contributions

One of our bloggers sent in this impassioned plea for help from Gary Polvinale, in Sandusky, Ohio. Gary describes how hard people in Ohio are working to make sure that every vote gets counted, and why he’s looking for you to write to the media and demand that they start reporting on the growing list of irregularities being uncovered as the recount moves ahead.
Ohio - Alone and in the dark
Yesterday in 30 degree temperature with winds that knocked me over while I was filming the Ohio (…)

You Intellectual You:
The new word in town is "intellectual." Those people who were embarrassed to be called "liberal" now have a new word to be scared of, the "I" word, "intellectual." Listen to this response I received regarding my 12/15 article "Our Beautiful Horns" () :
"Robin, Dubya won the election, get over it. Your Kafka-esque analogy illustrates your own self-loathing and intellectual dishonesty. Dismissal of the majority rule as being ignorant, selfish, and hypocritical only (…)

by Justin Raimondo
The headlines blared: "Doctors Confirm Yushchenko Poison Claim" - and, yes, even I believed it. But, you know what? It’s a lie. And now the truth is coming out....
I knew there was something fishy about the whole "Yushchenko-was-poisoned-by-the-bad-guys" narrative, even as I blindly accepted the pronouncement of Dr. Michael Zimpfer, of the Rudolfinerhaus clinic in Vienna, that tests had "proved" the poisoning hypothesis, and he now considers the "case closed." To begin (…)

PartI, part III.
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything".
Joseph Stalin
by Manuel Valenzuela
Democracy at Death’s Doorstep
In November 2000 democracy, or the mirage that passed for it, was dismembered, never again allowed to grace America with its cherished principles espousing the power of ‘We the People.’ It was four years ago that democracy inhaled its last breath of (…)

The Cobb-LaMarche legal team is weighing its options after a New Mexico court yesterday reaffirmed a decision by New Mexico’s Democratic Governor Bill Richardson and two colleagues on the New Mexico State Canvassing Board to allow a recount of the state’s presidential ballots, but only if David Cobb and other recount advocates pay $1.4 million by today to cover recount costs. Updates to this story will be posted here later today.
"There’s tremendous grassroots support for the recount and (…)

by ERIC NALDER
For hours last week, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Alex Haley repeatedly radioed the captain of the cargo ship Selendang Ayu, asking him what was wrong with his engines.
They never got a clear answer, said Coast Guard Capt. Jack Davin, who is in charge of marine safety in Alaska.
"It just seemed unusual we couldn’t get an answer," said Davin, who was among the officers at the Juneau command center last week who tried unsuccessfully to find out what was wrong with (…)

by HOWARD W. FRENCH
SHENZHEN, China, Dec. 15 - The scene on the street did not look like much, just the comings and goings of small groups of women from their factory dormitory, with a few lingering here and there in knots to discuss their situation.
Since Friday, though, work has stopped inside the Uniden factory’s walls here, where 12,000 workers, mostly young women from China’s poor interior provinces, make wireless phones, which the Japanese manufacturer supplies in large number to (…)

Action Alert:10 calls Every Day
Calling all Senators to Investigate Voting Fraud in the 2004 Election:
· Voting irregularities have been reported across the country
· Allegations of Voter Intimidation have been filed against members
of both major parties: This is a non-partisan issue
· Ensure that every vote is accounted for and counted
· In a democracy, one flawed election is one too many
For more information visit www.illinoisprogressives.org or contact (…)

Ohio, Fairfield County, suspends recount
At 4 pm today, after failing to get a match of hand counted ballots with punch card tabulator (ESS), two hand counts and two times through machine, after stating they were awaiting a call back from that company to have a new machine delivered, less than 30 seconds later convened a board meeting, voted to suspend recount, to await a new machine from ESS, and recount will be re-done Saturday, same exact precincts, the building is now closed, you are (…)

Respite
December 11-13, 2004
11 Dec. “My list is now 32,” says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, “Now 32 of my friends have been killed.”
He still has tears in his eyes, even though he’s being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed.
“You know I feel like shit every time I add someone to my list. Sometimes it feels like it is every day,” he says.
Welcome to Iraq. Where the news gets better with each passing day.
Heavy fighting is continuing in Fallujah. While the (…)