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Human rights and civil liberties. |
Rachel Maddow Demolishes Therapist Who Claims He Can Make Her Straight AlterNet Richard Cohen claims his therapy can turn gay people straight -- an absurd theory debunked by all national psychological associations. |
The Swiss Minaret Ban: What Are They Really Trying to Outlaw? Laila Lalami, The Nation Homeland Security Embarks on Big Brother Programs to Read Our Minds and Emotions Liliana Segura, AlterNet |
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From climate change to medical news. |
12 Crazy Futuristic Water Buildings That May Help Humans Survive Climate Change Catastrophe * Staff, WebEcoist Twelve prototype habitats are making a convincing argument for mankind's offshore living. |
Copenhagen Won't Be Enough -- Only a 'Human Movement' Can Save Civilization from the Climate Crisis Fred Branfman, Sacramento News & Review Burn a Tree to Save the Planet? The Crazy Logic Behind Biomass Joshua Frank, AlterNet |
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Critical perspectives on our media-driven world |
10 Biggest Sports Sex Scandals of All Time: How Does Tiger Woods Rate? David Rosen, CounterPunch Woods' sex scandal is the latest battleground for a media debate over moral order -- here are 10 others that captivated the press and public. |
Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection Linda Milazzo, AlterNet The Money Behind Moon's Washington Times Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org |
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News from the front lines of the drug war. |
DEA Forced to Scrub Misleading Info on the American Medical Association's Position on Marijuana Charmie Gholson, AlterNet Activists get the DEA to remove obsolete information from its website claiming that the American Medical Association (AMA) still opposes medical marijuana |
The Secret to Legal Marijuana? Women Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet 10 Signs the Failed Drug War Is Finally Ending Tony Newman, AlterNet |
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Home of The Alternative Movie Awards. |
Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha Even by the popsicle-stick standards of its genre, the disaster movie 2012 is so dumb you actually want everyone to die. |
The Yes Men: Pranksters Out to Fix the World Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)! Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post |
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Stories on religion and atheism. |
Hot, Steamy Mormons: Are the Latter Day Saints Getting Sexy? Liz Langley, AlterNet Calendars and videos featuring scantily clad Mormons are helping redefine images of the Latter Day Saints -- but not everyone in the Church is happy. |
How the Religious Right Stole Christmas Sandhya Bathija, Church and State Do Atheists Have God All Wrong? Troy Jollimore, Truthdig |
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Special coverage of labor and the workplace. |
The Reason for 15 Million Unemployed: Poor Thinking at the Top Dean Baker, TruthOut.org It is absolutely unacceptable to have 15 million people unemployed just because the people who call the shots are too dumb to figure out how to get them back to work. |
Meet the Billionaire Brothers Funding the Right-Wing War on Obama Think Progress How Hyper-Capitalism May Hobble the Copenhagen Summit Walden Bello, Foreign Policy in Focus |
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Updates on food justice, the locavore movement and fresh organic veggies! |
The 6 Weirdest, Scariest Processed Foods Brad Reed, AlterNet Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding food of nutrients. That dream is closer to reality than ever. |
Author Jonathan Safran Foer on Hunting, PETA, and Disagreeing with Michael Pollan Kiera Butler, Mother Jones Righteous Porkchop: Vegetarian Rancher Explains How to Raise Animals the Right Way and the Ills of Factory Farms Tara Lohan, AlterNet |
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From health care policy to fitness and nutrition. |
Pentagon's Advice to Traumatized Veterans: Think Happy Thoughts! Penny Coleman, AlterNet Hey, all you quitters and whiners: If it’s bad and it hurts, you have to try harder, have faith, and above all, think positive! |
Senate Passes Compromised Health Care Reform -- Will Progressive Dems Support the Final Bill? John Nichols, TheNation.com The Public Option That Isn't Public At All James Ridgeway, Mother Jones Online |
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The latest headlines on immigration issues. |
Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Groups Are Polluting the Health Care Debate Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050 Many nativist advocacy groups are twisting the facts about immigrants' access to health care. |
Studies Show Latinos Are Climbing the Socio-Economic Ladder of Success Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact Italy's Media Wrestle With Immigrant-Bashing Sandip Roy, New America Media |
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Politics the AlterNet way |
To the Hope and Change Crowd -- How's It Working Out for You? Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com Obama promised change -- and sure enough, things are changing for the worse. |
Has the GOP Collapse Begun? Hypothetical "Tea Party" Outpolls Republicans Adele M. Stan, AlterNet Are Liberals Pathetic? Chris Hedges, Truthdig |
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Coverage concerning women's rights, reproductive health and education, gender, race, sexuality and more. |
Why Is the Federal Government Supporting Evangelism? Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check Why does Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, which teaches students to be "Champions for Christ," get tax-exempt status? |
What Happened When an Anti-Choice Catholic Woman Needed an Abortion at Dr. Tiller's Clinic Amanda Mueller, TruthOut.org Going Undercover in the Crazy, Tragic World of Christian Gay-Conversion Therapy Sena Christian, AlterNet |
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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. |
Activists, Big Business Converge on G20 Meeting Jeb Sprague, IPS News Stop GOP Hooligans From Stalling Health Reform Byard Duncan, AlterNet |
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Coverage concerning the global water crisis, including public water protection, conservation, pollution, bottled water, drought and dams. |
What the Frack? Poisoning our Water in the Name of Energy Profits Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute An estimated 77 billion barrels of contaminated water were generated worldwide in 2000 by oil and gas operations. In recent years this volume has increased. |
Meet Stewart Resnick, Corporate Farming Billionaire and One-Man Environmental Wrecking Crew Lance Williams, Center for Investigative Reporting Melting Himalayan Glaciers Threaten 1.3 Billion Asians AFP |
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World News |
Obama Far Outdoes Bush in Escalating War -- The Numbers Will Surprise You David DeGraw, Amped Status Increasing numbers of deployed soldiers, mercenaries and drones all add up to Obama being more of a war president than Bush, in terms of hard numbers. |
Is Erik Prince Threatening the U.S. Government? Jeremy Scahill, The Nation At Least 127 Dead in Baghdad Bombings Agence France Presse |
