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The $47 Million Retiree Sellout - "$17 Million From Companies Actively Cutting Retiree Benefits" The Butcher's Bill - "I don't want to be a daddy because daddies die" Iraq Rejects U.S. Talk of Adjusting Vote Result - "It is not acceptable for anyone to interfere in our business." The Emperor-in-Chief - "He can now come out of the closet as full-fledged Emperor of the World." Living in Garbage - "Heaps of Baghdad's rotting wastes are strewn about several square miles" Further Detainee Abuse Alleged - "He and others were in grave danger in the U.S. military's hands" Wal-Mart Elected "Grinch of the Year" - "Many employees are eligible for food stamps" A Christmas Story of Peace and Love - "For both sides, Christmas was a brief respite" U.S. officials: 'Insurgents Operate at Will' - "It's very difficult to stop those people." U.S. Families of Dead Raise 600,000 Dollars for Fallujah Refugees - "Time to stop the killing" U.S. Living in 'Fantasy Land' over Iraq - "America's failure to honestly assess the situation" Christmas Eve of Destruction - "Bush is still not leveling with us" Electors Call for National Voting Reforms - "Never has such a vote been cast by an elector" War Crimes - "Torture and killing of foreign prisoners by this American government" Rewarding Incompetence - "My son, Spc. Casey Sheehan was killed in Iraq on 04/04/04." Did President Bush Order Torture? - "It's no longer enough for Bush to issue a simple denial." It Will All Be Over Soon - "U. S. occupation of Iraq would be coming to an end in December" Bush's Second Term - "Bush and...Donald Rumsfeld, more vulnerable to criticism" Abuse Was Widespread - "The abuse took place within a culture of secrecy and neglect" Iraq Reality Check - "It was a Marine colonel...who decided to topple the statue" Shock, Awe and the Human Body - "We are indifferent to world opinion...will stop at nothing." Sabotage of Social Security - "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Bush Attack on Labor - "The most anti-worker Administration in decades" Files Describe Abuse - "Top government officials can no longer hide from public scrutiny" Presidential Order - "F.B.I. records call Defense Department's methods 'torture' " War on the Cheap - "We don't have enough troops...we are fighting the war on the cheap" More Aggressive Congress - "Some Republicans no longer feel tethered to the president" Heat on Rumsfeld - "Using fake signatures was 'like having it signed by a monkey' " Why Bush Won - "How could the American people reelect this man who has failed so badly?" Broader Presidential Powers - "Lay a legal groundwork for the president to invade Iraq" Disgraced by Silence - "Unexplained deaths, humiliations and depravity...multiply" Haiti Bloodbath That Left Dozens Dead - "It was a massacre. More than 60 were killed." Energy Firms Lavish Funds on Inauguration - "The Nuclear Energy Institute...gave $100,000" Chorus of Rumsfeld Detractors - "The fact of the matter is, his days are numbered now." Sinister Plan - "The chilling reality of what Falluja has become is only now seeping out" Torture Begins at the Top - "He may someday be held accountable for this disgraceful stain" Buying Into Failure - "The Bush administration wants to scrap a retirement system that works" Honoring Failure - "How to run an imperial presidency: Reward those who have failed." The Path to Florida - "Stunned U.S. Supreme Court clerks watched justice become partisan" Prison within a Prison - "C.I.A. has run a secret facility for some Al Qaeda detainees" All the President's Problems - "A blundering start to the second term." Bush's Second Front - "Turn back the clock on social policy to the early twentieth century" Proof of Ohio Election Fraud - "As it turns out, everyone was looking the wrong way" Cutting Health Benefits - "Retiree health care coverage is kind of a slowly vanishing species" Mistreating Prisoners in Iraq - "A match was lighted, igniting the prisoner." Who Killed Baha Mousa? - "Kifah looked like half a human, he was so badly beaten" 'Obstructing' Medical Care - "We were tied up and beaten despite being unarmed" Soldiers - "The military has been charging some injured combat soldiers travel expenses" Drive Out a Union? - "Across the South companies have long used bare-knuckled tactics" Unocal to Settle Rights Claims - "Until the pipeline came, we were free" Eight Deaths in Military Custody - "No courts martial...with respect to this 'murder' " Rumsfeld, the Bungler - "This man remains in the job he has bungled so badly." Questions for Florida - "Once she said, 'We need to steal an election,' that put me back." Rumsfeld's Fig Leaf Falling - "This was a war