Read the full piece at CounterPunch: My political rupture with AIPAC occurred over a vote for military aid to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel. This legislative package of aid was put together by the White House primarily to shore up support for Sadat in the Middle East. AIPAC opposed the package and hoped to muster [...]

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Skyler McKinley, a staff member of Mike Gravel’s presidential campaign, has alerted me to the fact that he will now be publishing former Green Party vice presidential candidate Pat LaMarche’s weekly columns on the website Elexn.com.  An excerpt from the first is below: The minute I saw the magnitude of the Japanese quake last week [...]

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From the Jesse Johnson for Senate campaign: CHARLESTON, WV: Mountain Party candidate Jesse Johnson, who is running to fill Robert C. Byrd’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, has won endorsements from historical heavyweights Senator Mike Gravel (D-AK) and Congressman Ken Hechler (D-WV). In West Virginia, the Mountain Party is the affiliate of the Green Party of [...]

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Mike Gravel came in fourth in delegate votes for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in 2008, behind Bob Barr, Mary Ruwart and Wayne Root. Before that, he ran in Democratic Party primaries for President that same year, and served as a Democratic US Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981. Accoring to wikipedia, As Senator, [...]

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Posted at the Huffington Post and the Hill’s Congress Blog: General David Petraeus, through his own self promotion and a meager field of viable candidates, has been touted by certain Republican interests as a potential candidate for president in 2012. President Obama may feel he scotched that possibly by demoting Petraeus to commander of the [...]

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From Press TV: Press TV:To discuss this further, we are being joined by former US senator Mike Gravel. Many thanks for joining us here on Press TV, Sir. Many American voters have come out and criticized lawmakers for not being able to get along long enough to actually fix a problem during great economic uncertainty. [...]

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This interesting news comes from a press release, via TBD.com: This is not George Clooney’s big screen production, but Alexandria’s truly bi-partisan Port City Playhouse’s stage production of Farragut North by Beau Willimon Directed by former Fairfax County RNC Chair Eddie Page.Set in the days leading up to a Democratic caucus battle in Iowa, Farragut [...]

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Mike Gravel, who recently did a tour of South Korea to promote his National Initiative idea, was interviewed by Iran’s PressTV. The interview concerns Russia’s President Medvedev and his statements regarding Hamas’ involvement in Middle Eastern diplomatic talks. Press TV: Russia as we just mentioned, says it wants Hamas to play a role in these [...]

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On April 30, Mike Gravel – who was a contender for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination in 2008 – took part in an interview on the online news show The Young Turks.  Much of the interview focused on a television show Gravel is working to produce called “I Like Mike.”  According to Gravel, it will [...]

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A new video and blog post by former Senator and candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination Mike Gravel. Hi, my name is Mike Gravel and I’m a former US Senator from the state of Alaska.  I’m standing in front of the Iwo Jima Memorial, and I’m blessed to live a block away, in fact, from [...]

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Watch Mike Gravel being interviewed from Muncie, IN via webstream: Live Broadcasting by Ustream

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Former Democratic Senator and candidate for the Libertarian presidential nomination Mike Gravel will be speaking at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana on February 15.  Afterward, he will be interviewed on a radio program in the area that is also broadcast live worldwide on the internet.  More from the Muncie Free Press: Currently he backs [...]

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This week, Businessweek has an article about Larry Kotlikoff, a Boston University economics professor and economic advisor to former Senator Mike Gravel during his 2008 presidential campaign.  Among other things, the economist is a supporter of a national sales tax to replace the income tax, a position which Gravel adopted.  Kotlikoff has a book coming [...]

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Green Party candidate for Congress in Illinois Matt Reichel – who has won his primary since this article was written – was featured in an article by the Sun-Times Media recently. Like most Greens the onetime antiwar activist and campaigner for Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential run would like to wean the country off [...]

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Joe Mathews reports: Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), the leading proponent of a national initiative process, wrote recently to supporters about his new enterprise: a TV show called “I Like Mike” in which Gravel is president. From Gravel’s missive: “Earlier this fall Eliot Fisher, a creative young writer from New Mexico, asked if I [...]

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Posted with other videos at EndUSWars.org: Description on the youtube page: On Sat., Dec. 12, 2009, Ralph Nader, a political gadfly par excellence, a distinguished and best selling author and a persistent Third Party presidential candidate, was one of the featured speakers at the emergency End-the-U.S.-Wars rally. See, for background: http://www.enduswars.org/ The spirited event was [...]

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Following a protest outside the White House featuring many antiwar leaders, from Cynthia McKinney to Dennis Kucinich to Lynne Williams to Mike Gravel, journalist Chris Hedges wrote a piece titled “Gravel’s Lament.” A video is also included here featuring Gravel’s speech and him leading a chant, saying, “Hey, hey, Obama, say, how many kids did [...]

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Today Mike Gravel posted a video to Youtube promoting a November 10th money bomb to fund a documentary about The National Initiative for Democracy, a plan for national ballot initiatives.  A few days ago, a kind of teaser trailer was also posted on Mike Gravel’s Youtube channel.  Both are below, along with a transcript from [...]

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2008 Libertarian Party V.P. nominee Wayne Root‘s book Conscience of a Libertarian is climbing in its Amazon sales rank. It is currently #4 in Philosophy > Politics #5 in Politics > U.S. #1 in Law > Taxation #1 in Law > Business #24 in Politics Here are current Amazon sales rankings for books written by [...]

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In 2008, Mike Gravel ran for president as a Democrat, then as a Libertarian.  Adam Kokesh is running for Congress as a Republican with the support of many Ron Paul supporters and Libertarians.  Kokesh has been involved with the Libertarian Party in the past.  In the following Youtube clip, Mike Gravel endorses Adam Kokesh in [...]

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