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by Jane Stillwater
Remember Goodman, Schwerner and Cheney — and the Civil Rights Summer of 1964? How brave we all were back then as we worked hand in hand for a new world of hope and justice and harmony where "colored people" would be allowed to vote.
It’s 40 years later and "colored people" are still being systematically deprived of their right to vote — only this time on such a grand scale that it would cause even Martin Luther King’s jaw to drop.
I marched in Montgomery.
I was at (…)

Former managers working with Custer Battles, a high-profile private security company in Iraq, are accusing the firm of using affiliated "shell" companies in the Cayman Islands and other "tax haven" countries to fraudulently overcharge on government contracts by tens of millions of dollars. The accusations are spelled out in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act and made public October 8.
Custer Battles, headquartered in McLean, Virginia, first grabbed headlines after winning a $16.5 (…)

by Diet Simon
The French anti-nuclear movement Réseau Sortir du nucléaire charges that there are serious gaps in the state attorney’s report on how a young activist was killed in November by a nuclear waste train.
Twenty-two-year-old Sébastien Briat died on 7 November near Avricourt in Lorraine when he tried to stop a train taking waste from a French plutonium plant for storage in Germany, where it had originated.
He was one of a group of eight. Contrary to first reports, it is now (…)

Washington Post | January 2, 2005
WASHINGTON - Administration officials are preparing long-range plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts in the United States or other countries, according to intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials.
The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for potentially lifetime detentions, including for hundreds of people now in military and (…)

by Jane Stillwater
In The Last Juror, a John Grisham novel, the hero moves to a small town in Mississippi and soon discovers that "it takes at least three generations to be accepted in Ford County. Regardless of money or breeding, one cannot simply move there and be trusted: A dark cloud of suspicion hangs over any newcomer and I was no exception."
So? Where is the "dark cloud of suspicion" hanging over George Bush? This self-styled "Bubba" was born in Connecticut, went to prep school in (…)

As you know, there have been thousands of irregularities, including intimidation in the 2004 Election and citizens want to know why nothing is being done to investigate.
Please join the chorus of voices demanding a recount or revote so that American citizens can feel as secure as the Ukrainians that our voices are heard in this country too.
Join President Bush in calling for a fair, free election without intimidation. The people in a democracy have the right to be heard and their votes (…)

This is an abridged version of the FreePress.org’s latest documentation of Votergate Ohio. The full version is here:
The Bush-Cheney ‘do-everything’ strategy in Ohio covered a very wide range of tactics, from disenfranchisement of minority voters to discarding of ballots to tampered tabulators and much more.
Taken as a whole, this compendium of error, fraud, cover-up and contempt indicates that this was not a legitimate election, and is not worthy of being certified by the Congress of (…)

There is strong evidence of vote theft in Ohio. That will be news to anyone who gets their news from a television or from most print media.
When forced to talk about ethics, media big shots often insist that they draw no conclusions. They endlessly reported Dick Cheney’s claims that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks of September 11, 2001, but it would not have been their place to label that a "conspiracy theory." When it comes to election fraud in Ohio and other U.S. states, on the (…)

by Ben Frank
"The CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department warned President Bush this week that the United States and its Iraqi allies are not winning the battle against Iraqi insurgents Iraqi insurgents who are trying to derail the country’s Jan. 30 elections." As Mike Rivero at WhatReallyHappened.com pointed out, ’not winning’ equals ’losing’.
On New Year’s Eve it was reported that, "the last six months of 2004 proved the deadliest period for US forces in Iraq, (…)

by Dahr Jamail
Targeting hospitals or ambulances is in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which strictly forbids attacks on emergency vehicles and the impeding of medical operations during war.
"they raided our supply room where our food and supplies are."
"they smashed one of our ambulances,”
“The Americans threatened to do here what they did in Fallujah if I didn’t cooperate with them,”
“They are shooting our ambulances if they try to go to Fallujah.”
“The (…)