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  • Eminem, Anti-Hero
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

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    With a new video proudly declaring war on Bush, Eminem steps into the political fray, perhaps the least likely - and most effective - generational leader imaginable.
    By Davina Baum
    There was merely a ripple in the cultural zeitgeist when Bruce Springsteen put aside his genial nonpartisan everyman stance and headlined the Vote for Change concerts, benefiting America Coming Together (ACT), and ultimately, John Kerry. No one blinked when Ani diFranco set off on her (…)

  • NAACP says IRS review spurred by politics
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Speech by Bond preceded look at tax-exempt status
    By Genero C. Armas
    WASHINGTON — The NAACP’s chairman says the group’s tax-exempt status is under review by the government in an investigation he contends stems from a speech he gave that criticized President Bush.
    The head of the Internal Revenue Service did not confirm that his agency was investigating the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, but he strongly rejected the idea the agency would conduct an audit for (…)

  • Osama’s Election Editorial
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    So the bastard is still alive.
    He isn’t dead of kidney failure or rotting in a cave somewhere in the Hindu Kush. He wasn’t smoked out of his hole, and he in no way appeared to be on the run. The images broadcast on every American television station in the last few hours showed a man apparently in good health, clothed in traditional white and wrapped in a golden robe. His hands were steady and his voice was clear. From all appearances, Osama bin Laden is tanned, (…)

  • Appeasing Israel
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush and Kerry put Israel first - and ignore the rise of fascism in the ’Promised Land’
    by Justin Raimondo
    The collapse and seemingly imminent demise of Yasser Arafat once again draws our attention to the plight of the Palestinian people at the hands of their Israeli occupiers: just as the Jewish state keeps an entire people captive in the twin concentration camps of Gaza and the West Bank, so Arafat was himself incarcerated, physically confined to his headquarters in Ramallah. (…)

  • Osama bin Laden: The statement
    30 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Following is an excerpt from the speech by the al-Qa’ida leader, Osama bin Laden, addressing the American people in a video, parts of which were aired by al-Jazeera television last night, as translated by Reuters
    O American people, I am speaking to tell you about the ideal way to avoid another Manhattan, about war and its causes and results.
    Security is an important foundation of human life and free people do not squander their security, contrary to Bush’s claims that we hate freedom. (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • A Country on the Verge of an Electoral Meltdown
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Andrew Gumbel
    Voting machines have already begun to break down, accusations of systematic voter suppression and fraud are rampant, and thousands of lawyers have flocked to court to cry foul in half a dozen states.
    No need to wonder if this year’s U.S. presidential election is headed for another meltdown: the meltdown has already started. The voting machines have already begun to break down, accusations of systematic voter suppression and fraud are rampant, and lawyers fully armed and (…)

  • The Great Delusion Kerrycrats and the War
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    I asked one usually radical friend of mine, now a Kerrycrat, how she could support a fellow who pledges a “better”, wider war in Iraq and then a march on Teheran. “Oh” she said airily, “you can’t believe anything a candidate will say.”
    From where we sit, here at mission control, CounterPunch hq, (currently a facility known as the Claremont Inn off Interstate 10 east of LA, where Jeffrey St Clair is watching three inches of rain sluicing down on the San Gabriel (…)

  • White House of Horrors
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MAUREEN DOWD
    Dick Cheney peaked too soon. We’ve still got a few days left until Halloween.
    It was scary enough when we thought the vice president had created his own reality for spin purposes. But if he actually believes that Iraq is "a remarkable success story,’’ it’s downright spooky. He’s already got his persona for Sunday: he’s the mad scientist in the haunted mansion, fiddling with test tubes to force the world to conform to his twisted vision.
    After 9/11, Mr. Cheney swirled (…)

  • A month of mini ’October surprises’
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A flurry of revelations, from Iraq’s missing explosives to the flu vaccine shortage, have touched this year’s presidential race.
    By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
    WASHINGTON - On the eve of a presidential contest, late-breaking events can have an outsize impact. While nothing has risen to the level of a blockbuster "October surprise" - the term coined from the 1980 race, when Democrats feared Ronald Reagan and his friends were secretly arranging to delay (…)