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Boehner Proposes Desperate New Debt Plan
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 4:50 pm | Alternet
JULY 29TH, 2011 Boehner Proposes Desperate New Debt Plan That Involves "Unrealistic" Plan to Change the Constitution By Joan McCarter | Daily Kos Jon Stewart on What the GOP's Movie Clip Says to the Tea Party: Your Single-Minded Mania Will Be Your ... More >>
Several People Reportedly Dead After Explosion in Oslo
Saturday, 23 July 2011, 10:26 am | Alternet
Several People Reportedly Dead After Explosion in Downtown Oslo, Attack on Children's Summer Camp By AlterNet Staff Cruel and Unusual: In Sweltering Heat, Chicago Hyatt Turns Heat Lamps on Picketing Workers By Laura Clawson | Daily Kos TSA "Porno-Scanners" ... More >>
Bachmann's Latest Conspiracy Theory is a Doozy
Sunday, 19 June 2011, 12:39 pm | Alternet
AlterNet Newsletter JUNE 18TH, 2011 Bachmann's Latest Conspiracy Theory is a Doozy By Steve Benen | Washington Monthly Conservatives Made Up Fake Identities to "Trap" Weiner on Twitter By Sarah Seltzer | AlterNet Bill Maher: If You Think the GOP Field ... More >>
AlterNet Newsletter, June 4
Saturday, 4 June 2011, 8:10 pm | Alternet
AlterNet Newsletter TODAY'S TOP STORIES JUNE 4TH, 2011 Major International Leaders Plead for the US and the World to Get Smart and Stop the War on Drugs The Commission on Drug Policy urged a shift from incarceration to consideration of a full range ... More >>
AlterNet Newsletter JUNE 3RD,
Friday, 3 June 2011, 7:22 pm | Alternet
AlterNet Newsletter TODAY'S TOP STORIES JUNE 3RD, 2011 Wall Street Journal Honcho Shills for Secret Worker 'Education' Program Linked to Koch Group During the 2010 election campaign, WSJ editorial board member Stephen Moore carried the Koch agenda ... More >>
AlterNet Newsletter May 20
Saturday, 21 May 2011, 2:35 pm | Alternet
AlterNet Newsletter MAY 20TH, 2011 Guess What? Despite What Republicans Say, the U.S. Isn't Actually Broke By digby | Hullabaloo Colbert Report: John Lithgow Gives Dramatic Reading of Newt Gingrich's Absurd, Hilarious, "Epic" Press Release ... More >>
AlterNet Newsletter May 6, 2011
Saturday, 7 May 2011, 12:55 pm | Alternet
WI Democrats File Formal Challenge Against Suspicious Recall Petitions Submitted by Republicans By Chris Bowers | Daily Kos Breaking: Ahmadinejad Could Resign as President of Iran; Top Aides Arrested and Charged With Sorcery By Lauren Kelley | ... More >>
Now That Bin Laden Is Dead, Can We Have Our Freedoms Back?
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 11:26 am | Alternet
Osama bin Laden's death removes the single focal point that has dominated American foreign affairs – and much of American politics at home – for a decade. And certainly, the United States and the world can breathe a sigh of relief that a dreaded enemy ... More >>
Cheering a Monster's Death Is Not the Same as Patriotism
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 10:01 am | Alternet
There was something unseemly about that gathering of college-age Americans outside the White House just before midnight on Sunday, cheering at the news of Osama bin Laden’s death. Some of the kids had draped flags over their shoulders; they chanted ... More >>
Bin Laden Update: Corpse Photo Could Be Released Today
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 9:29 am | Alternet
With the Osama bin Laden assassination dominating the news cycle, it can be hard to keep track of all the emerging details. Here are the latest developments and insights, in digest form. (AlterNet) More >>
Rape Myths Persist: Reactions to the Assault on Lara Logan
Friday, 18 February 2011, 10:24 am | Alternet
If we work together, we can help Lara Logan and countless others heal from the wounds of assault. It's high time we change the way we treat victims of sexual crimes. More >>
Alternet News for December 1
Thursday, 2 December 2010, 10:13 am | Alternet
Alternet News for December 1 Republicans Vow to Block Lame Duck Bills Until Tax Cuts Come Up By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd | AlterNet Tyrannical Employer Forces Women to Wear Red Bracelets While Menstruating By Lauren Kelley | AlterNet Catfood ... More >>
WTO Meets; Iraq Lost; Toxic Cola
Tuesday, 9 September 2003, 8:34 am | Alternet
The 1999 Seattle anti-WTO protests "looked like the bar scene from Star Wars" to the paranoid eyes of the WTO's director, Mike Moore (not to be confused with Michael Moore). As evidence of the impact of those protests, Moore's newly-published memoir ... More >>