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Brent Budowsky: America Is A Great Country. Profiles In Patriotism, From Helping Homeless Heroes to Fighting Global Warming
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by Brent Budowsky
America is a great country and the people have spoken.
America is a melting pot of diverse people, alternately united and uplifted by the positive spirit, or divided and brought down by lesser instincts of leadership and institutional elites.
Greg Palast: How They Stole the Mid-Term Election
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by Greg Palast for The Guardian (UK), Comment
Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.
Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding.
Steven Rosenfeld: Will The Public Discover The Election Integrity Movement on November 7th?
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by Steven Rosenfeld
Will the 2006 elections be a turning point for the election integrity movement?
Or will the people and organizations who raise the problems that have been documented in early voting and the run up to Election Day be dismissed as “conspiracy theorists” by the mainstream media?
Norman Solomon: Saddam's Unindicted Co-Conspirator: Donald Rumsfeld
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by Norman Solomon
Saddam Hussein has received a death sentence for crimes he committed more than a year before Donald Rumsfeld shook his hand in Baghdad. Let's reach back into history and extract these facts:
Marjorie Cohn: The Banana Election -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
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By Marjorie Cohn
The announcement of Saddam Hussein's death sentence two days before our midterm elections brings to mind the opening scene of Woody Allen's film "Bananas." Howard Cosell is covering the impending assassination of a dictator in an unnamed Banana Republic. On one side of the street, Cosell thrusts a microphone under the dictator's nose and asks how it feels when one is about to be assassinated. After the dictator responds, the assassin takes aim, shoots, and the dictator falls down dead. Cosell then crosses the street to interview the successor, Woody Allen. Everything goes according to script.
Dave Lindorff: It's Election Eve, Do You Know Where Your Country Is?
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by Dave Lindorff, co-author of "The Case for Impeachment"
When you go into the voting booth tomorrow, here are a few things you need to think about.
Dave Zirin: Political Players: Where Athletes Give Their Money - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
"The money don't know where it came from." -- Laurence Fishburne, "Deep Cover"
This column is usually dedicated to those in the sports world who believe in the power of protest - and back their words with deeds. But today, in recognition of this Tuesday's election-lunacy, we give space to those who back their political ideas with cold, hard, filthy, cash. Thanks to newsmeat.com you can see where your favorite athlete and other assorted glitterati, choose to put their money in the all-important "wealth primary" that determines every election. In 2004, the majority of athletes who pried open their wallets supported the Bush/Cheney ticket. But this year the giving has been far more even.
Bernie Weiner: URGENT! URGENT! Karl Rove's Last-Minute "Robocalling" Tactic to Steal the Election
by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
We all waited for Karl Rove's "October Surprise," but it turns out he saved it for the final 72 hours before Election Day. It's been termed "robocalling," and Democratic and swing voters urgently need to hear about it in these last moments before voting.
Stephen Crockett: The Rise of a New Populist Movement
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by Stephen Crockett, co-host of Democratic Talk Radio
This populism cuts across the normal political divide in surprising ways. Tax policy, public spending, legal rights, immigration, environment, civil liberties, government secrecy, healthcare, campaign financing, trade policies, public debt, minimum wage, outsourcing, media concentration, anti-monopoly policies, government contracting, worker rights, foreign policy, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are all seriously driven by the financial and political power of the largest corporations. Small businesses, workers, consumers, small investors, taxpayers and the poor are all being negatively impacted by the Corporate Agenda on these and many other issues.
Paul Rogat Loeb: Is there Meth in Ted Haggard's Heaven?
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by Paul Rogat Loeb, author of "The Impossible Will Take a Little While"
Is there meth in Ted Haggard's heaven? Does it rot your teeth? In his 2005 Barbara Walters interview, Haggard says you can eat all the food you want in heaven and never gain weight. Can you shoot all the meth you want and never lose your teeth or grow emaciated? What about unprotected sex with gay prostitutes? Do you get divine protection against AIDS? Or only if you give regular spiritual advice to the President, and help the Republicans blame gays for America's family problems
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