On AlterNet: hitchens

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Once Again, Believers Have it Wrong: Atheists Don't Just Want Sex, Drugs, and Lack of Morality

Adam Lee, AlterNet. January 23, 2012.

As much as religion's defenders would like us to believe otherwise, there is no non-human moral authority.

5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced -- Think That Bothers War Boosters Like Christopher Hitchens?

Fred Branfman, AlterNet. June 21, 2010.

The immensity of Iraqi civilian suffering is incomprehensible. How can war's cheerleaders claim to fight on behalf of the people whose lives they helped destroy?

Are the 'New Atheists' Actually Doing Anything to Stop the Ills of Religion?

Madeleine Bunting, Comment Is Free. April 8, 2010.

Is the New Atheism just a publishing phenomenon? What have all these books, these tons of paper and felled forests achieved?

God's Divine Sperm? Lib Church Shakes Up Story of Jesus' Birth

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. December 17, 2009.

"Poor Joseph. God is a tough act to follow."

Are the "New Atheists" As Bad as Christian Fundamentalists?

Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet. November 3, 2009.

The most aggressive members of the "New Atheism" movement have quite a bit in common with religious extremists like Pat Robertson and Ted Haggard.

Atheism: Living Life Unfettered by Supernaturalism and Groupthink -- Interview With Sikivu Hutchinson

Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog. June 17, 2009.

African-American atheist Sikivu Hutchinson calls on black atheists to play a critical role in the atheism movement.

The Imperialist Propaganda of Hitchens and Friends

Richard Seymour, Verso. February 9, 2009.

So-called 'liberal' advocates of empire played a crucial role in selling Bush's disastrous wars.

Christopher Hitchens' Holocaust Denying Buddy Speaks in NYC

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. July 26, 2008.

"I think the word 'Holocaust' is odious," he told me. "It's American commercialism at its worst." -David Irving

Christopher Hitchens Gets Waterboarded

Spencer Ackerman, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. July 2, 2008.

"Believe me, it’s torture."

Christopher Hitchens: As Right About Women As He Is About Iraq

Katie Halper, Take Part AlterNet: PEEK. March 10, 2008.

Hitchens makes the incredibly unoriginal, sexist observation that "women aren't funny."

Christopher Hitchens rips Jerry Falwell to shreds [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. May 17, 2007.

He may be ridiculously wrong about the war but Hitchens is seriously right about Falwell.

How to Make Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Iraqis Disappear

Eric Alterman, Huffington Post. October 20, 2006.

The Lancet study that estimated 655,000 Iraqis killed since the US invasion of 2003 was based on some of the most solid research methods possible, but that didn't stop the American press from trying to say it wasn't so.

"Howard Dean is a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag," says Christopher Hitchens

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet: PEEK. October 12, 2006.

"I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed."