100th Anniversary
By Mike Hersh, Sep 28, 2002

Congratulations to you, the readers of this website! We've posted 100 articles here, so this is an anniversary of sorts. We analyzed the activity here, to find out how many people are reading these articles and which topics they read most.

We found you are reading the Iraq articles and sending them to other people much more than articles on any other topics. The top five most read and forwarded articles are all about Iraq and the impact Iraq is having on the 2002 Elections. An article calling for action to stop the war is the most popular by far.

The article about White House insiders saying Bush is "out of control" is also very popular. I wrote that with a lot of help from members of a group begun to stop the war. When it hit the web -- published by Online Journal and American Politics Journal -- traffic at this site went over 30,000 hits per day.

100,000s of people have also read our other articles about Iraq. The ones Bill Burkett and I wrote about Bush's plans for imminent attack on Iraq and the catastrophic consequences, the article by Carla Binnion saying Iraq is "just the first step," and William Rivers Pitt's article focusing on Scott Ritter -- all of them attracted a lot of attention.

We are getting the word out. Thanks to those who have already supported us and helped keep us on the web. Thanks to everyone for reading our articles and letting us help you work on this critically important issue! Now here is how you can help us do much more.

We know how many people are reading this site every day. Not enough of you are contributing to support this site. We won't run ads here. We won't sell our user lists. We never will. Never. We'd rather go off the web than invade your privacy. That means we rely on you, our readers, 100%.

We've done a lot, and helped in our small way to change the course of discourse in America. We've broken news and informed you. If you appreciate that, think about how much more we could accomplish together if you donated $25, $50 or so?

We could expand our Talk Truth to Power project and other activism currently under way, going around the mass media directly to the people. You can help us counter the right wing spin. We hope to add sound and video to this site, and make it easier to use. All this if you click here and kick a few dollars our way:

Or if you need to know more, click here, read more about us, and then click the "fight the Bush Occupation" button. When you do that for us, we will do much more for you. Please do it now!

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