HBO’s ‘Newsroom’ Season Finale Focuses on Photo ID Voter Suppression Under ‘American Taliban’
There is much, much more in-between our cuts here, including a storyline involving a hacking scandal that mirrors Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp’s, but at the core of the recent Season 1 finale of HBO’s “must-see” Aaron Sorkin series The Newsroom, was the nationwide Republican voter suppression effort. Specifically, the finale centers around the GOP-enacted polling […]
‘Green News Report’ – August 21, 2012
Welcome to our newest affiliate partners, The Shannyn Moore Show –as heard on Fox News Talk Radio(!) KOAN am1020 and 95.5 FM in Anchorage, Alaska and on We Act Radio, WPWC 1480am in Washington D.C.! TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport FACEBOOK: Green News Report VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: It’s official: Worst. Fire Season. […]
Crashing the Parties: Mike Lofgren on ‘Crazy’ Republicans, ‘Useless’ Democrats, Who’s To Blame and What Can Be Done About It
Guest blogged by D.R. Tucker Mike Lofgren’s new book, The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, will certainly motivate the actual patriots in the United States — and alienate those Americans who merely call themselves patriots. Lofgren, who spent nearly three decades as a Republican […]
‘Green News Report’ – July 19, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Hot town, summer in the city — and in the country, and in the mountains, and on the farms, and in the desert; GOP goes to bat for Monsanto; FDA bans BPA – sort of; Greenland calves new iceberg; PLUS: Australia’s new carbon tax […]
‘Green News Report’ – July 17, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: It’s official: US drought is now declared a natural disaster; Massive anti-nuke protests in Japan; Kalamazoo River tar sands pipeline spill was entirely preventable; PLUS: Shell Oil’s excellent adventure in the Arctic gets off to a rocky start … All that and more in […]
‘Green News Report’ – July 10, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Baby, it’s HOT outside: the hottest 12 months on record; “Corn growers in Hell,” melting runways, and more impacts of extreme weather; Better late than never: More Americans believe in science again (But not ABC’s George Will!); PLUS: ExxonMobil CEO admits climate change — […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 28, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Record heat, record wildfires & Michelle Malkin on the run; Record flooding in FL so GOP fiddles with federal flood insurance; Climate deniers smack-down by appellate court is good news for anyone who breathes; PLUS: 80% renewable energy by 2050? New study says ‘Yup! […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 26, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Summer of Fire in the US; Summer of Floods in the UK; Fracking FAIL: Gasland’s Josh Fox exposes new info on the dangers of natural gas fracking — again; PLUS: Good news — and bad news — on rising sea levels in the US… […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 21, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Good news and bad — mostly bad — from the Rio+20 Earth Summit; Deluged in Duluth – record storm, record floods; Awkward!: 3 new oil spills complicate Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline dreams; PLUS: Greenpeace billboard rejected — you’ll never guess their offensive slogan (no, […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 19, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: A nuclear re-start for Japan — but also a solar revolution; Most anti-environment Congress in history, gutting everything — or at least trying to; Rio+20: UN Sustainability summit gets underway in Brazil; PLUS: Oh really, Donald Trump? OPEC is in the tank for Obama?!? […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 14, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Big Oil worried about global warming! And still fighting to keep their billion-dollar taxpayer subsidies; OPEC fights to raise oil prices; Koch-funded Americans For Prosperity fights environmental extremist kite-flying schoolchildren; PLUS: Hey Fox ‘News’, whaddaya say now that gas prices have fallen? … [cue: […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 12, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Raging wildfires turn deadly in the West; More frequent wildfires predicted in coming years… while Mitt Romney campaigns against hiring more firefighters; VA GOP banishes the words ‘sea level rise”; PLUS: 2012: Hottest spring on record for the US …. All that CRAZY and […]
‘Green News Report’ – June 7, 2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Congressional Republicans attack the military’s clean energy programs; NC Republicans vote to outlaw physics; Germany sets solar energy world record; Warming Arctic now growing ‘pop-up forests’; PLUS: US wildfire season, off to a roaring — and record — start… All that and more in […]
Undemocratic Features of CA’s New ‘Cajun Primary’ System Cut Both Ways, Against both Ds and Rs
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning Recently, The BRAD BLOG criticized the undemocratic features of the new “Top Two” open primary system (aka the “Cajun Primary“) in California. The new system, approved via a ballot initiative in 2010, changes the state’s primary to system to allow a single, open primary in which the two candidates […]
Will CA’s New ‘Cajun Primary’ System Allow Minority GOP To Capture Congressional Seats?
Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning When the new Congressional map was first produced by the non-partisan California Citizens Redistricting Commission, CA’s GOP leadership expressed concern that it might lose up to five of its nineteen Congressional seats in the bargain. Although its legal challenge to redistricting was rejected by the CA Supreme Court (a […]