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Expanding the Debate Exclusive: Third Party Candidates Break the Sound Barrier As Obama-Romney Spar. HeadlinesOctober 4, 2012 Obama, Romney Face Off in 1st Presidential Debate Romney Vows to Boost Military Spending, Cut Public Funding Turkey Launches Strikes in Syria After Deadly Bombing Clashes Erupt as Iranians Protest Collapse of Currency U.S. to Probe Alleged … Continued
As U.S. Death Toll in Afghanistan Passes 2,000 Mark, Phyllis Bennis on America’s Longest War; Va. Tech Shooting Survivor Recounts 2007 Massacre and Urges Obama, Romney to Address Gun Violence; “Guns Are an Idea Whose Time Has Passed”: Poet, Scholar Nikki Giovanni on the Va. Tech Massacre. HeadlinesOctober 2, 2012 Iran’s Currency Hits Record … Continued
The 1 Percent Court? After Healthcare, Supreme Court Returns to a Docket Heavy on Divisive Issues; In Shell Case, Will Supreme Court’s View of Corporate Personhood Mean Liability for Crimes Abroad?; Onerous Requirements Under Virginia’s TRAP Law Could Force Closure of State’s Abortion Clinics; Virginia Residents Fight Back Against Nuclear Industry Effort to Lift Ban … Continued
Alice Walker on 30th Anniv. of “The Color Purple”: Racism, Violence Against Women Are Global Issues; Palestine Conditions “More Brutal” Than in U.S. South of 50 Years Ago, Says Author Alice Walker; “Democratic Womanism”: Poet and Activist Alice Walker on Women Rising, Obama, and the 2012 Election. HeadlinesSeptember 28, 2012 Iraq: Prison Attack Kills … Continued
The United States of ALEC: Bill Moyers on the Secretive Corporate-Legislative Body Writing Our Laws; In U.N. Address, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Urges Obama Admin to End “Regime of Secrecy”; Exposed: U.S. May Have Designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks An “Enemy of the State.” HeadlinesSeptember 27, 2012 Anti-Austerity Protests Continue in Greece, Spain Activists Claim … Continued
Thousands Surround Spanish Parliament in Bid to “Occupy Congress” and Stop Austerity; Study Finds U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan Miss Militant Targets and “Terrorize” Civilians; Botched NFL Call Sparks Wide Support for Unionized Refs & Outrage at Owners’ “Corporate Arrogance.” HeadlinesSeptember 26, 2012 Syrian Army Command Post Bombed in Damascus Greek Workers Hold General … Continued
“Harvest of Empire”: New Film Recounts How U.S. Intervention Caused Mass Latin American Migrations. HeadlinesSeptember 25, 2012 U.S. Drone Strike Kills 5 in Pakistan Study: Drones “Terrorize” Pakistani Civilians, Avoid Top Militants Syrian Rebels Bomb School Housing Gov’t Forces 2 Marines Face Court Martial for Urinating Incident in Afghanistan Romney: U.S. Should “Shape the … Continued
As Anti-Immigrant “Papers” Law Takes Effect, Jeff Biggers on Arizona, the “State Out of the Union”; Jailed, Censored at Home, Russia’s Pussy Riot Hailed by Supporters from Yoko Ono to Aung San Suu Kyi; One Billion Rising: Eve Ensler, Activists Worldwide Plan Global Strike to End Violence Against Women. HeadlinesSeptember 24, 2012 Anti-U.S. Protests … Continued
Remembering Troy Davis: Questions Remain over Whether Georgia Executed Innocent Man One Year Ago; Troy Davis One Year Later: Execution Fuels National Movement to Abolish Death Penalty; As Italy Sentences 23 CIA Agents in Rendition Case, Obama Refuses To Prosecute Anyone For Torture. HeadlinesSeptember 21, 2012 1 Dead in Pakistan as Anti-Film, French Cartoon … Continued
