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How Conservative Elites Stoke Racist Anxieties to Gain Power and Split Blacks and Whites

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Chauncey DeVega - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - Newt Gingrich calling Obama a “food stamp president,” Rick Santorum implying that African Americans are parasites who leach off of white people, and Ron Paul’s old newsletters, which describe black men as monstrous beasts (“giant negroes” who stand ready to attack whites at any moment), are examples of this phenomenon on the national stage.

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Taibbi: Mortgage Fraud Settlement is More Like a Bailout Than Justice

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Kristen Gwynne - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - Tabbi says that as more of the banks' bad behavior is exposed, it will become obvious that they must shut down to pay for their crimes, because the reparations necessary would bleed them dry. This settlement, he says, is a "kewpie doll" for victims of banker greed, and won't "stem the tide or turn the tables for these people."

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I Will Not Be Pinkwashed: Komen's Race Is For Money, Not Cure

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

AlterNet - By Emily Michele - Feb. 05 (News Analysis) - I don’t know about you, but I would never expect directors of a charitable “non-profit” organization to make more than most doctors, lawyers, or even politicians. Their CEO and president, Hala G. Moddelmog, made $531,924, plus $26,683 in change. That's more than President Obama makes.

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"Gasland" Director Josh Fox Fires Back at Republicans After His Unfair Arrest

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Ed Schultz - Feb. 02 (Interview) - Gasland director Josh Fox, ... was arrested this week, in violation of his first amendment rights, while covering a Congressional hearing on fracking. In the interview, Fox fires back at the Republicans who have been targeting him

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How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By George Lakey - Feb. 02 (Special Report) - Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different.

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Breasts Yes, Vaginas No? Race for the Cure Group's Bizarre Capitulation to Right-Wingers (And How to Hit Them Where it Hurts)

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

AlterNet - By Amanda Marcotte - Feb. 01 (News Report) - Despite Komen’s lame attempts to claim otherwise, it was widely understood that this was about Komen aligning itself with the anti-choice movement, despite the anti-choice movement’s long history of opposing not just safe and legal abortion, but also access to contraception and even the prevention of cervical cancer through the use of the HPV vaccine.

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In Florida Romney Trounces Competitors, But Gingrich Steals Thunder With Bizarre Speech

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

AlterNet - Feb. 01 (News Analysis) - After citing remarks made by President Abraham Lincoln at the 1863 dedication of a Civil War cemetery, Gingrich, a highly compensated historian, contended that he would continue to fight for the nomination by waging "a people's campaign -- not a Republican campaign, not an establishment campaign, not a Wall Street-funded campaign..." With those remarks, Gingrich effectively declared war on the Republican Party.

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Why Is Public Education Being Outsourced to Online Charter Schools?

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Rania Khalek - Jan. 09 (News Report) - Virtual charter schools, which offer classes online instead of in a classroom, have become the fastest-growing segment of the charter school industry. And while data on their effectiveness is scarce, state legislators across the country are passing laws to expand cyber schools at the behest of privatization advocates and online education companies at an alarming rate, with little regulation.

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The Devil and Rick Santorum: Dilemmas of A Holy Owned Subsidiary

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Thomas Ferguson - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - The father of the Investment Theory of Politics reveals what pundits are missing in the GOP's failure to lead its own electorate.

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Why the Iowa Caucuses -- and the GOP Clowns Competing in Them -- Are a Total Joke

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Gene Lyons - Jan. 02 (Opinion) - what’s alarming about the GOP contest isn’t the indecisiveness or poor reasoning processes of Iowa voters. It’s the dismal quality of the choices they’re offered. Is this the best that one of America’s two major political parties can do? You’ve got to wonder what would happen if they put “None of the Above” on the ballot.

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5 of the Biggest Hacks in American Media

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Alex Pareene - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - Excerpted from Alex Pareene and Salon's 2011 Hack List, here are five of the worst, most predictable and least interesting pundits in America.

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Why the FDA Okays Eating Seafood 10,000 Times Over the Safe Limit for Dangerous Carcinogens

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Brad Jacobson - Dec. 19 (News Report) - The FDA downplayed the risk of contamination and ignored staff members who proposed higher levels of contamination protection while providing no scientific evidence to back up its policy.

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Presenting the Ten Greediest Americans of 2011

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

AlterNet - By Sam Pizzigati - Dec. 13 (Special Report) - Hoolahan and his two top aides are skimming off $1 of every $10 the Sugar Bowl generates, a Washington Post analysis recently noted. At the same time, adds thet Arizona Republic, the Sugar Bowl and its three “Bowl Championship Series” partners are donating to charity only 20 cents from every $10 in revenue.

