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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Americans Are Still Buying Gas-Guzzlers, But Here Are 7 Signs That the Market for Green Transport Is Exploding

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Environment: More and more Americans are finding other ways to get around in greener fashion, from Smart Cars to Vespas.

Imagine No Religion? Atheist Movement Gains Momentum

By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: The Freedom From Religion Foundation is using quotes from famous atheists to spread the message in its national billboard campaign.

Why Are We Lying to Ourselves About Our Catastrophic Economic Meltdown?

By Arun Gupta, AlterNet
PEEK: Sorry, it's not over yet. This downturn will be severe and long-lasting, and profoundly re-shape our lives, culture, society and the world.

Right-Wing Media Send Their Mobs of Crazy Fans to Go After Private Citizens -- Including Kids

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: The right-wing is igniting the crazies by pushing them to snoop on everyday people.

G-20 Meetings: Nothing Much Happened in the Suites, and There Was Too Much Punch in the Streets

By Laura Flanders, GRITtv
Take Action: Underrepresented booming countries may get a bigger voice in global finance. Nice. But under-represented people? They got arrested.

The U.S. and Europe Have Propped Up So Many Corrupt "Democracies" That the Word Is Losing Meaning

By Arundhati Roy, Tomdispatch.com
World: What's next in a world where democracy has been so hollowed out?

Fox TV's Bizarre New Cartoon Comedy Is a Minstrel Show, Pure and Simple

By Jasmyne Cannick, New America Media
Media and Technology: Fox’s debut of the “The Cleveland Show” is a desperate attempt to work against the improved international image of black people after the election of a black president.

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Wall Street Lies Blame Victims to Avoid Responsibility for Financial Meltdown

By Nomi Prins, Wiley Press
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: To hear it from the big financial companies, the big crash started when poor people bought homes they couldn't afford. But that was at most 1% of the problem.

Is Lou Dobbs, CNN's Resident Bigot, on His Way Out?

By Don Hazen, AlterNet
Protest campaigns urging CNN to dump Dobbs are gathering momentum. Will 'the most trusted name in news' do the right thing?

237 Reasons Why Women Have Sex

By Tanya Gold, The Guardian
Sex and Relationships: Drugs, money, revenge, because it's fun -- those are just a few of the reasons women have sex, according to a new book that interviewed 1,006 women from around the world.

Robocops Employ Scary Crowd-Stopping Technology at Pittsburgh Protests

By Mike Ferner, After Downing Street
Media and Technology: An arsenal of "crowd control munitions," was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week's G-20 protests.

What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs

By Yasha Levine, eXiled Online
Rights and Liberties: It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush’s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.

Scary: Bullet Makers Can't Keep Up With Demand

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: "I call it the Obama effect," says one Louisiana gun dealer.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Americans Pay More to Die Earlier -- Why Is Our Health Care System So Screwed Up?

By Brad Reed, AlterNet
Politics: Because it was created by Dr. Frankenstein and Satan? Actually, the truth is far less comforting.

Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting

By Mark Ames, AlterNet
World: Baldasci's shooting opens a window into Fresno, Calif.'s climate of soaring unemployment, scheming agribusiness oligarchs and Sean Hannity-inspired right-wing rage.

There Was Nice Talk About 'Change' and 'Hope' But the Money Party Won Again

By Joe Bageant, AlterNet
Politics: Obama needs to lay off the foot-work and throw a punch!

Fast Food Monstrosities: Why Would Someone Eat a 1400 Calorie Sandwich?

By Scott Gold, The Faster Times
Big fast food chains are competing to build bigger, badder and more insanely calorific food. And we eat it. What the hell is wrong with us?

Police Use Painful New Weapon on G20 Protesters

By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant
This technology has been deployed in Iraq as an "anti-insurgent weapon" -- it could easily be used as a torture tool.

James Lovelock: Schemes to 'Reverse' Global Warming Could Lead to Disaster

By James Lovelock, The Guardian
Environment: Better, perhaps, to let the earth look after itself than try to regulate its system through mirrors, clouds and artificial trees.

A Day in the Life of an Abortion Clinic Escort

By Anonymous, RH Reality Check
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Every day that our doors are open to women seeking abortions, the sidewalk in front of our clinic is occupied by stalkers, harassers, and creeps.

Pakistan to Allow U.S. Military Ops in Exchange for Aid

By Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times
World: It will be difficult and dangerous to take on the Taliban and al-Qaeda inside Pakistan in a struggle in which there are no guarantees of success.

40 Books About Sexuality That You Have to Read

By Anna Clark, AlterNet
From orgasms to organs, from contraceptives to court decisions, look to the reading list below for the can't-miss books and articles about sex.

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

The Green, Clean Art of Keeping Our "Rear Ends" Hygienic: What Are We Afraid Of?

By Liz Langley, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: We use enough deodorizers to ensure that we don't smell remotely organic, and yet we can't even keep our own heinies clean? What's a first-world country to do?

5 Ways the Government Used Our Money to Save Big Banks and Screw Us

By Nomi Prins, Christopher Hayes, The Nation
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The government hasn't exactly been forthcoming about how it has made buckets of money available to the banking sector. But here's what really happened.

How Top Generals May Trap Obama in a Losing War

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
World: As Obama is facing a lose-lose proposition in Afghanistan, we have to look hard at the role of Gen. McChrystal and the political motivation of Gen. Petraeus.

Israel's Fear of Jewish Girls Dating Arabs; Team of Psychologists to "Rescue" Women

By Jonathan Cook, AlterNet
World: Youth counselors and psychologists are going after young Jewish women who are dating Arab men to "rescue" them.

