Texas Executed an Innocent Man | Obama's Betrayal | A Year After Palin, Alaska Now Asks Itself: WTF?

PEEK Newsletter September 1st, 2009 More blogs and video »

Texas Executed An Innocent Man By The Innocence Project The tragic case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was falsely accused of setting a fire that killed his children -- and then executed for it. Read more »   Under Fire, Pentagon Drops Contract With PR Agency That Screened Embedded Journalists By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Military official: "It was clear that the issue of Rendon's support to U.S. forces ... had become a distraction from our main mission." Read more »   Obama Has Betrayed the Progressives Who Got Him Elected. So Now What Do We Do? By Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant Total withdrawal dates and single-payer healthcare were never seriously part of the agenda. They were nice, empty promises, made to get elected. Read more »   Matt Taibbi: How Congress Blocked Health Reform in Five Craven Steps (Video) By Digby, Hullabaloo "We might look back on this summer someday and think of it as the moment when our government lost us for good. It was that bad." Read more »   After a Year of Sarah Palin, Alaska Wonders, "What the Hell Were We Thinking?" By AKMuckraker, The Mudflats From the day she was nominated until the day she resigned, watching Sarah Palin was like watching a slow motion film clip of the Hindenburg. Read more »   "Ron Paul Saw My Wife Naked!" (Or: Is The Texas Iconoclast Really a Racist?) By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Some perspective you don't hear much. Read more »   [VIDEO] Money-Driven Medicine: Wall Street Wins; You Lose By Adele Stan, AlterNet This documentary, aired by Bill Moyers Journal, examines our health-care system through the lens of profit-taking. Wall Street wins; you lose. Read more »   Howard Dean's Town Hall Meeting, Reston VA By Staff, The Real News Network Howard Dean and Congressman Jim Moran (D-Va.) take on the health care debate. Read more »   Kansas School District Bans T-Shirts Depicting Evolution By Faiz Shakir, Think Progress "I don't think evolution should be associated with our school," said one parent, who teaches in the district. Read more »   Is Your Cell Phone Co. Sponsoring a Climate Change Denying, Union Busting, Pro-Mountaintop Removal Rally? By Peter Rothberg, TheNation.com If you're one of Verizon's 87 million customers, the answer is yes. Read more »   More Texas Crazy: Speaker at Pro-Secession Rally Declares "We Hate the United States!" By Matt Corley, Think Progress Another speaker was overheard telling a pro-healthcare reform advocate, "Go back to the U.S. where you belong." Read more »   Palin Slated to Speak in Hong Kong After Latest No-Show By Adele Stan Sarah Palin has blown off the Reagan Library and an Alaska religious right group. Will she show up for the big dough in Hong Kong? Read more »

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