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  • March 5, 2020: Biden Record: Pro Wall Street, War, Incarceration, Anti-Anita Hill
  • March 4, 2020: Barron’s: “Real Super Tuesday Winners” are Health-Insurance Stocks
  • March 4, 2020: Will Biden Get Serious Scrutiny?
  • February 29, 2020: Debate Moderators Frame Questions to Define Acceptable Politics
  • February 24, 2020: Bernie Sanders Plunges to First Place
  • February 19, 2020: “Corporate Media Are Not Observers of the Electoral Process; They Are Participants”
  • February 13, 2020: Timeline: How DNC Manipulated 2016 Presidential Race
  • February 11, 2020: Activists Demand Public Control of Presidential Debates

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    Citizen Action: Vets Confront Biden Over His Backing Iraq War

    • Ohio: Official Recount Now Expected

      DAVID COBB Cobb was the 2004 presidential candidate for the Green Party. He said today: “We announced our intention to seek a recount of the vote in Ohio. Since the required fee for a statewide recount is $113,600, the only question was whether that money could be raised in time to meet the filing deadline.…

    • Israel’s Re-Arrest of Nuclear Whistleblower Vanunu

      “Heavily armed police commandos stormed a Jerusalem church compound Thursday and arrested nuclear whistle blower Mordechai Vanunu,” the Associate Press reports. Vanunu had been restricted from speaking to non-Israelis or media and had openly violated such prohibitions, including appearing on a news release of the Institute for Public Accuracy on Sept. 17. The following are…

    • Arafat

      NADIA HIJAB Hijab is executive director of the Palestine Center in Washington. She said today: “Yasser Arafat has two main achievements. He forged a unified voice for the Palestinian people who suffered three different fates after Israel was created — exile and refugee camps, Israeli occupation, and Israeli rule. He also put the question of…

    • Is the U.S. Committing War Crimes in Iraq?

      MARJORIE COHN Professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and author of the article “Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime,” Cohn said today: “Between 10,000 and 15,000 U.S. troops with warplanes and artillery have begun to invade the Iraqi city of Fallujah. To ‘soften up’ the rebels, American forces dropped five 500-pound bombs on…

    • Fallujah

      RAHUL MAHAJAN Currently in New York City, Mahajan said today: “I was in Fallujah during the attack in April, and reported on the closure of the Fallujah General Hospital as well as the closure of the al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf. This time, U.S. forces have gone a step further. Not only did a bomb…

    • Electronic Machines with No Paper Trail Questioned

      THOM HARTMANN Hartmann is author of the recent article “The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy — Privatizing the Vote” and the book Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights. He said today: “Why are we allowing corporations to exclusively handle our vote, in a secret and totally invisible way? ……

    • Was the Ohio Election Honest and Fair?

      TERESA FEDOR Ohio State Senator Teresa Fedor said today: “There was trouble with our elections in Ohio at every stage. It’s been a battle getting people registered to vote, getting to the ballot on voting day and getting that vote to count. There is a pattern of voter suppression; that’s why I called for [Ohio…

    • Election Day Turmoil

      RALPH G. NEAS People for the American Way Foundation President Neas said: “The Election Protection ‘Nerve Center’ at People For the American Way Foundation’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, continues to operate as a voter assistance and coalition information clearinghouse, with 34 computers and 55 telephone lines. … On Election Day, information will pour into the Nerve…

    • Study Finds 100,000 “Excess” Civilian Deaths Since Iraq Invasion

      The leading medical journal The Lancet has just published a study on civilian mortality in Iraq since the invasion. LES ROBERTS Co-author of the report, Dr. Roberts is an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He said today: “Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have…

    • * Provisional Ballots * Instant Runoff Voting Implemented in San Francisco * Voter Rights * The Right to Cast a Vote That Counts

      MILES RAPOPORT Rapoport is the president of Demos, a non-partisan, non-profit organization. He said today: “The question of whether to accept provisional ballots cast at the wrong polling place pits voter access not against the worthy goal of fraud prevention, but instead against more mundane concerns of administrative convenience. As a former secretary of state,…

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