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Sat, 09/15/2012 - 17:04 — Dave Culver
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  • There is one action that could put a stop to our downward political slide within four or eight years. We could all refuse to support candidates that make things worse than they were in the past, even if it risks allowing the greater of two evils to win an election or two. --David Swanson
  • 10 New Items including:
    • Rocky Anderson's Response to Tom Hayden
    • No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates
    • Ralph Nader | The Media On Presidential Campaigns
    • Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo
    • The Democratic Party is a Big Fraud
    • Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect
    • Make Your Vote Count for Socialism
    • Poll: Bachmann in danger
    • Democrats Retreat on Civil Liberties in 2012 Platform
    • Robert Reich | The Jobs Report and the Election

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Matt Bors

Rocky Anderson's Response to Tom Hayden, Rocky Anderson, VoteRocky.org

  • Paul Loeb recommended Tom Hayden's latest pro-Obama article (Saving Obama, Saving Ourselves) to Rocky Anderson. Rocky wrote this response.
  • What Obama Has Wrought
  • Betrayal and the Insidious Dumbing Down of Black America

No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates, Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
You’re not going to see any third party voices in tonight’s debate. The Republican, Democratic parties, who exert near absolute control over these public forums, have determined and made sure that no third party voices are ever seen on the debate stage and can challenge their dominance of our political system.

Ralph Nader | The Media On Presidential Campaigns, Ralph Nader, Eurasia Review

  • The media should engage in some serious introspection!
  • Mainstream media: Report the facts and call out candidates when they lie

Wingnuts Falsely Claim Obama Administration Forbade Marines From Carrying Live Ammo, Adam Weinstein, Mother Jones

  • The Marine Corps has confirmed to Mother Jones that a military blogger's popular conspiracy theory about the embassy attack in Egypt is wrong.
  • Full text of the memo from the Marine Corps' congressional liaison
  • Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect

The Democratic Party is a Big Fraud, Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch

  • A Sorry Spectacle
  • Obama’s Double-Speak at the DNC
  • Make Your Vote Count for Socialism

Matt Wuerker

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect, Juan Cole, Informed Comment
This is a non-film and a non-story, a fraud, promoted by the worst people in each culture.

Make Your Vote Count for Socialism, Scott Tucker, Truthdig

  • Ever since the First World War, the Socialist Party has taken the position that a class conscious movement of workers must by necessity also be a movement working against militarism in culture and in the economy.
  • Martin Luther King’s 1967 Riverside Church Speech

Poll: Bachmann in danger, Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon

  • A new survey provided exclusively to Salon shows the Minnesota congresswoman's lead down to just 2 points
  • Graves has the best shot at beating Bachmann of any Democrat since the congresswoman was first elected in 2006, thanks in large part to the absence of a third-party candidate.
  • Jim Graves, Democratic challenger to Rep. Michele Bachmann

Democrats Retreat on Civil Liberties in 2012 Platform, Adam Serwer, Mother Jones

  • The distance between the 2008 and 2012 platform shows just how hard it has been, and starkly illustrates the extent to which the Democratic Party has given up on its 2008 promises to roll back the national security state that emerged and expanded in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
  • Obama: A disaster for civil liberties
  • Noam Chomsky | The Shredding of Our Constitutional Rights

Robert Reich | The Jobs Report and the Election, Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

  • President Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention was long on uplifting rhetoric but short on specifics for what he'll do if reelected to reignite the American economy.
  • Minimum Wage Raise is the Least We Can Do to Civilize America
  • How Bad Things Are
     

 

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