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Mark Ames, AlterNet. November 6, 2009. [418 total comments]
That alleged killer Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan is a Muslim is not enough to explain the attacks.
Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. November 4, 2009. [273 total comments]
Researchers looking at beliefs about al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein have made some surprising discoveries about why peopl
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. November 3, 2009. [238 total comments]
The most aggressive members of the "New Atheism" movement have quite a bit in common with religious extremists like Pat Robertson and Ted Haggard.
Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk, Comment Is Free. November 9, 2009. [229 total comments]
Civility has its uses, but atheists should not be afraid to mock faith to undermine religious power.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com. November 4, 2009. [226 total comments]
Too much faith in private enterprise has left us open to a flu epidemic.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 7, 2009. [204 total comments]
Wild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. November 9, 2009. [139 total comments]
The economic crisis revealed late-capitalism's central offense: Human beings are being transparently treated if they were mere transactions. And they're going postal over it.
Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. November 3, 2009. [117 total comments]
We've been reduced to "human assets" in a relentless economic machine. And we can't even complain: appearing cheerful is vital when all of life is monitored by an employer.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. [116 total comments]
If the economic crisis taught us anything, it's that bringing to heel the whiz kids of finance is a top priority.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 7, 2009. [112 total comments]
With the vote of a single Republican, Democrats passed the Affordable Health Care Act for America.
Sara Novak, Planet Green. November 5, 2009. [102 total comments]
We know meat isn't necessarily the most healthy dietary choice; it could also be a fatal one.
Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. November 6, 2009. [93 total comments]
The health care bills wending through Congress are getting a bad rap. And the major culprit is the Congressional Budget Office, and its chief, Doug Elmendorf.
PZ Myers, PharyngulaAlterNet: PEEK. November 5, 2009. [78 total comments]
"I may just have to convert to Catholicism so I can charge the US and my insurance provider to cover my near-sightedness treatments at Lourdes."
Steve Fox, AlterNet. November 9, 2009. [68 total comments]
Anti-pot propaganda drives most people to drink alcohol instead. But booze is far more dangerous than marijuana.
AlterNetNovember 9, 2009. [61 total comments]
Pollan took on Big Ag and cheap food in a panel discussion, after the protests of a meat industry chairman led to his speech at a University being canceled.
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. November 4, 2009. [58 total comments]
One NY Times reporter finally 'fesses up that the invasion of Iraq wasn't presented truthfully by the big media outlets. It's still not too late to tell the truth.
Greg Palast, GregPalast.com. November 6, 2009. [57 total comments]
It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD.
mcjoan, Daily KosAlterNet: PEEK. November 3, 2009. [53 total comments]
Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) claims he's recruited over 40 anti-choice Dems to sabotage the current bill.
Ann Neumann, AlterNet. November 3, 2009. [49 total comments]
I went undercover to a Pro-Life Federation conference. What I found there was not "middle America" or even conservative America. It was fringe America.
Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Online. November 9, 2009. [46 total comments]
Igor Panarin warns that the U.S. will splinter into separate states controlled by foreign powers in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something.
Christopher Ketcham, CounterPunch. November 5, 2009. [45 total comments]
The whistleblowing agent depicted in "Syriana," Bob Baer is back in Silverton, Colo, where "people who messed up in some other life and come here to be nobody."
Abdullah Obaidi, Asia Times. November 4, 2009. [45 total comments]
According to villagers, several U.S. soldiers burned Korans when they couldn't locate insurgents they believed had blown up part of their convoy.
James Howard Kunstler, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 4, 2009. [44 total comments]
Restoring the American railroad system is an excellent place to start recovering our sense of national purpose and faith in collective enterprise.
Adele Stan, AlterNet. November 6, 2009. [44 total comments]
Days before a health bill is expected to pass the House, Republicans rallied their flock with the help of Fox News, Michele Bachmann and leading conservative groups.
Makenna Goodman, TreeHugger. November 7, 2009. [43 total comments]
Because of its health benefits, many more people are turning to raw milk. But there's one hitch: Raw milk is illegal.
Adele Stan, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. November 6, 2009. [40 total comments]
To keep House vote on track, Pelosi struggles to appease the Catholic church and The Family cult on abortion language.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. November 6, 2009. [37 total comments]
That's not stopping the usual suspects from crying "jihad."
Kathy Freston, AlterNet. November 4, 2009. [35 total comments]
"He is the Michael Pollan of a younger generation: grittier and more daring, more insightful and decisive."
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. November 5, 2009. [34 total comments]
Beck described SEIU nurse care as "amazing" after his inflamed appendix was removed.
Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect. November 4, 2009. [31 total comments]
There's something really rotten in the state of Texas.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. November 5, 2009. [30 total comments]
Has Obama spent too much political capital on health-care reform, and not enough on keeping families afloat in a flailing economy?
Terry J. Allen, In These Times. November 3, 2009. [30 total comments]
The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs.
Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. November 6, 2009. [29 total comments]
Former British ambassador alleges CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan.
Jeff Schult, Your Tango. November 3, 2009. [29 total comments]
Despite criticism, Ashley Madison -- a website that facilitates affairs between married men and women -- attracts an unprecedented percentage of female users. Why?
Alana Levinson, The Nation. November 9, 2009. [28 total comments]
Many college-aged conservatives are turned off by the Bible-thumping intolerance of much of the Republican Party.
Tara Lohan, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. November 6, 2009. [28 total comments]
Apparently Beck thinks PETA is as rad as the NRA. Who knew?
Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future. November 7, 2009. [26 total comments]
Obama will increasingly have to choose -- whether to hold to his vision and raise the stakes, or compromise his vision to cut the deal.
Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. November 9, 2009. [24 total comments]
Forget the "debates" in Washington over Afghan War policy. Construction activity and the flow of money suggests that the Pentagon plans to be there for a long, long time.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 3, 2009. [24 total comments]
There's momentum to repair our fractured health care system -- but activism is desperately needed to keep the process honest.
Julianne Malveaux, The Progressive. November 6, 2009. [24 total comments]
The same nation that created a Works Progress Administration in the 1930s should create another one in the 21st century.
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