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Malthus Lives in Anti-Immigrant Ads


Will Midwest Floods Be as Toxic as New Orleans?

Iraqis Want the U.S. Out; This is How it Should Happen



WALL-E: A World Without Us


Why We Need to Put Science Back in Government

Starting the Next Cold War

There's Something Missing from Mommy Lit


Will This Man Fix American Health Care?

Ecstasy Is the Key to Treating PTSD


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By Naomi Klein, The Nation

The Iraq disaster and rising gas and food prices have people across the globe in a state of fear and shock. It's high times for Bush & Co.

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Penny Coleman, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: The latest episode of the Department of Veterans Affairs' callous denial of veterans' suffering is a continuation of a long tradition.


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Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn't mean it is.


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Robert Scheer, Truthdig

This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

Pregnancy Pact Myth Refuses to Die
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon

PEEK: Social conservatives refuse to give up on titillating conspiracy theory.


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Bruce Mirken, AlterNet

DrugReporter: WHO survey of 17 countries finds that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use.


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Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet

Immigration: Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.


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Scott Thill, AlterNet

Environment: Google's motto is "Don't be evil." But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can't live up to its own hype.


Why Can't Women Sleep?
Gayle Greene, Ms. Magazine

Reproductive Justice and Gender: And why is the high level of insomnia among women ignored by researchers?


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John Dolan, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!


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Frederick Lane, Beacon Press

Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.


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Kyle de Beausset, AlterNet

Immigration: Intolerance isn't just popular among the ignorant. It is within every one of us.


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Allison H. Fine, Personal Democracy Forum

Media and Technology: Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.


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Melinda Brouwer, AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: Creating a "League of Democracies" is a central tenet of John McCain's foreign policy "vision," but in other democracies, the idea's a non-starter.


Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
Rick Shenkman, Tomdispatch.com

Democracy and Elections: Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are.


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Gary Brecher, AlterNet

War on Iraq: One thing the United States doesn't get about guerrilla warfare: It's not over until the guerrillas win.


Seeking the Hairless Porn Star Ideal
Heather Wood, Sirens Magazine

Sex and Relationships: The temptations and hype surrounding the Brazilian wax turn into a case of buyer's remorse for this author.


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Max Blumenthal, TheNation.com

Election 2008: Obama has made a major effort to woo evangelicals, but at what cost to church-state separation?


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Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Democracy and Elections: The GOP’s latest accusations are long on rhetoric but short on facts.


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Collin Dunn, Huffington Post

Water: Sometimes the kick we need to green our lives is a hard look at the numbers.


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Jackie Mahendra, AlterNet

Immigration: The message has never been clearer: Become a citizen and then vote… before it’s too late.


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Brad Reed, AlterNet

Election 2008: A shorter version of our long national nightmare.


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Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

ForeignPolicy: Hersh reports on a secret Congress-approved plan for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran's nuclear program.


The Strange Journey of Larry Johnson
David Weigel, The American Prospect

The former CIA officer has morphed from defender of Valerie Plame to crazed purveyor of a debunked Michelle Obama rumor. What happened?


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Ari Berman, The Nation

Election 2008: The level of John McCain's ties to lobbyists has reached dizzying proportions.


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AlterNet Books

Media and Technology: Right-wing radio shock jocks are filling the airwaves with racist and sexist hate speech. Our new book takes the issue head on. With video.


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Eleanor J. Bader, Public Eye

Rights and Liberties: It took two trips to the electric chair to kill murder suspect Francis, whose unfair trial catapulted racial justice into public consciousness.


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Dr. Reese Halter, AlterNet

Water: The 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change.


iraqU.S. Continues to Brutalize Iraqis in the Cause of the 'Surge'
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com

War on Iraq: Five years after the invasion, to speak of this urge to surge and its results as "success" or as "good news" is essentially obscene.


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Robert Parry, Consortium News

Rights and Liberties: If you listen to Bush's legal advisors, questions about the limits of his authority might not be hypothetical anymore.


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Kai Wright, The Nation

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: How the mortgage industry stole black America's hard-won wealth.


Obama Supporters Organize to Protest Candidate's Stance on Spying
Ari Melber,

PEEK: Concerned netizens taking the fight to campaign's official website.


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Jon Ponder, Pensito Review

Election 2008: Black was an early innovator of the GOP attack machine, and a very successful lobbyist and political strategist in the Reagan and Bush eras.


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Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine

Reproductive Justice and Gender: The economy, war, the health care crisis and tax policies all affect women differently than men. And women have the power to change them all.


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David Borden, Drug War Chronicle

DrugReporter: The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created.


In Egypt, "Prostitute" Is a Slippery Term
L.L. Wynn, American Sexuality Magazine

Sex and Relationships: In Egypt the label "prostitute" is often applied to women who defy traditional social and sexual codes of conduct.


Woman Convulses and Dies, Ignored, in Waiting Room of New York City Hospital

Post by Jill Filipovic

PEEK: Esmin Green's final agony caught on surveillance camera. Staff looked on but failed to act. More »

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Video: Carl Linder Jr., a top funder for John McCain, has knowingly given money to terrorist organizations. More »

Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman:
Obama Runs to the Middle

What should progressives do about Obama's move to the center?

Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz:
My Last Column

After 9 long years, it's time to move on. One final thought: don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Earl Ofari Hutchinson:
Nader Plays the Race Card

Nader holds Obama to a different standard than he holds McCain or any other white mainstream politician; a standard based solely on his color.

Deb Price
Deb Price:
Congress Learns About Transgender Bias

The June 26th hearing was an important first step in educating Congress about why a federal law protecting transgender employees is sorely needed.

David Sirota
David Sirota:
Cutting Through the News Noise

Three books tackle issues rarely explored by the media: McCain's flip-flopping, America's political divide and the real story behind globalization.

Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer:
Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them

Most of our political representatives seem to be engaged in a contest over who can throw more money at defense contractors.

Sean Gonsalves
Sean Gonsalves:
Who Cares About the Vice President?

The VP used to be a bench-warmer called in to perform PR tasks. When did vice presidents become important political figures?

Mark Weisbrot
Mark Weisbrot:
Why Subsidize Purchases Made on the Internet?

If your local sporting goods store can collect and pay a sales tax on the running shoes that it sells, the big internet retailers can do the same.

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    Brad Reed, AlterNet. July 1, 2008.
  2. Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
    Rick Shenkman, Tomdispatch.com. July 2, 2008.
  3. Ecstasy Is the Key to Treating PTSD
    Amy Turner, The Times of London UK. June 27, 2008.
  4. Progressives and Netroots Feeling Abandoned as Obama Tacks Rightward
    Jason Rosenbaum, Sam Stein, Huffington Post. June 28, 2008.
  5. The 'Mortgage Meltdown' Was No Accident
    Kai Wright, The Nation. June 30, 2008.
  6. Hitchens Gets Waterboarded, Withdraws from Iraq in 11 Seconds
    John Dolan, AlterNet. July 2, 2008.
  7. Seeking the Hairless Porn Star Ideal
    Heather Wood, Sirens Magazine. June 30, 2008.
  8. Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant
    Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 30, 2008.
  9. The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America
    Robert Scheer, Twelve. June 27, 2008.
  10. WALL-E: A World Without Us
    Michael Dudley, City States. July 1, 2008.
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