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Is Your Cell Phone Co. Sponsoring a Climate Change Denying, Union Busting, Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally?

Peter Rothberg, TheNation.com AlterNet: PEEK. August 31, 2009.

If you're one of Verizon's 87 million customers, the answer is yes.

Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia

Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future AlterNet: Politics. August 28, 2009.

West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over this key segment of society, working class whites, with a New Deal-style industrial policy.

Incredibly Scary: Watch E-Voting Machine in West VA Flip Votes

Liza Sabater, Culture Kitchen AlterNet: Video. October 28, 2008.

Electronic voting machines "flip votes" even after they have been calibrated properly.

West Virginia Secretary of State Disenfranchising Thousands of Obama Voters?

Matt Stoller, Open Left AlterNet: PEEK. April 29, 2008.

Separate but unequal voting systems in West Virginia threaten to disenfranchise independent voters.

Black Woman Kidnapped, Tortured and Raped for Days by Racists in West Virginia

David Neiwert, AlterNet: PEEK. September 12, 2007.

David Neiwert: One of her white captors told her, "That's what we do to niggers around here," as they beat her repeatedly.

Wind vs. Coal: False Choices in the Battle to Resolve Our Energy Crisis

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. February 15, 2007.

If you want to know what we can do to resolve our energy crisis, look no further than West Virginia. Understanding a recent battle over wind development in coal country could help us all.