of opportunity, not necessity" Were Detainees Guinea Pigs at Guantánamo? - "They also were given injections" A Tough Guy Tumbles - "Kerik had shown an inclination to make his own rules" 'Armor' - "Defense sees it's fallen short in securing the troops. The grunts already knew." Kill Zone - "They entered houses and killed people because they didn't speak English." Official U.S. Policy - "What happened at Abu Ghraib was torture by the book" Anti-Social Security - "The Bush plan would require a large reduction in the benefits provided" White House Puts Blame on Kerik - "Nominee initially denied having hired an illegal immigrant" U.S. Soldiers' Grilling Fields - "Soldiers in Iraq are questioning the rationale for their mission" Far from Over - "Maybe it's some secret Skull and Bones tradition" 'Hillbilly Armour' - "Civilian leadership refused to heed military commanders" A Defeat for an Empire - The United States has lost the war in Iraq, and that's a good thing. Voter Problems - "The errors seem to have cost votes for Kerry" Blocking Mr. Torture - "Bush runs the risk of being prosecuted as a war criminal" We Won't Go to Iraq - "More than 5,500 servicemen have deserted since the war started" He Lost an Arm in Iraq; the Army Wants Money - "I have no way of getting home." Silencing the Vote - "Unless we act, the nation will get the same result as in 2000" Rumsfeld's Double Standard - "Partisan hypocrisy of the most brazen and dangerous kind." Army Plagued by Desertion - "The crisis may be even deeper than the statistics suggest" Armor Disputed - "They have not approved new purchase orders for armored trucks" Faking WMD Reports - "Their official dogma was contradicted by his reporting" Homeless Iraq Vets - "When we already have people from Iraq on the streets, my God" Energy Companies - "The energy industry’s influence on the commission also is apparent" Hearing - "People cannot and will not accept a fraudulent election for the office of President." Rumsfeld - "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal?" Nukes, Neo-Cons, and the Bush Who Cried Wolf - "Here the Neo-Cons crossed the line" Inventing a Crisis - "Social Security is a government program that works" Warnings on Iraq - "The situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon" "America Is So Much Better than This" - "A foreign policy careening out of control" Abu Ghraib-style Tactics - "Contents of the letter were verified on Monday by an FBI official" Mel Watt to Lead Congressional Black Caucus - "Watt was unanimously elected chairman" Declare Victory and Leave - "Our occupation only compounds the horror of it all." Chickens Come Home to Roost - "Anti-American sentiment is not limited to the Middle East." Soldiers Plan to Sue - "They were fraudulently induced to sign up" Putin: - "Dictatorship coated in beautiful pseudo-democratic phraseology" U.S. Admits the War for 'Hearts and Minds' in Iraq is Now Lost - "Self-serving hypocrisy" Made in China - "Wal-Mart doesn't recognize unions; it doesn't even recognize 'employees.' " Sink Teeth into Social Security - "A trillion-dollar handout to Wall Street firms" Why I Resigned from the CIA - "White House officials repeatedly refused to act" The System Endures - "Bush will perpetuate this systematic violation of human rights" Fallujans Pose Challenge - "If they don't get their revenge now, they will next year" All Mosquitos - "We are seen as a hypocritical bully in the Middle East and we have to stop!" Election Protest - "Ohio voters were the victims of a fraud that took votes from Kerry" The Way Our Country Treats Returning Soldiers is a National Shame - Asheville Citizen-Times New Iraq Prisoner Photos - "They suggested possible Geneva Convention violations" The Ethic of Total Opposition - "Wars are easy to start and hard to stop" Hearings on Ohio Vote Fraud - "Expert testimony will be offered" Bush's Ohio Win Was Closer Than Thought - "Kerry drew closer by about 17,000 votes." Ukraine Supreme Court Invalidates Election - The U. S. Supreme Court could take lessons! Warning on Social Security - "Let me state clearly that there are no free lunches here" Is this American? - "This is not 'tantamount to torture.' It's torture. It is not 'detainee abuse.' " Former Bush Campaign Official Indicted - "Tobin was charged with conspiracy" You Call This Liberation - "Pentagon experts have made a discovery" Kerry Team Seeks to Join Fight to Get Ohio County to Recount - The Washington Post Voting Errors - More than 4,000 votes vanished...in one North Carolina county U.S. Torture at Guantánamo - "This is a scandal that will not go away." Generals in Iraq Were Told of Abuse - "detainee shows signs of having been beaten" Worse Than Ashcroft - "Helped write the Patriot Act and supported torture." Rumsfeld Sued for Alleged War Crimes - "There is simply no other place to go" Validate the Vote - "There is also reason to question the competence of election officials" Abuse in Guantánamo - "Memorandums about coercive treatment or torture were disclosed" Where Democracy Refuses to Die - "They realize they can change something" Untangle U.S. Secrecy - "The Bush administration has taken secrecy to a new level." 