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David Bollier, On the Commons. June 30, 2009. [394 e-mails sent]
The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 30, 2009. [354 e-mails sent]
Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.
David Beers, The Tyee. July 4, 2009. [287 e-mails sent]
Pollan gives a glimpse at the current state of food politics inside the White House and within his own home.
Linda Buzzell, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. [206 e-mails sent]
Living under unnatural time pressures causes a myriad of psychological, social and physical ailments.
Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 4, 2009. [181 e-mails sent]
Matt Taibbi explains how the company created market bubbles and then profited from the crash that followed.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. July 1, 2009. [156 e-mails sent]
Marriage is failing many, many people. Why do we still idealize it?
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. July 3, 2009. [154 e-mails sent]
We're building new "embassies" that run close to $1 billion and host countries keep jacking the rent for existing bases.
AFP. July 2, 2009. [150 e-mails sent]
The museum argues, among other things, that war, famine and natural disasters are to blame on belief in evolution.
Patricia J. Williams, The Nation. July 4, 2009. [135 e-mails sent]
Jackson's fame and fortune ensured he had few barriers whatever fancy seized him -- including his made-to-order kids.
Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. July 1, 2009. [132 e-mails sent]
Conservative pundits and GOP lawmakers must try to cure the sickness of their right-wing followers -- before it explodes again. Or don't they care?
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. July 4, 2009. [116 e-mails sent]
Agitators created America, and it's their feisty spirit and outright rebelliousness that we celebrate on our national holiday.
Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. July 2, 2009. [112 e-mails sent]
From suicide to desertion to refusal to deploy -- service members' dissent may be growing into something far larger.
Brian Roa, TruthOut.org. July 1, 2009. [110 e-mails sent]
In Chicago, there's a push to replace public schools with military academies. This model may soon spread to the rest of the country.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. [102 e-mails sent]
The CoC is the world's most powerful lobbying machine and it's working to make sure our money gets funneled to corporate execs.
Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. July 1, 2009. [95 e-mails sent]
Contrary to most media accounts, President Manuel Zelaya wasn't seeking to abolish term limits.
Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. July 1, 2009. [93 e-mails sent]
Studies show that the current economic climate may be eroding months or even years from the lives of those on the bleeding edge of insecurity.
Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. July 4, 2009. [83 e-mails sent]
The basic hierarchy and theology of the Catholic Church is a recipe for the abuse of power.
Sarah Newman, Huffington Post. July 3, 2009. [79 e-mails sent]
Here's how to transition off of a corn-based diet, lessen your carb(on) footprint, support local farmers and humanely raised meats.
Chris Kromm, Facing South. July 2, 2009. [71 e-mails sent]
Oddly the states with the most people enrolled are down South -- where political leadership has been most opposed to single-payer.
Bill Scher, Campaign for America's Future. July 3, 2009. [67 e-mails sent]
The arguments by obstructionists are dead -- the math shows health care costs will drop while achieving near universal coverage.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. July 3, 2009. [60 e-mails sent]
Too much CO2 in the air and not enough oxygen in the oceans may release a toxic dose of hydrogen sulfide -- an unheralded executioner.
Robert Jensen, Soft Skull Press. July 3, 2009. [55 e-mails sent]
To imagine a just and sustainable world, we need not just a politics but a theology that can help us face our delusional arrogance.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 2, 2009. [52 e-mails sent]
Teens are having more condomless sex than they did in the 1990s. It's time for science-based sex ed, not moralizing.
Dave Zirin, The Nation. June 30, 2009. [50 e-mails sent]
The wreckage of the DC train crash is not an accident site. It's a crime scene. When we spend more on sports stadiums than infrastructure, people die.
Emily Spence, Consortium News. June 30, 2009. [49 e-mails sent]
One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions.
Eric Lotke, Campaign for America's Future. June 30, 2009. [42 e-mails sent]
Congressional Commission on financial fraud has the ability to put hundreds of Madoffs in jail and lead the way for real bank reform.
Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor. June 30, 2009. [40 e-mails sent]
A debate has ensued about whether to raze neighborhoods that have fallen into economic decay.
Harvey Karp, Huffington Post. July 2, 2009. [40 e-mails sent]
Teflon, plastics, formaldehyde, and other household chemicals are seen as leading drivers behind the autism outbreak.
Martin Garbus, Huffington PostAlterNet: PEEK. June 30, 2009. [36 e-mails sent]
Obama's attempt at secrecy, continued torture and repression of speech must be stopped.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. [33 e-mails sent]
Alvaro Uribe could be re-elected through just the type of referendum the ousted Manuel Zelaya has been accused of trying to carry out.
AFP. July 3, 2009. [31 e-mails sent]
Amnesty accused Israeli forces of using children as human shields and conducting wanton attacks on civilians.
Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet. June 30, 2009. [28 e-mails sent]
Third Way is drenched in corporate money, tangled in ties to big business and bent on Clintonian triangulation. How dare it call itself progressive?
Dafna Linzer, Peter Finn, ProPublica. June 30, 2009. [23 e-mails sent]
Such an order embraces claims by George W. Bush that certain people can be held without trial for long periods under the laws of war.
Leslie Samuelrich, Corporate Accountability International. July 1, 2009. [22 e-mails sent]
Multinational giant Nestle is trying to out-money Michigan citizens -- help stop the corporate water grab.
Sasha Abramsky, PoliPoint Press. July 4, 2009. [18 e-mails sent]
America's poor are being priced out of a market flush with excess eatables. It's an abomination we can fix.
Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. July 6, 2009. [18 e-mails sent]
The new rule means the public will no longer be able to tell if large investment banks are manipulating the stock market for their own gain.
Byard Duncan, AlterNet. June 30, 2009. [17 e-mails sent]
This is no time to let up. We must let Obama know how important a public option is for all of America.
Bruce Friedrich, AlterNet. July 2, 2009. [17 e-mails sent]
Although some people still attempt to justify foie gras production, science backs up common sense: It's foul.
JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation. July 3, 2009. [14 e-mails sent]
Sanford is no more of a moralist than those in the party of Barack and Bill, the party of "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. July 6, 2009. [14 e-mails sent]
Remember, this is the woman Republicans wanted to put a heart beat away from the Presidency. When did the GOP become so irresponsible?
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