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Ann Garrison is an independent journalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at (at)AnnGarrison or ann(at)kpfa.org . She grew up around a radioactive toxic mess called the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, in a gorgeous place, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, by way of Western Oklahoma, another gorgeous place. She is a compulsive writer and sometimes some times signs as AnnieGetYourGang.
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Green, Libertarian, and Constitution Parties break down Pennsylvania ballot access barriers SHARE
Pennsylvania is one of the 11 "swing" states - Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio. Pennsylvania, and Virginia.- where presidential election outcomes are unpredictable. That didn't stop the Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution Party from joining together in a lawsuit that has broken down the state's formidable access barriers.
Clinton E-Mail on Libyan Conquest: We Came, We Saw, We Got Oil SHARE
On 10.20.2011, NATO-backed forces murdered their captive Muammar Ghaddafi grotesquely on camera. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said “I want him dead,” and after his death gloated that, “We came, we saw, he died,” refiguring Julius Caesar’s message to the Roman Senate after one of his own conquests in the same Mediterranean region. Less than a month later, in an 11.16.2011 “Tripoli Situation Report” in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail archive, “country managers of the three U.S. firms comprising the Waha Group (Marathon, ConocoPhillips and Amerada Hess) said meetings with its Libyan joint venture partner and the National Oil Company [NOC] this week were ‘extremely positive’ and that they were encouraged by an apparent sea change in the NOC’s attitude toward its U.S. partners.”
