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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist

 By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.

With Global Capitalism Exposed as a Sham, All the Global Elite Have Left Is Pure Force

 By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
World: Delegates from the world's wealthiest nations gather this week for G-20, walled off from protesters by a National Guard combat battalion recently returned from Iraq.

Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)!

 By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: "Michael goes directly to the beating heart of the economic crisis ... The knot in your stomach starts to tighten -- and the outrage starts to build."

What's the Matter with San Diego? An Anti-Marijuana City in the Green Oasis of California

 By Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle
DrugReporter: There's a pattern of bitter, recalcitrant refusal on the part of San Diego county officials to abide by the will of the voters and accept CA's medical marijuana law.

There's Virtually Zero Percent Chance of There Ever Being a Real Afghan Army -- So What's the Pentagon Talking About?

 By Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com
World: In Washington, calls are growing for Obama to training more Afghan troops and police rather than sending in more American troops. But this is pure fantasy.

Yes Men Hoax: "Special Edition" of NY Post Warns of Climate Change Threat

 By Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org
Environment: The most alarming thing about the spoofy newspaper was that the news within it came from a spooky — but official — NYC report.

Discovery Channel's 'Gang Wars: Oakland' Series Spreads All the Wrong Messages About Poverty and Minorities

 By Aimee Allison, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: The Discovery Channel's series spreads dangerous myths, focusing on the worst racial stereotypes and uses sensational police footage to depict crimes of poverty.

'Father of Neoconservatism' Irving Kristol's Forgotten Alliance With Anti-Semites

By Max Blumenthal, Huffington Post
Politics: In the hagiographic obits that have followed his death, the story of one of Kristol's most momentous -- and cynical -- maneuvers has been conveniently forgotten.

Dobbs Plays the Victim, as Movement Demanding CNN Dump Him Grows

 By Roberto Lovato, AlterNet
Immigration: Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to try and distract from his long history of anti-immigrant views.

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Bill Moyers: Conservative Radicals and the Politics of Vengeance

 By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
Media and Technology: Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.

Right-Wing Hatemongering Fueled by Christianity?

 By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet
Belief: The ugly side of Evangelical Christianity is very much to blame for the anti-Obama hyperventilating.

10 Horrifying Racist Attacks on Obama

 By AlterNet Staff, AlterNet
Politics: Surely the past months of 2009 will go down in history as the "summer of hate."

Mike Rogers: The Man Who Outs Closeted Right-Wing Politicians

 By Greta Christina, The Blowfish Blog
Sex and Relationships: Mike Rogers talks about why it's important to report on the secret sex lives of gay conservatives who are in bed with anti-gay forces.

The Bill O'Reilly Speech Bill O'Reilly Didn't Want You To Hear

 By Adele Stan, AlterNet
PEEK: At the Values Voter Summit, Bill O'Reilly locked the media out of his appearance before the religious right. Here's what he didn't want you to hear.

FCC to Take on Telecoms in Fight for the Future of the Internet

 By Art Brodsky, Public Knowledge
Media and Technology: It looks like the battle for net neutrality is finally gaining some momentum. This will be the biggest telecom fight in more than a decade.

Why Is Big Pharma Trying to Tell You How to Have Sex?

 By JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation
Sex and Relationships: Female sexual dysfunction was wholly created by drug companies hoping to make even bigger money off women than they have off men.

Why I Threw My Shoes At Bush

 By Mutadhar al-Zaidi, AlterNet
World: The Iraqi who went to jail for shoe-tossing at Bush has been released from prison and speaks out. "Here I am, free. But my country is still a prisoner of war."

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

The Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This a President Was Killed

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
Politics: It's a demented national jihad, the likes of which this country has not seen in modern times.

Can Condoms Save Us from Climate Change?

 By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The greenest technology available to us may not be solar panels, but instead contraception, according to a new report.

Rachel Maddow: Why Do 1/3 of New Jersey Conservatives Think Obama Might Be the Anti-Christ?

 By Rachel Maddow, AlterNet
Video: Maddow gets to the bottom of a bizarre political mystery with Christian Right expert Frank Schaeffer.

Time Magazine's Dishonest and Incompetent Profile on Glenn Beck Enables His Sick Lies

 By Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: The profile whitewashes the shock jock's dishonesty and recycles his false claims. No wonder nobody trusts mainsteam media.

