By Greg Palast

And the winner in Mexico's presidential contest is... Señor Blank-o!

The official count of the ruling party is: 36.38% for the ruling party and 35.34% for the challenger.

Or, to put names and numbers to it: The Bush-o-philiac candidate, Felipe Calderón, collected 402,000 more votes than Bush-bashed Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But the big winner was Mr. Blank -- the 827,000 ballots without a mark for president. (Show me more...)

By Matt Pascarella

Three days following Mexico's election and the next president has yet to be decided

(Mexico City) Last night the Mexican Electoral Commission, IFE, announced the final results from PREP, the commission's Preliminary Election Results System. Felipe Calderon, the conservative candidate, is now leading by only 0.6% above Lopez Obrador, the left leaning candidate, but 2,581,226 ballots have yet to be counted. (Show me more...)

George Bush is upset, distraught, that North Korea has fired a missile that could reach Alaska -- carrying a nuclear warhead. Well, Mr. President, you have only yourself to blame. (Show me more...)

Greg Palast in London
Matt Pascarella in Mexico City

Monday, 3 July The Guardian
Dispatch from Mexico City

The election race south of the US border is officially too close to call. Now, where have we heard that before?

As in Florida in 2000, and as in Ohio in 2004, the exit polls show the voters voted for the progressive candidate. The race is "officially" too close to call. But they will call it - after they steal it. (Show me more...)

Mexico City. 2 July 2006.

PRD Press Center, Hotel Marquis, Mexico City. 6:48pm. Lopez Obrador has yet to make his appearance. The woman standing next to us quietly confides that she is hoping PAN will win. As she tells us this, a little boy stands in front of three cameras waving an AMLO doll. After hours of waiting, with no sign of the progressive candidate, we make our way through the entrance of the hotel and approach a barricade of security guards. We flash our PRD press credentials and the officers wave us inside. (Show me more...)

By John Buffalo Mailer and Matt Pascarella

Mexico City. 1 July 2006.

As a gringo, the first thing you learn upon arriving in Mexico City is that you do not take unauthorized taxis. In 2003, Mexico had the second-highest number of kidnappings in the world, with some 3,000 reported cases. The second thing you learn is that all the studying in the world will give you at best a cursory understanding of this country's electoral politics. (Show me more...)

Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election

by Greg Palast

Friday, June 30 -- GEORGE Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency.

It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: "9/17/2001," six days after the attack on the World Trade towers. It's nice to know the feds got right on the ball, if a little late.

What does this have to do with jiggering Mexico's election? Hold that thought. (Show me more...)

for Blog For America

By Greg Palast

Don't kid yourselves. If you think Bush's lower-than-my-laces ratings portend victory for Democrats, that's what Rove wants you to think. Bush shoplifted Ohio (and New Mexico and Iowa and...) see, he doesn't need your vote. And he doesn't count your vote, either. The Rove-bots are preparing next year's model (probably Good Doctor Frist) and will load the bad vibes on to the lame duck and the lame Dick. (Show me more...)

By Greg Palast

The Right Wing has gone hog-ass wild over the New York Times' "shocking" report that the Bush Administration is actually tracking terrorists' money transfers. Oh my!

The fruitcakes are in flames! "Stand them in front of a firing squad or put them in prison for the rest of their lives," says one pinhead on Fox TV.

For what? The stunning news that the government is hunting the source of al-Qaeda's cash? "Osama! You must stop using your ATM card! Condi Rice is reading our bank statements!"

Somehow, I suspect bin Laden already assumes his checkbook is getting perused. (Show me more...)

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Drive your car pool completely mad -- mad at the regime, mad at the No World Order, mad as hell and funny as hell (Show me more...)