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Our Produce-or-Die Culture Is Killing Us -- And We're Idiotically Grinning and Bearing It By Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com We've been reduced to "human assets" of a relentless economic machine. And we can't even complain: appearing cheerful is vital when all of life is monitored by an employer. Read more » Decent Health Care or an Insurance Industry Bailout? 5 Defining Battles in the Final Stretch for Reform By Joshua Holland, AlterNet There's momentum to repair our fractured health care system -- but activism is desperately needed to keep the process honest. more » Neocons Salivating Over Their Next Great Exaggerated "Threat": Electromagnetic Pulse Attack By Robert Farley, Right Web A diverse array of rightwing factions have united behind the effort to promote the EMP threat thesis. more » Fetus-Shaped Potatoes? Going Undercover Inside the Weird World of Right-Wing Abortion Foes By Ann Neumann, AlterNet I went undercover to a Pro-Life Federation conference. What I found there was not "middle America" or even conservative America. It was fringe America. more » Are the "New Atheists" As Bad as Christian Fundamentalists? By Frank Schaeffer, AlterNet The most aggressive members of the "New Atheism" movement have quite a bit in common with religious extremists like Pat Robertson and Ted Haggard. more » "Restless Vagina Syndrome": Big Pharma's Newest Fake Disease By Terry J. Allen, In These Times The pharmaceutical industry wants you to think that if you don't have sex like a porn star, you're in need of their drugs. more » Is Adultery Good for Women? In Defense of Ashley Madison, the Cheaters' Website By Jeff Schult, Your Tango Despite criticism, Ashley Madison -- a website that facilitates affairs between married men and women -- attracts an unprecedented percentage of female users. Why? more » PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web Civil War Today: Obama Highly Popular Everywhere Outside of Old South By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Really striking results. more » Rape Victim Confronts Vitter Over Vote for Impunity for Contractors By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones' Halliburton/KBR co-workers gang-raped her while she was working in Baghdad. more » Packed Supreme Court Likely to Allow MORE Corporate Money in Politics By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future Because corporations are people too. more »

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