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Monday, June 15th, 2009

Legal Pot in California in 2010? "Oaksterdam" Provides the Model

 By Don Hazen, AlterNet
DrugReporter: Pot entrepreneur Richard Lee envisions a professional marijuana industry much like the one that exists in Amsterdam.

Iran's Stolen Election Has Sparked an Uprising -- What Should the U.S. Do?

 By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet
World: Can the United States speed the process for greater freedom in Iran? Yes. By staying out of the way as much as possible.

Why I Plan to Emulate Dr. George Tiller

 By Rozalyn Farmer Love, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rights and Liberties: As a future OB/GYN, I dream of delivering healthy babies. But as part of my practice, I also plan to provide abortions to women who need them.

Eating Meat Is Not Natural

 By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.

Does the Right Want a Civil War?

 By Sara Robinson, Orcinus
PEEK: People are being shot dead at the rate of several per month now. And it's figures on the Right that are putting the killers up to it.

Obama Must Take On the Giant Lobbyists Blocking Health Care Reform

 By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Health and Wellness: This is one of those battles that define the state of American democracy.

After These Deadly Hate Attacks, Why Aren't We Talking About Guns?

 By Bill Moyers, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: We talk about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But what about the deadly firepower available to the killers?

White House Tries to Strong Arm Progressive Dems -- We Can't Let That Happen

 By Robert Naiman, AlterNet
The White House wants progressive House Democrats to abandon their constituents and their principles and vote for the War/IMF supplemental.

You Still Can't Buy a Vibrator in Alabama

 By Paul Krassner, Cleis Press
Rights and Liberties: Krassner's new book "In Praise of Indecency" attacks the taboos surrounding sex and pornography.

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Iran: Ahmadinejad Defiant as Protests Rage; Election Broadcasts Reportedly Disrupted

 Agence France Presse World: The latest developments from Iran.

After These Deadly Hate Attacks, Why Aren't We Talking About Guns?

 By Bill Moyers, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: We talk about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But what about the deadly firepower available to the killers?

Juan Cole: Iran Election Numbers Don't Add Up

 By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
World: It looks like the election was stolen.

Intriguing Plan in Michael Moore's Home Town: Bulldoze the Ghost 'Burbs, Return Them to Nature

 By Tom Leonard, The Telegraph (UK)
Environment: Concept of razing post-industrial "rust belt" empty neighborhoods draws interest in Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other cities.

You Still Can't Buy a Vibrator in Alabama

 By Paul Krassner, Cleis Press
Rights and Liberties: Krassner's new book "In Praise of Indecency" attacks the taboos surrounding sex and pornography.

What's So Threatening About Sotomayor's Real Life to Her Right-Wing Critics?

 By Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com
Politics: For over 120 years, the idea that a judge's background would influence how they approached cases was conventional wisdom. Why isn't it now?

Four Reasons Why the Public Health Care Option is Irrefutable

 By Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks
Health and Wellness: Politicians who talk about compromising on it have no policy ground to stand on. Without the public option, there is no health care reform.

What Is Patrick Fitzgerald Trying to Hide from the Public?

 By Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org
Rights and Liberties: Powerful prosecutor and public figure Patrick Fitzgerald has been waging a chilling private jihad aimed at "killing" a book critical of him.

Note from AlterNet: I Tell Stories for People Who Can't Tell Their Own -- We Need Your Support

 By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: At AlterNet, I'm fighting for a society that doesn't victimize the innocent and vulnerable. To do it right, I need your support.

Rules of Disengagement: What You Can Do To End Illegal Wars

 By Marjorie Cohn, Kathleen Gilberd, PoliPoint Press
World: The authors of a new book share the success stories of war resisters and ways soldiers and citizens can use their rights to end the wars of today.

Commencement Speech to Graduates of the Bush Years: Empire Continues in the Obama Era

 By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
Media and Technology: Empire. It's the word no one in Washington can say. Its absence from the conversation is at the heart of what makes our empire so hard to define.

Let’s Get Physical: What's So Great About Working in a Cubicle?

