November 10, 2008 :: Denver Lessing :: Comments Off
A new report —drawing from “More than a half-dozen officials, including current and former military and intelligence officials as well as senior Bush administration policy makers, [who] described details of the 2004 military order on the condition of anonymity because of its politically delicate nature”— says the United States has conducted more than a dozen secret special forces raids, across borders around the globe to target Al Qaeda or other terrorist-linked sites, since 2004.
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November 3, 2008 :: Denver Lessing :: Comments Off
2008 has already seen a heated contest for the integrity of the vote, with Republicans smearing groups like ACORN that work to register low-income and minority voters, and Democratic supporters accusing the GOP of trumping up claims about voter-fraud. We have seen repeatedly over the last 8 years, reports of major state-run operations, designed to reduce the number of registered voters able to cast ballots on election day, usingspurious claims of widespread voter fraud as a justification.
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October 17, 2008 :: Denver Lessing :: One Comment
The US Supreme Court has reversed an order to the state of Ohio to allow the Republican party to organize an effort to question or counter the right of newly registered voters to cast ballots on election day. The Republican party had sought to repeat its efforts in the 2004 election, which led to 300,000 voters being denied the vote, in a state Bush carried by just 190,000 votes, and had won the right to challenge at least 120,000 registrations, possibly more than 200,000.
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October 2, 2008 :: Denver Lessing :: 2 Comments
Senators Biden, Obama, McCain vote with majority (74 to 25) to support the financial rescue bill, including a raft of tax incentives aimed at creating economic stimulus, putting money in hands of non-banking interests. The Senate’s version of the rescue package includes tax credits for wind and solar power, “greening” the recovery plan so that individual Americans can begin to take action that will make the energy economy more sustainable and give leverage to those budding industries. Importantly, the bill also raises the FDIC cap for individual accounts to $250,000, from $100,000.
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June 23, 2008 :: Denver Lessing :: Comments Off
Pres. Robert Mugabe has been accused by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, as well as numerous independent observers, of using state-backed and paramilitary violence to intimidate his opponents and “rig” the vote scheduled for 27 June. Now, the MDC’s leader Morgan Tsvangirai has withdrawn his candidacy for the vote, calling the entire process illegitimate. Tsvangirai won more votes than Mugabe in the 1st round of voting, even by the state’s official count, which many believe may have been manipulated in order to force a runoff.
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December 4, 2006 :: Denver Lessing :: Comments Off
PRESS CREDULITY, WEB OF CONNECTIONS BREEDING ‘BLAME VICTIM’ SPECULATION In the wake of the poisoning of former KGB spy Alexandr Litvinenko, by exposure to intensely radioactive polonium-210, allegations have turned from state terrorism to corrupt oligarchs, to questions of a blackmailing scheme. What now looks to be a major issue is whether there is an [...]
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