The study shows no link
between tax cuts for the rich and economic growth. No wonder they want to keep
it quiet
Disaster
capitalism doesn’t work Free-market boosters claim relief is best left to the
"invisible hand." Bad idea, says a scholar of catastrophes
Sandy: Proof positive government aid matters
Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz -- an Obama critic -- says
Romney's cuts would be disastrous
Hurricane Sandy and the Myth of the Big Government-vs.-Small-Government Debate
by Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone
/ Common Dreams
Romney’s Tax Secrecy: Did He Get Away With It?
by Alec MacGillis
/ The
New Republic / Common Dreams
Disaster Capitalism
If Mitt was President (During Hurricane Sandy)
If Mitt was President (During Hurricane Sandy)
He would have required that
victims produce a valid ID, proof of insurance and FICO scores before providing
them with first aid or medication.
By Mike Whitney
Romney Campaign Staged Donations At Storm
Relief Event
By Aviva Shen
Just to be safe, campaign aides reportedly spent $5,000 at a
local Wal-Mart on supplies that could be put on display.
Michael Moore: 90 Million Are Planning Not to Vote -
Your Mission: Take Just One of Them to the Polls
I have a personal favor I'd like to ask each of you. We all know the election next Tuesday is going to be very close. But I've got an idea that could help put President Obama over the top. Michael Moore / Huffington Post
I have a personal favor I'd like to ask each of you. We all know the election next Tuesday is going to be very close. But I've got an idea that could help put President Obama over the top. Michael Moore / Huffington Post
There are other
equally valid reasons, of course, to vote for President Obama on November 6,
but these five are at the top of my list. Each, taken separately, strikes me as
persuasive. Together I find them compelling.
Robert
Reich: Romney's Latest Lie, His Former Lies, and Why We Must Not Put Liars in
the White House
Lies like the latest from Mitt Romney, financed by deep pockets, are hard to refute, but they must be refuted. Otherwise, there is no accountability in our democracy.
Lies like the latest from Mitt Romney, financed by deep pockets, are hard to refute, but they must be refuted. Otherwise, there is no accountability in our democracy.
Hurricane Sandy reminds us of a
basic truth: Disaster relief and preparedness matter. In times of great crisis,
it is critical that we have a strong national response to help provide a
lifeline to affected states.
Gov.
Jennifer M. Granholm: Ohioans Won't Be Fooled By 'Car Guy's' Desperate Car Lies
Mitt Romney must realize that he has lost the industrial Midwest because he's completely lost a grip on reality. He's decided to throw a Hail Mary pass that will cause his already-struggling campaign to implode in Ohio.
Mitt Romney must realize that he has lost the industrial Midwest because he's completely lost a grip on reality. He's decided to throw a Hail Mary pass that will cause his already-struggling campaign to implode in Ohio.
Top 11 Republican
Dirty Tricks ... SO FAR
Romney camp spent $5,000 to stage storm relief event
The
Romney campaign stocked up at Walmart before a disaster relief photo-op
Mitt rewrites auto bailout history
In
Romney's parallel universe, Obama has convinced Chrysler to move all of its
Jeep production to China
#16
With the president in
office, progress -- however incremental -- remains possible. With Mitt, forget
about it
How Romney used his church’s charity status to lower his tax bill
Mitt
rented the Mormon church's tax exempt status to decrease his bill, new
documents show
Mitt’s baldfaced Jeep lie
A
new ad erroneously suggests that Obama is pushing jobs overseas. Has Romney no
shame?
The
progressive case for Obama Drones,
the drug war and income inequality are important. But a vote against Obama only
makes other issues worse
10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America
The Fix the Debt coalition is using the so-called "fiscal cliff" to push the same old corporate agenda of more tax breaks while shifting the burden on to the rest of us.
