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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.

Did American Commandos Slaughter Afghan Civilians in Bala Murghab? Residents Say Yes.

By Mustafa Saber, Institute for War and Peace Reporting. November 24, 2009.
World: Residents of Takht-e-Bazaar say U.S. commandos landed in their area on November 6 and began shooting indiscriminately during a search for missing U.S. troops.

Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan Revealed

By Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. November 24, 2009.
World: An elite division of Blackwater plans targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan. And everyone's denying it.

Is the House's Health Bill Really Worse than Nothing?

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. November 24, 2009.
Politics: Some progressive opponents of the health care bill say it's so bad, we may as well drop it. That analysis ignores the millions of Americans who stand to get coverage.

Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. November 24, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Nearly 100,000 passengers were pulled aside by TSA behavior watchers last year, and it remains to be proven whether you can spot terrorists by the looks on their faces.

The Obama Speech America Is Dying to Hear: "This Administration Ended, Rather Than Extended, Two Wars"

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. November 23, 2009.
World: Any day now, Obama will make an announcement about the number of soldiers he wants in Afghanistan. Here's the speech he should give.

Are We Really 'Withdrawing' from Bush's Wars? Quietly, US Constructs Even More Bases in the Mideast

By Nick Turse, Tomdispatch.com. November 23, 2009.
World: The news is focused on a future U.S. withdrawal from Iraq -- but the withdrawal isn't to send the military presence home -- it's into bases across the Persian Gulf.

Labor Against the War Shifting Sights to Afghanistan Occupation

By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. November 23, 2009.
World: Because of domestic issues like health care reform, many unions have remained silent about Afghanistan. That's about to change.

What Denying Unauthorized Immigrants Health Insurance Will Cost You

AlterNet. November 23, 2009.
Politics: Call it a "nativist tax."

Just When You Thought It Was Safe: 3 Potential Obstacles to Health-Care Reform

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. November 23, 2009.
Politics: Harry Reid may have gotten the Senate to move his health-care bill forward, but a handful of conservative Democrats could still keep the bill from getting a final vote.

The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives

By Mark Ames, AlterNet. November 23, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: That Maj. Hasan tried to get a military discharge before the massacre is largely being erased -- we're supposed to keep focusing on the Muslim part.

When Sex Hurts, and No One Can Tell You Why: The Mysterious Condition Called Vulvodynia

By Carey Purcell, AlterNet. November 22, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Imagine a choice between no intercourse or sex with unbearable pain. Then imagine that no doctor knows how to fix it. That's the world occupied by women with vulvodynia.

15 Signs American Society Is Coming Apart at the Seams

By David DeGraw, Amped Status. November 21, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Are we nearing a tipping point as rapacious elites push a heavily armed populace too far?

Naomi Klein: 'No Logo' Revisited

By Naomi Klein, Picador Press. November 21, 2009.
In the new introduction to the re-release of her classic book, 'No Logo,' Klein explores how ad culture has thrived and adapted in the past decade.

Is Right-Wing Media Hustler Trying to "Blackmail" Obama's Attorney General over ACORN Videos?

By David Edwards, Muriel Kane, Raw Story. November 21, 2009.
Media and Technology: Andew Breitbart appears to be threatening to release more ACORN smear videos to avoid a serious DOJ investigation.

The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet. November 21, 2009.
Water: Vegetarians aren't the only ones who should be concerned; there's soy in just about everything you eat these days -- including hamburgers, mac 'n cheese and salad dressing.

Army Sends Mom to Afghanistan, Infant to Protective Services

By Dahr Jamail, AlterNet. November 21, 2009.
World: "This would do irreparable harm to her child. I think they are doing this to punish her."

Maddow: Anti-Muslim 'McCarthyism' Making Us Less Safe

By David Edwards, Raw Story. November 20, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Wave of prejudice among Republican politicians may actually be frustrating anti-terrorism efforts Maddow says.

New Right-Wing Craze: Using Bible Quote to Pray That Obama’s 'Days Be Few'

By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress. November 20, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: A new slogan is making its way onto t-shirts and even teddy bears: 'Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8,' which reads, 'Let his days be few; and let another take his office.”

Reagan Didn't End the Cold War -- Leftist Intellectuals Did

By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. November 20, 2009.
World: Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.

Pharmaceutical Giant Paid $500,000 to Psychiatrist Who Used Chicago's Poor as Guinea Pigs

By Christina Jewett and Sam Roe, ProPublica. November 20, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Dr. Michael Reinstein reaped a cool half million off his patients' misery.

Economic Crisis Is Getting Bloody -- Violent Deaths Are Now Following Evictions, Foreclosures and Job Losses

By Nick Turse, AlterNet. November 20, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Despite ever rosier economic predictions and a surging stock market, the body count from the economic crisis is destined only to grow in the weeks and months ahead.

8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food

By Robyn O'Brien, AlterNet. November 19, 2009.
Health and Wellness: No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimers and allergies. We need a new food system.

Is Obama's Latest Agriculture Nominee a Textbook Pesticide-Pusher?

By Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones. November 19, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Obama recently tapped as chief agricultural negotiator for the office of the US Trade Representative a senior executive from one of the pesticide industry's main trade groups.

Organizers Fire up Grassroots for Immigration Reform Fight Ahead

By Marcelo Ballve, AlterNet. November 19, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Organizers are putting together a series of “house parties” after the White House said it was preparing to push Congress on immigration reform early in 2010.

Iraq Throws Obama a Curve Ball, Key 2010 Elections in Peril

By Raed Jarrar, Erik Leaver, AlterNet. November 19, 2009.
World: Obama has muddied the waters in his response to the current election crisis.

Forty Years After Its First Episode, Sesame Street Is Still Saving the World

By Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. November 19, 2009.
Politics: Thanks to lots of research (and, of course, to Jim Henson's genius), Sesame Street continues to aid in early childhood development.

Rachel Maddow Interview with Former Evangelist Frank Schaeffer: Christian Right Is 'Trolling for Assassins'

AlterNet. November 19, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Schaeffer: "There is a crazy fringe [receiving] messages that have been pouring out of FOX News ... talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him."

Do Yearly Mammograms Save Women's Lives?

By Naomi Freundlich, Health Beat. November 19, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Controversial new recommendations on breast cancer prevention have caused a stir in the women's health community. But do yearly mammograms really change death rates?

How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply

By Yasha Levine, AlterNet. November 19, 2009.
Water: A group of water oligarchs engineered a disastrous privatization scheme to make a fortune out of California's most precious natural resource.

Modern Life Is Probably Screwed by Peak Oil, But It's Not Too Late to Avoid Mass Starvation

By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com. November 19, 2009.
Food: The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It'll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn't going to happen.

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