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Friday, August 28th, 2009

Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

By Fred Gardner, O'Shaughnessy's
Health and Wellness: New research shows here seems to be something in pot that actually undermines cancer, instead of causing it. -- and the media are doing their best to ignore it.

Whole Foods Looks and Acts More Like Wal-Mart Than a 'Sustainable' Natural Foods Store

By Rob Smart, AlterNet
Environment: Lost in the uproar over Whole Foods CEO John Mackey's controversial venture into the health care debate, is a bigger, though less subtle story.

Sex and Food: What Feeding Porn Tells Us About Our Moralistic, Thinness-Obsessed Culture

By Jessica Hester, Bitch Magazine
Sex and Relationships: If porn serves as a repository for images and ideas expelled from society at large, feeding porn seems inevitable.

Re-Appointed Fed Chief Ben Bernanke Didn't Get Us Out of the Economic Crisis, He Helped Cause It

By William Greider, The Nation
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Ben Bernanke doesn't serve the public. He doesn't even see its existence.

New Journalism Clubs Are "Members Only"

By Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org
Media and Technology: Step right up. You too can be ripped off by the New York Times' latest moneymaking gimmick: online courses from Nicholas Kristof, Gail Collins and Eric Asimov.

Will Biometric Passports Lead to a State of Constant Surveillance?

By Vera von Kreutzbruck, The Women's International Perspective
The protection of privacy and personal data is vital for any democratic society, and should be respected as much as freedom of expression or movement.

Name the Public Option After Kennedy, Not a Watered Down Bill

By David Waldman, Daily Kos
PEEK: Kennedy's name should not be attached to anything less than a bill he would have fought for.

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Town Hall Lunacy Includes Outraged Calls to 'Keep Government Out of Medicare,' When Medicare Is Government

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: Some can't reconcile what they believe about the propaganda that is fed to them with their own positive experiences with public programs like Medicare.

Reverse Aging: Easier Than You Think

By Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com
A landmark experiment suggests reverse aging needn't be relegated to the realm of science fiction.

Ted Kennedy: The Real Deal

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
In a political world dominated by bipartisan cynicism, there are few touchstones of integrity for the common folk -- Kennedy was one of them.

Sarah Palin's Facebook 'Friends' Celebrate Ted Kennedy's Death: "One Less Socialist," "Good Riddens"

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
PEEK: One commenter: "Now if we could just talk God into taking Arlin Spector, Harry Reid,and Nancy Pelosi America would be Eutopia!"

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

By Susan Henking, Religion Dispatches
Belief: A recent study finds that certain majors are likely to make students less religious. Why is this such a big deal?

'Crude': The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

By Han Shan, AlterNet
Media and Technology: The new film exposes an environmental tragedy experts call the "Amazon Chernobyl," and believe is the worst case of oil-related contamination ever.

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Why Do Angry, Right-Wing Mobs Get Media Respect?

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: Meanwhile, the media has always lashed out at liberal protesters.

Ted Kennedy: The Real Deal

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
In a political world dominated by bipartisan cynicism, there are few touchstones of integrity for the common folk -- Kennedy was one of them.

You. At a Town Hall Meeting. 5 Questions You Should Ask

By Adele M. Stan, Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Take Action: Those raucous health-care town halls aren't over yet. That's where you come in.

Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Water Contaminated With Weed Killer

By Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Water: One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water.

The 8 Weirdest Ways to Go Green

By Mike Sowden, EcoSalon
Environment: From the solar-powered bikini that can charge your iPod to the benefits of eating free range snails, here's few things you may not have thought of yet.

Meet Larry Summers’s Ex-Boss, a Billionaire with a Blood Feud

By Mark Ames, eXiled Online
Politics: If you judge a person by the company they keep, then Obama's top economic advisor has some serious splainin' to do.

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

By Kerry Trueman, AlterNet
Environment: "Just Food" is framed as the lament of a lapsed locavore who has been driven into the arms of Agribiz by food-mile militants who, according to him, number in the millions.

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet
World: One writer spent four years inside the world of modern-day slavery; an industry that produces huge profits and countless wasted lives.

The White House Needs to Go a Lot Further with the Torture Inquiry

By John Nichols, TheNation.com
Rights and Liberties: The investigation into torture could be thwarted by a GOP counter-attack and an echo chamber determined to protect Bush and Cheney.

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Is Glenn Beck Finished?

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
A Color of Change campaign has cost Beck's show 36 advertisers so far. Will Fox decide he isn't worth it?

Desperate Food Industry Tries to Tar Michael Pollan and Organic Produce

By Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon
Health and Wellness: With growing numbers of food-conscious consumers, big corporations are trying to sully the reputation of alternatives to their style of agriculture.

Political Fireworks Over Torture Prosecutor: Report Reveals Threats to Kill Children, CIA Director in 'Screaming Match'

AlterNet Rights and Liberties: Senate Dems and progressives are pushing for AG Eric Holder to expand the investigation that CIA director Leon Panetta has threatened to quit over.

It's Robbery: Health Care Proposals in Congress Look More Like a Rip-Off Than Reform

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Politics: The health plans rattling around Congress are designed to force you to buy a defective product: Bad private insurance.

