| Does Romney's Religious Devotion Make Him More, or Less, Trustworthy? Valerie Tarico, Truthout: "Are the devout more likely to speak the truth, base policy on objective evidence and demonstrate integrity in public life? It turns out, many religious have nuanced definitions of integrity, and some faith leaders have used that as a license to deceive." Read the Article Arlen Specter, Longtime GOP Senate Moderate, Dies at 82 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times News Service: "Hard-bitten and tenacious yet ever the centrist, Mr. Specter was a part of American public life for more than four decades." Read the Article Contrasting Elections: Venezuela and the US Mark Vorpahl, Counterpunch: "What a sharp contrast the U.S. presidential elections are to those in Venezuela. Not only are Venezuelans being told that the results of the contest ... were among the most important in this nation's history, they felt it in their bones from their own experience." Read the Article Campaigns Mine Personal Data to Get Out Vote Charles Duhigg, The New York Times News Service: "Consultants to both campaigns said they had bought demographic data from companies that study details like voters' shopping histories, gambling tendencies, interest in get-rich-quick schemes, dating preferences and financial problems." Read the Article Frackademia: Controversial SUNY Buffalo Shale Institute's Reputation Unraveling Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog: "Public funding has been cut to the tune of over $1.4 billion over the past five years in the State University of New York (SUNY) public university system.... These cuts have created new opportunities for the shale gas industry to fill a funding vacuum." Read the Article Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate? Bruce E Levine, AlterNet: "The mental health profession has gone beyond behavioral technologies of control.... While Big Pharma directly profits from drug prescribing, the entire corporatocracy benefits from the mental health profession's legitimization of conditioning and controlling." Read the Article Punishing Free Speech and Letting Murder Off the Hook: Justice Denied in Missouri Brian Terrell, Voices for Creative Nonviolence: "In US District Court in Jefferson City, Missouri, two anti-drone protestors were sentenced for trespassing at Whiteman Air Force Base, one of the stateside bases from where predator drones are operated in the skies over Afghanistan and Pakistan." Read the Article For Obama, Upside of Lackluster Debate: Less Ammo for the Super PAC Firing Squad Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: "One benefit for the president from his mediocre debate showing is that it provided little fodder for attack ads from the Super PACs and 'dark money' groups planning to spend tens of millions in the final weeks of the election." Read the Article Is BofA's Foreclosure Review Really Independent? You Be the Judge Paul Kiel, ProPublica: "The ultimate decision as to whether and how much a homeowner will be compensated is not made by Bank of America, the evidence shows, but is based largely on work that the bank itself performs." Read the Article Can We Make the International Monetary Fund More Democratic? Robert H. Wade and Jakob Vestergaard, TripleCrisis: "A formula based largely on shares in world GDP would be a mistake. To see why, start with the existing voting system, in which a fairly small number of North American and European states have a large majority of the votes." Read the Article Taxpayers Spend Millions on Valley Fever in Prisons Rebecca Plevin, New America Media: "The rate of valley fever among inmates has continued to climb, mirroring an increase in cases throughout the state. The rate of valley fever at Pleasant Valley dropped from 2006 to 2008, then pitched up sharply through 2010." Read the Article | 
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