'They Hate Our Policies' - "And the last mile in every war is about claiming the political fruits." Conditions for War Crimes - "Bush...'created the conditions that allowed transgressions' " Labor Issues - "Bush's re-election was a major setback for organized labor" Checkpoints Take Toll - "For them, you see, they don't have a problem getting beaten up" Developments - "Suing their own retired employees in order to cut their pension benefits" Ballots - "I pushed John Kerry and my vote immediately jumped up to George Bush" Reject Poll - "Ukraine's parliament has declared last Sunday's presidential poll invalid." Coal's Global Goal - "The United States is further isolating itself...from the rest of the world." Partisan Policy - "Congress will pass bills only if most House Republicans back them" Smoking While Iraq Burns - "Kerry stayed scandalously silent about Abu Ghraib" Following the Ukrainian Lead - "Some Americans predicted our election would be stolen" Crowds Blockade Ukraine - "Demonstrators have laid siege to government buildings" Does Bush Now Have Political Capital to Spend? - "Bush merely (and barely) retained his job" Guardsmen Ill-Trained - "They were under strict lockdown and being treated like prisoners" Ukrainian Vote Appeal - "Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, cannot formally take office" Scientist Faces Retaliation - "Such publicly expressed acclaim for a whistle-blower is unusual" Where's Picasso? - "Our hands are not clean. They are covered with blood" Fallujah Leaders Were Local, Not Foreign - "Omar is far too powerful to be anyone's deputy" Hook or Crook in Washington - "Tom DeLay has become the Teflon Don of politics" Media Coverage of Iraq - "Buzzwords…slant news coverage and skew public perceptions" U.S. Forces Killed Unarmed Civilians - "US forces refused repeated calls for medical aid" Medics Testify to Fallujah's Horrors - "It's going to be in my mind for the rest of my life" The Day I Almost Led the Iraqi Army - "I kept hearing...'It was better under Saddam.' " Reid Cuts a Deal with Bush - "The Senate's staunchest opponent of a nuclear waste dump" Saving Your Right to Vote - "Their shiny new machines were counting backwards" Ohio Presidential Results to be Challenged - "Others lawsuits may be announced next week" Litigating the Election - "A candidate's concession is not legally binding" DeLay Rakes It In - "Fund created by DeLay in 2000 has collected more than $932,000" Powell's Unfortunate Outburst - This is the "trust us on national security matters" administration. Children Pay Cost - "People talk now about how the days of Saddam were very nice" Hearings on Ohio Voting - "This year's election in Ohio was deeply flawed" Protesters Greet Bush In Santiago - "Bush's Latin American trip sparked a violent backlash" More Relief for Struggling Millionaires - "People in the middle will be squeezed" 'Stinking Evidence' - Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida Cronkite Rips Bush's Record - "What America needs right now is a new election" The Fight for Peace - "No president...has any authority to commit war crimes" Florida E-Vote Count - "Research team calls for investigation." 800 Iraqi Civilians Killed - "The 800 number is the most conservative estimate" Report on Fallujah Offensive - "The pessimistic analysis was prepared by intelligence officers" Arithmetic Lesson - "275 soldiers were wounded in Falluja and 419 are treated for wounds" Partisan Spooks - "Goss...failed to release a bipartisan report on prewar Iraq intelligence" Reject Gonzales - "The NLG condemned Gonzales for his approval of the torture of prisoners" Vote Recount - "It could open the way for recounts in other states, such as Florida." Falluja War Crimes - "The US military has begun an investigation into possible war crimes" Election 2004 - "Evidence is emerging to suggest…election results were manipulated" Former G.I.s Ordered to War, Fight Not to Go - "I consider myself a civilian" I Smell a Rat - "These results are absurdly unlikely." Recount in Ohio a Sure Thing - "There will be a recount of the presidential vote in Ohio." Gonzales - "Those inside the White House-might one day be charged with 'war crimes' " His Red Right Hand - "A family of five...shot