 By Margaret Wheeler Johnson, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Author Matthew Crawford publishes a jeremiad against white-collar culture and the educational system designed to populate it.

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset

 By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.

Hey Progressives: Why Don't you Care About the "Drug War" Like You Care About Other Issues?

 By Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: If the 500,000 nonviolent drug offenders in jail had white faces, would society allow it?

The Great Debt Scare: Why Has It Returned?

 By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Politics: The government has to create larger deficits if the economy is to get anywhere near full capacity again.

15 Shocking Tales of How Sex Laws Are Screwing the American People

 By Ellen Friedrichs, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: In the land of the free, the freedom to express your sexuality can land you in prison.

The Hummer: America's Favorite Wasteful Toy Has Moved to the Land of Mao

 By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
World: China now owns one of the West's most decadent consumer products.

Peak Oil Is for Real: The Era of Cheap Oil Is Officially Over

 By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com
Environment: The era of plentiful oil is drawing to a close, and a new era of economic peril, rising starvation and environmental disaster is born.

Nasty Ads and Shady Campaign Contributions Take Over Judicial Races

 By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
With 39 states now electing judges, the threat to impartial justice is frightening.

We Don't Have to Wait for Obama to Make Sure Everyone Has Better Health Care

 By David Sirota, AlterNet
Politics: Taking steps to realistic health care reform begins at the state level.

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Stop Being Distracted by Loudmouths Like Limbaugh: The Real Problem Is Lousy Democrats Like Evan Bayh and Ben Nelson

 By Chris Bowers, Open Left
PEEK: Republicans are not the obstacle to progressive governance. Instead, Democrats who refuse to support a public option are the obstacle.

How Antisemitic Conspiracy Theories and Fearmongering Led to the Holocaust Memorial Shooting

 By Chip Berlet, The Public Eye
Rights and Liberties: The broadcast of hatred and paranoia have led to perfect storm of mobilized resentment threatening to rain violent bigotry across the US.

In Obama Era: Can We Think Big and Make the Changes We Really Need?

 By Rep. Keith Ellison, AlterNet
Politics: Martin Luther King didn't say, "I have a complaint."

Khat vs. Coffee: Taxi Drivers' Wake-Me-Up or Terrorist Drug Threat?

 By Phillip S. Smith, DRCNet
Rights and Liberties: E. African taxi drivers in Washington, DC may see their stimulant of choice outlawed because, well, it's not American -- or something.

Is Angelina Jolie the Next Feminist Icon?

 By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee
Media and Technology: Naomi Wolf thinks so. But what would she be without the boobs and lips?

Why the Medical Industry Is Lashing Out at Oprah Winfrey

 By Deepak Chopra, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Having squandered its public credibility, the medical establishment's attacks on Oprah's alternative medicine crusade look like pure cynicism.

Scarborough Country: Where Anti-Choice Extremism Is Swept Under the Rug

 By Sarah Seltzer, Women's Media Center
Rights and Liberties: MSNBC's Joe Scarborough gave scant attention to Dr. Tiller's tragic murder. Is it tied to his past as pro-bono lawyer to another anti-choice killer?

Facebook Group Highlighting Michael Savage/Rockstar Connection Censored

 By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Facebook took down a group publicizing the link between Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink.

Is Israel's Aggression a Question of Pride?

 By Ira Chernus, AlterNet
World: Israel would rather go down fighting than survive with a damaged sense of national pride. What would happen if concessions weren't so symbolic?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Is Your Newest Facebook Friend a Sleazeball Debt Collector?

 By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Exposing the latest and slimiest ways the "financial services" industry is raking it in from cash-crunched Americans.

Suspect in Washington's Holocaust Museum Shooting Is a White Supremacist

 Agence France Presse Rights and Liberties: A gunman opened fire at the Holocaust museum, hitting a security guard before being wounded himself.

Progressives Have a Chance to Dominate American Politics for the Next 40 Years

 By Sara Robinson, AlterNet
Politics: The tides of history and demographics, and the way the world works are on our side.

