More on the ‘Stolen Election’
30 Nov. 2004 | TheNation.com
The emails keep pouring in. Please investigate voter fraud! Here’s evidence the Republicans stole the election! We’re watching YOU cover the election irregularities! A number of Americans–is the number growing?–believe George W. Bush only won the election because the voting was somehow rigged. And each day they [...]
May 5 2004 | BushGreenWatch
Last month the Bush administration handed a multinational mining company 155 acres of federally owned, prime mountaintop real estate near a Colorado ski resort. The price? Just $5 an acre (a total of $875), in an area where 1/10 of an acre fetches as much as $100,000.[1]
26 Nov. 2004 | Washington Post
by Colum Lynch
UNITED NATIONS — The Republican-controlled Congress has stepped up its campaign to curtail the power of the International Criminal Court, threatening to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in economic aid to governments that refuse to sign immunity accords shielding U.S. personnel from being surrendered to the tribunal.
[ Nice brief, except the part in which Cole allocates all blame to the Administration, and none to the media. --BL ]
November 26, 2004 | Juan Cole’s Informed Comment
CBS has elicited from the Pentagon the real figure of US casualties in Iraq, which is more like 25,000. That number includes the 1230 or so killed and [...]
[ Visit the U.S. Campaign to Ban LandMines website to take action. --BL ]
US urges ban on antitank mines but happy with anti-personnel varieties
November 27, 2004 | Agence France-Presse
The United States, stung by insurgent attacks in Iraq, has urged the international community to consider banning all sales of anti-tank and other heavy landmines, but ruled out [...]
[ If Republicans muster the 60 votes required to kill a filibuster, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge might be plundered for oil -- enough to supply the U.S. with a mere 10-month supply ... 10 more months the U.S. can keep its head in the ground, ignoring the need to come up with a serious [...]
[ This thought-provoking position paper defends a strategy based on urban values, even if it is, as Bob Lee points out, a little mean. Thanks to Bob for passing this article along. --BL ]
THE URBAN ARCHIPELAGO
17 Nov. 2004 | The Stranger [ Seattle ]
by The Editors of The Stranger
It’s the Cities, Stupid.
There are two maps on [...]
Dead-Check in Falluja: Embedded with the Marines in Iraq
24 Nov. 2004 | Village Voice
by Evan Wright
In April 9, 2003, the day the statue of Saddam Hussein was being toppled in Baghdad, symbolizing the promised liberation of Iraq, I was embedded with a Marine unit engaged in fierce combat about 30 miles north of the city, [...]
The New Southern Democrats
November 24, 2004 | AlterNet
by Traci Hukill
Fed up with the neoliberal policies advocated by Washington and the IMF, Latin America is turning to the left. The question now is, can it last?
In “The Motorcycle Diaries,” director Walter Salles’ tribute to Che Guevara, the hero speeds up the spine of the Andes clinging [...]
by Brendan Lalor
In a Nov. 22 story, I conveyed word from the Friends Committee on National Legislation about a victory for nuclear disarmament. Here is a correction they have sent out:
Initially, FCNL was informed by congressional sources that there would be no funds allocated for “advanced test readiness.” However, we now know that $22.5 [...]