By Barack Obama, AlterNet. December 18, 2009. Environment:"America has made our choice. We have charted our course, we have made our commitments, and we will do what we say."
By Paul Armentano, AlterNet. October 28, 2009. Drugs:An exclusive look at the historic testimony prepared for a special hearing on legalizing marijuana to the California Assembly.
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.
By danah boyd, AlterNet. September 3, 2009. Media:The inequalities and divisions in society have emerged online in social networks despite the belief that everyone is connected by the Internet.
By Howard Zinn, The Progressive. May 15, 2009. News & 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?
By Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com. April 6, 2009. Media:The most chilling accomplishment of American capitalist culture is that we have commodified our own consciousness.
By Noam Chomsky, Democracy Now!. November 28, 2008. Economy:In a fascinating speech, Chomsky warns, "Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below."
By Bono, AlterNet. October 25, 2008. Personal Health:In a recent speech, the pop star makes an impassioned call for Americans to resist the urge to turn inward during our troubled times.
By Joshua Micah Marshall, AlterNet. October 6, 2008. Media:The editor and founder of TPM tells the story of how he went from running a personal blog to a small independent media empire.
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.
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.
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.
By Vandana Shiva, AlterNet. October 1, 2007. Economy: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.
By Julian Bond, AlterNet. July 28, 2007. Civil 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.
By Digby, AlterNet. June 22, 2007. Media: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.
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.
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.
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.
By Paul Krugman, AlterNet. March 9, 2007. Economy: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.
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."
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.
By Andy Stern, AlterNet. November 2, 2006. Economy: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.
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.
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.
By Stephen Colbert, AlterNet. June 5, 2006. Media:'Outsourcing is so easy that I had this speech today written by a young man named Panjeeb from Bangalore.'
AlterNet. May 3, 2006. Media:'The president makes decisions, he's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down.'
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.
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.'
By Al Gore, AlterNet. January 17, 2006. Civil Liberties:The former vice president warns us what can happen without congressional oversight over a defiant White House.
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.
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.
By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. December 16, 2005. Media:Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.
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.
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