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Rights and Liberties
Human rights and civil liberties.
"How Does Somebody Have a Baby in Jail Without Anybody Noticing?" The Awful Plight of Pregnant Prisoners
Rachel Roth, The Nation
The lack of common sense and compassion with which imprisoned pregnant women are treated is chilling.

Environment
From climate change to medical news.
Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.

Critical perspectives on our media-driven world
Why We're Fascinated by the Paranormal, Masonic Myths and Secret Societies
Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
By making paranoia part of pop culture, writers like Dan Brown have made a fortune. Then again, maybe he belongs to a secret cabal.

DrugReporter
News from the front lines of the drug war.
Former Police Chief Norm Stamper: 'Let's Not Stop at Marijuana Legalization'
Norm Stamper, AlterNet
A new poll shows that most Americans are ready to legalize marijuana, but not drugs like cocaine or heroin. A 34-year police vet says it's time to legalize them all.

Movie Mix
Home of The Alternative Movie Awards.
Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman's Invictus Film Release Kicks Off New Campaign For Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Linda Milazzo, AlterNet
The launch of Invictus will hopefully set of a wave of renewed interest in a proposal to recognize and protect the rights of humanity.
Disney Apocalypse: Why 2012 Sucks
Alexander Zaitchik, Killing the Buddha

The Yes Men: Pranksters Out to Fix the World
Mark Engler, Foreign Policy in Focus

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

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace
Special coverage of labor and the workplace.
Congress's Attempt at Financial Reform Is Very Weak Broth
Zach Carter, Media Consortium
The latest efforts to reform Wall Street don't away with too-big-to-fail banks, and that's a big problem -- here's what progressives are saying about it.

Updates on food justice, the locavore movement and fresh organic veggies!
Too Fat to Serve: How Our Unhealthy Food System Is Undermining the Military
Jill Richardson, AlterNet
Americans have become so overweight that a large percentage of young people no longer qualify for military service. How did we get here?

Health & Wellness
From health care policy to fitness and nutrition.
Right-Wing "Die-In" Health-Care Protest Tossed in Unmarked Grave
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet
A promised "die-in" protest by right-wingers opposed to health-care reform failed to materialize on Capitol Hill; Dick Armey's speech at National Press Club canceled.

The latest headlines on immigration issues.
The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement
David Bacon, The Progressive
'Sanctions pretend to punish employers but in reality, they punish workers.'
Why Serious Immigration Reform Is Inevitable
Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact

Fighting a Community's Fear with Hard Information
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media

Politics the AlterNet way
Health-Care Bill After Compromise with Lieberman: Worse Than Nothing
Darcy Burner, AlterNet
Thanks to Joe Lieberman, the Senate health-care bill -- now with no public option or Medicare buy-in -- leaves progressives no choice but to kill it.

Reproductive Justice and Gender
Coverage concerning women's rights, reproductive health and education, gender, race, sexuality and more.
Can Boob Jobs Serve the Public Good?
Alexandra Suich, The Nation
A tax on plastic surgery may generate $6 billion in ten years. But feminist groups oppose it. Why?

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.
Al Gore: A Billion People's Water at Risk From Melting Ice
AFP
At UN climate talks Monday, he warned that record melting of Polar and Himalayan ice could deprive deprive more than a billion people of access to clean water.

World News
The 9 Surges of Obama's War
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com
The troop surge is only one part of the escalation of the Afghanistan war. Here are 8 more signs of how fully the President has committed us.
Explosions and Fraught Negotiations Show Iraq Struggling to Emerge From U.S. Shadow
Abeer Mohammed, Neil Arun, Institute for War and Peace Reporting

Does Obama's Road to Re-Election Run Through Kabul?
Christian Parenti, The Nation