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The Values Ploy

By Stephen Pizzo, AlterNet. November 3, 2004.
Election 2004: Should Democrats become values whores?

A Post-Concession Reflection

By Robert L. Borosage, TomPaine.com. November 3, 2004.
Election 2004: Bush's victory will produce a second-term president with a mandate for little beyond patriotic and pious posturing.

Election 2004: Short Takes

AlterNet. November 3, 2004.
Election 2004: Some of AlterNet's writers offer quick reports and instant analysis about Election Day 2004.

By Adam Werbach, In These Times. November 2, 2004.
Environment: The Bush administration's 'ownership society' champions a hyper-individualism that threatens our collective values of stewardship and ecological protection.

Bush Ain't No Republican

By Michael Cudahy, AlterNet. November 2, 2004.
Election 2004: As they prepare to cast their vote on Tuesday, traditional Republicans must ask themselves whether this administration is truly the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Pundits Strike Out on bin Laden

By Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher. November 1, 2004.
Media and Technology: Both print reporters and TV talking heads predicted an Osama bounce for Bush. They were very, very wrong.

Top Ten Ways to Make Sure Your Vote Counts

By Mark Ritchie, AlterNet. November 1, 2004.
WireTap: Every vote matters on Nov. 2. Here are a few tips to ensure that your vote is counted.

Reality Always Wins

By Mark Crispin Miller, AlterNet. November 1, 2004.
Election 2004: Bush/Cheney have to lose, as all such crackpot movements must. In fact, it wouldn't be inaccurate to call them losers – as that is clearly how, deep down, they see themselves, for all their would-be macho swagger.

Bullies Ascendent

By Nina Burleigh, AlterNet. November 1, 2004.
Election 2004: Four years of George Bush have meant the triumph of the bully – from abusers in Iraq to intimidators at the polls.

When Priests Play Politics

By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, AlterNet. November 1, 2004.
Election 2004: The political actions of Protestant black and evangelical pastors and those of Catholic bishops are not the same.

Getting Physical

By Tom Hayden, AlterNet. November 1, 2004.
Election 2004: On Tuesday, the traditions of civil disobedience and electoral politics may converge.

Osama bin Laden as Global Shock Jock

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. October 31, 2004.
World: With TV-perfect timing, Bin Laden has once again managed, like the Wizard of Oz, to magnify himself.

The Other Shoe Drops: bin Laden Weighs in

By Juan Cole, Informed Comment. October 30, 2004.
World: In a new video, bin Laden indicts Bush for still hiding the truth from Americans, saying that the reasons for attacking the U.S. are still there. In other words, Bush has not made us safer.

Not All Voters Get a V.I.P Pass

By Rashad Robinson, AlterNet. October 29, 2004.
Election 2004: As America seeks to spread its enviable brand of democracy around the world, it would do us well to cut down our velvet ropes here at home.

Dismantling The Dream

By Ambassador Andrew Young, AlterNet. October 28, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: The Community Reinvestment Act helps low-income families own homes. Last week, the Bush administration took steps to dismantle the CRA – exposing the rift between reality and Bush's stated interest in creating an "ownership society."

Imagining Prohibition's End

By David Borden, DRCNet. October 27, 2004.
DrugReporter: A new report outlines a model for a post-prohibition, regulatory system of drug control.

Stolen Election?

By Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. October 26, 2004.
Election 2004: This time around, let's be prepared.

Fear Factor

By Frank Joyce, AlterNet. October 26, 2004.
Election 2004: The Bush campaign has been very successful in appealing to the fear and anxiety of the electorate. Fear is a powerful motivator, but can be trumped by hope, courage, toughness and confidence.

The Next Fix

By Jacob Sullum, Seed Magazine. October 25, 2004.
DrugReporter: Just as antismoking activists compare tobacco to crack and heroin, the hopes of nicotine 'vaccine' promoters move easily from cigarettes to illegal drugs.

Reality Check for Women

By Laura Flanders, In These Times. October 25, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: From ending the Equal Pay Initiative to championing the Partial Birth Abortion Act, Bush's record speaks for itself.

"I Was One Guy in a Bubble"

By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect. October 25, 2004.
Election 2004: George W. Bush's push to keep outside advisers out was a catastrophic success.

