Senate Repubs Call Founder of Fake ‘Voter Fraud’ Group to Testify at Real AG Nomination Hearings
While it’s amusing enough that former CBS News reporter Sharyl “BENGHAZI!!!” Attkisson has been scheduled by Republicans to appear at this week’s Senate confirmation hearings of U.S. Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch, another “expert witness” called by Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans is, arguably, even more absurd. Catherine Engelbrecht, the founder of the fraudulent Republican “voter […]
‘Green News Report’ – January 22, 2015
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: President Obama’s State of the Union focuses on climate change; Republicans’ sneaky move to give the Keystone XL pipeline a new name; Yellowstone River pipeline spill spews oil and cancer-causing benzene; PLUS: Yes, Republicans vote climate change is not a […]
‘Green News Report’ – December 2, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: UN climate summit underway to map the future of global warming; California hit by record rain, amid record drought; Global implications of falling oil prices; PLUS: The toxic legacy of the world’s worst industrial disaster thirty years later… All that […]
‘Green News Report’ – November 6, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… · (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Election 2014 Environmental Democalypse Now: get ready for the Republican hegemonic hellscape; Climate denier caucus now in charge; PLUS: At least one note of very good environmental election news… All that and more in today’s Green News Report! Listen online […]
Rightwing ‘Voter Integrity’ Group ‘True the Vote’ Fails To Find Polling Place ‘Voter Fraud’ (Again)
[This article now cross-published by Salon…] For some reason, this tweet of mine, from about 4am on Election Night, has become very popular… Man, those Democrats really suck at all that massive voter fraud they do. — Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) November 5, 2014 Perhaps we can chalk up its popularity to the joke it makes […]
Touch-Screen Votes Reportedly Flipping R to D and D to R in Several VA Towns [VIDEO]
By our count, Virginia is now the 7th state to report touch-screen voting flipping in the 2014 election (though we may have missed a few in Pennsylvania and elsewhere). During Early Voting, prior to today’s mid-term, we’ve covered 100% unverifiable touch-screen votes reportedly flipping on screen in Texas (D to R), in Illinois (R to […]
Texas GOP Photo ID Voter Suppression Law a ‘Huge Problem’ for Student Voters This Year
Over the weekend we noted a few of the heartbreaking stories about some of the born and raised Texans and 93-year old veterans and others who are now being turned away from the polls, unable to vote for the first time, many of whom have also been unable to obtain a supposedly “free” Election Identification […]
‘Green News Report’ – October 28, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Climate Change and Election 2014: High stakes on energy, the environment, and global warming … All that and more in today’s Green News Report! Listen online here, or Download MP3 (6 mins)… Link: Embed: Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail? […]
‘Green News Report’ – October 21, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Republican candidates continue to dodge the climate change question; Mountaintop removal coal mining promotes lung cancer; ‘Significant’ oil spill in Louisiana bayou; 2014 on track to be hottest year on record; PLUS: LEGO breaks up with Shell Oil… All that and […]
‘Green News Report’ – October 16, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Rep. Paul Ryan backs away – sort of – from outright climate science denial; Have we reached peak climate change denial?; Turns out natural gas isn’t a bridge fuel to a low-emissions future; PLUS: Did a U.S. defense contractor really […]
‘Green News Report’ – October 2, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Tide turns against climate change deniers, as even Rupert Murdoch dumps rightwing policy front group ALEC; Climate change now a defining campaign issue in races around country; 35k walruses start their own sad climate march in Alaska; PLUS: Tide turns […]
‘Green News Report’ – September 18, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Leo DiCaprio takes on his most important role yet; Louisiana’s Gov. Bobby Jindal plays his dumbest role yet; Fracking operations confirmed to contaminate water supplies — again; Black lung coal disease on the rise — again; PLUS: Polluter front group […]
Erick Erickson and the Bleeding Edge of Purposely Ignorant Climate Change Denialism
Wingnut Erick Erickson is on the verge of toppling the proverbial chess board entirely as, once again, he finds himself on the losing side of both the factual and political game when it comes to the “debate” about global warming. In a rant this week headlined “I Simply Do Not Care About Global Warming”, Erickson, […]
KPFK ‘BradCast’: Rep. Hank Johnson on Ferguson and His ‘Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act’
I was joined on this week’s KPFK/Pacifica Radio BradCast by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), to discuss his “Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act” [PDF] which he plans to introduce when the U.S. House returns from their endless recess in September. He’s been at work on the bill long before the local “RoboCops” hit the streets when […]
‘Green News Report’ – August 19, 2014
Follow @GreenNewsReport… (Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Another one bites the dust: Oregon denies proposed coal export facility; It’s official: July 2014 was the 4th hottest July on record; Fracking industry illegally using diesel fuel, threatening underground water supplies; PLUS: New report finds Republican officials DO accept […]