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Nomi Prins on 'Black Tuesday' and Occupy Wall Street

By Les Leopold / AlterNet

Nomi Prins' new novel is about the 99 percent of us who get screwed by the big boys, and about the kind of courage it will take to reclaim our country.

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How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%

By Frank Schaeffer / AlterNet

Dean Baker on How We Can Make the 'Free Market' Work for the 99%

By Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Fighting for Americans' Right to Dissent: A Review of 'Hell No'

By Mandy Van Deven / AlterNet

"Kill The Messenger": New Book Examines How the Media Has Perpetuated Both Good and Evil

By Gar Alperovitz / AlterNet

“A Lake of Blood and Destruction” – The Voices We Never Hear From America's Wars

Michael Pollan: Americans Cook Less Than Ever, But Love Watching It on TV -- New Book Takes Food Revolution into the Kitchen

Outrageous: David Cay Johnston Explains How Big Corporations Withhold Your Taxes and Then Pocket Them

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Women Should Use Sex to Get Ahead? Controversy Erupts Over "Erotic Capital"

Ida Hartmann / AlterNet

How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers

Ellen Schultz / Portfolio Books

The Meaning and Importance of Dissent

Michael Ratner, Margaret Ratner Kunstler / AlterNet

America's Winter of Discontent: A Review of the New Anthology 'We Are Wisconsin'

Mandy Van Deven / AlterNet

Michael Moore: Why I Became Anti-War

Michael Moore / Hatchett Book Group

Noam Chomsky on the Dangers of American Empire and Why the US Continues to be Bin Laden's Best Ally

Noam Chomsky / TomDispatch.com

Atheism U? A New Elite University Focuses on Spreading Humanism

Jessica Weisberg / Religion Dispatches

Trapped in Economic Hell: Tales from the New Great Depression

Dale Maharidge / University of California Press

Do We Need a Militant Movement to Save the Planet (and Ourselves)?

Tara Lohan / AlterNet

The Surprising History of What Europe's Dictators Thought of the New Deal

Thaddeus Russell / Free Press/Simon and Schuster

Economic Armageddon: Gretchen Morgensen on How Wall Street Broke the Economy

Terrence McNally / AlterNet

'Can a White Man Still Be Elected President?' How Identity Politics Are Creating Public Anxiety and Moral Panic

Gary Younge / Nation Books

Is This the Last Generation That Will Face Opposition to Interracial Marriage?

Elissa Strauss / AlterNet

Should We Launch an All-Out Assault on Car Culture?

Tyler Harbottle / The Tyee

Imagine There's No Countries -- It Isn't Hard to Do: New Book Explores One of Earth's Last 'Non-State' Regions

Javier Sethness / TruthOut.org

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: An Insider Exposes How Palin Is Focused on Riches, Not Governing

Ken Morris / Howard Books

Do Some Circus and Zoo Animals Dream of Freedom and Revenge Against Their Masters? One Author Says Yes

Thaddeus Russell / Reason

Critic Lambasts David Brooks's Failure of Imagination and Literature in His New Book

Gary Greenberg / The Nation

Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite

Bruce E. Levine / Chelsea Green Publishing

Insider: "The Christian Right is Aiming to Destroy All Things Public"

Frank Schaeffer / De Capo Press

GOP Hitman Andrew Breitbart's Confessional Memoir: I Wouldn't Be a Foul, Raging Jerk If I Had Made It in Hollywood

Alexander Zaitchik, Mark Howard / AlterNet

Plastic May Be Horrible For the Environment, But Could We Survive Without It?

Kerry Trueman / AlterNet

Too Much Crazy: Tom Tomorrow on Right-Wing Madness in the Age of Obama

Joshua Holland / AlterNet

Secrets and Wives: A British Atheist Spends Time Among Mormon Polygamists

Sanjiv Bhattacharya / Religion Dispatches

Meet Bart Ehrman: A One-Man God Fraud Squad

Anneli Rufus / AlterNet

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