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Positive Universe Abstracts: Chalmers Johnson on Our 'Managed Democracy' 2008-05-16

Truthdig | By Chalmers Johnson It is not news that the United States is in great trouble. The pre-emptive war it launched against Iraq more than five years ago was and is a mistake of monumental proportions—one that most Americans still fail to acknowledge. Instead they are arguing about whether we should push on to "victory" when even...

AlterNet.org: Columnists: David Sirota: Toward a New Washington Consensus on Trade 2008-05-16

When will U.S. politicians recognize that NAFTA is bad for everyone?

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Trial of CIA Kidnappers May Have Italian Star Power 2008-05-16

Seven Italians, including the former head of military intelligence General Nicolo Pollari, are also on trial in the case.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Toxic Chemicals Are Maiming Thousands Around the World 2008-05-16

Over time, our bodies lose their ability to cope with toxic chemicals, and each exposure has a more severe effect.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: America's Frightening Alzheimer's Epidemic 2008-05-16

By 2030, one in four adults over 65 will have Alzheimer's. This unforgiving brain damage can cripple patients, families and the economy.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Hate Aimed at Latinos, Not Immigrants 2008-05-16

Latinos condemn the hypocrisy of a society that is addicted to illegal immigrant labor but looks for others to blame for the addiction.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Senate Votes to Reverse FCC Decision Allowing Media Consolidation 2008-05-16

Thursday's Senate vote is good news for everyone who is fed up with a media system, that, in the words of Jon Stewart, is "hurting America."

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: How the Golden State Could Become the New Ground Zero for the Marriage Wars 2008-05-16

While champagne corks pop in West Hollywood, this election season, LGBT rights activists are gearing up for what could be the fight of their lives.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: U.S. Sergeant Refuses to Go to Iraq: "This Occupation is Unconstitutional and Illegal" 2008-05-16

On Capitol Hill yesterday, an American soldier named Matthis Chiroux publicly announced his refusal to deploy to Iraq.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: The House Passage of the GI Bill Is a Critical First Victory 2008-05-16

We've seen enough bumper sticker and lapel pin patriotism; the landmark GI Bill is a major bipartisan commitment to the troops.

Salon: Opinion: McCain's amazing Iraq somersault 2008-05-16

The "straight talker" has trashed anyone who dared suggest a withdrawal date. Now he's floated one of his own.

Salon: Opinion: How will Barack Obama get to 270? 2008-05-16

This November, a Democratic victory will probably hinge on the Electoral College votes of a handful of swing states. Howard Dean's pollster examines 17 fall battlegrounds, one by one.

AlterNet.org: Columnists: Amy Goodman: Justice for Dead Journalists 2008-05-15

A military whistle-blower has come forward with information that contradicts the government's official story about the deaths of two journalists.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Protest Camps Form Against American Military Bases in Japan and Italy 2008-05-15

The citizens of Hokkaido join citizens from other parts of the world who are protesting the continuing presence and expansion of the U.S. military.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: A Critical Look at the Forced Spread of Democracy 2008-05-15

American imperialism in the name of democracy promotion is counterproductive.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: A Jew's Eye View of Iran 2008-05-15

The condition of the Jews in Iran is a matter of political significance.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Immigration, Big Tobacco and the Corporate Takeover ... Everything 2008-05-15

"We migrate because we don't think there are options."

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Juan Crow: The Deep South's New Second-Class Citizens 2008-05-15

Latinos' subordinate status in Georgia strongly resembles that of African-Americans who lived under Jim Crow.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: After Gitmo: The American Government is Legally and Morally Responsible for Giving Innocent Prisoners a New Life in the U.S. 2008-05-15

When it comes to Guantánamo, the most pressing problem is not how to "store" dangerous prisoners; it is the fate of those who are innocent.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: The Bush Administration's Bogus Claims About Iran's Weapons Smuggling 2008-05-15

A plotted sequence of events to build domestic U.S. support for a possible strike against Iran over its "meddling" in Iraq has hit some snags.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: How One Region Has Gone from Breadbasket to Food Crisis 2008-05-15

At the heart of the story is pesticide poisoning, water shortages, soil salinity, fertilizer runoff, skyrocketing cancer rates and farmer suicides.

Salon: Opinion: On armies, war and an aging Israel 2008-05-15

As the country turns 60, a novelist reconsiders Zionism amid revealing encounters with the Israeli military.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: The Terrifying Normalcy of Assaulting Women 2008-05-14

In West Africa, the war against women doesn't end just because grim wars between men finally do.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Fighting For Survival, Muqtada al-Sadr Orders a Ceasefire 2008-05-14

The ceasefire agreement is intended to end seven weeks of fighting in which more than 1,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Is Clinton Staying In the Race To Say, "I Told You So"? 2008-05-14

Clinton may be bolstering her position for a possible run in 2012.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back 2008-05-14

A new book explores how we got into the modern situation where we know so little about what we eat and yet regard it as entirely normal.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters? 2008-05-14

In many ways, Mao was right: The occupant of the oval office is a paper tiger.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Rush Limbaugh Wins as Election's Biggest Manipulator 2008-05-14

The media and Democrats need to stop buying into -- and promoting -- the so-called "Limbaugh effect."

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: The Case For Tibet 2008-05-14

Indigenous people around the world see in the struggle for Tibet their own struggles for recovery of land and autonomy. We must not remain silent.