down as they tried to cross the water." Slapping the Other Cheek - "I'm getting more the feel of a vengeful mob" Presidential Ballots to be Recounted - "Ralph Nader set in motion the hand-recounting" The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy - Odds against the discrepancy: 250 million to one. Kerry Won Ohio - "Most voters in Ohio chose Kerry. Here's how the votes vanished." A Legitimate Recount Effort in Ohio - "If Kerry emerges victorious, he's president." MSNBC Vote Fraud Video - This video covers a lot of territory CIA Critic Resigns - "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror" The Quaint Mr. Gonzales - "Gonzales helped write the USA Patriot Act" A Thousand Fallujahs - "Once again the US has been caught in a giant spider's web." Who Counts in Ohio? - "Officials have in hand nearly 250,000 uncounted ballots" Apocalypse Denial in America - "Your affluent classes have been sheltered" Bush's 'Incredible' Vote Tallies - "20,000 more votes than registered Republicans" Opposition to Iraq War at New High - London Judge Says Detainees' Trials Are Unlawful - "Ruling is setback for Bush policy." Halliburton Admits Bribes 'May Have Been Paid' - "Was being run by Dick Cheney" Supreme International Crime - There have already been 100,000 "excess" Iraqi deaths Sacked for Investigating Government Abuses - "110 arbitrary detentions and cases of torture" Popular Fiction - "Bush is out of step with the public on all the issues" The Curse of Bush II - "Yes, the devastation will be extreme." Tuesday's Electoral Disaster - "1,100 reports of electronic voting machine malfunctions" Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked - "I suspect foul play." Broward Machines Count Backward - "Things were just going too smoothly." The Costs of War - "I loathe the hubris, the callousness and the lies" Election Inquiry - “When they tried to vote for John Kerry…the vote was cast for Bush” We're All Israelis Now - "America, in short, has become a criminal nation" Learning from Granny D - "MoveOn and the Dean organization, refused to help" The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy - "Get Corporations Out Of Our Vote!" The Last Battle - "Down by almost a million votes before a single vote was cast" Error Gives Bush Extra Votes - In one NC county, more than 4,500 votes were lost No Surrender - "Bush isn't a conservative. He's a radical" Hacking The Presidency - "These systems were designed for vote fraud." Light Shed on Questions about War - "We will never know the death toll for Iraqi civilians" Mercy and Murder - "Two U.S. soldiers face charges after taking life of injured youth." Kerry Won - "Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry." Still Standing, Still Fighting, Still Here - "It isn't over, but has only just begun." The Loonies Have Taken Control - "Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice president?" Stand and Fight - "Why aren't poverty and unjust war considered immoral?" Voiceless Victims of Bush's Misadventure - Media ignores human toll of 'Shock and Awe.' Diebold's Political Machine - "Ohio could become as decisive this year as Florida" Money Stalls Major Corporate Reform - The Administration Has Stalled Corporate Reform Kerry responds to Pension Forum questions - "Bush’s representatives declined to respond” A Fresh Start for America - "I will not privatize Social Security; I will not cut benefits" One Day Left - "He fought, every step of the way, the investigation into the 9/11 attacks." GIs Lack Armor, Radios, Bullets - "We're basically eating our own young to support the war" Democracy Must Triumph, Not Fear - "We believe Kerry would do better" Bush and Bin Laden - "Bush left 50,000 of his people in the towers" Days of Shame - "This will never be seen as a shining moment in U.S. history." Vote for a Man, Not a Puppet - "Well, he fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice." Bush Win Would Mean Dark Times - World Would Perceive Support For Preemptive War Reporter Saw Insurgents Loot Qaqaa Arms Depot - "I was utterly stupefied" Officer Objected to Halliburton Deal - "We'll get the money to the Iraqis, not to Halliburton." Rights Group Warned U.S. of Munitions Cache - "Officials appeared uninterested" NASA photo analyst: Bush wore a device during debate - Bulge not wrinkled clothing Vets Launch Operation Truth to Expose Bush - Non-profit, non-partisan veterans' organization Iraq Explosives Story Detonates Under Bush Campaign - "We did not provide the security" A Matter of Survival - Everything this administration has done with Iraq has been dead wrong Republicans Pressed To Halt Voter-Suppression Whistleblower Says Halliburton Contract Abuse Blatant - "Worst