[pjnews] Small Arms? Big Problem

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=24574 Arms Suppliers Scramble to Feed Hungry Market When the 15-member U.N. Security Council legitimised the U.S.-imposed interim government in Baghdad in June, the five-page unanimous resolution carried a provision little publicised in the media: the

[pjnews] The Big Lie

http://snipurl.com/7p56 Conservatives Increasingly Unhappy With Bush http://snipurl.com/7pnw Congress, even though it is Republican-run, is showing an increasing willingness to stand up to the Bush administration. If the president is re-elected, it doesn't bode well for his second-term

[pjnews] Anti-Gay Constitutional Amendment Fails

http://snipurl.com/7spk SENATE REPUBLICAN'S FAIL TO GET ANTI-GAY CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Wednesday, July 14th 2004 WASHINGTON, DC--A proposed constitutional amendment died on a 48-yes, 50-no procedural vote today in the Senate. In a humiliating defeat for the right wing of the GOP and its

[pjnews] Condoleezza Needs to Call Anonymous

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/mcgovern.php?articleid=3015 Condoleezza Needs to Call Anonymous by Ray McGovern, 13 July 2004 In our various oral and written presentations on Iraq, my veteran intelligence officer colleagues and I took no delight in sharply criticizing what we perceived to be the

[pjnews] Action: Stop the Genocide in Sudan

from TrueMajority.org : We Can Save 600,000 People If We Act Now Genocide is underway in Sudan. The contrast in our government’s response to Sudan and Iraq is striking. Bush was willing to buck the United Nations and spend $200 billion to invade Iraq (most recently for humanitarian reasons).

[pjnews] Bush fields softball questions from supporters

http://snipurl.com/7ukn A Chance to 'Ask the President' Bush uses folksy format to field friendly crowds' questions that are easier to answer than many. By Edwin Chen Times Staff Writer July 15, 2004 FOND DU LAC, Wis. — The little boy so mumbled his words that the president could not make them

[pjnews] Robert Fisk on Iraqi Sovereignty, Martial Law and Continuing Violence

http://www.jordantimes.com/Thu/opinion/opinion2.htm After more than 14 months in Iraq, the US military cannot effectively counter either local resistance groups or foreign Islamists operating there http://snipurl.com/7vk5 Once united in their opposition to the US-led occupation authority, signs

[pjnews] Coalition Unravels, Saddam Lite Takes Command

interesting article... http://www.co-intelligence.org/polarizationDynamics.html Exploring the Dynamics of Polarization http://snipurl.com/7wie 900th GI Dies Since War Began in Iraq - http://snipurl.com/7wh6 THE COALITION UNRAVELS, SADDAM HUSSEIN LITE TAKES COMMAND 19 July 2004

[pjnews] 9/11 Commission Takes on Patriot Act, Secrecy

http://snipurl.com/7yke 9/11 Commission Report Takes on Patriot Act, Government Secrecy; ACLU Outlines Civil Liberties Problems With Cabinet-Level Spymaster July 22, 2004 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WASHINGTON - The official 9/11 Commission report, released today, takes aim

[pjnews] Trouble Ahead for Bush from 9/11 Panel

http://snipurl.com/7zwq NYT: Pushed by U.S., Greece to Allow Troops at Olympics http://snipurl.com/7v8g Tony Blair admits Iraq graves claim 'untrue' http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0724-05.htm Published on Saturday, July 24, 2004 by the Guardian/UK Trouble Ahead for

[pjnews] Honorable Commission, Toothless Report

see also: http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040715/w071572.html U.S. House wants aid cut to countries that hand Americans to war crime courts --- http://snipurl.com/80nc New York Times July 25, 2004 Honorable Commission, Toothless Report By RICHARD A. CLARKE, OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR mericans

[pjnews] 1/2 Wiring the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

http://snipurl.com/81h9 Wiring the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy By MATT BAI July 25, 2004 - New York Times Andy Rappaport made his millions as a venture capitalist,searching out what he calls ''ideas that change the world.'' About six years ago, for instance, when most everyone else in the

[pjnews] The west is mired in a losing battle

http://snipurl.com/81h1 Abducted, beaten and sold into prostitution: two women's story from an Iraq in turmoil Financial Times-UK 22 July 2004 The west is mired in a losing battle By Anthony Cordesman The time has come to take a cold, hard look at whether the war on

