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The Tragic Story of Christianity: How a Pacifist Religion Was Hijacked by Rabid Warmongering Elites | | AlterNet

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Gary G. Kohls - Feb. 05 (Opinion) - Altogether too many religions sects of both major and minor religions, despite verbally professing a desire for peace and justice in the world, are actually pro-war, pro-homicide and pro-violence in practice (or they may be silent on the subject, which is, according to moral theology, the same as being pro-violence).

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6 Shocking Ways Capitalism Is Failing Working America

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Les Leopold - Feb. 01 (News Analysis) - Capitalism is coming apart at the seams and the middle-class is paying the price.

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Inside the Bacchanalian Wall Street Fraternity Party of Billionaire Bankers and Hedge Fund Predators

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship - Jan. 31 (News Report) - They got together at the St. Regis Hotel off Fifth Avenue to eat rack of lamb, drink and haze their newest members, who are made to dress in drag, sing and perform skits while braving the insults, wine-soaked napkins and petit fours – those fancy little frosted cakes — hurled at them by the old guard. In other words, a gilt-edged Animal House, food fight and all.

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10 Ultra-Rich Congresspeople Who 'Represent' Some of the Most Financially Screwed Districts

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Sarah Jaffe - Dec. 28 (News Analysis) - According to a Washington Post story this week, “Between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth of a member of the House more than doubled, according to the analysis of financial disclosures, from $280,000 to $725,000 in inflation-adjusted 2009 dollars, excluding home equity.”

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The Christmas War on Atheism: What's the Religious Right Whining About When It's Really Non-Believers Who Are Under Attack?

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Alex DiBranco - Dec. 23 (Opinion) - It’s that time of year when, if you tune into Fox News or right-wing talk radio, you’re sure to hear the phrase “war on Christmas” repeated ad infinitum. Perhaps you’ve also seen Rick Perry’s new war on Christmas ad, which gives the added gift of rabid homophobia, while absurdly accusing President Barack Obama of leading a war on religion. But in reality, this year, like most years, it's right-wing Christians who are waging a war on the right of non-believers to avoid having religion shoved down their throats. Say “Merry Christmas” -- or Else

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If You Are Not Outraged, You Are Not Paying Attention: 5 Major Ways Corporate Elites Are Degrading America

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Jim Hightower - Dec. 15 (News Analysis) - Benjamin Franklin put it at the time, "America's destiny is not power, but light." The light is our historic commitment to the common good, shared prosperity, and a government of, by, and for the People. Whatever happened to that audacious reach, that grand vision, that proud progressive purpose?

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Secretive Millionaires Funding Online Primary For 'Independent' White House Run

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Justin Elliott - Dec. 13 (Special Report) - Here’s what the group is not so upfront about: It’s fueled by millions of dollars of secret money, there is a group of wealthy, well-connected board members who have control over Americans Elect’s nominating process, and the group has myriad links to Wall Street.

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Eliot Spitzer: 5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion Free Ride

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Eliot Spitzer - Dec. 06 (News Analysis) - Imagine you walked into a bank, applied for a personal line of credit, and filled out all the paperwork claiming to have no debts and an income of $200,000 per year. The bank, based on these representations, extended you the line of credit. Then, three years later, after fighting disclosure all the way, you were forced by a court to tell the truth

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20 Ways the Obama Administration Has Intruded on Your Rights

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Bill Quigley - Dec. 04 (News Analysis) - Is there a fundamental difference between the Bush presidency and the Obama presidency in the area of domestic civil liberties?

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What to Make of New Polling on Support for the Occupy Movement?

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Nov. 18 (News Analysis) - All over the country people are hearing that the Occupiers are animals who are masturbating in public and shitting in the streets. The local news is luridly portraying the protests as hotbeds of crime infested with lunatics and drug addicts. That stuff isn't disseminated just for kicks. It's done to poison the minds of the public before they have a chance to identify with the protesters. This is an important point.

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The Moral Force of OWS is Tackling the Devastating War on the Poor

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Frances Fox Piven - Nov. 07 (News Analysis) - We’ve been at war for decades now -- not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor, but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. ... The Occupy Wall Street movement has already made the concentration of wealth at the top of this society a central issue in American politics. Now, it promises to do something similar when it comes to the realities of poverty in this country.

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Our Politicians Are Money Launderers Not Too Different from Tony Soprano

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Bill Moyers - Nov. 04 (Speech) - journalism for me has been a continuing course in adult education, and I came early on to consider the work you do as part of the curriculum – an open seminar on how government works – and for whom. Your muckraking investigations – into money and politics, corporate behavior, lobbying, regulatory oversight, public health and safety, openness in government, and consumer protection, among others – are models of accuracy and integrity. They drive home to journalists that while it is important to cover the news, it is more important to uncover the news. As one of my mentors said, “News is what people want to keep hidden; everything else is publicity.”

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What We Can Learn from Germany: How Countries With Publicly Owned Banks Do Better Than America

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Ellen Brown - Oct. 19 (Special Report) - [T]he demand isn't simply to make a public bank, but is to treat the banks generally as a public utility, just as you treat electric companies as a public utility.... Just as there was pressure for a public option in health care, there should be a public option in banking. There should be a government bank that offers credit card rates without punitive 30% interest rates, without penalties, without raising the rate if you don't pay your electric bill. This is how America got strong in the 19th and early 20th century, by essentially having public infrastructure, just like you'd have roads and bridges.... The idea of public infrastructure was to lower the cost of living and to lower the cost of doing business.

