Mitt Romney and Joe Biden have canceled campaign events planned for this weekend at Virginia Beach as a massive storm bears down on the east coast of the US. The candidates are fleeing from the East Coast, even though they won’t talk about the key environmental issue of our time.
The World Bank brags that its annual "Doing Business" report spurs countries to make "positive regulatory reforms." But what the World Bank sees as "positive" is often anti-union and anti-worker. It’s a 2012 campaign mantra: On Day One, the new president will reboot the economy by spurring businesses to grow and thrive.
So many stories of employers pressuring their workers to vote for Romney have come out that you might think workplace intimidation was invented just for this election.'Coal country stands with Mitt' – but not voluntarily. Photograph: AP Photo
Chances are growing that we may very well see a split in this year’s election, with Governor Romney narrowly winning the popular vote and President Obama taking the Electoral College (maybe by a comfortable margin). As I noted yesterday, the media hype over “Mittmentum” was false mainly because of Obama’s continuing clear edge in most of the swing-state polls. But that doesn’t mean Romney won’t win the popular vote. And if he does win, but lose the election, don’t expect Fox and friends to accept that, even though they had no problem with George W.
The Chicago teachers' strike may be over, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel may have replaced the Chicago schools CEO, but the underlying issues that caused the rift between teachers and public schools officials haven't gone away. Because our education system is such a vital public asset, we cannot resolve these issues in the context of a crisis.
It wasn’t an everyday event, the arrival in TomDispatch’s email inbox of a letter of complaint from Colonel Tom Davis, director of public affairs at USAFRICOM. It began, “Greetings from U.S.
This is for those of you who consider yourself to be progressive but have given up on politics because it seems rotten to the core. You may prefer Obama to Romney but don’t think there’s a huge difference between the two, so you may not even vote.
Your cynicism is understandable. But cynicism is a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you succumb to it, the regressives who want to take this nation back to the 19th century win it all.
