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Always Away on Instant Messenger

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. October 10, 2007.
Media and Technology: Instant Messenger is a medium of communication somewhere between e-mail, which can be too slow, and the phone, which can be too fast.

Brother and Sister Battle Racism and Cancer

By Amy Goodman, Truthdig. October 10, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Troy Davis faces death by lethal injection in Georgia for a crime with questionable evidence, and his sister, Martina Correia fights alongside him while also battling breast cancer.

The Martyring of Che Guevara

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. October 10, 2007.
Let's dispel some common myths and misconceptions about Che.

Making the Right Money Decisions -- Decade by Decade

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. October 8, 2007.
One's 20s and 60s shouldn't be so different because they are both times of change and exploration, according to Per Larson, author of "Gay Money."

Do The Right Thing Marion, Return The Medals

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. October 8, 2007.
Media and Technology: Now that Marion Jones has admitted to doping, the only graceful thing left for her to do is return her Olympic medals.

How to Find Out Where Your Congressperson Stands on Climate Change

By Bill McKibben, Grist.org. October 5, 2007.
Environment: If you want to know where your congressperson stands on climate change, invite him/her to the Step It Up rally.

Why Christian Conservatives Are Threatening to Abandon the GOP

By Will Durst, AlterNet. October 5, 2007.
If Giuliani gets the nod from the GOP a whole group of the party's base it threatening to jump ship.

Understanding Clarence Thomas

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. October 4, 2007.
For the thin-skinned Thomas race has always lurked close to the surface. And it's intimately, but falsely, intertwined with the debate over conservative ideology.

Blackwater: The U.S.'s Trigger-Happy Guardians

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. October 3, 2007.
World: Why did the U.S. State Department tolerate -- and pay to conceal -- the wanton murder of Iraqis committed by Blackwater?

Chevron's Pipeline Is the Burmese Regime's Lifeline

By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. October 3, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: The barbarous military regime depends on revenue from the nation’s gas reserves and partners such as Chevron, a detail ignored by the Bush administration.

Modern Bionic Woman, Retrograde Feminism

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. October 2, 2007.
Media and Technology: Jaime Sommers, heroine of the 1970s show Bionic Woman is back, but in a gender role that seems older than the original.

Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State

By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. October 1, 2007.
The new book Made Love, Got War documents five decades of rising American militarism and the media's all-to-frequent failure to challenge it.

Fighting for LGBT Rights in the Midwest

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. October 1, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: It took a tragic death for Jeffrey Montgomery to go from a "mind your own business" kind of gay guy to a "mind our own business" kind of gay activist.

Absolute, 100 Percent, Unadulterated Free Speech

By Will Durst, AlterNet. October 1, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: It doesn't matter which holes free speech is coming out from. Everybody gets to say their piece.

Building a Case to Fight Iran

By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. October 1, 2007.
ForeignPolicy: Is the Lieberman-Kyl amendment a stepping stone to waging a preemptive war on Iran?

Why Top GOP Candidates Skipped the Black College Debate

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. September 28, 2007.
Is it as simple as saying that the GOP's leading candidates for presidency just don't care about black people?

Calling All Citizens: Demand Action on Global Warming

By Bill McKibben, Grist.org. September 27, 2007.
Environment: Gather your neighbors and ask politicians to join Step It Up 2 and explain their stance on climate change.

Global Consensus, Not Global Conquest

By Amy Goodman, Truthdig. September 26, 2007.
ForeignPolicy: Focusing on whether Columbia University should have invited Iran's President Ahmadinejad to speak, Bush's drumbeat for war with Iran goes unchallenged. Let this not be a reprise of the war on Iraq.

Biden One-Ups Bush

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 26, 2007.
World: Why is Sen. Joe Biden introducing legislation to spend $23.6 billion on armored vehicles in Iraq when President Bush only asked for $12 billion?

To See or Not To See Violence

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. September 26, 2007.
Media and Technology: Preserving a record of history, especially during times of conflict, also means keeping the scenes of violence that the mainstream media whitewashes over.

