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Friday, October 16th, 2009

4 TV Series That Should Not Be Missed

By Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Serial TV is the best way to get a mini-escape into another land, another life, another person’s head -- here are four shows that will help you understand where the country is.

Big Whoop: 1 Republican Signs on to Watered-Down Health Reform, and the Media Gets in a Bipartisan Tizzy

 By Robert Scheer, Truthdig
Politics: The 13 Dems on the Senate Finance Committee get one faintly rational GOPer to join them in a meaningless stab at health care reform, and it throws them into a tizzy.

What's the Big Hubbub Over a New Book Arguing NYC Is America's Greenest City?

 By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Environment: New Yorker writer David Owen has environmentalists shooting broadsides at his new book; do we really want to replicate the Big Apple across America?

How to Have Sex Like a Virgin for Only 30 Bucks

 By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: Who doesn't want to have sex with virgins?

Health Insurer Accused of "Attempted Murder" by Man Stripped of His Coverage

 By William Ehart, Washington Times
Health and Wellness: Insurer would rather end health coverage for entire categories of illness such as muscular dystrophy than pay out one dime.

Hightower: Obama, Time to Work on Creating Jobs for Hardworking Americans

 By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: FDR, when he faced deep and spreading national insecurity, made jobs first -- not last. And so should Obama.

Why Is L.A.'s District Attorney Aiding and Abetting Mexican Drug Cartels?

 By Bruce Mirken, Daily News
DrugReporter: Attorney Cooley has sweeping plans to boost the profits of drug cartels, and increasing the slaughter these vicious gangs perpetrate on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Get Out of Afghanistan Now

 By G. Pascal Zachary, In These Times
World: The case for an immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Dr. Frankenstein of Fox News Creates Another Right-Wing Monster

 By Karl Frisch, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: Fox News president Roger Ailes -- a former Republican communications guru -- is turning his attention to the Fox Business Network.

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Not Your Father's Chamber of Commerce: National Organization Is Now a Tool of the Radical Right

 By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: Once a sane advocate and even community-minded organization, the Chamber of Commerce has been captured by the Republican Party.

Without Drastic CO2 Cuts Immediately, the World Faces a Massive 'Oh Shit' Moment

 By Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation
Environment: A frightening new climate change study says the United States must eliminate its enormous rate of carbon emission within ten years.

The Great Challenge of Our Time: Re-Creating America's Great Middle Class

 By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: In her final column, Cocco writes that we face "hard political tasks. But being pushed further down is harder, still. Because no one knows where the new bottom lies."

Why Does America Leave It to NFL Owners to Tell Rush Limbaugh Where to Go?

By Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org
Media and Technology: Shock jock Limbaugh was thinking about buying a piece of the St. Louis Rams and was promptly told that he and his divisive comments are not welcome in the NFL.

Getting to the Bottom of the Bizarre Bank Merger Between Wells Fargo and Wachovia

 By Kevin Connor, Eyes on the Ties
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Why did Wells Fargo, a reasonably healthy bank, merge with a debt-laden disaster like Wachovia in the middle of the financial crisis? Ask Vulcan Materials Co.

Should Liberals Watch More TV?

 AlterNet Media and Technology: Vanessa Richmond's article about progressives watching television stirred some furious debate. Here are the highlights.

The Samsung Reclaim: A Corn-Based Cell Phone Has Finally Arrived, But Is it Worth It?

 By Peter Z. Scheer, Truthdig
Environment: The Reclaim is a new green phone from Samsung and Sprint that hopes you're more interested in the environment than in apps.

Video: Birther Queen Rapped With $20,000 Fine: The End of Orly Taitz?

 By Adele Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The right-wing activist who keeps filing law suits alleging that Obama is not a U.S. citizen is fined and dismissed as a kook by a federal judge.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Ridiculous Study Blames Feminism for Non-Existent 'Happiness Gap' Between Men and Women

By Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Much-discussed study claims that women are more depressed relative to men in recent decades, when it actually suggests that neither marriage nor children make women happy.

Obama Vs. Rupert Murdoch: Fox News' Blatant Transition into GOP TV

 By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: Fox News is now explicitly a pro-Republican channel. Now the press needs to change the way it covers Fox News.

How My Dispute with Joe Scarborough Sheds Light on the Civil War Within the GOP

 By Max Blumenthal, AlterNet
Politics: Scarborough is trying to play the part of a 'real conservative,' appalled by the GOP fringe, but he's just as unwilling to compromise with Obama's agenda.

CNN Can't Have It Both Ways: It Can Either Broadcast Hateful Lou Dobbs or Have a Latino Audience

 By Roberto Lovato, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Latinos across America are intensely concerned about CNN's hypocrisy: Broadcasting Dobbs' anti-immigrant extremism while running a Latinos in America special series.

