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While journalists should view Wikileaks with some skepticism, it cannot be ignored. Welcome to the brave new world of investigative reporting.

What should progressives do about Obama's move to the center?

After 9 long years, it's time to move on. One final thought: don't ever stop ruthlessly criticizing everything that exists.

Nader holds Obama to a different standard than he holds McCain or any other white mainstream politician; a standard based solely on his color.

The June 26th hearing was an important first step in educating Congress about why a federal law protecting transgender employees is sorely needed.

Three books tackle issues rarely explored by the media: McCain's flip-flopping, America's political divide and the real story behind globalization.

Most of our political representatives seem to be engaged in a contest over who can throw more money at defense contractors.

If your local sporting goods store can collect and pay a sales tax on the running shoes that it sells, the big internet retailers can do the same.

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The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency
Brad Reed, AlterNet. July 1, 2008.
Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?
Rick Shenkman, Tomdispatch.com. July 2, 2008.
Bringing Ireland to Baghdad: How the Resistance Will Eventually Kick the Americans Out
Gary Brecher, AlterNet. July 2, 2008.
Hitchens Gets Waterboarded, Withdraws from Iraq in 11 Seconds
John Dolan, AlterNet. July 2, 2008.
WALL-E: A World Without Us
Michael Dudley, City States. July 1, 2008.
Big Pharma Is in a Frenzy to Bring Cannabis-Based Medicines to Market
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. July 5, 2008.
Memo to Obama: Moving to the Middle Is for Losers
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. July 5, 2008.
Bush-Led 'Disaster Capitalism' Exploits Worldwide Misery to Make a Buck
Naomi Klein, The Nation. July 4, 2008.
U.S. Journalist Photographs Grisly Aftermath of Attack in Iraq, Gets Booted by Military
Dahr Jamail, IPS News. July 5, 2008.
The Iraq War Was About Oil, All Along
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal. July 5, 2008.

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By James Galbraith, Mother Jones

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Two enormous clouds remain for whoever becomes president: the housing slump and the banking crisis. Both are far from being finished yet.

Don Hazen, AlterNet

A pilot feature of AlterNet on key questions of the day -- is Obama really tacking to the center, and why gas is so damn pricey.

Naomi Wolf, Huffington Post

Rights and Liberties: How Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay basically turned into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.

NEW: Professor Ticketed for "No to Empire" Bumper Sticker

Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive

PEEK: The police state in the mirror is closer than it appears.

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group

Reproductive Justice and Gender: Why is a candidate praised for his rhetorical gifts perpetuating irresponsible stereotypes about women who have abortions?

Nomi Prins, AlterNet

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Oil prices won't be dropping any time soon. Not until the first mandatory and detailed trade reports cover the entire global futures trading markets.

Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation

War on Iraq: In a stunning move, the Iraqi PM floats the idea of a timetable, while Bush -- and McCain -- continue to insist on indefinite occupation.

Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future

Health and Wellness: It's time to replace our fragmented, wasteful health care system with one that provides quality, affordable care for every American.

Adam Doster, In These Times

Election 2008: Obama's experience as an organizer taught him a crucial lesson: Activating underrepresented communities can dramatically alter close elections.

Jim Lobe, IPS News

ForeignPolicy: Forswearing military action against Tehran would ease the upwards pressure on world oil prices.

Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Immigration: Progressive immigration reformers need to do a better job framing their proposals.

Eileen Jones, AlterNet

Movie Mix: "Hancock" is supposed to be a wry commentary on the pressure of being Will Smith, but the message gets lost in a big-budget Hollywood train wreck.

David Michael Green, AlterNet

Environment: In a society devoted like no other to the politics of fear, we have somehow managed to forget the one thing we should probably fear most.

Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, Bill Moyers Journal

War on Iraq: Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.

Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation

Democracy and Elections: America is experiencing a surge of hope -- the time is right to invigorate our damaged democracy and capture greater power for the people.

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post

Election 2008: Realpolitik is one thing. Realstupidpolitik is quite another.

Dahr Jamail, IPS News

War on Iraq: An embedded U.S. journalist said the military tried to censor him after he posted photos from Fallujah.

Paul Armentano, AlterNet

DrugReporter: While the the American Medical Association claims pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is busy getting patents for marijuana products.

Dean Baker, TruthOut.org

Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Private sector job gains in the Bush years may fall below 3 million by November.

Dr. Marty Klein, Sexual Intelligence

Sex and Relationships: Why is the government allowed to jail people for selling videos of adults having (consensual) sex?

Michael Dudley, City States

Movie Mix: Stores are overfilling with WALL-E merchandise that will soon clog our landfills. Yet this new Disney movie bills itself as pro-environment.

Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee

Reproductive Justice and Gender: There was little media introspection about Heath Ledger's overdose, while Amy Winehouse receives daily scrutiny for her drug habits. What gives?

Ruth Rosen, Truthdig

Democracy and Elections: A new book explores the real populist vision that lies behind the shallow rhetoric to which we've been subjected during this election year.

Naomi Klein, The Nation

The Iraq disaster and rising gas and food prices have people across the globe in a state of fear and shock. It's high times for Bush & Co.

Penny Coleman, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: The latest episode of the Department of Veterans Affairs' callous denial of veterans' suffering is a continuation of a long tradition.

Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet

Health and Wellness: Just because a Harvard academic says something is so, doesn't mean it is.

Robert Scheer, Truthdig

This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon

PEEK: Social conservatives refuse to give up on titillating conspiracy theory.

Bruce Mirken, AlterNet

DrugReporter: WHO survey of 17 countries finds that we have the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use.

Gabriel Thompson, AlterNet

Immigration: Meet the Council of Conservative Citizens -- a group that offers a biblical defense of slavery and laments the surivival of African babies.

Scott Thill, AlterNet

Environment: Google's motto is "Don't be evil." But when it comes to its environmental impact, some think the company can't live up to its own hype.

Gayle Greene, Ms. Magazine

Reproductive Justice and Gender: And why is the high level of insomnia among women ignored by researchers?

John Dolan, AlterNet

Rights and Liberties: Warmongerer and neocon Christopher Hitchens just noticed that waterboarding is torture!

Frederick Lane, Beacon Press

Even worse, Bush wants to ensure that faith-based organizations receiving federal funds can discriminate in their hiring on the basis of religion.

Kyle de Beausset, AlterNet

Immigration: Intolerance isn't just popular among the ignorant. It is within every one of us.

Allison H. Fine, Personal Democracy Forum

Media and Technology: Historians will undoubtedly consider our current era of voting machines the technological equivalent of the 8-track tape machine.

Melinda Brouwer, AlterNet

ForeignPolicy: Creating a "League of Democracies" is a central tenet of John McCain's foreign policy "vision," but in other democracies, the idea's a non-starter.

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