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Monday, September 14th, 2009

Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The men behind the religious right make a comeback with the Tea Party movement.

Michael Pollan: Health Reform Will Make Americans Less Fat

By Michael Pollan, The New York Times
Look out fast food; when insurance companies can't dump the sick, they will have to strongly support healthy diets, or lose money.

How We Sabotage Young Girls

By Rachel Simmons, The Penguin Press
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Girls are encouraged to be nice, quiet, perfect, polite -- at the expense of their authenticity and sense of self.

4 Deadly Delusions About Afghanistan Held by Obama's Top Advisors

By Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus
World: It's almost as if there is something about that hard-edged Central Asian country that deranges its occupiers.

Porn, Glenn Beck and Nudie Pics: Is Our Mass Culture Turning Kids Into Sex Crazed, Right-Wing Automatons?

By Branwyn Lancourt, The Faster Times
Sex and Relationships: Kids today are exposed to vast amounts of sleazy, pornified media at the same time that they are hammered with silly puritanism. The future doesn't look good.

The Nightmare of Christianity: How Religious Indoctrination Led to Murder

By Max Blumenthal, The Nation
Belief: The authoritarian culture of the Christian right pushed a deeply disturbed young man named Matthew Murray over the edge.

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

5 Cures for the Unemployment Blues

By Arun Gupta, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: You can always learn to say "Would you like fries with that?" But who wants to eat made-in-a-factory E. coli burgers, much less sling them?

Photo Gallery: Tens of Thousands Right-Wing Activists March on Washington

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
PEEK: Washington, D.C. is hosting something the town has never before seen: streets full of right-wingers, egged on by the corporate interests behind Glenn Beck and FreedomWorks.

Over 100 Million Americans Have Smoked Marijuana -- And It's Still Illegal?

By Paul Armentano, NORML
DrugReporter: 41 percent of the U.S. population say they've tried cannabis at least once in their lives, 10 percent say they've used it in the last year.

With Its Prisons Dangerously Full, Why Is California Fighting for Custody of a Dying Prisoner Across the Country?

By Jessica Pupovac, Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: While other states release low-risk, high-cost prisoners, CA officials want to jail another terminal prisoner, on taxpayers' dime.

The Wing-Nut Code: What Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin Are Really Saying to Their Followers

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: You thought they were just unhinged. But here's what they're really saying to the armed and dangerous.

Why It Might Be Healthier to Sleep Alone

By Sara Ost, EcoSalon
Sex and Relationships: From the marriage sucks file: The couple that snoozes together, loses together. scientists say sleeping together ruins your health.

Obama Touts the Money We'll Save with Health Reforms, While We Quietly Spend Billions on Bush's Wars

By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Politics: The debates over health care reform and the war in Afghanistan are dogged by the same questions: What is the cost to us? How have our priorities changed?

I See Things You Don't: I Have Syn

By T.L. Reid, The Tyee
Health and Wellness: My brain gives colors to numbers, visual textures to words.

Why Is Jane Fonda Being Accused Of An "Attack On The Heart and Soul Of Israel"?

By Ira Chernus, AlterNet
World: Artists protesting the Toronto International Film Festival's commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Tel Aviv are being demonized.

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Obama's Quagmire Looks a Lot like Vietnam

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
World: The way he's headed on Afghanistan, Barack Obama is threatened with a quagmire that could bog down his presidency.

14 Things You Need to Know About Obama Heckler, Rep. Joe Wilson

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: He was mentored by notorious racist Strom Thurmond, he's taken hundreds of thousands from the health industry, and "Joe" isn't even his real name.

After Targeting Van Jones, Glenn Beck Takes His shot at Hip-Hop Activist Yosi Sergant

By Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop
Politics: Glenn Beck uses smear attacks to push for White House staffer Yosi Sergant's resignation for organizing artists to support Obama's national service program.

Book Says Obama's Life Is at Risk

By Christopher Moraff, The Philadelphia Tribune
Rights and Liberties: Author Ronald Kessler warns that the rise in threats and inadequate govt. resources may be putting the commander in chief at risk.

How 9/11 Should Be Remembered: The Extraordinary Achievements of Ordinary People

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com
After 9/11, saw amazing acts of courage by ordinary people, including assembled flotilla of boats evacuated 300,000 to 500,000 people from lower Manhattan.

