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  • The Battle of the (Bush) Bulge: Why Did the ’NYT’ Kill Its Story?
    10 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW YORK "It’s just as important a story after the election, and they’ve dropped it," says freelance writer David Lindorff, referring to the alleged bulge under President Bush’s suit jacket during the first presidential debate late fall. Lindorff’s take on how, and why, The New York Times killed a story on the controversy just before the November election gained wide attention this week after it was published in Extra!, a magazine produced by the media watchdog group Fairness & Accuracy (…)

  • Fixing America’s Broken Elections
    9 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rep. John Conyers
    The election debacles in Florida’s 2000 presidential election and Ohio’s 2004 election clearly demonstrate that our nation still has a long way to go in the continuing fight for electoral justice. Our nation cannot withstand deficiencies in machines and procedures that foster legitimate questions about the validity of the election outcome. Our democracy is at risk, and the time is now to move forward with election reform legislation.
    Because of unprecedented (…)

  • New York Times killed the Bulge story that could have changed the election
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Emperor’s New Hump
    The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election-because it could have changed the election
    By Dave Lindorff
    In the weeks leading up to the November 2 election, the New York Times was abuzz with excitement. Besides the election itself, the paper’s reporters were hard at work on two hot investigative projects, each of which could have a major impact on the outcome of the tight presidential race.
    One week before Election Day, the Times (…)

  • A.N.S.W.E.R.’s response to Bush’s State of the Union address
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Empire - the true aim of the U.S. government - is barely concealed under the lofty rhetoric of Bush’s State of the Union address. In its pursuit, the U.S. government is committed to the destruction of every government and people that stands in its way, in the Middle East and throughout the world.
    "Freedom and democracy" for Iraq and "liberty" around the world are new code words for a very particular global strategy. According to this strategy, the Pentagon’s military pre-eminence will be (…)

  • Bush’s Liberty Song Echoes Vietnam Tune
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Liberty Song Echoes Vietnam Tune Antonia Zerbisias February 03, 2005 When US President George W. Bush strode into the Capitol to give his State of the Union address last night, his supporters waved their darkened fingers at him in celebration of his triumph at the Iraqi polls.
    But was that purple ink or did Congress stir the purple Kool-Aid with its collective fingers? And are Americans expected to drink it, the way so many swallowed the administration’s lies about weapons of mass (…)

  • Ukraine vote yields important lessons for U.S. democracy; Exit polls indicate vote fraud
    4 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Lance deHaven-Smith
    Ukraine’s 2004 presidential election offers important lessons for American democracy. U.S. election laws and national opinion have yet to catch up with recent developments in election technology and administration. In particular, they are blind to what the Ukraine Supreme Court referred to as ’’massive fraud,’’ where the integrity of an election is subverted by many small problems that are mutually reinforcing.
    When the Ukraine Supreme Court invalidated Ukraine’s (…)

  • Attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation...
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Ohio Attorney-General’s attack on election protection attorneys draws mountain of documentation on state’s stolen election, including new study on exit polls by Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman February 3, 2005
    Stiff legal sanctions sought by Ohio’s Republican Attorney General James Petro against four attorneys who have questioned the results of the 2004 presidential balloting here has produced an unintended consequence — a massive counter-filing that has put on the official record a (…)

  • A Compliant Press Allows Bush To Spin An Inaugural Yarn Of Abstract Nonsense
    3 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Freedom From Reality A Compliant Press Allows Bush To Spin An Inaugural Yarn Of Abstract Nonsense Robert Parry February 01, 2005
    One of the most troubling crises confronting the world today is that the U.S. executive branch-controlling the most fearsome arsenal in history-has largely detached itself from reality and faces no counterforce in Washington capable of bringing it back down to earth.
    In that sense, George W. Bush’s second inaugural address on January 20 stood out as a defining (…)

  • Triumph and tragedy for Iraq
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Low level of Sunni participation tarnishes success of large poll turnout
    By Robert Fisk
    Baghdad - Even as the explosions thundered over Baghdad, they came in their hundreds, and then in their thousands. Entire families, crippled old men supported by their sons, children beside them, babies in the arms of their mothers.
    The Shi’ite Muslims of Baghdad yesterday walked quietly to polling stations, to the Martyr Mohamed Bakr Hakim School in Jadriya, without talking, through the car-less (…)

  • What They’re Not Telling You About the “Election”
    2 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The day of blood and elections has passed, and the blaring trumpets of corporate media hailing it as a successful show of “democracy” have subsided to a dull roar.
    After a day which left 50 people dead in Iraq, both civilians and soldiers, the death toll was hailed as a figure that was “lower than expected.” Thus...acceptable, by Bush Administration/ corporate media standards. After all, only of them was an American, the rest were Iraqis civilians and British soldiers.
    The gamble of (…)