Ralph who? If you find yourself asking this question, the reason why you haven’t heard much about Ralph Nader is because the news barred him from the political debates on television. The fact is, six GLOBAL corporations own about half the media that we consume, not to mention the large companies at home. Whether they view Nader as a threat to their interests or whether they have chosen their presidential candidates for us, we have a threat to our democracy simply because media control skews our votes by controlling our information.

Would you like to hear more about Nader? I …

Acorn is a grassroots organization that works to register low income voters in hopes of alleviating the problem with disenfranchised voters in America. Acorn has once again come under fire for allegations of election fraud in multiple states. Last year Acorn was forced to pay $25,000 in fines to improve oversight in King County, Washington, where I happen to be a registered voter.

The fact of the matter is that the 7 people that were charged with voter fraud, in my county, worked for and represented Acorn. These people were motivated by money, not election fraud. This was a isolated case …

I feel like this topic has been covered many times before, but for the new young voters in this election, this is all news to them. We are taught in public schools from a very young age that all presidents are going to be great. I borrowed the phrase in my title, “governments lie”, from one of the world’s best known investigative journalist, I.F. Stone. Now unfortunately, since we have all been subjected to so much misinformation starting at a very young age, we all have a hard time swallowing and realistically accepting this phrase. To be more precise …