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REWRITING OUR ROTTEN HISTORY OF ELECTIONS
Matthew Wheeland, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/32262/

EXCERPT: HOW TO STEAL AN ELECTION
Andrew Gumbel, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/32084/

WILL THE WHISTLES BLOW BEFORE WE ATTACK IRAN?
Ray McGovern, AlterNet
We need a whistleblower with the courage to speak out loudly, and early enough to prevent the Bush administration from getting us into another unnecessary war.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/32251/

DICK CHENEY GOES HUNTING
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Of course the Cheney shooting was an accident, but it still helps illustrate the Bush administration's curiously shifting history on issues of blame and responsibility.
http://www.alternet.org/story/32240/

MEDICARE PLAN BENEFITS INDUSTRY, NOT SENIORS
Erin Cassin, The NewStandard
Although the new Medicare drug plan can cut costs to beneficiaries who navigate its bureaucratic maze, critics say it's costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/32265/

MESSAGE FROM "TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION" - International Campaign to *STOP* the War on Iran before it starts!

Sign the statement .. http://stopwaroniran.org/petition.shtml

It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S.war--this time against the people of Iran. The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need forthe U.S. to take military action. These reports recall the....

http://stopwaroniran.org/donate.shtml

StopWarOnIran.org, a grassroots effort, has launched a massive public education campaign to oppose the drive towards a new war against the people of Iran. As part of this effort, we need your help to place this full page ad in major newspapers across the U.S. "Weapons of Mass Destruction" stories issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq. In the lead up to the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration asserted that Iraq possessed massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and that it was capable of launching an attack - nuclear, chemical and biological - on the U.S. within 45 minutes. President Bush said that the U.S. had to attack immediately, and could not "wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun --that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." We all know now that this propaganda campaign was a complete fabrication created to justify a war of aggression.

Now we see reports that are all too similar being made to justify military action against the people of Iran. Taking Iran to the UN Security Council is a prelude for unilateral action. Just as in the case of Iraq, none of the claims made by the U.S. government stand up to unbiased scrutiny. Iran has submitted to the most intrusive and humiliating inspections, above and beyond what is required by Nuclear Weapons Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). None of the inspections have found any evidence that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons program. There is only one government that has used nuclear weapons against civilian populations, and that same nation has the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction on the planet. Most dangerous and incredible it is at this very moment developing a new generation of tactical nuclear weapons that it intends to use, not merely to threaten. That country is, of course, the United States. Shouldn't any real discussion of the dangers of nuclear weapons include the weapons stockpiled by the Pentagon and the history of U.S. aggression and interventions?

Iran has suffered greatly at the hands of the U.S. We recall the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Dr. M. Mossadegh and returned the Shah to the Peacock Throne "the proudest achievement of the CIA". For 25 years the Shah ruled Iran with an iron fist for the benefit of U.S. oil corporations before the people of Iran, in the millions, overthrew his tyranny at a terrible cost in lives. For the past 27 years U.S. sanctions have impeded Iran's right to development and brought great suffering to the people. It is essential that all voices opposed to the devastation of a new war in the Middle East speak out now. We urge an immediate end to Washington's campaign of sanctions, hostility, and falsehood against the people of Iran. We oppose any new U.S. aggression against Iran. We need funds for human needs, not endless war for empire.