Why a Ban on Flavored Cigarettes and Outdoor Smoking Will Backfire

By Tony Newman, AlterNet
DrugReporter: We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking but let's not get carried away and think that criminalizing smoking is the answer.

'I Was a Birthday Present for an 82-Year-Old Grandmother'

By David Henry Sterry, R.J. Martin Jr., Soft Skull Press
Sex and Relationships: This excerpt from "Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex" details what a 17-year-old in 1974 decided to do for money.

Coca-Cola's Lies About Sustainability Have Gone Too Far

By Amit Srivastava, India Resource Center
Water: They've gone from greenwashing to outright lying.

Glenn Beck Faces Backlash -- From the Right

By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly
PEEK: It seems as if Beck may be marginalizing himself in a way that will, if we're all really lucky, make him permanently toxic to those who take politics seriously.

Friday, September 25th, 2009

H1N1 Just Isn't That Scary: Why There's No Reason to Go Overboard with Swine Flu Hysteria

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Just a few years ago, we wouldn't have known there was a "swine flu."

Naomi Klein Interviews Michael Moore on the Perils of Capitalism

By Naomi Klein, The Nation
Movie Mix: Moore discusses his new documentary film, widely praised as a call for a revolt against capitalist madness.

I'm a Feminist But I Do All the Housework: What's Up With That?

By Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: By and large, women do far more housework than men and are better at it. It's creating a dirty situation.

Is Eating a Plant-Based Diet a Cure for Cancer?

By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Experts are saying a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it's also curative of the very serious diseases we face.

Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 Even When Consumers Can't Buy And Business Cries "Socialism"

By Robert B. Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: How can the Dow be so far up when every business and Wall Street executive is screaming about government crushing the economy?

Readers Weigh In: How Do I Help My Son Become a Free Thinker?

By Danny Postel, New Humanist
Belief: A recent article about how to raise children as humanists received hundreds of responses. Here its author, Danny Postel, chooses his favorites.

Geo-Engineering Could Save the Planet … and in the Process Sacrifice the World

By Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal
Environment: Having unintentionally warmed the planet, we may have little choice but to intentionally cool it back down. But at what cost?

Apocalyptic Preacher John Hagee's Son Ready to Continue in Father's Footsteps

By Bill Berkowitz, Talk To Action
Politics: As a number of older Religious Right leaders pass on or retire, their sons are stepping in to take their place.

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

We Expect Immortality From Medicine -- and It's Destroying Our Health

By Lewis Lapham, Lapham's Quarterly
Health and Wellness: Our quest for eternal youth enables the country's dependence on a broken medical industrial complex.

Tracking Sex Offenders on Your Phone: Smart or Paranoid?

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: A hot new iPhone App uses GPS technology to track registered sex offenders everywhere. Are they keeping you safe, or profiting off paranoia?

Our Oil Addiction Is About to Make Life a Lot Nastier

By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com
Environment: The great age of renewable energy is in our distant future. Before then, energy prices will rise, environmental perils will multiply and conflict will grow. Buckle your seatbelts.

10 Ways the U.S. Military Has Shoved Christianity Down Muslims' Throats

By Chris Rodda, Talk To Action
World: It's not just private religious organizations that act like Christian crusaders.

Yes, You Can Be a Democrat and Racist at the Same Time

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation
Racism is not the the sole domain of Republicans, Conservatives or Southerners. Being liberal does not give you a free pass on racial politics.

Anti-Choice Zealots' Latest Bizarre Ploy

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The one good thing about these extremists is that they help reveal the anti-woman, anti-sex agenda of the anti-choice movement.

Glenn Beck's Twisted Brain: Pol Pot Less Reprehensible Than Woodrow Wilson, Tiger Woods, and FDR

By Simon Maloy, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: This is getting absurd.

My Husband Can't Get It Up -- But We Still Have Viagra-Free Sex

By Elizabeth Black, SeXis Magazine
Sex and Relationships: He told me he still wanted to have sex. But what could we do? There had to be a (pill-free) solution.

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Why President Obama Can't Let Himself Be Blackmailed by His Generals

By Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet
World: Obama's war zone commanders are trying to box in his options and have him send thousands more troops to Afghanistan. Here's why he shouldn't give in to the pressure.

ACORN: The Most Cost-Effective Investment the Government (and Foundations) Have Ever Made

By David Morris, AlterNet
Politics: The real purpose of the right's attacks on ACORN is to destroy a remarkably successful 50-year-old grassroots model for defending the poor and workers.

5 Things the Corporate Media Don't Want You to Know About Cannabis

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
Media and Technology: Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.

Are Chicken and Fish as Unhealthy as Red Meat?

By Chloe J., Sustain Lane
Health and Wellness: In the interest of your health, the environment and even logic, it makes more sense to leave chicken and fish off your plate. Here's why.

Rep. Mike Ross, Opponent of Public Option, Raises Eyebrows With Healthy Haul From Pharmacy Chain

By Marcus Stern, ProPublica
Politics: One-fifth of his constituents have no health insurance, and more than half want a public option, but Blue Dog Mike Ross has held fast against it. Could a sweetheart deal be why?

While You Are Minding Your Own Business, the U.S. Is Constantly Making War Around the Globe

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
World: As much as it might seem that most of us are going along, living peaceful lives, there's another kind of America that operates on the same soil -- a warfare state.

Is Darwin Film "Creation" Too Controversial for American Audiences?

By Steven Guess, Comment Is Free
Movie Mix: Only 39 percent of Americans believe in evolution. How long can we protect our mythologies?

Are You Sure That Slaves Didn't Pick the Produce That Fills Your Fridge?

By Vanessa Barrington, EcoSalon
Health and Wellness: If you think buying organic, locally-raised food from the farmers' market means that the workers who harvested your food were treated fairly, it’s not necessarily a given.