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I. The National Endowment for Hypocrisy Democracy

Allen Weinstein, one of the founders of the National Endowment for Democracy, said in 1991, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA".

Trojan Horse... by William Blum
Don't be Fooled: The National Endowment for Democracy - It's NOT About Democracy from Latin American Solidarity Coalition, and others
Interview with William I. Robinson: The Battle for Global Civil Society by Jonah Gindin [On the U.S. Govt. Policy of 'DEMOCRACY PROMOTION']
Remarks to the National Endowment for Democracy by George W. Bush
NED and the Empire's New Clothes by James Ciment and Immanuel Ness
The United States, Cuba and this thing called Democracy by William Blum
NED Grants for FY 2005 from In The Name of Democracy
The Farce of the Bush Pursuit of Democracy Abroad—While Undermining It At Home by Edward S. Herman
National Endowment for Democracy on the Offensive in Venezuela by Eva Golinger
The National Endowment of Democracy of the U.S.... by B. Raman
National Endowment for Democracy: Paying to Make Enemies of America by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tx)
The N.E.D - Virtual Truth Commission... from Jack Day
USA...NED: An Update by B. Raman
National Endowment for Death Squads? The AFL-CIO and the NED by Jon Quaccia
Philanthropic Imperialism: the National Endowment for Democracy by William Clark

More coming...

II. Stolen Election(s)

How About a Shout Out for the Election Protectors? by Myriam Miedzian
More W.Va. Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes by Paul J. Nyden
McCain campaign paid Republican operative accused of voter fraud by Hannah Strange
Election Theft for 2008 Already Underway by Kevin B. Zeese
Widespread, Illegal Voter Suppression Already Underway from solarbus.org
Senator Obama, Winning is Not Enough, Make Sure You Also Become President by Myriam Miedzian
Will the GOP election theft machine do it again in 2008? by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
How the GOP Wired Ohio's 2004 Vote Count for Bush to Win by Steven Rosenfeld
Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked by Rob Kall
Electronic voting: the silent catastrophe by Jon Stokes
The Stolen Election of 2004 by Michael Parenti
Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote by Michael Collins
The Biggest Election Story Not on Your TV by David Swanson
Vendor Misinformation in the E-Voting World by Dan Wallach
A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections by Adam Cohen
Debunking Pre-Election Testing Myths by Rady Ananda
Planning to E-Vote? Read This First by Larry Greenemeier
Doonesbury Reprint by Gary Trudeau
The Democratic Primaries of 2008 by Jonathan Simon and Bruce O'Dell
Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
Magnet and PDA Sufficient to Change Votes on Voting Machine by Kim Zetter
The plot to rig the 2008 US election by Johann Hari
The six states where the GOP will steal it in November by Art Levine
Watergate Without the Break-In by Marie Cocco
Was the New Hampshire Primary Stolen on Behalf of Hillary? by David Griscom
Scientists' Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines in California and Elsewhere by Christopher Drew
Partial Summary of Evidence for Electronic Vote Switching that Swung US Elections from 2002 to 2006 by Time for Change, www.democraticunderground.com
Voter fraud fraud Boston Globe Editorial
Election Fraud: Where's the Outrage? by Ernest Partridge
Election 2004: The Urban Legend by Michael Collins
Ohio, the DOJ scandal and "Thor" - the god of voter suppression by Bob Fitrakis
The GOP's cyber election hit squad by Steve Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis
Election Theft Goes Global by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Our Rigged Elections by Mark Crispin Miller
The Fired U.S. Attorney, David Iglesias, and "Voter Fraud" by John Boyd
Are Rove's missing e-mails the smoking guns of the stolen 2004 election? by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
Powerful GAO report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
Hack the vote? No problem by Brad Friedman
None Dare Call It Stolen by Mark Crispin Miller
Sleuthing Stolen Election 2004: John Brakey and the "Hack and Stack" by David L. Griscom, Ph.D.
Blowback from Ohio's 2004 Stolen Election is Escalating by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
The Non-Election of 2004 by Noam Chomsky
Was the 2004 Election Stolen? by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Will The Next Election Be Hacked? by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
What Constitutes a "Stolen Election"? Toward a Politics of Deligitimation by Bertell Ollman
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA Compiled by Anonymous
A Corrupted Election by Steve Freeman and Josh Mitteldorf
Voter Purging: A Legal Way for Republicans to Swing Elections? by Steven Rosenfeld
Emails Detail RNC Voter Suppression in Five States by Jason Leopold and Matt Renner
Stolen or Lost? by Steven F. Freeman
A 12-Step Program to Save US Democracy by Mark Crispin Miller
Mark Crispin Miller Connects the Dots on Election Problems a BuzzFlash interview
The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepency.pdf by Steve Freeman [*pdf file]
Undervote Rate Plummets in Minority Precincts After New Mexico Changes to All Paper Ballots from votersunite.org
How Electronic Voting Machines Worked in One County in Washington State by Paul Lehto
Exchange on Opinion Polls and Stolen Elections by Paul Lehto and Jonathan Simon
The Right to Count: Democracy v. Electronic Voting a documentary by Richard Van Slyke, reviewed by Joan Brunwasser
Why Audits Are Necessary...and Other Testimony from Experts by Ion Sancho
A Bombshell from Jimmy Carter by Debbie Elliot
Media Ignore Mounting Evidence of Widespread Vote Fraud and Election Manipulation from Green Party of U.S.
Did George W. Bush Steal America's 2004 Election? by Bob Fitrakis, Steve Rosenfeld and Harvey Wasserman
Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
The 'Democratic' Election in Iraq by Yoshie Furuhashi
Electoral Vote Challenge Meets Venomous Response in Congress by Brian Dominick and Ariella Cohen
Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster by William Rivers Pitt
Kerry Won... by Greg Palast
An Election Spoiled Rotten by Greg Palast
Consumer Protection for Elections from blackboxvoting dot org
Diebold ATM Machine in Mexico by Mitchel Cohen
Ultimate Felony Against Democracy by Thom Hartmann
Graphic Exit Poll Comparisons from whatreallyhappened dot com
The Election Was Rigged! from Portside at portside dot org
Investigating the Accuracy of Elections from electionarchive dot org
Voting Machine Companies Make Political Contributions to Both Democrats and Republicans From Electionline dot org

