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"Phony: A Song for Mitt Romney"
By Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet
Halftime in America? Clint Eastwood Chrysler Ad a Mishmash of Political Points
By Sarah Jaffe | AlterNet
Please, CNN's Roland Martin, Explain What's So Funny about Hate Crimes?
By Scott Wooledge | DailyKos
Arizona Strikes Again: State Rep Suggests Statewide "Caucasian Day" to Counter "Latin American Day"
By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | AlterNet
Ron Paul Would Only Support Woman’s Right To Choose In Cases Of ‘Honest Rape’
By Igor Volsky | ThinkProgress
Krugman on "Austerity" and Suffering as Moralistic Purging
By Ed Kilgore | Washington Monthly
NYPD Officers Shoot and Kill Three Black Men in One Week
By Jorge Rivas | Colorlines
Mitt Romney: Zero Uplift Man
By Steve M | Booman Tribune
Pete Hoekstra Runs Disgusting Racist Ad During Super Bowl
By Steve M | No More Mister Nice Blog
Shocking: House Republicans Violate First Amendment, Have Academy Award-Nominated Director Arrested For Filming Energy/Environment Hearing
By Digby | Hullabaloo
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Mammograms, Contraception, and Abortion are Always Political, Even Religious. We Ignore This At Our Peril
RH Reality Check
An Apology, But Not A Reversal, From the Susan G. Komen Foundation
RH Reality Check
If We Can Stop the Keystone Pipeline, We Can Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia
jeffbiggers
New York City: Still The Marijuana Arrest Capital Of The World
Paul Armentano
Susan G. Komen: Can You Trust a Breast Cancer Organization Whose Staff and Board Members Lie About Breast Cancer?
RH Reality Check
No History Is Illegal: Teach-Ins Target Arizona’s Mexican American Studies Ban, As National Organizations Demand Return of Banished Books
jeffbiggers
The Cancerous Politics and Ideology of the Susan G. Komen Foundation
RH Reality Check
Child Abduction for Adoption and the Tangled Web of Deceit in Guatemala: A Review of Erin Siegal’s “Finding Fernanda”
RH Reality Check
Wag The Seal
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com
Retirees Occupy Century Aluminum
Leo Gerard
So Pa, So Good…But Must Activists Always Align With Corporations To Win?
Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com
Hauling the Koch brothers into Congress
Robert Greenwald
In Bad Faith: New Study Further Underscores Lack of Truth in Anti-Choice Claims
RH Reality Check
Are black pastors opposing marriage equality for religious right money?
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If We Clear Out Our Ideological Cobwebs, Perhaps Americans Can Have a Long Overdue Discussion
Earon Davis
German Radiation Expert: Fukushima “Atomic Bomb” Possible
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Strange case of Kentucky soldier charged with espionage
Christopher Hignite
Petition to Stop Foreclosures, Hold Banks Accountable!
danbacher
The Great Rice Shortage
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Occupy Wall Street? No Problem!
Jacob Freeze
Occupy everything…but after the anger, then what?
Pat Thomas
Remember, Joe, There Is No Tea Party
Earon
A real Social Network.
kedikat
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Elect Romney, Get War in Iran?
By Max Blumenthal / al-akhbar
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6 Things You Should Know About Arizona's Worse-Than-Wisconsin's Attack on Public Workers
By Sarah Jaffe
AlterNet
Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals?
By Emily Badger
Miller-McCune.com
US Empire Is Changing its Stripes: Drones, Special Operations Forces and the US Navy Are Changing the Way We Do War
By Tom Engelhardt
TomDispatch.com
How Privatizing Government Shovels Cash to Parasitic Corporations and Undermines Democracy
By Mike Konczal
Salon
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How the Sexual Revolution Changed America Forever
Nancy L. Cohen / Counterpoint Press
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Meet Gov. Scott Walker’s New Political Hit Women
Brendan Fischer / AlterNet
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Why is Hollywood So Afraid of Black Women?
Channing Kennedy / ColorLines
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Obama Brags on Saving Detroit--But Auto Industry Bailout Came on the Backs of Working People
Laura Flanders / The Nation
Why the "Liberal" Media Leaves Hawkish Foreign Policy Unchallenged
Gregory Harms / TruthOut.org
Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People
Bill Quigley / AlterNet
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Romney Wins Big in Nevada Caucuses; Gingrich Lashes Out, Vowing to Fight On
Adele M. Stan / AlterNet
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The 7 Most Irritating Superbowl Halftime Performers of All Time
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet
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Bill Moyers: Newt's Strange Obsession with Saul Alinsky
Bill Moyers / Moyers & Company
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The Tragic Story of Christianity: How a Pacifist Religion Was Hijacked by Rabid Warmongering Elites
Gary G. Kohls / Consortium News
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I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen's Race Is For Money, Not Cure
Emily Michele / ButterBeliever.com
WORLD
Why Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Could Ignite a War and a Global Depression
Michael T. Klare / TomDispatch.com
How the Super Bowl Became the Center of a Political Showdown for Players and Workers
Jamilah King / ColorLines
Occupy DC Forcefully Evicted, Protesters Injured, Arrested, Under Pressure from Congress's Richest Member
Jefferson Morley / Salon
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Koch Brothers Convene Super-Secret Billionaires' Meeting for 2012 Elections
Lee Fang / Republic Report
ECONOMY
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Why Do Dangerous Financial Criminals Roam Free?
