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Juan Cole, Informed Comment. December 22, 2009. [453 e-mails sent]
Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which will continue to follow us until citizens stand up to fix them.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 22, 2009. [314 e-mails sent]
As ordinary Americans reel from the Great Recession, these gluttonous all-stars continue to claw in absurd amounts of money.
Drew Westen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [231 e-mails sent]
Somehow Obama has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters of 2010.
Don Hazen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [207 e-mails sent]
Recently we asked our readers to rank the most influential progressives. Here are the results.
Rev. Howard Bess, Consortium News. December 23, 2009. [174 e-mails sent]
Beautiful as it is, the story of the birth of Jesus is a myth born of the political needs of early Christians.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [147 e-mails sent]
Franken's measure passed, 68 to 30.
Kirk Nielsen, Miller-McCune.com. December 25, 2009. [143 e-mails sent]
Books by Chris Hedges, Thom Hartmann and Cass Sunstein suggest that we've nearly lost our sense of self-government. None show the way to get it back.
* Staff, Media Matters for America. December 22, 2009. [138 e-mails sent]
Beck's unbridled ignorance and confidence in his own manipulative half-truths and lies make him the most dangerously effective misinformer of 2009.
Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [114 e-mails sent]
In an economy structured around industrial agriculture, sustaining small farms can be a challenge. 'Slow money' economics could be the answer.
Peter Asmus, East Bay Express. December 24, 2009. [100 e-mails sent]
A dozen nonprofits are going right after the company's greed, and the outcome will likely have repercussions in the oil industry for years to come.
Clancy Sigal, Comment Is Free. December 24, 2009. [94 e-mails sent]
Obama's cruel and pointless refusal to ban child-killing landmines was my personal breaking point against the candidate I worked hard to elect.
Kevin Connor, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [92 e-mails sent]
Barney Frank takes pride in being the Left's darling, but he's almost entirely funded by Wall Street and his votes show it.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. December 22, 2009. [54 e-mails sent]
Does absurdist literature make you smarter? Giraffe carpet cleaner, it does!
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. December 26, 2009. [50 e-mails sent]
I was working on my list of New Year's resolutions when it occurred to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions.
CREW Staff, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. December 24, 2009. [46 e-mails sent]
Madoff, Sanford and Murtha are just a few who made it onto the top 10 list of the nation's most ethically challenged players of the year.
John Nichols, TheNation.comAlterNet: Politics. December 22, 2009. [42 e-mails sent]
"If this bill passes, the industry will become more powerful and could be beyond the reach of reform for generations."
Anonymous, New America Media. December 24, 2009. [42 e-mails sent]
Veteran with PTSD: "I don't feel comfortable at home anymore. My threat tolerance and response to perceived threats is so finely tuned that I felt safer in Iraq. "
James Ridgeway, CounterPunch. December 23, 2009. [40 e-mails sent]
'Moderation' has come to mean weighing the interests of campaign contributors -- Big Pharma vs. the insurance companies -- with little concern for the American people.
Chris Bowers, Open LeftAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [39 e-mails sent]
Really, it's pretty simple.
Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 23, 2009. [37 e-mails sent]
Can we just have a reality-based discussion of the policy?
Harold Pollack, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [34 e-mails sent]
We can all agree that the Senate health care bill is far from perfect. What now?
Elizabeth Black, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [30 e-mails sent]
Many women would be surprised to learn that men often fake orgasms. But why? Our limited, patriarchal view of sexuality, of course.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Video. December 23, 2009. [30 e-mails sent]
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is hitting the president hard -- with his own words -- for backing a health-care bill with a mandate and no public option.
Will Durst, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [30 e-mails sent]
These are the presents that folks may not receive wrapped up with bows but certainly deserve: for Joe Lieberman, a diamond-studded collar to befit his position as GOP lap dog.
Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 25, 2009. [29 e-mails sent]
Only later did investors in $40 billion in securities discover that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A rated investments were closer to junk.
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [26 e-mails sent]
Some 30 percent of all U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred during Obama's presidency. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned.
Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [25 e-mails sent]
The passage of health reform is a revelation of just how desperately change is needed and how difficult it will be to achieve.
Bruce Wilson, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 25, 2009. [25 e-mails sent]
Protestants banned Christmas in Scotland for 4 centuries.
Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. December 26, 2009. [22 e-mails sent]
Tesla makes a sleek electric roadster at $110,000. A new model's generating buzz, but one possible manufacturing site's haunted by ghosts of the old economy.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. December 24, 2009. [21 e-mails sent]
Calling the Senate's health bill a "awesome achievement" like Paul Krugman did is to encourage the preservation of a hideously broken system.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, TheNation.comAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [20 e-mails sent]
We're in the midst of a defining moment in the health care debate. Now's not the time to let up pressure.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.comAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [20 e-mails sent]
The film, which features Disney's first African-American princess, supplies admirable political allegory.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [20 e-mails sent]
Ellison still fighting.
Steven D., Booman TribuneAlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 22, 2009. [19 e-mails sent]
Lawmakers approved the bill yesterday by a vote of 39-20.
Rep. Louise Slaughter, AlterNet. December 24, 2009. [19 e-mails sent]
Supporters of the weak Senate bill say "just pass it -- any bill is better than no bill." I strongly disagree.
Matt Corley, Think ProgressAlterNet: PEEK. December 24, 2009. [18 e-mails sent]
Really, why are there still gays in the GOP?
Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. December 22, 2009. [17 e-mails sent]
For the media industry, it was a decade of disruption and decay, of death (newspapers) and birth (new forms of journalism.)
Byard Duncan, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [17 e-mails sent]
The bump does not appear to be indicative of broader economic improvement.
CounterPunch. December 22, 2009. [16 e-mails sent]
The New York small town has a worldwide association with peace, yet its largest employer has been making components for nuclear missiles for six decades.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality CheckAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [16 e-mails sent]
The brouhaha over Notre Dame is an opportunity for the right to wage war on women, intellectuals and sexual freedom all at once.
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