Dick Gephardt's Fall: How a Progressive Stalwart Turned into a Spectacular Political Sellout

 By Sebastian Jones, The Nation
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: As a politician, he was a champion of progressive reform. Now he lobbies for its enemies.

Judge Finds Abusive Gitmo Interrogations Yield False Confessions, Bad Info

 By Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica
Rights and Liberties: A judge's recently-released opinion opens a window on Gitmo's harsh interrogation techniques, and the bad intel they yield.

The Enormous Environmental Consequences of Artificially Lighting Up the Night

 By Judith Stock, Miller-McCune.com
Politics: The nighttime sky shines brighter than it did less than 10 years ago with potentially serious consequences to humans, animals and ecosystem.

Is Canada More Pro-Israel Than the United States?

By Yves Engler, CounterPunch
World: "No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Step Aside McDonald's, Why Subway Has the Most Fast Food Stores in the Country

 By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: What Subway's focus on being a healthy alternative to greasy junk foods says about the future of the lucrative fast-food industry.

Why Republicans Are in the Grip of an Apocalyptic Rapture Cult Centered on Revenge and Vindication

 By Frank Schaeffer, Da Capo Press
Politics: An excerpt from Schaeffer's soon-to-be released book, "Patience with God," gets to the root of why millions are praying for End Times.

How to Make Sure the Maddow Show Survives

 By Amanda Marcotte, Comment Is Free
PEEK: Post-election, liberals appear to be turning off their TVs. We can't afford to lose the sole voice of intellectual liberalism in the cable news desert.

LGBT Activists Criticize Obama's Speech for What Wasn't There, But Miss a Very Big Thing That Was

 By Adele Stan, AlterNet
PEEK: LGBT activists missed the real gift in Obama's speech: the first African-American president equated their struggle with that of the civil rights activists of the 1960s.

Obama, If You Get Afghanistan Wrong, It Could Derail Your Presidency -- Here's How to Get It Right

 By William R. Polk, The Nation
World: The U.S. can't defeat the Taliban by employing overwhelming military power.

The Stupidity of "Zero-Tolerance": 6-Year-Old Suspended For Bringing Food Utensil to School

 By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant
PEEK: What can this teach us about U.S. foreign policy? Quite a lot, actually.

Really Sick: If Your Partner Beats You, Insurance Companies Don't Have to Give You Coverage

 By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News
Politics: Domestic abuse victims are twice-abused when insurance companies refuse them coverage.

$214 Billion in Obama's Stimulus Money Is Still Out There: 10 Ways You Can Benefit from It

 By Aaron Glantz, New America Media
Belief: There are countless government programs that give citizens access to money earmarked to boosting the economy. Here's where the money is being spent.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Bill Moyers: Was the Financial Bailout Just a Slick, Friendly Takeover of the Federal Government?

 By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore's latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street's purchase of our democracy.

4 Supreme Court Cases That Will Say a Lot About the Direction of Our Country

 By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Would a Human Sacrifice TV Channel be protected by the First Amendment? Answers to this and other key questions will be answered.

Another Right-Wing Media Fight! Scarborough v. Limbaugh Edition

 By Leslie Savan, TheNation.com
PEEK: In this episode, Joe tells Rush who really wears the rants in the GOP.

Right-Wingers Believe Ayn Rand's Every Word, But They Forget She Wrote Fiction

 By Colin Greer, New World Foundation
Politics: The cult of Rand is resurgent -- two new biographies and maybe even a new film, are in the works. But her economic ideas were pure fairy tales.

Republican Senate Sex Scandals Point Back to Secretive Conservative Christian "Family"

 By Bill Berkowitz, Religion Dispatches
Politics: It was a hot summer full of sex scandals for GOP members of "The Family," the exclusive conservative Christian group with designs on DC power.

Warning: Eating Meat May Cause Sickness, Paralysis and Death

 By Tom Laskawy, Grist.org
Health and Wellness: This year almost half a million pounds of E. coli infected beef have been recalled and sadly the government is far more concerned with protecting companies than public health.

Possible Major Speed Bump on the Way to Legal Marijuana

 By Stephen Webster, Raw Story
Rights and Liberties: In spite of a law on California books for over a decade allowing sales of pot, L.A. DA Steve Cooley suddenly announces, "The time is right to deal with this problem."

Nobel Committee Admits Getting Into Derivatives Trading in Giving Peace Prize to Obama

 By Drew Westen, AlterNet
World: What led to the unusual decision to bet on futures rather than follow the century-old precedent of selecting someone who has actually accomplished something?

