| Political Polling Is No Longer Meaningful Salvatore Babones, Truthout: The truth is that we have no idea who is ahead in the presidential race. Opinion polling has entered uncharted territory as response rates have plummeted. Read the Article Danny Glover | Why Chavez Won Again Danny Glover, Foreign Policy in Focus: The Venezuelan election has shown that the majority of its people have a clear notion of justice and how it can be achieved. It is now time the United States to look at its alliance with the elites of Latin America and say: This is not just. Read the Article Silences Louder Than Their Words: Effective Economic Policies Neither Candidate Advocates Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: Neither Mitt Romney nor Barack Obama even mentions six alternative economic policies that, deployed together, would reduce unemployment, increase workers' real earnings and decrease the federal deficit. Read the Article Survival and Dignity in an Afghan Winter Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence: Among Afghanistan's ongoing burdens of destitution and war, temperatures are now dropping again. With an estimated 400 Afghan people displaced every day by a US-initiated war, the desire for warm blankets and warm clothing will certainly be greater than the supply. Read the Article The Breast Cancer Donor's Dilemma: Time to Revolt? Ellen Leopold, Truthout: A streamlined fundraising model shorn of cause marketing, overpaid executives and false promises might be a godsend to committed donors disenchanted with the wasteful and often misleading tactics of pink-ribbon crusaders. Read the Article What Does Romney's Campaign of Lies Say About Our Country? Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Policies based on lies lead to disasters. A population that has been primed to believe things that are not true is a population that can be herded into outrageous actions. If Romney is elected based on a campaign of lies, what will be left of us? Read the Article The Electoral College: Another Front in the War Against Labor Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take: Historically, the Electoral College was established to protect cheap labor, such as slavery. Today, it's still about preserving cheap labor in America, and it's still all about giving more power and influence to the barons of the cheap-labor states. Read the Article The Faces of Resistance Mock San Francisco's Newspaper of Record Scott Johnson, Truthout: Protesters arrested at a Columbus Day march fear the San Francisco Chronicle's single-source reporting may sway potential jurors before their November trial. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: 25 Americans Are Dead From Meningitis Outbreak, and More In today's On the News segment: 25 Americans are dead and another 344 are sickened by a growing meningitis outbreak; Hurricane Sandy's death toll has now topped 55 Americans; the Eurozone unemployment in September hit an all-time record high of 11.6 percent; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Frankenstorms and Climate Change: How the 1% Created a Monster Chris Williams, Climate & Capitalism: As climate change continues, the effects will only increase, leading to more extreme weather events. Not because we don't have answers to prevent that from happening and derive our energy from sources other than fossil fuels, but because it's simply too profitable to change. Read the Article | 
