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Blood and Gore Gore Vidal has Never Been the Shy, Retiring Type. And He is as Mad as Hell, Aiming His Fury at a Country He Says Has Lied, Cheated and Stolen to Get Its Way by Gerald Wright
The love of his life has gone, replaced by a black-and-white photo of a smiling man’s face inside an ornate silver frame. The old, quiet, dark Spanish house in the hills above Hollywood smells of eggs at lunchtime. Gore Vidal sits quietly reading. He is 79, and has lived, fought and written through world (…)

FLORIDA’S 2000 nightmare over punch-card ballots caused America to stampede toward purely electronic voting. But this snowballing trend raises two new concerns: vote-stealing could be easier in digitized elections, and several computer balloting firms have shady pasts.
Most of America’s e-voting is done on machines purchased from three firms: Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Pacific, and Election Systems & Software (ES&S). Two of the companies are headed by brothers. All are led (…)

by Ben Frank
​ ​​​​ President Bush was pleased to accept the report from the WMD Commission, and he agrees with their conclusions- all the mistakes (wmd lies) were the fault of the intelligence community. Neither Bush nor anyone in his administration was criticized by the Commission appointed by Mr. Bush.
The 9 member commission was headed by retired Republican judge Laurence Silberman and former Democratic Senator Chuck Robb who said, "They got wrong the critical judgments with (…)

The average American in the year 2005 lives a fragile existence, in a struggle for survival that can be ended by missing a few paychecks. The carrot at the end of the stick which was formerly known as “the American dream” has been replaced by a whip that can best be described as the American nightmare of homelessness, and slow, early death. You no longer work to achieve a better life for yourselves and your children. You work to keep a roof over your head, and you pray that you don’t lose (…)

The ongoing saga of Sergeant Kevin Benderman’s denial regarding the legitimacy of war and his refusal to participate in it has now crystallized into a war of words and legalities, pitting his beliefs and first-hand battlefield knowledge against an action by the U.S. Government and Army prosecutors who are charging him with desertion for choosing to follow his conscience, in a war declared illegal by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan. Benderman is scheduled to stand trial before a General (…)

Analysis points to election `corruption’
Group says chance of exit polls being so wrong in ’04 vote is one-in-959,000
By Stephen Dyer
Beacon Journal staff writer
There’s a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday.
Exit polls in the November election showed Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., winning by 3 percent, but President George W. Bush won the vote (…)

DAHR JAMAIL spent eight months working as an independent journalist in Iraq. As one of the few journalists not “embedded” with U.S. forces, his reports earned a reputation for being an uncompromising look at life under occupation.
Currently, Jamail is back in the U.S. on a speaking tour that will take him to several West Coast cities. He spoke to ERIC RUDER about the destruction unleashed on Iraq by the U.S. during two years of occupation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
YOUR REPORTS (…)

Since January of this year, 38 leaders, members and allies of progressive organizations and their electoral parties have been killed. The dead include a priest, a town councilor, a lawyer and peasants massacred at Hacienda Luisita, a sugar plantation owned by the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino.
This wave of state terrorism began intensifying in 2001 when the country was declared the "second front" in the US-led supposed war on terrorism. The return of US troops to the (…)

The occupation and new US threats could spark neighbouring uprisings
The US-British occupation of Iraq is poisoning all political processes in my country and across the Middle East. The elections held under the control of the occupying forces in January were neither free nor fair. Instead of being a step towards solving Iraq’s problems, they have been used to prolong foreign rule over the Iraqi people.
Only when the occupiers withdraw from the country can Iraq take the first secure steps (…)

WASHINGTON — March 31 — IMAD KHADDURI, http://www.iraqsnuclearmirage.com/index_en.php Khadduri worked on the Iraq nuclear weapons program beginning in 1981.
In November 2002, Khadduri wrote the article "Iraq’s Nuclear Non-Capability" in which he commented: "Bush and Blair are pulling their public by the nose" with "their hollow patriotic egging on." He is author of the book "Iraq’s Nuclear Mirage: Memoirs and Delusions." He said today: "I did work on the Iraqi nuclear weapons program (…)