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Rachel Maddow: GOP Sex Scandal Exposes Secretive Conservative Religious Group -- 'The Family'

By Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show. July 14, 2009.
Politics: Sen. John Ensign's affair has brought unwanted attention on a powerful religious network in Washington.

What Makes Religion a Force for Good or Evil?

By Terrence McNally, Robert Wright, AlterNet. July 11, 2009.
Belief: Christianity, Judaism and Islam are both peaceful and violent. Robert Wright discusses what circumstances bring out the best and worst in religion.

China's Rodney King Riots

By Vivian Po, New America Media. July 8, 2009.
World: The deaths of two Uighur workers in Southern China have sparked riots, leaving at least 156 dead and more than 1,000 injured.

Howard Dean: "This Is Ridiculous. We're 60 Years Behind the Times" on Fixing Health Care

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 8, 2009.
Politics: Progressive leader and health crusader Dean on what it's going to take to overhaul our health care system.

Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System

By David Beers, The Tyee. July 4, 2009.
Environment: Pollan gives a glimpse at the current state of food politics inside the White House and within his own home.

Food Inc: Michael Pollan and Friends Reveal the Food Industry's Darkest Secrets

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. June 25, 2009.
Media and Technology: The new film Food Inc. is a shocking look at the health, human rights and the environmental nightmare that lands on our plate each meal.

China's Other Genocide: the 'Mother of the Uyghurs' Speaks Out

By Richard Gale, Gary Null, AlterNet. June 24, 2009.
World: One of China's "Public Enemies" talks about the secret war on the Uyghurs.

Legal Pot in California in 2010? "Oaksterdam" Provides the Model

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 15, 2009.
DrugReporter: Pot entrepreneur Richard Lee envisions a professional marijuana industry much like the one that exists in Amsterdam.

The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Understanding the dangerous worldview that led to the murder of an innocent doctor and an attack at the Holocaust Museum.

What Do Afghan Women Think About Obama's Plans for the Country?

By Jodie Evans, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Mariam Nawabi, a social entrepeneur and activist, shares her thoughts on Congress' rush to pass another $94 billion for war this week.

Bernie Sanders and Nurses Tell Obama: Embrace Single-Payer Health Care

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. June 9, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Sanders: We need to tell Obama that if he suppors a single-payer system, "he will have the backing of tens and tens of millions of Americans."

Bill Moyers: The Rise of Private Armies -- Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. June 9, 2009.
World: Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."

Corporate Agriculture Is to Blame for the Hundreds of Thousands of Farmer Suicides in India

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. May 20, 2009.
Water: Vandana Shiva says industrial agriculture has left Indian farmers indebted and destitute, and explains how to stem the tide of suicides.

Around the World, the Workers Are Fighting Back

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 18, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: There's an international wave of pushback against corporate malfeasance and greed.

Michael Pollan: "Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised"

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. May 15, 2009.
Environment: "The real food is not being advertised. And that's really all you need to know."

Peak-Oil Prophet James Howard Kunstler on Food, Fuel and Why He Became an Almost Vegan

By Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. May 7, 2009.
Environment: Kunstler dishes on the collapse of our institutions, why "recovery" may never come and how to survive the fall of farming as we know it.

Bill McKibben: How to Get Obama and Congress to Do the Right Thing on Climate Change

By Roger Cohn, Yale Environment 360. May 5, 2009.
Environment: Author/activist Bill McKibben talks how to create a massive movement for change.

Markos 'Kos' Moulitsas on Obama, Twittering, Fighting the Blue Dogs, and the Major Changes Coming

By Don Hazen, AlterNet. May 4, 2009.
Media and Technology: The founder of the popular Daily Kos site discusses the growing power of the online netroots, and their upending of political gatekeepers.

Locked in a Private Immigration Prison, One Man Speaks Out

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. April 29, 2009.
Immigration: Sheikh Zoubir Bouchikhi has been held without bail at a private immigration prison in Houston for the past four months.

The Ethical Slut Returns: Into Threesomes, Foursomes, Moresomes?

By Marty Beckerman, The Daily Beast. April 24, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: The co-author of a cult classic about open relationships talks sex communes, romantic one-night stands, and offering chicken soup to lovers.

'A Ton More People Were Wiretapped Than We've Been Led to Believe': FBI Whistleblower Thomas Tamm

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 18, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The man who blew the lid off Bush's spying program believes more details on government spying must, and will, come to light.

