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Banks Get into the Unemployment Biz, and Quickly Start the Rip-offs

By Barbara Koeppel, Consortium News. December 17, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: As states pay unemployment benefits with bank debit cards, the jobless are seeing their fees add up.

Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica. December 17, 2009.
Water: The energy industry has developed innovative ways to make it easier to exploit the nation's natural gas reserves without polluting air and drinking water.

Kucinich: 'Class War Is Over, Working People Lost'

By Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. December 17, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: "The separation between the finance economy and the real economy is real. This is not some fake idea. You can’t call that class warfare. That’s a fact."

Is Handwriting Going the Way of the Dodo?

By Anne Trubek, Miller-McCune.com. December 17, 2009.
Media and Technology: Writing words by hand is a technology that's just too slow for our times, and our minds.

NPR Has a Serious Fox News Problem

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. December 17, 2009.
Media and Technology: For the sake of NPR's long-term health and reputation, it needs to resolve two of its hosts' long-standing ties to Fox News

$57,077.60 -- That's What We're Paying Each Minute for the Occupation of Afghanistan

By Jo Comerford, Tomdispatch.com. December 17, 2009.
World: The $30 billion cost of Obama's surge alone would place the US in the top-ten for global military spending, sandwiched between Italy and Saudi Arabia.

Canadian Cities Leading the Charge Against Bottled Water

By Joe Cressy, Polaris Institute. December 17, 2009.
Water: Seventy-two municipalities from 8 provinces and 2 territories have implemented restrictions on bottled water.

The Latest in the Bottled Water Mania: Water From Under North Korea's Demilitarized Zone

By Anna Brones, EcoSalon. December 17, 2009.
Water: Now you can down a beverage originating in one of the most guarded and protected areas on earth. So, what?

Neocons Must Be Pissed; China and Russia Are Getting the Sweet Oil Deals in Iraq

By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times. December 17, 2009.
World: Cheney and Rumsfeld's script was never supposed to develop like this. Instead of US Big Oil getting the lion's share in Iraq, its top competitors turned out to be big winners.

Congress Gets Its Act Together: Repeals Ban on Syringe Exchange Funding, Allows D.C. to Enact Medical Marijuana Program

By Bill Piper, Naomi Long, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.
DrugReporter: Washington, D.C. finally seems to be getting the message that the war on drugs has failed.

Why Shouldn't Paris Hilton Pay Her Fair Share?

By Brian Miller, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.
Politics: If Congress doesn't act, the richest among us will get a huge windfall next year.

Howard Dean: I Won’t "Vigorously" Support Obama's Re-election

By Sahil Kapur, Raw Story. December 17, 2009.
Politics: Escalating his opposition to what remains of the health care legislation, former Gov. Howard Dean has taken more swipes at President Obama.

Businesses and Unions Face the Guest Worker Dilemma

By Maribel Hastings, New America Media. December 17, 2009.
Immigration: Corporations and labor leaders must negotiate an effective policy to deal with the U.S.'s 12 million undocumented immigrants.

Howard Dean Locks Horns with White House and Dem Senators After Call to 'Kill' Health Compromise

By David Edwards, Daniel Tencer, Raw Story. December 17, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Dean's call to start from scratch and craft a new health care bill is a cause for frustration for Obama's press secretary and Sen. Rockefeller.

Politicians Are Portraying 'Gitmo North' as a Terrific Local Jobs Program -- Don't Count On It

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Politicians' claim that moving detainees to Illinois will create 3,000 jobs is a distraction from an ugly reality; Gitmo is not being closed, it is being moved onto U.S. soil.

Does Aspartame Cause Tumors and Pose Cancer Risks? The Jury Is Still Out

By Scott Thill, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Aspartame is consumed by over 200 million people in more than 6,000 products -- but how many of us are aware of the health risks?

In the Shadow of Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Is Far from Recovery

By Denver Nicks, AlterNet. December 17, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Profits and bonuses are back on the Street, but the prosperity hasn't filtered down past the service economy.

135,000 Will Die Due to Lack of Insurance Before Health Reform Takes Effect, Study Finds

By Brad Jacobson, Raw Story. December 16, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Death toll estimate exceeds the total number of Americans who died in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the attacks of 9/11 combined.

Foreclosure Crisis Ceding American Communities to Rats, Insects

By Annette Fuentes, New America Media. December 16, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Abandoned swimming pools and garbage-strewn ghost towns have become ground zero for mosquito and rat infestations.

Game On for Immigration Reform

By Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact. December 16, 2009.
Immigration: A new comprehensive immigration reform bill hit the House this week.

Time to Get Alarmed: Wal-Mart Hopes to Be the Future of Local Food

By Tom Laskawy, Grist.org. December 16, 2009.
Food: The retail giant is stepping into the local food business and that is going to be bad news for a number of reasons.

Right-Wingers' Big Day on Capitol Hill Proves to Be a Bust

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. December 16, 2009.
Politics: A promised protest on Capitol Hill by right-wingers opposed to health-care reform doesn't happen; Dick Armey's speech at National Press Club canceled.

Congress's Attempt at Financial Reform Is Very Weak Broth

By Zach Carter, Media Consortium. December 16, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The latest efforts to reform Wall Street don't away with too-big-to-fail banks, and that's a big problem -- here's what progressives are saying about it.

Krugman: It Seems Like Washington Wants Another Financial Disaster

By Paul Krugman, The New York Times. December 16, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Are the Dems willing to learn something from the disaster that has overtaken the U.S. economy, and get behind financial reform?

Meet the FBI Operative Who Threatened My Life, and the Gov.-Elect Who May Have Helped Him

By Max Blumenthal, AlterNet. December 16, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Did NJ Republican Chris Christie grant legal protection to neo-nazi radio host Hal Turner for his undercover role in a federal program to "flush out" violent far-right plots?

The Brutal Dark Side of Obama's "Softer" Immigration Enforcement

By David Bacon, The Progressive. December 16, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: 'Sanctions pretend to punish employers but in reality, they punish workers.'

Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be

By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. December 15, 2009.
Environment: Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become.

The Latest From Copenhagen: U.S. Undermining Effort to Curb Deforestation

By Robert S. Eshelman, The Nation. December 15, 2009.
Environment: "Basically the trees that Barack Obama is talking about planting are meant to fuel U.S. cars."

To Fight Global Warming and Prevent Hunger, We Need to Change How We Grow Our Food

By Yifat Susskind, MADRE. December 15, 2009.
Food: Unless we control global climate change, caused in part by industrial farming, agricultural output across the world is likely to plummet.

Why Serious Immigration Reform Is Inevitable

By Mary Giovagnoli, Immigration Impact. December 15, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Hot-button issues like health reform and economic recovery will come and go. That U.S. immigration policy is fundamentally broken guarantees its eventual place in the conversation.

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