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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Spies In the Classroom: The Government Is Running a Secretive Intelligence Recruitment Program in Schools

By David Price, CounterPunch
The "Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program" may become a permanent budget item, making universities unwitting agents of state intelligence.

Women Are Risking -- and Losing -- Their Lives On the Front Lines of the Iran Uprising

By Barbara Crossette, The Nation
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The pervasive presence of women in the Iran uprising have been cast into sharp focus by the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan during a street protest.

McDonald's Is Poisoning Consumers -- And Blaming Everyone Else for the Catastrophic Societal Costs

By Stacey Folsom, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: McDonald's refuses to take responsibility for the skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Juiced Up Jocks and 'Roid Rage: Do We Really Care If Grown Men Use Steroids?

By Robert Lipsyte, Tomdispatch.com
We demand that our sports stars thrill us -- then demonize them for using steroids. Does it really matter?

Petraeus Is a Failure -- Why Do We Pretend He's Been a Success?

By Fred Branfman, Truthdig
World: Petraeus's tragic blunders in Afghanistan and Pakistan leave only one option: he must be replaced.

Americans Want a Public Option on Health Care -- Here's How We Can Make it Happen

By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: The only thing standing between us and real health care for all Americans are some senators and their industry friends. Time for battle.

Lila Rose: The New Darling of Anti-Choice Right-Wingers

By Bill Berkowitz, Religion Dispatches
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Anti-choice crusader Lila Rose has devoted her considerable media savvy to depriving other women of their reproductive rights.

Will the Right Succeed in Butchering the American Clean Energy and Security Act?

By Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, Ryan Powers, Nate Carlile Environment: As Congress inches closer to ushering in a clean energy economy that protects our planet, the far right is ramping up efforts to block it.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Virginity Movement on the Defensive, Scrambling to Rebrand

By Jessica Valenti, The Nation
Sex and Relationships: Progressives have to fight to ensure that abstinence groups don't regain their cultural footing.

Are Mind-Enhancing Drugs a Dangerous Fad or a Great Way to Get Ahead?

By Jeremy Laurance, Independent UK
Health and Wellness: Advocates say they are an irresistible way of improving students' performance. Critics argue they are a dangerous fad.

Americans Demand a Public Option in Health Care -- When Will Politicians Listen?

By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Health and Wellness: Even in special-interest-dominated Washington, it's rare for politicians to so blatantly privilege a private industry over the will of the people.

UPDATED: Daryl Hannah, Climatologist James Hansen and 94-Year-Old Former Congressman Arrested at Coal River Protest

By Jeff Biggers, Stephanie Pistello, AlterNet
Environment: Notables attending a peaceful protest against Big Coal were arrested and two local organizers were attacked by an industry supporter.

Why a Car-Free Suburbia May Become a Reality

By Lisa Selin Davis, Grist.org
Environment: One man in California's East Bay is attempting to build a new car-free community -- and his enthusiasm is catching on.

Ending Mountaintop Removal Mining is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of The Week

By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: No source of energy is worth the price we're paying. Tell your senators it's time to stop blowing up our mountains.

Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
World: Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.

Why the Economic Downturn Has Been Good News for Amtrak and the Future of Rail Travel

By Jason Mark, AlterNet
Environment: A slowing economy has resulted in speedier service for Amtrak trains, which is helping to make the case for more rail funding.

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

'Green Shoots' of Recovery? Don't Fall for the Media's Economic Triumphalism

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A narrative is emerging that we're seeing the first signs that a recovery is around the corner, but the reality is less encouraging.

Right-Wing Hypocrites: 10 Reasons Conservatives Should Shut Up About Letterman's Sarah Palin Gaffe

By Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: Each and every day conservative radio hosts, cable-news hosts, pundits and columnists use divisive, insensitive, and downright hateful rhetoric.

