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How the Neocons Are Distorting History to Pave the Way for War with Iran

AlterNet.org - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 16:00
Neoconservatives like Charles Krauthammer are promoting the misleading Israeli narrative of the 1967 war in their efforts to sell an attack on Iran.
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Low-Wage Workers in New York Come Together to Fight Greedy Bosses

AlterNet.org - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 14:00
May Day, the Occupy movement and the 99 percent narrative have raised the voices of low-wage workers who joined together under the banner "Organize, Legalize, and Unionize."
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Where Are the Missing 5 Million Workers? In the Underground Economy

AlterNet.org - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 13:00
The “underground†is always with us. For better and often for worse, it’s how marginalized populations tend to survive—often not very well.
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Fighting the Corporate Prison Industry: Citizens of One Illinois Town Fight CCA Immigration Detention Facility

AlterNet.org - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 10:00
Will CCA seal a deal to build a civil detention facility in Crete, Ill., before the legislature votes to bar it?
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Infuriated by 'Valueless' Testing, NYC Parents Vow to Fight Back

AlterNet.org - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 07:00
Parents from Williamsburg to Riverdale say the state’s high-stakes standardized testing regimen is out of control and a serious threat to their children’s education.
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Appellate Court Refuses to Block Ruling That Electioneering Non-Profits Must Disclose Donors

The BRAD BLOG - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 20:21
The mainstream corporate media spends a lot of time telling you about crap that doesn't matter. Then there's the stuff that does matter which you hardly hear about at all. This is one of those stories. Hugely important, yet, almost inexplicably, barely reported on. Happily HuffPo's Dan Froomkin -- who Tweeted it ...
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Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace: How "Rolling Stone" Got Her Story (Almost) Right

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 19:00
Amidst the punk icon's celebrity gender transition, a trans woman entertains the hope that change is coming
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Journalists, Wiki-Leakers, Anti-War Activists Overturn Domestic Military Detention in Major Civil Rights Victory

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 18:00
The government's conduct in federal court convinced a judge that the newest anti-terror law violated the constitutional rights of journalists and activists.
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'Green News Report' - May 17, 2012

The BRAD BLOG - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 17:21
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport VIA SMART PHONE: Stitcher Radio! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: House GOP attacks America's clean energy industry -- again; Solar becoming cheaper than coal -- finally; Coal industry panicking -- naturally; Americans willing to pay more for clean energy, as long as it's not nuclear; PLUS: Australians are hot -- ...
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Giant Tax Loopholes and Tax Breaks: All About the Multi-Billion Dollar Facebook IPO

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 17:00
Shares of the social network go on sale Friday at an initial public offering expected to be one of the largest ever--so how's it managing to get a $3 billion tax break?
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Tasing a Pregnant Woman in Front of Her Kid? The Outrageous -- And Dangerous -- Abuse of Tasers by Police

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 14:00
Police often misuse tasers -- with terrible results.
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GOP Version of Violence Against Women Act Tries to Push Women Back Into the Home

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 14:00
By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, the legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still at home.
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10 Frightening Things That Happen at Conservative Christian Schools That May Be Funded With Your Tax Dollars

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:00
Inflammatory anti-choice propaganda? Lies about sexuality? We need to keep in mind what goes on in many Christian schools when we discuss vouchers.
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10 Cool Discoveries You Should Know About

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:00
From asteroid mining to HIV prevention, here are 10 things you should know about from the week.
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Ehrenreich: How Corporations and Local Governments Rob the Poor Blind

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:00
The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.
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TED: Even More Elitist Than We Thought

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 13:00
TED curator Chris Anderson seemed most concerned that "business managers and entrepreneurs would feel insulted" by some remarks about income inequality.
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How the Auto Industry Completely Lost the Millennials

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 12:00
A veteran auto writer looks at how the world’s automakers got this generation so wrong.
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Occupied Urban Farmland in the Bay Area Highlights Privatization of Public Universities and Corporatization of Public Trust

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 11:00
The arena of struggle revealed by Occupy the Farm is not just organic farming, food justice, and food sovereignty--it's also about an increasingly privatized university.
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Toward a More Perfect Student Unionism: Lessons From the Maple Spring

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:00
Activists from CUNY hold forth on what the US student movement needs now.
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Press Freedom Declines in the US With Arrests of Journalists at Protests--and More Will Likely Come

AlterNet.org - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 07:00
Freedom of the press is more important, not less, when anyone with a mobile phone and an Internet connection can act as a journalist.
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