Day February 17, 2005

Housekeeping message

I’ve re-posted all previous podcasts, as Polizeros continues to recover from the server crash. Things appear to be ok now. Many thanks to Andy Fragen at Surgical Diversions who spent much time with me trying to determine how to bring back my then seriously…

Podcast: Jim Dolbear of the Voting Systems Institute

Jim Dolbear of the Voting Systems Institute discusses the new initative by Voting System Performance Rating Project to create open, verifiable standards for judging voting systems. VSPR is focused on defining objective ways to measure performance of voting systems. VSPR…

Podcast. Free the Cuban Five

Ian Thompson of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five speaks about their case, the appeals, and the new documentary “Mission Against Terror. The Case of the Cuban Five.” The Cuban Five are serving grotesquely harsh prison terms in…

Ward Churchill. Things are not what they seem to be

Three years ago, Ward Churchill wrote an article right after 9/11 comparing WTC victims to “little Eichmann’s.” The Right found the article, and has been pillorying him, as well as using it as an excuse to attack other academics. So,…