Togo is currently at the crossroads regarding President Gnassingbé Eyadéma's announcement that he will step down as president at the next presidential elections in 2003. Currently, the political situation is dominated by co-optation, intimidation and elimi

Maybe Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel honestly won two US Senate elections. Maybe it's true that the citizens of Georgia simply decided that incumbent Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a wildly popular war veteran who lost three limbs in Vietnam, was, as his

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"Never again!" says the slogan in an email I received from an activist friend. "Never again will we allow a stolen election in the USA!" But how are we going to stop it? The major American political parties have an answer - it's already working for them in

Sign a petition to tell the Democratic Party to nominate the 2008 presidential candidate democratically. Let the Voters Decide! We the undersigned call on the democratic super-delegates to let the voters decide our Democratic nominee. After every Democrat

... of the people. If we can reach 200,000 signatures, we'll publish the petition

... and the other based on the laissez-faire approach dictated by international

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