How Unions Gave My Redneck Family a Chance at the American Dream

By Joe Bageant, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Restoring dignity to laboring America won't be easy. It won't be pretty, and it won't be "within the system." Because the system is the problem.

Coitus Interruptus Erroneous: Would You Believe That Pulling Out Actually Works?

By Andy Wright, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: Withdrawal is one of the oldest forms of birth control. Yet, our gender biases -- along with some very bad science -- have made it taboo.

Neocons Are Clueless About Iran

By Leslie Savan, The Nation
World: The Iran protests have thrown Republican ideologues into such a tizzy of circular logic that they're stepping on their own propaganda.

"Suck on Our Yachts": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy

By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein says he's sorry, then proceeds to brag about screwing us all.

Obama Must Dare To Be Revolutionary

By David Sirota, AlterNet
For all the positive steps Obama's America seems poised to take, the aspirations still seem too confined by old conceptions of how things must work.

Whiny Conservatives: How Dare Rich White Guys Cry About Oppression?

By Christopher Deis, AlterNet
Media and Technology: The right-wing media have crafted an absurd -- and dangerous -- political narrative of white male oppression, exclusion and victimization.

Rhode Island Will License Medical Marijuana Shops

By Ryan Grim, Huffington Post
DrugReporter: Once the law takes effect, the state will be the first in the nation to have one officially licensed nonprofit center selling marijuana.

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

9 Conservative Myths About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future
Media and Technology: This is terrorism we're dealing with. We can't afford to let ourselves be distracted by spin. It's time to set the record straight with the facts.

Taking Down the Corporate Food System Is Simple

By Joel Salatin, Public Affairs Books
Environment: The new book Food Inc. explains the most realistic and effective approach to transforming a system that is slowly but surely killing us.

I Would Likely Be Dead by Now if it Wasn't for One Thing ... Health Insurance

By Ray McGovern, Consortium News
Health and Wellness: My own medical emergencies have made me more conscious of the scandal in our country when it comes to health care.

Life After Guantanamo: Why the Media's Happy-Ending Narrative Is Totally Bankrupt

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: The transfer of four Uighur prisoners to Bermuda has been treated like a happy human-interest story, but the truth is far darker.

Hey New York, Michael Bloomerg Is Not Your Daddy

By Phyllis Eckhaus, AlterNet
Politics: Once-feisty New Yorkers have gone soft, trusting in a powerful daddy to take care of the city. It's not going to work.

Iran's Leader Calls Election Over, Warns of 'Bloodshed and Chaos' if Protests Continue

By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation
World: Iran's Supreme Leader declares the presidential race over. But for reformists braced for more confrontations, there's no backing down.

What Do You Do With Father's Day When You Grew Up With a Deadbeat Dad?

By James Spooner, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Father's Day, for me, is usually just a reminder of what should have been. But that's about to change.

One in Four Men in South Africa Admit Rape, Survey Finds

By David Smith, The Guardian
Sex and Relationships: The country is notorious for having one of the highest levels of rape. Only a fraction are reported, and few lead to a conviction.

Friday, June 19th, 2009

While the Economy Crashes and Burns, Bush Loyalists Are Making a Killing

By Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com
Politics: They shredded our economic safety nets, but for them jobs are plentiful and lucrative. You'll be surprised to know who's cashing in and where.

Higher Education Is Stuck in the Middle Ages -- Will Universities Adapt or Die Off in Our Digital World?

By Don Tapscott, Edge
There is a huge clash between the model of learning offered by big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital learn.

When We Talk About Health Care, We're Forgetting One Important Group: The Already Insured

By Michael Bader, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: The suffering fostered by our system isn't limited to those who can't afford access to it. And their voices should be part of the debate, too.

Obama's New Economic Plan: The Good, the Bad and the Weak

By Nomi Prins, Mother Jones
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: His new regulations have been billed as the most sweeping overhaul of the financial system since the Great Depression. Obama, alas, is no FDR.

Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer

By Mike Elk, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Women had come and gone, dogs had died, but Yuengling had always been there for me - until now.

Can a Lack of Sleep Really Drive You Mad?

By Daniel Freeman, Jason Freeman, Independent UK
Health and Wellness: Disturbed nights and mental illness have always been linked. Now research shows insomnia is not just a symptom, but a cause.

The Mind-Boggling Variety of Sexual Experience

By Liz Langley, Liz Langley's Blog
Sex and Relationships: The Best Sex Writing 2009 covers everything from virginity pledges to orgasming after a spinal chord injury.

Are Pesticides Causing Parkinson's Disease?

By Robin Marantz Henig, OnEarth Magazine
Health and Wellness: Scientists are closing in on an inescapable conclusion: Pesticides may be a cause of Parkinson's disease.

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Help Save the Earth, Time to Subsitute Hemp for Oil

By Dara Colwell, AlterNet
Water: Every man-made fiber we wear, sit on, cook with, drive in, are by-products of the petroleum industry -- all of which could be replaced by hemp.

Homes Still Cost Too Much

By John Wasik, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Unfortunately the cost of land, homebuilding, taxes and homeownership far exceed what millions of households are able to cover.

Iran's Balance of Power Has Been Upended -- Is the Country Teetering Toward Civil War?

By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation
World: Things are ugly now. But they could rapidly get a lot uglier, more violent, and more civil war-like. Will opposition maintain its momentum?

Have Geithner and Summers Seen the Error of Their Ways and What Does it Mean For Our Future?

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Summers and Geitner finally condemned the Wall Street shenanigans they once abetted. But will this mean any real change in Obama's policy?

Warning: Health Care Lobbyists Are Winning the Battle to Screw All of Us

By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
Health and Wellness: Lobbyists sense that their chances of protecting big insurers, drug companies, medical specialties, technology companies are improving.

Armed Radical 'Minutemen' Kill Father and 9-Year-Old Daughter in Anti-Immigrant Hate

By Sally Kohn, Center for Community Change
Rights and Liberties: Right-wing hate groups are hijacking America's economic distress to push their lethal agendas.

A Chemical Found in Most Consumer Products May Cause Heart Disease in Women

By Elizabeth Grossman, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Bisphenol A is used in countless consumer products including food and beverage containers, kitchen appliances, electronics, and packaging.

Porn Star Sasha Grey Likes Gang Bangs -- Live With It, Tyra Banks

By Lily Quateman, The Frisky
Sex and Relationships: Porn star Grey, who has achieved success as a mainstream actress, has gotten tons of criticism for working in porn.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

"I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody": Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis

By Matt Kennard, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute
World: Why the U.S. military is ignoring its own regulations and permitting white supremacists to join.

Why U.S. Neocons Want Ahmadinejad to Win

By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet
World: American conservatives and Iranian hard-liners need each other.

Shame: The 'Anti-War' Democrats Who Sold Out

By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet
World: In a historic vote, only 30 of 256 Democrats stood against $100 billion for more war.

Is Fox So Crazy That It's Even Alienating Some Conservatives?

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: The hate-filled rhetoric spewed by Fox pundits like Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly is even alarming some of the people who work there.

I Know What Rape Really Looks Like; How Can the Media Glamorize It?

By Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Huffington Post
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Rape is vicious, cruel, painful and damaging. I shouldn't have to explain this to you. But from the way our media treats rape, apparently I do.

Atheism: Living Life Unfettered by Supernaturalism and Groupthink -- Interview With Sikivu Hutchinson

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog
African-American atheist Sikivu Hutchinson calls on black atheists to play a critical role in the atheism movement.

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: How Cyberwarriors Are Foiling Iran's Information Crackdown

By Austin Heap, New America Media
Rights and Liberties: Cyber activist Austin Heap: "My website has been attacked by Iran. My servers are melting. But protesters are still using technology to mobilize."