“This site is a documentation of anti-Bush sentiment from around the world expressed through graffiti, placards, flyers and other spontaneous, ‘guerilla’ means. The images are a gallery of visitor donated photos.” [via The Wooster Collective]
Daily Archives: 22 Jun 04
Indian vote could decide Senate majority, presidential election
“…(E)vents have fallen out in such a way as to position the Indian vote for decisive influence on Nov. 2. In fact, the Native vote has never been so crucial to the prospects of a president, nor to the majority party in the Senate.
This is due to two factors: a polarization in American politics that has led each presidential candidate to concede the electoral vote in about 30 states to his rival, as a foregone conclusion; and an anticipated tight election in which the winner, as in 2000, may be crowned by only a handful of electoral votes.
Those votes will come from 16 or 17 so-called “battleground states,” states that were decided by 6 percent of the vote or less in 2000. (Another three or four states, namely Colorado, Delaware, Louisiana and perhaps New Jersey, lean Republican or Democrat now, but could become battleground states if the other party focuses resources on putting them into play.)
Among the current battleground states, where the candidates are concentrating a majority of their time and money, Indian people hold the “swing vote” – the key few percentage points of total popular votes that could swing electoral votes whichever way they are cast – in a handful of them.” (Indian Country )
By the way, when did the term ‘Indian’ become politically correct again? Where on the political compass is Indian Country?
Stop the Draft
Boston Globe editorial: An involuntary army:
“The draft is back, and this time it is more unfair than ever. The Pentagon’s lingo for it is a ‘stop-loss order,’ but it is a form of conscription that requires soldiers to serve longer than the tours of duty to which they have committed. The Pentagon is stooping to this tactic as the only way to fill its units being deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. If the military does not quickly find a better way to meet its personnel needs, the occupation of Iraq could be as damaging to morale and retention rates in the ‘volunteer army’ as the Vietnam War was in the conscription Army.”
Israel Allying Itself with the Kurds
Seymour Hersh argues in The New Yorker that Israel’s abiding security fear in the Middle East is Iran and the evidence that it is developing a nuclear weapons program. Since the US invasion of Iraq, Israel has been warning the US to seal the Iraq-Iran border to prevent Iranian incursions to foment continuing Iraqi opposition to the occupation. Given the US bungling of the Iraqi situation, the likely fragmentation of postwar Iraq and the likelihood that Iran will be the real winner of the US war, Israel is developing a presence in Kurdistan — even at the risk of jeopardizing its relationship with Turkey — to have a hand in the region and monitor the Iranian nuclear program. Kurds are being armed and trained for covert operations and intelligence missions in the region.
The ‘Stop Bush’ Project
“This site is a documentation of anti-Bush sentiment from around the world expressed through graffiti, placards, flyers and other spontaneous, ‘guerilla’ means. The images are a gallery of visitor donated photos.” [via The Wooster Collective]
