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Juan Cole on Civil War in Iraq, the Hyping of WMD Intel on
Iran, and How The Lebanon War Has Weakened Israel
Steal This Vote: Andrew Gumbel on the Growing Controversy
Over Electronic Voting Machines
Arlington West: Veterans For Peace Member in California Pays
Homage to Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Juan Cole on Civil War in Iraq, the Hyping of WMD
Intel on Iran, and How The Lebanon War Has Weakened Israel
University of Michigan professor and blogger Juan Cole reviews
recent news from the Middle East and discusses Hugo Chavez’s
“devil” comment at the United Nations. [includes
rush
transcript - partial]
- Juan Cole Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
He runs an analytical website called "Informed
Comment" where he provides a daily round-up of
news and events in Iraq and elsewhere in the Arab world.
Steal This Vote: Andrew Gumbel on the Growing Controversy
Over Electronic Voting Machines
As the governor of Maryland calls for the state to scrap
its electronic voting system and revert to paper ballots,
we talk to the Los Angeles-based reporter Andew Gumbel on
voting scandals and his book “Steal this Vote: Dirty
Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America”
We turn now to look at the continuing controversy surrounding
electronic voting machines. Last week, the governor of Maryland
called for the state to scrap its electronic voting system
and revert to paper ballots for the upcoming November elections.
Governor Robert Ehrlich said such a move was needed because
of technical glitches that occurred during the state’s
primary election earlier this month. In that election, electronic
voting machines built by Diebold repeatedly crashed.
- Andrew Gumbel, journalist with the London Independent
and the author of “Steal this Vote: Dirty Elections
and the Rotten History of Democracy in America” His
latest article about electronic voting will be published
in the Nation magazine next month.
Arlington West: Veterans For Peace Member in California
Pays Homage to Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Stephen Sherrill of Santa Barbara, California, discusses
his Arlington West Memorial where he has planted over 2,700
crosses – one for each dead U.S. soldier in Iraq. [includes
rush
transcript]
The number of U.S military deaths from the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan now surpasses the number of those killed in
the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. This latest
milestone came on Friday when the Pentagon reported the death
of an unidentified solider killed by a roadside bomb in eastern
Baghdad. This brought the death toll of U.S soilders killed
in Iraq and Afghanistan to 2,974. The attacks of 9/11 killed
2,973. Yesterday, as part of our 80-city Breaking the Sound
Barrier tour, we stopped by a Santa Barbara pier in California
where veterans had planted thousands of crosses - one for
each dead US soldier. They call it Arlington West.
- Stephen Sherrill, founder of the Arlington West Memorial
and member of Veterans for Peace
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