Watch Mike Gravel being interviewed from Muncie, IN via webstream:
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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 the [...]

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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 of [...]

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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 was interested in [...]

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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 held [...]

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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 past LP presidential nominees and would-be [...]

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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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Evan Ravitz, an advocate for direct democracy, recently posted a video of Ralph Nader endorsing the idea of national ballot initiatives in the United States.  He does not explicitly say that he supports former Senator Mike Gravel’s National Initiative for Democracy plan, but he does say that he supports a “binding national referendum.”

Other third party [...]

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Former Democratic Senator and Libertarian presidential candidate Mike Gravel is on a trip to South Korea, trying to bring about a national ballot initiative system there.  He was interviewed recently on the show “Let’s Talk Pusan.”  You can listen here – the interview itself is in English, just click play on the player underneath the [...]

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As the few stragglers left on Mike Gravel’s website have noticed, he has taken a strange interest in South Korea lately.  For those of you who don’t know, he ran as both a Democrat and Libertarian for president in 2008, and was a Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981.  Gravel apparently believes that it [...]

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In Illinois’ fifth congressional district there is currently a special election underway to fill Rahm Emanuel’s vacant seat, since he is now the White House Chief of Staff.  Matt Reichel is the Green Party candidate, running against a heavily favored Democrat and a Republican, after winning the primary.
The Matt Reichel campaign recently announced that former [...]

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Mike Gravel served as a Democratic US Senator from Alaska from 1969-1981. In 2008, he ran a campaign for President in the Democratic and Libertarian Parties. Since then he has endorsed Independents, Greens, and Libertarians who endorse his National Initiative. Those people have included Neil Keirnan Stephenson (L-MI) and Jesse Johnson (G-WV). Now Gravel has endorses Eric [...]

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