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  • Iraqi Rebels Hit Ministry, Oil, Security Forces
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Waleed Ibrahim
    BAGHDAD - Rebels bracing for a U.S.-led assault on their Falluja and Ramadi strongholds showed their muscle on Tuesday with a bloody car bombing in Baghdad, strikes on oil pipelines and several attacks on Iraqi security forces.
    A morning car bomb blast at the Education Ministry brought fresh carnage to the busy streets of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
    "I’m not crying because I’m wounded, but because of my brother. (…)

  • Michael Moore : "One Day Left"
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Dear Friends,
    This is it. ONE DAY LEFT. There are many things I’d like to say. I’ve been on the road getting out the vote for 51 straight days so I haven’t had much time to write. So I’ve put together a bunch of notes to various groups all in this one letter. Please feel free to copy and send whatever portions are appropriate to your friends and family as you spend these last 24 hours trying to convince whomever you can to show up and vote for John Kerry.
    Here are my (…)

  • On The Road To Civil War
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it. Not another war with the Arabs. Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with the Palestinians...
    by URI AVNERY
    Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
    Not another war with the Arabs. Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with the (…)

  • 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    With a chill in the air and frost on the pumpkins, it’s the spookiest time of the year. Out of a trunk from the attic and a bag from the cellar, 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes are here!
    by Dan Savage and David Schmader
    Photographs by John E. Hollingsworth
    A Do-It-Yourself Guide to This Season’s Quickest, Least Expensive, and Spooky-Ookiest Halloween Costumes
    Florida’s Electronic Touch-Screen Voting Machines
    Give Democrats in your neighborhood the chills with this adorable (…)

  • Iraq : journalist says insurgency has and will use missiles
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Seymour Hersh gives an inside view of Iraq and foreign policy Journalist says insurgency has and will use missiles
    By Daniela Perdomo
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, who most recently broke the story of the abuses at the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib with the CBS news program "60 Minutes," gave a scathing portrait of U.S. policy in Iraq in the Terrace Room on Friday.
    "Let’s begin by questioning the word ’democracy,’" Hersh said by way of introduction, hinting at what would (…)

  • A Soldier Speaks PART 1: Robert J. Acosta
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    One bad day in Iraq and a 19-year-old boy faces a lifetime without his right hand. This veteran speaks about his hopes and fears - and the long, hard road ahead.
    By Lakshmi Chaudhry
    Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of profiles of some of the tens of thousands of Iraq War veterans who have come home bearing the scars of battle - emotional and physical wounds that may never heal unless the nation pays them the attention and care that they deserve. We at AlterNet believe that in (…)

  • EVERY VOTE WILL COUNT
    31 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Schiller
    2 days from today, we will finally get to do something we have not done since 1996... pick a President. It’s been a long wait, but the moment is about to arrive. During the summer of 1999, I was living in a different world than the one I live in now. My life revolved only around my needs, my goals, my ambitions, my desires and my pains. Around that time, a person said to me, "In another year, Bush is going to be President", and I laughed. I said, "This is 1999, not 1989, (…)

  • How Rummy’s Failed War Plan Caused the Loss of More Than 1,000 US Soldiers in Iraq
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    In October 2002, the New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered the military’s regional commanders to rewrite all of their war plans to capitalize on precision weapons, better intelligence and speedier deployment in the event the United States decided to invade Iraq, ignoring concerns from career military officials that American military forces will suffer a huge number of casualties under Rumsfeld’s plan.
    Rumsfeld denied, in an Oct. 12, (…)

  • At the Crossroads of America
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuelas
    The Calling of our Times
    Throughout history, it is few the men and women who are living at moments such as these, when monumental shifts in human existence can be touched and its ramifications seen over the bright sunrays of hope. It is few the men and women in the short sand clock of human civilization whose waking conscious and steadfast courage can propel future generations forward in time, to lands promising and cultures flourishing, in an instant breaking free (…)

  • 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead, says study
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Sarah Boseley
    About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death toll from Iraqi and US public health experts.
    The study, which was carried out in 33 randomly-chosen neighbourhoods of Iraq representative of the entire population, shows that violence is now the leading cause of death in Iraq. Before the invasion, most people died (…)