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by Election 2004 : 21 AIDS Advocates Arrested Outside Bush-Cheney Headquarters for Protesting Administration’s Domestic, Global AIDS Policies
Police in Arlington, Va., on Monday arrested 21 AIDS advocates who had chained themselves to the front door of the Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters and to each other inside the building during a protest against the administration’s domestic and global AIDS policies, the Washington Post reports. Approximately 120 advocates took part in the (…)

The Media is Failing to Ask Bush an Important Question
Something is rotten in the American media.
We have read the apologies and the mea culpae of major news organizations about how they had been too credulous and insufficiently curious and aggressive in reporting on the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and on the initial phases of the war once it began.
Yet here they are doing it again in the case of the mysterious object that President Bush has been wearing on his back, not just (…)

By Jane Stillwater
Yesterday the mayor of our fair city spelled it out to us. "The feds have cut funding to the State of California by 21 billion dollars. The state then makes up its losses by having the cities pay. Our city is now heavily in debt. We have to make that money up from somewhere if we are to keep operating." The mayor then suggested taxing utility bills, raising property taxes and initiating a real estate transfer tax. I have a better idea. Let’s tax the IRS! For (…)

By George Ochenski
Given the Bush presidency’s horrid record of lying about everything from preemptive war to domestic issues such as the environment, health care and education, it should come as no surprise that they’re at it again. This time, it’s to interfere in Montana’s election on medical marijuana, I-148.
Case in point was last week’s visit to Montana by Scott Burns, the so-called deputy drug czar for Bush’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. First, in a blatant attempt to (…)

Activists Send 60,000 Letters to SBG Advertisers in 24 Hours
WASHINGTON Representatives of StolenAirTime.com today said that despite the slight improvement of the Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s position on forcing its 62 stations to air “Stolen Honor” a faux documentary attacking Kerry in the days before the election, it is still urging Sinclair’s advertisers to pull their ads from the network. Sinclair is still forcing 40 of its stations, many of them in swing states, to air parts of (…)

By Gilad Atzmon
Editorial Note:
Gilad Atzmon published this article first on December 12, 2003. The reason it is republished by Al-Jazeerah today is that it represents an excellent analysis of the Zionist tactic of anti-Semitism, which is used to attack those who criticize the Israeli occupation atrocities in Palestine. It’s also relevant to the new law that President Bush signed US To Rate Its Allies On Their Treatment Of Jews
In the light of the growing discussion initiated by (…)

By David Rennie in Washington
In another test of America’s frayed relations with France, Russia and other allies, the US Congress has ordered the State Department to start rating governments throughout the world on their treatment of Jewish citizens.
The resulting report cards on anti-Semitism would be published in annual US surveys of human rights abuses around the world.
The proposed law was passed by the House of Representatives on Monday, in response to what its sponsors called an (…)

By Michael Schrage
When "unnamed U.S. government officials" leaked the story this fall that al Qaeda computer expert Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan had been arrested in Pakistan, media reports described British and Pakistani intelligence officials as furious about the resulting firestorm of coverage. Officials were quoted as saying that the news had blown a global sting operation by destroying Khan’s value as a "double agent" who’d been turned against his al Qaeda colleagues. U.S. senators and (…)

By Paul Krugman The New York Times
PRINCETON, New Jersey Americans who are worrying about a revived military draft are in the same position as those who worried about a return to budget deficits four years ago, when President George W. Bush began pushing through his program of tax cuts. Back then he insisted that he wouldn’t drive the budget into deficit - but those who looked at the facts strongly suspected otherwise. Now he insists that he won’t revive the draft. But the facts suggest (…)

By Pepe Escobar
It’s a match made in (virtual) mujahideen paradise: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his group al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (Unity and Holy War), swearing loyalty to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda on the Internet.
Now that’s a real October surprise. The "Zarqawi" letter, in Arabic, goes straight to the point: "Oath of loyalty of leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi towards the Sheikh of the Mujahideen, Osama bin Laden." It is signed by "Zarqawi". It qualifies bin Laden as the supreme jihad commander. (…)