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Saturday, October 24th, 2009

After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally

By Mark Ames, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: "We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.

8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization

By Adele Stan, AlterNet
Media and Technology: PR for the GOP? Yes. Platform for right-wing hatemongers? Definitely. But a news organization? Definitely not.

McKibben Versus Hedges' Clash of Worldviews: How Do We Solve the Environmental Crisis?

By Chris Hedges, Bill McKibben, Yes! Magazine and TruthDig
Environment: Bill McKibben believes we must reduce our carbon emissions immediately, or else face disaster. Chris Hedges says that until we defeat corporate power, we can't address anything.

How Are Some Middle-Class Families Coping with the Recession? Growing Pot

By Susan Kuchinskas, Miller-McCune.com
DrugReporter: A financial stimulus for the recession-battered middle class: pot farming.

Obama Is Keeping Bush's Worst "War on Terror" Policies Firmly In Place

By Julian Sanchez, The Nation
Rights and Liberties: Thanks to behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Obama administration, a bipartisan majority has approved legislation that seems to abandon hope of reining in the Patriot Act.

It's Not Too Late for Obama to Choose Between Being a Peace President and War President

By Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com
World: Obama can choose between going on the peace maker-route, or take the path of recent presidents and continue with the war games.

Groups Rally to Stop Nestlé's Raid on Sacramento Water

By Dan Bacher, AlterNet
Take Action: Grassroots community activists are mobilizing against the internationally boycotted corporation that is planning to bottle water in an already parched state.

An Atheist's Review of the Book of Genesis Illustrated by a Legendary Comics Artist

By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog
Belief: This isn't Beatrix Potter here. It's more like "Dangerous Liaisons" by way of Quentin Tarantino. With tents, sand, and sheep.

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Michael Moore's Action Plan: 15 Things Every American Can Do Right Now

By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com
Take Action: 5 things to demand Obama and Congress to do immediately, 5 things the politicians must hear from us, 5 things we should do to protect ourselves and family.

Confused About All the Climate Talk and the Copenhagen Summit? Here's the Skinny: Five Things You Should Know

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Environment: The who, what, where, when and why about COP 15, which strangely means: the "Council of Parties."

10 TV Shows You Have to Watch to Understand the World

By Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
The master lineup of iconic shows that shaped our pop-culture landscape.

Rachel Maddow Mocks the Idea of Bush as a Motivational Speaker

AlterNet Politics: Bush will be speaking along with Dr. Earl Mindell, whom the tour calls the ultimate authority on vitamins, fitness and nutrition. Career reinvention can be humiliating.

Is the Military Ignoring Its Heroin Problem in the Ranks?

By Megan Carpentier, Air America Media
DrugReporter: Occupy the world's largest heroin producer in Afghanistan and it's no wonder the methadone clinics are overpacked -- but the military is mum on the subject.

Latinos Face Alarming Cancer Rates

By Christina Hernandez, ColorLines
Health and Wellness: With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, expert warns of cancer "train wreck" tied to issues including the lack of health insurance.

How I Realized I'm Bisexual

By Rabbit White, SeXis Magazine
Sex and Relationships: I wanted to have sex with both women and men. But how could I tell if I was really bisexual, or acting out "Girls Gone Wild" faux lesbianism?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Does Military Service Turn Young Men into Sexual Predators?

By Penny Coleman, AlterNet
World: "Everyone has the potential to be a sex offender. It depends on how they have been conditioned."

How Mormonism Created Glenn Beck

By Joanna Brooks, Religion Dispatches
Media and Technology: With Glenn Beck now a mainstay in the national debate, the public is getting exposure to a peculiar strain of religious political conservatism rooted in Mormon culture.

Rape Is a Pre-Existing Condition? The Heartlessness of the Health Insurance Industry Exposed

By Danielle Ivory, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Health and Wellness: By taking anti-AIDS medicine after a rape, Christina Turner discovered that she had made herself all but uninsurable.

This Year's Biggest Hoax Is Tim Geithner's 'Solution' for the Economy, Not the Balloon Boy

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
Media and Technology: If we could get one of the banking lobbyists to float a duct-taped flying saucer balloon, Wolf Blitzer might cover the real hoax.

A Corporation So Arrogant, It Thought It Owned the Word 'Monster'

By Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: When the tiny Rock Art Brewery in Vermont decided to name its beer "The Vermonster," they soon discovered that a behemoth drinks company was trying to push them around.

