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Saturday, December 5th, 2009

The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women

By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet
DrugReporter: Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers.

Author Jonathan Safran Foer on Hunting, PETA, and Disagreeing with Michael Pollan

By Kiera Butler, Mother Jones
Food: Foer's new book, Eating Animals, uncovers some ugly truths about America's meat production system, but he also weaves in stories from his own family history.

Obama's War Speech Woke the Sleeping Giant -- Anger Over Afghan Surge Fuels Country-Wide Protests

By Jodie Evans, AlterNet
World: The president's announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan this week prompted protests in over 80 communities across the country.

Cops Taze Disturbed, Unarmed Naked Man to Death for "Walking Toward Them'

By Steven D., Booman Tribune
Health and Wellness: Thank God for safe, humane, non-lethal technology.

America Without a Middle Class -- It's Not Far Away As You Might Think

By Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security.

Copenhagen Climate Talks Set to Begin: What's Likely to Happen and What's at Stake

By Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360
Environment: The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.

Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy

By Sena Christian, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.

Memo to Congress: Desperate Times Call for Faster Measures

By Paul Starr Politics: Health-care reform needs to kick in faster than the current bills allow. And Congress better pass some Main Street economic measures -- on the double.

The Other Occupation: Western Sahara and the Case of Aminatou Haidar

By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet
World: How long will U.S. authorities ignore the bleak realities of Moroccan repression?

Friday, December 4th, 2009

"Tea Party: The Documentary" -- Attending a Bizarre Movie Premiere for Right-Wingers in Washington

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous.

Why Is Tiger Woods in Trouble? It's Not His Steamy Sex Life; It's His Family Values Hypocrisy

By Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: What's the biggest P.R. sin? It's not infidelity, or kinky sex, or making sex tapes. It's profiting from a holier-than-though public image based on lies.

Progressive Leaders Pan Obama's Decision for More War in Afghanistan -- 10 Reactions

AlterNet World: Tom Hayden says he's taking the Obama bumpersticker off his car, Laura Flanders says the Bush Doctrine is still alive, and more.

Righteous Porkchop: Vegetarian Rancher Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way and the Ills of Factory Farms

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Food: Nicolette Hahn Niman's new book offers a much-needed addition to the debate about whether we should be eating meat.

Hey Religious Believers, Where's Your Evidence?

By Greta Christina, AlterNet
Belief: In the marketplace of ideas, only religion gets a free ride in an armored tank.

Why Should We Get Out of Afghanistan? Because Imperialism Is a Fool's Game

By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet
World: Imperial occupations have become geometrically more difficult since the Second World War.

What's Cap and Trade? A New Video Breaks it Down and Reveals the Plan as a Scam

By Janet Redman, MinuteMan Media
Environment: It's a scheme that tries to sell business-as-usual as a solution to global warming. Here's how it works.

Congress Can Kill Outlandish Bonuses for Wall Streeters: Why Won't They?

By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Politics: We need more protection from corporate greed than the current mainstream antidotes provide. Americans get this. Too bad moderate reformers don't.

Prop. 8 Challenge Puts Homosexuality on Trial

By Gabriel Arana, The American Prospect
Sex and Relationships: Much more than marriage is at stake in the federal legal challenge to Prop. 8. Like Brown v. Board of Education,it can change American life. But it can also go very wrong.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Ehrenreich: The Pink-Ribbon Breast Cancer Cult

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com
Reproductive Justice and Gender: What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.

The Placebo Effect: Studies Reveal How Fake Medicine Actually Reduces Pain

By Michael Haederle, Miller-McCune.com
Health and Wellness: New medical research is finding that the pain relief induced by placebos may come from releasing the body's own chemical pain relievers.

Obama's War Speech Offered Something for Everybody -- But Who's Buying It?

By Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org
Politics: Obama's promise: Let's come together and get along to end the war - by waging the war more intensely…but only for eighteen months, and then we all get to go home.

Fed Up With Federalism

By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect
Politics: How America's commitment to states' rights is undermining our economic recovery.

Hightower: What Is Obama Getting Us into in Afghanistan?

By Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate
World: Cut the music, and let's all ponder what Barack Obama, Roberts Gates, Stanley McChrystal and Co. are getting us into ... and whether we really want to go there.

