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Noam Chomsky | Why Are Romney and Obama Too Cowardly to Talk About What Really Matters?

Mon, 10/08/2012 - 18:33 — Dave Culver
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Noam Chomsky, AlterNet

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor S. Brian Willson

October 5, 2012  |  With the quadrennial presidential election extravaganza reaching its peak, it’s useful to ask how the political campaigns are dealing with the most crucial issues we face. The simple answer is: badly, or not at all. If so, some important questions arise: why, and what can we do about it?

There are two issues of overwhelming significance, because the fate of the species is at stake: environmental disaster, and nuclear war. The former is regularly on the front pages. On Sept. 19, for example, Justin Gillis reported in The New York Times that the melting of Arctic sea ice had ended for the year, “but not before demolishing the previous record – and setting off new warnings about the rapid pace of change in the region.” The melting is much faster than predicted by sophisticated computer models and the most recent U.N. report on global warming.

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New data indicate that summer ice might be gone by 2020, with severe consequences. Previous estimates had summer ice disappearing by 2050. “But governments have not responded to the change with any greater urgency about limiting greenhouse emissions,” Gillis writes.

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Noam Chomsky On How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012, Matthew Filipowicz, AlterNet

  • Professor Chomsky said, “I think they should spend five or ten minutes on it -- seeing if there’s a point in taking part in the carefully orchestrated electoral extravaganza."
  • He said he will probably vote for Jill Stein for president in effort to push a genuine electoral alternative.
  • How Do You Take Your Poison?
  • Yes, I’m Voting Third Party. No I’m Not Wasting My Vote.

Robert Scheer | Obama, Romney Leave No More Room to Argue, Robert Scheer, Truthdig

  • Mitt Romney beat Barack Obama because he was more energetic in distorting the significance of their miniscule differences.
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