American impeachment processes boil down time and again to little more than political theater. 

When it comes to actual justice, time and again the American system has made its presidents immune.

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Corporate and Union Political Donations Now Banned During Provincial Elections in Alberta

Democracy wins the day.

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Atheist Monument Unveiled Next to 10 Commandments at Bradford County Courthouse

 STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A group of atheists unveiled a monument to their nonbelief in God on Saturday to sit alongside a granite slab that lists the Ten Commandments in front of the Bradford County courthouse.

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We never expected Chevron to be so brutal

Larry Bowoto's left arm is still scarred and numb where a soldier's bullet struck it in 1998 while he was aboard a Chevron oil platform in Nigeria. During the course of the incident, Bowoto was shot several more times, another man was wounded and yet another was killed.

On Monday, in only the second trial of its kind, a federal jury will convene in San Francisco to decide whether Bowoto and his companions were violent hostage takers or innocent victims - and whether a U.S. corporation, whose foreign subsidiary summoned the security forces, is responsible for the bloodshed.

"I'm not a violent person," Bowoto, 44, said through an interpreter during a recent Bay Area visit. "We were peaceful protesters" who "never expected Chevron to be so brutal." [More »]

Drilling and Killing: Landmark Trial Against Chevron Begins Over Its Role in the Niger Delta

A Conflict that began 10 years ago on a Nigerian oil platform continues in a San Francisco courtroom. It happened about nine miles off the Nigerian coast. Now chevron is being sued in federal court over how it resolved a hostage situation between its workers and local Nigerians who boarded that platform.

Was Chevron just doing what it had to protect its workers in Nigeria? Or did it sanction a military crackdown the likes of which would never be tolerated in the United States? That is the question being put before a San Francisco jury.

On Monday, Larry Bowoto is the plaintiff in Bowoto versus Chevron, a federal lawsuit charging Chevron with human rights abuses for shootings in Nigeria.

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Free Burma!!!!
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Free Burma! - International Bloggers' Day for Burma on the 4th of October

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No Extradition for the BC3!

Marc Emery, Michelle Rainey, and Greg Williams are Canadian citizens who were heavily involved in anti-prohibition activism for over ten years.

The United States Justice Department and DEA want Canada's government to extradite these three political activists to face 10 years up to life in US prison! The extradition hearing has been scheduled to begin on November 5th, 2007. Canadians and Americans MUST do their part! Even a phone call makes a difference!

Click the image below for five things you can do to help the BC3 fight extradition!


If you support drug-reform, harm reduction, or basic human liberty and freedom of choice, please take a few minutes and do whatever you can.

link | Watch the 60 Minutes CBS broadcast about "Marc Emery, Prince of Pot" at Pot.tv

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