[pjnews] Keeping America safe from foreign writers

So far two U.S servicemen have arrived in Canada and have applied for refugee status. The expectation is that there will be more. For more info, see this primer from the Canadian Quakers: http://cfsc.quaker.ca/statements/co-05-2004.pdf Briefing Paper for Quaker Meetings on soldiers from the USA

[pjnews] Fear of fraud in elections

http://snipurl.com/6log Sibel Edmonds: The puzzling 9/11 report http://snipurl.com/82f7 Failures of the Sept. 11 Commission http://snipurl.com/82f9 Questions Persist Despite 9/11 Investigations Among them: Who financed the attacks? Were terrorist cells in the U.S. involved?

[pjnews] Whistle-blowing a factor in F.B.I. firing

http://snipurl.com/849p Filmmaker Michael Moore to take his cameras to Florida on Election Day - The New York Times 29 July 2004 Whistle-Blowing Said to Be Factor in an F.B.I. Firing By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON, July 28 - A classified Justice Department investigation has

[pjnews] Johnnie Been Good?

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=353row=0 JOHNNIE BEEN GOOD? by Greg Palast 07.30.04 - BOSTON -- The millionaires are dancing now. The balloons are falling on John Kerry, John Edwards and their nuclear families. They're playing Johnnie B. Goode over the loudspeakers. Democrats are

[pjnews] Canadian tortured in Syria disputes U.S. claims against torture

http://snipurl.com/858l Gen. Janis Karpinski Witnessed Abuses, Iraqi Says http://snipurl.com/858n Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, widow sue US contractors http://snipurl.com/858o Soldier Testifies Unit Was Ordered to Throw Iraqis Over Embankment --

[pjnews] Gay Marriages: Weddings of Mass Destruction?

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[pjnews] Iraq's Child Prisoners

http://snipurl.com/870y A Battle Over Blame: Rumsfeld may be rebuked by his own commission investigating prison abuse --- http://www.sundayherald.com/43796 Iraq's Child Prisoners By Neil Mackay A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that coalition forces are holding more

[pjnews] Ted Turner: My Beef With Big Media

BBC Radio 4 aired a very interesting program last Saturday on the history of the Pacifica Radio Network in the US. The show has been archived online here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml Click listen where it says Archive Hour. The audio will remain at that link until

[pjnews] The Secret File of Abu Ghraib

http://snipurl.com/8712 The Secret File of Abu Ghraib New classified documents implicate U.S. forces in rape and sodomy of Iraqi prisoners By OSHA GRAY DAVIDSON It has been months since the now-infamous photographs from Abu Ghraib revealed that American soldiers tortured Iraqi prisoners -- yet

[pjnews] FAIR Analysis of DNC Media Coverage

http://www.fair.org/press-releases/dnc-boston.html Fairness Accuracy In Reporting MEDIA ADVISORY: Covering the Convention: Media Pack Stick to the Script at DNC August 4, 2004 Every four years, journalists complain about the same thing: Political conventions are dull, scripted and almost

[pjnews] Party Time at the DNC

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms PARTY TIME AT THE DNC Michelle Ciarrocca, Senior Research Associate World Policy Institute August 4, 2004 So much for campaign finance reform, the 2004 presidential election is shaping up to be the most expensive one yet. Analysts predict spending will

[pjnews] Osama bin Laden Missing Since 2001

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0804-02.htm Published on Wednesday, August 4, 2004 by the lndependent/UK They Seek Him Here, They Seek Him There: Despite the US's huge intelligence-gathering network and diplomatic clout - and even a $25m reward on his head - there's not been a single

[pjnews] Second-Guessing Hiroshima

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare on Hiroshima, Japan. At least 140,000 people were killed. Tens of housands more were injured and suffered the consequences of radiation sickness. Three days later the US dropped a second bomb on the city of

[pjnews] Ron Reagan: The Case Against George W. Bush

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6577.htm The Case Against George W. Bush The son of the fortieth president of the United States takes a hard look at the son of the forty-first and does not like what he sees By Ron Reagan 07/29/04 Esquire -- It may have been the guy in the hood

