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5 Ways to Build a Fascist-Proof America By Sara Robinson, Campaign for America's Future If we want to build a fascist-proof America for the long haul, we must stand up now for everything we believe and everything we are. Read more »   Christian Organizations Shame and Coerce Women Into Giving Up Their Children By Kathryn Joyce, The Nation Many Christian adoption agencies are far more concerned with artificially producing "orphans" for Christian parents to adopt, than helping birth parents care for wanted children. Read more »   Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game By Jim Hightower, AlterNet Since Astroturf itself is made up of petroleum, there's a certain poetic symmetry in having Big Oil produce the silliest astroturf campaign yet. Read more »   The Fast Food Industry's 7 Most Heinous Concoctions By Brad Reed, AlterNet Some of America's favorite chains have concocted some thoroughly repellent dishes that make the Double Quarter Pounder look like a celery stick. Read more »   Ever Wonder if You Could Kill What You Eat? We Did the Other Night By Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing Were we traumatized? Did we feel sorry for the chicken? Are we dreading this weekend, where we'll have to kill 150 more? Here's why not. Read more »   Opponents of Health Reform: Stupid, Greedy or Just Gullible? By Steven D., Booman Tribune And what is the conservative solution to our health care mess? Read more »   Arrested Financier Hassan Nemazee Bought Influence Across Washington, Not Just with the Clintons By Russ Baker, WhoWhatWhy.com Nemazee was much more than just a Clinton fundraiser -- he was a bipartisan financier of the influence bazaar that American politics has become. Read more »   Liberal Lion Ted Kennedy Has Died ... What Happens Now with Immigration Reform? By Andrea Nill, Center for American Progress Kennedy "laid the groundwork" for the sort of humane immigration reform that he had spent much of his political career fighting for, but never achieved. Read more »   'Inglourious Basterds': If You Survive the Boring Parts of Quentin Tarantino's New Film, It's Actually Really Good By Eileen Jones, eXiled Online It's all eye-poppingly impressive, and the relentlessness of it will still make you want it to stop as you head deep into hour three. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Right-Wing Gubernatorial Candidate in Idaho Tells Disgusting Jokes About 'Hunting' Obama AlterNet This is not a no-name blogger. Read more »   Pathetic Right-Wing Lunatic Pens Op-Ed Pondering Kennedy's Future in Hell By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Stay classy, lady. Read more »   Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia By Mike Elk, Campaign for America's Future West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over this key segment of society, working class whites, with a New Deal-style industrial policy. Read more »   Naming a Health Care Bill After Ted Kennedy Is Exactly What the Senator Would Have Wanted By Byard Duncan, AlterNet Shock jocks on the right are calling foul on the politicizing of Kennedy's passing. They're wrong to do so. Read more »

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