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NEW YORK - Director Michael Moore’s controversial documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11” turned on the box office heat in its first day in theaters breaking single-day records at the two New York City theaters where it played.
The movie, which aims a critical eye at President Bush and his prosecution of the war in Iraq, sold $49,000 worth of tickets at the Loew’s Village 7 theater, beating the venue’s single-day record of $43,435 held by 1997’s "Men in Black,” according to distributors Lions Gate (…)

By JUAN FORERO
LAVE, Peru — On a morning in April, people in this normally placid spot in Peru’s southeastern highlands burst into a town council meeting, grabbed their mayor, dragged him through the streets and lynched him. The killers, convinced the mayor was on the take and angry that he had neglected promises to pave a highway and build a market for vendors, also badly beat four councilmen.
The beating death of the mayor may seem like an isolated incident in an isolated Peruvian town (…)

Moore film fires up left and incenses right, adding cultural fuel to fight for presidency
Gary Younge in New York
For the second time in a week, the liberals of New York stood in line for their cultural sustenance.
On Monday night they waited to snatch the first autographed copies of the memoirs of the former Democratic president Bill Clinton.
On Wednesday they went to watch Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, a film aimed, at least in part, at ending the incumbency of of the current (…)

A Study by the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy In Focus
Full report with citations available at:
http://www.ips-dc.org/iraq/costsofwar/costsofwar.pdf
Print-ready "Just the numbers" factsheet (Free Adobe Acrobat reader needed to view full report and factsheet)
"Just the numbers" factsheet as a web page/html
I. Costs to the United States
A. Human Costs
U.S. Military Deaths: Between the start of war on March 19, 2003 and June 16, 2004, 952 coalition forces were (…)

I would like to give my deepest condolences to all of those people that will lose their lives after June 30, 2004 in Iraq. God, can you find it in your heart to forgive Bush and his underlings for causing all of this pain to the world. And forgive all of the other corrupt people that gain pleasure from others misfortunes. America is lost once again!
Also God can you give the United Nations a backbone and allow it to serve as was intended?

WASHINGTON — For the first time, a majority of Americans say they think the United States made a mistake sending troops to Iraq, according to a poll released yesterday.
The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll found that 54 percent of people say the war was a mistake, up from 41 percent who felt that way earlier this month.
The poll also found that more than half say the Iraq war has made the United States less safe from terrorism. Only a third said it made this country safer.
The finding that (…)

by Antonia Juhasz
International Forum on Globalization Testimony to the World Tribunal on Iraq
The Bush Administration is using the military invasion and occupation of Iraq to advance a corporate globalization agenda that is illegal under international law, has not been chosen by the Iraqi people and may ultimately prove to be even more devastating than twelve years of economic sanctions, two U.S.-led wars and one occupation. The Administration’s ultimate goal is to take the agenda to (…)

by Amnesty International
In an Open Letter released on the eve of the EU-US summit in Ireland, Amnesty International calls on the Irish Presidency of the European Union to end the EU’s embarrassing silence in the face of the United States’ ongoing breaches of fundamental human rights and humanitarian law principles in the pursuit of its "war on terror" and in Iraq.
The Open Letter says President George W. Bush should not leave Ireland without a clear message from the EU: that torture and (…)

A SOLDIER murdered in Iraq along with five colleagues had told his family that he and others felt "completely deceived" by the reasons for going to war, it has been revealed.
The news emerged on the first anniversary of the deaths of six military policeman from Colchester, who were massacred near Basra on June 24 last year.
Reg Keys said his son, Lance-Corporal Thomas Keys, 20, had told his family he and friends felt "completely deceived" by the reasons for going to war and that morale (…)

by Tom Engelhardt
"Our nation recognizes that this new paradigm — ushered in not by us, but by terrorists — requires new thinking in the law of war." (President George W. Bush in a February 7, 2002 memo asserting "that he believed he had ’the authority under the Constitution’ to deny protections of the Geneva Conventions to combatants picked up during the war in Afghanistan." (Mike Allen and Susan Schmidt, Memo on Interrogation Tactics Is Disavowed, the Washington Post)
"Some of the (…)