| The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are? Dean Baker, Truthout: Do you know where your congressperson and political candidates stand on proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare? The corporate media hasn't even bothered to ask. Read the Article Chris Hedges | Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline Chris Hedges, Truthdig: The 1,700-mile proposed pipeline would run through six states and would mean game over for the climate, according to a scientist studying global warming. Read the Article Know Your Rights: Voter ID Laws Threaten Transgender Voters Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Many trans people are already struggling to obtain updated ID's that reflect their true identity, and in some states, that means legal barriers to their voting rights. Elsewhere, de facto discrimination is the problem. Read the Article Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing? Jeff Faux, AlterNet: Wall Street's involvement in the charter school movement is presented as an act of philanthropy, but it's really about greed. Read the Article Romney Appeals to White Tribalism in Ohio Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett, The Progressive: How better to unite the elite agenda with the concerns of a struggling working class than with coded comments subtly invoking the parasitic "other" as the ever-convenient scapegoat for the country's economic decline. Read the Article Fresh Recruits, More Arrests Begin Week Four in Texas Tar Sands Blockade Candice Bernd, Truthout: As the Texas tar sands tree-sit enters its fourth week, activists re-enter the tree village to supply and defend members of the Tar Sands Blockade. The arrests continue. Read the Article $950,000 Win for NYC Workers Invigorates Supply-Chain-Justice Movement Michelle Chen, In These Times: Even as unions decline, low-wage laborers are getting creative and winning major victories for working people. Read the Article Koch Brothers Among US Billionaires Pressuring Thousands of Employees to Vote GOP on Election Day Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: Labor reporter Mike Elk's new exposé draws on months of reporting and the herosim of three employees who risked their jobs to talk about Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific's practice of trying to siphon off workers' political agency. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Sunrise and Sunset in Afghanistan David Smith-Ferri, War Is a Crime: An American activist shares what he learned in his conversations with the country's young grassroots leaders, who are pressing for peace despite their intimate knowledge of corruption and the challenge of building a future atop a history of trauma and loss. Read the Article Low Wages and High Unemployment Are Paralyzing the Global Economy Paul Jay, The Real News Network: An official with the UN Conference on Trade and Development speaks with RNN from Geneva about how the misguided obsession with competition sucks demand out of the economy. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript On the News With Thom Hartmann: Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Rigging of Libor Upped Homeowners' Mortgage Repayments, and More In today's On the News segment: New leftist party in Lithuania promising higher taxes on the rich and a higher minimum wage; libertarian candidate Gary Johnson could be a spoiler for Mitt Romney as presidential race gets even tighter; Japanese company's looming acquisition of 70 percent of Sprint exemplifies how free trade policies imperil the US economy on the telecommunications front, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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