[pjnews] Robert Fisk: Iraq About to Explode

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0805042bush1.html In an unfortunate, though not uncommon, verbal miscue, President George W. Bush today told a White House audience that his administration never stops thinking about ways to harm the United States. The embarrassing malapropism came as Bush

[pjnews] 1/2 Republicans: A Prose Poem by Eliot Weinberger

http://snipurl.com/8c3l Republicans: A Prose Poem by Eliot Weinberger They hate our friends. They hate our values. They hate democracy and freedom, and individual liberty. -- President George W. Bush I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. -- Vice-President Dick Cheney

[pjnews] 2/2 Republicans: A Prose Poem by Eliot Weinberger

http://snipurl.com/8c3l Republicans: A Prose Poem by Eliot Weinberger continued... Republicans like technology. Although most programs for low-income housing and job training have been greatly reduced or eliminated, the Department of Labor has created a website for the homeless. Republicans

[pjnews] Women Committing War Crimes

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0810-03.htm Diplomacy Sidelined as US Targets Iran: The US charge sheet against Iran is lengthening almost by the day, presaging destabilizing confrontations this autumn and maybe a pre-election October surprise. - -- If you pass this comment

[pjnews] Ashcroft Orders Libraries To Destroy Copies of Laws

Ashcroft Orders Libraries To Destroy Copies of Laws The American Library Association has refused the request July 30 Statement from American Library Association President-Elect Michael Gorman: Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department of Justice asked the

[pjnews] Venezuela gets the Florida treatment

VENEZUELA FLORIDATED Tuesday, August 10, 2004 Will The Gang That Fixed Florida Fix the Vote in Caracas this Sunday? by Greg Palast Hugo Chavez drives George Bush crazy. Maybe it's jealousy: Unlike Mr. Bush, Chavez, in Venezuela, won his Presidency by a majority of the vote. Or maybe it's the

[pjnews] George W. Bush's Record-Breaking Economy

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[pjnews] Action: Protect Najaf - The Shrine of Ali

From Voices in the Wilderness http://www.vitw.org Dear friends, As the fighting and crisis intensifies in Najaf, Voices in the Wilderness calls for nonviolent acts demanding an end to the fighting. Call your Congressional Representative, US Senator and John Kerry's campaign headquarters in your

[pjnews] International Observers at US Election

http://snipurl.com/8fgf International monitors to observe US election for first time By Andrew Buncombe in Washington and Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 10 August 2004 The Independent [UK] This November's presidential election will be observed by international monitors amid growing concerns that

[pjnews] Fables of the Iraq Reconstruction

http://snipurl.com/8fu8 Several Iraqi officials working within the interim government have resigned in protest of the US-led assault on Najaf and Kut http://snipurl.com/8fue The Nation 30 August 2004 Fables of the Reconstruction by CHRISTIAN PARENTI As we speed down

[pjnews] Why Venezuelans Voted for Chavez

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0816-07.htm International Observers Ratify Chávez's Triumph in Referendum -- http://www.gregpalast.com/printerfriendly.cfm?artid=362 Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio'

[pjnews] Iraqis say soldiers rob them

http://snipurl.com/8hvw Police fire at reporters as US tanks roll up to shrine http://snipurl.com/8hvy Those they can't co-opt, they destroy; Najaf proves that the US will never allow democracy to flourish in Iraq http://snipurl.com/8hw5 Relatives of the U.S. soldier who sounded the alarm about

[pjnews] Crying Wolf in the War Against Terror

Other news: http://snipurl.com/8ip5 Bush Gambles as Najaf Burns http://snipurl.com/8ipv Rumsfeld Escapes Blame in 'Whitewash' Abu Ghraib Report: A Pentagon report on prisoner abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison is being labelled a whitewash before it has even been released http://snipurl.com/8iph

[pjnews] Transfer Of Power, Sort Of -- Now And Then

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[pjnews] Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike

Hunger strike final avenue for prisoners Published at http://www.palestinereport.org on August 18, 2004. by Omar Karmi “MY DAUGHTER has only seen her father twice in her life,” said one woman. “It’s been two months since I last saw my husband.” A young boy, in a faltering voice, then recited a

[pjnews] 'Staggering Amount' of Cash Missing In Iraq

http://snipurl.com/8kt0 New Fuel to Halliburton Fraud Fire The U.S. Army is threatening to partially withhold payments to Halliburton for the logistical support the company provides for troops in Iraq. The reason: allegations of millions of dollars in over-charges for food, shelter and services.

