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Iraq War: Love and Personal Loss [Photo Essay]

By Nina Berman, AlterNet. September 27, 2007.
World: Andrew Lichtenstein's new book, Never Coming Home, shows the faces behind the Iraq War casualty statistics.

World's Water Supply at Risk

By Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, Jason Mark, PoliPoint Press. September 26, 2007.
Environment: One of the world's leading water experts explains how our local water supplies are threatened across North America and across the globe.

Naomi Klein Debates Alan Greenspan

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. September 25, 2007.
Naomi Klein goes head to head with Alan Greenspan on the Iraq war, Bush's tax cuts, economic populism, crony capitalism and more.

Does Naomi Klein Oversimplify the Connections Between Globalization and War?

By Stephen Marshall, AlterNet. September 22, 2007.
The left accepts as faith the idea that corporate globalization and war are connected. But there's a danger in oversimplifying that connection.

Why Can't the U.S. Have the Debate about Naomi Klein's Book That Europe Has?

By Jan Frel, AlterNet. September 21, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: In Europe and Canada debate is raging about Naomi Klein's new book on disaster capitalism, The Shock Doctrine. This interview with Klein considers why U.S. public debate is unable to ask fundamental questions about our economic system.

Hocus POTUS: A Fictional Account of the Search for WMDs in Iraq

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. September 20, 2007.
World: The new novel from a veteran journalist and former Marine, captures a truth about Iraq that you won't get from reading the daily news. Here's an interview with him and an excerpt.

How the Luxury Industry Went the Way of McDonald's

By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. September 19, 2007.
Even a Louis Vuitton handbag isn't much different from a Big Mac.

U.S. Is Paying Off Iraq's Worst War Criminals in Attempt to Ward Off Attacks

By Katie Halper, AlterNet. September 18, 2007.
World: The insurgents who were shooting at U.S. troops six months ago are now on the payroll [includes video].

How Do We Cure a Sick Health Care System?

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. September 4, 2007.
Health and Wellness: Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.

Comic Will Durst on the All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing

By Katie Halper, AlterNet. August 31, 2007.
Will Durst talks about his new show in Manhattan, getting flipped off by Olympia Dukakis, helping the terrorists win, necrophilia and other things liberals enjoy.

From Apocalypse to Disaster, America Is Obsessed with the Prospect of Bad News

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. August 31, 2007.
Media and Technology: Author of the new book The Culture of Calamity, Kevin Rozario explains why we are so fond of a good crisis.

The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products

By Vanja Petrovic, AlterNet. August 15, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Investigative journalist Mark Schapiro discusses why companies that manufacture hazard-free products for the European Union often produce toxin-filled versions of the same items for America and developing countries.

Amory Lovins: How to Face Today's Greatest Energy Challenges

By David Roberts, Grist.org. August 14, 2007.
Environment: Amory Lovins, one of America's most renown environmentalists talks about our greatest energy challenges and covers everything from biofuels to Iraq.

The Last Days of American Democracy?

By James Harris, Joshua Scheer, Truthdig. August 9, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: Elliot Cohen, author of The Last Days of Democracy, argues that the United States is in political and cultural decline, with media and telecommunications giants engaged in "a well-organized effort to hijack America."

The Near Poor: a Huge Missing Class

By Eyal Press, The Nation. August 9, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The 57 million "near-poor" living in America today are twice the number living in poverty.

Friends Don't Make You Fat

By Viji Sundaram, New America Media. August 6, 2007.
Health and Wellness: An expert on childrens' health attacks a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine which suggests that obesity is socially contagious.

Why Progressives Are Selling Out To Corporate America

By Jeanine Plant, AlterNet. August 1, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: An interview with author Daniel Brook offers us answers on why so many progressives get roped into the corporate world.

Disgraced Pastor Ted Haggard Can't Pray Away the Gay

By James Harris, Joshua Scheer, Truthdig. July 27, 2007.
The former escort who blew the whistle on Ted Haggard’s homosexuality shares why he felt morally compelled to come forward, what the fallout has been and what he feels is the real tragedy of the situation.

Elizabeth Edwards Interview: "The Candidate Who's Best for Women in This Race is My Husband"

By Ruth Conniff, The Progressive. July 21, 2007.
The wife of the former North Carolina senator explains the role she had in John Edwards' vote for the war in Iraq, why Edwards is the best candidate for women.

Why Is the White House Pretending That Saudi Insurgents in Iraq Are Iranian?

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 20, 2007.
World: Nearly half of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops in Iraq have come from Saudi Arabia -- an inconvenient truth for the White House papered over with the lie that Iran is the chief instigator.

