[New Scientist]
The invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by coalition forces has lead to the death of at least 100,000 civilians, reveals the first scientific study to examine the issue. 200,000 if you include Falluja. Can these numbers possibly be accurate?!?

[Internet Vets for Truth]
Some great viewing, nicely packaged.

[Reason Online]
Eight months before the White House appointed him the Homeland Security Department's top intelligence official, retired U.S. Army Gen. Patrick M. Hughes told a public forum at Harvard that the government would have to Set aside what the mass of people think. Some things are so bad for them that you cannot allow them to have them... Therefore, we have to abridge individual rights, change the societal conditions, and act in ways that heretofore were not in accordance with our values and traditions....

[The Village Voice]
What's wrong with democracy in the U.S.? Most people would rather vote for the guy that stole the other guy's lunch money, rather than the guy who complained that his lunch money was stolen.

[pipa.org]
Survey shows that the majority of Bush supporters remain ignorant of or choose to disbelieve fundamental facts about Iraq, terrorism, international opinion, etc.

[The Herald-Palladium]
Former CIA Director George Tenet called the war on Iraq "wrong" in a speech Wednesday night to 2,000 members of The Economic Club of Southwestern Michigan at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center and admitted that the CIA had not done it's job properly.

[CNN]
Bush ally and evangelical nutball Pat Robertson says Bush told him he expected no casualties in the Iraq invasion. White House staff calls Robertson a liar. Robertson nevertheless asserts of Bush that the blessing of heaven is upon him.

[Rolling Stone]
Rolling Stone interview with a very sensible-sounding John Kerry.

[Yahoo!News]
First Bush received endorsement from anti-democrat Putin in Russia, now from Iran. Who exactly is with/against whom, again?

[dKosopedia]
Extensive background on the Sinclair Broadcasting Group, including recent stock price plummet and advertiser pull-out.

[Slate]
Two Americas—is the United States irrevocably torn? Where do we go from here?

[republicansforkerry04. com]
Republicans for Kerry '04.

[BarlowFriendz]
John Perry Barlow contemplates exit strategies for salvaging what we can from Iraq.

[The Union Leader]
Why John Eisenhower, son of Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower and lifelong Republican, is voting for John Kerry.

[Salon]
Why conservatives must not vote for Bush.

[Talking Points Memo]
Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt tears Michael Powell a new one over inaction on Sinclair Broadcasting case.

[Dissident Voice]
What—and who—constitutes "evil"?

[Yahoo!News]
85 nations back womens' rights statement—Bush administration refuses to sign.

[SFGate.com]
Oprah slams Bush and tells her viewers to vote now or take major losses on womens' rights.

[KLAS]
An employee of a voter registration firm funded by the Republican party alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they only wanted to sign up Republican voters.

[The Christian Science Monitor]
President Bush and the Republican-led Congress are spending money at a rate not seen since World War II—and America's expanding war on terrorism isn't the main reason.

[Slate]
Who are novelists voting for?

[Reuters]
The reality of the Afghan election.

[News-Journal.com]
The Rev. Jerry Falwell boasted Friday that evangelical Christians, after nearly 25 years of increasing political activism, now control the Republican Party and the fate of President Bush in the November election.