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Should you wish to be a fully-fledged member of an anti-American support groups at the United Nations in New York you must hate George W. Bush, love John Kerry and be rich. To be both a member and a leader, you need to be unimaginably rich. During September, one such person -- the "Red Queen of Peace" -- was roaming the U.N. corridors as she has done for the past 36 years. It was Mrs. Cora Weiss, daughter of the late Faberge Fragrances millionaire and friend to the Soviets, Samuel Rubin. Paraphrasing Shakespeare, age has not withered her, nor custom...

PARIS (AP) _ Respected French daily Le Monde on Saturday broke its own tradition of not taking sides in foreign elections by endorsing John Kerry in next Tuesday's U.S. election. In an editorial, the paper said the exceptional stakes of this election make Kerry the desirable choice ``beyond the borders of the United States.'' It lauded Kerry's ``internationalist'' view of the world, his ``ability to recognize his own errors'' and his foreign policy experience. Le Monde said President George W. Bush has undermined ``the rules of law on which American democracy is founded'' and ignored ``the international architecture'' that has...

Hundreds of Americans living in South Africa went to the US Consulate in Cape Town to make sure their votes would count for the election of the next president of the United States. "The show-up is phenomenal," said US consul-general Moosa Valli, who was the first of 230 people to vote yesterday. Voters handed in their sealed absentee ballots to make sure their vote would arrive in time for election day on November 2 without having to pay dispatch costs. The ballots were flown to the US last night. People having problems registering as voters or those who hadn't received...

Yesterday, more than fifty national antiwar leaders released a letter to potential Nader voters. Many of the signers are longtime activists who have been central in organizing efforts against the war in Iraq, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the Bush Administration's policy of pre-emptive war. "We stand with Nader in demanding that the cause of security and peace be at the top of the national agenda," the letter stated, "But we will not vote for him this election...the only practical way to safeguard the nation and the world is to vote for John Kerry for President of the United...

1 September 2004 BERLIN - Most Germans don't like US President George W. Bush and a poll released Wednesday showed a whopping 81 percent would vote for Democratic Party candidate Senator John Kerry. The Stern magazine poll showed just 8 percent of Germans would vote for Bush, with 11 percent saying they would be unwilling to cast a ballot for either Bush or Kerry. A total of 1,001 people were surveyed for the poll which has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points. The US presidential election will be held on 2 November.

White Supremacist Group To Stage Rally At Valley Forge Park Group To Protest 'Corrupt Dictatorship' Of President VALLEY FORGE, Pa. -- A white supremacist group that thinks George Washington held separatist and anti-Semitic views has gotten a permit to hold a rally at Valley Forge National Historical Park Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement says next month's two-hour rally should draw 200 to 300 people from various groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Schoep, who's from Litchfield, Minn., said the National Socialists are protesting the "corrupt dictatorship" of President George W. Bush. Valley Forge scholar Herman Benninghoff calls Schoep's...

Far from the razor-wire capped protest prison in the shadow of the flag-bedecked Boston Fleet Center, progressive activists shared center stage with their Democratic Party champions before a crowd of 1,000 at the Roxbury Community College Gymnasium. The occasion was a founding conference for a new organization, the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) (www.pdamerica.org) which vows to build a sustained movement to transform the Democratic Party into a force for social justice and environmental sanity. Referring to the event in Roxbury and Tuesday's "Building the Peace Movement" Forum at the Boston Paulist Center, which was attended by a standing room...

The Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee is officially urging its members to work for the election of John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. "Kerry was hardly the first choice of our members," said Frank Llewellyn, national director of the DSA. "Most supported Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean in the Democratic primary elections and would be very critical of Senator Kerry's voting record on trade issues, as well as his support for the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq; but the most important concern of our members now is to defeat Bush." The DSA is the...

Sunday, July 25, 2004 Socialists urge support of Kerry Largest group says defeat of Bush 'most important' Posted: July 25, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee is officially urging its members to work for the election of John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. "Kerry was hardly the first choice of our members," said Frank Llewellyn, national director of the DSA. "Most supported Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean in the Democratic primary elections and would be very critical of Senator Kerry's voting record on trade issues, as well as his support...

Brice Lalonde is a former socialist and Green Party leader in France, who ran for President of France in 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the Green Party Génération Ecologie. He was a student leader during the May 1968 student uprisings in France, when riots and upheaval scared the French population away from Revolution and the old Left, but toward an adaptive and calmer socialism. In 1968, Lalonde was President of the Union Nationale des Etudiants de France (UNEF), the French National Students' Union, which brought France to a standstill with protests...

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PARIS - Europe's deep disdain for President Bush (news - web sites) seems to be the engine behind John Kerry (news - web sites)'s growing appeal here, even though he is still an unknown quantity in Paris, London and Berlin. Antipathy to Bush has translated into enthusiasm for the Democratic presidential nominee, whose speech Thursday at his party's convention in Boston was broadcast in much of Europe. Daniel Thouw of Berlin, who has been observing the U.S. election campaign on Web sites and television, said he does not know where Kerry stands on many issues, but still thinks he would...

Germany Backs Kerry's Plan to Cut U.S. Budget Deficit (Update2) July 30 (Bloomberg) -- Germany supports plans by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry to pare the record U.S. budget deficit, a Foreign Ministry official said, welcoming a measure that may help stabilize the dollar against the euro. ``The Democrats have come out against the policy of debt, something that we and most other Europeans support,'' said Karsten Voigt, the ministry's coordinator for U.S. relations, in a telephone interview. ``It's a position that is jointly backed by the IMF and the World Bank.'' German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said after the euro...