In case you missed it, ‘Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) false assertion that he “refuse[s] to use” the words “cut and run” to describe plans to redeploy U.S. forces out of Iraq.‘ was covered by Media Matters yesterday: McCAIN: And maybe some of our friends who want to cut and run out of Iraq maybe can […]
New report shows 17 states at high risk for compromised election results
Malfunction and Malfeasance: A Report on the Electronic Voting Machine Debacle (PDF) is a must read report if you are at all interested in election integrity. The following excerpt is from the Common Cause press release. The report, Malfunction and Malfeasance: A Report on the Electronic Voting Machine Debacle,finds that 17 states, including critical swing […]
Jeff Latas, running for US House seat from AZ promises to take no corporate oil money.
I’m probably far enough under the radar screen of corporate media that I won’t suffer a direct attack for this post that is supportive of Latas. We’ll see — one of his opponents has money and lots of it (including lots of out-of-state money….. grumble gripe bitch moan) and money talks. But so does integrity. […]
Significant Win for Election Integrity in Arizona Legislature
This in today from the Progressive Democrats. If you want more info about the problems we are having with election integrity, I recommend starting at AuditAZ.org. The following memo from PDA Member and AZHouse Representative Ted Downing: SB1557 passed the House of Representatives with a 51-0 vote! Then, it immediately passed the Senate 25 to […]
Judge upholds blogs status as news entities
This is a significant ruling for “be the media” bloggers like myself that I somehow missed in May. Apple loses bid to have blogs disqualified as legitimate news entities. This is very important for small players like Build Peace that break original local stories only a few times a year. We have journalistic status […]
The Real Cost of War. Dollar value down over the last year.
Well placed sources inform me that the cost of scientific equipment purchased from European manufacturers by American researchers has risen 34 percent over the costs of that same equipment last year. Same equipment. No changes. No materials changes. Nada. Zip. Zilch. In fact from the European perspective there has been no cost change — if […]