Brace yourself for one of the most aggressive corporate lobbying campaigns of all time. And one of the most hypocritical.· Originally published in AlterNet
http://www.ips-dc.org/articles/10_filthy-rich_tax-dodging_hypocrites_pushing_disastrous_austerity_on_america 21
Medicaid on the Ballot
By PAUL KRUGMAN / Information Clearing HouseThere’s a lot we don’t know about what Mitt Romney would do if he won. He refuses to say which tax loopholes he would close to make up for $5 trillion in tax cuts; his economic “plan” is an empty shell.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/opinion/krugman-medicaid-on-the-ballot.html?_r=1& 22
Romney-Ryan: Send FEMA "Back to the Private Sector"
As Sandy bears down, campaign confirms support for position
- Common Dreams
staff
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/29-5
23The Final Days, the Biggest Issue, and the Clearest Choice Robert Reich
As we go into the final days of a dismal presidential campaign where too many issues have been fudged or eluded -- and the media only want to talk about is who's
up and who's down -- the biggest issue on which the candidates have given us the clearest choice is whether the rich should pay more in taxes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-final-days-the-bigges_b_2035673.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102912&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief 24
Romney Willing to Win Without Honor / Leo W. Gerard
At no time this year did Mitt denounce Republican employers who threatened their workers if President Obama is re-elected or condemn repeated Republican legislative attempts to suppress Democratic votes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/mitt-romney-republicans_b_2034712.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102912&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief 25A new biography of Brigham Young depicts a religion founded on socialist ideals -- and embraced by the poor
A new biography of Brigham Young depicts a religion founded on socialist ideals -- and embraced by the poor
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/28/mitt_romney_disgrace_to_mormonism/?source=newsletter 26
Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza
Greg Palast / The Nation.Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment.
http://www.thenation.com/article/170644/mitt-romneys-bailout-bonanza# 27
Mitt “doesn’t get” the auto bailout Romney calls himself "a son of Detroit." The mayor of nearby Lansing, Virg Bernero, calls him "a son of something"
The mayor of Lansing, Mich., where General Motors opened two new auto plants during the 2000s, Bernero startled Lego-haired Fox anchorman Gregg Jarrett with a rant questioning why the United Auto Workers — including Bernero’s father, an octogenarian GM retiree — were asked to sacrifice wages and benefits while Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers received billions in TARP money.http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/lansing_mich_mayor_on_mitts_auto_bailout_betrayal_he_fundamentally_didnt_get_it/?source=newsletter 28
Why student loans are just like mortgages
It's not just homeowners anymore. Big borrowing and zero oversight has left students drowning in debt
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/27/why_student_loans_are_just_like_mortgages/?source=newsletter 29
Noam Chomsky : Who Owns the World?
Video and Transcript
In 1945, the United States
had literally half the world's wealth, incredible security, controlled the
entire Western Hemisphere, both oceans, the
opposite sides of both oceans. There's nothing-there hasn't ever been anything
like that in history.
Lies of Plutocracy:
Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor
Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor
By Jeff Nall
If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably
poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been
sadly misled. Prepare to be astonished by numbers that tell a very different
story.
Hope For The Hopeless
By Brett Dennen
Heaven. heaven.
What the hell is heaven?
Is there a home for the homeless?
Is there hope for the hopeless?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32880.htm 32
What the hell is heaven?
Is there a home for the homeless?
Is there hope for the hopeless?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32880.htm 32
United Front Against Austerity, Public Assembly
Live Streaming
To organize an effective opposition to the impending
austerity offensive; agitate to shift the burden of the economic depression
onto Wall Street oligarchs; and to build momentum toward a genuine political
revolution of, by and for the people.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32869.htm 33
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32869.htm 33
80 top CEOs tell Obama, Romney to slash social
spending:
The chief executives of 80 large US corporations have issued a "Deficit Manifesto," calling on the next president to "fix America's debt" by making substantial "changes in the federal budget." The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/ceos-o26.shtml 34
The chief executives of 80 large US corporations have issued a "Deficit Manifesto," calling on the next president to "fix America's debt" by making substantial "changes in the federal budget." The statement was published by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/oct2012/ceos-o26.shtml 34
Romney-Ryan's Real Poverty Plan: Soak the Poor:
Romney's priorities really are pretty stark: He wants to cut taxes on the rich and cut spending on the poor. That's Romney's real poverty plan.
http://is.gd/dut10d 35
Romney's priorities really are pretty stark: He wants to cut taxes on the rich and cut spending on the poor. That's Romney's real poverty plan.
http://is.gd/dut10d 35
Missouri Political Donor Thrives With No Limits
COLUMBIA, Mo.
— When the first $150,000 check showed up in his campaign account, Shane
Schoeller was locked in a tight Republican primary for the unheralded office of
Missouri
secretary of state, battling two fellow lawmakers with virtually identical
platforms.
When Women Vote, Women Win! - ?