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Bishops Are Behind the 'Let Women Die' Act and the Push Against Birth Control--Even As They're Under Fire for Sex Abuse Scandals

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 17 (Opinion) - Last week, the House's passage of the now-notorious H.R. 358 -- also known as the "Let Women Die" bill -- caused deserved outrage. But the bill's connection to the high-ranking Catholic group that fought for its passage, even while the American church is fighting a horrific new sex abuse scandal, hasn't been given the attention it deserves.

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How the Right's Lame Attack on Occupy Wall St. Shows the Poverty of Conservative Ideology

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - Their answer – or one of them – is a Tumblr account called We Are the 53%, an unimaginitive take-off of Occupy Wall Street's We Are the 99%. And here's what makes it such a perfect representation of modern conservatism: it's based on an egregious lie spun by the movement's leaders, and it puts those who are sufficiently gullible – or ignorant – to believe that lie in a position of fighting hard against their own economic interests.

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How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99%

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Frank Schaeffer - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - As the Occupy Wall street movement spreads across the country and the world, we must bring attention to the enablers of the top 1 percent exploiting the 99. Fundamentalist religion made this exploitation possible.

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House Passes H.R. 358, the "Let Women Die" Act of 2011

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 14 (News Report) - Yesterday the GOP-led House of Representatives, with the blessings and encouragement of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops and extremist religious groups such as the Family Research Council, passed a bill in a vote of 251 to 172 that would, among other things, allow doctors and hospitals to "exercise their conscience" by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die.

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Alan Grayson Destroys PJ O'Rourke on Maher

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Upper West - Oct. 10 (Opinion) - Nothing pisses me off more than when a show like Bill Maher's has on a conservative who is permitted to spout lie that are unchallenged. It's fine to have Republicans on a "liberal" show like Maher's, but not when they get away with that. That's why I was thrilled to see Alan Grayson absolutely demolish the insufferably smug, lying P.J. O'Rourke tonight. (O'Rourke also appeared to have had one too many before the show.)

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What Do Steve Jobs' Obituaries Leave Out? His Appreciation for LSD

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Walter Armstrong - Oct. 10 (Special Report) - Speaking about his youthful experiments with psychedelics, Jobs said, "Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." He was hardly alone among computer scientists in his appreciation of hallucinogenics and their capacity to liberate human thought from the prison of the mind. Jobs even let drop that Microsoft's Bill Gates would "be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once." Apple's mantra was"Think different." Jobs did. And he credited his use of LSD as a major reason for his success.

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10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Les Leopold - Oct. 07 (News Analysis) - We are the 99 percent, and we demand our fair share. The irrefutable fact is that 99 percent of us really are being screwed by the 1 percent who are looting our country (actually it’s more like the top 1/10 of one percent). So if you still harbor any doubts that Wall Street is the right target, here are 10 reasons to consider:

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How Conservative Politicians Wait for God to Fix the Economy, With Frightening Results

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Sep. 30 (News Analysis) - A study released last fall suggests that the theology embraced by American religious conservatives may render them immune to evidence and reason when it comes to economic management. The study found that a sizable minority share a uniquely faith-based view of how the economy functions, believing that both good and bad outcomes are an expression of God's will, and are therefore beyond the reach of mere mortals.

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The Rise of the Pro-Ignorance Right Wing Puts us All In Danger

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Stephen Pizzo - Sep. 28 (Opinion) - The nation's simpletons have leapt from the shadows, where they wisely hide, except for distinct and notable moments in human history; the Dark Ages, the Inquisition, late 19th-century Germany and the same country during the 1930s. During such times, when the conditions are just right, like they are now, dumb and dumber leap from the shadows and take center stage, claim their right to lead, and... well the results are history.

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Fox News Allows Hate Group to Participate in GOP Debate

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Sep. 23 (News Report) - Almost 20,000 questions were submitted for Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, but Fox News picked the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a designated hate group, to ask the first question on immigration.

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9 Policies Conservatives Were For Long Before They Were Against Them

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Sep. 22 (News Analysis) - Journalist Steve Benen noted that while "the record here may be inconvenient for the right ... it's also unambiguous: the mandate Republicans currently hate was their idea." It was championed by the Heritage Foundation ... Nixon embraced it in the 1970s, and George H.W. Bush kept it going in the 1980s. For years, it was touted by the likes of John McCain, Mitt Romney, Scott Brown, Chuck Grassley, Bob Bennett, Tommy Thompson, Lamar Alexander, Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Judd Gregg, and many other ... notable GOP officials.

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Texas GOP Rep On Cuts To Family Planning: ‘Of Course This Is A War On Birth Control’

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Sep. 21 (News Report) - while they smother women’s rights with one hand, Republicans insist “we are not attacking women” on the other. “This is not a war against women,” said Republican founder of WomanTrend Kellyanne Conway. Texas Rep. Wayne Christian (R), however, begs to differ. With Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) at the helm, Texas Republicans have passed an “emergency” law forcing women to view a sonogram before an abortion, threatened a poor women’s health care program over Planned Parenthood funding, are seeking to restrict hospitals and physicians over abortion procedures, and has cut funding for family planning clinics by two-thirds. When asked whether Texas’s anti-family planning efforts were “a war on birth control,” Christian replied, “Well of course this is a war on birth control and abortions and everything”:

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