By Steve Kubby
ShadowCabinet.US
Phillip Garrido has been charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11, and raping her over the course of years.…
As the United States prepares to host the Group of Twenty nations summit in Pittsburgh later this week, we speak with longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, author and presidential candidate Ralph Nader.…
Posted by Thomas Knapp at Center for a Stateless Society:
According to Joseph Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund — addressing the subject of missile defense on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show Thursday — “President Bush was promoting a technology that doesn’t work against a threat that doesn’t exist.”…
Ballot Access News reports:
The Green Party of Canada does well in elections, but has never elected anyone to the Canadian Parliament. On September 19, the party nominated its national leader, Elizabeth May, to run in the next national election from the British Columbia district known as Saanich-Gulf Islands.…
Posted at LP.org:
Several other political parties exist, although most of them are single-issue groups like the Green Party, America First Party and the U.S.
…
A recent upsurge in violent crimes in Richmond, California has citizens looking to the local government and its leaders for solutions. Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, a Green who has a constituency larger than any other elected official from her party in the country, is trying to address those concerns. …
Thanks to Christina Tobin for alerting me to the coverage at Ballot Access News.
from The Sacramento Bee
Single primary bid’s a loser
by Richard Winger / Sunday, Sep.…
A new poll by the Republican firm Neighborhood Research finds independent Chris Daggett at eight percent in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. The firm’s August poll had Daggett at six percent.…
Socialist Workers Party candidates in New York City held a campaign rally on health care, the economy, and foreign policy issues on September 11, The Militant reports.…