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  • Chilean Communist Party May Be Power Broker In January 15 Run-Off Election
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Brian McAfee
    Chile’s Socialist Party candidate, Michelle Bachelet, soundly defeated her right wing opponents in the December 11 presidential vote but failed to obtain the 50% to become president. Chilean law requires a candidate receive at least 50% of the vote to obtain the presidency. The breakdown was Bachelet 45.95%, Sebastian Pinera of the National Renovation party 25.41%, Joaquin Lavin of the Independent Democratic Union party 23.22%, and Tomas Hirsch of the Humanist party and (…)

  • Bush fund-raisers cash in by giving - then receiving
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By JIM TANKERSLEY, JOSHUA BOAK, AND CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK BLADE STAFF WRITERS
    First of three parts
    President Bush’s corporate champions see the spoils of his administration in coal. And timber. And credit-card payments, Afghan electric lines, Japanese bank transfers, and fake crab.
    America’s business leaders supplied more than $75 million to return Mr. Bush to the White House last year - and he has paid dividends.
    Bush Administration policies, grand and obscure, have financially (…)

  • Bolivia’s charge to the left
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Mark Engler and Nadia Martinez
    NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON - With presidential elections in Bolivia on Sunday, Washington is buzzing with talk that another Latin American country may be "lost."
    Evo Morales, a former president of Bolivia’s coca-growers’ union and the leader of the Movement Toward Socialism party, is the current front-runner, according to the latest polls. If he wins the election, Mr. Morales will be the latest head of state to join the ranks of the region’s burgeoning New (…)

  • No elections will be credible while occupation continues
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Iraq’s current political process will not solve the crisis. Only a US and British pullout and a UN sponsored poll can do that
    by Harith al-Dari
    Iraq has a long history of civilisation that has contributed both knowledge and wisdom to humanity. For many centuries, Islam also immunised Iraq against religious or sectarian strife and protected its population from the oppression that peoples of the ancient world had been subjected to. Generation after generation of Iraqis succeeded in (…)

  • Female, Agnostic and the Next Presidente? Heavy Favorite in Chilean Vote Cuts Against Grain
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Monte Reel
    SANTIAGO, Chile — Everyone in the audience was dressed in dark blue or black. Some wore clerical collars, and most had heavy silver crosses dangling around their necks. But Michelle Bachelet wore an electric pink jacket that sent a clear message: She was a candidate for president, not sainthood.
    "I’m agnostic. . . . I believe in the state," Bachelet told several groups of evangelical ministers last week. "I believe the state has an important role in guaranteeing the (…)

  • Democracy: Hacked Votes, Torture, Internal Spying and Corruption.
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Galde
    We need to ask ourselves one essential question. Are we really living in a Democracy that is deserving of that noble title?
    When machines are devised by corporations and used by our government that can be purposefully hacked without a trace to alter the Democratic process, are we living in a true Democracy? The Diebold Corporation doesn’t make mistakes like that by accident. Let us not forget that they are the ones who make the ATM machines that you get your pocket (…)

  • Leftist Morales Claims Victory in Bolivia
    20 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FIONA SMITH
    COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The Socialist firebrand who claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential race repeated his promise to end a U.S.-backed crusade against coca plants, but said Monday his government would respect private property.
    Unofficial results showed Evo Morales - himself a coca farmer - with a decisive lead over seven opponents that would make him the first Indian president in the 180-year history of independent Bolivia and solidify a continental leftward shift. (…)

  • Iraqi Election Confusion
    16 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I don’t understand. I’m confused. The US is occupying Iraq, but they let the Iraqis vote in the election. I thought the Americans were there to kill Iraqis, not let them vote.
    I thought the US was in Iraq to steal all the oil. But if the Iraqis elect their own sovereign government, doesn’t that mean they will control Iraqi oil and not the US?
    I though the war in Iraq was a war against Islam. But it appears that all the candidates and political parties are Muslim, not Christian or Jewish. (…)

  • Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
    The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the Government Accountability Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage. Click here for GAO Report.
    The government’s (…)

  • Devastating Diebold Hack Proven in Florida
    15 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note: A hack like this could have easily swung Florida, and the 2004 election.
    Wed. December 14, 2005: Due to contractual non-performance and security design issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho has announced that he will never again use Diebold in an election. He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county. On Tuesday, the most serious “hack” demonstration to date took place in Leon County. The Diebold machines succumbed (…)