More coming...

III. American 'Democracy'?

Politics: Who Gets What? by Michael Parenti
American Exceptionalism by Howard Zinn
Does America Deserve to Be in the G8? by Eric Kraus
American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality by American Political Science Association Task Force [*pdf file]
No Child's Behind Left: The Test by Greg Palast
Total Surveillance Society thanks to the ACLU
The US empire and the death of democracy by John Gerassi
Orwell's Beautiful Fit to America by Edward S. Herman
Gore Vidal on Bush's Inaugural Address Amy Goodman, George Bush and Gore Vidal on DEMOCRACY NOW
Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the U.S. Constitution by Bertell Ollman
Telling the Truth at a Moment of Truth: U.S. News Media and the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Robert W. McChesney [*pdf file]
Is Local Democracy Possible in the Global Era? by Gar Alperovitz
The Media / Democracy Paradox by Robert McChesney
Rethinking Democratic Theory by Philip Green and Drucilla Cornell
A Constitution for the Few by Michael Parenti
Right-Wing Judicial Activism by Michael Parenti
The Super Rich Are Out of Sight by Michael Parenti
Against Empire - Chapter 3 - Intervention: Whose gain? Whose pain? by Michael Parenti
Class and Pluralism in America: The Constitution Reconsidered by John F. Manley
The Quiet Death of Freedom by John Pilger
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer
We Hold This Truthiness to be Self-Evident by Michael Winship
PATRIOT ACT: The Home Version Board Game by Michael Kabash
The Specter of Friendly Fascism: The Unfolding Logic by Bertram Gross

More coming...

IV. Is Democracy Compatible with Capitalism?

Capitalism and Democracy "Don't Mix Very Well" by Paul Street
Democracy in America: Two Perspectives (Marx and Toqueville) by August Nimtz
The Truth About Capitalist Democracy by Atilio A. Boron [*pdf file] from Telling the Truth: The Socialist Register 2006
Every Cook Can Govern by C. L. R. James
Nobel Acceptance Speech by Harold Pinter
Marketing Democracy in an Undemocratic Market by Andre Gunder Frank
'Who Can We Shoot?' Democratic Elitism, Marxism and American Progressivism by John F. Manley
Democracy: More or Less by Frank Cunningham
Justifying Democracy by Frank Cunningham
Democratic Theory by C.B. Macpherson
The Real World of Democracy by C.B. Macpherson
Democracy and Dictatorship by Werner Bonefeld
Democracy and Ideology by David McLellan
Democracy and Capitalism by Howard J. Sherman
Labour and Democracy, Ancient and Modern by Ellen Meiksins Wood
The Demos Versus 'We, the People': from Ancient to Modern Conceptions of Citizenship by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Civil Society and the Politics of Identity by Ellen Meiksins Wood
Revolution, Violence and Democracy by Herbert Aptheker
The Iroquois Constitution
How Does Political Science Deal With Democracy? How Should It Do So? by Bertell Ollman
What Role Does Patriotism Play in Capitalist Democracy: Particularly Ours / Particularly Now? by Bertell Ollman
Industrial Democracy by Bertell Ollman
The Philosophy of Basketball, or the Relation Between Capitalism, Democracy and Socialism by Bertell Ollman

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V. From Theory to Practice / Manifestos and Charters

Declaration of Independence
Communist Manifesto
Bill of Rights
Constitution of the USA
Women's Global Charter for Humanity
Preamble to the Constitution of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.)
Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.)
Final Declaration Of The Sixth World Parliamentary Forum
The Bamako Appeal
Democracy Aid '04 Campaign by Kajsa Klein
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Original Verses of the Internationale
Democracy (is Coming to the USA) by Leonard Cohen
An Ecosocialist Manifesto by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy
The Capitalist Infesto by Mitchel Cohen
Lessons of a Left Victory in France by Rick Wolfe
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain Speaks to Us: "I Am an Anti-Imperialist" by Norman Solomon
The Significance of Emancipation by Frederick Douglass
A "Mothers' Day for Peace" by Julia Ward Howe
First Surrealist Manifesto, from Le Manifeste du Surréalisme by André Breton

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