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Heeding the Law of the Land

By Kenny Ausubel, AlterNet. October 14, 2005.
Environment: Bioneers founder Kenny Ausubel says we are living on the cusp of either an Age of Extinctions or an Age of Restoration.

Al Gore's Code Red

By Al Gore, AlterNet. October 6, 2005.
Media and Technology: The destruction of the marketplace of ideas accounts for the 'strangeness' that now haunts our efforts to reason together about the choices we must make as a nation.

Etan Thomas's Field Trip For ConservativesEtan Thomas's Field Trip For Conservatives

By Etan Thomas, AlterNet. September 28, 2005.
In his electrifying speech at Saturday's antiwar march, the basketball star said he'd like to take the country's right-wing Republicans on a trip to the 'hood.

Belafonte & Glover Speak Out on Katrina

By Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, AlterNet. September 23, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: More than anything else, Hurricane Katrina revealed a poverty of imagination.

A Moral Moment

By Al Gore, AlterNet. September 13, 2005.
Hurricane Katrina: When the corpses of American citizens are floating in toxic floodwaters five days after a hurricane strikes, it is time to hold the leaders of our nation accountable for the failures that have taken place.

Building Agendas for WarBuilding Agendas for War

By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. August 23, 2005.
In a recent talk, author and media critic Norman Solomon laid out the many ways in which the media helps the government push our country into war.

Start Making Sense: Is Liberalism Dead?

By Lakshmi Chaudhry, George Lakoff, Van Jones, Adam Werbach, Wes Boyd, AlterNet. June 16, 2005.
Start Making Sense: Is liberalism dead? What will it take for us to bring about a rebirth of inspiration, hope and optimism for a new American future?

Start Making Sense: How To Talk To America

By Lakshmi Chaudhry, George Lakoff, Van Jones, Adam Werbach, Wes Boyd, AlterNet. June 7, 2005.
Start Making Sense: Those who dwell in the nation's progressive oases must learn to communicate and connect with a much broader swath of Americans. Our panel of progressive thinkers tackles the problem.

The Mugging of the American Dream

By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. June 6, 2005.
Washington is a divided city -- not between north and south as in Lincoln's time, but between those who can buy all the government they want and those who can't even afford a seat in the bleachers.

Make Iraq Topic #1Make Iraq Topic #1

By Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. June 3, 2005.
Start Making Sense: Democrats cannot continue to ignore the war in Iraq and hope that we can ever again be a majority party. It's time we started demanding some answers.

Becoming the Party of Change

By Howard Dean, AlterNet. June 2, 2005.
Democrats have suffered a couple of serious defeats, but we're energized because we know that our vision for America is much better than the dark and difficult vision of the Republican Party.

Class of 9/11

By Mark Danner, The New York Review of Books and TomDispatch. May 31, 2005.
Media and Technology: A speech to Berkeley graduates asks how students will bring their degrees to bear on a world in a dire state.

Beatty Bites Back

By Warren Beatty, AlterNet. May 28, 2005.
Actor and activist Warren Beatty recently gave a blistering keynote speech at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy. His prime target? California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Galloway Goes To Washington

AlterNet. May 18, 2005.
World: Members of Congress received a rude shock on Tuesday when the rumbunctious and defiant British MP transformed his testimony into a damning indictment of U.S. foreign policy.

Moyers Addresses PBS Coup

By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. May 17, 2005.
Media and Technology: In this highly anticipated speech the veteran public broadcaster takes on the PBS coup and its right-wing engineers who are 'squealing like a stuck pig.'

Respecting the Spirit and Letter of the Law

By Senator Robert Byrd, AlterNet. February 3, 2005.
Rights and Liberties: Senator Byrd speaks on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to be attorney general of the United States.

Rice Confirmed

By Sen. Edward M. KennedyJanuary 26, 2005.
Edward Kennedy explains why he voted against Condoleezza Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State today.

MLK Jr. In His Own Words

January 17, 2005.
"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words ring true four decades after he spoke them.

A Progressive Vision for America

By Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, AlterNet. January 14, 2005.
"We cannot become Republican clones. If we do, we will lose again, and deserve to lose."

Battlefield Earth

By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. December 8, 2004.
Environment: The environment is in trouble and the religious right doesn't care. It's time to act as if the future depends on us – because it does.

"America Is So Much Better Than This"

By Sen. Russ Feingold, AlterNet. December 7, 2004.
World: When the matter of naming Condoleeza Rice to replace Secretary of State Colin Powell came before the U.S. Senate, at least one senator stood up and castigated the Bush foreign policy and the abuse of U.S. power.

Kerry's Plan on Iraq

By Sen. John KerrySeptember 21, 2004.
Election 2004: What are John Kerry's plans to resolve the mess in Iraq and fight al Qaeda? Read his Sept. 20 speech and find out.

Journalism Under Fire

By Bill Moyers, AlterNet. September 18, 2004.
Media and Technology: "I believe democracy requires 'a sacred contract' between journalists and those who put their trust in us to tell them what we can about how the world really works."

Zell Miller's 2001 Speech on John Kerry

By Sen. Zell Miller, AlterNet. September 2, 2004.
Election 2004: "John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment."

A Serious Threat to Democracy

By Al Gore, AlterNet. June 24, 2004.
Election 2004: Al Gore reminds America that we should be as fearful of a government that exploits our fear of terrorism to expand its powers as we should of terrorism itself.

Reclaim the Land of Opportunity

By Julian Bond, TomPaine.com. June 10, 2004.
Rights and Liberties: To mainstream politicians, a visit to a black church is about the most outreach to "the black community" they ever make. This is a mistake for Democrats.

Gore Burns Bush on Environment

By Al Gore, MoveOn.org. January 15, 2004.
Environment: The former VP pulls no punches in today's speech on global warming: 'it seems at times as if the Bush-Cheney Administration is wholly owned by the coal, oil, utility and mining companies.'

Freedom and Security

By Al Gore, MoveOn.org. November 10, 2003.
The sacrifice of civil liberties for the appearance of greater security is a mistake that leaves future generations with little hope for freedom.

A High Price for a Hollow Victory

By Senator Robert Byrd, AlterNet. November 6, 2003.
World: One senator says the $87 billion appropriations package Congress just passed for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan was produced without any meaningful debate.

Worthy Dreams

By Doris "Granny D" Haddock, GrannyD.com. September 23, 2003.
Can we evolve into a nation whose people control their own government and whose harsh history can move into the light?

Setting It Right

By Al Gore, MoveOn.org. August 7, 2003.
Representative democracy is not working the way it's supposed to and Al Gore has something to say about that.

Honoring the Whole Dr. King

By Kevin Danaher, Tony Newman, AlterNet. April 4, 2003.
In a time of national division we can honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. by pondering his words on war and U.S. foreign policy.

War: The Most Horrible Human Experience

By Senator Robert Byrd, AlterNet. February 17, 2003.
World: "In only the space of two short years this reckless and arrogant Administration has initiated policies which may reap disastrous consequences for years."

Vocabulary of Bombs

By Harold Pinter, AlterNet. December 16, 2002.
World: The British playwright warns against the follies of U.S. arrogance which can only lead to the escalation of violence around the world

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