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The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You |

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Jeffrey Clement - Dec. 08 (Special Report) - In 1971, Lewis Powell, a mild-mannered, courtly, and shrewd corporate lawyer in Richmond, Virginia, soon to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, wrote a memorandum to his client, the United States Chamber of Commerce. He outlined a critique and a plan that changed America.

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Why Does the GOP Base Embrace Wacky Intellectual Lightweights Like Herman Cain?

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Paul Rosenberg - Dec. 03 (News Analysis) - This year's Republican presidential primary campaign has been comedy gold, although no candidate has pushed the comic envelope more than Herman Cain—both intentionally and not. Perhaps as he's begun to fade we can catch our collective breath long enough to ask ourselves—why? Why has the right been so profoundly infatuated with a whole series of potential candidates—Palin, Trump, Bachmann, Perry, Cain

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Eurozone Catastrophe: How Saving the Euro Could Mean Blood on the Streets

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Marshall Auerback, AlterNet - Dec. 02 - The whole future shape of Europe must be resolved in a week or so. Itâ€™s a high-stakes game of poker that the Germans are determined to win--at the expense of misery for many.

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To Conservatives, Climate Change is Trojan Horse to Abolish Capitalism

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Naomi Klein - Nov. 29 (News Analysis) - Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama’s campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about “green communitarianism,” akin to the “Maoist” scheme to put “a pig iron furnace in everybody’s backyard” (the Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels). That climate change is “a stalking horse for National Socialism” (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists’ go-to website, ClimateDepot.com).

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When the World Outlawed War: An Interview with David Swanson

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Bruce Levine - Nov. 27 (Interview) - For those who know war only through television, criminalizing it sounds like proposing to criminalize government. But there was a time when the masses made war illegal.

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More on Police Departments' Collusion in Defense of 1%: Who's the Organization Coordinating Those Crackdown Calls?

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - Nov. 19 (Investigative Report) - a little-known but influential private membership based organization has placed itself at the center of advising and coordinating the crackdown on the encampments. The Police Executive Research Forum, an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events....

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Video of Cop Viciously Pepper-Spraying Sitting Students Goes Viral

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - Nov. 19 (News Report) - a group of college students are huddled on the ground in a defensive position at UC Davis on November 18. An officer, later identified as UC police Lt. John Pike, then casually douses them with a chemical agent. You’ll note that a number of bystanders who were simply watching what was going on are also exposed. Assuming the police had legal grounds to make arrests, it seems apparent from the video that little or no force was necessary to achieve that goal. The students are obviously not a threat to the officers. It appears that the heavily armored riot police could have simply grabbed them and put them in flexi-cuffs had they chosen to do so. That means that this entire assault appears to be a perfect example of excessive force.

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Fox News Is the 1%

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

AlterNet - By Robert Greenwald:, Ed Schultze - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - video

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Six First-Hand Observations From Last Night's Chaos between Riot Police and Occupy Oakland

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Oct. 27 (News Report) - We're taught from an early age that we have a right to peaceably assemble and protest, and that this right is guaranteed by the Constitution and can't be over-ridden by the city of Oakland.

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The victory OWS has already won - AlterNet - Salon.com

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Oct. 27 () - In just one month, the protesters have shifted the national dialogue from a relentless focus on the deficit to a discussion of the real issues facing Main Street: the lack of jobs — and especially jobs with decent benefits — spiraling inequality, cash-strapped American families’ debt loads, and the pernicious influence of money in politics that led us to this point.

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As Herman Cain Surges, Corporate Media Ignore His Koch Connections

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

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Oct. 16 (News Analysis) - With two major polls showing Atlanta businessman Herman Cain now moving ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to claim the top spot among the contenders for the GOP presidential nomination, media are beating a path to his door. Given Cain's clear and strong connection to the billionaire newsmaker David Koch, you'd think that Cain's longstanding ties to the Americans For Prosperity Foundation, which is chaired by Koch, and its sibling organization, simply known as Americans For Prosperity, would be a meaty topic for enterprising reporters. Apparently not.

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How Christian Fundamentalism Helped Empower the Top 1% to Exploit the 99% | Occupy Wall Street

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 15 (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. Evangelical fundamentalism helped empower the top 1 percent. Note I didn't say religion per se, but religious fundamentalism. Why? Because without the fundamentalists and their "values" issues, many in the lower 99 percent could not have been convinced to vote against their (our) economic self-interest; in other words, vote for Republicans who only serve billionaires. Wall Street is a great target for long-overdue protest, but so are the centers of religious power that are the gatekeepers of Republican Party "values" voters that make the continuing economic exploitation possible.

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