WHY HAVEN'T THEY COUNTED A QUARTER MILLION VOTES IN OHIO?

A "three prong" lawsuit is in the works against the State of Ohio claiming widespread voter fraud. Cliff Arnebeck, the Attorney representing the Alliance for Democracy, claims he has evidence of fraud and he's confident when the votes are recounted, Ohio will go Kerry!

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Rev. Jesse Jackson joins investigative reporter Greg Palast to ask what happened to nearly a quarter million votes, overwhelmingly from African-American precincts, not counted in Ohio.

For BBC Television, Palast uncovered the fake felon list that swiped the election in 2000; this year, his report on BBC television broke the story of the secret Republican "caging" lists that bent the November
race.

Catch the new flash animation from Bush Family Fortunes at Greg Palast.


This is the film Jesse Jackson says, "You must see." That Senator John Edwards calls "Important and disturbing." Katherine Harris says Palast's reporting is, "Twisted and maniacal." Maybe that's why Noam Chomsky says Palast, "Upsets all the right people."

Back in the land of the free…

More torture pictures have come to the surface here.

Their significance maybe that the are the earliest evidence of war crimes in Iraq, pre-dating Abu Ghraib and further undermining the argument that this was an aberration, the photos date stamp (if authentic is 29/5/03).

Meanwhile, citing national security, last week the US Army closed a hearing on whether three soldiers will be court-martialed for allegedly suffocating an Iraqi general during an interrogation last year.
Allowing the public and the media to observe "would cause serious damage to national security" and could jeopardize the defendants' safety, investigating officer Capt. Robert Ayers said.
Of the 19 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan which have been investigated as homicides by the military; eight have been determined to be justified killings of an escaping or dangerously violent prisoner.

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