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Vancouver legal experts join movement to rule the U.S. president a violator of Geneva and U.N. conventions.
By Judith Ince
TheTyee.ca When George W. Bush visits Canada this week, he’s sure to get an earful from demonstrators who see him more as a "war crimes president" than a "war president." While activists prepare to put down their unwelcome mats, lawyers have been sharpening arguments to hold the president accountable for his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. But amid the flurry (…)

KIEV, Ukraine
As Ukraine’s Supreme Court weighed the validity of presidential election results, outgoing President Leonid Kuchma said Monday that Ukraine could hold a new election to settle the escalating crisis.
"If we really want to preserve peace and accord, if we really want to build a democratic state ... let’s hold new elections,” Kuchma said, according to the Interfax news service.
Earlier Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych said he would support another vote in two (…)

by MILES SCHUMAN
While the North American news media have focused on the military triumph of US Marines in Falluja, little attention has been paid to reports that US armed forces killed scores of patients in an attack on a Falluja health center and have deprived civilians of medical care, food and water.
Although the US military has dismissed accounts of the health center bombing as "unsubstantiated," in fact they are credible and come from multiple sources. Dr. Sami al-Jumaili described (…)

by Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD, The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.
”Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,” 35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. ”They used everything — tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground.”
Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use (…)

By LARRY MARGASAK
WASHINGTON - Congress’ investigative agency, responding to complaints from around the country, has begun to look into the Nov. 2 vote count, including the handling of provisional ballots and malfunctions of voting machines.
The presidential results won’t change, but the studies could lead to changes.
The Government Accountability Office usually begins investigations in response to specific requests from Congress, but the agency’s head, Comptroller General David (…)

Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount, blasts GOP election officials, and says Kerry supports the process by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman November 29, 2004
COLUMBUS—Preaching to a packed, wildly cheering central Ohio citizen congregation, Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted the presidential election back into the national headlines Sunday. Jackson said new findings cast serious doubt on the idea that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Ohio November 2. A GOP "pattern of (…)

IRGC Commander - US, Israel Not In Position To Attack Iran TEHRAN (IRNA) - Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Rahim Safavi said on Wednesday that the US and Israel are not in a position to launch a military attack on Iran. He told a press conference on the sidelines of a large military exercise of one hundred thousand Basij (volunteer forces) that it would be foolish if the US opted for military confrontation with Iran. "The US has been trapped in (…)

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
COLUMBUS — A floodtide of evidence of questionable practices in the 2004 election is mounting fast against Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Republican Franklin County Board of Elections (BOE) Director Matt Damschroder. New transcriptions of sworn voter testimony, presented below for the first time, confirm growing suspicions of widespread use of rigged machines. Voters experienced hostility from poll workers, refusal of (…)

"Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today" (Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948)
by Yamin Zakaria
If you criticize the Talmudic inspired policies of the Jewish state, ethnic cleansing the Gentiles to make way for the chosen people of God you are an instant anti-Semite. Ironically, whilst constantly claiming victimhood the Jewish state is imitating their former oppressors as the notion of ‘chosen race’ is similar to the notion of the (…)

by AMY GOODMAN
We speak with John Perkins, a former respected member of the international banking community. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then take over their economies.
John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man - a highly paid professional who cheated (…)