contributions

by Jane Stillwater
With the dead of Asia spread out before us like some nightmare Van Helsing movie come to life, it seems a bit presumptuous to me for George Bush to continue to play God and go on killing and killing and killing in Iraq.
Would it finally come into perspective for Americans to know that Bush is spending the same amount of money in aid for the millions of tsunami victims in Asia as he spends in just FOUR HOURS on killing people in Iraq?
Thousands of Americans were (…)

by Jane Stillwater
While I was on vacation, I talked with people from all over America. "I have here in my hand," I told them, "absolute proof that George Bush stole the 2004 election."
No one wanted to see my proof.
No one even cared.
If I had made this outrageous statement to George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, they would have ripped the documents right out of my hand in their haste to get to the truth. "What do you mean — election fraud? That’s a serious accusation. Can you (…)

Writer’s Note: This essay includes all three parts of the series, with each subsection acting as its own article. I encourage readers to read the essay in installments, taking breaks, absorbing each section before moving on to the next.
Breaths of Freedom
For one brief moment of life, when light enters our eyes for the very first time, we can claim to be the embodiment of innocence and human goodness, the essence of human perfection. It is also the only moment in our lives we can claim (…)

Writer’s Note: This essay includes all three parts of the series, with each subsection acting as its own article. I encourage readers to read the essay in installments, taking breaks, absorbing each section before moving on to the next.
by Manuel Valenzuela
Breaths of Freedom
For one brief moment of life, when light enters our eyes for the very first time, we can claim to be the embodiment of innocence and human goodness, the essence of human perfection. It is also the only moment in (…)

by Andrew Buncombe
Susan Sontag, the writer and activist who loudly criticised US foreign policy and military action in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, died yesterday morning in New York. She was 71 and had been suffering for some time from leukaemia.
"I can confirm she passed away this morning," said a spokeswoman at the city’s Sloan Kettering hospital, declining to give more details.
Sontag, the daughter of a fur trader, wrote 17 books, including the influential 1964 study (…)

Four Wheel Of Voter WOV Challenges (still open!): Alas, we are ending 2004 with all four Wheel of Voter Challenges unsolved. The $1,000, $2,000, $500, and $100 prizes remain unclaimed, respectively. Let’s review how to win because on face value these challenges are not quite as hard as climbing Everest, solving perpetual motion, or curing the common cold:
1) Justify non-paper trail voting is better than paper-trail voting (ok, not so easy). _ A bit rhetorical.
2) Nerd heaven: Someone (…)

"George Bush has purged the last of his father’s senior advisers, handing over control to his neocon allies"
In the article A state of chaos published Dec. 30,2004 in The Guardian, Blumental writes: To begin with, Bush has unceremoniously and without public acknowledgement dumped Brent Scowcroft, his father’s closest associate and friend, as chairman of the foreign intelligence advisory board. The elder Bush’s national security adviser was the last remnant of traditional Republican realism (…)

The video of the press conference here
The Basque organization against torture TAR and the family of Amaia Urizar denounced in a press conference that Amaia had been violated in the barracks of Guardia Civil. Amaia Urizar had been arrested by Guardia Civil and had been kept in secrecy during five days. Here the terrible testimony of Amaia Urizar.
Attention : testimony and text very hard
AMAIA URIZAR DE PAZ
I was arrested on Friday, October 29th, at three AM, while I was in my (…)

Representative John Conyers, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will object to the counting of the Ohio Electors from the 2004 Presidential election when Congress convenes to ratify those votes on January 6th. In a letter dispatched to every Senator, which will be officially published by his office shortly, Conyers declares that he will be joined in this by several other members of the House. Rep. Conyers is taking this dramatic step because he believes the allegations (…)

by Jim Hogue
It is fair to say that the Bush administration, through the efforts of Attorney General John Ashcroft, has confirmed its complicity in the 9/11/01 attacks. In his legal appeal to Judge Reggie Walton to silence FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, Ashcroft has inadvertently, through the very language of the appeal, provided eloquent proof of treason and misprision of treason within the highest levels of government.
Their refusal to release the report of the Inspector General, and (…)