AlterNet Takes on Shock Jock Michael Savage and Gets Threatened With a Lawsuit

 By Don Hazen, Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
When we helped publicize the link between bilious talk show host Michael Savage and Rockstar energy drink, we got a letter from their lawyers.

Why My Vasectomy Will Help Save the Earth's Resources

 By Matt Leonard, Earth Island Journal
Sex and Relationships: "Any child I had would have been raised here and would consume (despite my best efforts) far more resources than I am comfortable accepting."

Right-Wing Violence Will Continue, And Fox News Will Have to Answer For It

 By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: Agitators like O'Reilly and Beck traffic in incendiary rhetoric and it's pretty obvious where it's leading to.

Do You Really Think Arabs in the Middle East Clapped for Obama's Speech?

 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
World: What do words of peace and cooperation mean from us when we torture -- yes, we still torture -- Muslims?

North Korea's Price for Concessions on Nukes and Kidnapped Journalists May Be Exorbitant

 By Donald Kirk, Asia Times
World: Will millions of tons of food aid with no strings attached allow for the release of U.S. prisoners and open the door to nuclear talks?

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

We're Screwed on Everything From Health Care to the Economy If the Dems Don't Shape Up

 By William Greider, The Nation
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The Dems aid and protect their free-roaming entrepreneurial politicians and don't punish those who undermine the party's larger promises.

Bill Moyers: The Rise of Private Armies -- Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan

 By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
World: Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."

Republicans Misstep on Sotomayor Attacks: When did Newt and the Gang Become Experts on Race?

By C. Nicole Mason, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: According to them, anyone who believes we have not achieved racial equality and work to level the playing field can be considered a racist.

Let's Get It Straight, Hank Paulsen Is a Prick Who Took Down the Economy

 By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant
The Wall Street Journal lets a former Goldman Sachs employee write a power-worshipping ode to Bush's disastrous Treasury Secretary.

Freeing Journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee Is AlterNet's Top Take Action Campaign of the Week

 By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: Call on the North Korean government to release the two American journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.

Why Is the American Coal Foundation Setting the Curriculum at Elementary Schools?

 By Kari Lydersen, In These Times
Environment: Big Coal has worked its way into the classroom.

How a Former Prisoner Took Down a Big Shot from the Private Prison Industry (and Cheney Pal)

By Paul Wright, CounterPunch
Rights and Liberties: Gus Puryear had his judicial nomination scuttled by a former prisoner turned criminal justice advocate.

Do You Know About the Narcotic Effects of Nutmeg?

 By Ibo Nagano, Entheogen Review
DrugReporter: Humanity has used nutmeg as a medicine, narcotic, aphrodisiac, dream enhancer and inebriant.

Monday, June 8th, 2009

119 Million Americans Want a Public Health Option -- Why Aren't Politicians Listening?

 By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Health and Wellness: Rarely has an issue more dramatically highlighted the question of whether our government represents the people's interests or an industry's.

Rachel Maddow: Right-Wing Terrorism Must Be Stopped

 By Rachel Maddow, MSNBC
Rights and Liberties: The tactics of anti-choice extremists are designed to change policy by terrorizing Americans. How do we stop them from committing violent acts?

Fox Propaganda Site Goes to New Lengths to Distort Reality

 By Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: "Fox Nation", a website that's the newest addition to Rupert Murdoch's evil empire, deliberately misleads readers.

Will We Still Eat Meat, Drink Milk, and Fry Eggs in 2109?

 By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
Environment: The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.

Obama Must Say No to the Coal Barons Desecrating Our Mountains

 By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
Environment: Now is the time for us to flex some grass-roots political muscle and force Obama to stick to his promise to stop mountaintop coal removal.

When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Come Tumbling Down?

 By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Cheney is practicing historical revisionism at its most despicable. Why does anyone believe anything he says?

Obama's Broken Promises

 By David Sirota, AlterNet
President Obama has reneged on many of his campaign promises. Why are we letting him get away with it?
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