The New Progressive Alliance as part of the Corporate Reform Coalition released a press release showing a new poll indicating Americans condemn high levels of corporate political spending and overwhelmingly support strong transparency and accountability reforms for corporate political spending.

For a real debate with real alternatives click here. The Green Party, Justice Party, and Constitution Party deserve more attention than they have gotten.

All indications are that poverty is not only getting worse, it is approaching third world status in many areas. To aggravate the problem actions and agencies which in the past alleviated the misery - such as unemployment insurance, medicare, access to higher education, and social security - are now being dismantled or diminished. The chances to climb out of poverty are diminishing and there is a sophisticated effort to portray poor people as lazy moochers off of society rather than hold policy makers of both parties accountable.

As Obama and Romney were facing off at the University of Denver Wednesday night, Democracy Now! was just miles away airing a special three-hour broadcast expanding the debate. We broke the sound barrier by pausing after President Obama’s and Romney’s answers to get real-time responses from Jill Stein of the Green Party and Rocky Anderson of the Justice the party. Dr. Stein is a physician from Massachusetts. Rocky Anderson is the former mayor of Salt Lake city.

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Recently the United States Senate voted virtually unanimously to back Obama in a call for more war. This is pretty sad. On the blatantly unconstitutional NDAA out of the president and 535 people in congress only 3 republicans in the HOR voted against it. On a totally unjustified call for war the only person out of the president and 100 senators to vote against it was one lonely republican.