Nov 13, 2004

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As 10-15,000 U.S. troops, accompanied by warplanes, tanks, heavy machine guns and cannons, waged a massive assault on Fallujah, a reporter described one residential neighborhood as “a wasteland of shattered glass and rubble, with smoke filling the horizon.” click here for Spanish text

CHICAGO — The people who write and produce your People’s Weekly World have an important message for you: It’s NOT going to be four more years of the same!

Investigation, overhaul of process demanded

Charges of possible vote theft, vote suppression and systemic voting problems are swirling around the Nov. 2 elections, with three congressmen calling for investigation of voting irregularities.

News Analysis

Although hopes to wrest the House and Senate from right-wing Republican control were not realized on Nov. 2, the Bush administration may find some stumbling blocks in pushing their agenda through Congress.

LOS ANGELES — Latino leaders are disputing election exit polls that indicate a more than 10 percent increase in support for George W. Bush in 2004 compared to 2000. They point to an exit poll designed to reflect Latino demographics indicating that the Latino vote stayed at 2-to-1 for the Democratic ticket. click here for Spanish text

PITTSBURGH — Demanding full state funding to maintain bus and trolley service, a coalition of unions, workers, businesses, educational institutions and local politicians organized a march here Nov. 4 to save the Allegheny Port Authority (PAT). Hundreds marched through rain-soaked downtown streets to a public hearing.

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J.: National Guard plane strafes school / ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.: Casino workers win new contract / LOUISVILLE, Ky.: Unbowed, still fighting for peace / BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Judicial election results – good and bad

“Arlington West,” a recent documentary from filmmakers and longtime peace activists Sally Marr and Peter Dudar, is a sobering, enlightening and objective look at how the war in Iraq has affected the lives of young soldiers and families en route to and returning from the war zone.

CHICAGO — Democrat Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois on Nov. 2 in the biggest landslide in state history. Obama received 70 percent of the vote in defeating ultra-right-wing commentator and Republican candidate Alan Keyes. Obama becomes only the fifth African American ever elected to the Senate.