Never forget what happened on November 2nd, 2004... Here's a video
to help...
It is our hope that this video may serve as a record of what
happened in American during the 2004 Presidential Election. It
documents -- in a few short minutes -- how your American right to a
free, fair and transparent electoral system has been taken from you
by the cynical and un-democratic powers-that-be.
This sort of thing should never happen in the world's most important
democracy. And yet -- again in 2004 -- it did. Enough is enough.
It's time for the people to take both our country and our democracy
back. If you still have any questions about that, please take a look
at this video:
The video is available in Real, Quicktime, and Windows Media formats:
http://www.velvetrevolution.us/#020505
Americans have died for the Right to Vote. November 2nd, 2004 will
serve as a continuing reminder that we still have a long way to go
in this country before every American has that right.
Please watch the video...And then pass this link...
http://www.VelvetRevolution.us#020505
...to everyone you know so they can remember (or learn) as well!
The mainstream media will not be doing it. Democracy in America is
now up to you!
David
davide@telepath.com
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Sinking in Deeper
U.S. politicians and the national press corps are hailing the Iraqi election as a turning point in the Iraq War and vindication for George W. Bush's aggressive Middle East policies. But there is a potential dark side, as U.S. troops may find the election outcome dragging them deeper into the long and bloody history of sectarian violence between Iraq's Shiite majority and the Sunni minority. February 3, 2005
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/020305.html
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Hung Out to Dry: How Webb's Series Died
In 1997, editors at the San Jose Mercury News pulled the rug out from under reporter Gary Webb and his investigation of the Reagan-Bush contra-cocaine scandal, a decision that contributed seven years later to Webb's suicide. To give readers a fuller understanding of that journalistic betrayal, we are republishing an account written in 1997 by Georg Hodel, a reporter who was collaborating with Webb on his historic series. December 16, 2004
America's Debt to Journalist Gary Webb
The apparent suicide of journalist Gary Webb is more than a personal tragedy. It is a reminder of the ugly role the major news media played in destroying Webb's career in the late 1990s when he tried to break through the long-running cover-up of the contra-cocaine scandal. The bitter irony is that even when the CIA admitted its institutional guilt in drug smuggling by the Nicaraguan contras, the nation's leading newspapers insisted on continuing the cover-up. December 13, 2004
http://www.consortiumnews.com/
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