case of contracting abuse" The Man Behind the Oval Office Curtain - "It's Cheney's administration, and it's a shame." Iraq's Grim Spiral - Cheney declared Iraq to be "a remarkable success story" Worst Environmental President in U.S. History - "A utility lobbyist runs the EPA's air division." For Bush, Too Late for Honesty - "Defending the indefensible offers a kind of morbid hilarity." IRS Investigating NAACP for Criticism of President - "At issue is a speech Bond delivered" Video Shows Cache of Explosives - John Kerry accused Bush of incompetence Conflicted Evangelicals Could Cost Bush Votes - "There's no way I'm going for Bush." Beware Scalia-Thomas Clones - Many Bush appointees are "embarrassingly unqualified" Promises to Keep - American soldiers were used to guard petroleum facilities after the invasion The Road to Abu Ghraib - "The biggest scandal of the Bush administration began at the top" Media Cowed as Bush Exploits 9-11 - "Bush has exploited the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001" Why I'm Voting Against My Commander in Chief - "Sir, you are relieved of duty!" I Need a President - "Secrecy is a cancer on democracy" The Choice - What has the country received in return for mortgaging its future? Who'll Stop The Rain? - "The facts do not add up … there is a cover up." Beyond the Call of Duty - "A whistle-blower objected to the government's Halliburton deals" Bush Interior Dept. Pepper Sprays Top Cop - "Theresa Chambers decided to fight back" Detainees Secretly Taken Out Of Iraq - "Practice is called breach of protections" The Case Kerry Cracked - "Kerry took on not only the Bush clan and its friends, but the CIA" Presidential Election - "Dubya" has been one of the worst presidents in United States history. Bodies of 49 Iraqi Soldiers Found - "Graduates were forced to lie down, then shot in head" Further Abuse at Abu Ghraib - "Documents made public Thursday provide fresh details" Mother of Fallen NYPD Cadet - "Bush led our nation to an immoral war in Iraq" Iraq Government Losing Support - Support for the government in Baghdad has plunged Behind Bush's Rhetoric - "Bush wants to win by twisting and distorting John Kerry's record" Iraq Evidence 'Manipulated' - Officials slanted intelligence to support White House's claim The Unknown Soldiers - "The reality of the suffering in Iraq has been rendered invisible" America's Hidden Vote - Bush's job approval is 47 - presidents below 50 always lose. Mr. Kerry on Prisoners - "A Kerry administration will apply the Geneva Conventions" Voter Registration Workers Cry Foul - "We were only to register Republicans." Clerks Spill Bush v. Gore Details - "They simply felt bound by a higher duty." A War Without Reason - "The war in Iraq is an exercise in lunacy." Kerry Picks up 30 Papers, Widens Lead - "Five papers that had backed Bush in 2000" Has Bush Lost His Reason? - "The evidence has been before our eyes for some time" AT&T Employees’ Cash Balance Arguments - The legal issues with cash balance conversions John Kerry for President - The New York Times Endorsement The Financial Accounting Standards Board on cash balance plans Least of These - "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." The Last Woman Prisoner Released from Abu Ghraib Testifies to Tortures U.S. Army Inquiry Implicates 28 Soldiers in Deaths of 2 Afghan Detainees 4-Star Plans After Abu Ghraib - "I would say that he would have a snowball's chance" Platoon Defies Orders in Iraq - "Under arrest for refusing a 'suicide mission' " Game. Set. Match. - Asked about health care for seniors, Bush laughed When the Fallen Refuse to Salute - "This is what his soul is crying out to me from heaven:" The Life He Left Behind - "And as far as false hope, there is no such thing." 100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From - "Bush still hasn't answered the question." The Cracks in Bush's Crown - "Haunted by his father's defeat" For What Did We Die, Mr. Bush? - "Why, Mr. Bush, did you send us to die?" A Republican Declares His Independence - "The future of our democracy is at stake." "Bush Lied, My Son Died" - "I never thought it would hurt this bad" Iraq War Stimulated Terrorism - "Blix suggested Washington and London had lost perspective" Block the Vote - "The accusations are backed by physical evidence and appear credible." Bush 'Not Concerned' about Bin Laden - "John F. Kerry caught President Bush off guard" GOP Paid Firm Faces Voter Fraud Charge - "Ex-worker says he saw Demos' forms trashed." Baker's Double Life - "Baker is aligned with two parties - the US government and Carlyle" Transcript: Third Presidential Debate - Following is a transcript
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