William Rivers Pitt | Hey, Joe William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: More than 70 million people watched last week as Obama poorly countered Mitt Romney's barrage of lies. Tonight, the political universe is looking toward Joe Biden to see if he can right the course of Obama's campaign ship. Read the Article What Everyone Needs to Know Before Watching the VP Debate Annie-Rose Strasser, ThinkProgress: Get the facts straight ahead of the Vice Presidential debate with a set of 12 positions that Paul Ryan supports. Read the Article Romney's $2-Trillion Defense Increase Won't Buy More Defense, Just More Waste Dina Rasor, Truthout: Mitt Romney hopes to raise the defense budget by $2 trillion in order to purchase more Cold War-style weapons that have no relevance to our modern security threats. Read the Article Independent Observers: Venezuela's Election a Model of Democracy Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: Despite media reports to the contrary, observers who monitored the election process in Venezuela say the system was free, fair, efficient and a model for democracy that bears watching. Read the Article Enterprising Cities: Left, Right and Center Gar Alperovitz, Truthout: With massive Bush-era cutbacks in federal funding hitting cities and states, the pressure is on for governments to become more entrepreneurial in order to find revenues for public services. Read the Article Nick Turse: Will Blowback From Drone Warfare End Up Killing Americans? Mark Karlin, Truthout: For many Americans, drones seem like a distant concern. However, their potential for blowback as their technology becomes available to other nations - and likely terrorist groups - may have a profound impact on making the planet less secure in the coming years. Read the Article Affirmative Action: A Tale of Two Supreme Courts Danny Weil, Truthout: As the fate of affirmative action policies in the nation's universities hangs in the balance with the US Supreme Court, the Brazilian government, backed by its own highest court, has enacted the most sweeping higher education admissions legislation in the Western Hemisphere. Read the Article Why Chavez Was Re-elected in Venezuela Mark Weisbrot, The International Herald Tribune: Hugo Chavez's control over the national oil industry has resulted in economic benefits that have likely played a role in his re-election. Read the Article Paul Krugman | Pain, and Not Only in Spain Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Europe continues to act under the false theory that the economic crisis is a fiscal issue and that austerity measures will solve the problem. Read the Article Don't Ask and Don't Tell: Six Critical Foreign Policy Questions That Won't Be Raised in the Presidential Debates Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: Our disasters abroad could be thwarted if we learned from our recent history in order to avoid making the same mistakes. With this in mind. Peter Van Buren proposes six foreign policy questions for the upcoming presidential debates. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Private Health Insurers Are Preying on Medicare, and More In today's On the News segment: Expect Paul Ryan to act just like Mitt Romney, private health insurers are preying on Medicare, Walmart workers strike is gaining momentum, Republican voter suppression efforts, IMF Director Christine Lagarde is beginning to walk back austerity, telecom corporations have once against escaped any sort of punishment for spying on Americans, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Walmart Workers in 12 States Stage Historic Strikes, Protests Against Workplace Retaliation Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy NOW!: In 12 states and 28 stores, Walmart workers have launched historic labor protests that will likely only increase. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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