From California to Maine, Straight Allies Stand Up

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. September 24, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Straight allies across the nation are taking the all-important step of going from privately opposing discrimination against LGBT people to actively speaking out against it.

The Whole (Jena 6) Story?

By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 24, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: You can't claim the moral high ground in the struggle for racial justice with a beat-up white kid at the bottom of the pile.

Why Civil Rights Leaders Didn't Get Mychal Bell Out of Jail

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. September 21, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Mychal Bell, the most well-known of the Jena Six, has languished in jail since last December. So why didn't civil rights leaders, black celebrities, and marchers pony up the cash to get him out?

Tipping the Scales of Justice in Jena

By Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. September 19, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: The Jena Six face discrimination from the school, the law, and the town at large.

Checkbook Imperialism: The Blackwater Fiasco

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 19, 2007.
World: Why doesn't the Iraqi government have the explicit legal power to expel or adjudicate the U.S.-contracted troops that are killing its citizens?

The Death of 'Green' Satellites

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. September 18, 2007.
Environment: The government is cutting funds to the tools that climate researchers need most -- the satellite and sensor networks that study the way humans are impacting climate change.

Do the Police Have it out for O.J.?

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. September 17, 2007.
Media and Technology: There is little chance that O.J. Simpson, given the savage public mood toward him, would get the benefit of the doubt on any charges against him.

Congress Needs to Stop School Bullies

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. September 17, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Bullying has dangerous ripple effects: the twisted killers in the Virginia Tech and Columbine High School tragedies were bullied before turning violent themselves.

FAQs on General Petraeus' Testimony

By Will Durst, AlterNet. September 17, 2007.
World: Will Durst answers some of the most frequently asked questions regarding General Petraeus' testimony to Congress last week.

The Problem with (Spy) 'Chatter'

By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 17, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Amid all the chatter over the New England Patriots' "spy gate" scandal, the question is: what do Bill Belichick's video man, Bush patriots and the USA Patriot Act have in common?

Why the Feds Won't Prosecute West Virginia Torture Case as a Hate Crime

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. September 14, 2007.
It seemed that if ever there was a case that screamed for the feds to jump in and charge the six hate-spewing whites that assailed the young black woman with a hate crime, this was the case.

Here's the Smell of Blood Still

By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. September 12, 2007.
World: As the autumn of 2007 begins, the reality of Uncle Sam as an unhinged mega-killer haunts a large minority of Americans.

The General Lies

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. September 12, 2007.
World: Once again, we have a general repeatedly promising to save Western civilization by turning the corner in yet another intractable and unnecessary foreign war.

The Secret Messages NASA Sent to Aliens

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. September 11, 2007.
When NASA sent the Voyager into space 30 years ago, it contained record albums intended for alien consumption.

Oprah's Star Power Won't Do Much for Obama

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. September 11, 2007.
Media and Technology: Why Oprah's endorsement of Obama won't help him gain votes, even with the thousands of Oprah's faithful female viewers.

Lessons From the Sen. Craig Calamity

By Deb Price, Creators Syndicate. September 10, 2007.
Sex and Relationships: Longtime gay activist Michael Rogers said, "It was simply no longer acceptable for me to sit there and watch a political party filled with so many closeted gay men beat up on gay Americans."

The Counterterrorist Companion

By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. September 10, 2007.
Media and Technology: The new book, 'The Counterterrorist Companion,' is an amusing reminder that the most potent weapon in the fight against terrorism is to not be terrorized.

Will They Arrest Britney in Mansfield for Sagging Pants?

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. September 6, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Sagging pants are an easy and convenient symbol of the supposed dereliction and menace of young black men. The consequence of that symbol and thinking has been devastating.

Anti-authoritarian Cities

By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet. September 5, 2007.
Archaeologists have discovered that Brak, a Syrian city and one of the oldest urban areas in the world, was built in a way that completely defies conventional wisdom about how cities grow.

The Sexual Self-Interest of the Cuckolded Wife

By Susie Bright, SusieBright.com. September 5, 2007.
Sex and Relationships: How does Suzanne Craig, wife of the outed senator, stand next to her liar of a husband at a press conference and not hurl her guts?

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