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• • 20 Jun 06
  • 3:59 pm

  The fact that there were voter irregularities in 1960 in no way justifies the same behavior of the Bush campaign in 2000 and 2004. I know that the logic of two wrongs do not make a right appalls conservatives who would enjoy seeing the U.S. turn into a fascist military dicatorship that annihilates the Middle East, Cuba, and Venezuela, but I believe in a better world. How many millions died when the U.S. suppressed the leftist grassroots uprising in Indonesia in 1965 and installed Suharto. How about all the deaths in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Vietnam, and now Iraq? The U.S. has …

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• • 22 Jun 06
  • 12:53 pm

  This excerpt from a recent article on tompaine.com summarizes nicely the tactics the GOP used to help steal the presidential election in Ohio in 2004: "Start with the run-up to Election Day. Acting under orders from a partisan Republican Secretary of State, J. Kenneth Blackwell, who also co-chaired the state’s Bush-Cheney campaign, local officials purged 300,000 voters from the state between 2000 and 2004. Did Democratic groups registering new voters in the summer of 2004 know they were playing catch-up, not getting ahead, with registration? No. Did these same groups know which precincts in minority and other Democratic strongholds would receive …

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• • 22 Jun 06
  • 1:05 pm

  Scorp said: "And free-market economics in a democratic environment consistently delivers jobs, growth, and efficiency unparalleled in the world." The problem with that statement is that the United States has consistently favored autocracy that allows unfettered foreign investment over democratic movements in nations that promote socialism. The U.S. helped Suharto to massacre the left-wing social movements in Indonesia in the 1960s, which from that point on contained the "virus" of leftist nationalism in Southeast Asia. Look at the horrors the U.S. bought to Cuba after Castro came to power in 1959, or the decades long atrocities the U.S. funded in Nicaragua, …

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• • 06 Jun 06
  • 9:31 am

  Great, idiot right-wingers from the Indiana Congressional delegation once again represent my home state shamefully and tar the image of Indiana through the mud. Burton is a disgrace and represents the darkest form of the War on Drugs. An irrational obsession with the failed project leads to him supporting insane laws such as the one described in the article.

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• • 06 Jun 06
  • 9:57 am

  It never was, not that I know of. Crystal meth is more of a problem, but that is made in the basements of farmhouses out here, not imported from South America.

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