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Pull the Plug on E-Voting
Part I: If voting by computer is inherently untrustworthy and in practice poorly crafted, overpriced, prone to breakdowns and wide open to subversion, basically less accurate than counting by hand, then... ...
The evening of empire
CounterPunch by Werther 10/23/06 If the geographic situation of the United States, in the sense of the contrast between its far-flung (if futile) imperial ventures and its utter breakdown as a sovereign... ...
Major Problems At Polls Feared
Some Officials Say Voting Law Changes And New Technology Will Cause Trouble By Dan Balz and Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, September 17, 2006; A01 http://www.washingtonpos t.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/09/16/AR2006091600 885.html... ...
Amazonian tribe protests at oil pollution
Indigenous communities of the Peruvian Amazon are stepping up their campaign against oil companies, as the BBC's Dan Collyns reports from the capital, Lima. Peru's Amazon state, Loreto, takes up almost... ...
Why the Numbers Don't Add Up in Iraq
The Pentagon's fondness for secrecy along with partisan agendas in Baghdad often lead to contortions with death tolls and other details. http://www.infor mationclearinghouse.info/a rticle14919.htm Marine. .. ...
Bush Declares Eco-Whistleblower Law Void for EPA Employees
The Bush administration has declared itself immune from whistleblower protections for federal workers under the Clean Water Act, according to legal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental... ...
Baffled drivers 'fobbed off' by car key puzzle
Baffled Cubbington motorists have been experiencing strange goings-on with their cars over the past week and everyone is at a loss as to what or who is causing the problems. Since Saturday morning neighbours... ...
US Accused of "Stone-Walling" as World Trade Talks Collapse
Global free trade talks, billed as a once-in-a-generation chance to boost growth and ease poverty, collapsed on Monday after nearly five years of haggling, and resuming them could take years. The suspension... ...
When the horror of Iraq become to much for a soldier to bear?
By Neil Makay MORE than 6000 men and women have deserted from the US army since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. In the British forces, the figure stands at around 1000. The soldiers are leaving because... ...
Marine's wife paints portrait of US troops out of control in Haditha
The marine unit involved in the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November had suffered a "total breakdown" in discipline and had drug and alcohol problems, according to the wife of one of the... ...