[pjnews] Bush Wants To Be Your Shrink

http://snipurl.com/8jhy Bush Wants To Be Your Shrink: Now Bush wants to test every American for mental illness--including you! And guess who will create the tests? By Jordanne Graham Intervention Magazine Next month, President Bush plans to unveil a broad new mental health plan called the “New

[pjnews] Hundreds on Do-Not-Fly List

http://snipurl.com/8n2v Hundreds Report Watch-List Trials Some Ended Hassles at Airports by Making Slight Change to Name By Sara Kehaulani Goo Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, August 21, 2004; Page A08 For more than a year and a half, Rep. John Lewis has endured lengthy delays at the

[pjnews] RNC Perks and Party News Round-up

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0825-11.htm Judge Blocks Central Park Protest http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0825-10.htm GOP Delegates Met With Anti-Bush Signs Bright blue tarps, painted with glaring yellow letters, are going up on dozens of rooftops in Brooklyn, under the

[pjnews] Voting While Black in Florida

Other news: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0825-07.htm California Court to Rule on 1980 Death Squad Killing http://snipurl.com/8n2x The New York Times 20 August 2004 Voting While Black By BOB HERBERT The smell of voter suppression coming out of Florida is

[pjnews] Action: Call on the GOP to stop voter suppression

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0826-25.htm Minorities Bear Brunt of 'Subtler' Bias at US Polls, Report Says --- Dear MoveOn member, Last month John Pappageorge, a Republican state representative in Michigan, told a journalist that the Republicans would do poorly if they

[pjnews] Depleted Uranium: A death sentence here and abroad

http://snipurl.com/8pmf 18 August 2004 Depleted Uranium: Dirty Bombs, Dirty Missiles, Dirty Bullets A death sentence here and abroad by Leuren Moret Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How

[pjnews] The Pay-off in Bush Air Guard Fix

http://snipurl.com/8q3k President Bush acknowledged for the first time on Thursday that he had miscalculated post-war conditions in Iraq, The New York Times reported... http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/28/politics/28rumsfeld.html In his first comments on the two major investigative reports

[pjnews] A chill in Florida

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0826-04.htm Poll: 81% of NYers Support Protests http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0827-01.htm Peace Activists Launch Peaceful NY Police Program with Buttons, Discounts Peaceful police officers will receive smiles and positive responses from RNC

[pjnews] Largest Demonstration Ever at a Political Convention

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0830-03.htm Hundreds of Thousands March Against Bush, War http://snipurl.com/8r0z NYT: Marchers Denounce Bush as they Pass G.O.P. Convention Hall http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0830-02.htm Gay GOP Leader Warns of a Cultural War Within Party

[pjnews] Israel, the ultimate swing state?

http://snipurl.com/8qow Government secrecy has increased sharply in the past few years -- keeping Americans in the dark about information they should be able to access, says a report released yesterday by a coalition of watchdog groups. It found the federal government created 14 million new

[pjnews] Press Corps Keeps Anti-Kerry Distortions Alive

Fairness Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism http://www.fair.org/press-releases/swift-boat.html MEDIA ADVISORY: Swift Boat Smears: Press Corps Keeps Anti-Kerry Distortions Alive August 30, 2004 A group of Vietnam veterans called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have

[pjnews] A No-Win Situation in Iraq

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0831-01.htm Najaf Peace Deal Shows Why US Troops Must Leave Iraq - http://www.iht.com/articles/536652.html 31 August 2004 A No-Win Situation By PAUL KRUGMAN 'Everyone wants to go to Baghdad; real men want to go to Tehran. That was the

[pjnews] Florida Fixed Again? Absentee Ballots Go Absent

update: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0901-01.htm DESIGNER OF INFAMOUS 'BUTTERFLY BALLOT' LOSES REELECTION - http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=366row=0 Madame Butterfly Flies Off with Ballots Florida Fixed Again? Absentee Ballots Go Absent by Greg Palast

[pjnews] President Declares Ownership Society at RNC

President Declares Ownership Society Tells Convention He's Ordered Invasion of Social Security Trust Fund by Greg Palast September 2, 2004 17:06 New York - Of all the bone-headed, whacky, breathtakingly threatening schemes George W. Bush is trying to sell us in his acceptance speech tonight is

