague represents Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in Washington
Foreign secretary William Hague will represent the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat government in the US today as he makes his first foreign trip since the coalition was agreed. Mr Hague, a former Tory leader and
Read More »David Miliband is first candidate to declare himself in Labour leadership race
By Rosa Prince The battle will be between four young former Cabinet colleagues and one outsider – Jon Cruddas, a Left-wing backbencher. Mr Miliband’s younger brother Ed, 40, is expected to announce his candidacy
Read More »Leading Green attacks Lib Dem voters
By Luke Walsh Green London Assembly member Darren Johnson has criticised people who voted Lib Dem after they sided with the Conservatives in a coalition government. Mr Johnson, who missed out on the Green’s
Read More »How aid money is being spent in Haiti
Four months after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people and left over a million homeless in Haiti, World Food Programme (WFP) Director Josette Sheeran said the country was “not out of
Read More »Heathrow plans ditched by new Government
By Paul Cahalan Plans to build a third runway at Heathrow have been ditched by the new Government. The news, which was expected as both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats opposed the runway, was
Read More »UK coalition to halt computer surveillance
The UK will reverse and restrain many of the surveillance systems that have marked its citizens out as the most watched in the world. The agreement on which the UK has formed its first
Read More »Iran sentences Newsweek journalist
PA News A Newsweek reporter has been sentenced in absentia to more than 13 years in prison and 74 lashes, raising concerns about a new Iran government crackdown ahead of the anniversary of disputed
Read More ȣ750 compensation for those denied the right to vote
Counts in at least 14 constituencies in eight cities including London, Sheffield and Birmingham were affected by the chaos. By Christopher Hope People formed long lines outside polling stations as returning officers were overwhelmed
Read More »Obama Following Bush’s Footsteps?
Jeff Huber Those of you still hoping for “change” can forget it. Young Mr. Obama is working the same number that young Mr. Bush pulled on us. In Obama’s address to the Veterans of
Read More »Politicians cost public £500 million each year
Britain’s politicians apparently cost the taxpayer £500million a year. The number of political professionals has grown by ten-fold in the past decade to 29,000 and the cost of paying them has risen just as
Read More »Obama Admin Will Not Probe Afghan War Crimes
Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human rights groups allege were killed by U.S.-backed forces. The mass deaths were brought
Read More »Protest in London over ‘rigged’ Iranian election
Green flags and banners fly as a crowd of 2,000 or so demonstrators chant anti-Iranian regime slogans. Many pump their fists into the air, screaming in Persian: “Guns and tanks are of no use
Read More »G8 leaders fail to reach agreement on global crisis
China, France, Russia challenge supremacy of US dollar The leaders of the G8 group of major industrialized countries lined up for their photo call at the conclusion of this year’s summit and sought to
Read More »Bush admin discouraged probe into afghan killing
Bush administration officials discouraged an investigation into a mass killing in Afghanistan, government officials and human rights workers say. Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war were killed by forces under Gen.
Read More »Activists Sound the Alarm on Obama’s Budget
Over two dozen AIDS activists were arrested just outside the U.S. Capitol building yesterday while protesting President Barack Obama’s failure to honor his campaign promises of increased funding for AIDS programs. During the
Read More »UN human rights chief says reports suggest possible war crimes in Somalia
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said Friday it is clear that grave violations of international human rights and humanitarian law – possibly amounting to war crimes – are being committed
Read More »Sink the BNP
Tonight the BNP leader told the BBC that we should sink boats with refugees coming from Africa. BBC Correspondent Shirin Wheeler replied: “I don’t think the EU is in the business of murdering people at
Read More »BNP email shows party is ashamed of itself
In an email to members and supporters, party chairman Nick Griffin told them to “try and avoid” owning up to being BNP supporters when writing to complain about the treatment of two activists. An
Read More »BNP suspected in terror plot
A network of suspected far-right extremists with access to 300 weapons and 80 bombs has been uncovered by counter-terrorism detectives. Thirty-two people have been questioned in a police operation that raises the prospect of
Read More »Action threatened against fascist BNP
Who? John Wadham, 57-year-old legal director of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Why is he in the news? The EHRC has written a letter before action to the British National Party (BNP)
Read More »Obama Declares Coup “Not Legal” Amid Uncertainty
Capping a day of mixed signals, U.S. President Barack Obama said late Monday that he considered Sunday’s ouster and exile of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to be “not legal” and that Washington still considered
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