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  • Why Democrats Don’t Count. Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Greg Palast
    The Exit polls said he won, but the "official" tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president — like ballots with hanging chads.
    And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change (…)

  • It’s time to think the unthinkable
    15 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bruce Dixon, BC Editor
    "Don’t put that out there" is the admonition delivered to folks impolite enough to talk about bad things which might happen but have not yet come to pass, as if mere discussion or consideration of some awful possibility makes it more likely. We at BC understand politeness. But failing to recognize, to examine and to understand unpleasant possibilities before they become devastating realities is worse than impolite. It’s foolish.
    The unpleasant truths of this (…)

  • DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE -PART II
    10 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy, Mexican Style - Part II - by Stephen Lendman
    There’s much happening in Mexico in the aftermath of the nation’s most contentious election ever, but it began many months before the first vote was cast. The popularity of leftist opposition candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) scared the ruling National Action Party (PAN) enough to get them to try to deny him the right to run for president in the election just concluded. In April, (…)

  • DEMOCRACY, MEXICAN STYLE
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Democracy, Mexican Style - by Stephen Lendman
    What do these presidential elections all have in common: Mexico, 1988, US, 2000, US, 2004, Colombia and Peru, 2006 and the just concluded Mexican election on July 2? In each case, the outcome was "arranged" and known in advance before voters went to the polls. They’re what economist and media and social critic Edward Herman calls "Demonstration Elections" - the characterization and title he gave his 1980s book analyzing and documenting sham (…)

  • Hillary May Be Presidential Material, After All. On Iraq and Israel, she’s a perfect neocon
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joshua Frank
    There really is no way of getting around it. Sen. Hillary Clinton may well be future presidential material. From Manhattan to Hollywood, Hillary Clinton is pocketing enormous amounts of cash for her reelection campaign. Yet, Hillary is facing what seems to be fierce opposition from within her own party, as well as from third parties here in New York. The main reason candidates have signed up to challenge Hillary is her position, er, non-position on the disgraceful "war on (…)

  • STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election
    2 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election By Greg Palast Friday, June 30, 2006 GEORGE Bush’s operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I’m not talking about the November ’06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I’m talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency. It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: (…)

  • Who’ll Stop the Rain?
    30 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At least 57 million ignorant and/or uneducated or wealthy Americans...those who "voted" for Bush in 2004, don’t worry at all about the outcome of the Novermber primary elections. They are pretty confindent that Republican Congressmen will hold their respective offices, and therefore, the majority.
    How can they be so sure? Simple. They know that, most likely, the various tricks and shenanigans which were in play in the ’04 Presidential election will be replayed this time around, and once (…)

  • A Call To Investigate The 2004 Election
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Call To Investigate The 2004 Election By Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss June 26, 2006
    WE’VE ALL heard the story. Nov. 2, 2004, was shaping up as a day of celebration for Democrats. The exit polls were predicting a victory for Senator John Kerry. Many Americans, including most political observers, sat down to watch the evening television coverage convinced that Kerry would be the next president.
    But the counts that were being reported on TV bore little resemblance to the exit poll (…)

  • Voter Insecurity And The 2006 Elections
    27 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Voter Insecurity And The 2006 Elections By James Zogby (Monday June 26 2006) "Insecurity runs deep in America today. Despite macro indicators which point to a relatively strong economy, polls show that most US voters are insecure about their future. Only 29% say that the country is on the right track and many indicate concern with job loss." While most contests in a congressional election year are decided on local issues and personalities, national themes often set the stage in a way that (…)

  • From Kansas To South Carolina, Republican Moderates Turning Their Backs On The Neocons & Defecting
    25 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    From Kansas To South Carolina, Republican Moderates Are Turning Their Backs On The Neocons And Defecting To The Enemy Paul Harris in Topeka, Kansas Sunday June 25, 2006
    The squat, bunker-like building in a south Topeka suburb does not look like a place to turn American politics on its head. Nor does Mark Parkinson, a tall, affable man, look too much like a revolutionary. But here, deep in the American heartland, are the warning signs of a political earthquake. The two-storey office block (…)