Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"Compared to Bush, Kerry is intellectually rigorous and sound, yet may sound boring to the average simple-minded American voter."

"To obscure their own ultra-elite loyalties, Bush and Cheney will keep trying to portray Kerry and Edwards as tools of wealthy trial lawyers and Hollywood snobs."

"Rumors are flying around. In Ohio, the Republicans shredded some Democratic ballots. They were walking around gathering ballots to make voting easier for the Americans. When they got their hands on them, they took the law into their own hands."

"On Oct. 5, 2004, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) shot to death Iman al-Hams. She was an unarmed 13-year old Palestinian girl, who was on her way to school, near Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. Her body was found riddled with 20 bullet wounds. The commander of the IOF outpost stands accused of the vile act. Like American activist Rachel Corrie; and British subjects, Tom Hurndall, James Miller and Iain Hook; al-Hams is yet another victim of Zionist crimes."

"The attacks of September 11 are like an eruption, a volcanic eruption that has thrust lava and ashes from our netherworld, the dark netherworld of the Periphery, into the rich and tranquil landscape of America."

"It has to be said one of he most remarkable achievements of the Goliath has been to avoid the labels of genocide, terrorists and mass murderer despite having exterminated its native population, bombed civilian cities with nuclear weapons and killed hundreds of thousands."

"In reality the recently held Afghan presidential elections will be a test not of Afghan democracy, but of the Bush administration's ability to impose its political order on a country."

"...it is not just direct attacks on the person. On September 29, settlers set fire to 400 dunams of land planted with olive trees south of the town. The fire, which raged for two nights in a row, damaged hundreds of trees, according to one farmer, Abu Saleh from Beit Fourik, who says he himself lost 318 trees. Last year, settlers cut down 6,000 olive trees from lands belonging to Hawara and Einabous south of Nablus."

"29 highways and bypass roads to service settlements, funded entirely by the United States, have been constructed during the Oslo Peace Process, carving the West Bank into dozens of small, disconnected and impoverished enclaves from the Palestinian perspective."

"The only firm principle I can see in Kerry is to grab for power and promise anything to achieve it. Kerry takes polling more seriously than policy analysis."

"Taking full advantage of the political environment that emerged after his Gulf adventure, the First Bush took the initiative and launched the Madrid conference that eventually led to the Oslo peace process. George the Second joined Sharon in burying Oslo and promoted a replacement “Road Map” - which has now been amended to a Gaza disengagement farce."

"Fasting is also for those who want to improve themselves - improve their bodies, their emotions, their mentality, their morality and their spirituality. It is an extraordinary educational experience that covers social, hygienic, economic and spiritual dimensions."

"The very countries and organisations that are now accusing the Janjaweed of committing genocide, and Khartoum of backing it, or at least failing to control it, are the ones that earlier forced Khartoum to accept an arrangement with the southern Sudanese rebels, led by Colonel John Garang, which has set the basis for secession of the south after a six-year transition period."

"Sincere efforts should be made to free our beautiful planet from all deadly diseases and notions. Concrete efforts should be made to make that planet free from poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, gender disparity and taboos to control the increasing ratios of HIV/AIDS."

"What major powers do not understand is that the Muslim elite uses the slogan "Islam is in danger" once their personal class interests are threatened as in 1940-47 or when US imposed sanctions on Pakistan from 1989 till 2001. This elite uses the slogan of Jihad once they hope to get US aid as in the Afghan War or once they have no hope of getting US aid and need cannon fodder for dying in Kashmir, Afghanistan or elsewhere."

"After a cowardly, dishonest and lack-lustre campaign by Australian Labor - which strenuously avoided the issue of Iraq in craven deference to the US administration, the American-dominated Australian press and an ill-informed, prejudiced and conservative Australian electorate - the conservative Coalition Government won a decisive victory thanks to bigotry, ignorance, fear and small-minded selfishness."

"Policy errors during the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq have created a situation in Iraq worse than it needed to be."

"The desire on the right to deify Reagan and preserve his legacy has made support for missile defense a litmus test issue—even though it has little to do with national security."

"While many, including his friends within and outside PAS, might have forgiven him because of his personal ordeal, the question remains of who Anwar’s friends will be from now on. Because of his ties to western leaders who contacted him upon his release, such as Paul Wolfowitz and Al Gore, many Malaysians are waiting to see whether his close rapport with these people will influence whom he chooses to associate with in future."

"Republicans don't seem to realize that they are no longer individual members of a coherent "party," but are merely part of a mean-spirited and dangerous movement that is theatening to sweep away democracy as we know it."