From Current TV, current home of Cenk Uygur and Ketih Olbermann: A twitter feed analysis shows that the US public was not nearly as interested in the themes promoted by the Santorum condidacy as you would have thought from the wall to wall cable news coverage:
Month
Category
- Africa (255)
- Asia (1,265)
- Australasia (36)
- Authoritarianism (398)
- Canada (9)
- Culture (570)
- Economy (1,078)
- Agriculture (3)
- Banking (67)
- Boycotts (1)
- Carbon Footprint (6)
- Corporations (55)
- Cryptocurrency (2)
- Debt (21)
- Degrowth (1)
- Democratic Socialism (20)
- Demographic Decline (1)
- Development (26)
- Downward Mobility (1)
- Employment (118)
- Food Insecurity (21)
- Homelessness (16)
- Industry (5)
- Inequality (428)
- Inflation (5)
- infrastructure (10)
- Insurance (1)
- Investment (93)
- Market Crash (12)
- Middle Class (61)
- Monopolies (8)
- Neoliberalism (204)
- Plutocracy (635)
- Poverty (209)
- Poverty (17)
- Regulation (3)
- Retirement (1)
- Sanctions (5)
- Tariffs (4)
- Taxes (38)
- Technology (4)
- Trade (120)
- Weapons sales (8)
- Education (193)
- Energy (1,774)
- Agrovoltaics (3)
- Batteries (53)
- Coal (140)
- Electricity Cost (2)
- Fossil Fuels (330)
- Fracking (50)
- Geothermal (7)
- Green ammonia (5)
- Green Energy (428)
- Green Hydrogen (8)
- Heat Pumps (6)
- Hydroelectric (2)
- Hydroelectric (16)
- Mining (1)
- Natural Gas (107)
- Nuclear Energy (160)
- Petroleum (303)
- Power Grid (12)
- Pumped Hydro (6)
- Solar Energy (431)
- Tar Sands (13)
- Wave Energy (10)
- wind energy (355)
- Environment (2,744)
- Climate Change (1,679)
- Acidification of Oceans (54)
- Agriculture (26)
- Biodiversity (15)
- Climate Refugees (5)
- CO2 (131)
- Dehydration (5)
- Denialism (153)
- Desalinization (5)
- Desertification (162)
- Divestment (2)
- Dust Storms (7)
- Environmental Investment (1)
- Extreme Heat (401)
- Extreme Weather (300)
- Flooding (138)
- Food Supply (3)
- Forests (18)
- Green New Deal (42)
- Green Recycling (2)
- Greenwashing (3)
- Mass Extinction (63)
- Methane (20)
- Net Carbon Zerio (8)
- Nitrous Oxide (2)
- Rainforests (19)
- Rivers (12)
- Sea Level (340)
- Soil Carbon Release (14)
- Super Storms (265)
- wildfires (241)
- Wood Buildings (1)
- Climate Crisis (1,374)
- Drought (298)
- Ecology (12)
- Ecology (2)
- Environmentalism (393)
- Green Transportation (258)
- Ice Melt (139)
- Invasive Species (2)
- Islands (3)
- Oceans (105)
- Oil Spills (8)
- Pollution (234)
- Water (98)
- wildlife (23)
- Climate Change (1,679)
- Europe (1,395)
- Featured (4,342)
- Haiti (1)
- Health (712)
- History (372)
- Human Rights (1,654)
- Apartheid (263)
- censorship (327)
- Death Penalty (30)
- Disappeared (4)
- Displaced and Refugees (582)
- Food Insecurity (30)
- Gay rights (29)
- Genocide (73)
- Human Rights Watch (92)
- Indigenous Rights (1)
- Migrants (4)
- privacy (21)
- Rights (92)
- Slavery and Trafficking (16)
- Starvation (5)
- Torture (103)
- Trans Rights (5)
- Transgender Rights (5)
- Unlawful Imprisonment (111)
- Unlwful Killing (83)
- War Crimes (428)
- War Rape (9)
- International Politics and Economy (2,141)
- Arms Sales (75)
- BRICS (3)
- Corruption (269)
- Crime (133)
- Democracy (337)
- Dissent (454)
- Domestic Terrorism (15)
- Drones (113)
- G20 (1)
- Guns (9)
- Hacking (8)
- Immigration (5)
- Immigration (22)
- Islamophobia (383)
- Migrants (2)
- military (125)
- nationalism (118)
- NATO (38)
- Neocolonialism (1)
- Peace (146)
- Policing (2)
- Politics (309)
- Politics&Culture (21)
- Propaganda (13)
- Race (2)
- Smuggling (1)
- Juan Cole (271)
- Latin America (104)
- media (488)
- Middle East (10,193)
- Arab World (5,335)
- Iran (1,396)
- Israel (986)
- Israel/ Palestine (3,762)
- Israel/Palestine (9)
- Kurds (296)
- Red Sea (1)
- Turkey (607)
- Turkiye (134)
- Patriarchy (11)
- racism (478)
- religion (1,533)
- robots (3)
- Romance (1)
- science (177)
- Secular (West) (9)
- Secularism (30)
- Spirituality (22)
- Statelessness (15)
- Stranded Assets (1)
- Surveillance (283)
- Terrorism (1,096)
- Tolerance (6)
- Uncategorized (8,088)
- United Nations (181)
- Urbanization (4)
- US Foreign Policy (1,405)
- US politics (5,557)
- Anti-War Movement (13)
- Campaign Finance (31)
- Censors (22)
- Central Intelligence Agency (63)
- Charity (1)
- Civil Rights (96)
- Congress (82)
- Conspiracy Theories (24)
- Constitution (416)
- Courts (15)
- crime (12)
- Democratic Party (976)
- Democratic Socialists of America (22)
- Domestic Terrorism (20)
- Drone Warfare (27)
- Espionage (124)
- Ethnicities (397)
- Far Right (400)
- FBI (48)
- Federal Government (1)
- Foreign Policy (204)
- Gay Rights (17)
- Guns (97)
- Immigration (256)
- Israel Lobbies (130)
- Marijuana (4)
- Militarization (274)
- National Security State (477)
- Native Americans (41)
- Nuclear arsenal (8)
- penitentiaries (6)
- Pentagon (579)
- Police (43)
- prison reform (10)
- Private Prisons (3)
- Progressive Politics (15)
- Puerto Rico (30)
- Religious Right (15)
- Reproductive Choice (69)
- Republican Party (3,139)
- Supreme Court (133)
- Voter suppression (36)
- Whistleblowers (7)
- Xenophobia (9)
- Veterans (35)
- Voting Rights (16)
- War (627)
- White Supremacists (240)
- wikileaks (8)
- women (571)
- workers (235)
- Writing (5)
- Youth (218)
Uncategorized
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The N. Korea/ Iran Nuclear Connection Fraud
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Darpa Cheetah Robot beats Land Speed Record
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McCain: Bomb Syria; But Iraq and Russia oppose Intervention
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