I Voted Touchscreen! That’s what the sticker says. They gave one after I voted today in Los Angeles at one of the twenty new touchscreen voting centers. They plan to roll them out county wide by 2004-5. They are easy to…

Uh, oh Preparing for the endgame on how to confront Iraq, the U.S. claimed Thursday that it has won two key swing votes on the Security Council — Ireland and Mauritius — giving it the necessary majority to pass its…

Republicans trying to depress Black voter turnout. It is a shame that instead of trying to change minds, the Republicans are resorting to trying to keep people from voting: Such ads don’t suggest what Republicans would do if they replaced…

Jeb Crow? Investigative reporter Greg Palast finds that Jeb Bush is stealing votes for himself the same way he stole votes for his brother in 2000 – by getting blacks illegally dropped from the voting lists.  Florida moves to bar 91,000…

Global estimate of endangered plant species triples The number of plant species threatened with extinction may be more than three times higher than previously thought, a new study suggests. According to a report published today in the journal Science, between…

Suicide bombers are war criminals, Human Rights Watch The people who carry out suicide bombings are not martyrs, they’re war criminals, and so are the people who help to plan such attacks. The scale and systematic nature of these attacks…

U.S. launches pro-American propaganda blitz in Indonesia An American media campaign launched in Indonesia sends a clear message: Muslims in the United States could not be happier.