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The Election was Stolen – Here’s How By Greg Palast
Starting in 2013 – just as the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act – a coterie of Trump operatives, under the direction of Kris Kobach, Kansas Secretary of State, created a system to purge 1.1 million Americans of color from the voter rolls of GOP–controlled states. Continue reading
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The Importance of Being Wrong By S. Artesian
9 November 2016 — The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor There’s good news and bad news. The good news is that my unblemished record of incorrectly predicting the winner of presidential elections is…….still unblemished. That’s 36 years and 10 presidential elections in a row, and I defy anyone to show me a record… Continue reading
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The Comey Non-Story and the Problem of Meta-Scandals
On October 28, FBI Director James Comey dropped a “bombshell” on Clinton, informing congressional committee chairs that his agency had found more emails “pertinent to the investigation” of her private email server, and was looking into the matter. Just like that, chaos broke out, and the entire presidential election hung in the balance. Continue reading
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Vote machines audit function disabled—and worse By Greg Palast
[Columbus, Ohio, Election Day 2016.] For two decades, computer touch-screen voting machines have been derided as “push and pray” voting. You had to take it on faith that the machine records your vote as you intend. The machines lacked a “paper record” to audit and recount. Continue reading
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War, Elections, and the Morning After: Selected Articles
9 November 2016 — Global Research Race and Class in America: Social Unrest and Political Tensions in the Wake of the 2016 Elections By Abayomi Azikiwe, November 08 2016 Irrespective of who wins the poll on November 8 it will not resolve the ongoing social and racial tensions in the U.S. Neither candidate has been seriously questioned… Continue reading
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Video: The 'Greater Danger' Election Debate
Bruce Dixon and Bill Curry debate whether Trump or Clinton is the greater danger, and if people should vote Green Continue reading
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Video: The ‘Greater Danger’ Election Debate
Bruce Dixon and Bill Curry debate whether Trump or Clinton is the greater danger, and if people should vote Green Continue reading
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US Elections 2016: Political Crisis in the Aftermath? Selected Articles
8 November 2016 — Global Research US Presidential Election: Deeply Flawed Candidates. Who Will Win and Who Deserves to Win? By David Morgan, November 06 2016 It has been widely commented that the two main contenders in the US presidential race are both deeply flawed candidates, even that they are both unfit to hold high office. Whoever next takes… Continue reading
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Note Insurgency By S. Artesian
The comrades at Insurgent Notes have published an editorial regarding the possible election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. The editorial is both confused and mistaken, and gives credit to the notion that Trump has attracted considerable support because of working class resentment and alienation, or at least in “white working… Continue reading
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U.S. Elections “November Chaos”: What You’re Not Being Told
5 November 2016 — Global Research GR Weekend Reader – U.S. Elections Special Edition U.S. Elections “November Chaos”: What You’re Not Being Told By James Corbett and Prof Michel Chossudovsky, November 04 201 The FBI’s October surprise has thrown the 2016 election into November chaos. But an examination of the trigger mechanism behind this event reveals a deeper… Continue reading
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Battles of Kunduz: US/Afghan ‘friendly fire’ By Eric Walberg
For 45 minutes, like ominous clouds, the planes fired pot shots, as if warming up, taunting or warning the doctors and patients, who started to flee and were mowed down. Finally, the pilots of the gunships launched full scale fire at 2am, on both the hospital and civilians fleeing what was clearly the target of… Continue reading
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Media Roll Out Welcome Mat for ‘Humanitarian’ War in Syria
Beyond the opinion pages, media figures are pushing the “humanitarian” approach with varying degrees of subtlety. Meet the Press host Chuck Todd (10/16/16) recently pressed Vice President Joe Biden on the lack of a no-fly zone over Aleppo, suggesting that the Obama administration will “look back and wonder what if? What if? What if? What… Continue reading
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‘Drug Dependence Hasn’t Been Stopped by 45 Years of the War on Drugs’
Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States, a study from Human Rights Watch and the ACLU, is a multi-level, cradle-to-grave if you will, look at the myriad impacts of the criminalization—selective criminalization—of drug possession on the people caught up in the system. Continue reading
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“The Kremlin’s Playbook”: Russia-EU Cooperation, A Threat to US National Security? Selected Articles
20 October 2016 — Global Research “The Kremlin’s Playbook”: Washington Views Russia-EU Cooperation, A Threat to US National Security By Fort Russ, October 20 2016 Europe is dependent on financial and energy resources of Moscow, according to a report by the Washington Center for strategic and international studies. On October 13 in Washington, a study was published, “The Kremlin’s… Continue reading
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'Nothing to See Here' Is Pundit Takeaway on DNC Leaks
Leaks from Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails have been trickling in for the past week. The leaks—along with previous DNC emails—provide intimate details about the inner workings of the campaign that may well soon elect the most powerful person on Earth. The response from some journalists has been to analyse, dissect and find the most newsworthy… Continue reading
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Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman–No Thanks to Corporate Media
After Goodman reported on the use of pepper spray and attack dogs against Native American demonstrators opposing the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (Democracy Now!, 9/4/16), North Dakota State’s Attorney Ladd Erickson charged her with criminal trespassing. Realizing that he couldn’t make that charge stick, he sought to charge her instead with participation in… Continue reading
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US, Saudis to grant 9,000 ISIS fighters free passage from Iraqi Mosul to Syria – source
The US and Saudi Arabia have agreed to grant free passage to thousands of Islamic State militants before the Iraqi city of Mosul is stormed. The jihadists will be redeployed to fight against the government in Syria, a military-diplomatic source told RIA Novost Continue reading
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There Will Be Blood By S. Artesian
After 40 years “coding” for race, attacking social equality with words like “freedom;” after 40 years of presenting liquidation, asset stripping, decertification of unions, assaults on wages, increases in poverty as “entrepreneurship;” after 40 years of torturing language and meaning (along with persons of darker colors) such that the empty-suit empty-headed Reagan becomes a “revolutionary;”… Continue reading
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Hiding US Role in Yemen Slaughter So Bombing Can Be Sold as ‘Self-Defense’
US destroyers in the Gulf of Aden launched airstrikes against Houthi rebels, a Shia insurgent group currently withstanding a massive bombing campaign from a Saudi-led coalition in a year-and-half conflict between largely Shia rebels and the Saudi-backed Sunni government in Yemen. The Pentagon insisted that cruise missiles had been fired onto the USS Mason on… Continue reading
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“Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having: Selected Articles
12 October 2016 — Global Research “Mutually Assured Destruction”(MAD): The Nuclear Debate America Should be Having By Adeyinka Makinde, October 11 2016 M.A.D. The concept of ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ which posited the prospect of a global catastrophe in the event of a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union was one which permeated the… Continue reading
