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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal
Environment: A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.

What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig
Media and Technology: Our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd, while the course of human history is changing. Those who choose reality over fantasy are derided as pessimists.

Michael Moore: An Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan

By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com
World: You still have the opportunity to save thousands of lives and live up to your campaign promises. Don't become the next war president, Mr. Obama.

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border; Guards Demand Notes For Speaking Event

By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!
World: Border guards held Goodman and her colleagues for an hour and a half, searching their belongings and telling them they could only stay in the country for two days.

Former Member of Afghan Parliament: Obama, We Don't Want a Troop Surge in Our Country

By Malalai Joya, Comment Is Free
World: If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people's pain.

Christian Cowards: Why Don't Evangelical Leaders Condemn the Hate Spouted by Right-Wingers?

By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet
Since when does loving Jesus mean you have to hate our President? Prominent Christians should denounce the violently aggressive language right-wingers use to tear down Obama.

Activists Protest Natural Resources Defense Council for Collaborating With Polluters

By Joseph Huff-Hannon, Huffington Post
Politics: The protestors say that the environmental advocacy group has aligned itself with corporate interests whose goals for reducing emissions are far too limited.

My Baby Would Have Died Under the Stupak Amendment

By Tiffany Campbell, RH Reality Check
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The selective termination that saved my baby's life would not be covered under the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.

Monday, November 30th, 2009

How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy

By Raj Patel, Picador Press
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The worship of free markets set off the economic meltdown.

The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
DrugReporter: The government keeps pushing the BS that pot is addictive and has serious health consequences. And no wonder -- lying about pot is a lucrative business.

30,000 More Troops? Obama Gives Orders For New Afghan Strategy

Agence France Presse Obama has already ordered the new strategy implemented and is informing the leaders of Russia, Britain and France of his plans.

This Is George Bush's Recession: Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About That?

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: If the partisan tables were turned, the GOP would waste no time laying the blame on Democrats. We need to do the same to build political capital for key fights ahead.

Cult of Conservative Christian GOPers Backs Death Penalty for Gays With HIV

By Stephen Webster, Raw Story
Uganda is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. And a secretive group of American politicians appears to be a driving force behind the law.

10 Signs Vegetarianism Is Catching On

By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
Health and Wellness: Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.

Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of African-American Mothers?

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation
Rights and Liberties: With Michelle Obama in the White House, I expected a resurgence of the Claire Huxtable stereotype. Instead, hideous depictions of abusive, irresponsible black moms are everywhere.

A Smart Way to Battle Drug Addiction and Save Lives: Harm Reduction

By Melinda Tuhus, In These Times
DrugReporter: Harm reduction is a public health approach that stresses pragmatic solutions to social ills like substance abuse.

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads – and Right-Wingers are Profiting From Their Pain

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: The economic meltdown has hit non-college grads much harder than the educated. And conservatives are very good at exploiting their anger and unease.

Our Lives Are Filled With Worthless Crap That's Destroying the Earth: Here's What You Can Do

By Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, In These Times
Environment: The way to lower the quantity of energy required to make and distribute short-lived consumer goods is to make them durable, repairable and upgradable.

Rabid Right-Wing Media Mogul Building a News Empire

By Jamison Foser, Media Matters for America
Media and Technology: If you like what Rupert Murdoch has done for the national discourse, you'll love what Philip Anschutz is trying to do in your hometown.

Lou Dobbs, Looking at Public Office, Says He's in Favor of Policy He Used to Spin as "Shamnesty for Illegals"

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty".

Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks

By Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha
Movie Mix: Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die.

"You Like That Baby, You Like That?": Has Porn Made Men Bad at Sex?

By Cord Jefferson, Nerve.com
Sex and Relationships: Porn is entertainment, not a how-to manual. If men want to know what really turns women on, hetero porn is the last place they should look.

How One Journalist Learned About Modern Union-Busting the Hard Way

By Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Sara Steffens thought that labor negotiations were civilized affairs ... until her newsroom became a battlefield.

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food

By Yasha Levine, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.

Atheism and Diversity: Is It Wrong For Atheists To Convert Believers?

By Greta Christina, AlterNet
Belief: Atheism isn't an attack on diversity, it's a defense of reality.

Lou Dobbs, Looking at Public Office, Says He's in Favor of Policy He Used to Spin as "Shamnesty for Illegals"

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty".

