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With the Copenhagen Summit Approaching, a Global Climate Movement Emerges

By Bryan Farrell, Indypendent. December 1, 2009.
Environment: From Britain to Australia, members of an enormous, diverse climate movement are getting organized.

Pennsylvania Residents Sue Gas Driller for Contamination, Health Concerns

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. December 1, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The civil case, filed in Scranton, Pa., seeks to stop future drilling in the Marcellus Shale by Cabot Oil and Gas near the town of Dimock.

Detroit Restaurant Workers Rally Against Wage-Stealing Restaurant Chain

By Paul Abowd, Labor Notes. December 1, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Members of the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Michigan demonstrated against a slew of minimum-wage violations.

Will A Long-Awaited Israel/Palestine Prisoner Swap Finally Go Through?

By Jerrold Kessel, Pierre Klochendler, IPS News. December 1, 2009.
World: Whether or not Marwan Barghouti will be among those released on the Palestinian side could have important implications for the peace process.

Why Is the Department of Homeland Security Incarcerating Refugees Across the U.S.?

By Emily Creighton, Immigration Impact. December 1, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The DHS should re-consider its policy of jailing "unadjusted" refugees.

Activists Protest Natural Resources Defense Council for Collaborating With Polluters

By Joseph Huff-Hannon, Huffington Post. December 1, 2009.
Politics: The protestors say that the environmental advocacy group has aligned itself with corporate interests whose goals for reducing emissions are far too limited.

Michael Moore: An Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan

By Michael Moore, MichaelMoore.com. December 1, 2009.
World: You still have the opportunity to save thousands of lives and live up to your campaign promises. Don't become the next war president, Mr. Obama.

Have Women's Lives Improved Globally?

By Laura Liswood, Women's Media Center. November 30, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The World Economic Forum reported some major progress in the lives of women and girls in some surprising places.

What Do Levi Johnston, Evangelicals and Oprah Have in Common? They All Blind Us to What Really Matters

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig. November 30, 2009.
Media and Technology: Our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd, while the course of human history is changing. Those who choose reality over fantasy are derided as pessimists.

30,000 More Troops? Obama Gives Orders For New Afghan Strategy

Agence France Presse. November 30, 2009.
Obama has already ordered the new strategy implemented and is informing the leaders of Russia, Britain and France of his plans.

Why Is the Media So Obsessed With Horrifying Images of African-American Mothers?

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation. November 30, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: With Michelle Obama in the White House, I expected a resurgence of the Claire Huxtable stereotype. Instead, hideous depictions of abusive, irresponsible black moms are everywhere.

Revealed: Astroturf Groups Planning Massive California Water Grab to Benefit Big Ag and SoCal

By Dan Bacher, AlterNet. November 28, 2009.
Water: Their ultimate goals are to increase water exports from the imperiled Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to corporate agribusiness and southern California.

Our Lives Are Filled With Worthless Crap That's Destroying the Earth: Here's What You Can Do

By Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, In These Times. November 28, 2009.
Environment: The way to lower the quantity of energy required to make and distribute short-lived consumer goods is to make them durable, repairable and upgradable.

How One Journalist Learned About Modern Union-Busting the Hard Way

By Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. November 28, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Sara Steffens thought that labor negotiations were civilized affairs ... until her newsroom became a battlefield.

Republican Playbook on Immigration Debate Long on Emotions, Short on Facts

By Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact. November 27, 2009.
Immigration: Senate Republicans have “thoughtfully’ provided immigration advocates with their strategy for opposing immigration reform in 2010.

Lou Dobbs, Looking at Public Office, Says He's in Favor of Policy He Used to Spin as "Shamnesty for Illegals"

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 26, 2009.
Politics: Dobbs said he now favors the very legalization process for unauthorized immigrants that he's long derided as a brain-dead "amnesty".

Whatever Happened to the CIA Black Sites?

By David Corn, Mother Jones. November 26, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The CIA ordered its secret prisons closed, but lawyers for terrorism suspects want them preserved as possible evidence -- and the CIA won't say what's going on.

Don't Fear the Deficit Bogeyman

By John Miller, Dollars and Sense. November 26, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A second dose of deficit-financed stimulus spending would create a lot of jobs that America needs.

Bailed-Out AIG Forcing Poor to Choose Between Running Water and Food

By Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 26, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Thanks to AIG, some of the poorest residents of rural Kentucky learned you can always be made poorer by corporate villains.

White House's Ties to Health Care Industry Deeper Than Visitor Records Show

By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet. November 26, 2009.
Politics: The White House released records cataloguing 575 visits by health care industry heavyweights since Jan. 20. The ties run deep.

Atheism and Diversity: Is It Wrong For Atheists To Convert Believers?

