Doug Henwood in Socialist Webzine: For a long time, I’ve been critical of the left-wing penchant for economic crisis. Many radicals have fantasized that a serious recession—or depression—would lead to mass radicalization, as scales simultaneously fell from millions of pairs of eyes and the imperative of transcending capitalism became self-evidently obvious. I’ve long thought that [...]

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Interview with Cindy Sheehan by Billy Wharton at Socialist Webzine: Cindy Sheehan is the most recognizable anti-war activist in the US today. Since her son Casey’s death in Iraq in 2004, she has thrown herself into anti-war organizing. One high point of her protests came in 2005 as she set up a Camp Casey across [...]

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Ballot Access News: On Saturday, the Michigan Tea Party held a nominating convention in Saginaw and nominated 23 candidates. On July 26, it filed the list with the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State has still not validated the party’s petition, but the petition is very likely to have enough valid signatures. In Michigan, [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by the Green Party US national HQ and posted at Green Party Watch by Dave Schwab: WASHINGTON, DC — Green Party leaders and candidates are urging Congress to pass House Resolution 301 to remove US forces from Pakistan. The privileged resolution was introduced by Reps. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh.) and Ron Paul (R-Tex.), [...]

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Posted at http://kristindavis2010.com/blog by Anti-Prohibition Party candidate for Governor of New York Kristin Davis. For a different opinion on the issue, and links to previous IPR coverage, see here. This weekend I went on the record for opposing the mosque at Ground Zero. I wanted to bring attention to this issue at my birthday party [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl Perry, Boston Tea Party National Committee Chair: There’s a growing number of people calling themselves “Constitutionalists” however, it is not an appropriate political ideology. Many people on both “sides” of the false left-right paradigm claim to be “constitutional scholars” yet disagree greatly on many issues. The US Constitution states, “All [...]

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Posted by Tom Knapp at Kn@ppster. Knapp has held various internal offices in and sought public office under the banners of the Libertarian and Boston Tea Parties. : People who refer to themselves as “libertarians” spend a lot of time arguing over exactly what they mean by “libertarian.” Personally, I try to be fairly “big [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: CHICAGO – Jeremy Karpen’s campaign committee announced Tuesday that he had raised more money in the first half of 2010 than his opponent, the Democratic incumbent Maria ‘Toni’ Berrios. In campaign disclosures filed last week, Green challenger Karpen’s campaign reported more than $9,000 in total receipts, with over $5,400 in [...]

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From a post at Green Party Watch by Ronald Hardy: The Green Party of Michigan is holding their State Membership Meeting and Nominating Convention in Lansing, MI, where candidates for local, county, state and federal offices will be nominated for the fall election. The Convention is both Saturday July 31 and Sunday Aug. 1 from [...]

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David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog: When ultra-right Republican Sharron Angle won the GOP primary in Nevada on June 8, a number of Tea Party types were crowing about it, and heralding her victory as a harbinger of things to come. Even some libertarians, who should know better, were proclaiming Angle’s victory as “proof” that [...]

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Libertarian Party blog: Libertarian candidate Travis Irvine, running for Congress in Ohio, has made several campaign videos. This one features LP executive director Wes Benedict: Click here for the YouTube page.

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Libertarian Party blog: A Rasmussen Reports poll released today says that 43% of Americans support legalizing marijuana, while 42% are opposed. Additionally, 75% of respondents favored the legalization of doctor-prescribed marijuana. The Libertarian Party sides with mainstream America on this issue. The LP has supported legalizing marijuana for decades.

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From Ballot Access News: Mary Norwood, the independent candidate for Chair of the Fulton County, Georgia, Commission, sued Fulton County elections officials on July 22, because they refused to accept her filing fee on July 3, because the law says she should have paid it by noon and she paid it four hours later.  The [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Christian Science Monitor reports on calls for investigation of the murder of Rwandan Democratic Green Party Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka: Rwanda’s election season is in full swing and prominent critics of President Paul Kagame are turning up dead ahead of the Aug. 9 vote. Are the killings [...]

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Via email and LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, The War in Afghanistan has dragged on for almost nine years. According to the Washington Post, there have been 1,189 American military deaths, which is more than two per week. And of course, today’s big news about WikiLeaks raises a lot of questions about whether we’ve [...]

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CentralJersey.com: SOUTH BOUND BROOK — A Franklin, Somerset resident has filed suit against the borough, claiming a violation of the state Open Public Records Act because he was denied police reports about an investigation into an incident that may have involved a relative of the mayor. John Paff, chairman of the Libertarian Party Open Government [...]

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From the Philly IMC via TPID: During the 2008 presidential campaign, Stewart Alexander was the Vice Presidential Nominee for Socialist Party USA; now with the US economy falling deeper into an endless recession and President Obama’s approval rating dipping below 50 percent, Stewart Alexander says he will run for president in 2012 to make Washington [...]

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Posted by Megan Cornish at Socialism.com: With trillions of tax dollars going to corporate bailouts, millions of people losing homes and housing, and sky-high unemployment, there’s good reason to be angry. Recent polls report that most people think the U.S. is moving in the wrong direction. But what’s the right direction? Tea party protesters get [...]

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Posted at http://peaceandfreedom.org/blog/: In 1971, the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the public. They offered an insider’s view of the corruption and lies accompanying this country’s involvement in the Vietnam War. Wikileaks has just posted 92,000 papers on the War Against Afghanistan. Find the papers here: http://wikileaks.org/ Read an article on these papers here: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0725/pr-offensive-wikileaks-92000-afghan-war-docs-spill/

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Marylou Cabral at PSLweb.org: Racism must be defeated in the streets Arizona’s odious law SB 1070, has served as a catalyst for anti-immigrant racism all over the country. The law requires police officers to question a person’s immigration status during a stop, detention or arrest if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the person is an [...]

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