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Tasers Are the New Killers: Watch Their Popularity Surge! By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Watch out: 50,000-volt Tasers are deployed in London this week; meanwhile, a new model can 'instantly incapacitate' multiple people at a time. Read more »   Obama's Blackwater? Chicago Mercenary Firm Gets Millions for Private "Security" in Israel and Iraq By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet Federal records obtained by AlterNet reveal a multi-million dollar contract for a private U.S. paramilitary force operating out of Jerusalem. Read more »   A Year Without a Mexican: The Debilitating Loss of Economic Lifeblood By Marcelo Ballve, Mother Jones Undocumented workers were the economic lifeblood of small towns like Postville, Iowa -- until the immigration cops showed up. Read more »   Journalists Made Fun of Tom Hurndall: In the End, He Was More Principled Than Any of Could Dream to Be By Robert Fisk, Independent UK Tom Hurndall was a "human shield," the kind we journalists made fun of in Iraq. Instead of mocking him we should have listened to him. Read more »   How a Green Economy Is an Antidote to Casino Capitalism By Robert Pollin, New Labor Forum A green investment sector can help rid the capital development of the U.S. economy of casino logic. Read more »   The Stunning Consequences of Not Getting Enough Sleep By Allison Ford, Divine Caroline Many people don't get as much sleep as they should. And their brains are paying the price. Read more »   Media Focus on Minor Violence; Ignore Peaceful Protests at Global Summit By Maria Margaronis, The Nation While thousands of protesters peacefully pushed for a global economic policy, the media chose to focus on the more violent acts of dissent. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Most American Catholics Far More Liberal Than Church Leadership By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet A new poll reveals that American Catholics more or less agree with non-Catholics on controversial social issues. Read more »   NY Times Discovers Capitalism's Crisis of Legitimacy By Joshua Holland, AlterNet About time, too. Read more »   Taking Down the Washington Post, One Marshmallow Editor at a Time By BoRev, AlterNet I decided my diorama would feature the Washington Post's editorial board itself, and poke fun at its increasingly deranged foreign policy positions. Read more »   Al Franken Gets One Step Closer By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly If Coleman got the same treatment as Gore did in 2000 Coleman's willingness to drag this process out indefinitely would almost certainly disappear. Read more »

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