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  • We Are Here! We Are Here! Resistance to the emerging fascism goes beyond the polls
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    For several months, one of my brothers, who is a bit prone to hyperbole, kept insisting that speculation about the election was meaningless, basically because it wasn’t going to happen. He was absolutely convinced that the Bush regime would manufacture some excuse to postpone or cancel the election in a bid to stay in power. However, I did not consider his proposal paranoid (for reasons that should now be obvious to the whole world) and in hindsight, even hyperbole (…)

  • Please boycott all US goods and services
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Donna Bravo
    Dear World Neighbor,
    I am a US citizen asking you, Please boycott all US goods and services until the Bush/Cheney administration withdraws from Iraq and renounces its policy of military aggression against sovereign nations of its choosing. With financial bankruptcy, the US Congress and the other half of the US electorate will be more willing to, at minimum, question and possibly decrease the power of the re-elected Bush/Cheney administration.
    Yes, I need you to stop (…)

  • Rare Sight of Jewish-Muslim Harmony Outside Arafat Hospital
    8 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At a solemn vigil outside the hospital treating Yasser Arafat, a remarkable, poignant moment of peace: A Jewish rabbi and a Muslim prayer leader shaking hands and extending hopes for the Palestinian leader’s recovery.
    Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedmann travelled from Vienna to show his support, while Kamel Titouhi came from a local mosque where he had led prayers for Arafat’s recovery.
    The two men met at what has become a small shrine to Arafat beside the main gate of the modern military (…)

  • Exit Polls to Protect the Vote
    7 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published: October 17, 2004
    WASHINGTON - Since the 1960’s, the exit poll, that staple of election-night television, has been used along with other tools to declare winners when the polls close in each state, and its accuracy is noted later when the actual vote count proves it right. A landmark exception, of course, came in 2000, when the networks initially gave the decisive Florida vote to Al Gore.
    But now exit polls are being used in some places to monitor the official vote count (…)

  • Republicans, ever wonder why half the country vehemently disagrees with you?
    6 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s not about caving in to terrorists, it’s not about wanting a lack of morality, and it’s not about hating Republican voters. It is about wanting the freedom of choice as individuals over our lives that a democracy is supposed to allow. It’s about not shipping jobs overseas and destroying the economic foundations of the middle class and impoverishing millions of Americans.
    It’s about having every citizen’s vote count and be counted fairly. It’s about killing people in defense only. It’s (…)

  • The Puzzling Origins of AIDS
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by The Scientific Research Society
    American Scientist — Although no one explanation for the origin of AIDS has been universally accepted, four rival theories provide some important lessons.
    Shortly after the 1983 discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the pathogen responsible for AIDS, investigators became aware of a strangely similar immune deficiency disease afflicting Asian monkeys (macaques) held in captivity in various U.S. research labs. Soon, virologists identified (…)

  • Study predicts Arctic ice melt by 2100
    4 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by WWF
    A new scientific study says the Arctic ice cover will disappear in summer by the end of this century unless carbon dioxide emissions are significantly reduced.
    The study, to be released next week, says the Arctic ice melt will cause sea levels to rise and could lead to the extinction of some species such as polar bears.
    "The melt has begun," said Jennifer Morgan, director of the Climate Change Campaign for the environmental organisation WWF, which published excerpts of the (…)

  • Kerry ’concedes defeat’
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON
    President George Bush has won a second term as US president after the Democratic
    challenger, John Kerry, today called him to concede defeat in the bitterly-contested
    race for the White House, the Associated Press has reported.
    Mr Bush has won a mandate to govern a divided and anxious nation, his promise
    of steady, strong wartime leadership trumping Mr Kerry’s fresh-start approach
    to Iraq and joblessness.
    After a long, tense night of vote counting, Mr Kerry called Mr (…)

  • Election Unresolved As Ohio Residents Fight Disenfranchisement
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joshua Breitbart
    Ohio voter groups have called for a statewide walkout and protest in Columbus as the US presidential election hinges on thousands of provisional ballots and claims of disenfranchisement.
    After a day of huge turnout and widespread reports of voting irregularities [1 | 2 | 3] the polls closed in Ohio with a margin of fewer than 150,000 votes separating Bush and Kerry out of more than 5 million cast. Polls stayed open late into the night to accommodate people who waited (…)

  • Carlyle Covers Up
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    Less than twenty-four hours after The Nation disclosed that former Secretary of State James Baker and the Carlyle Group were involved in a secret deal to profit from Iraq’s debt to Kuwait, NBC was reporting that the deal was "dead." At The Nation, we started to get calls congratulating us on costing the Carlyle Group $1 billion, the sum the company would have received in an investment from the government of Kuwait in exchange for helping to extract $27 billion of unpaid (…)