With the DNC over and the temperamental limelight now hovering towards McCain’s more than slightly surprising VP choice and the impending (weather-based, obstacle ridden?) Republican National Convention, the GOP doesn’t seem to be having their expected grand old party lashing out against the Obama campaign…today. But the day is young and the elephants have [...]
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The Burmese government has rigging votes down to an art. In the aftermath of protests demanding political reform, the Burmese junta is holding a referendum on its new constitution. The vote represents the junta’s way of appeasing the international community by pretending to enact democratic reforms. The referendum will be May 10, and advance voting [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of Burmese monks and civilians have spent the past week marching in cities across the country, demanding change. They want an end to the repressive, tyrannical rule of the junta. They want free and fair elections.
These are the biggest protests in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the junta) since 1988, when the army [...]
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Pushing Off:
“I’m getting married in three days! But wait, I’m already married…”
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