Here is our open thread for February. If you have something you want to share with the IPR community, and it doesn’t fit into any of the existing conversations, you can post it here.…
Posts published in February 2016
Posted to Truthdig.com
By Chris Hedges
February 21, 2016
The political crisis in America is severe. The old ideas that buttressed the ruling class and promised democracy, growth and prosperity—neoliberalism, austerity, globalization, endless war, a dependence on fossil fuel and unregulated capitalism—have been exposed as fictions used by the corporate elite to impoverish and enslave the country and enrich and empower themselves.…
Selected articles transcribed from the Oct-Nov-Dec 2015 issue of the National Prohibitionist, newsletter of the Prohibition Party:
Campaign Strategy
Major party national election campaigns have often been marred by mud-slinging and personal invective, epitomized this year by the speeches of (Republican) candidate Donald Trump.…
There was a press conference this morning in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to announce that 42,000 signatures had been gathered to place the Libertarian Party on the ballot in this state.…
From the Constitution Party website:
The 2016 campaign season is heating up, and the Constitution Party National Convention will have several candidates from which to choose their nominee when in Salt Lake City (April 15th and 16th).…
From Peter Orvetti at Green Party Watch:
Jill Stein has easily won the Illinois Green Party presidential preference vote, with nearly 87% of the total votes cast.…