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Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need By Dara Colwell, AlterNet We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal? Read more »   Powerful Banks and Government Handouts to the Rich: It's Time for Protest By Zephyr Teachout, AlterNet A new grassroots group has organized protests for April 11 in 11 cities so far, and the ranks of signups are swelling fast. Read more »   The Real AIG Scandal: How the Game Is Rigged at Wall Street's Casino By Lucy Komisar, AlterNet Congress has deftly avoided the real story of AIG's collapse, which will make a few million in bonuses seem like peanuts. Read more »   9 Reasons Obama's Fiscal Plan Fails both Markets and Taxpayers By Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate The real failings in the Obama recovery program lie not in the stimulus package, but in its efforts to revive financial markets. Read more »   The Reva: Why Americans May Never See the Best New Car on the Road By Daniel Pepper, AlterNet Forget the Tata Nano, the hottest car is the Reva, which is wooing Europeans and Asians. But will we ever see it in the U.S.? Read more »   My Uterus, Husband and I All Agree -- No Children By Juniper, Divine Caroline Why choose to be child free? The list of reasons is endless. Read more »   The Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet In a month filled with tragic shootings, lawmakers are not thinking of gun owners as an oppressed minority. But the NRA is hoping to change that. Read more »   Stop the Madness: Bernie Sanders Tries to Block Appointment of Latest Wall Street Insider By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Gensler worked to exempt credit default swaps from regulation, which led to the collapse of A.I.G. and has resulted in our massive bailout. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Report: Global Executions Doubled in 2008, U.S. #4 in State Killing By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Amnesty International finds that while the world as a whole is moving away from the death penalty, executions went up last year. Read more »   Lou Dobbs Goes After Hispanic Chamber of Commerce ... a Step Too Far for His Corporate Masters By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Dobbs' scattershot hit a poorly selected target: the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. And, stunningly, Lou actually backpedaled. Read more »   GOP Whip Skips Obama to Attend Britney Spears Concert By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, who has accused Obama of being distracted, seeks out a distraction of his own. Read more »   Why Progressives Must Push Democrats, Not Just Bash Republicans By David Sirota, Open Left We are the ones we've been waiting for. Read more »

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