Michael Savage Has to Apologize to Brave New Films

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
PEEK: The shock jock is not well known for expressing remorse.

Why Do Women Singers Have to Look Like Barbie?

By Luanne Bradley, EcoSalon
Reproductive Justice and Gender: For the sake of my own daughters, I wish we could return to a day when female vocalists ruled with a good set of pipes and an inspirational message.

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

This Was the Obama We've Been Waiting for

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: At a joint session of Congress that rang like town halls, Obama comes out swinging for progressive ideals; yet his stance on the public option still is unclear.

"Death Bonds": Wall Street’s Shocking New Plan to Reap Billions off Dying Americans

By Mark Ames, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: It sounds too gruesome to be true, but the bankers have already shaken the silver out of everything that had value in America -- except for the elderly.

After Van Jones, Who Will the Right Try to Target?

By Michael Kieschnick, AlterNet
Politics: The Obama White House misunderstood the right wing media machine. Bullies never are appeased by victory. We will all pay the price.

Michael Pollan: People Are Finally Talking About Food, and You Can Thank Wendell Berry for That

By Michael Pollan, The Nation
Environment: Wendell Berry's now-famous formulation, "eating is an agricultural act" -- is perhaps his signal contribution to the rethinking of food and farming under way today.

Chomsky: What America's 'Crisis' Means to the Rest of the World

By Noam Chomsky, Boston Review
Politics: The way we perceive "crises" here in the U.S. is a profound symbol of how we don't understand them internationally.

We Can't Afford to Wait: MoveOn and R.E.M. Team Up for Health Care Reform

By Staff, MoveOn.org
Politics: These people can't afford to wait for health care reform. How about you?

Afghanistan by the Numbers: Measuring a War Gone to Hell

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
World: Maintenance cost for the force of 450,000 Afghan soldiers and police U.S. generals dream of creating: approximately 500% of the Afghan budget.

15 Must-Read Books That Will Forever Change How You See the World

By Sarah Irani, EcoSalon
Environment: Here are my top picks for ecological and sustainable reading.

How an Eccentric Right-Wing Pizza Billionaire's Attempt to Build Catholic Law School Ended in Disaster

By Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly
Belief: Tom Monaghan, Domino's Pizza founder, took advice from God and Antonin Scalia on the creation of of a Catholic Law school in Florida. It hasn't gone very well.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

How Dick Cheney's Radical Acts in the White House Still Threaten Our Democracy

By David Swanson, Seven Stories Press
Rights and Liberties: In his new book, Daybreak, Swanson warns that Cheney radically transformed the role of the vice president into an unaccountable, dangerous seat of power.

Action Editorial: Why the Secret Service and FBI Must Investigate Threats Against Obama and Beef Up Security to Protect Him

By Don Hazen, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: With Obama the target of hate speech and over 30 death threats a day, the FBI needs to hear that it can't let budget shortfalls get in the way of the president's life.

My Fellow Americans -- The Speech Obama Should Give on Health Care

By Dave Lindorff, This Can't Be Happening
Politics: A few novel suggestions for how the president might use his speech before the joint session of Congress to break the health-care reform log-jam.

Think Vietnam Vets Were Screwed? Wait Until You See How Many Veterans of Bush's Wars End up in Jail

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet
World: Far too many soldiers end up behind bars while the rest of us are free to ignore the human evidence of what our military ventures really cost.

Sarah Palin, the Neocons & Howard Dean Love the War in Afghanistan

By Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports
World: As the war worsens and support plunges, an alliance of neocons and some partisan Democrats is supporting the White House.

Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Flick Rips into Crimes of Wall Street

By Xan Brooks, The Guardian
Movie Mix: Moore's latest documentary drew tumultuous applause at the Venice film festival, suggesting that the veteran tub-thumper has lost none of his power to whip up a response.

Dr Pepper's Wet Dream: Water, Government Subsidies and Transfer of Wealth in the Middle of the Desert

By Yasha Levine, AlterNet
Water: A bottling plant in the middle of the desert? In the warped "pro-business" logic of a sprawling, bankrupt desert city in California, the plan made perfect economic sense.

