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Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms

By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast. August 3, 2009.
Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?

Can a Video Game Save the World?

By Ken Stier, Miller-McCune.com. August 3, 2009.
"Games for Change" let people take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ecological crises, and world hunger. But do they spur real action?

Time to End the Cold War: Why I'm Defying my Government and Visiting Cuba

By Tim Kingston, AlterNet. August 3, 2009.
World: The cold war is long dead, yet the United States still enforces a relic of that cold war with an economic embargo against Cuba.

Should We Ban Tobacco?

By Tony Newman, CNN. August 2, 2009.
Environment: Cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroin, meth and all other illegal drugs combined. Imagine if they were illegal.

Corporate Media Playing the Hate Game, Aiming at Both Obama and Clinton

By Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. August 1, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Media bigs seem to have reached the conclusion that hatred sells, so they're embracing their inner sexists and inner racists.

Is there Really "More to Love" About the New Reality Dating Show Featuring Larger Women?

By Liz Langley, Liz Langley's Blog. August 1, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Here's the plug: "The average woman in America is a size 14. The average woman on a reality show is a size 2. This is reality?"

Immigration, Health Reform and Big Lies

By Cristina Jimenez, Drum Major Institute. August 1, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Lying about how immigrants will be impacted by changes to the health care system is par for the course for anti-reformers.

Hey Biden, Put Down the Pom-Poms: We Don't Want a Cheerleader for War

By Jodie Evans, AlterNet. July 31, 2009.
World: Biden should quit his war talk and call for diplomacy, development, and accountability Afghanistan and Iraq that the US supports.

Nobody's Talking About the Silver Bullet That Could Heal the Economy and Cure Most Social Ills

By Jeff Ritterman, M.D., AlterNet. July 31, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Fairer societies simply work better.

If the Economy's So Much Better, Why Are Stores Giving Away Stuff Practically for Free?

By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. July 31, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Staples is selling school supplies for a quarter. That doesn't seem like a good sign.

Patching Things Up Over a Beer at the White House Is Nice, But Equal Protection Is Better

By Laura Flanders, AlterNet. July 30, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: While the media covers Obama, Crowley and Gates making up, sipping beer, the real issue is: Police who abuse power need to be reined in at once.

90 Salads In 90 Days: How a Committed Carnivore Convinced Herself to Enjoy Leafy Greens

By Hillary Fields, AlterNet. July 30, 2009.
Health and Wellness: "No I didn't lose any weight," writes Fields, but her "energy levels shot through the roof."

Birther Whack Jobs: Citizens of Idiot America

By Dan Kennedy, Comment Is Free. July 30, 2009.
Media and Technology: Join MoveOn's fight take on Lou Dobbs and put this paranoid and racist movement to an end.

'I'm Pretty. You're Ugly. Buy This' -- Why Fashion Magazines Are on the Decline

By Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. July 29, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Fashion glossies are about making their readers feel bad. Are women tired of their prettier-than-thou bullying?

What if Henry Louis Gates Were Not an Acclaimed Professor?

By Raj Jayadev, New America Media. July 29, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: Tomorrow's White House happy hour is an uncommon ending to a common occurrence –- a man of color citing racial profiling after an arrest.

Married to a Porn Star: A Florida Public Official Is Fired Because of His Wife's Job

By Sarah Beldo, The Faster Times. July 29, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Apparently, being openly married to a porn star while you're in a public service position is not allowed.

Another 'Mission Accomplished' on the Border?

By No Border Wall, Daily Kos. July 29, 2009.
Immigration: "You cannot build a fence from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, and call that an immigration policy."

The Joy of Sex Toys: How Vibrators Stopped Being 'Shameful' Secrets

By Liz Langley, AlterNet. July 29, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Once considered shameful, the vibrator has become a common part of most people's sex lives. Turns out we like sexual pleasure.

ACLU: Obama Administration Must Abandon Force-Feeding at Gitmo

By Nahal Zamani, Blog of Rights. July 28, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: The harsh force-feeding of hunger strikers is a form of cruelty and mistreatment that continues to this day at Guantanamo.

10 Things You Need to Know to Live on the Streets

By Walter Mosley, Rae Gomes, The Nation. July 28, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: How to make the best of a traumatic transition: Learn the best bathroom options and soup kitchen schedules, carry a blanket and more.

Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate

By Isabel Macdonald, AlterNet. July 27, 2009.
Health and Wellness: TV networks have shut out coverage of single-payer as an option for health reform. We must work to get it back in public debate.

Skip Gates: The Ivy League Is Not Real Life

By Anonymous, This Week in Blackness. July 27, 2009.
Would we -- or Gates -- care if this story had happened to a plumber? Probably not.

Bush Era Horrors Will Haunt Us Until We Truly Face Them

By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. July 27, 2009.
We can't just "move forward." We need to face who we've been and just how badly we've acted, if we care to become something better.

Bill Moyers: Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers Will Stop at Nothing to Derail Progressive Reforms

By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, AlterNet. July 27, 2009.
Health and Wellness: As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.

The Complex Sexualities of Young Women

By Heather Corinna, RH Reality Check. July 26, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Young women today are faced with pressures and mixed messages about sex everywhere they look.

Starbucks' Latest Evil Plan to Take Over (More) of the World

By Priyamvada Gopal, Comment Is Free. July 25, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Starbucks' new stealth strategy is de-branding: giving stores different names and more local "community personality".

Limbaugh's Lies Sabotage the Health Reform Debate

By Sue Wilson, AlterNet. July 25, 2009.
Media and Technology: In conservative states, right-wing talk show hosts are spreading lies about reform. No wonder Blue Dog Dems are blocking health care overhaul.

Sex With Bruce Springsteen: The Gender Politics of Born in the USA

By Charles A. Hohman, PopMatters. July 24, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: "Born in the U.S.A.", which turns 25 this year, stresses male sexuality as imperative to the American Dream. Where does that leave women?

Pentagon Furious at Fox News Analyst for Calling For Execution of Captured Soldier

By David Edwards, Stephen Webster, Raw Story. July 24, 2009.
Fox News analyst Ralph Peters said on July 19 that the Taliban should murder 23-year-old Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl.

"Now I Will Die": Beaten and Held in Prison Without Charge by the U.S. in Iraq

By Michael Bronner, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund. July 24, 2009.
World: Hussam Amin's story is not one the Bush Administration meant to be heard, at least not for a while.

Crazy "Birther" Conspiracy Theories Get Boost in Mainstream Media

By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. July 24, 2009.
Media and Technology: The movement is a sinister attempt to paint Obama as illegitimate, foreign, and suspect. Why are pundits like Lou Dobbs taking it seriously?

Why $10 for a Pack of Cigs Is Good Value

By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 24, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Charging high taxes on smokes is the only way to push people to quit. And I don't want the individual freedom to be suicidally stupid.

Women and Power: Connecting Across the Generations

By Marianne Schnall, Patty Goodwin, AlterNet. July 23, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: The media narrative of different generations of feminists being at each other's throats could not be more wrong.

The Wall Street-Health Care Connection: Fat Cats Want to Tax Your Benefits

By Mike Elk, AlterNet. July 23, 2009.
Politics: The conservative Democrats who want to tax your health-care benefits have friends in deep-pocketed places.

What Makes the Arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. So Tragic

By Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.com. July 22, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: In a moment of overzealous policing, an officer in Cambridge handcuffed and detain a living embodiment of post-racial possibility.

I Don't Believe in Marriage -- Here's Why I (Grudgingly) Got Married Anyway

By Amy Williams, AlterNet. July 22, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: I was tired of the blatant social pressure and disapproval. And even more tired of facing legal and economic discrimination.

Intelligent Design's Latest Sneaky Assault on Science

By Matt Zeitlin, Campus Progress. July 22, 2009.
Belief: One of the architects behind the unscientific intelligent design movement is finding success in referencing its greatest enemy: Charles Darwin.

Jimmy Carter Severs Ties With Southern Baptist Convention: "Many Male Religious Leaders Help Subjugate Women"

By Jimmy Carter, Comment Is Free. July 21, 2009.
Reproductive Justice and Gender: Carter: Sexism exhibited by male leaders conflicts "with my belief -- confirmed in the holy scriptures -- that we are all equal in the eyes of God."

Everything That Happens in Afghanistan Is Based on Lies or Illusions

By Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. July 20, 2009.
World: "Fixer", a new documentary about Afghanistan, tells stories of duplicity and self-delusion that are the political currency of the embattled country.

"Abstinence Plus": Soothing to Parents, or Still Lying to Teens?

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. July 18, 2009.
Sex and Relationships: Will abstinence-only programs continue to get funding to misinform kids about sex?

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