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Dear AlterNet Reader, It's that time again -- time for our spring fundraising campaign. If you love what we do at AlterNet, please click here to make your 2009 contribution. But stay tuned because… this year we are fundraising with a twist. We're giving away $100 to the three AlterNet readers who can say it best: What does AlterNet mean to you? But, you have to say it in six words. Join in the fun and help us out so we can keep providing you with the stimulating, provocative information and stories you have come to count on. Click here to make your 2009 contribution for progressive media, and enter the six-word contest. Thanks for all that you do, Don Hazen Executive Editor     Do the Secret Bush Memos Amount to Treason? Top Constitutional Scholar Says Yes By Naomi Wolf, AlterNet Legal expert Michael Ratner calls the legal arguments made in the infamous Yoo memos, "Fuhrer's law." Read more »   Why Is Bill O'Reilly Attacking Me for Highlighting His Rape Comments? By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress O'Reilly takes his ambushes and harassment to a new low. Read more »   The Big Takeover: How Wall Street Insiders are Using the Bailout to Stage a Revolution By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com The global economic crisis isn't about money -- it's about power. Read more »   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 »   The Coming Evangelical Collapse By Michael Spencer, Christian Science Monitor A "postevangelical" predicts the coming of an anti-Christian era that will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment. Read more »   This Crisis Is Way Bigger Than Dead Banks and Wall Street Bailouts By James Galbraith, Washington Monthly Why the economic crisis, and its solution, are bigger than anyone has so far admitted. Read more »   The Voters' Uprising: President Obama What Are You Thinking? By Don Hazen, AlterNet Just about everything is riding on how we navigate this unprecedented moment in history; Obama needs to show he's on the right side. Read more »   The Scavenger's Manifesto: Why Dumpster Diving Can Save You from Going Off the Deep End By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet While consumer culture drowns us in debt, you can count every cent you save while liberating would-be trash. Read more »   AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right By Matt Taibbi, AlterNet AIG exec Jake DeSantis' NY Times letter asking for us to chill out about his poor overworked employees is a sick joke. Read more »   Have Geithner's Zombie Ideas Won? Paul Krugman on the "Cash for Trash" Program By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Krugman on Geithner's toxic assets program: "It's the zombie that you keep killing, and it just keeps coming back." Read more »

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