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Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question
Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression. Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia's inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors (...)
By C. J. CHIVERS and ELLEN BARRY
Le vendredi 14 novembre 2008, transmis par
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US Elections : Phony flier advises Dems to vote Nov. 5
Virginia state officials are advising residents to disregard a phony state flier advising Democrats to vote on Nov. 5, a day after the actual election. The flier, which is designed to look somewhat like a State Board of Elections document, has been distributed in several Hampton Roads, Va., locations, the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday.
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Le dimanche 2 novembre 2008, transmis par
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US Elections : Ontario police arrest man in voter fraud case
Jacoby's arrest by state investigators and the Ontario Police Department late Saturday came after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by people employed by YPM. The voters said YPM workers tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters.
By Evan Halper
Le dimanche 2 novembre 2008, transmis par
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US Elections - Frauds : Ballots picked up, then disappear
Three Hialeah voters say they had an unusual visitor at their homes last week : a man who called himself Juan, offering to help them fill out their absentee ballots and deliver them to the elections office. The voters, all supporters of Democratic congressional candidate Raul Martinez, said they gave their ballots to the man after he told them he worked for Martinez. But the Martinez campaign said he doesn't work for them. Juan ''told me not to worry, that they normally collected all the (...)
BY LAURA FIGUEROA AND SCOTT HIAASEN
Le dimanche 2 novembre 2008, transmis par
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La Cour des comptes épingle les dépenses des députés
Lors des 10 dernières années, les dépenses de l'Assemblée nationale ont progressé de 47%, soit de près de 10 points de plus que les dépenses du budget général de l'Etat et près de 30 points de plus que l'inflation. C'est ce qu'indique un rapport de la Cour des comptes, cité par le Journal du Dimanche paru le 2 novembre. Selon l'hebdomadaire qui publie un résumé de ce document, "les investissements importants, notamment en matière de travaux" avec la réfection de deux immeubles de bureaux (...)
Le dimanche 2 novembre 2008, transmis par
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Ecuador accuses CIA of infiltrating its military
An Ecuadorian presidential commission has concluded that U.S. intelligence services infiltrated the Andean nation's military and police and supported a cross-border incursion by Colombian troops that killed a top rebel commander. Following the attack on a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, camp inside Ecuador on March 1, President Rafael Correa accused the CIA of infiltrating his nation's intelligence services and appointed a commission to investigate.
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Le vendredi 31 octobre 2008, transmis par
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USA - Block the Vote : Republican desire to fraud the Presidential Election
In state after state, Republican operatives - the party's elite commandos of bare-knuckle politics - are wielding new federal legislation to systematically disenfranchise Democrats. If this year's race is as close as the past two elections, the GOP's nationwide campaign could be large enough to determine the presidency in November. "I don't think the Democrats get it," says John Boyd, a voting-rights attorney in Albuquerque who has taken on the Republican Party for impeding access to the (...)
By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST -US-
Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008, transmis par
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USA - Beyond Diebold : 10 Ways to Steal This Election
Tactics to deny Americans the right to vote are as old as, well, the right to vote. Democrats have been at fault in the past-take the literacy tests Southern states used to deprive blacks of their suffrage from the Civil War up through 1965. Today's shenanigans-which still target minorities and vulnerable first-time voters-are more often designed to stifle Democratic turnout, perhaps never more than in 2008. "This is obviously an important election, and the turnout may break records," says (...)
By Sasha Abramsky -US-
Le jeudi 23 octobre 2008, transmis par
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US Elections : Foreclosure Victims May Lose Votes as Well
An alleged purge of registered voters, many of whom lost their homes to bank foreclosure, in the state of Michigan has prompted a lawsuit and calls in Congress for a Justice Department investigation. At the centre of this possible election debacle in Michigan, where Democrat Sen. Barack Obama is leading his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, is Republican Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land, who has been criticised in the past by a federal judge for restricting access to 'provisional (...)
By Bankole Thompson -USA-
Le mercredi 15 octobre 2008, transmis par
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Secrets of Iraq's death chamber
Like all wars, the dark, untold stories of the Iraqi conflict drain from its shattered landscape like the filthy waters of the Tigris. And still the revelations come. The Independent has learnt that secret executions are being carried out in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's "democratic" government. The hangings are carried out regularly - from a wooden gallows in a small, cramped cell - in Saddam Hussein's old intelligence headquarters at Kazimiyah. There is no public record of these (...)
By Robert Fisk -UK-
Le jeudi 9 octobre 2008, transmis par
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Bush had no plan to catch Bin Laden
New evidence from former United States officials reveals that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders were able to skip Afghanistan for Pakistan unimpeded in the first weeks after September 11, 2001, as the George W Bush administration failed to plan to block their retreat. Top administration officials instead gave priority to planning for war with Iraq, leaving the United States with not nearly enough troops or strategic airlift capacity to close the large number of possible exit routes (...)
By Gareth Porter -HK-
Le mercredi 1er octobre 2008, transmis par
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Israel asked US for green light to bomb nuclear sites in Iran
Israel gave serious thought this spring to launching a military strike on Iran's nuclear sites but was told by President George W Bush that he would not support it and did not expect to revise that view for the rest of his presidency, senior European diplomatic sources have told the Guardian. The then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, used the occasion of Bush's trip to Israel for the 60th anniversary of the state's founding to raise the issue in a one-on-one meeting on May 14, the sources said. (...)
By Jonathan Steele -UK-
Le vendredi 26 septembre 2008, transmis par
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The Next President : Mastering a Daunting Agenda
The next president will inherit leadership of a nation that is still the most powerful in the world -- a nation rich with the continued promise of its dynamic and increasingly diverse population, a nation that could, and must, again inspire, mobilize, and lead the world. At the same time, the next president will inherit a more difficult opening-day set of international problems than any of his predecessors have since at least the end of World War II. In such circumstances, his core challenge (...)
By Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Le samedi 20 septembre 2008, transmis par
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ACLU sues state over voter purging programs
The ACLU and a national student group have sued Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land to halt two statewide voter purging programs that they say could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of state voters before the November presidential election. "We have repeatedly advised Secretary Land's office that these voter purge programs are unlawful, yet they have refused to bring their practices into compliance," said Bradley Heard, senior attorney with the Advancement Project, which joined (...)
By David Ashenfelter
Le samedi 20 septembre 2008, transmis par
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Le Génocide Rwandais questionne la démocratie française
Car ce qui ressort de chaque page du rapport, c'est que son niveau d'implication, depuis octobre 1990, est tel que la France ne pouvait ignorer ce qui se passait en temps réel au Rwanda. Dans le contexte de l'époque, on redécouvre que chaque décision a été prise à l'aune des grands préjugés géopolitiques français avec pour dogme « la menace Tutsi ». Si elle n'avait été rédigée par l'une des parties en présence, cette relation des faits deviendrait l'une des « bibles » historiques du (...)
Par Isabelle Méricourt
Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008, transmis par
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