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In one month, 3000 children died in Iraq; on average, that is 100 per day. Though
many are innocent victims of incessant clashes, most succumb to malnourishment
and unsanitary living conditions.
The shortage of drugs and modern equipment is worse than when Saddam Hussein
was in power - when international embargoes isolated the country.
Shells and shrapnel, grenades and bombs are other factors affecting the health of children. According to disclosures from the Health Care Ministry, (…)

by Jay Bookman
Fear.
If the Bush campaign has its way, the 2004 presidential election will be decided by fear. Strategically speaking, the approach is brilliant. Fear blinds people. It can cause intelligent, thoughtful individuals to turn off their brains and revert to instinct, and that instinct tells them to seek a strong leader who can protect them. When no such leader exists, sufficiently frightened people will even invent one, projecting an imaginary strength onto figures who (…)

By Dan Morgan
WASHINGTON — The House voted 223-193 Thursday to block the Bush administration’s sweeping new eligibility rules for overtime pay, giving Democrats a significant victory that they hope will boost the party’s standing among middle-class voters in key states in the fall election.
Twenty-two pro-labor Republicans, most of them from the North and Midwest, joined a solid bloc of Democrats voting to prevent the Labor Department from enforcing the regulations, which took effect (…)

by Max Lane
We condemn the bombing outside the Australian Embassy which has taken at least 9 lives and injured over a hundred Indonesians, mainly people doing business at the Embassy and passrs-bye. We express our full sympathy to all those who have lost loved ones and who have suffered injury. Such acts are inhumane, stupid and futile. But they are also a symptom of a world where poverty, desperation and hopelness about the future, and humiliation of culture, religion, race and nation (…)

The terror bombing today in central Jakarta - near the Australian
Embassy - in which some six people were killed shows that invading
Iraq has not made the world a safer place, said Ms Pip Hinman for
Stop the War Coalition.
"This bombing in Jakarta is a tragedy. But the bigger tragedy is that
the illegal war on Iraq by the Coalition of the Willing is creating
the conditions for handfuls of fanatics to unleash their own war.
"Whatever the actual circumstances of the Jakarta (…)

Yasser Arafat’s expulsion is "closer than ever," the Israeli foreign minister warned, as Israeli troops battled dozens of gunmen on the outskirts of the largest Palestinian refugee camp.
Three Palestinians were killed by army fire - two gunmen and an unarmed man who was shot dead near an Israeli settlement.
The fighting came as Arafat was embroiled in another power struggle with his prime minister, Ahmed Qurie, who submitted a letter of resignation earlier this week, his second since (…)

The world wants President Bush out of the White House, according to a poll released on Wednesday that shows in 30 of 35 countries people preferred Democrat candidate John Kerry.
Kerry was particularly favored in traditionally strong U.S. allies and beat Bush on average by more than a two-to-one margin, 46 percent to 20 percent, the survey by GlobeScan Inc, a global research firm, and the University of Maryland, said.
The survey of attitudes around the world contrasts with U.S. polls that (…)

Memos: Bush Suspended From Flying for Failing to Meet Guard Standards, Take Required Physical
Newly unearthed memos state George W. Bush was suspended from flying for the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam war because he failed to meet Guard standards and failed to take his annual flight physical as required.
The suspension came as Bush was trying to arrange a transfer to non-flying status with a unit in Alabama so he could work on a political campaign there.
A memo written a (…)

Emergency Demonstration
US Troops death toll passes 1,000 as Corporate War Profiteers make
millions
Friday 5 pm
Times Square Recruiting Center
No More Lives for George Bush’s Lies!
Bring the Troops Home Now!
On Tuesday, September 8, the death toll among US soldiers passed
1,000. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have died. Meanwhile, Halliburton
has raked in more than $80 million in profits and the candidates of
the two war parties travel the country in corporate jets promising to (…)

In a speech yesterday, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry blasted President Bush for “wrong” choices in the war in Iraq. After taking a beating for most of August and falling behind in the polls, John Kerry is now trying to increase the volume of his attacks and finally differentiate his position with the President on Iraq.
The problem for Democrats is that John Kerry is the wrong candidate for the party on this important issue. With now over 1,000 American fatalities in Iraq, the (…)