What's Next After Taking Out Van Jones? Fox News Blurts Out Agenda to Sabotage the Environment

By Joseph Romm, Climate Progress
Media and Technology: The job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood -- and what they want to do is no joke.

When Cocaine and Monsanto's Pesticide Collide, the War on Drugs Becomes a Genetically-Modified War on Science

By Meg White, BuzzFlash
DrugReporter: Monsanto and the U.S. government are dealing with unanticipated hazards of the pesticide Roundup in the South American drug war.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

How Mike Huckabee's Evangelical Creds Helped Him Avoid the GOP's Collapse, and Remain a Political Threat for 2012

By Max Blumenthal, Nation Books
Politics: In an excerpt from his new book, 'Republican Gomorrah,' Blumenthal explains the former Arkansas governor's surprising ascent to the top of the GOP ranks.

10 of the Most Obscenely Stupid Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories and Attacks Against the President

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Obama's nefarious plan for the nation's genitals? His evil designs on your children? Here are the most absurd right-wing assaults on the president -- and logic and reason.

Big Business's Hidden Hand in the Smear Job on Van Jones

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: How Americans for Prosperity, the astroturf group that organized town-hall thuggery, teamed up with Fox News to force out Van Jones.

Is Child Kidnapper Philip Garrido More Evil Than Jeffrey Dahmer? Expert Offers Handy 22-Point Ranking Guide

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Not satisfied with calling heinous acts just "evil," author Michael Stone ranks "justifiable homicide" as a mild category 1 and "sexually perverse serial killers" at No. 17.

How the World's Biggest Corporations, From Starbucks to Wal-Mart to Barnes & Noble, Claim to Be 'Local'

By Stacy Mitchell, New Rules Project
Environment: Hoping to capitalize on growing public enthusiasm for all things local, some of the world's biggest corporations are brashly laying claim to the word "local."

College for $99 a Month

By Kevin Carey, Washington Monthly
Politics: The next generation of online education could be great for students -- and catastrophic for universities.

Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews

By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet
World: Israel has launched an advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.

How a Legal Case Over an Idiotic Right-Wing Anti-Hillary Film Might End Up Destroying Our Democracy

By Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal
Rights and Liberties: A nasty little piece of propaganda could unleash a new torrent of cash flooding into campaigns from big business, unions and other special interests.

Monday, September 7th, 2009

5 Reasons Why Van Jones and Progressives are Better Off With Jones Out of the White House

By Don Hazen, AlterNet
Environment: The truth is, progressives need Van Jones working on the outside providing vision and leadership, not on the inside with his mouth buttoned.

Bill Moyers: Mr. President, We Need a Fighter to Take on the Deranged Right-Wing

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
Health and Wellness: This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it's life and death. No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President.

Girls Gone Wild vs. Virgins Till Marriage: Why Is Sexual Life in America So Schizoid?

By Lara Riscol, McGraw-Hill
Sex and Relationships: America, "Land of the Free", continues to swing between smut and sanctimony.

An Army of Home-Schooled "Christian Soldiers" On a Mission to "Take Back America for God"

By Robert Kunzman, Beacon Press
Belief: Take a glimpse into the little-known world of conservative Christian homeschooling.

White House Political Honcho Goes Mealy-Mouthed on Public Option

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: In his Meet the Press appearance, presidential adviser David Axelrod refused to say if Obama will trade away the public heath care plan.

Milk May Endanger Your Health, and the Dairy Industry Knows It

By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: A mutant protein linked to major diseases has invaded the world's dairy supply, including, most likely, the jug of milk in your fridge.

Labor Day: A Holiday for Us

By Will Durst, AlterNet
Labor day is a tribute not to fancy movie stars or stodgy founding fathers or rich and bloated athletes, but us.

Julie & Julia: Women Excelling at Work

By Katha Pollitt, The Nation
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Julie & Julia is that very rare movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work. Not a boyfriend, a fabulous wedding, a baby or escape from a serial killer.

Whole Foods CEO's Dumb, Hypocritical Conservative Talking Points

By Mark Harris, CounterPunch
Health and Wellness: Why Mackey's libertarian blast against health reform has touched a sensitive nerve with many health-conscious, reform-minded Americans.