Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. November 11, 2009. A Justice Department subpoena requesting information on visitors to an independent news site is raising serious privacy concerns.
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog. October 5, 2009. The federal government should be spending even more than it already is. This is the only way to put Americans back to work. We did it during the Depression. It was called the WPA.
Tiffiniy Cheng, AlterNet. September 22, 2009. We can end up fumbling at an economic recovery. It's not easy to fight for financial reform, and the banks will push for policies in their favor from every angle.
Walter Mosley, The Nation. September 18, 2009. We need to concentrate on our own happiness if we expect to make a difference in the careening technological and slovenly evolving social world of the 21st century.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009. "We might look back on this summer someday and think of it as the moment when our government lost us for good. It was that bad."
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: Politics. August 26, 2009. Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn tells the crying wife of an underinsured brain-injury patient that government is not the solution.
Jim Hightower, AlterNet. July 4, 2009. Agitators created America, and it's their feisty spirit and outright rebelliousness that we celebrate on our national holiday.
Emily Spence, Consortium News. June 30, 2009. One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. May 26, 2009. A massive natural gas project could pollute fresh water supplies for New York, Philadelphia, Camden and Trenton, and other areas.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 24, 2009. Is the government is allowed to shoot citizens with electricity solely because they fail to do what agents of the government tell them to do?
Thom Hartmann, Smirking Chimp. April 16, 2009. The Geithner/Summers plan seems to hinge on reinflating the debt bubble. The outcome will be inflation, a more serious crash, or both.
Chris Hedges, Truthdig. April 7, 2009. If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.
Staff, Brave New Films AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 7, 2009. The Senate must quickly take up bankruptcy reform legislation and pass it.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 6, 2009. As America's Misery Index soars, so must our Empathy Index.
David Sirota, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. March 5, 2009. Any institution that is allowed to become so foundational to the whole economy should be at least partially nationalized.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Video. February 28, 2009. Obama has cast himself "a populist crusader willing to do battle with special interests to expand health care, curb pollution and improve education."
Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 12, 2009. Seriously ... $300 million dollars ... to the guy who invented the Roomba ... to build violent robots. Seriously.
Joseph Stiglitz, CNN. February 2, 2009. We gave the banks hundreds of billions to start lending again, and instead they're just hoarding the cash, waiting until things settle down.
Jonathan Cook, AlterNet. January 16, 2009. In a move signaling a further breakdown in Jewish-Arab relations inside Israel, all the main Jewish parties voted on for the blanket disqualification.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. January 8, 2009. "I know the scale of this plan is unprecedented, but so is the severity of our situation."
Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 4, 2008. People that have money would prefer that they remain on top, and will oppose attempts to restart spending from a broad base.
Jane Costello, Women's eNews. December 2, 2008. When the New Hampshire Senate convenes in January, women will run the show, forming the first female legislative majority in the nation.
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