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Dear Girls -- Here's Why Nasty Old Religious Men Are Terrified of You

Soraya Chemaly, AlterNet. May 23, 2012.

Women are powerful beyond words, because they threaten to unravel the control of corrupt men who abuse their authority.

How Corrupt Prosecutors Get Away With Sending Innocent People to Jail

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. May 15, 2012.

Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful figures in the American criminal justice system, a system that is not equipped or willing to punish their crimes.

Colonized by Corporations

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. May 15, 2012.

A change of power requires a destruction of corporate domination and a new mechanism of governance to distribute wealth and foster the common good.

Why Spending Billions on the Afghan National Army Could Seriously Backfire

Ann Jones, TomDispatch.com. March 8, 2012.

No Afghan national army has ever saved a government, or even tried to. Instead, such an army has either sat on its hands during a coup d’état, or participated in one itself.

Is America on the Verge of Theocracy? 4 Fundamentalist Ideologies Threatening U.S. Liberty

Henry A. Giroux, TruthOut.org. March 7, 2012.

Extremists shape American politics to unabashedly pursue legislative policies that favor the rich and punish the poor.

How Ayn Rand's Bizarre Philosophy Made the New Right so Toxic

George Monbiot, The Guardian. March 7, 2012.

Rand's psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats.

Sex Abuse in Rehab? How Predators Can Take Advantage of Addicts Seeking Help

Maia Szalavitz, The Fix. January 9, 2012.

Much of what is portrayed in the media as “professional treatment” isn’t based on evidence of what works and can lead to boundary violations and outright abuse.

400% Rise in Anti-Depressant Pill Use: Americans Are Disempowered -- Can the OWS Uprising Shake Us Out of Our Depression?

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet. October 26, 2011.

Is it time to repoliticize a great deal of our despair, and reconsider the old-fashioned antidepressant of political activism?

Why the Best Way to Save Water Is to Use Less Energy (and Vise Versa)

Daniel Glick, Daily Climate. August 2, 2011.

Power and water are more interconnected than you might think, and that has serious consequences for a changing world, especially the American West.

Obama's Women of War

Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. March 20, 2011.

Hillary Clinton, Susan Rice, and Samantha Power pushed Obama into accepting the demands of neoconservatives and enter the civil war in Libya.

America Will Pay a Mighty Price If It Keeps Pretending It's the Superpower It Used to Be

Lawrence Davidson, Consortium News. December 28, 2010.

The United States has built a self-deluding narrative of global domination which the world increasingly rejects.

Simmering Water War: How New Power Plants Will Suck Our Water Sources Dry

Jim Hightower, Other Words. November 15, 2010.

Boneheaded executives and greed-headed investors might be draining the fresh water supplies where you live.

Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly Are at the Apex of Newsweek's Most Powerful/Highest Paid Pundits and Politicians List

Lauren Kelley, AlterNet. November 4, 2010.

What does it mean that right-wing blowhards have been deemed the most powerful people in the country?

Wind Power Can Change the World -- Why Aren't We Investing In It?

Melinda Burns, Miller-McCune.com. July 25, 2010.

A lack of continuous federal support cripples emerging clean energy industries in the United States.

The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back

Chris Hedges, Truthdig. June 30, 2009.

Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.

Coal Action Heats Up Capitol Hill

Coal Action Heats Up Capitol Hill

Harry Hanbury, American News Project. February 27, 2009.

This weekend thousands of students will come to D.C. to rally, lobby, and get arrested for a clean energy economy.

In Iraq, Combating Oil Corruption, Staving Off Fears of a Kurdish-Arab War

Iraq Oil ReportFebruary 22, 2009.

A round-up of the most important news out of Iraq.

The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing

The Key to Happiness That No One -- Not Even the Happiness Gurus -- Are Discussing

Frances Moore Lappe, YES! Magazine. January 31, 2009.

Having our basic physical needs met isn't enough. Though they're important, neither are family and friends.

GOP Civil War: Growing Cracks

Jonathan Singer, MyDD.com. January 15, 2009.

Sit back and watch as the divisions foment.

The Many Ways Our Future is a Mess

Michael T. Klare, The Nation. December 2, 2008.

Even the government is now warning the US will face a world of greater dangers, more challengers and a paucity of reliable allies.

My Last Column

Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. July 2, 2008.

After 9 long years, it's time to move on. One final thought: don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists.

Iraqi Ministry Doctors Figures on Power Output

Isam al-Khalisi, Azzaman. April 10, 2008.

The entire enterprise is built on falsehoods.

SugarDaddy.com: Readers Respond

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. March 1, 2008.

What does it say about our society when women can make more money doing sex work than in most other professions? Our readers weigh in.

Is a Presidential Coup Under Way?

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. October 23, 2007.

The Constitution is being trampled and nothing less than American democracy itself is endangered -- a presidential coup is taking place. Where is Congress?

Readers Write: Pornography, Patriarchy and Power

Alex Jung, AlterNet. September 29, 2007.

Our discussion on pornography revisited. Second of two parts.

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