Not content with sending other people’s children off to die and cutting the pay and benefits of the survivors, Republicans are now insulting veterans by wearing mock Purple Heart Band-Aids. This was the repulsive idea of GOP activist Morton Blackwell from Virginia who made and distributed 400 of them. In this photo Pat Peel of [...]
Major Temperature Rise Recorded in Arctic This Year: German ScientistsPARIS - German scientists probing global warming said they had detected a major temperature rise this year in the Arctic Ocean and linked this to a progressive shrinking of the region’s sea ice.
Temperatures recorded this year in the upper 500 meters (1,625 feet) of sea in [...]
As if they hadn’t already caused enough offence to the people of New York, the Bush regime continues to put the boot in. The New York Times reports:
The Bush administration is replacing the nation’s three-decade-old financing system for public housing with a new formula that will redistribute billions of dollars, chiefly from New York [...]
USA DEMOCRATS ABROAD AUSTRALIAMEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2004Contacts [...]
Madame Butterfly Flies Off with BallotsFlorida Fixed Again? Absentee Ballots Go Absentby Greg Palast
Sunday, August 29, 2004.
On Friday, Theresa LePore, Supervisor of Elections in Palm Beach, candidate for re-election as Supervisor of Elections, chose to supervise her own election, no one allowed. This Tuesday, Florida votes for these nominally non-partisan posts.
You remember Theresa, “Madame [...]
Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bulletsA death sentence here and abroadby Leuren Moret
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” - Henry Kissinger, quoted in “Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POW’s in Vietnam”
Vietnam was a chemical war for oil, permanently [...]
Welcome to South Dakota, where Republicans tried to impose a poll tax to suppress the Indian vote.By Tara McKelvey
A plastic sign outside a polling place in Andes Central High School on the Yankton Sioux reservation was clear and concise. “Photo ID required,” it read.
The only problem, said Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American [...]
by Lawrence Pintak Published on Friday, August 27, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
The question of how the U.S. communicates its message to the Muslim world is arguably the most vital issue facing the nation today. It is therefore deeply disturbing when the debate is muddied by dangerously misleading pseudo-science.
“University Study Shows Advertising Can Improve [...]
By David Wighton in New York and James Harding in Washington Published: August 26 2004 20:58 Last updated: August 26 2004 20:58
Wall Street’s enthusiasm for US President George W. Bush appears to have cooled as the presidential race tightens and concerns grow about foreign policy and fiscal deficits.
Some leading fundraisers of Mr Bush’s re-election [...]
David Hencke, Westminster correspondentFriday August 27, 2004The Guardian
Cherie Booth’s chambers, Matrix, are to draw up the document to impeach her husband, Tony Blair, for “high crimes and misdemeanours” in the run up to the war against Iraq, it was disclosed yesterday.
The 12 MPs planning to revive the ancient parliamentary procedure - last used 156 years [...]
Across the liberal media comparisons are being drawn between the demonstrations at the DNC in Chicago in 1968 and the potential for a similar situation to occur in New York at the RNC. Authors advise caution, saying the demonstrators may play into Bush’s hands and cause middle America to swing to the right.
In Rick [...]
