Tag: Election 2016
Kasich Weighs In On Climate Change, Calls For More Renewables
"I know it’s an apostasy in the Republican Party to say that. I guess that’s what I’ve always been — being able to challenge some of the status quo.”
4 Reasons Ted Cruz is Even More Dangerous than Donald Trump
Both men would be disasters for America, but Ted Cruz would be the larger disaster.
New Fox News National Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Leading Hillary Clinton
The new poll is the first to show Clinton trailing Sanders. Similar polls show Bernie behind, but closing the gap.
Noam Chomsky on Bernie Sanders and Our ‘Bought’ Political System
Who does Noam Chomsky support in Election 2016? Watch as he discusses his reasons for his preference for Democratic candidates and the differences between the political parties.
How Bernie Could Lose the Nomination But Win the Convention
Sanders is likely to reach the convention with more than 25 percent of the total delegates. That is enough, under convention rules, to force a “minority report” out of the platform committee.
The Death of the Republican Party
It seems the Republican Party has officially died in 2016. What’s left is a lifeless shell, with the Grand Old Party no longer inside.
The Democratic Face-Off in Milwaukee: The Hammer and the Stiletto
Clinton may want to dismiss Sanders’ critique of our corrupted politics and rigged economy as a “single issue,” but more and more Americans are coming to understand that this is the heart of the matter.
Scalia Leaves the Plutocracy One Vote Short
The timing of a new appointment to the Court could hardly be more dramatic in what has already been proven to be an historically dramatic election year.
New Hampshire: Populist Uprising
New Hampshire voters turned out in large numbers and sent a message to both parties: it is time for change.
The Not-So-Hidden Fracking Money Fueling the 2016 Elections
We need to separate oil and state if we’re going to have a chance of establishing a robust climate test that keeps fossil fuels in the ground and gets our government to stop funding fossils.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.