[Video] BBC-TV: Is the 2008 Presidential Election already fixed?
Or watch it, beginning Friday night, at www.Gregpalast.com.
Newsnight investigative reporter Greg Palast travels from the Native pueblos of New Mexico to the war-zone of the 8 Mile neighborhood of Detroit to meet some of the three million voters who have been disappeared by a GOP campaign draining voter rolls of the poor, the dark-skinned, the defenseless.
In Detroit, Palast is bounced out of the local McCain headquarters – housed under the black flag (literally) of foreclosure profiteers. We meet Robert Pratt, a union worker, who fears he will lose his home – and his vote.
Are the Republicans turning a economic devastation into an electoral bonanza?
BBC Reporter Palast follows the path of investigation laid out by civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – encountering along the way the Republican Party lawyers, funders – and Karl Rove. The GOP charges that the Democrats have registered five million fraudulent voters, a claim backed by a recent US government report.
Palast meets the report’s author – who claims her words were turned upside down. And they went to court to stop her from speaking out.
Democrats don’t have clean hands either, as Palast discloses: from the Acoma Pueblo, we find Natives (almost all Democrats) who’ve had their ballots illegally junked by local Democrats.
But whichever party attacks the poor, it’s McCain that’s the winner.
Newsnight is the British Broadcasting Corporations premier current affairs show. Broadcast earlier this week in London, it exposed the story of the mass purge of voters in Colorado, re-reported in the New York Times.
The show will be repeated 8am Eastern on Sunday.
Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are co-authors of “Steal Back Your Vote” the investigative comic book and voter guide – available at StealBackYourVote.org. Jesse Jackson says “download it – and fight back.”
Funding for the investigations was provided by the Nation Institute/Puffin Foundation.
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There’s new life in the accountability movement! The People v Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way (Chelsea Green) has just been published. Author Charlotte Dennett will be in Cambridge January 20 at the Harvard Bookstore at 7 pm to discuss it and the following day, January 21, at 7 p.m. in New York City at the 92nd St Y. Vincent Bulgiosi is flying all the way from the west coast and will join Naomi Wolf in helping her launch the book on the 21st.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z36QvFc2lhc
Vote,Nader/Gonzalez 2008
Mccain/Palin nothin’ but serious problems?
Obama/Biden fundraiser guilty of corruption problem?
Lets rid of the these sour egg contestants,Why more coruption inour election
again.
impeach!impeach!impeach!is the biggest issue of the election.