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Presidential Debate Number Two: No Serious Solutions Offered
Gerald Epstein: Romney's tough talk on China is pure campaign rhetoric and his tax math is nonsense; Obama didn't talk about poverty, climate change, financial regulation, and low wages.
Expanding the Debate With Third Party Candidates Jill Stein, Virgil Goode and Rocky Anderson
Today we expand the debate by including the voices of three presidential candidates shut out of the official debate.
Glenn Greenwald: Presidential Debates Highlight “Faux Objectivity” of Mainstream Journalists
“The issue is not what separates Romney and Obama, but how much they agree. This hidden consensus has to be exposed,” writes Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald.
Texas Landowners Join Environmentalists for Historic Blockade of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
. In a protest now entering its fourth week, dozens of environmental activists working with local Texas landowners have blocked the pipelineu2019s path with tree sits and other nonviolent …
Fresh Recruits, More Arrests Begin Week Four in Texas Tar Sands Blockade
Fifty fresh activists, six new arrests as historic Texas Tar Sands Blockade enters its fourth week.
US and Israel Recognize Iran Not Near a Bomb
In spite evidence Iran directing much of its supply of 20 percent enriched uranium for scientific purposes, u201ckilleru201d sanctions continue.
Gar Alperovitz on the 2012 Presidential Debate
Gar Alperovitz, Seattle Town Hall - October 3, 2012 immediately after the public screening of the presidential debate between Romney and Obama.
As Texas Pipeline Blockade Continues, Activists Challenge First US Tar Sands Strip Mine in Utah
As a direct action blockade of the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline continues in Texas, we look at what could be the first actual tar sands and oil …
The War of Extraction
Let us embrace an ideal and battle to extend the social contract to environmental rights. u00a0
Federal Government Selling Wild Horses to Western Dealer Linked to Slaughter
In a new investigation, ProPublica reporter Dave Philipps tracks what happens to many of the wild horses rounded up in the western United States by the Bureau of Land …