Columbia Medical School's 200 Dirty Little Secrets

 By Jeanne Lenzer, Shannon Brownlee, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Rights and Liberties: Despite potentially deadly side-effects, doctors at Columbia submitted patients to a controversial drug study, then tried to cover it up.

Countries Are Preparing for Rising Seas But the U.S. Is Far Behind

 By Orrin Pilkey, Rob Young, Island Press
Water: By 2100, a projected sea level rise of up to seven feet will have tremendous impact around the world.

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

 By Emily Wilson, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: The author talks about how a plague of positive thinking is permeating our society, from medicine to business, and is even contributing to our financial crisis.

Possible Major Speed Bump on the Way to Legal Marijuana

 By Stephen Webster, Raw Story
Rights and Liberties: In spite of a law on California books for over a decade allowing sales of pot, L.A. DA Steve Cooley suddenly announces, "The time is right to deal with this problem."

Why Conservatives Are Really Afraid of a Black President

By Jonathan L. Walton, Religion Dispatches
Politics: The president reminds Glenn Beck, and those who identify with his white neo-nationalism, of the lie of their own professed superiority.

Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize

By Michael Moore, AlterNet
Moore originally wrote that Obama had to "earn" his Nobel, but his wife pushed him to reflect on his knee-jerk response.

Zombie Zeitgeist: Why Undead Corpses Are Dominating at the Box Office

 By David Sirota, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Call me a zombie pundit, but the concurrent rise of zombie pop and political cultures is no coincidence.

Why Was a Lightweight Montana Senator on the Finance Committee Tasked to Take on Health Care Reform?

 By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
Health and Wellness: Entrusting Baucus with the heavy job of shepherding health care reform through the upper chamber is like asking Tweety Bird to lift a bowling ball.

Why Obama Has No Business Trying War in the Nuclear-Armed Powder Keg of Pakistan

 By Fred Branfman, Truthdig
World: The U.S. has even less control over events in Pakistan than it does in Afghanistan -- Obama's really playing with fire here.

Rachel Maddow Takes on the Man Doing Corporate Agribusiness's Dirty Work

 By Paula Crossfield, Civil Eats
Environment: Rachel Maddow continues her work pulling back the layers of American politics to expose underhanded and manipulative lobbying tactics to the public.

Marriage Equality in Califorina: Why We Can't Wait Until 2012

 Love Honor Cherish Politics: Every day that Prop 8 remains part of the California Constitution, we each lose something. Here's why we should not lose a moment in the fight to repeal it.

Here's How to Stop Using Toilet Paper and Save Water, Trees and Energy

 By Lloyd Alter, TreeHugger
Water: Making a roll of toilet paper uses 1.5 pounds of wood, 37 gallons of water and 1.3 KWh of electricity.

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Michael Moore Was Right: Progressives Don't Watch Enough TV

 By Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Why TV is ground zero for understanding American culture -- the 9 best shows on air that you should be watching.

Who Ran Away with Your 401K?

 By James Ridgeway, MotherJones.com
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: What starts with "f," ends with "k," and means "screw your workers"? That's right -- 401(k).

Michael Moore Debates Himself Over Obama Winning the Nobel Peace Prize

By Michael Moore, AlterNet
Moore originally wrote that Obama had to "earn" his Nobel, but his wife pushed him to reflect on his knee-jerk response.

On the Eve of Big D.C. March, Leaders Argue California Should Be Patient About Same-Sex Marriage

By Hans Johnson, AlterNet
Politics: The founder of the nation's largest LGBT church and a noted activist say when it comes to restoring same-sex marriage to California, patience is a virtue.

Wacky Congresswoman Thinks Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh Are the Voices of America -- Who Is She Kidding?

By John Nichols, The Nation
Politics: Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann argues that Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are the new voices not just of the GOP but of America. Good luck with that.

Supposed Progressive Obama Religious Leader Uses Health Care Debate for Anti-Abortion Views

 By Adele Stan, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Rev. Jim Wallis says he's progressive. That got him a seat on a White House council despite his opposition to abortion -- which he's using to monkey-wrench health-care reform.

Corporate Media Performing Miserably in Health Care Debate

By Peter Dreier, Todd Gitlin, AlterNet
Politics: If it bleeds, it leads. So what happens when demonstrators play nice?

48 Year-Old Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money

 By Brian Merchant, TreeHugger
Environment: He's never taken food stamps or other government assistance, and despite what his lifestyle may lead you to believe, he's certainly not crazy.

"Tired, Strained, Confused" -- Why U.S. Troops Have Hit the Breaking Point in Afghanistan

 By Martin Fletcher, The London Times
World: American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned, according to the chaplains of two US battalions in Afghanistan.
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