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Battles Over Voter Rights Brewing in Texas
Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times reports: "'Vote or Die,' exhorts the faded slogan on a roadway at Prairie View A&M University, where black students once marched for the right to vote here in... ...
Voter Repression
The Winston-Salem Journal's editorial board writes: "The US Supreme Court has effectively reinstated the poll tax that once kept minorities and the poor from voting, and it did so for no justifiable reason." http://www.truth out.org/article/voter-repr ession http://freepage. twoday.net/search?q=Suprem e+Court ...
Voter ID laws are battleground where democraty is being challenged
License to Vote Anthony Zurcher, of The Texas Observer: "For sheer drama, the battle over a bill requiring Texas voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot at the polls had no equal in... ...
Contact Your Senators To End The Occcupation Funding Now, Once And For All
This last week, the House failed to approve yet another 163 billion dollars in war profiteering, as pushed by Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, but ONLY because so many of you spoke out, that and because... ...
Gitmo trials: Betrayals, backsliding and boycotts
CounterPunch by Andy Worthington 05/18/08 Any one who has kept half an eye on the proceedings at the Military Commissions in Guantanamo — the unique system of trials for ‘terror suspects’ that was conceived... ...
Torture: A bully’s creed
A Shameless Barbarity CounterPunch by Reza Fiyouzat 05/14/08 For the past seven years — and especially since those ghastly pictures from your friendly security providers at Baghram, Abu Ghuraib and... ...
Harriett Miers Says Her Clash With Congress Will Outlast Bush
Max B. Baker, of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram: "Former White House Counsel Harriet Miers predicted that her constitutional clash with Congress over executive privilege and the separation of powers doctrine... ...
McCain and the "Unitary Executive"
Robert Parry writes for The Consortium News: "If John McCain wins the presidency and gets to appoint one or more US Supreme Court justices Americas 220-year experiment as a democratic Republic living under... ...
Supreme Court Conflicts Stop Apartheid Case
Linda Greenhouse, of The New York Times: "The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday. The court couldn't take up an apartheid dispute involving some of the nation's largest companies because... ...
Verizon contract style might extend to health claims
Verizon: It looks like their contracts are a bundle of sharp practice. No specific reference to health in this recent news piece, just some of their many other customer cons. Verizon not upfront on contract... ...