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Rights and Liberties
Human rights and civil liberties.
Obama Quietly Backs Renewing Patriot Act Surveillance Provisions
Willam Fisher, IPS News
Three contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them.

Environment
From climate change to medical news.
20 Weird, Crazy Ideas for Helping the Earth
WebEcoist
Many ideas for stemming environmental catastrophe have turned out to be impossible, dangerous, or just … ridiculous.

Critical perspectives on our media-driven world
The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives
Mark Ames, AlterNet
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.

DrugReporter
News from the front lines of the drug war.
The War on Weed: Marijuana Is Basically Harmless -- The Monumentally Stupid Drug War Is Not
Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown
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.

Movie Mix
Home of The Alternative Movie Awards.
The Yes Men: Pranksters Out to Fix the World
Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus
The Yes Men pose as spokespeople for major companies or bodies like the World Trade Organization, and give presentations that highlight the logic of corporate greed.

Stories on religion and atheism.
What if People Actually Treated Religion as Just a Metaphor (Like Trekkies and Secular Jews)?
Greta Christina, AlterNet
It's possible to keep the good parts of religion -- like the music, rituals and pageantry -- and get rid of the sex-hating dogma, the belief in god and other troublesome aspects.

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace
Special coverage of labor and the workplace.
Labor Against the War Shifting Sights to Afghanistan Occupation
Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes
Because of domestic issues like health care reform, many unions have remained silent about Afghanistan. That's about to change.

Updates on food justice, the locavore movement and fresh organic veggies!
10 Tips for a Sustainable Thanksgiving
Sarah Newman, Takepart
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.

Health & Wellness
From health care policy to fitness and nutrition.
Is the House's Health Bill Really Worse than Nothing?
Joshua Holland, AlterNet
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.

The latest headlines on immigration issues.

Politics the AlterNet way
Just When You Thought It Was Safe: 3 Potential Obstacles to Health-Care Reform
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
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.

Reproductive Justice and Gender
Coverage concerning women's rights, reproductive health and education, gender, race, sexuality and more.
Why Can't We Look Away From Sarah Palin?
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet
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?

The hottest action campaigns this side of the Atlantic
G-20 Meetings: Nothing Much Happened in the Suites, and There Was Too Much Punch in the Streets
Laura Flanders, GRITtv
Underrepresented booming countries may get a bigger voice in global finance. Nice. But under-represented people? They got arrested.

Water
Coverage concerning the global water crisis, including public water protection, conservation, pollution, bottled water, drought and dams.
Poseidon's Financial Shell Game: Why Is a Private Desalination Plant Asking for Public Money?
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute
After years of claiming that they needed no public support to build this plant, this claim has finally been proven false.

World News
Obama Will Announce 34,000-Troop Escalation in Afghanistan 'Within Days'
Agence France Presse
Obama faces a U.S. public sharply divided on the war and calls from some Democratic allies to set a flexible timetable for withdrawal.