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Wake Up, Employers: Working Moms Are Giving Up

Wake Up, Employers: Working Moms Are Giving Up

Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 20, 2006. [214 total comments]
The majority of working moms who leave their jobs do so because of inflexible office policy, not Martha Stewart fantasies.

'Christian' Game Leaves Behind A Pile of Corpses

'Christian' Game Leaves Behind A Pile of Corpses

Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. December 20, 2006. [199 total comments]
The Left Behind video game encourages you to celebrate the birth of Jesus by wasting dozens of people at a time, using a variety of Christ-sanctioned weapons.

Jimmy Carter Speaks A Simple Truth About Palestinian Apartheid

Jimmy Carter Speaks A Simple Truth About Palestinian Apartheid

Chris Hedges, The Nation. December 23, 2006. [190 total comments]
There's nothing outrageous or bigoted about Jimmy Carter's book arguing that Palestinians are victims of apartheid, as critics are claiming. If anything, Carter mutes his case.

Military Escalation: Bush Can't Kick the Habit

Military Escalation: Bush Can't Kick the Habit

Robert Scheer, Truthdig. December 21, 2006. [187 total comments]
The Bush Administration is hooked on the drug of military might, with Gates calling for sending more troops to a war we can't win.

Pressuring Israel May Prevent a 'Generational' Mideast War

Pressuring Israel May Prevent a 'Generational' Mideast War

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. December 23, 2006. [140 total comments]
Israel may well find itself at war with Syria and Hezbollah in the coming months, and the American foreign policy establishment needs to let go of its long-standing biases to prevent these conflicts.

Why Impeaching Bush Is Good for Our Species

Why Impeaching Bush Is Good for Our Species

Robert Weitzel, Smirking Chimp. December 21, 2006. [117 total comments]
In his position as the Alpha Male, leader-of-the-pack, Bush may represent the vanguard of our species' future evolutionary development.

Iraq: More Hellish Now Than Under Saddam

Iraq: More Hellish Now Than Under Saddam

Anthony Arnove, AlterNet. December 20, 2006. [110 total comments]
Each day the occupation continues, life gets worse for most Iraqis. Yet the U.S. still won't admit to failure.

America Has Become Incarceration Nation

America Has Become Incarceration Nation

Marc Mauer, TomPaine.com. December 22, 2006. [78 total comments]
The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.

Celebrate Global Orgasm for Peace Day

Celebrate Global Orgasm for Peace Day

Liz Langley, AlterNet. December 22, 2006. [71 total comments]
In the name of peace, find a partner -- or find yourself -- and have an orgasm. Just don't fake it.

The Hidden Opportunity in Global Warming

The Hidden Opportunity in Global Warming

Marjorie Kelly, Tellus Institute. December 21, 2006. [70 total comments]
The U.S. media might have missed the significance of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, but the public shouldn't miss the message: It's about hope.

Contraception Saves Money and Marriages

Contraception Saves Money and Marriages

Cristina Page, TomPaine.com. December 21, 2006. [58 total comments]
Family planning has led to seismic change in our society, but not the kind of change the religious right would have you believe.

Bush Is Waiting for An Iraq Solution That Will Never Come

Bush Is Waiting for An Iraq Solution That Will Never Come

Larisa Alexandrovna, AlterNet. December 22, 2006. [54 total comments]
It's becoming increasingly clear that the US is in a holding pattern with regard to Iraq, stuck on stall while our soldiers and more Iraqis die.

Hillary Clinton and My Visa Bill

Hillary Clinton and My Visa Bill

Paul Rogat Loeb, AlterNet. December 20, 2006. [52 total comments]
How Hillary Clinton pocketed campaign contributions and shortchanged the Democratic Party in the name of personal political power.

Ten Things the Democrats Can Do to Hold Corporations Accountable

Ten Things the Democrats Can Do to Hold Corporations Accountable

Charlie Cray, Phil Mattera, TomPaine.com. December 22, 2006. [48 total comments]
After years of lax congressional oversight, most Americans think corporations wield too much power. Only by restoring the balance between government and the private sector can corporate America regain the public's trust.

Christmas Has Not Been Stolen

Christmas Has Not Been Stolen

Mary Shaw, AlterNet. December 20, 2006. [45 total comments]
It only takes one look at tinseled-out storefronts to see that Christmas is alive and thriving.

The best argument ever made for nominating Hillary in 2008

The best argument ever made for nominating Hillary in 2008

Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2006. [43 total comments]
Joshua Holland: Hmmmm ...

Let's Use Our Best Weapon Against Iran:

Let's Use Our Best Weapon Against Iran:

Cenk Uygur, AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2006. [34 total comments]
Cenk Uygur: Capitalism

Updated: Dobson slammed on

Updated: Dobson slammed on "fiction[al]" anti-gay Time Mag column [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. December 21, 2006. [30 total comments]
'I trust that this will be the last time my work is cited by Focus on the Family'

GOP-er fears Korans in government [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: Video. December 21, 2006. [29 total comments]
Muslim Dem out-graces Christian Rep...

