THERE’S A SMALL CHANCE THAT FURTHER AUDIT OF THE VENEZUELAN ELECTION WILL OVERTURN THE RESULS OF THAT ELECTION. How small? One in 25,000 trillion, according to a statistical analysis of election boxes already audited, the likelihood that audits of the remainder could reverse the “populist” outcome that continues the policies of Hugo Chavez. So [...]
Elections in Venezuela have produced a new leader for country following the sudden death of former President Hugo Chavez earlier this year. The United States and its allies are refusing to accept the results, however, propping up opposition protests that have led to street violence and demands for a recount. Events surrounding the aftermath of [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA WINS REELECTION. ` Surpassing the 270 electoral votes necessary shortly after 11 PM on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney to win a second term in the White House. After a historically long, bitter and expensive campaign, the status quo was retained in Washington as the House and Senate [...]
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 [...]
IRANIAN LEADERS DON’T TRUST OBAMA IN SECRET TALKS; WILL THEY TRUST VALERIE JARRETT? Leaked White House information notes that Jarrett, the Iranian-born advisor to Obama, is heading up the preliminary talks with Iran leading to the possibility of “after-the-elections” negotiations on Iran’s nuclear development program, despite her lack of any diplomatic experience. John Glaser [...]
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 [...]
ARTHUR MURRAY DIES IN AUSTRALIA: HIS LIFE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH BALLROOM DANCING. Unlike that “other” AM who died in 1991, he was a heroic leader of the movement for aboriginal rights in Australia. The strike of cotton-pickers that he led had all the earmarks of an MLK-era protest in the U.S. as [...]
“EVEN THEIR YACHT DIDN’T WANT TO PAY TAXES.” As part of its “shadow convention” project to show what vital issues are being avoided at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, Huffington Post runs a piece describing wherein lies the real policitical “action” around the GOP event in Tampa. While Romney intones the usual “morning [...]
An exhaustive new study of nationwide election fraud cases finds that in-person impersonation of voters is “virtually non-existent,” severely damaging the rationale behind dozens of new state voter ID laws that supporters claim are crucial to ensuring the integrity of elections. At least 37 states have passed or considered new laws and regulations requiring voters [...]
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