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By Robert Scheer, Christopher Scheer and Lakshmi Chaudhry
By Susan Sontag
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With the race as tight as ever, and in light of last week’s spirited and heated debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, all eyes were on Boca Raton, Fla., on Monday night as the presidential candidates squared off for the third and final time before the election.
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Jim Morrison of Here TV and Truthdig’s Bill Boyarsky discuss debates, alternative candidates and Daniel Ellsberg’s mandate to vote for Obama. Also: How immigration extremists stand in the way of economic recovery.
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Jim Morrison of Here TV and Truthdig’s Bill Boyarsky discuss debates, alternative candidates and Daniel Ellsberg’s mandate to vote for Obama. Also: How immigration extremists stand in the way of economic recovery.
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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Cam Cardow, Cagle Cartoons, The Ottawa Citizen —
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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Jeff Parker, Cagle Cartoons, Florida Today and the Fort Myers News-Press —
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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Third-party candidates shut out of Monday’s final presidential debate will once again have the chance to be heard on a special live, expanded broadcast of “Democracy Now!” starting at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time (5:30 p.m. Pacific time).
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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By The Rev. Madison Shockley — President Obama is fired up and ready to go for the foreign policy debate Monday night, and he should begin in his opening statement by asking the American people, “Are you safer now than you were four years ago?”
Posted on Oct 22, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Everywhere you turn, President Obama is accused of not offering a clear second-term agenda. It’s not surprising that Republicans say it, but you also hear it from quarters sympathetic to the president. But how true is the charge?
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — Assuming that neither man faints on the stage at their final debate on Monday, the Obama-Romney race now depends on three smoking guns rarely discussed by candidates: geography, demography, and getting out the right vote.
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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By David Sirota — The two names that best explain money’s unprecedented political influence in America are not Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, but Montgomery Brewster and Ross Perot.
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Pavel Constantin, Cagle Cartoons, Romania —
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Romney’s campaign is benefiting from racism among voters; Catalonia’s cry for independence is inspiring violent threats from Spanish institutions; meanwhile, “Fifty Shades of Grey’s” immense popularity reflects the modern sexual condition. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Oct 21, 2012
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune —
Posted on Oct 20, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — Mark the name of R. Glenn Hubbard, the man who will make your life miserable if Mitt Romney is elected president.
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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By Robert Reich — President Obama should propose that the nation’s biggest banks be broken up and their size capped, and that the Glass-Steagall Act be resurrected.
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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Jon Stewart has some other ideas for what Mitt Romney could call his “binder.” For example, “Book of Broads” or “Notebook of Nipples.”
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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Mitt Romney and his wife made at least $15 million (and as much as $115 million) from the very taxpayer-funded auto bailout of 2009 that he opposed, while donors to Republican candidates made more than $4 billion by holding the auto industry and tens of thousands of American jobs hostage.
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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The famed whistle-blower has been a sharp critic of the president, but he says a Romney/Ryan administration would be “catastrophically worse.”
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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By Joe Conason — When innocent citizens asked about unemployment Tuesday night at the town hall presidential debate on Long Island, would Mitt Romney again tout his plan to create 12 million jobs?
Posted on Oct 18, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Not a close call. President Obama won the second presidential debate as clearly and decisively as he lost the first. For anyone who disagrees, three simple words: “Please proceed, Governor.”
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — You may have noticed that the Green Party presidential candidate, Dr. Jill Stein, was absent from the “town hall” presidential debate at Hofstra University the other night. That’s because she was shackled to a chair in a nearby New York police facility, along with her running mate, Green Party vice president nominee Cheri Honkala.
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including a wrap-up of the second presidential debate, the latest election poll and a Paul Ryan photo op that’s ripe for a Jon Stewart takedown.
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — “Lead from behind” may be a sound bite the Obama administration regrets, but debating from behind is clearly something President Obama is very good at. He got the first debate’s wakeup call while Mitt Romney let the encounter in Denver mislead him into confusing petulance with strength.
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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By Robert Reich — During Tuesday night’s debate, the president was articulate and forceful—in sharp contrast to his performance in the first presidential debate. He stated his beliefs. He defended his record. He told America where he wanted to take the nation in his second term. And he explained where Romney wanted to take us.
Posted on Oct 17, 2012
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By Bill Boyarsky — President Obama may have saved his campaign, but it’s still not clear after Tuesday night’s debate what he would do with a second term.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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Advisers to the president had promised that Barack Obama would be more aggressive and passionate in the second debate against Mitt Romney than he had been in the first. And he was. By miles.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By William Pfaff — From the beginning of the Arab Awakening (“Arab Springtime,” as it was, but alas two springtimes have already passed), my opinion has been to stay out of these events, as far as possible, and certainly not to attempt to control them.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By Peter Z. Scheer — There is no single issue more frustrating to the cause of progress than the relative struggle the left has organizing voters and getting them to the polls.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By Robert Reich — President Obama can rebound in Tuesday night’s second presidential debate again Republican challenger Mitt Romney by emphasizing five points.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — First, he has to show up. Then, in his second debate with Mitt Romney, President Obama needs to offer not just history lessons and dire warnings, but also a hopeful vision for the next four years.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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By Clancy Sigal, Reader Supported News —
I’m critical of Obama’s presidency, but my medical emergency convinced me that for Obamacare alone we must re-elect him.
Posted on Oct 15, 2012
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