Why We Need a Government Agency to Defend the Pursuit of Happiness

 By Walter Mosley, The Nation
Rights and Liberties: We need to concentrate on our own happiness if we expect to make a difference in the careening technological and slovenly evolving social world of the 21st century.

Are You Drinking Unsafe Water? Corporations Have Violated Clean Water Act Over 500,000 Times in Last Five Years

 By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Water: Forty percent of the nation’s community water systems violated the Safe Drinking Water Act at least once, exposing over 23 million people to potential danger.

Racism in America Doesn't Stop with Glenn Beck and His Fans -- It's in Our Health Care Debate Too

 By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant
Politics: As much as white Americans hate to admit it, race issues are always in play, whether we're talking about unequal health care access or Limbaugh's latest rant.

Laundry Liberation: Fighting for the Right to Hang Your Clothes Out to Dry

 By Luanne Bradley, EcoSalon
Environment: Using a clothes line instead of a dryer saves tons of carbon, yet some communities have banned the practice.

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Paranoia Strikes Deep in America ... Over and Over

 By Michael Kazin, The Nation
Politics: If Obama and his progressive allies hope to defeat the latest assault on federal power, they will need to go beyond the president's artful ambivalence.

5 Reasons the Baucus Health Bill Fails the Basics

 By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The Baucus health care proposal is a terrible bill. And the Senate's foremost health care expert is having none of it.

Limbaugh's Racist Shocker: "We Need Segregated Buses"

 Raw Story Rights and Liberties: In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of his show, Rush Limbaugh said explicitly, Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated busing.

Obama's Election Clearly Doesn't Mark the Beginning of a 'Post-Racial' Society

 By Salim Muwakkil, In These Times
Rights and Liberties: Barack Obama navigates a world where color still matters.

Food Industry Is Now Calling Junk Food 'Healthy' - Why Could That Be?

 By Jim Hightower, AlterNet
Food corporations are hoping to cash in on the growing public concern about nutrition by launching a program that labels some junk food healthy.

What Happened When I Had Sex With Married Women I Met on a Website for Cheaters

 By Jack Harrison, Nerve.com
Sex and Relationships: "Life is short. Have an affair" is the motto of AshleyMadison.com. They have a point, don't they?

Evangelicals Divorce More Often Than "Godless" Europeans? Exploring America's Strange Relationship With Marriage

 By Amy DePaul, Bookslut
Belief: Why do Americans have such contradictory impulses when it comes to wedlock?

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Inside Pat Tillman's Life, and the Bush Administration's Cover-Up of His Death

 By Sarah Seltzer, AlterNet
World: Journalist Jon Krakauer's striking new book on the story of the events surrounding Pat Tillman's death in Afghanistan covers the emotional depths of war and government cover-up.

Limbaugh's Racist Shocker: "We Need Segregated Buses"

 Raw Story Rights and Liberties: In a remark extraordinary even by the standards of his show, Rush Limbaugh said explicitly, Wednesday that the United States needed to return to racially segregated busing.

Would You Know How to Survive After the Oil Crash?

 By Tara Lohan, AlterNet
Environment: Could you get by without your car, food from outside your community, your job? There's a bunch of folks who want to show you how.

Anti-Choice Floridians Peddling Constitutional Amendment to Criminalize Birth Control Pill

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The "Personhood Amendment" would define someone as a "person," regardless of age or health status, "from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."

We Don't Need a Food Revolution, We Just Need to Learn How to Cook

 By Dan Barber, The Nation
Environment: A lack of technique behind the stove is, in the end, as complicit in harming human health and the environment as the confinement pig or the corn-fed steer.

Latinos to CNN: Dump Lou Dobbs Now!

 By Roberto Lovato, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: As studies document the link between anti-immigrant hate speech and violence against Latinos, Dobbs continues to fan the flames.

Why Red-Colored Snow on the Rockies Is a Major Warning Sign That the West Is Drying Up

By Chip Ward, Tomdispatch.com
Water: The era of cheap and plentiful water in the West is over and that's bad news for our sprawling cities, agriculture and ecosystems.

Mythmaking 101: Why Millions Have Bought into 'Death Panel' Propaganda

 By Kenny Smith, Religion Dispatches
Health and Wellness: The death panel rumor is the real deal: values masquerading as truth, all in service of one heckuva group fantasy.

Is the U.S. Really on the Brink of Budget Collapse?

 By Robert Pollin, AlterNet
Politics: Budgetary horror stories trump reality and terrify the public. The reality is not so bad.

Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products: Find Out What's in the Stuff You Use

 By Jeff Gearhart, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: At HealthyStuff.org, consumers can find over 15,000 test results on over 5,000 common items including pet products, back-to-school items, children's toys, and cars.

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

A Recipe for Disaster: School Cops Are Being Armed with 50,000-Volt Tasers

 By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Tasers aren't 'nonlethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the Taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.

Obama Tip-Toes Around Wall Street's Looming Meltdown

 By Nomi Prins, Mother Jones
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Obama claims that govt. funding of the banking system saved the economy, but without reform he is playing an expensive and dangerous game.

Anti-Choice Floridians Peddling Constitutional Amendment to Criminalize Birth Control Pill

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The "Personhood Amendment" would define someone as a "person," regardless of age or health status, "from the beginning of the biological development of that human being."

Why Are African-Americans So Frequently the Subject of Glenn Beck's Ridicule?

 By Devona Walker, The Loop
Media and Technology: There are a lot of problems in America, but right-wingers and the GOP seem to be stuck on making controversy over issues involving black people.

Where the White House is Placing Its Bets on Health Care

 By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
Politics: Will the White House bet on its Dem base or Big Pharma and insurance companies in its health-care push? It's up to you, says the author.

The Trials of Being a Conscious Meat Eater

By Sandor Ellix Katz, Chelsea Green Publishing
Environment: "Everything I see, hear, or read about standard commercial factory farming and slaughtering fills me with disgust," writes Katz, who explores why people choose vegetarianism.

Unbelievable: As a Lesbian Mother, I Have to Pay More For Health Care

 By Elizabeth G. Hines, Women's Media Center
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Gays and lesbians remain separate and utterly unequal in the eyes of the law when it comes to obtaining health insurance for their families.

Religious Right Has-Beens Try for a Resurrection

By Rob Boston, Church & State Magazine
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Will financial and sex scandals sink the hopes of middle-age culture warriors Ralph Reed and Randall Terry? Don't count them out just yet.

Jimmy Carter: 'Hamid Karzai Has Stolen the Election' in Afghanistan

 By Aaron Glantz, New America Media
World: Former President Jimmy Carter called the election in Afghanistan "despicable," and that President Obama should not be sending more troops to that country.

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Has Obama Backed Off of a Big Opportunity to Heal America's Racial Divide?

 By Naomi Klein, The Guardian
Rights and Liberties: The summer of 2009 was all about race, and Obama has little to lose by using this brief political window of racial animus to heal a few of the country's racial wounds.

9/12 Protest: Here's What Fox News Didn't Broadcast

 By Max Blumenthal, AlterNet
Video: "The death panel rumor is just one of a rapidly growing array of conspiracy theories reverberating through the Republican base. Each one is more hysterical than the last."

The Secret Government: What a Real Bipartisan Probe of Bush-era Crimes Should Look Like

 By Christopher Hayes, The Nation
Rights and Liberties: From CIA assassinations to domestic spying, a sweeping investigation of government crimes is not only possible -- it has been done before.

Back Off 'No Impact Man': One Family's Yearlong Adventure Without Modern Conveniences Is Drawing Misguided Criticism

 By Kerry Trueman, AlterNet
Environment: With the release of their movie, the family has gotten a lot of press -- some of it negative. Here's why the critics are wrong.

Billionaires Thank Tea-Baggers at Glenn Beck's March on Washington

By Chuck Collins, AlterNet
Politics: The Billionaires' motto is: "If we’re not broke, don’t fix it."

Was It "Pirates" or Israeli Intelligence That Intercepted a Ship Loaded with Russian Defense Missiles?

By Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam
World: Russian and Israeli sources say the cargo ship Arctic Sea was carrying Russia's most sophisticated air-defense system system, which could protect Iranian facilities from attack.

We Already Have "Public Options" -- And They Work Great

 By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
Health and Wellness: Government programs that shield the elderly and the poorest among us from economic catastrophe are working precisely as they are supposed to.

Life Without Bumblebees? It's Not Just Honeybees That Are Mysteriously Dying

 By Adam Federman, Earth Island Journal
Environment: Not only do bumblebees pollinate about 15 percent of our food crops (valued at $3 billion), they also occupy a critical role as native pollinators.

Stop GOP Hooligans From Stalling Health Reform

 By Byard Duncan, AlterNet
Take Action: Join MoveOn's fight against Joe "You Lie!" Wilson and others who are relying on town hall-style antics to mire progress.
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