[ Although the executive editor of American Conservative magazine -- a strong voice of the traditional conservatives abandoned by Bush -- promises that, "If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward," he laments that,
[t]he only way Americans will have a presidency in which neoconservatives and the Christian Armageddon set are [...]
29 Oct. 2004 | DemocracyNow!
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Bush administration lawyers are now attempting to overturn decades of legal precedence by claiming that only Attorney General John Ashcroft and not individual voters have a right to ask federal courts to enforce voting rights. In legal briefs filed in Ohio, Michigan and Florida, [...]
Exclusive: Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000
27 Oct 2004 | Guerilla News Network
by Russ Baker
Houston – Two years before the September 11 attacks, presidential candidate George W. Bush was already talking privately about the political benefits of attacking Iraq, according to his former ghost writer, who held many conversations with then-Texas Governor [...]
[ In related news, DemocracyNow! (28 Oct. 04) reports:
Up to 58,000 Absentee Ballots Missing in Florida
In election news, as many as 58,000 absentee ballots have gone missing in the heavily Democratic Broward County in Florida. The ballots were said to have been mailed two weeks ago but many have disappeared. The county is blaming the [...]
[ The Associated Press is reporting that "the International Atomic Energy Agency warned the U.S. about explosives stored at Al-Qaqaa in Iraq after [the] April 2003 looting” of Iraq’s main nuclear complex. Thanks to Alexandra Dadlez for forwarding the first story below. –BL ]
Video Suggests Explosives Disappeared After U.S. Took Control; Evidence Indicates U.S. Military Opened [...]
[ From the piece:
"The use of air power in areas with lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children," Roberts [of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health] told Reuters.
–BL ]
Oct 28, 2004 | Reuters
by Patricia Reaney
LONDON – Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed in violence since [...]
28 Oct. 2004 | Washington Post [ page A03 ]
by Guy Gugliotta
Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea — a prehistoric hunter in a “lost world” of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
These “little people” stood about three feet tall [...]
26 Oct. 2004 | DemocracyNow!
And new FBI statistics show that police arrested a record-high 755,000 people for marijuana violations last year. The pro-legalization group NORML reports a marijuana smoker is now arrested every 42 seconds in this country at a cost of approximately $7.6 billion annually. The number of marijuana arrests have nearly doubled since [...]
22 Oct. 2004 | DemocracyNow!
A new report by the Physicians for a National Health Program has found nearly 1.7 million military veterans have no health insurance or access to government hospitals and clinics for veterans. The study reported the number of uninsured veterans jumped by 235,000 since 2000 and that veterans are losing their health [...]
26 October 2004 | IraqBodyCount.net
Today the Iraq Body Count (IBC) website has published its analysis of the civilian dealth toll in the April 2004 siege of Falluja. This analysis leads to the conclusion that betweeen 572 and 616 of the approximately 800 reported deaths were of civilians, with over 300 of these being women and [...]