1960s teen idol Lesley Gore leads charge in 'You Don't Own Me' Video
http://is.gd/Qj896G 37
1960s teen idol Lesley Gore leads charge in 'You Don't Own Me' Video
http://is.gd/Qj896G 37
We live in a Police State : Video -
Dhoruba Al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad addresses the importance of recognizing that we live in a police state and that we need to decentralize public safety of public safety. Also that we need community control of our communities.
http://is.gd/PpMpt0 38
Dhoruba Al-Mujahid Bin-Wahad addresses the importance of recognizing that we live in a police state and that we need to decentralize public safety of public safety. Also that we need community control of our communities.
http://is.gd/PpMpt0 38
Capitol Hill’s Rabid, Ravaging Republicans
by Ralph
Nader
Has there ever been a more crazed, cruel, anti-people, corporate-indentured,
militaristic and monetized Republican Party in its 154-year history? An
about-to-be-released list of some of the actual brutish votes by the House
Republicans, led by Speaker John Boehner and Rep. Eric Cantor, will soon be
available to you from the House Democratic Caucus. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26-5
39Nothing Is Foreign to the Liar Willard Romney AnymoreA Report from the Flippy-Floppy Final Debate of 2012 by Charles P. Pierce / Esquire http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23 40
Monsanto's Lies and the GMO Labeling Battle
by John Robbins
Mr. Miller is the primary face and voice of the “No on Prop 37” campaign in California. At this very moment, Monsanto and other pesticide companies are spending more than $1 million a day to convince California voters that it’s not in their best interest to know whether the food they eat is genetically engineered. And Henry I. Miller is their guy. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23-9 41
Solutions Worth Debating
by Ralph Nader
Let's start with an issue that Obama and Romney won't address -- the violent and thieving corporate crime wave that has swept the country and drained the hard-earned savings, health and safety of millions of people, with little to no law enforcement.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/24 42
Helping Republicans Find Real Voter Fraud in America
Republican officials across the country are having a major
problem with their widely ballyhooed claim that they must create new barriers
to voting in order to ensure the "integrity" of the ballot. The
problem is this: Their high-decibel effort is completely devoid of integrity.
Bernie Sanders Calls Out CEO Tax Dodgers over Deficit, Hypocrisy
Senator Bernie Sanders called out a group of the top US CEOs Thursday in a new report revealing top corporate tax dodgers in the US and urged those dodgers to 'look in the mirror' for the causes of America's ballooning deficit.'The last thing we need to do is listen to these deficit increasing CEOs'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-10 44
John Sununu Suggests Colin Powell Backs Obama Because He's Black
Mitt Romney's campaign adviser appears to disparage the former secretary of state's endorsement of Barack Obama
by Alexandra Topping
12 threats to your vote Intimidating letters. Pressure from employers. Phony mailers. Dirty tricksters are trying to steal the election
Karl Rove-style dirty tricks in Ohio
Voter
intimidation, sketchy voting machines, misinformation: Are Karl Rove & Co.
up to no good?
Chevron Gives $2.5 Million to Conservative Super PAC
Oil company's donation to Super PAC is largest corporate gift ever to this kind of group
by Rachael Marcus and John Dunbar / Center
for Public Integrity
Ladies, Don't Fall for Moderate Mitt!
by Katha
Pollitt / The
Nation
Suppression Surges as Election Nearsby
'We Pay More': US Austerity Well Underway by Carl Gibson
This dollar bill right here is $1 more than General
Electric, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citibank, and a bunch of other big corporations paid in federal taxes, since 2008,
combined.”
If You Succumb to Cynicism, The Regressives Win it All by Robert Reich
Your cynicism is understandable. But cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you succumb to it, the regressives who want to take this nation back to the 19th century win it all. The Koch brothers, Karl Rove, the rabid Republican right, CEOs and Wall Street titans who want to entrench their privileges and tax advantages – all of them would like nothing better than for every progressive in America to throw in the towel. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/26-12 53
On Obama and 'Too Big To Fail' Banks: A Brief Response
by Matt
Taibbi / Rolling
Stone
Corporate Slush Fund Pays for State Lawmakers’ Junkets Center for Media and Democracy
Internal records show ALEC corporations have spent an estimated $4 million to send legislators to posh resorts since 2006
To Counteract Deceptive Ads by Prop 37 Foes, Health and Consumer Advocates Use Humor, Celebrities to Get Out the Vote Food & Water Watch
A Series of Online and TV Ads Released This Week in Support of Prop 37 to Make GE Food Labeling Mandatory in California
Republicans Filibuster Everything, Romney Blames Obama for Not Working With Congress Bob Cesca
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/republicans-filibuster-ev_b_2018663.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102612&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief 57
Transforming Our Energy System: Making Progress, Much More Needs to Be Done
Romney supports continuing the massive $113 billion in federal subsidies for oil, gas and coal over the next 10 years. He has previously referred to sustainable energy as "imaginary." If elected, Romney is promising an end to key federal policies supporting sustainable energy like the production tax credit for wind.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/transforming-our-energy_b_2017029.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102612&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief 58
Stopping Trans Canada's Keystone XL Pipeline
Activism from the Trees and on the Ground
Activism from the Trees and on the Ground
By Ann Wright
In East Texas, the farm
lands and forests have been seized for the Canadian company through eminent
domain and are already being destroyed for the foreign pipeline.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32862.htm 59
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32862.htm 59
First Commercial Tar Sands Project in U.S. Approved:
A Utah water quality board approved the first commercial tar sands project in the U.S. Wednesday, opening a largely undeveloped area in Utah's eastern desert to production next year.