The Doper Vote

By Jules Siegel, AlterNet. October 22, 2004.
Election 2004: Orthodox leftists seem to be incapable of understanding the size and intensity of the anti-drug war movement. Do they think these people don't vote?

Speaking the Ground Truth

By Paul Rieckhoff, AlterNet. October 22, 2004.
World: In the furious debate over the war in Iraq, there is one voice conspicuously missing – that of the American soldier.

Early Voting Could Be Perilous

By Dick Meister, Pacific News Service. October 21, 2004.
Election 2004: As many as one-fourth of votes may have been cast by today, in a system set up for potential abuse – and November 2 is still 12 days away.

Don't Hate the Soldja, Hate the Game

By Nicole Makris, WireTap. October 20, 2004.
WireTap: My generation may know why the youth of the 1960s were divided by Vietnam, but things have changed. Now, even the most radical among us know: being anti-war doesn’t mean being anti-troops.

The Other War: A Three Year Assault on Civil Liberties

By Elaine Cassel, AlterNet. October 19, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: The war on "terror" is hiding another war, an aggressive assault on civil liberties.

Time for a Digital Fairness Doctrine

By Jeffrey Chester, AlterNet. October 19, 2004.
Media and Technology: The public outcry over the Sinclair controversy underscores the need not just to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, but to expand its application to include new and emerging technologies.

Our War on Terrorism

By Howard Zinn, The Progressive. October 19, 2004.
World: With the failure so obvious, and the president tripping over his words trying to pretend otherwise, it astonishes us that a majority of Americans believe the president has done "a good job" in the war on terrorism.

Too Close to Call

By Harry G. Levine, Craig Reinarman, AlterNet. October 19, 2004.
Election 2004: As we saw in 2000, and as we're seeing now, no poll can accurately predict who will win the popular vote in such a close election.

Vaccine Poker

By Dr. Marc Siegel, The Nation. October 18, 2004.
Environment: Instead of spending all its vaccine money on the production of near-useless bioterror vaccines, the government should increase the availability of a vaccine for influenza – that might actually save lives.

What's Your Take? Bush or Kerry and Why?

By NewzCrew Team, NewzCrew.org. October 18, 2004.
WireTap: The youth from the Global Kids' Newz Crew sound off on the presidential candidates.

Iraq War Should Not Be a Video Game

By Pedro Paulo Viegas De Sa, Pacific News Service. October 15, 2004.
WireTap: "Download and play accurate re-creations of real war news events weeks after they occur."

Political Dirty Work

By George Ochenski, Missoula Independent. October 15, 2004.
DrugReporter: On a visit to Montana, the deputy drug czar huffed and puffed and spread lies and propaganda about medical marijuana. He should have done his homework first.

Wimblehack: Round II

By Matt Taibbi, New York Press. October 15, 2004.
Media and Technology: Follow the competition – America's worst campaign journalist hacks go head to head in a bracketed tournament leading up to the election.

Fox Fictions

By David Brock, AlterNet. October 15, 2004.
Media and Technology: Not content with biased reporting, the right wing news network is now in the business of inventing news.

Anti-feminists for Iraqi Women

By Ann Lewis, Gadflyer. October 14, 2004.
World: An organization opposed to domestic violence laws and equal pay has been selected to "train Iraqi women in the skills and practices of democratic public life."

Rocking the Youth Vote: 1972 to 2004

By Jon Wiener, The Nation. October 14, 2004.
Media and Technology: FBI was able to shut down John Lennon's efforts to use music to register voters to get rid of the guy in the White House. The 2004 Vote for Change is doing exactly that – with greater success.

The Dog Days of Chico

By Charles Haynes, Chico News and Review. October 13, 2004.
DrugReporter: Some citizens of a California town worry that school officials are transferring the job of a parent to a drug-sniffing dog.

Lesbian Debauchery in Oklahoma

By Mubarak Dahir, AlterNet. October 13, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: Tom Coburn, current Congressman and Republican Senate candidate, thinks there's a lesbian epidemic in Oklahoma school bathrooms. And if that's not scary enough, look at his votes on HIV and AIDS funding.

Babylon A Go-Go

By Matt Taibbi, AlterNet. October 13, 2004.
World: The fundamentalist Bible Belt got the war it wanted in Iraq – and look what they've done with it.

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