White House's Ties to Health Care Industry Deeper Than Visitor Records Show

By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet
Politics: The White House released records cataloguing 575 visits by health care industry heavyweights since Jan. 20. The ties run deep.

Is Obama Following in the Footsteps of Bill Clinton?

By Jeff Cohen, AlterNet
World: Obama's shown a Clinton-like willingness to roll over progressives to enact corrupt legislation and compromise for the votes of Republicans.

The Battle of Durban II: New Film Brings Dose of Sanity to Debate Over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Brian White, Gotcha Movies
World: It's a great feat to bring an even view to international politics. The Battle of Durbin II does just that.

Citing "National Defense Needs," Obama Administration Says it Won't Sign Ban on Land Mines

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
World: Stephen Goose, director of Human Rights Watch's arms division, called the decision to keep the Bush-era policy "an appalling decision."

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

47,000 Women Could Die As a Result of the New Mammogram Guidelines

By George Lakoff, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.

Is Belief in God Hurting America?

By David Villano, Miller-McCune.com
Belief: According to a new study, prosperity is highest in countries that practice religion the least.

Is Amazon.com Screwing You Over?

By Steve Brown, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Amazon is charging -- and pocketing -- exorbitant shipping and handling fees, and someone somewhere is getting rich from it.

Black Teacher May Get 15 Years in Prison for Cutting in Line at Wal-Mart

By Devona Walker, The Loop
Rights and Liberties: This is not how our criminal justice system is supposed to operate.

Drink Some Booze, Smoke a Joint and Relax: How to Have a Hedonistic Thanksgiving

By Ben Reininga, Nerve.com
Thanksgiving is a holiday about three things: eating, drinking, and fun. If you haven't realized that yet, you're doing it wrong. Here's how to do it right.

The Vampire Banks Are Back: Will There Ever Be Meaningful Financial Reform?

By Dean Baker, CounterPunch
Politics: The halls of Congress are infected with financial industry lobbyists looking to block necessary changes to our broken financial system.

Conservative "Purity Test" Too Right Wing for Ronald Reagan

By John Nichols, The Nation
Rigid conservatives in the RNC want to establish a purity test for the party's candidates. Guess what? Reagan the conservative hero would have failed most of the criteria.

What Nidal Hasan, Timothy McVeigh, and the Beltway Sniper Have in Common: All Were Scarred by Pointless U.S. Wars

By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet
World: Some of the most notorious massacres of the past 15 years have been committed by veterans whose brains have been severely damaged from trauma or exposure to toxic chemicals.

Don't Be Scared of Food: Are We Being Needlessly Hysterical About Food Safety?

By David E. Gumpert, Chelsea Green Publishing
Food: Despite all the media hype, there's little to actually suggest we're facing a major food safety crisis.

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation
World: An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it.

Why Can't We Look Away From Sarah Palin?

By Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
Reproductive Justice and Gender: She's an incompetent has-been. Yet she keeps getting our attention. Is it that she embodies a set of contradictions that many women grapple with?

10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving

By Sarah Newman, Takepart
Food: Here's what you need to know, from tips on a meatless meal to options for a humanely raised turkey to having diversity on your actual dinner table.

Is the House's Health Bill Really Worse than Nothing?

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Politics: Some progressive opponents of the health care bill say it's so bad, we may as well drop it. That analysis ignores the millions of Americans who stand to get coverage.

When Sex Hurts, and No One Can Tell You Why: The Mysterious Condition Called Vulvodynia

By Carey Purcell, AlterNet
Sex and Relationships: Imagine a choice between no intercourse or sex with unbearable pain. Then imagine that no doctor knows how to fix it. That's the world occupied by women with vulvodynia.

Why the New Breast Cancer Guidelines Are Racist

By Devona Walker, The Loop
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Black women get breast cancer at younger ages, but the new breast-cancer guidelines entirely ignore that fact. This is the very definition of institutionalized racism.

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The War on Weed: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless -- The Monumentally Stupid Drug War Is Not

By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
DrugReporter: The war on marijuana is insane; our officials keep sacrificing tax dollars, lives, civil liberties, and their own credibility in this misguided and losing effort.

Just When You Thought It Was Safe: 3 Potential Obstacles to Health-Care Reform

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
Politics: Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.

Why Is Malcolm Gladwell So Successful?

By Maureen Tkacik, The Nation
Good writing succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives

By Mark Ames, AlterNet
Rights and Liberties: That Maj. Hasan tried to get a military discharge before the massacre is largely being erased -- we're supposed to keep focusing on the Muslim part.

