On AlterNet: public opinion
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Adam Horowitz, Philip Weiss, The Nation. October 23, 2009.
The Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear.
John Byrne, Raw Story. October 21, 2009.
New polling shows greater movement toward support of plan for government-run health care.
Yves Engler, CounterPunch. October 13, 2009.
"No other country in the world has demonstrated such full understanding of us," says Ultra-Right Wing Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of Canada.
DemFromCT, Daily Kos AlterNet: Politics. October 9, 2009.
People aren't stupid. They can tell who is trying to produce reform and who is stalling.
Max Blumenthal, Mondoweiss. July 15, 2009.
Resentment of Arabs, minorities and designated foreign enemies ranging from Iranians to Barack Obama is now mainstream in Israeli society.
Conn Hallinan, CounterPunch. July 13, 2009.
Israel faces growing international pressure to freeze its settlements -- will the U.S. join the chorus?
Scott Morgan, DRCNet. May 29, 2009.
Anti-drug zealots created the "gateway" theory from thin air. And it's easily refuted: most marijuana users just don't use other drugs.
DRCNetMay 14, 2009.
Support for marijuana legalization or decriminalization among the American public continues to climb.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Media and Technology. April 23, 2009.
Widespread pessimism about the country's direction has been the norm for the last six years.
DemFromCT, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. April 17, 2009.
It was a much better week for Democrats than Republicans.
Jill Andresky Fraser, Tomdispatch.com. March 5, 2009.
Thinking about this optimistic third of Americans, it's hard not to reach one basic conclusion: They're nuts.
Conn Hallinan, AlterNet. March 4, 2009.
There is a growing consensus among Israelis that it would acceptable to expel its Arab citizens to either a Palestinian state or to Jordan and Egypt.
Paul Armentano, NORML. February 5, 2009.
What gives? Let's see Obama be the one who personally rains on the DEA's eight-year parade that has crushed the lives of thousands.
Faiz Shakir, Think Progress AlterNet: Media and Technology. January 18, 2009.
Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog said Israel is aiming to prevent an "over-dramatization of the facts."
Dick Meister, AlterNet. January 6, 2009.
Most Americans support the labor movement despite loads of anti-union corporate propaganda.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2008.
New poll finds that 75% of Americans are glad President Bush is leaving office.
Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check. October 5, 2008.
Political leaders are nervous about supporting comprehensive sex education in schools. But it may be a bigger political liability not to.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. September 11, 2008.
A poll of 16,000 people in 17 countries reveals the damage done to the credibility of the United States by the Bush administration.
Daniel De Groot, Open Left AlterNet: Election 2008. July 12, 2008.
Data from 1984-2006, shows a narrowing gap between cons and libs.
Brandon Wu, Eyes on Trade AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. June 24, 2008.
New polling shows a majority across party lines favors scrapping the current deal.
Holly Shulman, Eyes on Trade. May 5, 2008.
As people's economic pain grows, their trust in U.S. trade policy shrinks.
Linda Mamoun, AlterNet. March 25, 2008.
In our political system, the president and vice president are under no obligation to follow the will of the people.
David Michael Green, AlterNet. February 28, 2008.
We've been in conflict for about half the period between World War II and the present but consider ourselves a "peace-loving" nation.
Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review. September 6, 2007.
A Pew report studies twenty years of American preferences.
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation. August 10, 2007.
Thanks to the Dems' inaction on Iraq and compliance with Bush on the FISA bill, the Democratic-controlled Congress now has a "confidence" rating of 14 percent, the lowest since Gallup started asking the question in 1973 and five points lower than Republicans scored last year.
