At least 30 states this year have considered or passed laws that would impose new voting restrictions, as the trend of curbing access to the ballot box that culminated in long lines and breakdowns at polling places during the 2012 election continues unabated. Lawmakers in states across the country, most of them Republicans, appear tone [...]
New state-based voting restrictions have been joined by a more dangerous player in the game of voter suppression. There is growing concern that an army of tens of thousands of poll watchers ready to be stationed at voting sites across the country on Election Day could potentially disenfranchise poor and minority voters and swing the [...]
COLOMBIA: “CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BEING CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAME.” This is labor activist Daniel Kovolak’s characterization of the Free Trade Agreement passed by Congress and signed by the President. This agreement, when implemented, will result among other things in huge amounts of U.S. agricultural products being “dumped” tariff-free in Colombia, creating wholesale displacement [...]
While lawmakers across the country target voting rights with a flurry of new and restrictive regulations meant to curb “voter fraud” that make it harder for millions of American to vote in person, the form of casting a ballot with the highest percentage of “fraud” and illegal activity goes untouched by new voting laws. Absentee [...]
VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT IS NOT JUST ABOUT VOTER ID LAWS. Although they’ve received the lion’s share of media attention and legal activity, efforts by states to impose new voter ID requirements before this Election Day are hardly the only methods being used by lawmakers and government officials to cut down on the number of Americans [...]
TINY “SUICIDE DRONES” COULD ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO LAUNCH “PRECISION” ASSASSINATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 11 years after the attacks of September 11, the arsenal of weaponry that the “war on terror” has justified continues to grow along with the global reach of U.S military and intelligence operations. Drone strikes have become the [...]
Rounds of new laws and legislation introducing controversial restrictions aimed at tackling non-existent “voter fraud” in dozens of states since the last presidential election threaten this Election Day with chaos and the possibility that millions of Americans will lose their right to cast a ballot this fall. Potentially more disruptive is the building tide of [...]
Voting rights and partisan politics collide in Ohio, where a spat between the two major presidential candidates over that state’s new restrictions on voting could be a preview of more chaos to come before Election Day. With states governments rushing to make “voter fraud” a priority in the wake of massive conservative gains in the [...]
` SUPREME COURT REAFFIRMS “CITIZENS UNITED” RULING BY REMINDING MONTANA THAT “CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, TOO.” (The Nation) ` Lost in the excitement over the ruling the gutted three-quarters of Arizona’s controversial immigration law was the Supreme Court’s resounding 5-4 decision to strike down the state of Montana’s ban on corporate contributions in state and local elections. Montana’s regulations had [...]
THE BIGGEST CORPORATE CORRUPTION CASE YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT. (Reader Supported News) Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone reports at length on the trial in New York City of three executives of GE Capital, the financial arm of General Electric. The case against them has all the earmarks of a Wall Street version of the [...]
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