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The Corporate Media State Has Deformed American Culture -- Time to Fight Back By Chris Hedges, Truthdig Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda. Read more »   "More Better Faster!": How Our Spastic Digital Culture Scrambles Our Brains By David Bollier, On the Commons The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking. Read more »   Bogus Think Tank "Third Way" Pops Up to Thwart Health Care Reform By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet Third Way is drenched in corporate money, tangled in ties to big business and bent on Clintonian triangulation. How dare it call itself progressive? Read more »   Should We Bulldoze the 'Burbs? By Eoin O'Carroll, Christian Science Monitor A debate has ensued about whether to raze neighborhoods that have fallen into economic decay. Read more »   Can Gardening Make Your Sex Life Better? By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing The skeptical reader will probably go, say what? But I believe gardening is a good model to go off of -- in terms of getting off. Read more »   Pressuring Obama to Make the Right Decision on Health Care is AlterNet's Top Campaign of the Week By Byard Duncan, AlterNet This is no time to let up. We must let Obama know how important a public option is for all of America. Read more »   DC Metro Crash: Who Will Die Next Because We Throw Money At Billionaries and Scrimp on the Public Good? By Dave Zirin, The Nation The wreckage of the DC train crash is not an accident site. It's a crime scene. When we spend more on sports stadiums than infrastructure, people die. Read more »   Why Does Our Government Still Spy On, Arrest and Persecute Dissidents? By Emily Spence, Consortium News One needn't return in time to the McCarthy Era to find many individuals who have been investigated and persecuted for holding vilified opinions. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     E-Mail From Hilda Solis to Employees Who Defaced Gay Pride Posters at U.S. Dept. of Labor By Nate Carlile, Think Progress "Respect for others is non-negotiable at the U.S. Department of Labor" Read more »   Obama Has Become Radical in His Commitment to Secrecy By Martin Garbus, Huffington Post Obama's attempt at secrecy, continued torture and repression of speech must be stopped. Read more »   Did Washington Turn a Blind Eye to the Coup in Honduras? By Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports At minimum, the U.S. could have flexed its tremendous economic muscle before the coup and told the military plotters to stand down. Read more »

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