Take Action on Oct. 24: Join One of the Largest Global Protests in the Fight Against Climate Change

By Tim Kingston, AlterNet
Take Action: On Oct. 24, tens of thousands of people will be in the streets and on mountains, rivers and glaciers around the world demanding action to reduce CO2 emissions.

There's Another Way to Dress Up for Halloween Instead of Slutty Nurse Outfits

By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Hallow'green is freakier than scarily packaged costumes.

Can Drugs Make You Love Someone You Don't?

By Josey Vogels, My Messy Bedroom
Sex and Relationships: Research into the chemicals that control love, lust and attachment could eventually result in drugs that would make you fall in love and bond with another person.

CNN Most Trusted Name in News? Not for Latinos

By Joe Torres, StopBigMedia.com
Immigration: Lou Dobbs is using his bully pulpit to launch vitriolic attacks against immigrants. So what does it matter if the channel also has a special Latinos in America series?

Bonus Bandits: Why Are Bank Execs Making a Killing in the Midst of Catastrophe?

By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Welcome to post-meltdown America. One year and counting after last fall’s high-finance collapse, average Americans are reeling and Wall Street is rejoicing.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Rethinking Marriage. The World Has Changed. It's Time!

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation
Sex and Relationships: We must do more than simply re-integrate new groups into an old system. We need to seriously consider our assumptions about the system itself.

The Battle Against Letting Wall Street Continue to Make a Killing on Derivatives

By Art Levine, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Protections for consumers and Wall Street's skullduggery are at stake in an obscure series of hearings going on in Congress right now.

The Untouchables: Right-Wingers Put Themselves in an Uncompromising 'World Apart'

By Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future
Politics: A report issued Friday by Democracy Corps shows that the most conservative Republicans consider themselves part of an underdog minority.

Saving Women From Breast Cancer: Are Mammograms Really the Answer?

By Naomi Freundlich, Health Beat
Health and Wellness: New research suggests that mammograms may lead to the over-treatment of some breast diseases while missing lethal cancers. Is there a better answer?

Dept of Homeland Security Expands Controversial Program Empowering Local Police

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Immigration: The 287(g) program gives local law enforcement authority to enforce federal immigration laws, which has led to accusations of racial profiling.

Tree Spiker: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Life of a Radical Environmental Activist

By Mike Roselle, St. Martin's Press
Environment: One of the most controversial figures in the conservationist movement shares personal stories of (often hilarious) radical activism.

Why Do Men Catcall?

By Ronnie Koenig, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: Screaming at women about their appearances reinforces some men's sense of dominance -- but it's street harassment.

Clear Majority Now Backs the Public Option, and the Numbers Are Growing

By John Byrne, Raw Story
Health and Wellness: New polling shows greater movement toward support of plan for government-run health care.

Media Enabled Bush 1's Savage Attacks on Maddow and Olbermann, Yet Continue to Ignore Bush Family's Sordid Past

By Russ Baker, AlterNet
Politics: George HW Bush gets a free pass for attacks without evidence, meanwhile his CIA ties remain largely ignored and his son's lies about Iraq remain unprosecuted.

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Meet the Senators in the Creepy Right-Wing Cult Trying to Defeat Health Care Reform

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The Family has spent decades consolidating power within the GOP and may have come to dominate the party even among those who do not belong to the cult.

Bill Moyers: How Can the U.S. Be an Empire and a Democracy at the Same Time?

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
World: An interview with Mark Danner, whose new book, Stripping Bare the Body, explores the strange notion of a democratic empire and the wars it wages.

Dangerous Hype: Infant Formula Companies Claim They Can Make Babies 'Smarter'

By Ari LeVaux, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Companies have fortified their products with synthetic versions of certain fatty acids associated with brain development. But evidence shows it may be making children sick.

Has 'America's Toughest Sheriff' Lost It?

By Isabel Macdonald, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Local community organizers are calling on the DHS to go further in stripping rogue Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s powers.

Why Obama Has to do What Letterman Did: Refuse to Pay Hush Money

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Politics: The former labor secretary says that by buying off Big Pharma in return for its support on health-care reform, the president has succumbed to blackmail.

A National Treasure -- The Memoirs of Gay Rights Pioneer Martin Duberman

By Doug Ireland, Gay City News
Rights and Liberties: Father of gay studies programs in universities, Duberman was early to embrace the nascent, post-Stonewall gay liberation movement and join its militant ranks.

Will the Soldiers We Train in Afghanistan End Up Trying to Kill Us in the Future? It's Happened Before

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
World: For 30 years we've been deeply involved in creating, financing, and sometimes arming a part of the world that has shown willingness to create violence on our own soil.

