Paul Armentano, AlterNet. October 28, 2009. An exclusive look at the historic testimony prepared for a special hearing on legalizing marijuana to the California Assembly.
Art Levine, AlterNet. October 21, 2009. Protections for consumers and Wall Street's skullduggery are at stake in an obscure series of hearings going on in Congress right now.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. October 20, 2009. Now that the FCC is articulating its commitment to a free and open Internet, watch the ISPs freak out.
Zach Carter, AlterNet. October 1, 2009. Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.
David Sirota, AlterNet. May 9, 2009. Pigs are supposed to be the smartest domestic animal. But they clearly have trouble when charged with managing capitalism.
William Greider, The Nation. April 24, 2009. What we are witnessing is a high-stakes melodrama of glandular politics. Will Obama roll over or fight back?
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 2, 2009. Coca-Cola just got slapped down in Australia for running a series of advertisements claiming the soft drink does not cause obesity or tooth decay.
Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate. March 26, 2009. The real failings in the Obama recovery program lie not in the stimulus package, but in its efforts to revive financial markets.
David Downs, East Bay Express. March 5, 2009. If pot is truly medicine, shouldn't it be standardized? A lab has big plans to test the potency of Cali cannabis sold in dispensaries.
Stephen Gutwillig, AlterNet. March 3, 2009. Marijuana already plays a huge role in the California and national economies. It’s a revenue opportunity we literally can’t afford to ignore.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 20, 2009. 58% of West Coast respondents agreed that marijuana should be "taxed and regulated like alcohol and cigarettes."
Johann Hari, Huffington Post. January 17, 2009. The history of the banana tells us about the corporations that increasingly dominate the world -- and where they are leading us.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. January 9, 2009. Have you heard what's going on with the government's almost trillion-dollar bailout and how your money is being spent?
Dean Baker, TruthOut.org. December 27, 2008. It is hard not to notice that two of the regulators who stand out for doing the right thing in this incredible financial mess are women.
Arthur MacEwan, Dollars and Sense. October 28, 2008. The firms that are "too big to fail," should be regulated to prevent them from operating in ways that put us all at risk.
Antonia Juhasz, AlterNet. October 23, 2008. Working Americans are reeling from the "unintended consequences" of their relentless war against regulation.
Robert Kuttner, AlterNet. September 19, 2008. Help must go to the ordinary people who have suffered harm, not just wealthy insiders. That should be the price of a deal.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. September 18, 2008. Now that the government is bailing out the finance industry, taxpayers should be in the driver's seat -- not politicians beholden to Wall Street.