How Environmental Pollutants Are Causing Reproductive Problems

How Environmental Pollutants Are Causing Reproductive Problems

Molly M. Ginty, Women's eNews. December 20, 2006. [28 total comments]
Across the U.S., female animals exposed to toxic chemicals are suffering from a flurry of health problems, from shrunken ovaries to spontaneous abortions. What does this mean for female humans?

Long Beach Hate Crimes Trial Conflicts Civil Rights Leaders

Long Beach Hate Crimes Trial Conflicts Civil Rights Leaders

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. December 21, 2006. [28 total comments]
Civil rights leaders unfortunately know all too well the appropriate community response when whites are responsible for hate crimes against blacks, but what about when the tables are turned?

A response to Cenk Uygur: How ‘bout we don’t use any weapon against Iran?

A response to Cenk Uygur: How ‘bout we don’t use any weapon against Iran?

Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2006. [25 total comments]
Joshua Holland: I'm just sayin' ...

Saudi Royals Snub Bush, Fund Opposition to U.S. Troops

Saudi Royals Snub Bush, Fund Opposition to U.S. Troops

Jeffrey Klein, Paolo Pontoniere, New America MediaAlterNet: War on Iraq. December 21, 2006. [23 total comments]
Saudi Arabia, fearful of a nuclear Iran and a Shiite Iraq, is taking steps to influence U.S. policy in Iraq. The kingdom may also be building its own nuclear program.

Looking Back at History, from 2026

Looking Back at History, from 2026

Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. December 23, 2006. [22 total comments]
A view of our recent past from the distant future -- from the death of the Republican party to the Latin Americna renaissance.

American McMuslim [VIDEO]

Evan Derkacz, December 23, 2006. [21 total comments]
A Christian from Middle America spends '30 Days' as a Muslim...

Bush to send more troops? Really?

Bush to send more troops? Really?

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2006. [18 total comments]
Robert Reich: Can we?

Christmas Shopping 2006: The Way Forward

Christmas Shopping 2006: The Way Forward

Arianna Huffington, AlterNet. December 21, 2006. [15 total comments]
The annual list of presents for favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures.

Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2006

Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2006

Norman Solomon, Jeff Cohen, AlterNet. December 26, 2006. [15 total comments]
Many can plausibly lay claim to stinky media performances, but only a few can win a P.U.-litzer.

Bush Could Usher in a Very Dangerous New Year

Bush Could Usher in a Very Dangerous New Year

Robert Parry, Consortium News. December 26, 2006. [12 total comments]
Intelligence sources say President Bush -- along with Israel's Ehud Olmert and the UK's Tony Blair -- are weighing the possibility of Israeli-led attacks on Syria and Iran in early 2007, with the United States providing logistical back-up.

George Will Hates "You"

Alexander Zaitchik, December 22, 2006. [12 total comments]
The dean of conservative columny tees off on citizen journalism.

Bush Throws a Bone to Working Families

Bush Throws a Bone to Working Families

Bob Geiger, AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2006. [11 total comments]
Rejoice, poor people!

Home of the Brave: The Psychic Toll of the Iraq War

Home of the Brave: The Psychic Toll of the Iraq War

Jeanine Plant, AlterNetAlterNet: Movie Mix. December 23, 2006. [11 total comments]
Despite its ripped-from-the-headlines feel, Home of the Brave, the new film about Iraq war veterans who have trouble readjusting to life at home, is Hollywood all the way.

NY Times pimps the privatization of Iraq's oil

NY Times pimps the privatization of Iraq's oil

Joshua Holland, December 21, 2006. [11 total comments]
Joshua Holland: Can these guys do math?

Fight Club & why we're losing across the world...

Fight Club & why we're losing across the world...

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2006. [10 total comments]
Hint: it's "deeper than Islam"

War On Drugs: that other disastrously misguided non-war …

War On Drugs: that other disastrously misguided non-war …

Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. December 20, 2006. [10 total comments]
Joshua Holland: Could there be a more counterproductive policy than the "source country" strategy in the "War on Drugs"?

20 Questions for CBS News' Chief

20 Questions for CBS News' Chief

Rory O'Connor, AlterNetAlterNet: MediaCulture. December 20, 2006. [10 total comments]
CBS News Chief Sean McManus discusses the future's newsroom, citizen media, and the failure of pre-Iraq media.

Updated: McCain hires Rove's boy

Updated: McCain hires Rove's boy

Evan Derkacz, December 20, 2006. [10 total comments]
And proven liar...

Reality Rape TV?

Reality Rape TV?

Jessica Valenti, AlterNet: PEEK. December 21, 2006. [10 total comments]
What could be more fun...

A soldier's family speaks out ...

Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. December 26, 2006. [8 total comments]
Joshua Holland: And gives the stay-the-course crowd a spanking.

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