Alternative News and Information. en-us http://www.alternet.org/rss/button.gif http://www.alternet.org/ AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/ Copyright 2012 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. http://www.alternet.org/story/150958/twice_victimized%3A_u.s._policy_obstructs_care_for_war-rape_victims/ When rape is a weapon of war, denying abortion services compounds grave human rights abuses. So why does the Obama administration play by the right's rules? Mon, 16 May 2011 12:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Conscience -a49070ca87fab325b443cd1869a2ee57 http://www.alternet.org/story/150725/increasing_numbers_of_women_face_jail_time_for_wanting_an_abortion/ For decades now, feminists have warned about a post-Roe v. Wade world in which women are locked up for having abortions. Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, The Nation -636939abfbccb6196a6fe3a4817a3e62 http://www.alternet.org/story/146044/anti-choice_campaign_aims_to_undermine_support_for_reproductive_rights_by_falsely_claiming_%27black_genocide%27/ The anti-abortion movement is making a push to enlist African Americans in their cause by framing abortion as a tool of eugenics and genocide. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Religion Dispatches -df2e2a9d67ae7fd6b80e21b060137ac1 http://www.alternet.org/story/143577/the_execution_of_a_potentially_innocent_man_less_scandalous_than_an_affair/ There's something really rotten in the state of Texas. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PST Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect -90517bfed1cad65afb74a51090cdd6d1 http://www.alternet.org/story/142988/tea_party_movement_returns_christian_right_to_its_racist_past/ For years, the religious right tried to lose its racist image, reverting to homophobia as its hatred of choice. As it joins the Tea Party fray, it may once again have to own both. Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect -9a3960e49ce1e2063508c28314d7bf25 http://www.alternet.org/story/132096/the_growing_clout_of_atheists_and_non-believers/ Mobilized by the theocratic bombast of Bush-era Republicans, America's growing number of atheists are pushing for greater recognition. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, The Guardian -eb508d67af399f2b2da18e8b2cc5eed8 http://www.alternet.org/story/100707/sarah_palin%2C_21st_century_theocrat/ The religious right can be confident that they'd have a fundamentalist in the White House with Sarah Palin. Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, The Nation -b0aff3fb5783809bc8d18db186fb18aa http://www.alternet.org/story/36640/tyranny_of_the_christian_right/ The largest and most powerful mass movement in the nation -- evangelical Christianity -- has set out to destroy secular society. Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:01 PDT Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -dcd688a2201680e19cf948b319505882 http://www.alternet.org/story/14489/the_powder_keg/ The U.S. helped build the Islamic fundamentalist movement threatening to take over Pakistan. Now can it rescue the world from the deadly consequences? Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, Salon -8efe4ff08d6f51db0f7179fbef12f2f1 http://www.alternet.org/story/14358/drug_war_backlash/ Fed up with their state's draconian laws, New York voters have suddenly made long-shot independent Tom Golisano a force in the governor's race. Tue, 22 Oct 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -5dc624e80d9ab94e3229ec29f675c19d http://www.alternet.org/story/14220/a_beacon_of_sanity%3A_salman_rushdie/ In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Rushdie champions free thinking and fun. Thu, 03 Oct 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -9e6bc03970c47b5183cb2ee13799dcca http://www.alternet.org/story/13981/flag-draped_voyeurism/ At ground zero, Americans suck the last morsel of flavor from the most exciting day they will ever know. Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -68e0937d0f20f63d46f066cb42c048a0 http://www.alternet.org/story/13966/celluloid_ceiling/ There are women in the Senate, women heading studios and busloads of young women emerging from film school. So why are 96 percent of films directed by men? Tue, 27 Aug 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -aa8da3e60fb65cda2ae6b220268c4964 http://www.alternet.org/story/13774/reforming_rockefeller_drug_laws/ Fed up with draconian drug penalties, a coalition led by angry mothers is threatening to overturn some of the country's harshest laws. Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -74707d064c4eeda12c3bf2f1807a7198 http://www.alternet.org/story/13750/fundamentally_unsound/ Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff. Fri, 02 Aug 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -64357314e1c294fca2c6419e6b6d59af http://www.alternet.org/story/13538/you_go%2C_girl/ Backpacker fiction like "The Beach" explores the authenticity-grubbing subculture of the dreadlocked, ganja-scented travelers, but women have been left out -- until now. Mon, 08 Jul 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -d84baaa70a252bc91bb2349cd9e8b231 http://www.alternet.org/story/13320/can_moby_save_pop/ Anointed by the desperate music media as pop's new king, Moby brings electronica to the masses with his new album "18." Fri, 07 Jun 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Salon -04adc1e3a14eb5fa654770fc7fd077b1 http://www.alternet.org/story/12941/flexing_the_power_of_the_press/ Kristina Borjesson talks about "Into the Buzzsaw" and her excommunication from mainstream journalism after she began challenging government assertions about TWA Flight 800. Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -e833aecdce1507964e8c9d3f72f86829 http://www.alternet.org/story/12864/debate_grows_over_use_of_sexual_assault_photo/ A previously unpublished photo of a sexual assault at Seattle's 2001 Mardi Gras won a major photojournalism prize -- and raised difficult questions about privacy. Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:00:00 PDT Michelle Goldberg, Women's eNews -240497d1c93f3ea543976e5f331f3f9d http://www.alternet.org/story/12753/18_tales_of_media_censorship/ The authors of the incendiary new book "Into the Buzzsaw" have won nearly every journalism award possible, yet all were censorsed for challenging corporate or government power. Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -a896144046a1b5bd6e3e034d00b4f73a http://www.alternet.org/story/12575/book_review%3A_the_last_opium_den/ Tough-guy writer Nick Tosches elegantly mourns the vanishing of a decadent icon. Michelle Goldberg writes that she "knows from my own blissful experience that the opium den lives on." Thu, 07 Mar 2002 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, Salon -7c1bbdaebec5e20e91db1fe61221228f http://www.alternet.org/story/12386/the_new_jew_is_who/ Now that anti-Semitism has receded in America, young Jews are looking around and wondering what it means to be Jewish if being Jewish no longer means being persecuted. Mon, 11 Feb 2002 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -aa49af1072b367b0a3342314401297a9 http://www.alternet.org/story/12319/when_the_babes_beat_up_the_boys/ A recent spate of pop culture man-beatings indicates that the War of the Sexes is far from over. Why has the image of a frenzied female attacking a callow guy become a media staple? Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -ec42787cefadf6378e1fd7917aa05b5f http://www.alternet.org/story/12232/the_recession_chic_lie/ In the mainstream media, unemployment has falsely mutated into a hot new trend. Stories of happy, laid-off hipsters have obscured the true tragedy of post-9/11 poverty. Tue, 15 Jan 2002 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -43904aa51d7dce2190fcebed0eed1409 http://www.alternet.org/story/10306/feminism_for_sale/ In the year 2000, after decades of wrangling with the myth of the ugly, hirsute, ball-busting women's libber, the culture has finally seemed to reconcile beauty and power, fun and feminism. But like so many other cease-fires in our society, this one was negotiated largely in the marketplace. Mon, 08 Jan 2001 00:00:00 PST Michelle Goldberg, AlterNet -90c34175923a36ab7a5de4b981c1972f