Obama Can't Afford to Take Right-Wing Lunatics Seriously Anymore

By Frank Rich, The New York Times
Politics: A GOP senator's apologia for far-right fanatics bearing arms at presidential events -- that the government makes them do it! -- cannot stand.

Right-Wing Militias Are Resurging -- Will They Produce More Terrorists Like Timothy McVeigh?

By David A. Love, The Progressive
Reproductive Justice and Gender: After a decade out of the spotlight, the militant rightwing “Patriot” movement is on the rise.

Pressuring Obama To Ditch the Defense of Marriage Act Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign This Week

By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: DOMA is an offensive relic. Time to give it the boot.

Monday, August 24th, 2009

As If Limbaugh and Beck Weren't Bad Enough, the Granddaddy of Hate Radio Is Back on the Air

By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Bob Grant taught a generation of conservative talkers how to channel white rage, until a listener boycott helped push him off the air. Now he's back.

Rachel Maddow: The Growing Threat Posed by Gun-Strapped Right-Wingers at Obama's Townhalls

By Rachel Maddow, Frank Rich, MSNBC
Health and Wellness: Rachel Maddow and Frank Rich discuss the use of intimidation as a political tactic.

Holder Tapping Prosecutor to Probe 'Nearly a Dozen' CIA Interrogations

By Stephen Webster, Raw Story
Rights and Liberties: America's torture debate is nowhere near over.

'Superjuices' Touted as Cures for Cancer, Swine Flu and the Recession -- Are They Dangerous Scams?

By Stan Cox, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Those expensive juices with exotic ingredients promise a healthy body and a fat income. But can they pull you through a recession and a health-care crisis?

Why Do Women Orgasm?

By David P. Barash, Dr. Judith Eve Lipton, National Sexuality Resource Center
Sex and Relationships: Scientists are still mystified about the evolutionary advantages of many aspects of women's sexuality.

Have Republicans Turned Into a Weird Religious Cult?

By Johann Hari, Independent UK
Belief: The faith-based thinking of many conservatives spreads and contaminates the rational. No wonder so many buy the right-wing's absurd propaganda.

How Our Health System Screws Over Women

By Sharon Lerner, The Nation
Reproductive Justice and Gender: To be sure, no group is doing well under our network of private insurers. But women fare particularly badly.

Wal-Mart Faces Its Day of Reckoning

By Frank Nelson, Miller-McCune.com
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Wal-Mart's relentless growth and Darwinian competitiveness have created a world that is increasingly inhospitable to its own success.

The Truth About the Afghan Election

By Patrick Cockburn, CounterPunch
World: What foreign reporting of elections in both Afghanistan and Iraq misses is that many ordinary Afghans and Iraqis see their governments as rackets run by political gangsters.

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Entertainment Value from Pulling the Plug on Grandma

By Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com
Health and Wellness: "There ain't any health care debate going on, Bubba. What is going on are mob negotiations about insurance, and which mob gets the biggest chunk of the dough."

Why Breast Implants Are Deflating Along with the Economy

By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee
Sex and Relationships: Many women who invested in big busts are in deflationary mode.

Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City

Southern Poverty Law Center Rights and Liberties: Including plots to bomb government buildings, banks, refineries, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians and more.

Michael Moore on His Latest: 'I Made This Movie As If It Was Going to Be the Last I Was Allowed to Make'

By Diane Sweet, Raw Story
Media and Technology: Moore is back with his new movie, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' wearing his trademark baseball cap to go after corporate America.

More Evidence That Marijuana Prevents Cancer

By Bruce Mirken, Marijuana Policy Project
Health and Wellness: New study finds that marijuana smokers have a lower risk of head and neck cancers.

Health Care Mobs = Swift Boat Vets... And the Press Plays Dumb, Again

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: Mini-mob members being treated as deeply important newsmakers is reminiscent of August 2004.

The Top 10 Greenest Schools in the U.S.

Sierra Magazine Environment: A must-read guide to the most eco-friendly U.S. colleges.

Stop the Humiliating 'Sex-Testing' of Champion Runner Caster Semenya

By Dave Zirin, Sherry Wolf, The Nation
Rights and Liberties: South African runner Caster Semenya shouldn't be the one humiliated by "gender testing"-- it's the outdated views of athletic officials that are embarrassing.

Obama, Ignoring Local Outrage, Set to Expand U.S. Military Presence in Colombia

By Moira Birss, AlterNet
World: Obama continues to defend the expansion of U.S. military operations in Latin America, but against what threat?

Friday, August 21st, 2009

How Yawning Got One Court Spectator Six Months in the Slammer and Other Disturbing Acts of Judicial Tyranny

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: When judges take on airs and lash out in fits of whimsical bullying, innocent people can end up paying the price with jail time -- or their lives.

How Pharma Giants Are Getting Rich By Calling Our Life Problems 'Medical Disorders'

By Eugenia Tsao, CounterPunch
Pharma companies have waded into helping us with life problems far beyond the biological -- they claim to cure our social maladies.

