[ “I don’t go near the Americans anymore, because I’m afraid they will kill me,” says Ali, an 11-year-old Iraqi child whose family had celebrated the U.S. capture of Saddam. –BL ] Shooting death angers Iraqi family: US tactics in raid raise concerns June 21, 2004 | Boston Globe by Thanassis Cambanis BAGHDAD — American soldiers stormed into Sajid Kadhum Bouri al-Bawi’s house three hours after midnight on May 17, breaking two doors and rousing the dozen children who live there. An hour later, family members recalled, the soldiers led a hooded man from the house and told the family they […]
Daily Archives: June 21, 2004
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[ This story follows up an earlier one printed here. Palast’s BBC News Night piece from February of 2001 (about the Florida 2000 election debacle) is truly still well worth a watch! Underlining below is mine. –BL ] The Sour Smell of Spoiled Ballots 20 June 2004 | San Francisco Chronicle by Greg Palast In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. “Spoiled votes” is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them — half of the rejected ballots — were cast by […]
The Patriot Amendment June 17, 2004 | AlterNet.org by Molly Ivins AUSTIN, Texas — No sooner do we win a long struggle to clean up politics and restore democracy in this country than we find the whole thing under attack, and we have to go out and re-fight the same battle all over again. Good thing we’re not easily discouraged. This is what’s happening in Arizona, where the successful Clean Elections law is now under attack by the big special interests and national conservatives with ties that run from Tom DeLay (surprise!) to Bush’s fund-raising machine.