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The throngs of "anti-war" marchers heading to DC to attend the September 24th rally don't know that they are being used. CodePINK and United For Peace and Justice are both prodigy of Global Exchage, the 501(3)c non-profit formed by Global's Medea Benjamin. It's the "Benjamins For Benjamin Weekend"!. Using the attraction of a Hate America event to lure attendees, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin's cash cow, Global Exchange, has scheduled one of it's "Green Festivals" for the same weekend and is running it in competition with the anti-war events scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. How convenient? How many people will...

Well, it seems the 2016 election will take another annoying and unnecessary turn since Wisconsin has granted Green Party candidate Jill SteinÂ’s petition to recount the votes, despite no fraud or voter discrepancies that would warrant such a course of action. Yet, one thing is driving liberals insane to no end: Donald Trump won the election. Stein also got back up from the Reform Party, whose candidate; Rocky De La Fuente also filed a recount petition (via WaPo): An election recount will take place soon in Wisconsin, after former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein filed a petition Friday with...

Detention transformed doctor into man of peace Saudi carries no bitterness home as he ends San Antonio stay 05/25/2002 By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News SAN ANTONIO - Dr. Al-Badr Al-Hazmi sits easily on the carpeted floor of the mosque. He speaks with a soft intensity, the words spilling out as he describes the day his life was turned upside down. Stony-faced FBI agents whisked him from his San Antonio home a day after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was flown to New York and secreted in a detention cell for nearly two weeks. Like hundreds...

American "expatriate" Greg Palast published an article in the UK's left wing "Guardian" on Monday: "explaining" how the GOP "stole" the Mid-term elections ! (Talk about being stuck on "Stupid" !)

by Greg Palast for The Guardian (UK), Comment Monday November 6, 2006 Here's how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen. Note the past tense. And I'm not kidding. And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means. For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty...

<p>Here?s how the 2006 mid-term election was stolen.</p> <p>Note the past tense. And I?m not kidding.</p> <p>And shoot me for saying this, but it won?t be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they?ll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.</p>

Yes, the rumor’s true. Greg Palast is facing a criminal complaint from the Department of Homeland Security stemming from his filming the Hurricane Katrina investigation for Link TV and Democracy Now. The film’s producer, Matt Pascarella, is also facing the legal wrath of Big Brother. It appears the complaint is about filming a sensitive national security site owned by Exxon petroleum. It seems that photographing major Bush donors is now a federal offense. Reached at an undisclosed location, Palast says, “Let’s not get over-excited. They haven’t measured us for our orange suits yet.” During questioning by Homeland Security, Palast asked,...

There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party, proclaimed yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was Mexico's first "clean" election. But that requires we close our eyes to some very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games played in Florida in 2000. And indeed, evidence suggests that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist. Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida, I reported in the Guardian that its governor, Jeb Bush, had ordered...

As in Florida in 2000, and as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive candidate. The race is "officially" too close to call. But they will call it - after they steal it. Reuters reports that, as of 8pm eastern time, as voting concluded in Mexico, exit polls showed Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the "leftwing" party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) leading in exit polls over Felipe Calderón of the ruling conservative National Action party (PAN). We've said again and again: exit polls tell us how voters say they voted, but the...

INTERVIEW WITH A “PROGRESSIVE” JOURNALIST This morning, I’ve decided to do something different in The Morning Paper by interviewing one of the “Progressive” journalists who so enrich our Internet experience. My guest is Rancid (Rance) De Mento ,whose website – bashdubyadaily.org – I happened to spot while browsing the English language page of Al-Behedder Online – which, as you may surmise,is popular in the Arab-speaking world. TMP: Mr. De Mento, I could not help but see your featured article in Al-Behedder today: BUSH PLANS TO NUKE MECCA,SEIZE OILFIELDS ! I must say it seems a bit… De Mento (Chuckles) Startling...

Welcome to the “Mickey Moore Club “ !! (With apologies to Walt Disney Studios, whoever wrote the music , etc. ) Let’s hear it, Maestro ! Who’s the leader of the club That’s hateful as can be ? Mic-key M-o-o-r-e ! Now why would I sing a song like that ? Thought you’d never ask. Here’s what “Mickey” wrote on September 12,2001 . ( He subsequently deleted it from his website, but one of the “peace” groups made a copy. I assume, since he threw it away, he won’t mind if I show it to you.) Death, Downtown by Michael...

HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT ? (Be careful what you wish for !) There is no denying NY Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has the intelligence,presence, determination,and political connections to be a viable candidate for President in 2008. Picture,if you will,this scenario.The Democratic Party responds favorably to the idea of a woman in the Oval Office,and,out of the blue,the one woman who could compete with Hillary Clinton-Condaleeza Rice-announces she would be delighted to serve as Senator Clinton's running mate!The announcement takes the world by storm. Sisterhood is Powerful ! Even snarky Left-wing commentators like Greg Palast and Michael Moore fall silent. Who cares...

Friday, June 17, 2005 DARFUR ON MY MIND Greg Palast, Michael Moore,Progressive Politics and Genocide Perfect Together !! A story by Ruth Gidley appeared on Reuters Alert Net pages on 06/15/05 : "Oil Discovery Adds New Twist to Darfur Tragedy" http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/reliefresources/111885496661.htm The author was apparently surprised to discover there was oil in Darfur,and to learn that its presence - on the killing fields - might be a motive for the killing. She was compelled to admit the United States has no interest in the oil,and, after,a bit of dancing around,admitted China might be one of the interested parties. Gee !...

'Here it is. The smoking gun. The memo that has "IMPEACH HIM" written all over it. 'The top-level government memo marked "SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL," dated eight months before Bush sent us into Iraq, following a closed meeting with the President, reads, "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." 'Read that again: "The intelligence and facts were being fixed . . . ."

Britsh columnist Greg Palast, who fancies himself as a kind of Michael Moore for across the pond, insists in today's column that John Kerry won the majority of the vote in Ohio, and -- at least by his reckoning -- won the election.Palast tries to use CNN's exit polling data to justify his outlandish position, completely ignoring the actual counts from the state Secretary of State's office. He incredibly attempts to use the race card to further bolster his insane position.At 1:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47...

Kerry Won by Greg Palast Kerry won. Here's the facts. I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad. But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry. Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent. Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters...

Alan Skorski is a hero, cant wait to read his Franken book...This is too good to be true. Monday, Oct. 11, 2004 9:57 a.m. EDT Dan Rather: CBS's Michael Moore Could it be that "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather has lower journalistic standards than even Michael Moore, whose conspiracy film "Fahrenheit 9/11" may be a model piece of political propaganda, but doesn't come close to qualifying as "journalism"? Last week the web site Ratherbiased.com quote Moore saying he rejected the same forged military records Rather used in his disastrous Sept. 8 broadcast to trash President Bush. "Back when I...

Alan Skorski is a hero, cant wait to read his Franken book...This is too good to be true. Monday, Oct. 11, 2004 9:57 a.m. EDT Dan Rather: CBS's Michael Moore Could it be that "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather has lower journalistic standards than even Michael Moore, whose conspiracy film "Fahrenheit 9/11" may be a model piece of political propaganda, but doesn't come close to qualifying as "journalism"? Last week the web site Ratherbiased.com quote Moore saying he rejected the same forged military records Rather used in his disastrous Sept. 8 broadcast to trash President Bush. "Back when I...

Alan Skorski is a hero, cant wait to read his Franken book...This is too good to be true. Monday, Oct. 11, 2004 9:57 a.m. EDT Dan Rather: CBS's Michael Moore Could it be that "CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather has lower journalistic standards than even Michael Moore, whose conspiracy film "Fahrenheit 9/11" may be a model piece of political propaganda, but doesn't come close to qualifying as "journalism"? Last week the web site Ratherbiased.com quote Moore saying he rejected the same forged military records Rather used in his disastrous Sept. 8 broadcast to trash President Bush. "Back when I...

<p>"If I promise you the Moon and the Stars, Would you believe it?</p> <p>Games people play in the middle of the night" - Alan Parsons Project, "Games People Play"</p> <p>The recent fiasco experienced by the New York Times over the creative writing exploits of Jayson Blair should have served as a warning to journalists to be careful over the information they publish. A news outfit depends upon its credibility, just as surely as our society depends upon news reporting in order for people to make judgments over their own governance. Yet it appears that some lessons are not easily learned, as was recently demonstrated by some events which are to this moment still unfolding.</p>