[pjnews] Bush Leaves Out Complex Facts in Speech

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/090404Z.shtml NYT: Bush Is 'Unfit' to Lead U.S., Kerry Charges --- http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0903-22.htm Published on Friday, September 3, 2004 by the Associated Press Bush Leaves Out Complex Facts in Speech by Calvin Woodward NEW

[pjnews] major announcement from washington

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:23:30 -0700 From: The People's Press Association Washington DC Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States will be outsourced to overseas interests as of August 31, two months after the end of this fiscal year. The move is being made to

[pjnews] Bob Graham: Saudi ties blocked in inquiry into 9/11

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/9584265.htm?1c Graham book: Inquiry into 9/11, Saudi ties blocked By FRANK DAVIES [EMAIL PROTECTED] WASHINGTON - Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush

[pjnews] 9/9: Vigils to honor 1,000th U.S. death in Iraq

From http://www.moveon.org - In the past four days, clashes with Iraqi insurgents have claimed the lives of 17 American soldiers. With these deaths, we mark a grim milestone: over 1,000 military men and women have now died in this misconceived war. Their caskets have been hidden from view, and

[pjnews] Town tainted by shame of Abu Ghraib

The Irish Times http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2004/0908/2106709727FR08MARLOWE.html 8 November 2004 Town tainted by shame of Abu Ghraib Lara Marlowe Across America: When the 372nd Military Police Company left for Iraq in the spring of 2003, the residents of Cresaptown, a small

[pjnews] September 11th: What You Ought Not to Know

SEPTEMBER 11: WHAT YOU OUGHT NOT TO KNOW DOCUMENT 199-I AND THE FBI'S WORDS TO CHILL THE SOUL Thursday, September 9, 2004 by Greg Palast On November 9, 2001, when you could still choke on the dust in the air near Ground Zero, BBC Television received a call in London from a top-level US

[pjnews] Robert Fisk on September 11th Anniversary

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0911-09.htm Published on Saturday, September 11, 2004 by the lndependent/UK We Should Not Have Allowed 19 Murderers to Change our World by Robert Fisk So, three years after the international crimes against humanity in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania we

[pjnews] 2/2 Arundhati Roy: Public Power in the Age of Empire

http://www.democracynow.org/static/Arundhati_Trans.shtml Transcript of full speech by Arundhati Roy in San Francisco, California on August 16th, 2004 continued... Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of mass resistance movements in third world countries today. The landless peoples' movement

[pjnews] Sy Hersh: White House Told of Detainee Abuse

http://snipurl.com/91vq Cheney's No Terrorism Expert: Vice president's comments ignore the facts and distort recent history http://snipurl.com/91vs CIA May Have Held 100 'Ghost' Prisoners http://snipurl.com/91vu Military Specialist Pleads Guilty to Abuse and Is Jailed http://snipurl.com/91vv

[pjnews] Examing Current Bush/Kerry Polling Data

from www.moveon.org Though you'd never know it from the TV news, a close look at the polls shows that the Republican convention was actually a bust for the President. According to the Gallup polling agency, Bush's bounce was one of the smallest registered in Gallup polling history, along with

[pjnews] Shut up and color: GOP bullying tradition continues

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17514 Shut up and color Bush continues GOP tradition of bullying in politics By Paul Rogat Loeb (Editor's note: Paul Loeb's newest book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, is now available.)

[pjnews] EPA Holds DuPont’s Teflon Over Flame

http://newstandardnews.net EPA Holds DuPont’s Teflon Over Flame by Madeleine Baran (2004-07-14) The Environmental Protection Agency is asking DuPont, the second biggest chemical maker in the United States, to pay the largest toxic contamination penalty ever for failing to report health and

[pjnews] Iraqi Kidnapping Looks Like Undercover Police Operation

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0916-11.htm Published on Thursday, September 16, 2004 by the Guardian / United Kingdom Who Seized Simona Torretta? This Iraqi Kidnapping has the Mark of an Undercover Police Operation by Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill When Simona Torretta returned to Baghdad

