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  • Post-Election Sticker Shock
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s not too soon to talk about the problems the winner of Tuesday’s election will face. One of the biggest is the hemorrhaging cost of the war in Iraq.
    The Bush administration, which got an early $25 billion down payment for the new fiscal year with the certainty of asking for more, has left the 2005 war budget’s bottom line conveniently blank until after the voters have spoken. But the estimates already circulating say that the president will have to ask for as much as $70 billion more (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Why Bush will restart the draft if re-elected
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A major terrorist attack could easily serve as the pretext for setting the draft in motion.
    By Sen. Tom Harkin
    President George W. Bush may or may not have a secret plan to reinstate the draft. But this is besides the point. The deteriorating facts on the ground in Iraq, plus the Bush doctrine of acting pre-emptively and unilaterally against hostile regimes, will soon leave him no choice. If Bush is re-elected, he will have to restart the draft.
    Indeed, Bush has already imposed stage (…)

  • Nader Camp Voting for Kerry : Break through Bush Blindness
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Please Broadcast this to Anyone you know who may be "Undecided":::
    Nader’s Former Advisors & Former Running Mate Winona LaDuke Urge Support for Kerry!!!
    In Swing States— Start Swinging!
    Some of us love Ralph Nader. Some hate him. Some voted for him in the last presidential election. Some of us did not. But now let’s join together on Tuesday to vote Bush out of office. That means voting for Kerry.
    I’ve recently joined Noam Chomsky, Phil Donahue, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, (…)

  • Open letter to US citizens: American people, please save us from yourselves!
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dear America,
    Now that John Kerry has demonstrated himself to the American people as rational and statesmanlike leader, especially compared to the histrionic, contorted and ugly evasions evinced by President Bush during the three debates that were his to loose, hopefully we have embarked on a journey that will culminate in a change of government in the USA.
    Just as the rest of the world sits amazed at the malaise that has seized America since Bush took office and which has manifested (…)

  • Bush ’most hated’ American leader
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRITISH spy novelist John Le Carre has branded US President George W. Bush America’s most "universally hated" leader and urged voters to kick him out of office next month.
    The author of global best sellers such as The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy launched the stinging attack on the US leader and his war in Iraq in an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
    "Probably no American president in history has been so universally hated abroad as Bush: for his (…)

  • Open letter to the citizens of the United States of America
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Never in the history of humankind has an election had so much at stake
    by Timothy Bancroft-Hinche
    Dear friends,
    As a journalist who has the good fortune to write for an international journal with millions of readers around the world, I have the individual responsibility to inform you of the feeling in the international community regarding the outcome of the election on November 2nd.
    As citizens of the United States of America, who have the power to endorse or to dismiss the policies (…)

  • Got Vote?
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A helpful primer courtesy of MoveOn.org
    They’re doing it again. In Nevada, a Republican contractor has allegedly ripped up thousands of Democratic registration forms.(1) In Florida, Jeb Bush has purged tens of thousands of legitimate voters - mostly black, mostly Democratic - from the rolls because their names are similar to a felon’s.(2) In Ohio, the Republican Secretary of State has been so uncooperative that a federal judge said that he “apparently seeks to accomplish the same result in (…)

  • Get Out And Vote And Scream
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Now that we’re all completely fried and bitter and media punch-drunk, it’s time to act
    by Mark Morford So here we are, staring down a rather historic moment amidst the sputtering ideological orgy that is the American experiment and if you’re paying any sort of attention at all you’re doubtlessly drunk on election hype and saturated with Bush/Kerry platitudes and you wish a white-hot death upon every screeching TV pundit who is right now analyzing yet another insidious national poll that (…)

  • Winona LaDuke Endorsement of John Kerry for President
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Winona LaDuke
    I am voting for John Kerry this November. I love this land, and I know that we need to make drastic changes in Washington if we are going to protect our land and our communities. I am committed to transforming the American democracy so that it is reflective of the diversity of this country. I believe in a multi-party system and a multi-racial democracy. I believe there are many opinions, not simply two, that merit a hearing on any issue. I believe we should be working (…)