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,…

Podcast: Jim Lafferty on the Lynne Stewart case

Jim Lafferty speaks on “What does the Lynne Stewart Case mean to the movement?” He is is the Executive Director of the National Lawyers Guild in L.A and a long-time friend of Lynne Stewart. He spoke at an ANSWER LA…

We’re back after a server crash

We are recovering from a server crash and a mangled version of Radio Userland, the software that runs this blog. I’ve restored from a backup two weeks old and thus lost those entries. However, I saved the important ones and will repost them…

Well put indeed

Soros blasts Kerry Billionaire investor George Soros — who spent $26 million in the failed effort to defeat President Bush — said challenger John Kerry was “a flawed candidate,” Bloomberg reports. Said Soros: “Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible…

‘Global warming bigger threat than terrorism’

DAVOS, Switzerland — The danger from global warming is the biggest ever threat the earth is facing, scientific, government and industry experts said in sessions at the World Economic Forum the past three days. This, mind you, comes from the…