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The Case for Marijuana Legalization and Regulation

By Paul Armentano, AlterNet. October 28, 2009.
DrugReporter: An exclusive look at the historic testimony prepared for a special hearing on legalizing marijuana to the California Assembly.

Obama Delivers Speech to UN on Climate Change: "We Risk Consigning Future Generations to an Irreversible Catastrophe"

By Barack Obama, AlterNet. September 22, 2009.
Environment: The president called for investing in renewable energy, promoting greater efficiency, and slashing our emissions to reach our targets.

Facebook and MySpace Users Are Clearly Divided Along Class Lines

By danah boyd, AlterNet. September 3, 2009.
Media and Technology: The inequalities and divisions in society have emerged online in social networks despite the belief that everyone is connected by the Internet.

Hey Progressives: Why Don't you Care About the "Drug War" Like You Care About Other Issues?

By Ethan Nadelmann, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: If the 500,000 nonviolent drug offenders in jail had white faces, would society allow it?

In Obama Era: Can We Think Big and Make the Changes We Really Need?

By Rep. Keith Ellison, AlterNet. June 11, 2009.
Politics: Martin Luther King didn't say, "I have a complaint."

Howard Zinn: Changing Obama's Military Mindset

By Howard Zinn, The Progressive. May 15, 2009.
Politics: Obama once said, 'It's not enough to get out of Iraq; we have to get out of the mindset that led us into Iraq.' What happened to that Obama?

Bageant: We've Let Corporations and Media Rob Our Souls -- It's Time to Do Something Meaningful

By Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. April 6, 2009.
Media and Technology: The most chilling accomplishment of American capitalist culture is that we have commodified our own consciousness.

Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising?

By Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now!. November 28, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: In a fascinating speech, Chomsky warns, "Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below."

Bono: "Let's Put Humanity Back on Earth"

By Bono, AlterNet. October 25, 2008.
Health and Wellness: In a recent speech, the pop star makes an impassioned call for Americans to resist the urge to turn inward during our troubled times.

The Growth of Talking Points Memo: A Case Study in Independent Media

By Joshua Micah Marshall, AlterNet. October 6, 2008.
Media and Technology: The editor and founder of TPM tells the story of how he went from running a personal blog to a small independent media empire.

Speech of the Week - Gore's Energy Challenge: 'The Future of Human Civilization Is at Stake'

By Al Gore, AlterNet. July 22, 2008.
Environment: I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

Bill Moyers: 'Journalism in Profound Crisis' (Video)

By Bill Moyers, Free Press. June 7, 2008.
Media and Technology: The legendary journalist electrifies packed crowd at National Conference for Media Reform.

General William Odom on Iraq: Immediate Withdrawal the Only Option that Makes Sense

By General William Odom, AlterNet. April 7, 2008.
World: "Those who link instability with a US withdrawal have it exactly backwards."

Rep. McDermott: The Folly of Attacking Iran

By Rep. Jim McDermott, AlterNet. March 11, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: It's time for real diplomacy.

Noam Chomsky: Why Isn't Iraq in the 2008 Election?

By Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now!. March 3, 2008.
Election 2008: The public is massively against the war, and the Dems are debating over tactics in Iraq -- here's why.

Read Al Gore’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

By Al Gore, AlterNet. December 12, 2007.
Environment: The climate crisis threat is imminent. It is the 11th hour.

Bill Moyers: My Father and FDR

By Bill Moyers, TheNation.com. November 22, 2007.
"When Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit," Moyers says.

How to Address Humanity's Global Crises? Challenge Corporate Power, Embrace True Democracy

By Vandana Shiva, AlterNet. October 1, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: The physicist, activist and author outlines the scope of the "triple threat" represented by the end of cheap oil, human-induced climate change, and resource scarcity.

The NAACP's Battles Are Much the Same as 100 Years Ago

By Julian Bond, AlterNet. July 28, 2007.
Rights and Liberties: It has been 98 years since the first meeting of what became the NAACP. The group's board of directors reflects on where we have been as a country and where we are now in terms of race and justice.

Digby: Bloggers Are Part of a Revolutionary Participatory Democracy

By Digby, AlterNet. June 22, 2007.
Media and Technology: The netroots have sparked a revolution and the rest of the nation should join the party, said the blogger known as Digby, accepting the Wellstone Citizenship Award at the Take Back America Conference.

