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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. |
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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. |
Is Obama's Latest Agriculture Nominee a Textbook Pesticide-Pusher? Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones World's Biggest Polluters Strike a Deal: U.S. and China Agree to Comprehensive Clean Energy and Climate Plan Joseph Romm, Climate Progress |
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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. |
Is Right-Wing Media Hustler Trying to "Blackmail" Obama's Attorney General over ACORN Videos? David Edwards, Muriel Kane, Raw Story Maddow: Anti-Muslim 'McCarthyism' Making Us Less Safe David Edwards, Raw Story |
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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. |
When It’s Crunch Time at College, Students Turn to Adderall Erik Hayden, Miller-McCune.com In Historic Shift, the American Medical Association Sees Value in Marijuana Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle |
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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. |
Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie (and So Must You)! Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post Michael Moore's 'Capitalism' Flick Rips into Crimes of Wall Street Xan Brooks, The Guardian |
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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. |
The Top One Reason Religion Is Harmful Greta Christina, AlterNet Introducing ChristianChirp, the Evangelical Right's Alternative to Twitter Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet |
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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. |
15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams David DeGraw, Amped Status Naomi Klein: 'No Logo' Revisited Naomi Klein, Picador Press |
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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. |
The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare Tara Lohan, AlterNet 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food Robyn O'Brien, AlterNet |
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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. |
When Sex Hurts, and No One Can Tell You Why: The Mysterious Condition Called Vulvodynia Carey Purcell, AlterNet Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs Christina Jewett and Sam Roe, ProPublica |
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The latest headlines on immigration issues. |
What Denying Unauthorized Immigrants Health Insurance Will Cost You AlterNet Call it a "nativist tax." |
Dobbs' Resignation Was Long Overdue Janet Murguía, AlterNet Organizers Fire up Grassroots for Immigration Reform Fight Ahead Marcelo Ballve, AlterNet |
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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. |
New Right-Wing Craze: Using Bible Quote to Pray That Obama’s 'Days Be Few' Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Anti-Abortion Group to Protest Palin Stephanie Mencimer, Mother Jones Online |
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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? |
Why the New Breast Cancer Guidelines Are Racist Devona Walker, The Loop Hey Guys, Don't Want Kids? A Vasectomy Is Probably the Way to Go Anna Clark, RH Reality Check |
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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. |
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. |
How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply Yasha Levine, AlterNet Is California's New Water Legislation Better Than Nothing? Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute |
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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. |
Did American Commandos Slaughter Afghan Civilians in Bala Murghab? Residents Say Yes. Mustafa Saber, Institute for War and Peace Reporting Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed Jeremy Scahill, The Nation |