Salon: Opinion: A nation of individualists 2008-05-14

We work hard to be odd and to have unique problems, but there are a few things we share: A dark imagination, a love of spring, and serotonin.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Undocumented Immigrants Face Abuses, Un-American Treatment in Detention 2008-05-13

It really shouldn't matter what one's opinion about the larger immigration question is -- these are basic issues of human rights.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Hedge Fund Titans Are Treating Us Like Pawns in Their Economic Chess Games 2008-05-13

Hedge funds exploited the misfortunes of those caught beneath currency, housing and internet bubbles, and got paid by the boatload.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Drug Czar's Latest B.S. Claim: Pot Makes Teens Crazy and Suicidal 2008-05-13

How can you tell if the drug czar is lying? If his lips are moving.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: How Pot Became Demonized: the Fine Line Between Good Medicine and 'Dangerous Drugs' 2008-05-13

A history of the battle between politics and science over the use of marijuana as a medicine.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Why Harsh Immigration Crack Downs Will Never Work 2008-05-13

Tough-minded immigration policies keep backfiring, and the debate over them obscures the question of what really works and what doesn't.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Why the Police Wouldn't Tase Me When I Asked Them to 2008-05-13

Police explain to a journalist who wants to know what being tasered feels like, "we really don't fully understand and know the risks."

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: An Independent Prosecutor Should Investigate the Architects of the White House Torture Policy 2008-05-13

It's not just administration officials who should be targeted for sanctioning torture. The lawyers who advised them should be prosecuted too.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Veteran Suicides Continue to Rise 2008-05-13

As a national crisis grows and Congress starts to pay attention, small town newspapers remain the only sources for information on veteran suicides

Positive Universe Abstracts: 81 Dead in Lebanon as Hezbollah Clashes with US-Backed Pro-Government Forces 2008-05-13

Democracy Now | Rush Transcript AMY GOODMAN: In Lebanon, armed clashes since last Wednesday between Hezbollah-led opposition groups and US-backed pro-government forces have left at least eighty-one people dead, many more wounded. Opposition forces overpowered pro-government militias and took over large parts of the capital city of Beirut late last week before handing over control to the Lebanese...

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: The Human Rights Crime in Gaza 2008-05-12

A million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world -- we can't sit idly by.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: It Isn't Morning in America Anymore -- It's Dusk on Planet Earth 2008-05-12

If we want to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed, we've got to cut CO2 emissions.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Workers Sticking Together to Challenge Corporate Power 2008-05-12

Security guards at Kaiser are supposed to be provided with health care after working for 90 days, but it turns out that many are not.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Hillary's Grotesque Insult to African-Americans 2008-05-12

It's one thing to lack class, but it's quite another to deliberately try and wreck the presidential prospects of your party's likely nominee.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Nixon's Savage Attack on the Greatest Anti-War Movement in U.S. History 2008-05-12

As millions of Americans came together to fight the war in Vietnam, Nixon's politics became more ruthless.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: More Than Marches: Growing Latino Power is all About the Demographics 2008-05-12

62 percent of the recent growth in the Latino population has been through births, not immigration.

Positive Universe Abstracts: Sands: Bush's Architects Of Torture Are 'Weaseling Out' Of Responsibility For 'Crimes' 2008-05-12

Think Progress, DC | In his new book, Torture Team, renowned international lawyer Philippe Sands documents the fact that Bush's torture program was approved at the highest levels of the administration. Speaking with PBS's Bill Moyers on Friday, Sands noted that these architects of torture refuse to acknowledge they were "complicit in the commission of a crime." "There...

Salon: Opinion: Clinton and Obama on Al-Jazeera 2008-05-12

The Arab network has followed the Democratic race closely. Inside its studios, I discover how Clinton's "obliterate Iran" comment played, and much more.

Salon: Opinion: Who's the superpower now? 2008-05-12

As oil prices drain the U.S. of military power and influence, Russia is rising as a world force again.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Today, Honor Mothers World-Wide 2008-05-11

Mothers across the globe are working for progressive change. MADRE, an international women's rights organizations, honors them this Mother's Day.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Mother's Day Boycott of Israeli Settlement-builder Leviev 2008-05-11

Activists boycott right-wing Israeli diamond magnate.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Was It Easier Being a Mother in 1908? 2008-05-10

On the first Mother's Day 100 years ago, moms had a tough -- but rewarding -- job, just as they do today.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: The Cards Are Stacked Against Mothers in America -- Here's How We Can Fix It 2008-05-10

Joan Blades, founder of MomsRising.org, discusses bias against mothers in the workplace and the "mommy wars."

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Hillary Is McCain's Dream Candidate, Not Obama's 2008-05-10

Before the talk of a Obama/Hillary "dream ticket" goes too far, are we talking about the the Republicans' dream, or everyone else's?

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: How Food Riots, Pricey Gas and Home Foreclosures Point to a Better Future 2008-05-10

We are beset today by a systemic global crisis that could open the way to hopeful transformation. It is up to us.

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: If We All Started Driving Priuses, We'd Consume More Energy Than Ever Before 2008-05-10

While energy efficiency is laudable, history shows that it leads to people consuming

AlterNet.org: Coverage Areas: Editorial: The Disaster in Burma -- How You Can Help 2008-05-10

International aid groups are facing problems getting to disaster-stricken areas of Burma, but a group of monks is on the front lines right now.