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30 November 2004
Today in Vancouver, Lawyers Against the War filed torture charges against George W. Bush under the Canadian Criminal Code.
An information was accepted for filing today by the Provincial Court of British Columbia Vancouver Registry charging George Walker Bush with counselling, aiding and abetting the commission of torture by persons know and unknown being members of US Armed Forces against persons known and unknown being detainees at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay (…)

This Saturday there will be a huge rally to Demain a Recount and investigation into the Ohio voting problems. This is not about bush vs kerry, this is about American citizens being given equal access to vote. If we don’t demand Blackwell remove himself from the process and allow a full recount to proceed, then American democracy will be officially dead. You were given a democracy- are you going to let them just take it like this? Do you really think we’ll have a better shot in 2008? Wake up (…)

DID SADDAM’S POISON RUIN BUSH’S SANITY AND FAMILY?
"After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad." whined George W. Bush about Saddam Hussein. Actually, it may be worse than that. Sources close to the Army Medical Corp believe that someone, probably agents of Saddam Hussein, ruined Bush’s family by poisoning the drinking water with iodine or lithium at one of the Bushes’ homes. Family dog Millie, George, Barbara, and son Marvin have all contracted Auto Immune Diseases. The odds (…)

FLORIDA
Get rid of Election Day, election chiefs say
BY GARY FINEOUT AND MARY ELLEN KLAS
gfineout@herald.com
Florida’s election supervisors, impressed by the success of early voting, proposed dramatic reforms Tuesday that would eliminate Election Day, replace it with an 11-day election season and do away with precincts.
The association of the state’s 67 chief elections officials voted in concept at its annual winter meeting in Orlando to informally present the idea to the (…)

by Naomi Klein
Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old Marine from Appalachia who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by prowar pundits and "The Marlboro Man" by pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows Miller "after more than twelve hours of nearly nonstop deadly combat" in Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody scratch on his nose, and (…)

by Justin Raimondo
They don’t have neocons in Britain: over there, they’re called Blairites, or New Labourites. But it’s essentially the same thing: they love the State, they love themselves, and, most of all, they love war - in the name of idealism, you understand, which, in Blairite circles, amounts to what passes these days for "humanitarian" internvetionism. In any case, I suppose it was inevitable that the British wing of the species would one day deign to notice Antiwar.com’s (…)

By Stewart Acuff National AFL-CIO Organizing Director
We should not minimize the imminent, destructive potential of a second George Bush term. We as progressives should do some serious thinking and listening about what happened on November 2 and what we should do about it. But there are a few things that occur immediately to me.
Before the election and now after it, I take hope and encouragement from the great energy and activism on our side. I cannot remember a national election (…)

Ohio election tally faces challenge
November 30, 2004 (Page 29)
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Nearly a month after John Kerry conceded Ohio to President Bush, complaints and challenges about the balloting are mounting as activists including the Rev. Jesse Jackson demand closer scrutiny to ensure the votes are being counted on the up-and-up.
Kerry gave up Ohio after unofficial results showed Bush with a 136,000-vote lead in the state. Since then, there have been complaints about uncounted punch-card (…)

George Bush’s victory in the US presidential election will be challenged in Ohio’s supreme court today, when a group of Democratic voters will allege widespread fraud.
President Bush clinched re-election by winning the state of Ohio on November 2 by a margin of 136,000 votes over the Democratic candidate, John Kerry. Despite claims of fraud and technical glitches, Senator Kerry decided that they were not big enough to affect the result and conceded the election on November 3.
However, (…)

November 30, 2004 BY JESSE JACKSON
In the Ukraine, citizens are in the streets protesting what they charge is a fixed election. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell expresses this nation’s concern about apparent voting irregularities. The media give the dispute around-the-clock coverage. But in the United States, massive and systemic voter irregularities go unreported and unnoticed.
Ohio is this election year’s Florida. The vote in Ohio decided the presidential race, but it was marred by (…)