http://is.gd/29rHyo 60
A Utah water quality board approved the first commercial tar sands project in the U.S. Wednesday, opening a largely undeveloped area in Utah's eastern desert to production next year.
http://is.gd/29rHyo 60
Texas
Keystone Pipeline Critics Resist Use of Eminent Domain:
Several appeals have been filed by Texas landowners trying to resist the efforts of pipeline company TransCanada to use a local law to force reluctant landowners to permit construction of a southern extension of the line from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas.
http://is.gd/lXoTn4 61
Several appeals have been filed by Texas landowners trying to resist the efforts of pipeline company TransCanada to use a local law to force reluctant landowners to permit construction of a southern extension of the line from Cushing, Oklahoma to Nederland, Texas.
http://is.gd/lXoTn4 61
Amy Goodman: Prop 37: California's
Fight for GM Labeling Should Matter to All of US
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-5 62
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-5 62
Common Cause: Voting Rights Advocates Call on Florida
Elections Officials to Investigate Voter Intimidation
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25-12 63
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25-12 63
Congressman Dennis Kucinich Consumers Demand Right To Know
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25-11 64
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25-11 64
Overwhelmingly Support Strong Transparency and
Accountability Reforms
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25 65
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/25 65
Progressives can’t sit this one out
Disappointment
with Obama's first term is understandable, but allowing Romney to take office
would be calamitous
How GOP voter suppression could win Florida for Romney
How
many Florida Democrats will be disenfranchised by the GOP's war on voting?
Enough to swing the election
The man without a soul
In
the final debate, Romney disavows almost everything he's ever said on foreign
policy while the media just shrugs
John Robbins: Monsanto's Lies and the GMO Labeling Battle
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/23-9 69
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/23-9 69
Charles P. Pierce: Nothing Is Foreign to the Liar Willard
Romney Anymore
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23 70
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23 70
Tom Engelhardt: My Big Fat American Election
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23-11 71
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/23-11 71
Common Cause: Report Details Massive Chemical Investments in
Lobbying and Campaigns
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/23-6 72
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/23-6 72
Robert Reich: Obama as Commander-in-Chief, Romney as Dithering
Bully
Although Monday night's topic was foreign policy, I hope Americans understood it was also about every other major challenge we face. Mitt Romney is not only a cold warrior; he's also a class warrior. And the two are closely related. |
v:shapes="_x0000_i1025">The man behind the voter fraud myth
Five
key takeaways from Jane Mayer's scathing New Yorker piece
Six ways we can repair our democracy
Voter
Suppression. Endless fundraising. Dysfunctional debates. The need for reform
has never been stronger
Corporate America knows who you vote for
So
much for anonymity. Across the country, companies are using web data to tailor
the political ads you see online
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/22/corporate_america_knows_who_you_vote_for/?source=newsletter 76
Chrystia Freeland: The
Problem of Plutocrats: What a 19th-Century Economist Can Teach Us About Today's
Capitalism
America today urgently needs a
21st-century Henry George -- a thinker who embraces the wealth-creating power
of capitalism, but squarely faces the inequity of its current manifestation.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chrystia-freeland/henry-george-capitalism_b_1997899.html?utm_hp_ref=daily-brief?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=102212&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief 77
Five startling facts about Mitt’s investments
Reporters
continue to buy that old "blind trust" ruse. It's time to hold Romney
accountable
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/20/five_startling_facts_about_mitts_shady_investments/?source=newsletter 78
Ann: Mormon missions are just like military service!
Her
sons didn't serve, but they did spend a two-year tour proselytizing. For Ann,
that's pretty much the same thing
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/20/ann_mormon_missions_are_just_like_military_service/?source=newsletter 79
In case you missed it
The Power Principle
The Power Principle
Video Documentary
"Probably the best film ever
made about American foreign policy."
Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama
Advice to progressives in swing states, vote for reelection
It is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/18 81
Five Ways Deregulation Is Ripping America Apart
Conservatives believe that enriching individuals will eventually enrich society, and that government should not get in the way of the process. This is what happens as a result:http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/15 82
Will E-Voting Machines Owned by His Buddies Give Mitt Romney the White House?
by Bob
Fitrakis and Harvey
Wasserman
Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney's business buddies and set
to count the votes in Cincinnati
could decide the 2012 election.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/14-4 83
The False Promises of “School Choice”
For more than twenty years, supporters of vouchers for private schools have had a chance to prove their assertion that the marketplace and parental choice are the bedrocks of educational success, that unions and government bureaucracy are the enemies of reform, and that vouchers will lead to increased academic achievement.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/13-0 84
Death By Ideology: Yes, Mitt, Lack of Insurance Does Kill People
by Paul
Krugman
Mitt Romney doesn’t see dead people. But that’s only because he doesn’t want
to see them; if he did, he’d have to acknowledge the ugly reality of what will
happen if he and Paul Ryan get their way on health care.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/15-1 85
Romney’s Seven Biggest Debate Lies
Perhaps the most famous moment to come out of Tuesday night’s presidential town-hall style debate in Hempstead, New York, was when moderator Candy Crowley fact-checked Mitt Romney on the spot on Libya. (Video here). U.S. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney answers a question as he debates President Barack Obama during the second U.S. presidential campaign debate in Hempstead, New York, October 16, 2012. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson)But that isn’t the only time the Republican candidate said something completely false—it was perhaps just the most obvious. Here are the seven biggest lies Romney told:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/17 86
End Polluter Welfare
The Big Energy industries (oil, coal and gas) along with their political allies like Mitt Romney are waging war against sustainable energy and the need to transform our energy system and reverse global warming. In many instances they are aided and abetted by the very powerful nuclear power industry.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/16-1 87
Meet Romney’s Economic Hit Man
Mark the name of R. Glenn Hubbard, the man who will make your life miserable if Mitt Romney is elected president. Unless, that is, you happen to be one of the swindlers who has profited mightily from the nation’s economic pain.http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/19-0 88
New Jersey Becomes Ninth State to Back Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United
- Common Dreams staff
New Jersey
became the ninth state to back a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens
United on Thursday.The state assembly signed the resolution Thursday afternoon that "Expresses strong opposition to U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission; calls upon Congress to propose amending U.S. Constitution."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/18-7 89
'Global Noise' Against Austerity Sweeps Cities Worldwide
Day of action against policies hurting the global 99%
Saying "we will not be silent" against austerity measures, thousands took to the streets across the world to join in a "Global Noise" pot banging protest march on Saturday.From New York to Buenos Aires, Helsinki to Melbourne, the global 99% brought a loud message against the world's corporate elite.
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Privatization Pushback: Civil Society Slams Water Privatization Conditions for EU Bailouts
Letter from groups to EU Commission says plan is "economically, socially and democratically flawed"
Civil society groups Wednesday are slamming the European
Commission's continued insistence that privatization of municipal water systems
be a condition for receiving rescue funds, a plan the groups describe as
"economically, socially and democratically flawed."
Hurricane Sandy reminds us of a
basic truth: Disaster relief and preparedness matter. In times of great crisis,
it is critical that we have a strong national response to help provide a
lifeline to affected states.
Frontline: In-Depth Investigation into the Climate Denial Industry Full length VIDEO
Frontline goes inside the groups who shifted the direction of the climate change debate
As Election Day Closes In, Voters Bombarded by
Misinformation Campaigns
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-9 94
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/25-9 94
Marion Brady: The Education-Testing Complex of Mass
Destruction #95
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-12
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-12
Marion Brady: The Education-Testing Complex of Mass
Destruction #96
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-12
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25-12
Rose Ann DeMoro: What’s At Stake When Billionaires Try to
Buy Our Democracy #97
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/25
When plutocrats bullied voters
The
Koch brothers and David Siegel aren't the only billionaires putting pressure on
their employees to elect Mitt
Public Citizen: New Report: Here’s What Nearly 30 Corporations Gave the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Last Year #99
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/19-3
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/10/19-3
Pesticide Industry Backed Opponents of GMO Labeling Get Criminal in California by Zack Kaldveer
These companies and their allies in the junk food industry know that
their profit margins may suffer if consumers have a choice whether to purchase
genetically engineered foods or not. And that's why opponents are
spending nearly a million dollars per day trying to make Prop 37 complicated.
But really it's simple - we have the right to know what's in our food.
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