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  • Doubts Persist About Election Results
    11 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    RACHEL KONRAD
    As the Electoral College prepares to certify President Bush’s re-election on Monday, concerns persist about the integrity of the nation’s voting system - particularly in Ohio, where details continue to emerge of technology failures, voter confusion and overcrowded polling stations in minority and poor neighborhoods.
    Few mainstream politicians dispute Bush’s victory, and the incumbent’s 3.5 million-vote margin nationwide was wider than any of the reported problems, which (…)

  • Uncivil Unions
    10 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    To say civil unions are analogous to marriage is like saying a date with Andy Rooney is the same as a date with Tom Cruise. Yet, many people, even in the gay community, erroneously believe that civil unions are simply marriage by another name. Civil unions are not a synonym for marriage, but second-class citizenship by another name.
    On substance, civil unions leave same-sex couples lacking the same federal rights and benefits married couples enjoy. Without marriage, same (…)

  • The ’Stop Loss’ Scam. It’s based on a lie
    10 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Justin Raimondo
    "I believe I served my country honorably," says Specialist E-4 David W. Qualls:
    "Even though I did not expect to be rotated to Iraq, I did my time and served to the best of my ability. And I was proud to serve. But the Army made an agreement with me and I expected them to honor it. Iraq is a very dangerous place and I have a family to support. I did what I said I would; it’s only fair that the Army do the same."
    Qualls and seven unidentified plaintiffs have filed a (…)

  • Rumsfeld Attempts to Respond to Troop Concerns
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Tabassum Zakaria
    NEW DELHI, India - Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised Thursday that more would be done to protect forces.
    Responding to criticism from troops a day earlier, Rumsfeld also said steps were being taken to deal with explosive devices, a lead cause of death among U.S. forces in Iraq, where more than 1,000 soldiers have been killed in action.
    Teams in Washington have been (…)

  • Widow of Opportunity?
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    My immediate reaction to Marwan Barghouti’s registration as a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority was positive.
    First of all, I am always in favor of the underdog. And who could be more of an underdog than a prisoner?
    Second, I respect the man. I have met him at planning meetings for joint peace actions. I have demonstrated for him in Tel-Aviv and been forcibly evicted from the court building, with a rightist lynch mob howling in the background. (…)

  • Germany-France nuclear waste train Wednesday
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Diet Simon
    German anti-nuclear activists say another train carrying highly radioactive waste is to roll through densely populated North-Rhine Westphalia state to the French plutonium factory at La Hague during the night of December 14 to 15.
    The activists in the industrial Ruhr region and the neighbouring Münsterland area bordering on Holland say the Castor casket containing the waste will come from the power stations Stade near Hamburg and mostly likely also Grohnde on the Weser (…)

  • People’s Choice Awards Nominates "Fahrenheit 9/11" as "Favorite Film of the Year"
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Dear Friends,
    May I take a break from our post-election despair to share with you a little piece of happy/silly/cool news?
    "Fahrenheit 9/11" has been nominated by the People’s Choice Awards as the American public’s "Favorite Film of the Year." The five nominees were chosen from a poll of thousands of Americans in mid-to-late November. The other nominees for best film are "Spiderman 2," "The Incredibles," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (with Jim Carrey), and (…)

  • Miracles Over Math
    8 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    If America doesn’t wake up, it will soon become a big, dumb second-tier nation that values miracles over math and superstition over science. Thanks to the Republican’s embrace of anti-intellectualism and demagogic fundamentalism, we are already halfway there.
    In the October 17 edition of the New York Times Magazine, Ron Suskind interviewed a key Bush aide that described the administration’s rejection of enlightenment principles. The aide chastised Suskind for living “in (…)

  • The Inevitable Triumph of Progressive Thought
    8 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Manuel Valenzuela
    If the sands of time and the passing of the seasons tell humanity anything, it is the inevitable push forward that drives our species, the collective tidal wave surging us away from the darkness of archaic thought and past conservative ideology, and into realms of evolution and progress. For evolution of society and thought is as inevitable as that of nature and Earth, a construct of universal energy pushing life forward, not backwards, towards betterment, not (…)

  • Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software
    7 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Madsen
    The manipulation of computer voting machines in the recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives, Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.
    An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current Florida Republican (…)