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10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You

10 Ways to Screw Over the Corporate Jackals Who've Been Screwing You

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!

Pockets of White America Are in the Throes of an Existential Crisis

Pockets of White America Are in the Throes of an Existential Crisis

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.

Howard Zinn and Bill Moyers on Right-Wing Demagogues and Progressive Resistance

Howard Zinn and Bill Moyers on Right-Wing Demagogues and Progressive Resistance

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."

Health-Care Bill After Compromise with Lieberman: Worse Than Nothing

Health-Care Bill After Compromise with Lieberman: Worse Than Nothing

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.

7 Reasons for Atheists to Celebrate the Holidays

7 Reasons for Atheists to Celebrate the Holidays

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.

Quitting Meat Is at the Heart of 2009's Health Zeitgeist, And Author Kathy Freston Is Leading the Debate

Quitting Meat Is at the Heart of 2009's Health Zeitgeist, And Author Kathy Freston Is Leading the Debate

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.

8 Things We Love That Climate Change Will Force Us to Kiss Good-Bye

8 Things We Love That Climate Change Will Force Us to Kiss Good-Bye

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?

Does Aspartame Cause Tumors and Pose Cancer Risks? The Jury Is Still Out

Does Aspartame Cause Tumors and Pose Cancer Risks? The Jury Is Still Out

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?

Kucinich: 'Class War Is Over, Working People Lost'

Kucinich: 'Class War Is Over, Working People Lost'

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."

Too Fat to Serve: How Our Unhealthy Food System Is Undermining the Military

Too Fat to Serve: How Our Unhealthy Food System Is Undermining the Military

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?

Did We Expect Too Much From Obama?

Did We Expect Too Much From Obama?

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.

Guess What? Casual Sex Won't Make You Go Insane

Guess What? Casual Sex Won't Make You Go Insane

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.

Everything You Think About Tiger Woods is Wrong, So Shut the F*** Up!

Everything You Think About Tiger Woods is Wrong, So Shut the F*** Up!

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.

And They'll Call This Health-Care Reform: How Three Senators Are Extorting You For Their Big-Time Buddies

And They'll Call This Health-Care Reform: How Three Senators Are Extorting You For Their Big-Time Buddies

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.

Howard Dean: I Won’t

Howard Dean: I Won’t "Vigorously" Support Obama's Re-election

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.

Atheism Was one of the Year's Hottest Topics, and Greta Christina Caught the Wave as Well as Anyone

Atheism Was one of the Year's Hottest Topics, and Greta Christina Caught the Wave as Well as Anyone

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.

Always Controversial Cornel West Disses Obama, Survives Cancer and Almost Spent His Life in Prison

Always Controversial Cornel West Disses Obama, Survives Cancer and Almost Spent His Life in Prison

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.'

Copenhagen Talks End With Agreement, But No Binding Deal: So, How Screwed Are We?

Copenhagen Talks End With Agreement, But No Binding Deal: So, How Screwed Are We?

AlterNetDecember 19, 2009. [55 total comments]
'The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.'

Tea Party More Popular than Dems, Repubs... and Other Utterly Meaningless News

Tea Party More Popular than Dems, Repubs... and Other Utterly Meaningless News

Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. [50 total comments]
This is silly stuff.

God's Divine Sperm? Lib Church Shakes Up Story of Jesus' Birth

God's Divine Sperm? Lib Church Shakes Up Story of Jesus' Birth

Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. [47 total comments]
"Poor Joseph. God is a tough act to follow."

Health Care Reform Is Not Reform If It Denies Women Coverage

Health Care Reform Is Not Reform If It Denies Women Coverage

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.

Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It

Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It

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.

Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be

Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be

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.

Howard Dean Is a Genuine Hero: Taking on Corporate 'Centrists' Like Lieberman

Howard Dean Is a Genuine Hero: Taking on Corporate 'Centrists' Like Lieberman

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.

Krugman: It Seems Like Washington Wants Another Financial Disaster

Krugman: It Seems Like Washington Wants Another Financial Disaster

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?

Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?

Matt Taibbi, Bill Moyers and Robert Kuttner: Why Can't Democrats Do Anything Right?

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?

Banks Get into the Unemployment Biz, and Quickly Start the Rip-offs

Banks Get into the Unemployment Biz, and Quickly Start the Rip-offs

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.

Howard Dean Locks Horns with White House and Dem Senators After Call to 'Kill' Health Compromise

Howard Dean Locks Horns with White House and Dem Senators After Call to 'Kill' Health Compromise

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.

Peggy Noonan Outdoes Herself, Blames America's Problems on

Peggy Noonan Outdoes Herself, Blames America's Problems on "Adam Lamberts" of the World

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.

$57,077.60 -- That's What We're Paying Each Minute for the Occupation of Afghanistan

$57,077.60 -- That's What We're Paying Each Minute for the Occupation of Afghanistan

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.

The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's

The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement

David Bacon, The Progressive. December 16, 2009. [34 total comments]
'Sanctions pretend to punish employers but in reality, they punish workers.'

Neocons Must Be Pissed; China and Russia Are Getting the Sweet Oil Deals in Iraq

Neocons Must Be Pissed; China and Russia Are Getting the Sweet Oil Deals in Iraq

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.

Meet the FBI Operative Who Threatened My Life, and the Gov.-Elect Who May Have Helped Him

Meet the FBI Operative Who Threatened My Life, and the Gov.-Elect Who May Have Helped Him

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?

Chuck Norris: Health Reform = Aborted Jesus

Chuck Norris: Health Reform = Aborted Jesus

Tana Ganeva, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 15, 2009. [30 total comments]
Norris brings his fine political mind to the battle over health reform.

12 Hilarious Corporate Attempts to Look Green

12 Hilarious Corporate Attempts to Look Green

* 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.

Sanders Pulls Single-Payer Amendment, Paves Way For Liebercare

Sanders Pulls Single-Payer Amendment, Paves Way For Liebercare

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.

Is Handwriting Going the Way of the Dodo?

Is Handwriting Going the Way of the Dodo?

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.

Check Out Who's Still Advertising on Glenn Beck's Show

Check Out Who's Still Advertising on Glenn Beck's Show

Staff, Media Matters for AmericaAlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009. [27 total comments]
There are some surprises here.

Glenn Beck Defends Founding Fathers' Decision to Count African-Americans as Three-Fifths of a Person

Glenn Beck Defends Founding Fathers' Decision to Count African-Americans as Three-Fifths of a Person

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...

In the Shadow of Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Is Far from Recovery

In the Shadow of Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Is Far from Recovery

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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