Not One More Tax Dollar For the Banks

By Dean Baker, Comment Is Free
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The millions of American families struggling to keep up with their bubble-era mortgages are the ones who deserve help.

Stephen Colbert: Why Doesn't Obama Listen to Glenn Beck and My Little Pony?

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
PEEK: Really, are there any better military strategists out there?

Does the Vatican Have a Say in Your Health Decisions?

By Ann Neumann, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: As more health facilities merge with Catholic hospitals in response to economic hardship, patients' rights are increasingly restricted by Catholic doctrine.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

How America Holds Court: The Seedy Dealings Underpinning Our Legal System

By Amy Bach, Metropolitan Books
Rights and Liberties: It's getting harder and harder to exercise your legal rights if you aren't well to do. Where's the justice in that?

Obama's Misguided War Speech Shouldn't Be the Last Word on Afghanistan

By John Nichols, The Nation
World: Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it's time for Congress to debate the Obama's war plan.

A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline -- Who's Watching?

By Brendan Schwartz, Valery Nodem, AlterNet
World: The discovery of oil in Chad was supposed to allieviate poverty and human suffering, but it's only enriched Western Oil companies and the local dictators.

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace Is … Canada

By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Environment: The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?

Waiting with 45,000 People Afraid of Losing Their Homes -- Ground Zero in America's Mortgage Meltdown

By Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com
Politics: The American home-owner's dream is on life support: millions are suffering disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates.

Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program

By Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: At a time when unemployment is expected to exceed 10 percent for the next several months, we should be talking about direct job funding by the government.

Passive Solar Technique: Let Nature Heat Your Home

By James Kachadorian, Chelsea Green Publishing
Environment: Solar saves money, benefits the planet and makes for a comfortable house that requires little in the name of back-up fuel.

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
Environment: A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.

What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Media and Technology: Our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd, while the course of human history is changing. Those who choose reality over fantasy are derided as pessimists.

Michael Moore: An Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan

By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com
World: You still have the opportunity to save thousands of lives and live up to your campaign promises. Don't become the next war president, Mr. Obama.

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border; Guards Demand Notes For Speaking Event

By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
World: Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.

Former Member of Afghan Parliament: Obama, We Don't Want a Troop Surge in Our Country

By Malalai Joya, Comment Is Free
World: If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people's pain.

Christian Cowards: Why Don't Evangelical Leaders Condemn the Hate Spouted by Right-Wingers?

By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet
Since when does loving Jesus mean you have to hate our President? Prominent Christians should denounce the violently aggressive language right-wingers use to tear down Obama.

Activists Protest Natural Resources Defense Council for Collaborating With Polluters

By Joseph Huff-Hannon, Huffington Post
Politics: The protestors say that the environmental advocacy group has aligned itself with corporate interests whose goals for reducing emissions are far too limited.

My Baby Would Have Died Under the Stupak Amendment

By Tiffany Campbell, RH Reality Check
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The selective termination that saved my baby's life would not be covered under the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.

Monday, November 30th, 2009

How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy

By Raj Patel, Picador Press
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.

The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
DrugReporter: The government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder -- lying about pot is a lucrative business.

30,000 More Troops? Obama Gives Orders For New Afghan Strategy

Agence France Presse Obama has already ordered the new strategy implemented and is informing the leaders of Russia, Britain and France of his plans.

This Is George Bush's Recession: Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About That?

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: If the partisan tables were turned, the GOP would waste no time laying the blame on Democrats. We need to do the same to build political capital for key fights ahead.

Cult of Conservative Christian GOPers Backs Death Penalty for Gays With HIV

By Stephen Webster, Raw Story
Uganda is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. And a secretive group of American politicians appears to be a driving force behind the law.

10 Signs Vegetarianism Is Catching On

By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.

Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of African-American Mothers?

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation
Rights and Liberties: With Michelle Obama in the White House, I expected a resurgence of the Claire Huxtable stereotype. Instead, hideous depictions of abusive, irresponsible black moms are everywhere.

A Smart Way to Battle Drug Addiction and Save Lives: Harm Reduction

By Melinda Tuhus, In These Times
DrugReporter: Harm reduction is a public health approach that stresses pragmatic solutions to social ills like substance abuse.

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads – and Right-Wingers are Profiting From Their Pain

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.

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