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Why the Silence on Global Warming?
Daphne Wysham is a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and is the co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network. She said today: “The Arctic is melting to record lows, extreme weather is increasing, grain reserves are at record lows threatening millions with hunger should there be another bad grain harvest next year,…
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Empowering Voter Choice: * Killing the Congressional Gerrymander * Instant Runoff Voting
Rob Richie is executive director of FairVote, which has just released a pair of reports on “the roots of lack of competition in congressional races and a roadmap for reform.”
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* Wal-Mart Strikes * Nobel in Economics
Nelson Lichtenstein recently wrote the piece “A New Era for Wal-Mart Workers?” which states: “During this week and the last, perhaps a couple of hundred of Wal-Mart workers have walked out of their stores in at least a dozen cities across America. They have formed picket lines, spoken to the press, and demonstrated that it…
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“Koch Sends Pro-Romney Mailing to Employees While Stifling Workplace Political Speech”
Mike Elk just wrote the piece “Koch Sends Pro-Romney Mailing to 45,000 Employees While Stifling Workplace Political Speech” for In These Times where he is a staff writer and regular contributor to the magazines’ “Working” blog. The new piece states: “In a voter information packet obtained by In These Times, the Koch Industries corporate leadership…
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* Iran Sanctions * Biden Antiwar? * Phony Nobel?
Muhammad Sahimi is a professor at the University of Southern California and lead political columnist for the website PBS/Frontline/Tehran Bureau. While both Biden and Ryan touted the sanctions on Iran in last night’s debate, Sahimi said: “The sanctions were supposed to be ‘smart’ and ‘targeted,’ but they have turned to be anything but. They have…
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Debate Disinformation on Social Security and Medicare
Eric Kingson is co-chair of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign. He said today: “In her opening question on Social Security to Mr. Ryan, Martha Raddatz drew on and reinforced a common myth — that Social Security ‘is going broke’ and that dramatic change is needed for it ‘to survive.’ Her assumptions were wrong. Social Security…
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Is There a Real Foreign Policy Debate?
Peter Van Buren, a 24-year veteran Foreign Service Officer at the State Department, spent a year in Iraq. He is author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. He just wrote “Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell: Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won’t…
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Beyond the Horse Race: Issues Driven Polling
Taylor Peck is co-founder of iSideWith.com. He said today: “iSideWith.com is an interactive, non-partisan website that helps voters track how their views compare the 2012 presidential candidates’ views. Users answer a series of questions on important issues including taxes, Medicare, gay marriage, the war in Afghanistan and global warming.”
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Meningitis Outbreak “Highlights Failure of FDA”
Deputy director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, Dr. Michael Carome said today: “The now widely publicized outbreak of life-threatening fungal meningitis in back-pain patients linked to steroid injections prepared by a compounding pharmacy highlights the failure of the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory oversight of drugs prepared and sold by such pharmacies. What is…
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Ten Years After Iraq War Vote: Will Biden and Ryan be Asked About Yes Votes and False Statements on WMDs?
Among Phil Donahue’s many media credits is executive producer for the 2007 feature documentary film, “Body of War.” He said today: “Over 4,000 Americans died in Iraq and over 2,000 Americans have already died in Afghanistan. Both vice presidential candidates voted for the Iraq invasion — neither they nor the men at the top of…