‘Frankenfoods’ Giant Monsanto Plays Bully Over Consumer Labeling
By Scott Thill, AlterNet
Monsanto doesn’t want consumers to know the truth about the milk they’re drinking. The corporation’s monopoly is at stake.
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Maybe Major League Baseball Should Investigate Congress
By Josh Zaharoff, AlterNet
If only Congress were as responsible and ethical as steroid-ridden baseball players.
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I’m Tired of Being Cool — Understanding My Love Affair With Barack Obama
By Michael Bader, AlterNet
Obama has reintroduced hope, possibility, meaning, and community back into public life. No wonder he inspires hero worship.
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Is ‘Bitch’ the New Black?
By Ellen Snortland, AlterNet
“Bitch” is a wonderful word and state of being. I want to be one. And I double-bitch dare you to join me.
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The Bad Science that Created the Cholesterol Con
By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat
The war against cholesterol has become a profitable cottage industry. But the science behind it has more than a few gaps. (Part two in a series)
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Obama at the Crossroads
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Will Obama go negative on Hillary by nitpicking her tax return and record, or will he show there is another way to win votes?
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Women as Weapons of War
By Jayne Lyn Stahl, AlterNet
A new book shows how Western media depict women’s bodies as dangerous — threats as great as any machine gun or bomb.
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Climate Change’s Most Deadly Threat: Drought
By Todd Wilkinson, Christian Science Monitor
A new book reveals that the Earth’s distant past can predict the crises that may lie in our future.
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“Million Fag March” Turns the Tables on Homophobic Pastor Fred Phelps
By Trish, Pensito Review
Organizers say it’s time to “show Phelps and his church that freedom of speech works both ways.”
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McCain Can’t Quit John Hagee: Right Wing Televangelist Blames Hurricane Katrina on Gay Pride and More [VIDEO]
By Adam Howard, AlterNet
Horrible Hagee highlights, like saying God will send terrorists to attack America for supporting of a two state solution in Israel/Palestine.
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Hey Maureen Dowd, Please Shut Up!
By Melissa McEwan, Shakesville
Once again, she has to begin the collection of half-baked idiocies she calls a column by drawing a nearly unrecognizable caricature of feminism.
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With March 4th Behind Them, What’s Next for Hillary and Obama?
By Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report
Clinton and Obama will constantly be battling for position, of course, but there are rumors that Obama has a couple of tricks up his sleeve.
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