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05.17 Why American Colleges Are Becoming a Force for Inequality
05.17 Why Private Schools Are Dying Out
Ref. : Letters to the editor
05.18 Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection
05.17 New Jersey Hospital Is the Costliest in the Nation
05.17 Angelina Jolie has done something extraordinary
05.17 Obama must Make Fighting Climate Change National Project, or Die the death of a thousand Scandals
05.17 Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier
05.16 What Will It Take for Us to Recognize That the Way We Live Could Be Destroying Life as We Know It?
05.16 How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach
05.15 Don't Look Now, but Our Medicare Spending Projections Are Plummeting
05.15 No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet
05.15 Why the world faces climate chaos
05.14 US Supreme Court finds for Monsanto in seed patent battle (Update 2)
05.13 Austerity and the Unraveling of European Universal Health Care
05.13 Global Warming: Halfway to a Mass Extinction Event?
05.13 Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
05.12 The giants of the green world that profit from the planet's destruction
05.11 Psychiatrists under fire in mental health battle
Video Health Care Systems in Less Corrupt Countries
05.11 Ongoing rule: Once a demon, always a demon!
05.11 FCC: Fronting For Corporations?
05.11 FCC: Fronting For Corporations?
05.11 The news media is even worse than you think
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05.18 Senator wants U.S. in oil price-fixing probe
05.18 Timothy Geithner Is Key To IRS Scandal
05.16 Why Won't the SEC Rein In the Firms That Tanked America's Economy?
05.16 Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
05.15 The IRS should do more, not less, scrutinizing of political groups
05.15 Did the IRS illegally target the Tea Party? Seven questions answered.
05.14 IRS kept shifting targets in tax-exempt groups scrutiny: report
05.12 Authorities Announce tax Haven Investigation
05.17 The Great American Descent into Plutocracy
05.17 The Real Benghazi Scandal
05.16 Take Politics Away From the I.R.S.
05.16 Should 501(c)(4)’s Be Eliminated?
05.16 What We Mean When We Say 'Race Is a Social Construct'
05.12 The Assault on Food Stamps Takes Legislative Form, and Jamie Dimon Profits!
05.11 The Military’s 40-Year Experiment
05.11 Student Debt Slows Growth as Young Spend Less
05.11 'Purity' culture: bad for women, worse for survivors of sexual assault
05.11 At Least 71 Kids Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown
05.11 Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement Address [15:05 video]
05.11 The Good, the Bad and the Crazy [6:05 video]
05.18 Pope blames tyranny of capitalism for making people miserable[1:00 video]
05.18 A Simple Graph That Should Silence Austerians and Gold Bugs Forever [graph]
05.18 The Savings Heist
05.18 Sheila Krumholz and Danielle Brian on How Money Rules Washington [20:31 video]
05.14 10 Scenes From The Economic Collapse That Is Sweeping Across The Planet
05.14 The Vicious New Bank Shakedown That Could Seriously Ruin Your Life
05.14 Neo-liberalism – the antithesis to democracy [charts]
05.14 Bloomberg: "Coup d’Etat to Trade Seen in Billionaire Toxic Lead Fight"
05.13 Mel Watt, Nominee to Head FHFA, Opposes Administration by Voting to Deregulate Derivatives
05.12 IRS Blunder Gives Republicans Ammunition in Effort to Defund the Agency
05.12 Visualizing the World’s Tax Havens [Infographic]
05.11 A New Era for Worker Ownership, 5 Years in the Making
Ref. : Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair [25:35 video]
Ref. : Nurses vs. High-Speed Traders
Ref. : We’re More Unequal Than You Think – Graphic: Unequal rise in income
05.18 Hans Rosling: the man who's making data cool [3:19 video]
05.18 Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent
05.17 Egypt 'suffering worst economic crisis since 1930s'
05.16 Catholic Church Finally Decides That Austerity is Bad
05.15 Retirement: How They Do It Elsewhere
05.15 Europeans disillusioned and divided by debt crisis, survey finds
05.14 Interview: NATO Supreme Allied Commander on Syria and Soft Power
05.14 Spain is officially insolvent: get your money out while you still can
05.14 Cayman Islands Spars With Sachs Over Hedge Fund Directorships
05.13 Cornel West: 'They say I'm un-American'
05.13 27% of Spaniards are out of work. Yet in one town everyone has a job
05.11 U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars ... That It Will Publicly Admit
05.11 Tax evasion still crippling Africa as rich countries fail to deliver support
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COMMENTARY:
Flawed Voting in our Democracy
Mr. Palast’s most recent book, Armed Madhouse, details how votes of African Americans can be challenged in a process referred to as “caging.” Independent analysis of so-called “spoiled” votes in the 2004 election showed that the chances of a black vote being spoiled and not counted (blacks vote 90% democratic) was 500 times more likely than the spoilage of a Latino vote (Latinos vote about 40% Republican). Even the votes of black soldiers serving in Iraq were successfully challenged when they returned to the states. Not having enough voting machines or functioning machines in predominantly black districts and poor neighborhoods, or at liberal colleges; stopping and searching cars with black occupants on the way to the polls; searching the households of blacks for potential voting fraud; not allowing election day to be a holiday or not extending the time for voting or having voting on weekends; not allowing D.C. to have representation in the Senate: all are ways of suppressing the black democratic vote. Gerrymandering and voter picture I.D.s, (many poor blacks don’t drive and may not have picture I.D.s) or some other test of voter eligibility, are more traditional tactics.
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This story was published on June 29, 2006.
