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Recall the Election Day exit polls that suggested John Kerry had won a convincing victory? The media readily dismissed those polls and little has been heard about them since.
Many Americans, however, were suspicious. Although President Bush prevailed by 3 million votes in the official, tallied vote count, exit polls had projected a margin of victory of 5 million votes for Kerry. This unexplained 8 million vote discrepancy between the (…)

Senator Byron Dorgan convened a hearing to shed light on the recent revelations of contractor corruption in Iraq. Democratic Senators were fired up about the blatant fraud and theft from the American taxpayers. And since Bush’s new budget cuts education again, it is truly a theft from our children. No Republicans attended the hearing.
Senator Dorgan: "To see this kind of waste and this kind of corporate culture say, ’What the hell, it’s just the American taxpayer- stick it to ’em...’ Shame (…)

Health Canada Pulls ADHD Drug Off The Market CTV.ca News Staff February 11, 2005
Health Canada has ordered a drug for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder be taken off the shelves after learning it has been linked to 20 sudden deaths and 12 strokes in the U.S.
The drug in question is Adderall XR. It’s made by Shire Biochem Inc. and was approved for sale in Canada just over a year ago. Prescriptions have been issued for about 11,000 Canadians since then.
Shire maintains the drug is (…)

US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada The Capital Times Monday, February 07, 2005 Milwaukee(AP) - Charles Netzow is upset that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confiscated a drug that was being mailed to him from a pharmacy in Canada to help keep his cholesterol under control. "I’m angry because it’s nonsense," the 81-year-old suburban Fox Point man told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after receiving a notice from the FDA indicating that his 90 tablets of Lipitor were (…)

How Canada Stunned Bush Iraq Stand Hard To Believe For US Tim Harper February 09, 2005 WASHINGTON-Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Washington revealed for the first time yesterday the shock and disbelief in the Bush administration when prime minister Jean Chrétien kept Canadian troops out of Iraq.
Michael Kergin said in an interview yesterday that administration insiders had all but ignored the diplomatic signals from Ottawa in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
Despite all the signs (…)

Secrecy, Torture, Propaganda Mark New American Politburo Practices Bill Gallagher February 15, 2005 Detroit - Like their Soviet predecessors, the top leaders of the American politburo — Dick Cheney and George W. Bush — never admit their mistakes or acknowledge their authoritarian policies and police-state oppression. The very thought of apologizing for failures and injustice — no matter how disastrous and obvious — is repugnant to such regimes. Comrades Cheney and Bush get away with (…)

Slaughter Spearheads Investigations Into Phony White House "Journalist" Mike Hudson February 15, 2005
Call it "Gannongate."
Responding to a Feb. 8 Niagara Falls Reporter editorial, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter last week called on President George Bush to explain how a person operating under an assumed name and with no journalistic background managed to obtain access to the White House briefing room regularly for the past two years.
Additionally, Slaughter and Rep. John Conyers of (…)

Judge Concerned Over US Abuse of Freedoms Pete Yost February 14, 2005 Concerned about government secrecy in a terrorism case, a federal judge expressed skepticism Friday at the Bush administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit on behalf of a Virginia man held in Saudi Arabia. The government is bolstering its effort to get the case thrown out by submitting classified information to U.S. District Judge John Bates that is unavailable to lawyers for imprisoned terrorist suspect Ahmed Abu (…)

Survey: Only 4 In 10 Know How Many Troops Killed In Iraq Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III February 10, 2005 Most Americans guess wrong when asked to estimate how many troops have died in the U.S. occupation of Iraq, a sign that many are giving scant attention to the nation’s most dangerous military operation since the Vietnam War.
A new survey of 1,001 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University found that fewer than half said they "very closely" follow (…)

The Struggle For 0il And Power: Is Iran Next? Murray Polner January 29, 2005 I started wearing a "Don’t Bomb Iran" pin in my lapel when the number of American dead in the Iraq War passed the 1400 mark with some 10,000 others wounded, plus tens of thousands of uncounted Iraqi civilians. As W.H. Auden memorably and painfully asked in his "Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier":
"To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?"
With casualty lists (…)