Words in a Time of War: Taking on the President's Rhetoric

By Mark Danner, Tomdispatch.com. June 1, 2007.
World: Never has an administration reached for its dictionaries more regularly to redefine reality to its own benefit.

The Madness of the War Profiteering in Iraq

By Robert Greenwald, AlterNet. May 10, 2007.
World: "Iraq for Sale" director Robert Greenwald explains to Congress that the billions that defense contractors and war profiteers are making out of the Iraq war is a madhouse run amuck.

What It Means to Be a Leftist in the 21st Century

Democracy Now!. March 21, 2007.
Professor, culture critic, and social justice advocate Cornel West talks about the need to make radical reformism fashionable among young people again.

How to Save the Middle Class from Extinction

By Paul Krugman, AlterNet. March 9, 2007.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman explains in simple terms how the American economy went from having the world's most dynamic middle class to being on the verge of a rich-poor state in only 30 years.

Nancy Pelosi: Iraq Stakes Too High for Recycled Proposals

By Nancy Pelosi, AlterNet. February 16, 2007.
World: The Democratic Leader favors a resolution to oppose Bush's escalation of the war on Iraq, saying the stakes are "too high to recycle proposals that have little prospect for success."

Kennedy Says Escalation is Not the Answer

By Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, AlterNet. January 9, 2007.
World: In a rousing speech today the Democratic Senator from Massachusetts introduced legislation to prevent Bush from escalating troop levels in Iraq.

Andy Stern: Changing How America Works

By Andy Stern, AlterNet. November 2, 2006.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Something's wrong when only the rich are getting richer, and average folks are feeling the squeeze. The answer isn't more education, or simply electing better leaders. We need widespread change.

The Growing Iraq Resistance Movement in the U.S. Military

By Peter Laufer, AlterNet. September 30, 2006.
World: One of the biggest 'pockets of resistance' to the war in Iraq is U.S. soldiers who refuse to fight on moral and ethical grounds.

Obama Says You Gotta Have Faith

By Barack Obama, AlterNet. June 28, 2006.
Barack Obama addresses religious progressives at the Call to Renewal Conference.

Barack Obama: The End Of Small Politics

By Barack Obama, AlterNet. June 19, 2006.
In an impassioned speech, the Illinois senator explains Bush's ongoing failures, why the 'ownership society' doesn't work, and why we must -- somehow -- hold on to hope.

Stephen Colbert's Address to the Graduates

By Stephen Colbert, AlterNet. June 5, 2006.
Media and Technology: 'Outsourcing is so easy that I had this speech today written by a young man named Panjeeb from Bangalore.'

Stephen Colbert's Remarks to the President

AlterNet. May 3, 2006.
Media and Technology: 'The president makes decisions, he's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down.'

A Time for Heresy

By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. March 24, 2006.
Unless we choose to renew our commitment to America's deepest values, the day will come when we no longer recognize the country we love.

The Real Story of John Walker Lindh

By Frank Lindh, AlterNet. January 24, 2006.
After years of almost total silence on his son's arrest and imprisonment, Frank Lindh sets the record straight about the 'American Taliban.'

A Constitutional Crisis

By Al Gore, AlterNet. January 17, 2006.
Rights and Liberties: The former vice president warns us what can happen without congressional oversight over a defiant White House.

Saying Goodbye to Tookie

By Bianca Jagger, AlterNet. December 24, 2005.
The execution of a reformed criminal was a grave miscarriage of justice, but there is still hope that Tookie's passing can lead to the end of the death penalty.

Giving So It Matters

By Bishop V. Gene Robinson, AlterNet. December 22, 2005.
It's not enough to pull drowning victims out of the river; we need to walk back upstream and find out who's throwing them in.

In the Kingdom of the Half-Blind

By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. December 16, 2005.
Media and Technology: Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.

Iraq Cannot Be Won

By Rep. John Murtha, AlterNet. November 19, 2005.
World: A conservative senior House Democrat and Purple Heart-decorated Vietnam veteran describes the U.S. presence in Iraq as an 'occupation,' and calls for immediate troop withdrawal.

Prepare for Peak Oil Now

By Richard Heinberg, AlterNet. November 14, 2005.
Oil is a finite resource -- and the decline of world oil production is predicted to occur anytime within the next 30 years. To avoid the worst-case scenario, we must begin today to reduce our dependence on oil.

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