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On the EU Elections
I wrote a piece for the Guardian on the Dutch vote during last week’s European Parliamentary elections. Here’s an excerpt: The headlines on Friday morning in Amsterdam looked not unlike those in the international press around the world: “Far right wins big in Holland”. This was followed by a few paragraphs of analysis, or at... »
bm301 Observing Change in El Salvador
20 years ago Warwick Fry was in El Salvador covering the guerilla offensive at the height of a civil war. This year he returned, this time to observe elections, the results of which mean the first change in leadership for El Salvador in 20 years. He joins me on this podcast to explain what... »
Chomsky Breaks it Down
Production schedule is still not back on track, but close. Thursday the topic will be Philippines and the war in Mindanao with a correspondant there. More details and research can be discussed this week as well. But for now I’ll do another recommendation, Monday’s edition of DemocracyNow featured Noam Chomsky talking about what happens now... »
bm285 The Election Protection Wiki
With the US election upon us, there are many tools available on the internet where citizens can collectively report and monitor voting irregularities. The election protection wiki is one of these tools and on in this podcast interview Conor Kenny explains what the EPwiki is, why it exists, and what the longterm goal of... »
ExCon and the Vote
Ever since the 2000 election in the United States, the fact that in many states ex-convicts are barred from voting, has become somewhat more known. Rarely covered in the mainstream media, the few investigative reports done on the topic of voter fraud in places like Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, revealed that... »