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Hurricane Sandy and Climate on Steroids
The group 350.org organized activists in unfurling a giant “End Climate Silence” banner in Times Square on Sunday. Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org said today: “Meteorologists have called this ‘the biggest storm ever to hit the U.S. mainland,’ which is a reminder of how odd our weather has been in this hottest year in…
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Campaigns Ignore Climate Disruption as Problem Worsens and “Wake-up” Storm Expected on East Coast
Director of Public Citizen’s Energy Program, Tyler Slocum said today: “For the first time in 24 years, neither the presidential nor vice-presidential candidates were asked a question about climate disruption during the debates. And the candidates have failed to highlight the issue as well — unless you count Governor Romney’s use of climate change as…
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New Poll Finds 84 Percent Say Corporate Political Spending Drowns Out Average Americans
LisaGilbert is with Public Citizen, Lauren Strayer is with Demos and Mary Boyle is with Common Cause. The three groups are part of the Corporate Reform Coalition, which just released a poll on the public’s attitudes toward money in politics.
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Disinformation on California GMO-labeling Initiative
Michele Simon is a public health lawyer, president of Eat Drink Politics and author of Appetite for Profit: How the food industry undermines our health and how to fight back. She has been writing about California’s Proposition 37, which would require labeling of foods with GMOs. She recently wrote: “University of California at Davis agriculture…
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Forgotten Haiti: Two Years After Cholera Outbreak
BBC is reporting: “A top U.S. cholera specialist, Dr. Daniele Lantagne, said after studying new scientific data that it is now ‘most likely’ the source of the outbreak was a camp for recently-arrived UN soldiers from Nepal — a country where cholera is widespread.”
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Larry King Moderating 3rd Party Debate; VotePact: An Escape from Voting for “the Lesser of Two Evils”
Larry King will moderate a debate tonight featuring third-party candidates. King told the Associated Press: “They have a story to tell. It’s a valid story. It’s a two-party system, but not a two-party system by law.” The participants will be former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson (Libertarian Party), Green Party candidate Jill Stein, former Congressman…
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* Romney’s War Cabinet * Israel’s Record in Gaza and Nukes * How the World Sees the Debates
Elik Elhanan, Yonatan Shapira and Reut Mor, co-founders of Combatants for Peace, were among the passengers on a boat to Gaza that was intercepted by the Israeli military on Friday. A former paratrooper in the Israeli military, Elhanan was just released from prison and is currently under house arrest in Israel. He said today: “We…
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Where’s the Foreign Policy Debate? * Kuwait * Drones * Libya
A scholar in Middle East politics at Durham University, Christopher Davidson is author of the new book After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies. He said today: “The pro-loyalist groups are not serious about reform. While riot police were attacking peaceful protesters, the Emir was meeting with other members of the ruling…
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* Syria * Pakistani Malala Yousafzai’s Shooting
Sonali Kolhatkar is co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence and is co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission. She said today: “The U.S. has been waging an undeclared drone war in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, including in the Swat valley where Malala Yousufzai was attacked. What is not…
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How Romney and Vulture Funds Milked the Auto Bailout
Investigative reporter Greg Palast wrote the just-published piece “Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza: How Mitt and Ann made millions — and Mitt’s hedge fund donors made billions — from the auto-industry rescue that he condemned.” The piece states: “Mitt Romney’s opposition to the auto bailout has haunted him on the campaign trail, especially in Rust Belt…