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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

How America Holds Court: The Seedy Dealings Underpinning Our Legal System

 By Amy Bach, Metropolitan Books
Rights and Liberties: It's getting harder and harder to exercise your legal rights if you aren't well to do. Where's the justice in that?

Obama's Misguided War Speech Shouldn't Be the Last Word on Afghanistan

By John Nichols, The Nation
World: Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it's time for Congress to debate the Obama's war plan.

The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada

 By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Environment: The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.

A Humanitarian Disaster in the Making Along the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline -- Who's Watching?

 By Brendan Schwartz, Valery Nodem, AlterNet
World: The discovery of oil in Chad was supposed to allieviate poverty and human suffering, but it's only enriched Western Oil companies and the local dictators.

The Recession Is Taking a Bite Out of Meat Consumption

 By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?

Waiting with 45,000 People Afraid of Losing Their Homes -- Ground Zero in America's Mortgage Meltdown

 By Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com
Politics: The American home-owner's dream is on life support: millions are suffering disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates.

Let's Get Rolling on Unemployment -- We Need a Direct Govt. Jobs Program

 By Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: At a time when unemployment is expected to exceed 10 percent for the next several months, we should be talking about direct job funding by the government.

Passive Solar Technique: Let Nature Heat Your Home

 By James Kachadorian, Chelsea Green Publishing
Environment: Solar saves money, benefits the planet and makes for a comfortable house that requires little in the name of back-up fuel.

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.
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