By Greta Christina, AlterNet. November 26, 2009.
Belief: Atheism isn't an attack on diversity, it's a defense of reality.

Sex, Beer, Heroin and Cocaine: How Prosecutors Pay Off Criminal Snitches

By Ryan Blitstein, Miller-McCune.com. November 26, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: All too often, prosecutors aid and abet the crimes of their informants. And that's just one disheartening outcome of American law enforcement's bungled dealings with snitches.

The Battle of Durban II: New Film Brings Dose of Sanity to Debate Over Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Brian White, Gotcha Movies. November 26, 2009.
World: It's a great feat to bring an even view to international politics. The Battle of Durbin II does just that.

Palestinian Children Face Daily Attacks While Going to School

By Mel Frykberg, IPS News. November 25, 2009.
World: A safe walk to school is something many American children take for granted. Not so for many Palestinian youths who are facing attacks from Israeli settlers.

4 Myths About Taxes, Debunked

By Paul Buchheit, AlterNet. November 25, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Contrary to what the richest of the rich tell you, a little bit of wealth redistribution will greatly help America.

Murder at Guantanamo? The Mysterious, Unsolved Death of Mohammad Saleh al Hanashi

By Jeffrey S. Kaye, TruthOut.org. November 25, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Mohammad Saleh al Hanashi was found dead inside a psych ward at Guantanamo. It was ruled a suicide. But disturbing evidence suggest the truth may be far uglier.

White House Garden Won't Make Up for Obama's Nomination of Pesticide Lobbyist for US Chief Agriculture Negotiator

By Jill Richardson, Commonweal Institute. November 25, 2009.
Food: Obama's statements about food and agriculture trend moderate to progressive, but his nominations for top positions in his administration tell a different story.

Black Teacher May Get 15 Years in Prison for Cutting in Line at Wal-Mart

By Devona Walker, The Loop. November 25, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: This is not how our criminal justice system is supposed to operate.

Conservative "Purity Test" Too Right Wing for Ronald Reagan

By John Nichols, The Nation. November 25, 2009.
Rigid conservatives in the RNC want to establish a purity test for the party's candidates. Guess what? Reagan the conservative hero would have failed most of the criteria.

The Vampire Banks Are Back: Will There Ever Be Meaningful Financial Reform?

By Dean Baker, CounterPunch. November 25, 2009.
Politics: The halls of Congress are infected with financial industry lobbyists looking to block necessary changes to our broken financial system.

47,000 Women Could Die As a Result of the New Mammogram Guidelines

By George Lakoff, AlterNet. November 25, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths.

Is Belief in God Hurting America?

By David Villano, Miller-McCune.com. November 25, 2009.
Belief: According to a new study, prosperity is highest in countries that practice religion the least.

Don't Be Scared of Food: Are We Being Needlessly Hysterical About Food Safety?

By David E. Gumpert, Chelsea Green Publishing. November 25, 2009.
Food: Despite all the media hype, there's little to actually suggest we're facing a major food safety crisis.

Is Amazon.com Screwing You Over?

By Steve Brown, AlterNet. November 25, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Amazon is charging -- and pocketing -- exorbitant shipping and handling fees, and someone somewhere is getting rich from it.

What Nidal Hasan, Timothy McVeigh, and the Beltway Sniper Have in Common: All Were Scarred by Pointless U.S. Wars

By Nora Eisenberg, AlterNet. November 25, 2009.
World: Some of the most notorious massacres of the past 15 years have been committed by veterans whose brains have been severely damaged from trauma or exposure to toxic chemicals.

The Real Scandal Over Climate Change Isn't About Hacked Emails But the Media's Coverage

By Alex Steffen, Worldchanging. November 24, 2009.
Media and Technology: There's been a lot of talk recently about the "hacked climate emails." But a much bigger scandal is just waiting to break.

Hate Group, FAIR, Is Looking for "Ethnically Ambiguous" Actors to Amplify Its Racism

By Adam Luna, America's Voice. November 24, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The Federation for American Immigration Reform is holding auditions to promote hate. Here's how you can get the part!

What Happened to That Prosperity Tax-Cutters Promised Us?

By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. November 24, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Members of the super-rich elite don't care who gets burned by 30 years of tax cuts. Here's why we should.

Obama Quietly Backs Renewing Patriot Act Surveillance Provisions

By Willam Fisher, IPS News. November 24, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Three contentious provisions are scheduled to expire next month; opponents of these sections have been pushing to roll them back. But Obama seems ready to renew them.

Obama Will Announce 34,000-Troop Escalation in Afghanistan 'Within Days'

Agence France Presse. November 24, 2009.
World: Obama faces a U.S. public sharply divided on the war and calls from some Democratic allies to set a flexible timetable for withdrawal.

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