Major Blow to 'War on Drugs': Obama Tells Fed Prosecutors, Don't Waste Your Time with Medical Marijuana Arrests

By Allen St. Pierre, NORML
DrugReporter: Department of Justice memo formalizes what marijuana advocates had been pushing Obama to do for some time.

Why Won't Obama Draw a Line in the Sand and Take on the Wall Street Wrecking Crew?

By Frank Rich, The New York Times
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: We know Obama has good values, but we don't know if he has convictions.

Monday, October 19th, 2009

The Robber Barons Are Back -- Hide Your Money!

By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The Dow's at 10,000, and the bankers are reaping huge bonuses, but the economy in which the rest of us live is a disaster.

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Are Crazy -- Yet Corporate Media Legitimize Them

By Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: When Limbaugh, Beck and Fox news are treated like legitimate players, it causes the rest of the media to run to the right.

Democrats Risk Electoral Disaster If They Drop the Public Option

By Robert Parry, Consortium News
The public option offers the only means for a reform to be quickly implemented and to demonstrate a beneficial effect for the people by 2010 and 2012.

Going Green Means Having Fewer Kids

By Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com
Reproductive Justice and Gender: There are already just too many people on the planet. What are we supposed to do about it?

Playing God? Texas Jury Consulted Bible Before Sentencing Man to Death

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Khristian Oliver is set to be executed next month, after jurors used Old Testament passages to determine whether he should live or die.

Got Pot? It's Legal to Take It on the Plane in Oakland

By Josh Richman, Oakland Tribune
DrugReporter: Oakland International Airport may be the nation's only airport with a specific policy letting users of medical marijuana travel with the drug.

8 Foods You Think Are Healthy ... But Aren't

By Sarah Irani, EcoSalon
Health and Wellness: Processed foods, even organic and vegetarian ones, don’t provide the optimal health for our bodies.

CodePink Founder Jodie Evans Challenges Obama Up Close and Personal on His Afghanistan Policy

By Don Hazen, AlterNet
World: Armed with the signatures of thousands of Afghan women asking him not to send more troops, Evans told Obama that women must have a seat at the negotiating table.

Dog-Fighting Ring Allegedly Operated Out of Home that Doubles as a Day-Care Center

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Reports of a dog-fighting ring operating out of a home that houses a day-care center were bad enough. Then, a cell-phone video showed a dog burned alive.

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Working With the Victims in the Complex Struggle to Fight Sex Trafficking

By Noy Thrupkaew, The Nation
Sex and Relationships: The Philippines suffers from a significant problem with child sex exploitation, but it also provides more fertile ground for US work on anti-trafficking.

"Clean, Safe and High-Value" Neighborhoods Are Nice Ways of Saying "White" Without Bringing Race into It

By Rich Benjamin, Hyperion Books
Rights and Liberties: The law does not forbid segregated or discriminating neighborhoods. It simply forbids intentional discrimination.

Striking Graphic History Tells Story of Honduras Coup and Unrest

By Dan Archer, Nikil Saval, AlterNet
World: Check out this stunning graphic portrayal of the unrest that's ripped through Honduras.

Why Is Everyone Pretending Olympia Snowe Is so Darn Important?

By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate
Politics: Now all of American politics is focused on this unaccomplished backbencher and whether or not she will endorse the final bill.

Politicians Have Failed in Efforts to Stave Off Climate Change, Now It's Up to Us

By Bill McKibben, Mother Jones
Environment: The political method has not worked so well. In fact it's lurching toward something between abject and embarrassing failure. Let's try something else.

Unprecedented Civil Disobedience For Hemp Legalization

By Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle
DrugReporter: Hoping to focus the attention of the Obama administration on the DEA's bad policies, leading activists were willing to get arrested to make their point.

The 10 Most Notorious Sex Scandals in Hollywood History

By Phil Nugent, Nerve.com
Sex and Relationships: We can learn a lot about shifting mores by charting the careers of those caught in the spotlight with their zippers down.

No One Wants to Die From Dinner -- Here's a Quick Primer on What's Safe to Eat and Who's Looking Out for Your Health

By Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon
Health and Wellness: Thousands are dying every year from food-borne illness and we have a confusing morass of regulations and agencies charged with enforcing them. How to sort out the mess?

The Rise of the Religious Left -- Why Christianity Isn't Just for Conservatives

By Anna Hartnell, Comment Is Free
Belief: It's easy to paint American Christians as right wing free-marketeers -– but the truth is far more complex.