An Interview with the Wizard of Wikipedia

By Rich Knight, SMITH Magazine. July 13, 2007.
Media and Technology: Meet Richard Farmbrough, a 45-year-old technology project manager living in England -- and the man with the most Wiki entries since its launch in 2001.

21st Century S.E.X. Ed

By Rachel Kramer Bussel, WireTap. July 13, 2007.
Sex and Relationships: A founder of an innovative sex-ed program explains her holistic, inclusive approach to teaching teens about the birds and the bees.

Twinkie, Deconstructed: Processing the American Diet

By Vanja Petrovic, AlterNet. July 12, 2007.
Health and Wellness: A conversation with author Steve Ettlinger reveals the mines, mile-long factories and enormous industrial effort that goes into making a Twinkie -- an archetype of the processed foods found in so many Americans' diets.

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death [VIDEO]

By Adam Howard, AlterNet. July 11, 2007.
World: A new film, War Made Easy uses archival footage to show the continuity of the propaganda messages that have been used to to justify war from LBJ to George W. Bush.

Shaq Takes on Childhood Obesity

By Willow Bay, Huffington Post. July 10, 2007.
Health and Wellness: Shaq's ultimate goal is to create a fitness plan for Florida -- where the State Department of health estimates 25 percent of children are obese or at risk of becoming obese -- that can serve as a model for the entire country.

Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is "Robbery"

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. July 9, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: The proposed oil law facing the Iraqi cabinet would allow Western oil companies to take about 50% of all production as their share, an "obvious robbery of the Iraqi oil," says oil workers union heavy.

Iraq Comes Home: Soldiers Share the Devastating Tales of War

By Emily DePrang, Texas Observer. July 4, 2007.
World: Three veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan share the nightmare experiences that war has brought into their lives.

Rachel Maddow: Progressives' Kick-Ass Funster on the Radio

By Julie A. Weisberg, PageOneQ. July 3, 2007.
Media and Technology: How does a self-described butch dyke from California -- out and proud since her early days as a student and HIV/AIDS activist at Stanford University -- get to be one of the newest left-wing media darlings?

There's a Lot You Don't Know About What's in Your Food

By Vanja Petrovic, AlterNet. July 3, 2007.
Health and Wellness: Nearly three quarters of all processed foods contain genetically engineered ingredients, but you'd never know it by reading package labels. Author Andrew Kimbrell discusses the risks of genetic engineering and how to avoid it.

Demystifying Estrogen Therapy

By Willow Bay, Huffington Post. June 27, 2007.
Health and Wellness: Discussions about estrogen therapy go something like this: It's good, no it's bad, no it's good again. With all the back-and-forth, who can tell? A physician weighs in on the media's roller coaster coverage.

Why Do We Pay Our Plumbers More Than Our Caregivers?

By Terrence McNally, Riane Eisler, AlterNet. June 27, 2007.
Surely leaky pipes aren't more important than our children. Yet, in America, most plumbers make five times what caregivers do. Author Riane Eisler shows how our economic system, rooted in gender inequality, is failing us. An excerpt from her latest book follows.

Exotic Tourism with a Twist: Travelling Through the 'Axis of Evil'

By Jared Ferrie, The Tyee. June 27, 2007.
Tony Wheeler traveled to Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan and found that the media's image of the countries has very little to with what daily life is like in those places.

Paul Hawken: How to Stop Our Political and Economic Systems From Stealing Our Future

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. June 26, 2007.
Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest, discusses what he sees as the largest social movement in human history, and why that movement is so invisible to the media -- and itself.

Michael Moore Attacks the Grotesque Profit Motive of the US Health Care System

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. June 22, 2007.
Health and Wellness: Moore explains how the the obscene profits made by the CEOs of "non-profit" hospitals started with Richard Nixon in this powerful interview about his new documentary, SiCKO.

A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America

By Michael Parks, AlterNet. June 21, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: An interview with author Christopher A. Finan shows how far we have come with civil liberties since World War I and how far we have yet to go.

Why Feminists Fight With Each Other

By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. June 12, 2007.
An interview with the author of Sisterhood Interrupted provides historical context for contemporary feminist infighting: the overblown mommy wars, raunch feminists and their older, horrified detractors, and bloggers virtually ripping one another apart.

An Interview with Shia Firebrand Moqtada al-Sadr

By Nazr Latif, The Independent. June 11, 2007.
World: Shia leader and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the man Washington blames for its failure to gain control in Iraq, gives his perspective on the US involvement in Iraq: "The Americans are occupiers and thieves, and they must set a timetable to leave this country."

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