Diebold Added Secret Patch to Georgia E-Voting Systems in 2002, Whistleblowers Say
Top Diebold corporation officials ordered workers to install secret files to Georgia's electronic voting machines shortly before the 2002 Elections, at least two whistleblowers are now asserting, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
The Do-Nothing Congress
Even by recent standards, the Republican-run 109th Congress set some sort of dubious record for inaction. Remember that, now that they’re campaigning.
Capitalism Kills: Mad Cow, Crime, Salt, and Suicide
The free enterprise system, aka the free market, aka capitalism, is an economic system, as we all know, that is dedicated to maximizing profits at any cost.
George Bush vs. the Gospel of Matthew
According to the gospel of Matthew, it came to pass that Pontius Pilate said to Jesus, “Do you not hear all this evidence that is brought against you?” for even in those days of rudimentary justice a man had the right to hear the charges of his accusers.
Amy Goodman Scolds Corporate Media during Atlanta Speech
'The media has been part and parcel of the propaganda machine that was cranked up five years ago on 9/11 and is still churning and well-oiled today,' David Goodman told an audience of 400 at an WRFG fundraiser at the First Iconium Baptist Church, on Monday, September 18, 2006.
Nuclear Winter, Global Warming, or Impeachment
We are sending missiles to Iran on a ship departing my home state of Virginia next week, and the water the ship will be passing through is warmer than it used to be, and there's more of it.
Words that will echo in the White House
The Bush administration last week put to Congress legislation that would give immunity from prosecution for war crimes to CIA operatives and others who engage in “tough” interrogations of prisoners.
Murdoch Almighty: When Public Loses Opinion
People imagine that their opinions are their own, not those of corporate moguls who compete to colonise the public sphere. We are not as free in thought as we think.
An Open Letter to My Old Harvard Classmate, Tom Ridge
Dr. Andrew Bard Schmookler asks Tom Ridge, his old Harvard classmate, to speak out against the Bush administration. Ridge, the author writes, seemed an earnest young man rather than a sophisticated cynic. Now, Schmookler wants to know if he saw his old classmate correctly during their days at Quincy House.
FBI agents say US using wrong interrogation methods
FBI agents responsible for getting a confidant of Osama Bin Laden to betray Al Qaeda's innermost secrets say the Bush administration's rough interrogation tactics employed against other captives since 9/11 are the wrong approach.