June Carbone / AlterNet
CIVIL LIBERTIES
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7 Privacy Threats the Constitution Can't Protect You Against
Tana Ganeva / AlterNet
ACTIVISM
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5 Important Lessons from the Komen/Planned Parenthood Fiasco (Don't Mess With Women's Health)
Lauren Kelley / AlterNet
MEDIA
Crashing the Gates: How a Handful of Progressive Activists Brought Liberal Talk-Radio Back to the Nation's Capitol
Joshua Holland / AlterNet
CIVIL LIBERTIES
How the GOP Is Resegregating the South
Ari Berman / The Nation
Keystone XL Opponents Need a Jobs Program
Brendan Smith, Jeremy Brecher / AlterNet
DRUGS
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The NYPD Commissioner Told Cops to Follow the Law -- So Why Did Illegal, Racist Pot Arrests Continue to Increase?
Paul Armentano / NORML
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6 Things You Need To Know About the Komen Foundation/Planned Parenthood Controversy (Updated: Komen Reverses Decision)
Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet
ECONOMY
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Doomsday Scenario: What Happens When Banks Control the Economy?
Michael Hudson / Michael Hudson's blog
FOOD
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1.25 Billion Chicken Wings? The Vast Amounts of Crappy Food Americans Consume on Super Bowl Sunday
Tara Lohan / AlterNet
The 18 Most Secretive Corporations in the Citizens United Era
Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet
BELIEF
Why You Don't Need God to be Good: the Rise of Atheist Charities
Alex DiBranco / AlterNet
The Right-Wing Zombie Lie About Public Workers That Just Won't Die
Sarah Jaffe / AlterNet
ECONOMY
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Bill Moyers: 6 Movies You Have to See About the Financial Crisis
Bill Moyers / Moyers & Company
ENVIRONMENT
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Gasland Director Josh Fox: Obama's Support for Natural Gas Drilling 'A Painful Moment' for Communities Exposed to Fracking
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!
TEA PARTY AND THE RIGHT
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Why We Got Ayn Rand Instead of FDR: Thomas Frank on How Tea Party 'Populism' Derailed a New New Deal
Thomas Frank / Picador Press
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6 Things You Need To Know About the Komen Foundation/Planned Parenthood Controversy (Updated: Komen Reverses Decision)
Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet
Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? How to Fight Back Against Komen "Race for the Cure" Foundation's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers
Amanda Marcotte / AlterNet
VISIONS
New Rules for Radicals: 10 Ways To Spark Change in a Post-Occupy World
Sara Robinson / AlterNet
The Real Newt Gingrich: 5 Things Georgians Know That the Rest of Us Should
George Bauer / AlterNet
Hot News and Views
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Komen Website Hacked, Planned Parenthood Rakes in Donations, and News Surfaces That Komen Official Resigned Over Decision
Lauren Kelley / AlterNet
CIVIL LIBERTIES
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New York Muslims Fight Back Against Police Department's Institutionalized Paranoia About Islam
Alex Kane / AlterNet
ENVIRONMENT
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Why a Likely Natural Event Could Cause Nuclear Reactors to Melt Down and Our Grid to Crash
Matthew Stein / AlterNet
ACTIVISM
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How 'Anonymous' Went From Mischief Makers to a Force That Terrifies Corporations and Governments
Nathan Schneider / Waging Nonviolence
TEA PARTY AND THE RIGHT
Praying to Be Skinny and Straight: Why Evangelicals Are Concerned With Weight-loss and 'Ex-gay' Therapies
Hannah Tepper / Salon
ECONOMY
6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working America
Les Leopold / AlterNet
BELIEF
5 Signs the Christian Right Still Wields Too Much Power in America
Peter Montgomery / AlterNet
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The Real Newt Gingrich: 5 Things Georgians Know That the Rest of Us Should
George Bauer / AlterNet
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United States of Europe? What it Will Take to Save the Continent from Economic Collapse
Edward Harrison / AlterNet
ELECTION 2012
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In Florida Romney Trounces Competitors, But Gingrich Steals Thunder With Bizarre Speech
Adele M. Stan / AlterNet
VISIONS
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