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Scott Thill, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [211 total comments]
Tired of getting pushed around by faceless big business? Here are 10 ways to push back!
Rich Benjamin, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [130 total comments]
As the Census "time bomb" ticks, fear mounts over a perceived loss of whites' raw power - demographic, social, economic, and political.
Bill Moyers, Howard Zinn, Bill Moyers Journal. December 15, 2009. [104 total comments]
Zinn: "Democracy doesn't come from the top. It comes from the bottom. Democracy is not what governments do. It's what people do."
Darcy Burner, AlterNet. December 16, 2009. [103 total comments]
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.
Greta Christina, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [100 total comments]
Even though the standard winter holidays are supposedly religious, there are ample reasons for atheists to celebrate, too.
AlterNetDecember 19, 2009. [96 total comments]
Have you been missing out on one of AlterNet's most popular authors? Here are 10 of Freston's best works from the year.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. December 18, 2009. [88 total comments]
We face losing everything from 50,000 species a year to the world's best wines. How to put it all in perspective?
Scott Thill, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. [85 total comments]
Aspartame is consumed by over 200 million people in more than 6,000 products -- but how many of us are aware of the health risks?
Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. December 17, 2009. [81 total comments]
"The separation between the finance economy and the real economy is real. This is not some fake idea. You can’t call that class warfare. That’s a fact."
Jill Richardson, AlterNet. December 15, 2009. [78 total comments]
Americans have become so overweight that a large percentage of young people no longer qualify for military service. How did we get here?
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 18, 2009. [76 total comments]
Max Blumenthal asks if the left created its own salvation narrative during the presidential campaign. I think we did.
Ellen Friedrichs, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. [70 total comments]
Many cling to the notion that casual sex must be damaging. Recent research -- and a little historical perspective and common sense -- shows otherwise.
Michael Bader, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. [69 total comments]
The hundreds of media theories that have grown up around the Woods scandal have nothing to do with him and everything to do with us.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. December 18, 2009. [66 total comments]
Harry Reid will do anything to get sixty votes -- which means Lieberman, Nelson, and Snowe can use extortion on behalf of Big Insurance, Big Pharma, the AMA, and abortion foes.
Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. December 17, 2009. [62 total comments]
Escalating his opposition to what remains of the health care legislation, former Gov. Howard Dean has taken more swipes at President Obama.
AlterNetDecember 18, 2009. [57 total comments]
Have you been missing out on one of AlterNet's most popular authors? Here are 10 of Christina's best works from the year.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. December 18, 2009. [55 total comments]
Cornel West dishes on his new memoirs and Obama's clique of 'recycled neo-liberals and recycled neo-Clintonites.'
AlterNetDecember 19, 2009. [55 total comments]
'The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.'
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. [50 total comments]
This is silly stuff.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. [47 total comments]
"Poor Joseph. God is a tough act to follow."
John Nichols, TheNation.com. December 19, 2009. [45 total comments]
Sen. Harry Reid and the Senate Dems aren't winning any friends among the broad base of voters who support reproductive rights.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. [45 total comments]
Politicians' claim that moving detainees to Illinois will create 3,000 jobs is a distraction from an ugly reality; Gitmo is not being closed, it is being moved onto U.S. soil.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 15, 2009. [42 total comments]
Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.
David Sirota, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. [41 total comments]
Dean's attacks on the Lieberman-gutted health insurance "reform" bill are creating the political space for the final version to be better and more progressive.
Paul Krugman, The New York Times. December 16, 2009. [41 total comments]
Are the Dems willing to learn something from the disaster that has overtaken the U.S. economy, and get behind financial reform?
Bill Moyers, Matt Taibbi, Robert Kuttner, Bill Moyers Journal. December 21, 2009. [40 total comments]
Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?
Barbara Koeppel, Consortium News. December 17, 2009. [39 total comments]
As states pay unemployment benefits with bank debit cards, the jobless are seeing their fees add up.
David Edwards, Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. December 17, 2009. [39 total comments]
Dean's call to start from scratch and craft a new health care bill is a cause for frustration for Obama's press secretary and Sen. Rockefeller.
Liliana Segura, AlterNetAlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 18, 2009. [38 total comments]
Don't be depressed about healthcare or the economy; the real threat to our country's future wears leather pants.
Jo Comerford, Tomdispatch.com. December 17, 2009. [36 total comments]
The $30 billion cost of Obama's surge alone would place the US in the top-ten for global military spending, sandwiched between Italy and Saudi Arabia.
David Bacon, The Progressive. December 16, 2009. [34 total comments]
'Sanctions pretend to punish employers but in reality, they punish workers.'
Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. December 17, 2009. [32 total comments]
Cheney and Rumsfeld's script was never supposed to develop like this. Instead of US Big Oil getting the lion's share in Iraq, its top competitors turned out to be big winners.
Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. December 16, 2009. [30 total comments]
Did NJ Republican Chris Christie grant legal protection to neo-nazi radio host Hal Turner for his undercover role in a federal program to "flush out" violent far-right plots?
Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 15, 2009. [30 total comments]
Norris brings his fine political mind to the battle over health reform.
* Staff, WebEcoist. December 15, 2009. [29 total comments]
Don't be fooled. Hummers and McDonald's aren't "green." Neither are fossil fuels or Fox News, for that matter.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 16, 2009. [28 total comments]
Sen. Bernie Sanders has pulled his single-payer amendment from the floor due to lack of support.
Anne Trubek, Miller-McCune.com. December 17, 2009. [28 total comments]
Writing words by hand is a technology that's just too slow for our times, and our minds.
Staff, Media Matters for AmericaAlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. [27 total comments]
There are some surprises here.
Alex Seitz-Wald, Think ProgressAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 16, 2009. [26 total comments]
Just when you thought he couldn't reach a new low...
Denver Nicks, AlterNet. December 17, 2009. [25 total comments]
Profits and bonuses are back on the Street, but the prosperity hasn't filtered down past the service economy.
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