Why Do Conservatives Love Sarah Palin? Because She Never Stops Whining

By Matt Taibbi, True/Slant
Sarah Palin constantly complains about the imaginary injustices done to her person. And our country loves whiners.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World

By Anis Shivani, In These Times
Many people are not getting by. The human species faces dire ecological threats. Pretending everything will be OK helped get us into this mess, and it won't get us out.

Will There Be Justice for the Victims of El Salvador's Jesuit Massacre?

By Pamela Merchant, AlterNet
World: El Salvador's President Funes has affirmed his commitment to seeking the full truth of the military's role in the massacre.

5 Bad Things That Immediately Happen to Your Body When You Eat Sugary Junk

By Vicki Santillano, Divine Caroline
Sugary food tastes great going down, but the effects it has on our insides are far less appetizing.

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Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope

What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters

Michael Moore: An Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan

Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border; Guards Demand Notes For Speaking Event

Former Member of Afghan Parliament: Obama, We Don't Want a Troop Surge in Our Country

Christian Cowards: Why Don't Evangelical Leaders Condemn the Hate Spouted by Right-Wingers?

Activists Protest Natural Resources Defense Council for Collaborating With Polluters

My Baby Would Have Died Under the Stupak Amendment

How Free-Market Delusions Destroyed the Economy

The Feds Are Addicted to Pot -- Even If You Aren't

30,000 More Troops? Obama Gives Orders For New Afghan Strategy

This Is George Bush's Recession: Why Doesn't Anybody Talk About That?

Cult of Conservative Christian GOPers Backs Death Penalty for Gays With HIV

10 Signs Vegetarianism Is Catching On

Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of African-American Mothers?

A Smart Way to Battle Drug Addiction and Save Lives: Harm Reduction

Shocking: High School Grads Twice As Likely To Be Jobless Than College Grads – and Right-Wingers are Profiting From Their Pain

Our Lives Are Filled With Worthless Crap That's Destroying the Earth: Here's What You Can Do

Rabid Right-Wing Media Mogul Building a News Empire

Lou Dobbs, Looking at Public Office, Says He's in Favor of Policy He Used to Spin as "Shamnesty for Illegals"

Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks

"You Like That Baby, You Like That?": Has Porn Made Men Bad at Sex?

How One Journalist Learned About Modern Union-Busting the Hard Way

Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food

Atheism and Diversity: Is It Wrong For Atheists To Convert Believers?

Lou Dobbs, Looking at Public Office, Says He's in Favor of Policy He Used to Spin as "Shamnesty for Illegals"

White House's Ties to Health Care Industry Deeper Than Visitor Records Show

Is Obama Following in the Footsteps of Bill Clinton?

The Battle of Durban II: New Film Brings Dose of Sanity to Debate Over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Citing "National Defense Needs," Obama Administration Says it Won't Sign Ban on Land Mines

47,000 Women Could Die As a Result of the New Mammogram Guidelines

Is Belief in God Hurting America?

Is Amazon.com Screwing You Over?

Black Teacher May Get 15 Years in Prison for Cutting in Line at Wal-Mart

Drink Some Booze, Smoke a Joint and Relax: How to Have a Hedonistic Thanksgiving

The Vampire Banks Are Back: Will There Ever Be Meaningful Financial Reform?

Conservative "Purity Test" Too Right Wing for Ronald Reagan

What Nidal Hasan, Timothy McVeigh, and the Beltway Sniper Have in Common: All Were Scarred by Pointless U.S. Wars

Don't Be Scared of Food: Are We Being Needlessly Hysterical About Food Safety?

Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed

Why Can't We Look Away From Sarah Palin?

10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving

Is the House's Health Bill Really Worse than Nothing?

When Sex Hurts, and No One Can Tell You Why: The Mysterious Condition Called Vulvodynia

Why the New Breast Cancer Guidelines Are Racist

The War on Weed: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless -- The Monumentally Stupid Drug War Is Not

Just When You Thought It Was Safe: 3 Potential Obstacles to Health-Care Reform

Why Is Malcolm Gladwell So Successful?

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives

Why Do Conservatives Love Sarah Palin? Because She Never Stops Whining

Barbara Ehrenreich: Our Maniacal Optimism Is Ruining the World

Will There Be Justice for the Victims of El Salvador's Jesuit Massacre?

5 Bad Things That Immediately Happen to Your Body When You Eat Sugary Junk