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Mary Pitt: On The Other Foot.......
Friday, 11 February 2005, 11:04 am | William Rivers Pitt
In meetings regarding business and public policy, we are encouraged to ''put the shoe on the other foot'', to ''think outside the box'', to explore ways to solve problems by considering things that have never been done before. More >>
Will Pitt: The State Of The State Of The Union
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 11:01 am | William Rivers Pitt
Well, the time has come again to sit through another session with George. It is interesting to note how this constitutionally-mandated rap session with congress has changed over the years. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Story of the Ghost
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 1:27 pm | William Rivers Pitt
''United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.'' - NYT September 4, 1967 More >>
Ordinary Heroes and the Rising Power of the Roots
Friday, 28 January 2005, 4:11 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Kevin Spidel was National Field Director for the Kucinich for President campaign, served as a field organizer for Amnesty International, and currently serves as Deputy National Director for Progressive Democrats of America , which he co-founded in the ... More >>
FYI: Kerry Calls For Rumsfeld To Be Fired
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 10:20 am | William Rivers Pitt
Mr. President, I was surprised and disappointed that you told the Washington Post last week that no Bush administration official should be held accountable for our failures in Iraq. More >>
Interview from Camp Kerry
Tuesday, 11 January 2005, 12:30 am | William Rivers Pitt
I spent some time today with Cameron Kerry, the younger brother of Senator John Kerry. A May 04 2004 Boston Herald article on Cam Kerry described him this way: "He doesn't draw screaming headlines or grab face time on the political talk show circuit, but ... More >>
Conyers To Object To Ohio Electors, Seeks Allies
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:51 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Representative John Conyers, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will object to the counting of the Ohio Electors from the 2004 Presidential election when Congress convenes to ratify those votes on January 6th. More >>
W. Rivers Pitt: Kerry to Enter Ohio Recount Fray
Friday, 24 December 2004, 11:22 am | William Rivers Pitt
2004 Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry will file today, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, papers in support of the Green Party/Libertarian Party recount effort. Specifically, Kerry will be filing ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: It Will All Be Over Soon
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 3:20 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Everyone can relax. This thing is clearly getting ready to wind down. Ask the brilliant minds up at the Pentagon. Back in April 2003, a formal Pentagon planning session stated emphatically that the U.S. occupation of Iraq would be coming to an end in ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Proof Of Ohio Election Fraud
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 3:46 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Among activists and investigators looking into allegations of vote fraud in the 2004 Presidential election, the company always mentioned was Diebold and its suspicious electronic touch-screen voting machines. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Greene County Lockdown
Tuesday, 14 December 2004, 10:43 am | William Rivers Pitt
There are people out there who think we are crazy, who think we are bitter-enders, sore losermen, conspiracy theorists and tinfoil hatters. We just cannot accept the outcome of a truly legitimate American election, and we are flailing about like pathetic ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: From Selma to Ohio
Friday, 10 December 2004, 1:38 pm | William Rivers Pitt
It looked for all the world like a real hearing. Along the far wall were arrayed Congressional Representatives from the Judiciary Committee. Before them at a long table sat witnesses and experts in front of microphones, prepared to give testimony ... More >>
Conyers To Hold Hearings On Ohio Vote Fraud
Monday, 6 December 2004, 12:21 am | William Rivers Pitt
Democratic Representative John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, ranking Minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will hold a hearing on Wednesday 08 December 2004 to investigate allegations of vote fraud and irregularities in Ohio during the 2004 ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: The Ethic of Total Opposition
Friday, 3 December 2004, 4:57 pm | William Rivers Pitt
I was sitting at the bar the other day with Hannah, talking politics over a mug. I commented that morale among those in the progressive movement had cratered since the Presidential election, that the energy and hopefulness which had marked the long ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Saving Your Right to Vote
Tuesday, 23 November 2004, 11:59 am | William Rivers Pitt
Section two of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads, in paraphrase, as follows: ''But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, ... More >>
William Rivers Pitt: His Red Right Hand
Tuesday, 16 November 2004, 2:07 pm | William Rivers Pitt
The top story on the New York Times website on Monday morning read, ''Rebels Routed in Fallujah''. It's a good thing, too, because we need to be fighting the terrorists over there in Iraq instead of over here in America. More >>
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster
Monday, 8 November 2004, 6:18 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Everyone remembers Florida's 2000 election debacle, and all of the new terms it introduced to our political lexicon: Hanging chads, dimpled chads, pregnant chads, overvotes, undervotes, Sore Losermans, Jews for Buchanan and so forth. More >>
Still Standing, Still Fighting, Still Here
Friday, 5 November 2004, 3:28 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Still Standing, Still Fighting, Still Here By William Rivers Pitt From: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504A.shtml t r u t h o u t | Perspective Friday 05 November 2004 More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Stand, Be Counted, Vote
Monday, 1 November 2004, 2:10 pm | William Rivers Pitt
If you are an American who has not voted in the last four years this note's for you. If you live in Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Mexico or Missouri, this note's for you. More >>
William Rivers Pitt: Believe
Friday, 29 October 2004, 3:18 pm | William Rivers Pitt
Four score and six years ago, a relatively new Boston baseball team called the Red Sox won the World Series for the fifth time. Not long after, a man named George Herman Ruth, Jr. exchanged Sox red for Yankee blue in a trade that had more to do with Broadway ... More >>
