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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

The Ugly Racism of the Right Will Be Their Undoing

By Leslie Savan, TheNation.com
Rights and Liberties: Watching the GOP morph into the National Association for the Advancement of White People should give us all hope, not despair.

Do Hate Crime Laws Do Any Good?

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: There's no indication that getting hate crimes on the books actually prevents them.

Right-Wingers Are Stirring Up Xenophobia to Swiftboat Health Reform

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: Misleading people is really the only option for those bent on killing the reform movement.

5 Dangerous and Fraudulent Health Fads You Should Avoid

By Greg A. Miller, The Faster Times
Health and Wellness: From colon flushing to using magnets to heal joint pains, there are a lot of counterproductive and potentially damaging health therapies out there.

Pregnant Mother Tasered at Baptism Party (Video)

By David Edwards, John Byrne, Raw Story
Rights and Liberties: A noise complaint to police results in another senseless act of brutality.

How I Reconciled My Diet With My Feminism

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog
How can you be a fat-positive feminist who's trying to losing weight?

Condemn CNN for Its Lou Dobbs "Birther" Fiasco

By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: By continuing to sanction Dobbs' thinly veiled racism, the network is jeopardizing its status as America's "most trusted" news source.

Could the Global Meltdown Spark a Great Revolution?

By Ben Protess, Christian Science Monitor
A look at mass protests during the past 500 years reveals surprising clues.

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Howard Dean: How Republican Attack Dogs Plan to Thwart Health Reform

By Howard Dean, Chelsea Green Publishing
Politics: The longer Republicans obscure the real issues and obstruct healthcare reform efforts, the higher the costs will rise.

Putting an End to Glenn Beck's Racist Antics and Apocalyptic Rhetoric

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Media and Technology: The Fox host's attacks on Obama are beyond the pale. How much longer will his advertisers, like GEICO and Proctor & Gamble, accept this?

Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms

By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast
Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?

Finally the Feds Crack Down on Right-Wing Terrorists

By James Ridgeway, Mother Jones Online
Government agents arrest a white separatist accused of a bombing. What took them so long?

Should We Ban Tobacco?

By Tony Newman, CNN
Environment: Cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroin, meth and all other illegal drugs combined. Imagine if they were illegal.

Your Crap, Our Compost: Turning Human Feces Into Fertile Soil

By Sisi Tang, In These Times
Environment: Nance Klehm, 43-year-old urban forager and grower, transforms human excrement into nutritious soil one bucket at a time.

Why Can't We Have a Smart Conversation About Race?

By Christopher Deis, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: We live in an allegedly "colorblind" society, making it even harder to have a truly productive discourse about race.

Time to End the Cold War: Why I'm Defying my Government and Visiting Cuba

By Tim Kingston, AlterNet
World: The cold war is long dead, yet the United States still enforces a relic of that cold war with an economic embargo against Cuba.

Can a Video Game Save the World?

By Ken Stier, Miller-McCune.com
"Games for Change" let people take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ecological crises, and world hunger. But do they spur real action?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings

By Joe Bageant, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Capitalism has raped the resources of the world. Now corporations are left to strip human experience from life, then rent it back to us.

Corporate Media Playing the Hate Game, Aiming at Both Obama and Clinton

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Media bigs seem to have reached the conclusion that hatred sells, so they're embracing their inner sexists and inner racists.

Like Your Private Health Care? Here's Why You Can Actually Thank the Government for That

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Health and Wellness: For those who think the government shouldn't be involved in health care, they already are. And you should be grateful.

Cowardice Among 'Christian' Leaders: Why the Churches Are Largely Mum on Torture

By Ray McGovern, Consortium News
Rights and Liberties: Who but the cowardly crew leading the "Christian" churches can be held responsible for the fact that many of their flock believe in torture?

14 Surprising Benefits of Being Unemployed

By David Dvorkin, Dvorkin.com
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: From losing weight to not having to wake up to an alarm clock, the author discovers the hidden benefits of being without a job.

Is Trying to Eat Healthy Making You Sick?

By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis, E Magazine
Health and Wellness: Some doctors believe people can get so fixated on purifying their bodies that they make themselves sick in the process.

Why Is a Slate Writer Shilling for Goldman Sachs? Taibbi Shreds the Latest Wall Street PR

By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant
Media and Technology: The winner of this month's Most Retarded Horsesh** Written In Defense of Goldman Sachs award goes to ... Heidi Moore. .

Is there Really "More to Love" About the New Reality Dating Show Featuring Larger Women?

By Liz Langley, Liz Langley's Blog
Sex and Relationships: Here's the plug: "The average woman in America is a size 14. The average woman on a reality show is a size 2. This is reality?"

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The Rise of Gonzo Porn Is the Latest Sign of America's Cultural Apocalypse

By Chris Hedges, Nation Books
Media and Technology: A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. A visit to a Las Vegas porn convention reveals we are dying now.

Why the Anti-Choice Movement Is on the Verge of Civil War

By Cristina Page, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: When it comes to contraception, anti-chociers are alienating their own kind.

Three Good Reasons To Liquidate Our Empire and 10 Ways to Do It

By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com
World: The failure to begin to deal with our bloated military establishment will condemn the U.S. to a devastating trio of consequences.

How Lou Dobbs Scared Rush Limbaugh Off the Birther Story

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: The media backlash that Dobbs set off made sure that nobody will ever take the birthers seriously again.

Patching Things Up Over a Beer at the White House Is Nice, But Equal Protection Is Better

By Laura Flanders, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: While the media covers Obama, Crowley and Gates making up, sipping beer, the real issue is: Police who abuse power need to be reined in at once.

