Month September 2004

From my friends at the excellent Crooks and Liars, comes the new Politnix single, “Shut Up!” You got it, it’s about Bill O’Reilly, and features lots of samples of him screaming “shut up.” When the Politnix aren’t blogging, they are…

Jimmy Carter predicts serious Florida vote problemsVoting arrangements in Florida do not meet “basic international requirements” and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says. He said a repeat of the irregularities of the much-disputed 2000 election…

‘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…