Progressive American voters, still downcast over the results of the presidential election — as well as an election system gravely impaired by the antiquated Electoral College, fraud-inviting electronic machines, and rampant political abuses — can take vicarious pleasure these days from Ukrainian democracy. Throughout the presidential campaign in the former Soviet republic, opposition candidate Viktor [...]
Archive For November, 2004
The US Casualty Rate in Iraq: 9%
Critical Montages posted by Yoshie The US casualty rate in Iraq is about 9%, according to Editor & Publisher: The Pentagon’s latest official count, provided on Wednesday, listed 1230 American military killed in Iraq and another 9300 U.S. troops wounded in action. How seriously? More than 5000 of them were too badly injured to return [...]
Ukraine state TV in revolt
By Sebastian Usher, BBC Ukraine journalists pledge impartiality Journalists on Ukraine’s state-owned channel – which had previously given unswerving support to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych – have joined the opposition, saying they have had enough of “telling the government’s lies”. lists on another strongly pro-government TV station have also promised an end to the bias [...]
Students demand: ‘break the contract’
Many students cut up their new Higher One cards in the Park Blocks Tuesday as part of a protest against PSU’s contract with the ID/debit card company. Students later marched on to President Daniel Bernstine’s office to demand that he meet with representatives from student government. A meeting is planned for Dec. 2. Students stage [...]
Empire and Ethic: The New American Republic I
by Ian Welsh, The Blogging of the President The first rule of warfare and the first rule of politics is the same – you need to know your enemy, and you must, even more than that, know yourself. This knowledge must be real – it cannot merely be propaganda, though propaganda has its’ place. Rather [...]
John Pilger: Iraq — the unthinkable becomes normal
Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign “insurgentsâ€?. In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name. On Britain’s Radio 4′s November 6 Today, a BBC reporter in Baghdad referred to the coming attack on the city of Fallujah as “dangerousâ€? and “very dangerousâ€? for the US. When asked [...]
Iraq Veterans Call for an End to a War They Say Can’t be Won
Real Audio from Between the Lines Interview with former Marine Cpl. Michael Hoffman, co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War, conducted by Scott Harris Not long after the U.S. declared victory in Fallujah, asserting that America had broken the back of the insurgency, armed rebels launched attacks against American troops and their Iraqi allies in [...]