Headlines Red Cross And U.N. Reduce Staff in Iraq U.S. Combat Death Toll Now Higher During Occupation Than Invasion Congress to CIA: Handover Iraq Intelligence Docs By Friday U.S. Extends Halliburton Contract in Iraq Congress Considers Major New Corporate Tax Breaks California Wildfire Death Toll Tops 20; 2,600 Homes Destroyed More Headlines…
Can Democracy in America Survive Electronic Voting? Electronic voting may place the integrity of elections in the unchallenged, unscrutinized control of a few large–and pro-Republican—corporations while software concerns raise questions about the reliability and security of electronic voting.
ISP Defies Electronic Voting Machine Maker's Copyright Claims Electronic voting company Diebold sent out dozens of notices to ISPs linking to or publishing copies of controversial internal Diebold memos demanding they remove the information from their websites. One ISP, Online Policy Group, rejected the takedown demand.
Iraqis Denied Worker Rights Under U.S. Occupation Labor journalist David Bacon exposes how the Bush administration is systematically busting unions in Iraq to facilitate privatization and how none of the $87 billion appropriated by Congress for reconstruction will go to Iraqi workers or the unemployed.
The War Business: Squeezing a Profit from the Wreckage in Iraq We speak with leading scholar and author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire Chalmers Johnson about reconstruction in Iraq and profiting from empire.