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As number of U.S. soldiers killed nears 2,000...
Maimed in Bush's war
U.S. officials have tried to downplay the reporting of deaths and injuries suffered by U.S. soldiers in Iraq--as part of an elaborate attempt to manage public opinion.

Police sparked violence at Toledo anti-Nazi protest
"Nazis brought hate to my front yard"
Officials in Toledo, Ohio, imposed a state of a state of emergency and an all-night curfew following clashes between police and anti-Nazi protesters.

SW SPECIAL FEATURES

An era of tragedy for women
When abortion was illegal
A look at the horrors of illegal abortion in the years before Roe v. Wade shows that women's lives are at stake in the right wing's crusade to end the right to choose.

The right-wing, scandal-ridden "charity" that isn't really a charity
The truth about the Red Cross
For many people, the American Red Cross is the very embodiment of lifesaving. But the real story of the organization isn't nearly as noble and humanitarian as the image.

WHAT WE THINK

Behind bipartisan consensus
What the U.S. "war on terror" is really about
Invoking the "war on terror" hasn't made the occupation of Iraq more popular. Yet the White House has preserved a bipartisan consensus in favor of aggressive use of military force.

NO TO WAR AND OCCUPATION

Was the referendum in Iraq rigged?
Allegations of vote fraud, last-minute political maneuvers and violent repression marked the October 15 referendum on a new constitution for Iraq.

NATIONAL NEWS

Supreme Court clears way for execution in December
The race to execute Stan Tookie Williams
The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear Stanley Tookie Williams' appeal, clearing the way for the state of California to try to execute its most famous death row prisoner.

Pablo Paredes' fight goes on
Navy discharges a war resister
Pablo Paredes, the Navy sailor who last year refused to board his ship when it left port for Iraq last year, was discharged on October 6.

Amnesty report reveals systematic harassment
Abused by the bigots in blue
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people often face harassment and abuse at the hands of the very people who are supposed to protect them.

OBITITUARY: AUGUST WILSON
Breaking Down Fences
Sportswriter Dave Zirin pays tribute to playwright August Wilson with a look at one of his best-known plays Fences.

COLUMNS

READING BETWEEN THE LINES
The meaning of political scandals
The history of Washington scandals teaches us that it's easier to disgrace an individual than to change the system that gave rise their scandalous behavior.

ON THE PICKET LINE

NYC teachers start campaign to vote down proposed deal
"This contract has got to go"
More than 200 New York City teachers joined a picket outside their union delegate assembly to urge delegates to vote "no" on a proposed contract.

Labor in brief
San Francisco Unified School District; Colchester, Vt., teachers; General Motors

NEWS OF OUR STRUGGLE

Millions More draws over 100,000 to D.C.
Over 100,000 people streamed into Washington, D.C., for the Millions More Movement rally organized by the Nation of Islam (NOI) and a coalition of Black organizations.

Antiracists confront the Minutemen in Chicago
More than 300 people protested the anti-immigrant vigilante group called the Minutemen at the group's "boot camp" in a Chicago suburb.

News and reports
Military off our campus

VIEWS AND VOICES

U.S. tries to derail an antiwar conference in Italy
"Leave Iraq in peace"
The plan for an international antiwar conference in Italy was to bring together forces inside and outside Iraq that support the resistance to the U.S. occupation.

The Pentagon's torture weapon
The new microwave gun will be the ultimate torture weapon. Its purpose is to cause excruciating pain, but leave no evidence of wounds on the victim.

Views in brief
Who is the real terrorist?; Marching in Salt Lake City; Boeing deal wasn't so bad; Kerry would have saved the Court

REVIEWS

George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck
Liberal broadcaster as cold-war hero
George Clooney's new film evokes the tense moment when CBS newsmen Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly decided to stand up to the 1950s McCarthyite witch-hunts.

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