90 Salads In 90 Days: How a Committed Carnivore Convinced Herself to Enjoy Leafy Greens

By Hillary Fields, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: "No I didn't lose any weight," writes Fields, but her "energy levels shot through the roof."

If the Economy's So Much Better, Why Are Stores Giving Away Stuff Practically for Free?

By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Staples is selling school supplies for a quarter. That doesn't seem like a good sign.

Nobody's Talking About the Silver Bullet That Could Heal the Economy and Cure Most Social Ills

By Jeff Ritterman, M.D., AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Fairer societies simply work better.

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Naomi Klein: Let's Put an End to Sarah Palin-Style Capitalism

By Naomi Klein, The Progressive
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Capitalism can survive this crisis. But the world can't survive another capitalist comeback.

Obama Accused of Continuing Bush's Racial Profiling of Immigrants

By Roberto Lovato, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: While Obama's racial diplomacy with Skip Gates is making the headlines, rights groups say that he has expanded Bush's racist immigration policies.

Why Midwestern Small Towns Have Been Ravaged by Meth Addiction

By Charles Homans, Washington Monthly
DrugReporter: Nick Reding's book "Methland" argues that the shocking rates of meth addiction in the US heartland are in many ways a product of globalization.

A House Dem Rebellion on Health Care?

By Adele Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The health care deal struck by Henry Waxman with Blue Dogs is fomenting resentment among progressive members of Congress.

Birther Whack Jobs: Citizens of Idiot America

By Dan Kennedy, Comment Is Free
Media and Technology: Join MoveOn's fight take on Lou Dobbs and put this paranoid and racist movement to an end.

Gonzo Gastronomy: How the Food Industry Has Made Bacon a Weapon of Mass Destruction -- Readers Write

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: AlterNet readers had a lot to say about a recent article on the health and environmental impact of bacon production.

'I'm Pretty. You're Ugly. Buy This' -- Why Fashion Magazines Are on the Decline

By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Fashion glossies are about making their readers feel bad. Are women tired of their prettier-than-thou bullying?

Is Vancouver About to Become the Greenest City in the World?

By Allan Hunt Badiner, AlterNet
Environment: The city has made a rapid transition: It draws 90% of its energy from renewables, has a booming bicycle culture and a very popular progressive mayor.

Sen. Russ Feingold: White House Is Whistling Past Afghan Graveyard

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
World: In an exclusive interview, Feingold argues why his lone vote to oppose expanding the military by 30,000 soldiers was the right one.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health Care Debate

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: If we let these powerful interests get their way, we'll see more outlandish increases in premiums and millions more people being denied care.

It's Not Hard to Be a Job-Slashing, Pension-Grabbing CEO -- If You're a Sociopath

By Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: CEOs in America pull in the big bucks because there's a shortage of people willing to destroy the lives of many other human beings.

The Joy of Sex Toys: How Vibrators Stopped Being 'Shameful' Secrets

By Liz Langley, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: Once considered shameful, the vibrator has become a common part of most people's sex lives. Turns out we like sexual pleasure.

Rachel Maddow Mystified By Lou Dobbs' Odd Teabag Attack

By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly
PEEK: Dobbs called Maddow a "teabagging queen." What does that mean? And has Dobbs completely lost it?

The Heart Attack Grill: Where You Can Eat Free If You Weigh Over 350 Lbs.

By Jasmin Ramsey, PULSE
PEEK: A restaurant has launched an anti-health rebellion, serving Quadruple Bypass Burgers (8,000 calories) and Flatliner Fries cooked in pure lard.

Will Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap Continue to Defy Selling Out to Corporate Culture?

By Richard Seireeni, Chelsea Green Publishing
Environment: The historic company was founded by "the godfather of today's green brands." Will his grandsons keep the vision alive?

The Dominance of Rich, White Men Is Eroding -- It's Time to Truly Fight for Diversity

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: We need both women and men, and folks from a range of ethnic and class backgrounds, informing the creation of business "not as usual."

How Iran's Nuclear Power Play Can Change Global Politics

By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
World: A nuclear Iran would inevitably turbo-charge a new, emerging multipolar world; one where the U.S. won't be relied on to control Mideast oil.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Racism Is the Prime Cause for Debunked Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy Theory

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: The "birther" conspiracy has been utterly debunked, yet more GOP establishment figures have embraced the transparently racist cause.

Road Kill: It's Fresh, It's Organic, It's Free

By Sandor Ellix Katz, Chelsea Green Publishing
Environment: Even some hardcore vegans have found solace in scavenging. Here's why.

Behind Sarah Palin's Wacky Pentecostal Faith

By Anthea Butler, Religion Dispatches
Politics: When God is treated like "on-demand cable," the most fervent believers will have trouble adhering to basic rules of propriety, let alone values.

The Complex Sexualities of Young Women

By Heather Corinna, RH Reality Check
Sex and Relationships: Young women today are faced with pressures and mixed messages about sex everywhere they look.

10 Things You Need to Know to Live on the Streets

By Walter Mosley, Rae Gomes, The Nation
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: How to make the best of a traumatic transition: Learn the best bathroom options and soup kitchen schedules, carry a blanket and more.

Tell Senators: Now's Not the Time for a Break on Health Care Reform

By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: Making sure senators keep hammering out health care reform is AlterNet's top Take Action Campaign for the week.

100 Years of Imperial Paranoia About the Pashtuns

By Juan Cole, Tomdispatch.com
World: The doomsday rhetoric in Washington over lightly settled, mountainous Pashtun tribal lands is strikingly similar to that of the British Empire.

Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate

By Isabel Macdonald, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: TV networks have shut out coverage of single-payer as an option for health reform. We must work to get it back in public debate.