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The Drug War Has Failed -- What Comes Next?

By Sanho Tree, AlterNet. October 2, 2009.
Politics: Talking sensibly about drug policy begins with smashing the radioactive rhetoric of "legal/illegal."

Bait and Switch: ICE Says Program Targets "Dangerous Criminals" but Casts Wide Net

By Michele Waslin, Immigration Impact. October 2, 2009.
Immigration: Critics say a key immigration enforcement program is based on widespread ethnic profiling.

8 Reasons You Should Stop Drinking Milk Now

By Mickey Z., Planet Green. October 2, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Consuming dairy products -- milk, cheese, yogurt, sour cream, ice cream, etc. -- is not green and it's not healthy.

Rick Scott Is Making a Killing off the Uninsured

By Tristram Korten, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. October 2, 2009.
Politics: A leading foe of healthcare reform owns a chain of clinics aimed at people who would benefit from a public option.

Round 2 of Howard Dean vs. Rahm Emanuel: Dean Wins Again over Health Care Politics

By Cenk Uygur, AlterNet. October 2, 2009.
Politics: In round 1, Emanuel and Dean boxed over what strategy was best for Dems to regain House seats in 2006. Dean was right there, and in the health care debate, he's right again.

Tea Party Movement Returns Christian Right to Its Racist Past

By Michelle Goldberg, The American Prospect. October 2, 2009.
Politics: For years, the religious right tried to lose its racist image, reverting to homophobia as its hatred of choice. As it joins the Tea Party fray, it may once again have to own both.

New Proposed Climate Change Bill in Washington Is Simpler and More Equitable

By David Morris, AlterNet. October 2, 2009.
Politics: Happily, a new climate bill drafted by Sen. Maria Cantwell may change both the nature of the debate and its outcome.

NYC's Drinking Water at Risk? State OKs Controversial Gas Drilling Inside the Watershed

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. October 1, 2009.
Water: Have the necessary precautions been put in place by the state to safeguard drinking water for 9 million people?

Agreement Reached On the Klamath River -- Why the Largest Dam Removal Project in History May Be Underway Soon

By Dan Bacher, AlterNet. October 1, 2009.
Water: The government, three Indian Tribes and 25 other parties released a tentative agreement providing for the removal of four Klamath River dams owned by billionaire Warren Buffett.

Tough Progressive Congressman Alan Grayson Is Putting the Fear in Republicans

By John Nichols, The Nation. October 1, 2009.
Politics: GOPers are shocked that a Democrat has the nerve to call them out on their repeated health care lies and scare tactics. Rep. Grayson says get used to it.

No More Unlawful Government Spying: Pass the Justice Act Now!

The American Civil Liberties Union. October 1, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Sen. Russ Feingold and others have introduced the JUSTICE Act, which reforms our surveillance laws, including the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.

Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says "Nazi"

By Allison Kilkenny, Smirking Chimp. October 1, 2009.
Politics: The cause du jour for the Republican Party is to make as many rapid-fire comparisons between the Democrats and the Nazis as humanly possible.

Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories

By Chip Berlet, Indypendent. October 1, 2009.
Politics: Even before Obama was sworn in as the 44th President, the internet was seething with lurid theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.

The Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran Crowd Is Getting All Riled up Again

By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. October 1, 2009.
World: Apparently even Saudi Arabia is on board with the idea of an Israeli strike on Iran.

Why Getting Health Care Passed Is Insanely Difficult

By Brad Reed, AlterNet. October 1, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Special interests have always worked to kill national health plans -- from the progressives' proposals during the Wilson era to Clinton's failed reforms in the 1990s.

Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need

By Zach Carter, AlterNet. October 1, 2009.
Politics: Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.

Why Europeans Are Kicking Our Butts When it Comes to Living Green

By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Yale Environment 360. October 1, 2009.
Health and Wellness: In Europe it is far easier to channel your good intentions into action. And you feel far worse if you don’t.

Anti-Immigrant Hardliners Offer Bad Amendments to Health Bill, Get Shot Down

By Jackie Mahendra, America's Voice. September 30, 2009.
Immigration: As you’d expect, anti-immigrant organizations are calling on their members to light up the phones.

Senate Climate Bill Revealed: A Quick Guide

By Brian Merchant, TreeHugger. September 30, 2009.
Environment: Here's a first look at its pros and cons, how it's different from the climate bill that passed the House, and what to expect next.

