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Stories by Joshua Holland

Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.

10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care Battle

Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Posted on Nov 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet

5 Key Fights We Face Against the Insurance Industry in the Push for Better Health Care

There's momentum to repair our fractured health care system -- but activism is desperately needed to keep the process honest.
Posted on Nov 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Former Wall Street Player Reveals the Inside World Behind Shady Bailouts to Bankers

An interview with Prins, former managing director at Goldman Sachs, now a razor-sharp financial muckraker and author of the new book, "It Takes a Pillage."
Posted on Oct 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Is the End Near for the Right-Wing's Vice Grip on U.S. Israeli Policy?

Obama's national security adviser will keynote the inaugural conference of the moderate advocacy group J-Street, an alternative to Washington's hawkish Israel lobby.
Posted on Oct 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet

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

Once a sane advocate and even community-minded organization, the Chamber of Commerce has been captured by the Republican Party.
Posted on Oct 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet

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

Just a few years ago, we wouldn't have known there was a "swine flu."
Posted on Sep 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet

'American Casino': How Our Nation's Financial Sector Became a Massive and Unregulated Gambling Operation

An incredibly powerful new documentary finally lets those who've lived it tell the story -- from the "creative" financiers to the home buyers duped by brokers.
Posted on Sep 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Coital Cephalalgia: Have Sex and Feel Like You're Getting Kicked in the Head

My life has sucked significantly more than yours has over the past two weeks -- here's why.
Posted on Sep 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Town Hall Lunacy Includes Outraged Calls to 'Keep Government Out of Medicare,' When Medicare Is Government

Some can't reconcile what they believe about the propaganda that is fed to them with their own positive experiences with public programs like Medicare.
Posted on Aug 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

You. At a Town Hall Meeting. 5 Questions You Should Ask

Those raucous health-care town halls aren't over yet. That's where you come in.
Posted on Aug 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet

It's Now or Never for a Public Option: Why We Need to Take a Stand Against the Insurance Industry's Greed

We are at a crucial moment in the health care debate -- Obama needs pressure from all of us to keep the public option as part of his agenda.
Posted on Aug 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet

10 Awesome Things That Would Happen If Health Reform Passes

Forget the fearmongering scare tactics of the right, here's how your life will actually be better.
Posted on Aug 14, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Right-Wingers Are Stirring Up Xenophobia to Swiftboat Health Reform

Misleading people is really the only option for those bent on killing the reform movement.
Posted on Aug 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet

How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health Care Debate

If we let these powerful interests get their way, we'll see more outlandish increases in premiums and millions more people being denied care.
Posted on Jul 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Why $10 for a Pack of Cigs Is Good Value

Charging high taxes on smokes is the only way to push people to quit. And I don't want the individual freedom to be suicidally stupid.
Posted on Jul 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Why Is a Liberal Israel Analyst Echoing Neocon Fearmongering on Iran?

MJ Rosenberg buys into the 'Iran as existential threat' frame.
Posted on Jul 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet

We Need Clear Thinking: There Should Be No Clash Between Public Option and Single Payer

The debate among progressive health reformers has been sometimes nasty, but they have more in common than they might think.
Posted on Jul 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Wingnut Congressman Brian Bilbray's Ignorance about the Constitution and Citizenship Is Shocking

On immigration law, and his 'anchor baby' nonsense, Bibray makes Ron Paul look like a constitutional scholar.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Howard Dean: "This Is Ridiculous. We're 60 Years Behind the Times" on Fixing Health Care

Progressive leader and health crusader Dean on what it's going to take to overhaul our health care system.
Posted on Jul 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Got Health Insurance? Fighting for a Public Option Might Just Get You a Raise!

Controlling health care costs isn't just necessary for the health of our economy -- it'd also be likely to boost personal incomes.
Posted on Jun 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet

'Green Shoots' of Recovery? Don't Fall for the Media's Economic Triumphalism

A narrative is emerging that we're seeing the first signs that a recovery is around the corner, but the reality is less encouraging.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset

Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.
Posted on Jun 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory

On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview.
Posted on May 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Are We Going to Let Health Industry Propaganda Derail Obama's Plans for Reform?

Millions of dollars will be poured into deceptive media ads by the health care industry -- will you step up to stop them?
Posted on May 21, 2009, Source: AlterNet

3 Good Reasons (and 1 Bad One) Why I Don't Buy Into Your Conspiracy Theories

Conspiracy theories often pre-empt substantive analysis of the real political structures that shape our society.
Posted on May 18, 2009, Source: AlterNet

No One's Falling for Big Health's Bogus Promise to "Reform"

Corporate Dems are fawning over the industry's "promise" to hold down costs. A broad progressive coalition is pushing for a real solution.
Posted on May 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Michelle Malkin and Michael Savage Use Swine Flu Crisis to Peddle Their Xenophobia

The right-wing pundits who seized on the swine flu to push their anti-immigrant rhetoric are employing an ancient racist tactic.
Posted on Apr 29, 2009, Source: AlterNet

America's Schizoid Pot Culture -- 4 in 10 Have Smoked It, and Millions Are Still Getting Busted

The Obama administration is giving mixed signals on its pot policies despite a tidal shift in social views on legalizing marijuana.
Posted on Apr 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Shocking: Today, Life in the South for Poor Latinos Is Pure Hell!

A new study finds that "legal" and "illegal", "citizen" and "resident," are distinctions without difference for poorer Latinos in today's Deep South.
Posted on Apr 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet

I Married an Illegal Immigrant: A First-Hand Account of How Screwed Up This Country's Rules for Foreigners Are

The one argument in the immigration debate with absolutely no merit is that the system is fine.
Posted on Mar 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Will the Economic Meltdown Push Fixing a Broken Immigration System to the Back Burner?

In his recent address to Congress, Barack Obama didn't mention immigration once -- what does it mean for the prospects for reform?
Posted on Mar 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Dems Introduce Vital Protections for Workers; Corporate America Responds With a Big Lie

There is nothing more terrifying to corporate America than the prospect of dealing with its workforce on an even playing field.
Posted on Mar 11, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Obama Is Serious About Making the Rich Pay Higher Taxes

Barack Obama's first budget proposal fulfills several of the promises he made during the 2008 campaign, but the Corporate Right is poised for a fight.
Posted on Feb 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Will Obama Go After Social Security? My Editor and I Have a Bet

If it were looted, it might produce enough in fat management fees alone to resuscitate Wall Street's ailing financial giants.
Posted on Feb 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Spectacular, Sudden Crash of the Global Economy

In a short period of months, the entire system of global capitalism has screeched to a halt. No one knows what happens next.
Posted on Feb 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Nationalizing the Banks Seems Inevitable: How Bad Does It Have to Get First?

Failure to act decisively over the collapse of our banking system could mire the US in a protracted slump, like Japan's "lost decade" in the '90s.
Posted on Feb 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet

How Economists (and Pundits and Politicians) Helped Steer America Off a Cliff

Dean Baker, one of few economists who warned of the housing market's impending crash, discusses where we should go from here.
Posted on Feb 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet

The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?

Americans are rightfully angry about the economic decline, but with a few small exceptions, quietly so. Why? It depends on whom you ask.
Posted on Feb 3, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Stop Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic and Nationalize the Damn Banks

It's the best possible course to rescue our economy at this point; all the other options would be disastrous.
Posted on Jan 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet

Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State

What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora is historically wrong?
Posted on Jan 28, 2009, Source: AlterNet

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