31 October 2012
Why we fight to prevent stolen elections in 2012 and beyond
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Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman
With election day less than a week away, the spectre of another stolen election is upon us. The airwaves and internet are at last filling with discussion of this possibility.

When the first stories were broken by a handful of...
28 October 2012
Letter to a friend who urges me not to vote for either major presidential candidate
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Bob Sheak
From what I can make of the presidential election campaign, there are differences and also disturbing similarities in the respective policies of Obama and Romney. In the end, I choose Obama over Romney as, in Phyllis Bennis' words, the "...
27 October 2012
2004 and 2012: Reflection and premonition: Then and now
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Doug Todd
As Election Day 2012 approaches, I find myself haunted by memories of Election Day 2004, November 2. At that time I was volunteering with George Soros’ organization, America Coming Together. I was working with a lot of people from...
26 October 2012
The Future of Politics
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Robert Koehler
“I have no secret plan for peace. I have a public plan.”

I listen to these words with fresh awe, 40 years later. They pierce the soul. Once upon a time, presidential politics was this open, this responsive to moral concerns....
21 October 2012
The case for irrational voting
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David Swanson
When I was a philosophy grad student in the ancient times at the U. of Virginia, some over-smart logician pointed out to me that voting is not rational, since a single vote is never decisive. It's all the other stuff that's rational:...
18 October 2012
Re-examining Lucasville: Essay 5
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Staughton Lynd
Representation on behalf of the five Lucasville defendants condemned to death has been frustrated by the prosecution’s unwillingness to turn over to lawyers for the defense the records of its own interviews with potential witnesses....

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