"The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the President's agenda"

The end of the CIA as we know it?
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Votes not counted

US soldiers force men fleeing Falluja to return

"He leaves early to avoid traffic — the crush of cars makes him jumpy. On more than one occasion, he has imagined snipers with their sights on him in the streets. Diesel fumes cause flashbacks. He keeps a vial of medication in his pocket and pops a pill when he gets nervous..."

""I'm taking enough drugs to sedate an elephant, and I still wake up dreaming about it," LaBranche said. "I wish I had just freaking died over there.""

Psychiatric fallout from the Iraq war

US press justifies slaughter in Iraq

More from Greg Palast on election fraud

124 indications of fraud in 2004 election

Petition to Congress to investigate 2004 election

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November 9 study of the exit poll and official tallies in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania finds the figures totally incompatible.

“The likelihood of any two of these statistical anomalies occurring together is in the order of one-in-a-million. The odds of all three occurring together are 250 million to one,” the MIT Ph.D calculated. “As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error.”

Rule by Theft

Ohio recount effort initiated by Common Cause and the Alliance for Democracy

"Facticity denotes the conditions according to which one’s possibilities are determined and limited by one’s circumstances, one’s “being-in-the world.” [Heidegger's] interest in scholasticism focuses on categories of living language that have no correspondence with objects in the world, like marks of privation and negation and categories for non-existent entities like “Nothing”... the empty word “being” figures at the heart of questions about the generation of sense in everyday human experience.

At this stage the problem of what [Heidegger] calls “the hermeneutics of facticity” lies in the self-reflexive puzzle according to which facticity must be considered, already, as a kind of hermeneutics. Everyday experience already articulates and interprets its world, so that any attempt to interpret facticity would be an attempt to interpret interpretation..."

Heidegger's Life and Work

Bruce Schneier on electronic voting

Napalm used in Iraq

The head of Ohio's elections commision, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, "also co-chairs the Ohio committee to re-elect George Bush... he publicly spearheaded Republican efforts in the state to reduce the number of his fellow African-Americans whose votes would go to the Democrats

In some cases, the courts over-ruled him, and - much to their credit - most black voters stood up his harassing tactics. But Blackwell never stopped trying...

Who Counts in Ohio?

Edward S Herman's landmark essay, The Banality of Evil, has never seemed more apposite. "Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on 'normalization'," wrote Herman. "There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable... It is the function of the experts, and the mainstream media, to normalize the unthinkable for the general public."

Normalizing colonial crimes like the attack on Fallujah requires such racism, linking our imagination to "the other". The thrust of the reporting is that the "insurgents" are led by sinister foreigners... No irony is noted that the foreigners in Iraq are overwhelmingly American...

Fallujah, The Us Elections And 9/11

Milosevic wants Clinton, Blair, Gerhard Schroeder, Madeleine Albright, and Wesley Clark to testify

How the Media Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Rumsfeld

Green & Libertarian Presidential Candidates to Demand Ohio Recount
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"In 1998, for no special reason, Orrin Hatch decided that only one senator needed to object to a nomination. This made it easier for Republicans to obstruct Bill Clinton's nominees.

In 2001, when one of their own became president, Hatch suddenly reversed course and decided that it should take two objections after all. That made it harder for Democrats to obstruct George Bush's nominees..."

It gets worse

Building Progressive Media

"'All of the Middle East and indeed the whole world is now extremely suspicious that US Marine forces slaughtered civilians in Fallujah indiscriminately,' Joseph Arrieta wrote at the time. 'Not only that, it appears Marine snipers did a lot of killing. This is not some errant bomb or missile that created "collateral damage," it’s the alleged deliberate, careful sighting of civilian targets with spotters targeting men, women, children and ambulances,' all war crimes.

Now, 'A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja,' reports the BBC.

What Sort of Criminal Monsters Bomb Hospitals?

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