Former CIA Agent: "What the Agency Was Doing With Blackwater Scares the Hell Out of Me"

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The dark history behind the explosive revelations of Blackwater's role in the CIA's assassination program.

Black Conservatives in the Age of Obama

By Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: The most prominent voices for conservatism in African American communities continue to be those of Christian church leaders.

Health Care Rats Come Out of the Woodwork

By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant
Politics: On both sides of the "debate," pundits' main concern seems to be that readers are demanding the public option, in spite of what they're being told.

7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight)

By Sarah Irani, EcoSalon
Health and Wellness: Cutting back on meat consumption is one of the most significant ways to help the planet. And it doesn’t require subsistence on tofu.

Obama and the Dems Just Sound Too Wonky on Health Care

By George Lakoff, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Barack Obama ran the best-framed presidential campaign in history. How is it possible that he and his team are communicating so poorly on health care?

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future

By Chris Mooney, Sheril Kirshenbaum, Basic Books
Environment: Science matters- to politics, the economy, and our future. But do Americans really understand and appreciate that?

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Smoking Marijuana Does Not Cause Lung Cancer

Whole Foods Looks and Acts More Like Wal-Mart Than a 'Sustainable' Natural Foods Store

Sex and Food: What Feeding Porn Tells Us About Our Moralistic, Thinness-Obsessed Culture

Re-Appointed Fed Chief Ben Bernanke Didn't Get Us Out of the Economic Crisis, He Helped Cause It

New Journalism Clubs Are "Members Only"

Will Biometric Passports Lead to a State of Constant Surveillance?

Name the Public Option After Kennedy, Not a Watered Down Bill

Town Hall Lunacy Includes Outraged Calls to 'Keep Government Out of Medicare,' When Medicare Is Government

Reverse Aging: Easier Than You Think

Ted Kennedy: The Real Deal

Sarah Palin's Facebook 'Friends' Celebrate Ted Kennedy's Death: "One Less Socialist," "Good Riddens"

This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

'Crude': The Film Chevron Doesn't Want You to See

Why Do Angry, Right-Wing Mobs Get Media Respect?

Ted Kennedy: The Real Deal

You. At a Town Hall Meeting. 5 Questions You Should Ask

Thanks to EPA You May Be Unknowingly Drinking Water Contaminated With Weed Killer

The 8 Weirdest Ways to Go Green

Meet Larry Summers’s Ex-Boss, a Billionaire with a Blood Feud

Inflammatory New Book Attacking Local Food Movement Has One Grain of Truth Buried Under Heaps of Manure

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

The White House Needs to Go a Lot Further with the Torture Inquiry

Is Glenn Beck Finished?

Desperate Food Industry Tries to Tar Michael Pollan and Organic Produce

Political Fireworks Over Torture Prosecutor: Report Reveals Threats to Kill Children, CIA Director in 'Screaming Match'

It's Robbery: Health Care Proposals in Congress Look More Like a Rip-Off Than Reform

Obama Can't Afford to Take Right-Wing Lunatics Seriously Anymore

Right-Wing Militias Are Resurging -- Will They Produce More Terrorists Like Timothy McVeigh?

Pressuring Obama To Ditch the Defense of Marriage Act Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign This Week

As If Limbaugh and Beck Weren't Bad Enough, the Granddaddy of Hate Radio Is Back on the Air

Rachel Maddow: The Growing Threat Posed by Gun-Strapped Right-Wingers at Obama's Townhalls

Holder Tapping Prosecutor to Probe 'Nearly a Dozen' CIA Interrogations

'Superjuices' Touted as Cures for Cancer, Swine Flu and the Recession -- Are They Dangerous Scams?

Why Do Women Orgasm?

Have Republicans Turned Into a Weird Religious Cult?

How Our Health System Screws Over Women

Wal-Mart Faces Its Day of Reckoning

The Truth About the Afghan Election

The Health Insurance Racket Is Manufacturing Entertainment Value from Pulling the Plug on Grandma

Why Breast Implants Are Deflating Along with the Economy

Terror from the Right: 75 Plots, Conspiracies and Racist Rampages Since Oklahoma City

Michael Moore on His Latest: 'I Made This Movie As If It Was Going to Be the Last I Was Allowed to Make'

More Evidence That Marijuana Prevents Cancer

Health Care Mobs = Swift Boat Vets... And the Press Plays Dumb, Again

The Top 10 Greenest Schools in the U.S.

Stop the Humiliating 'Sex-Testing' of Champion Runner Caster Semenya

Obama, Ignoring Local Outrage, Set to Expand U.S. Military Presence in Colombia

How Yawning Got One Court Spectator Six Months in the Slammer and Other Disturbing Acts of Judicial Tyranny

How Pharma Giants Are Getting Rich By Calling Our Life Problems 'Medical Disorders'

Former CIA Agent: "What the Agency Was Doing With Blackwater Scares the Hell Out of Me"

Black Conservatives in the Age of Obama

Health Care Rats Come Out of the Woodwork

7 Delicious Meat Alternatives (and Not a Lick of Tofu in Sight)

Obama and the Dems Just Sound Too Wonky on Health Care

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future