Posted at LP.org: Which example makes Republicans look the most hypocritical when they complain about government-run health care? – Former President Bush’s $400 billion Medicare prescription program – Former Republican Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s universal health insurance scheme – Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order forcing schoolgirls to get an HPV vaccine – [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: By: Sunil Freeman Air strike feeds growing anti-war sentiment in Europe On Fri., Sept. 4, NATO fighter jets, responding to a request from German coalition forces, dropped two 500-pound bombs on two hijacked fuel tankers near the village of Omar Khel, killing an estimated 125 people. Five civilian members of one family [...]

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Posted at LP.org blog: Washington – Libertarian Party headquarters staff and interns joined the 9/12 Tea Party March on Washington.  After gathering at Freedom Plaza, just blocks from the White House, the march proceeded the 1.1 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol for a rally.   "Libertarians say Republicans equal big government: $400 [...]

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The Washington “insiders” publication The Hill reports on its website that the Green Party has invited Van Jones, who resigned this week as White House Council on Environmental Quality Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, “to join their ranks, possibly as a future presidential candidate.” Green Party activist and former Santa Monica, California, [...]

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Posted at Socialist Webzine: from WikipediaOn June 16, 1918, Debs made a speech in Canton, Ohio in opposition to World War I urging resistance to the military drafts of World War I. During the Palmer Raids, part of the First Red Scare in which people who were suspected of being radical leftists were arrested under [...]

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Posted on the front page of the Constitution Party national website: I am 18 years old. My parents are die-hard Republicans. It was going to be my turn to vote so I started researching the parties. I discovered that the Democrats and or Liberals want to hold office for nothing more than power and prestige. [...]

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Posted at PBS. H/T On The Wilder Side. BY ROSA CLEMENTE Over the Labor Day weekend, Van Jones, a member of the hip-hop generation and special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council for Environmental Quality, tendered his resignation, and it was accepted by the Obama administration. I will be the first to [...]

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Forwarded email from Mark Hinkle: Dear Allies, I’ve just booked my flight to the New Hampshire LP convention in Manchester on October 3rd (Saturday). The national LP Chair campaign is ON. I’ll be flying from San Francisco to/from Boston and then driving up to Manchester, NH. My intension is to listen to the New Hampshire [...]

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Posted at http://www.modernwhig.org/: As a political movement revived by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, the Modern Whig Party has not forgotten the events of September 11, 2001 and its immediate aftermath. This national political movement is populated by people from all walks of life and many parts of the mainstream political spectrum. This includes CEOs, teachers, [...]

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Posted at PSLweb.org: PSL Editorial School districts across the country are reporting 75 to 100 percent increases in the number of enrolled schoolchildren experiencing homelessness from only two years ago. The number of homeless schoolchildren nationwide has surpassed 1 million, according to the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth. That is, [...]

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Posted on LP blog by Mark Meranta: From the Free and Equal Elections Foundation: September 9th, 2009- The Board of Elections in Suffolk County New York has ruled that the Libertarian Party candidates for three county offices will not be on the ballot come November.  This action by the Board of Elections means that voters [...]

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by Chuck Baldwin 9/11, 2009 ChuckBaldwinLive.com On this 8th anniversary of the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, it behooves me to comment on the spirit of hatred that seems to motivate many people in and out of our great land. That the supporters and disciples of Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, [...]

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Posted at Socialist Webzine: A Call to Actionfrom Pittsburgh Indymedia On September 24 and 25, representatives of the 20 richest nations on Earth will meet in Pittsburgh, calling themselves the G20. They will be meeting to decide the fate of all the rest of the world’s people, as the great capitalist powers desperately struggle with [...]

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Posted at Center for a Stateless Society: ObamaCare in brief: Government feeds you to the insurance companies, while simultaneously feeding the insurance companies to you. The state takes home a doggie bag. That’s the substance of President Obama’s proposals in his Wednesday speech to Congress. First, feeding you to the insurance companies: [U]nder my plan, [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org The Wall Street gang is at it again! It’s been one year since Wall Street’s collapse and bailout took trillions from taxpayers and the sinking economy. The speculative instruments that pulled down the economy were those super-risky sub-prime mortgages, credit default swaps, collaterized debt obligations—you know—Las Vegas East, using other peoples’ [...]

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Contact: Michael Darden 917-868-8780 mdarden@perfectpitch-media.com Unity Party Convention and Candidates Forum, Boulder, Sat., 9/26 Boulder, Colo. — The Unity Party of Colorado will be holding its annual convention and candidates forum in Boulder on Saturday, September 26th, at noon, at the Best Western Boulder Inn, 770 28th Street off Baseline. The media is invited and [...]

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Contacts: Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders invited Van Jones, who stepped down recently as President Obama’s advisor on Green Jobs, to abandon the Democratic Party and “come home to the Green Party.” Greens called Mr. Jones, who resigned last Saturday [...]

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Contact: Wes Benedict, Executive Director E-mail: wes.benedict@lp.org Phone: 202-333-0008 ext. 222 Libertarians respond to President Obama’s health care speech Remind voters about Republican-initiated government-run health care plans WASHINGTON – In the wake of President Obama’s speech to Congress, America’s third-largest party wants to remind voters about Republican support for government-run health care plans. William Redpath, [...]

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The national Green Party sent an e-mail about 9/11 and peace:

“We urge the Obama administration to fulfill the promises made to reverse the Bush administration policy of waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan in response to 9/11.”

“Today we remember the losses of September 11, 2001, and re-commit ourselves to building a nation of peace, justice, human rights, and stability through our continued growth as an alternative to two administrations of war.”

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North Dakota’s Grand Forks Herald reports Winona LaDuke, the 2000 Green Party vice presidential nominee, spoke at the University of North Dakota on Wednesday as part of a panel on the purpose and future of higher education. LaDuke, who “now works at the White Earth Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota,” criticized universities “for their lack of [...]

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