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The Republican majority on the House International Relations Committee yesterday again refused to investigate its own party. Barely. With a 4-member advantage on the IR committee over the Democrats, the GOP managed to hang on to a 25 to 23 vote win, defeating H.Res. 505, Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s attempt to actually investigate the secret activities of the WHIG, his Resolution of Inquiry (ROI) to look into the White House Iraq Group.
More than 100 House Democrats joined Kucinich in (…)

Some news is so big it won’t fit into a headline. For example: WIDESPREAD VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN 2004.
Sorry. It may be true, but it’s a no-go on the front pages and TV news programs of America. The reality hovers namelessly, like the disappeared of Central America. Shhh, don’t refer to it directly. Wait 20 years, until they dig up the mass graves.
No matter the election was a multilayered travesty of disenfranchisement: widespread malfunctioning of electronic voting machines that (…)

The net is abuzz about what John Kerry may or may not be saying now about the stolen election of 2004.
But we can definitively report what he has said about New Mexico and electronic voting machines soon after his abrupt "abandon ship" with 250,000 Ohio votes still uncounted.
And we must also report that what he’s not saying is having a catastrophic effect on what’s left of American democracy, including what has just happened (again) in Ohio 2005.
In recent days Mark Crispin Miller has (…)

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FINAL SCRIPTS “THE OTHER IRAQ” TELEVISION SPOTS U.S. SPOT # 1 “THANK YOU”
VO NARRATOR:
Saddam’s goal was to bury every living Kurd...
He failed.
KURD CITIZENS:
“Thank you.”
“Thank you, America.”
“Thank you.”
VO NARRATOR:
The Kurds of Iraqi Kurdistan just want to say ‘thank you’...
for helping us win our freedom.
KURD CITIZENS:
“Thank you for democracy.”
“Thank you, America.”
KURDISH HERO GIRL:
“Thank you.”
U.K. SPOT # 1 “THANK (…)

The British regime achieved a major victory in parliament yesterday, successfully passing a new anti-terror bill containing an extensive package of new and increased powers for the authorities and new and increased restrictions on the public.
Unfortunately, few ordinary people in the UK are aware of the changes approved yesterday by their elected representatives, because to date they have been barely mentioned in the mass media. How many of them can you list? One of the new laws approved (…)

by William Bowles • Wednesday, 10 November 2005
"We must leave our dreams and abandon our old beliefs and friendships of the time before life began. Let us waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry. Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called (…)

Congress continues to ignore explosive memos pointing to secret cash payoffs
by Tom Flocco
Washington-November 9, 2005-TomFlocco.com-A November 2, 2001 hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney from former U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Leo Wanta, indicates the White House knew that boxes containing large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks after the September 11 attacks.
According to U.S. intelligence agents with knowledge of the document, Wanta’s (…)

By KIRK SEMPLE and SABRINA TAVERNISE Published: November 10, 2005
HUSAYBA, Iraq, Nov. 9 - The American military command revealed Wednesday that civilians had been killed and wounded in heavy fighting here in the past few days, the first such acknowledgment of civilian casualties since the anti-insurgent sweep of this town in western Iraq began last Saturday.
The Marines said that, according to a witness, rebels broke into a family’s home, killed two of the occupants and locked the rest (…)

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
LOS ANGELES (AP) - In a stinging rebuke from voters who elected him two years ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reshape state government were rejected during a special election that darkened his prospects for a second term. Voters also strongly rejected an initiative that would have required parents to be notified when minors seek abortions
All four of the Republic governor’s signature ballot proposals were rejected in Tuesday’s election, which pitted him (…)

By E&P Staff
NEW YORK At today’s White House press briefing, Scott McClellan was hit with a number of questions about the "ethics classes" the president’s staffers are now attending. But much of the briefing featured efforts by Helen Thomas, at the start, and then other reporters to get McClellan to explain the apparent contradiction between his claims that the U.S. does not torture anyone and Vice President Cheney’s request for an exemption in this matter.
Here are the exchanges (…)