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Greta Christina, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [456 total comments]
In the marketplace of ideas, only religion gets a free ride in an armored tank.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Tomdispatch.com. December 2, 2009. [177 total comments]
What feminists don't need, no matter how many "races for the cure" they run, is a ladies’ auxiliary to the cancer-industrial complex.
John Nichols, The Nation. December 1, 2009. [177 total comments]
Presidents are not supposed to begin and end the discussion about war. With both parties divided over Afghanistan, it's time for Congress to debate the Obama's war plan.
Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 1, 2009. [159 total comments]
You still have the opportunity to save thousands of lives and live up to your campaign promises. Don't become the next war president, Mr. Obama.
George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 2, 2009. [159 total comments]
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century.
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [134 total comments]
What's the biggest P.R. sin? It's not infidelity, or kinky sex, or making sex tapes. It's profiting from a holier-than-though public image based on lies.
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. December 2, 2009. [132 total comments]
Obama's promise: Let's come together and get along to end the war - by waging the war more intensely…but only for eighteen months, and then we all get to go home.
Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. [128 total comments]
Why women have signed onto marijuana reform -- and why they could be the movement's game-changers.
Jodie Evans, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [122 total comments]
The president's announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan this week prompted protests in over 80 communities across the country.
Kiera Butler, Mother Jones. December 5, 2009. [111 total comments]
Foer's new book, Eating Animals, uncovers some ugly truths about America's meat production system, but he also weaves in stories from his own family history.
Elizabeth Warren, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. [99 total comments]
America today has plenty of rich and super-rich. But it has far more families who did all the right things, but who still have no real security.
AlterNetDecember 4, 2009. [99 total comments]
Tom Hayden says he's taking the Obama bumpersticker off his car, Laura Flanders says the Bush Doctrine is still alive, and more.
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. December 1, 2009. [85 total comments]
Since when does loving Jesus mean you have to hate our President? Prominent Christians should denounce the violently aggressive language right-wingers use to tear down Obama.
Steven D., Booman TribuneAlterNet: Health and Wellness. December 5, 2009. [77 total comments]
Thank God for safe, humane, non-lethal technology.
Tara Lohan, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [74 total comments]
Nicolette Hahn Niman's new book offers a much-needed addition to the debate about whether we should be eating meat.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. December 4, 2009. [54 total comments]
Presented by FreedomWorks, the front group that organized the 9/12 March, a new documentary on the tea parties attempts to suggest that the protests were spontaneous.
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: World. December 1, 2009. [54 total comments]
Here's the Afghanistan speech, what do you think?
Jim Hightower, Creators Syndicate. December 2, 2009. [54 total comments]
Cut the music, and let's all ponder what Barack Obama, Roberts Gates, Stanley McChrystal and Co. are getting us into ... and whether we really want to go there.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. December 2, 2009. [53 total comments]
More than half of Americans have cut back on meat. Martha Stewart broadcasts a meatless Thanksgiving show. What gives?
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 3, 2009. [52 total comments]
True story.
Troy Jollimore, Truthdig. December 6, 2009. [51 total comments]
A new book, "The Case for God," argues that prominent non-believers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are wrong. Is it based on wishful thinking?
Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. December 1, 2009. [45 total comments]
A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 4, 2009. [45 total comments]
Consider a rescue shelter for all your pet needs.
Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect. December 3, 2009. [43 total comments]
How America's commitment to states' rights is undermining our economic recovery.
Sena Christian, AlterNet. December 5, 2009. [43 total comments]
Ted Cox posed as a gay man to infiltrate gay-to-straight therapy programs. What he found was equal parts shocking and tragic.
Brad Reed, AlterNet. December 6, 2009. [37 total comments]
Once upon a time, some brave scientists had a noble dream of ridding food of nutrients. That dream is closer to reality than ever.
Janet Redman, MinuteMan Media. December 3, 2009. [36 total comments]
It's a scheme that tries to sell business-as-usual as a solution to global warming. Here's how it works.
Larry Beinhart, AlterNet. December 3, 2009. [35 total comments]
Imperial occupations have become geometrically more difficult since the Second World War.
Alex Seitz-Wald, Think ProgressAlterNet: World. December 2, 2009. [35 total comments]
"I may even coach wrestling. Hey, Indiana Jones taught school, too."
Isaiah J. Poole, Blog for Our Future. December 2, 2009. [34 total comments]
At a time when unemployment is expected to exceed 10 percent for the next several months, we should be talking about direct job funding by the government.
Bill McKibben, Yale Environment 360. December 5, 2009. [34 total comments]
The planet's climate scientists, bureaucrats, activists, skeptics and journalists will descend on Copenhagen for a fortnight of meeting, marching, denying and most of all spinning.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 1, 2009. [34 total comments]
The debates over health-care, financial reform and everything else ring hollow as long as we ignore what lies at the root of Washington's dysfunction.
Joseph Huff-Hannon, Huffington Post. December 1, 2009. [29 total comments]
The protestors say that the environmental advocacy group has aligned itself with corporate interests whose goals for reducing emissions are far too limited.
David Sirota, Open LeftAlterNet: Politics. December 2, 2009. [26 total comments]
It's about time progressive Senators start using the power of obstruction for progressive ends.
Staff, Media Matters for AmericaAlterNet: Video. December 4, 2009. [25 total comments]
A round-up!
Andy Kroll, Tomdispatch.com. December 2, 2009. [25 total comments]
The American home-owner's dream is on life support: millions are suffering disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates.
Tara Lohan, AlterNetAlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 1, 2009. [25 total comments]
Everything is pink. Pink shower shoes, pink wash clothes, pink towels, pink sheets, even pink handcuffs.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: World. December 6, 2009. [24 total comments]
Weird story.
Michael Haederle, Miller-McCune.com. December 3, 2009. [23 total comments]
New medical research is finding that the pain relief induced by placebos may come from releasing the body's own chemical pain relievers.
Liliana Segura, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 2, 2009. [23 total comments]
The National Organization for Marriage wasted no time in turning its big homophobic win into a fundraising appeal.
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