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By Mark Benjamin
Washington, DC, U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocates fear they are the leading edge of a new generation of homeless vets not seen since the Vietnam era.
"When we already have people from Iraq on the streets, my God," said Linda Boone, executive director of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. "I have talked to enough (shelters) to know we are getting them. It is happening and this (…)

by Tabassum Zakaria
NEW DELHI, India - Under fire from troops who complain they are being sent to war in Iraq with inadequate gear, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld promised Thursday that more would be done to protect forces.
Responding to criticism from troops a day earlier, Rumsfeld also said steps were being taken to deal with explosive devices, a lead cause of death among U.S. forces in Iraq, where more than 1,000 soldiers have been killed in action.
Teams in Washington have been (…)

by Uri Avnery
My immediate reaction to Marwan Barghouti’s registration as a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority was positive.
First of all, I am always in favor of the underdog. And who could be more of an underdog than a prisoner?
Second, I respect the man. I have met him at planning meetings for joint peace actions. I have demonstrated for him in Tel-Aviv and been forcibly evicted from the court building, with a rightist lynch mob howling in the background. (…)

by Diet Simon
German anti-nuclear activists say another train carrying highly radioactive waste is to roll through densely populated North-Rhine Westphalia state to the French plutonium factory at La Hague during the night of December 14 to 15.
The activists in the industrial Ruhr region and the neighbouring Münsterland area bordering on Holland say the Castor casket containing the waste will come from the power stations Stade near Hamburg and mostly likely also Grohnde on the Weser (…)

Weapons of Mass Deception The Film that the Major Media Companies DO NOT want you to see
There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDs - Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception.
The (…)

COLUMBUS, Ohio - With support from John Kerry’s campaign, two third-party candidates for president officially asked on Tuesday for a recount in Ohio, the state that put President Bush over the top in November.
The requests, mailed to all 88 counties, were expected to arrive by Wednesday.
Generally, county election boards must agree to a recount, as long as the parties bringing the challenge pay for it. And the Green and Libertarian parties collected enough donations to cover the required (…)

by Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
May I take a break from our post-election despair to share with you a little piece of happy/silly/cool news?
"Fahrenheit 9/11" has been nominated by the People’s Choice Awards as the American public’s "Favorite Film of the Year." The five nominees were chosen from a poll of thousands of Americans in mid-to-late November. The other nominees for best film are "Spiderman 2," "The Incredibles," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (with Jim Carrey), and (…)

RE: "Ohio Vote in the 2004 Election" 12/8 Panel Hearing by House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, Chaired by Conyers (MI) America: During yesterday’s hearing in DC, the all-encompassing point was delivered by Jonathan Simon, Political Survey Research Analyst and the person who downloaded the pure exit polling data CNN before it was altered to match end results. This is the same data analyzed by Stephen Freeman that determined that Bush had more of a chance of winning THREE jackpot (…)

ONE SEGMENT of progressives reacted to George Bush’s victory in the 2004 presidential election with despair. “Maybe this time,” Nation magazine columnist Katha Pollitt commented bitterly, “the voters chose what they actually want: Nationalism, pre-emptive war, order not justice, ‘safety’ through torture, backlash against women and gays, a gulf between haves and have-nots, government largesse for their churches and a my-way-or-the-highway president.”
Liberal author Garry Wills concluded (…)

House Forum on Ohio Election Voting Procedures
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Cmte., hosts a forum on the 2004 election vote in Ohio and possible irregularities in the vote itself and the subsequent counting of ballots. Many other Congressmen and interest group representatives take part in this event.
12/8/2004: WASHINGTON, DC: 3 hr.
Look for the above text at this site:
http://c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100
You will (…)