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Investigative reporter Greg Palast exposes a secret document within the Republican Party in Florida that contains nearly 1,900 names and addresses of voters in the predominantly black and Democratic areas of Jacksonville. The so-called "caging list" could be used to block and harass African-American voters. [includes rush transcript] Concerns continue to mount across the country over the fairness of next Tuesday’s election. Already problems have emerged in many states. In one county in (…)

(Part I)
by David R. Hoffman
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, once said: "When the people are afraid of the government, that’s tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that’s liberty."
To minimize the possibility of this tyranny developing, and to ensure the inviolability of certain fundamental rights and freedoms, America’s founding fathers created the Bill of Rights to serve as a "check-and-balance" between the government and the (…)

Americans who oppose the war in Iraq find it easy to hold President Bush in contempt - as they should, considering his deceptive and disastrous wars that have killed thousands. What’s harder is finding much to like in John Kerry. Most antiwar American voters will probably pull the lever for Kerry - or, more accurately, against Bush - but we must all come to terms with the fact that Kerry is a hawk, and a very dangerous one.
Kerry never tires of pointing out that Bush didn’t wage his (…)

download video http://movies12.archive.org/3/movies/Mosh2/GNN_Mosh_bb2.mov
What is there really to say?
Other than to straight up hand it to Eminem, Dr. Dre, Ian Inaba, Anson Vogt, Kevin Elam and Thomas Brohdal and everyone else who had a hand in the making of this video?
Watching this video is one of those experiences that just changes you. Mosh has a transformative power. Like, before I clicked on my computer this morning and downloaded the thing....well, I thought and felt one (…)

Tip of the iceberg
As I learned while embedded in Iraq, the highly lethal explosives stolen from Al Qaqaa are just a fraction of the mountain of poorly secured munitions that could be turned against U.S. soldiers and citizens. - - - - - - - - - - - By David J. Morris
Oct. 26, 2004 | Monday’s New York Times contained a front-page story describing the disappearance of nearly 380 tons of high-powered explosives from a sensitive weapons cache outside Baghdad known as Al Qaqaa. "60 Minutes" (…)

by Jane Stillwater
The future scares me. I want reassurance.
"Yes, you will always have a charge card and, yes, there will always be a mall." I get that reassurance all the time but that’s not the reassurance that I need. I’m not a fool. I know that we can’t go on spending the earth’s resources and living on peak oil forever. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER THAT.
This is the reassurance that I crave: "No matter what happens with regard to your material circumstances, your life (…)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Up to 58,000 absentee ballots may never have reached the Broward County voters who requested them more than two weeks ago, election officials said, and state police are investigating.
Hundreds of people have called the county elections office to complain that they never got their ballots. The phone system was so overwhelmed some frustrated voters could not get through.
The county election office said the problem involved ballots mailed on Oct. 7-8, though the (…)

by Claire Cozens
Rupert Murdoch has claimed his Fox News channel is not biased in favour of George Bush and that News Corporation, his global media empire, is a "fair and balanced" company.
Speaking at the company’s annual general meeting in Adelaide, Mr Murdoch insisted Fox News’ reporting was more balanced than that of other US networks.
"It’s full of Democrats and Republicans, the others only have Democrats. We don’t take any position at all," Mr Murdoch said in response to a (…)

By Ben Cohen
Last week, the co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s argued the U.S. government is looking for a new villain to justify a Pentagon budget increase. This week, it found one — under the worst of circumstances.
You may know some despicable characters, but are they mean enough to apply for this job posting?
ENEMY WANTED. Serious enemy needed to justify Pentagon budget increase. Defense contractors desperate. Interested enemies send letter and photo or video (threatening, ok) to Enemy (…)

By Jonathan Weisman and Thomas E. Ricks
The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.
White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton emphasized that final decisions on the supplemental spending request will not be made until shortly before the request is sent (…)