Day September 27, 2004

‘One of the <Bush Administration> told me: “When we went in there, I thought we would build American-style democracy. Hell, I’d be happy with Romanian-style democracy now.”‘— Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.), on the administration scaling back its goals for democracy…

Crisis in the San Francisco Green Party The DemoGreens, David Cobb supporters aided by Medea Benjamin, have taken over the apparatus of the SF Green party, just like they have at the national Green Party level. The resulting ruptures have…

Many of President Bush’s assertions about progress in Iraq — from police training and reconstruction to preparations for January elections — are in dispute, according to internal Pentagon documents, lawmakers and key congressional aides on Sunday. “We know that dictators…

‘Bunker busters’ seen as targeting IranIsrael is to receive 5,000 new bombs from the U.S., including 500 of the huge “bunker busters” the Pentagon has used in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the authoritative Israeli daily, Haaretz. The transfer is…