Fewer People Crossing, but Deaths on Border Increasing

By Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post. September 30, 2009.
Immigration: The debate over border deaths is drawing renewed attention to a long-standing complaint by human rights groups.

Climate SOS: Any Old Climate Bill Won't Do, Time to Scrap Waxman-Markey and Fight for Real Change

By Rachel Smolker, AlterNet. September 30, 2009.
Take Action: A new movement is demanding more from the president, Congress and even most major environmental groups in order to pass truly meaningful climate legislation.

Marijuana in America: More Mainstream Than Ever, More Arrests Than Ever

By Tony Newman, AlterNet. September 30, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Marijuana's coming-out party is kicking into high gear across America -- but way to many people still are getting cuffed for it.

The U.S. and Europe Have Propped Up So Many Corrupt "Democracies" That the Word Is Losing Meaning

By Arundhati Roy, Tomdispatch.com. September 30, 2009.
World: What's next in a world where democracy has been so hollowed out?

Fox TV's Bizarre New Cartoon Comedy Is a Minstrel Show, Pure and Simple

By Jasmyne Cannick, New America Media. September 30, 2009.
Media and Technology: Fox’s debut of the “The Cleveland Show” is a desperate attempt to work against the improved international image of black people after the election of a black president.

Americans Are Still Buying Gas-Guzzlers, But Here Are 7 Signs That the Market for Green Transport Is Exploding

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. September 30, 2009.
Environment: More and more Americans are finding other ways to get around in greener fashion, from Smart Cars to Vespas.

Why "Economic Freedom" Is Just Another Way of Saying "Headed for a Cliff"

By John Miller, Dollars and Sense. September 29, 2009.
Politics: Supposedly a tool for measuring financial autonomy, the Index of Economic Freedom does little more than usher in the same policies that caused our financial crisis.

New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing

By Timothy LaSalle, AlterNet. September 29, 2009.
Environment: There's no honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture in playing a leading role in actually feeding people.

Congress Tries to 'Get Tough on Iran' but Plays Right Into Tehran's Hands

By William O. Beeman, New America Media. September 29, 2009.
World: New sanctions make Congress look tough, but they also provide cover for unpopular economic measures the Iranian government desperately wants to enact.

Census Boycott Splits Latinos

By Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. September 29, 2009.
Politics: Oddly, supporters of the boycott find themselves on the same side as immigration hard-liners, who also want the undocumented excluded from the 2010 Census.

Can 400 Green Labels Do Anything But Confuse The World's Consumers?

By John Laumer, TreeHugger. September 28, 2009.
Environment: Four hundred competing labels is a near-perfect way to devalue the whole idea of a environmental ratings system for consumers.

Does a the New "Goldstone Report" Stand to Reconfigure the U.S.'s Israel Policy?

By Ian Williams, Foreign Policy in Focus. September 28, 2009.
World: Does Obama want to build on the good work he started in Turkey and Egypt and send a signal to Israel? Or is he prepared to let unprincipled lobbyists hijack his foreign policy?

Robocops Employ Scary Crowd-Stopping Technology at Pittsburgh Protests

By Mike Ferner, After Downing Street. September 28, 2009.
Media and Technology: An arsenal of "crowd control munitions," was deployed with a massive, overpowering police presence in Pittsburgh during last week's G-20 protests.

Lies and Statistics: What Does Our Obsession with Gross Domestic Product Obscure?

By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. September 28, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: A new report by two celebrated economists attempts to reform the way we view a country's wealth.

Ketamine Isn't Just for Pets and Ravers Anymore; People Living in Extreme Pain Are Trying It as a Remedy

By Janice Arenofsky, Miller-McCune.com. September 28, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Infusions of ketamine now represent last-resort therapy for those with the intractable disease known as complex regional pain syndrome.

What's the Border Fence Good for? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs

By Yasha Levine, eXiled Online. September 28, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: It was obvious from the very beginning that Bush’s push for a border fence was nothing more than a political show to boost Republicans' creds with their base.

What Australia Can Teach Us About Water Efficiency

By Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute. September 28, 2009.
World: Recently, Australia drastically reduced its per capita water usage. So what's the holdup stateside?

Why Jim Badasci 'Went Postal': How Bullying Bosses and Economic Devastation Are Behind America's Latest Workplace Shooting

By Mark Ames, AlterNet. September 28, 2009.
World: Baldasci's shooting opens a window into Fresno, Calif.'s climate of soaring unemployment, scheming agribusiness oligarchs and Sean Hannity-inspired right-wing rage.

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