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Afghan Election Panel Reports New Evidence of Serious Fraud
KABUL, Afghanistan — Internal reports Tuesday from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission provided new evidence of serious fraud in the country's parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent in …
Tom Engelhardt | One and a Half Cheers for American Decline: The Future’s Not Ours and That’s Good News
Compare two assessments of the American future:
Amid Violence, Afghans Vote
KABUL, Afghanistan — Despite scattered rocket attacks, kidnappings, and explosions, there was a tangible holiday feel in the air as polls opened Saturday morning in the Afghan capital. Shops …
The Ultimate Political No-Brainer
I am beginning to strongly suspect the Democrats in Congress would vastly prefer to lose their majority status come November, rather than continue to carry the apparently onerous burden …
Guitars Not Wars
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only?
Tea Party Wins Could Derail GOP Bid for Senate Control
Washington - The tea party movement's upset victory Tuesday by an insurgent conservative in Delaware's Republican Senate primary puts GOP chances to win control of the U.S. Senate in …
Max Eternity | Guitars Not Wars
What happens when music fails to inspire, but instead entertains only? Is such a thing possible, and is it occurring now? Social justice, politics and music have always been …
Election Day Problems Reported in NYC, Statewide on NY’s New E-Voting Systems
Mayor declares “royal mess” on city's ES&S machines; Probs elsewhere on systems made by Dominion/Sequoia. Election officials, advocates had long warned, were ignored...
Will Tea Party’s Latest Victim Be Delaware’s Rep. Castle?
Washington - Tuesday, the last big primary election day this year, could be the biggest test yet of tea party influence, as the conservative grass-roots movement appears within striking …
Why Millions March in France, but Not in the US
The basic issue is the same there and here. Capitalism generates another of its regular, periodic crises, only this one is really bad. It begins, as often happens, in …