It's a Mugging: Our National Wealth Is Getting Handed Over to the Bloated Rich

By Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash. April 16, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Inequality expert Chuck Collins argues we're in America's second Gilded Age.

'These People Fear Prosecution': Why Bush's CIA Team Should Worry About Its Dark Embrace of Torture

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. April 11, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications.

Big Food Is Copying Big Tobacco's Disinformation Tactics, How Many Will Die This Time?

By Fen Montaigne, Yale Environment 360. April 11, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The playbook is the same, but this time the the lies and misinformation could be disastrous for everyone -- children especially.

Fast-Rising Protest Group Challenges the Outrageous Power of the Bankers

By Kristina Rizga, WireTap. April 7, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Why it's time to nationalize the banks, and enforce tough financial regulations to stop the massive theft from the public purse.

Moyers Journal: Madoff Was A Piker -- America's Big Banks Are a Far Larger Fraudulent Ponzi Scheme

By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. April 6, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: One of America's top bank fraud experts explains the financial industry's "liar's loans" and wholesale greed that got us in this mess.

Seymour Hersh: Secret U.S. Forces Carried Out Assassinations in 'a Lot of' Countries, Including in Latin America

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 31, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The investigative journalist for The New Yorker explains his recent bombshell revelation about Dick Cheney's "executive assassination" squads.

Nickelsville: Seattle's Homeless Name New Tent City After City's Mayor

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 31, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: An encampment is made up of over a hundred pink tents and is named to protest Seattle Mayor Greg Nickel's policies around the homeless.

Christian Fundamentalist Group Preaches Patriarchy and Women's Fertility as Weapons for Spiritual Warfare

By Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash. March 30, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Author Kathryn Joyce explains the bizarre Quiverfull movement dedicated to exploding the birthrate of ultra-conservative Christians.

Jail Without Justice: Report Slams U.S. Immigration Gulags

By Amy Goodman, AlterNet. March 27, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Tens of thousands languish in immigration prisons in deplorable conditions without receiving a hearing on whether their detention is warranted.

Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes

By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. March 25, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Legal expert Michael Ratner calls the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos, "Fuhrer's law."

Israel Promises Internal Probe After Soldiers Describe Civilian Killings in Gaza

By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. March 24, 2009.
ForeignPolicy: While Defense Minister Ehud Barak claims that Israel has "the most moral army in the world," IDF soldiers suggest otherwise.

Have Geithner's Zombie Ideas Won? Paul Krugman on the "Cash for Trash" Program

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 24, 2009.
Krugman on Geithner's toxic assets program: "It’s the zombie that you keep killing, and it just keeps coming back."

Water Rights Activists Blast World Water Forum as "Corporate Trade Show to Promote Privatization"

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 23, 2009.
Water: Activists slammed the event as a non-inclusive, corporate-driven fraud and called for a more open, democratic and transparent forum.

Was Throwing a Shoe at Bush a Violent Act?

By Medea Benjamin, AlterNet. March 17, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The infamous shoe-tossing incident has sparked a debate within the peace movement whether the act was appropriate and constitutes nonviolence.

Bush Heads to Canada, Canadians Amass Shoes

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. March 17, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: As George W. Bush travels north to give a speech (in exchange for a six-figure speaking fee), Canadians call for his arrest for war crimes.

Van Jones: Why I'm Going to Washington

By Doug Pibel, YES! Magazine. March 16, 2009.
Environment: Jones talks about what his new appointment in the Obama administration means and what he hopes to accomplish working from the inside.

Howard Zinn: Obama "Is Going to Need Demonstrations and Protest and Letters and Petitions" to Do the Right Things

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 12, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The author of A People's History of the United States discusses his newest project and why dissent is as important as ever.

Afghan MP Fatima Nazari: U.S. 'Has Focused on Mujahedeen Warlords; They Should Listen to the People'

By Anand Gopal, IPS News. March 10, 2009.
World: A conversation with the head of Afghanistan's new political party devoted to women's rights.

Jim Hightower's Tips on 21st Century Populism, and Obama's Rare Opportunity

By Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash. March 4, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: "I say the greatest thing about America is Americans. The people themselves, at a grassroots level, are doing the most extraordinary things."

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