[pjnews] The Curse of Dick Cheney

see also: http://www.alternet.org/story/19832/ Cheney's Insecure Past: The vice president desperately wants to hide his embarrassing national security record http://snipurl.com/92su The Curse of Dick Cheney The veep's career has been marred by one disaster after another By

[pjnews] Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards

The Independent-UK http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=557746host=3dir=70 3 September 2004 Bush by numbers: Four years of double standards By Graydon Carter 1 Number of Bush administration public statements on National security issued between 20 January 2001 and 10

[pjnews] From Bad to Worse in Iraq

http://snipurl.com/96nf Oil Sabotage Threatens Iraq Economy, Rebuilding http://snipurl.com/96nt NYT: U.S. Intelligence Shows Pessimism on Iraq's Future A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq,

[pjnews] US Companies Search for Future Oil Reserves

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/092204X.shtml Crude Dudes: U.S. oil companies just happened to have billions of dollars they wanted to invest in undeveloped oil reserves. By Linda McQuaig The Toronto Star Monday 20 September 2004 From his corner office in the heart of New York's

[pjnews] Forged Documents: The 60 Minutes Story CBS Didn't Run

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0923-02.htm Published on Thursday, September 23, 2004 by MSNBC The Story That Didn’t Run Here’s the Piece that ‘60 Minutes’ Killed for Its Report on the Bush Guard Documents by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball In its rush to air its now discredited

[pjnews] Transformation of the Republican Party

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/979/ We’re Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body

[pjnews] (no subject)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1001-23.htm Report on US Role in Allawi Speech Stirs Complaint http://snipurl.com/9io0 The Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership's intelligence reform bill that would allow U.S. authorities to deport certain foreigners to

[pjnews] Something Rotten in Florida

Extremely disturbing... http://snipurl.com/9f7b Something rotten in the state of Florida: Pregnant chads, vanishing voters... the election fiasco of 2000 made the Sunshine State a laughing stock. More importantly, it put George Bush in the White House. You'd think they'd want to get it right

[pjnews] To Whom it May Concern

http://snipurl.com/9lgs Contradicting the main argument for a war that has cost more than 1,000 American lives, the top U.S. arms inspector said Wednesday he found no evidence that Iraq produced any weapons of mass destruction after 1991. He also concluded that Saddam Hussein's capabilities to

[pjnews] Violence vs. Non-Violence Debate in Israel/Palestine

see also: http://snipurl.com/9lgq The Bush Administration urged the members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to approve an October 31 deadline on Iran for compliance or face sanctions at the UN Security Council. Bush lost that vote. Had the motion passed, that would have started

[pjnews] Senate data-mining law worries civil liberties advocates

Update: The bill described below was passed. See http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.02845: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Expect: That after this Wednesday night, your most private/personal information can be distributed and sold on the street if this bill passed:

[pjnews] Is Bush Channelling Rove?

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff10052004.html What's the Frequency, Karl? Is Bush Channelling Rove? By DAVE LINDORFF The man of a hundred voices, Harry Shearer, host of NPR's Le Show, recently did a skit about Sen. John Kerry's training for the first debate, which featured a soprano-voiced

[pjnews] Beyond the Debates, a Referendum on an Emperor

http://www.fair.org/media-beat/041005.html Media Swinging With the Pollsters http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0917-05.htm Missing: A Media Focus on the Supreme Court --- http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1007-36.htm Beyond the Debates, a Referendum on an Emperor by Norman Solomon

[pjnews] Martha Stewart, Nelson Mandela and radical nuns

http://snipurl.com/9nwl What Martha Stewart, Nelson Mandela, and radical nuns have in common by Stephen Kobasa When reflecting on her imminent imprisonment during a recent interview, Martha Stewart declared that good people go to jail, offering Nelson Mandela, a man who was given a life sentence

[pjnews] The Undoing of a U.S. Terror Prosecution

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9627-2004Oct5.html As little as 27 cents of every dollar spent on Iraq's reconstruction has actually filtered down to projects benefiting Iraqis, a statistic that is prompting the State Department to fundamentally rethink the Bush administration's

[pjnews] Support War Resisters

http://snipurl.com/9oi3 Papers: FBI Trailed 1960s Movement Leader - -- If you pass this comment along to others -- periodically but not repeatedly -- please explain that Commentaries are a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet and that to learn more folks can consult ZNet at

[pjnews] Is Iraq the Curveball?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1010-01.htm Published on Sunday, October 10, 2004 by the lndependent/UK Is Iraq the Curveball That Could Dismiss the President? The report that confirmed Iraq had no WMD, Rumsfeld's denial that Saddam and al-Qa'ida were linked, and ex-proconsul Bremer's

[pjnews] Georgetown Professor Accuses Bill O'Reilly of Lying

see also: http://snipurl.com/9pa4 The Media Culpability for Iraq http://snipurl.com/9p81 Broadcast Exclusive: Georgetown Professor Accuses Bill O'Reilly of Lying About 9/11 Commission's Findings Monday, July 19th, 2004 AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!. Over the weekend, I

[pjnews] Under Fire in Baghdad

Watch Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh's excellent, recent UC Berkeley speech on Iraq and the war on terror: http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/replay.html?event_id=170 http://snipurl.com/9qaw Scott Ritter: If you had seen what I have seen The inspection process was rigged to create

[pjnews] Documentary Highlights US Soldiers Traumatized by Iraq War

For those of you in the area, note the 10/14 premiere in Santa Monica. More details at the end of this e-mail... http://alternet.org/waroniraq/20140/ Soldiers Once ... And Young By Tai Moses, AlterNet After serving a 12-month tour of duty in Iraq last year, Marine Lance Corporal Jeff Lucey

[pjnews] Nigeria's Oil

-- If you pass this comment along to others -- periodically but not repeatedly -- please explain that Commentaries are a premium sent to Sustainer Donors of Z/ZNet and that to learn more folks can consult ZNet at http://www.zmag.org http://snipurl.com/9r7a ZNet Commentary / October 12, 2004

[pjnews] The Bush Campaign's Media Endgame

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1013-11.htm Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the

[pjnews] Platoon Defies Orders in Iraq

http://snipurl.com/9t46 Auditors Can't Account for Iraq Spent Funds- U.S. and Iraqi officials doled out hundreds of millions of dollars in oil proceeds and other moneys for Iraqi projects earlier this year, but there was little effort to monitor or justify the expenditures, according to an audit

[pjnews] Stealing A Nation

http://pilger.carlton.com/print/133384 Stealing A Nation By John Pilger, The Guardian (UK) There are times when one tragedy, one crime tells us how a whole system works behind its democratic facade and helps us to understand how much of the world is run for the benefit of the powerful and how

[pjnews] Democracy in a Trash Can

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html Paul Krugman: Block the Vote The case of Florida's felon list - used by state officials, as in 2000, to try to wrongly disenfranchise thousands of blacks - has been widely reported. Less widely reported has been overwhelming evidence that

[pjnews] Former Female Abu Ghraib Prisoner Testifies to Tortures

http://snipurl.com/9t48 The Pentagon plans to promote Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former head of military operations in Iraq, risking a confrontation with members of Congress because of the prisoner abuses that occurred during his tenure... ---

[pjnews] 1/2 Bush's Faith-Based Presidency

http://snipurl.com/9uh8 Broad Use of Harsh Tactics Is Described at Cuba Base http://snipurl.com/9uhc Jordan 'ghost' jail 'is holding senior al-Qa'eda leaders' -- http://snipurl.com/9uhk The New York Times 17 October 2004 Without a Doubt By Ron Suskind Bruce Bartlett, a

[pjnews] 2/2 Bush's Faith-Based Presidency

http://snipurl.com/9uhk Without a Doubt continued... On Sept. 11, 2001, the country watched intently to see if and how Bush would lead. After a couple of days in which he seemed shaky and uncertain, he emerged, and the moment he began to lead -- standing on the World Trade Center's rubble with a

[pjnews] Be the Wind: On the Upcoming Elections

http://snipurl.com/9vmi Be the Wind: On the Upcoming Elections by Starhawk As you read this, a mother in Iraq is newly wailing over the body of a dead child. A nineteen year old kid who used to be the star of his basketball team is being sent home without legs. A father in Guantanamo hasn’t

[pjnews] ACTION: Call New Voters, Remind Them to Vote

(from truemajority.org) We've Helped Register Over 1 Million New Voters Calling Them Will Get Them to the Polls It's a fact of political organizing that the absolute best, most effective way to ensure that newly registered voters actually make it to the polls is to knock on their doors or call

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