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Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet
August 29th, 2008
http://www.alternet.org
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OBAMA'S PROGRESSIVE, POPULIST AGENDA: "NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR SMALL PLANS"
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet
Obama has shown the pathway out of the decades-long, ruinous
mess conservative rule has created.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/96882/
OBAMA'S GRAND SPEECH: REASON FOR HOPE
By David Corn, Mother Jones Online
Can an acceptance speech make a difference in an election?
This was one with the potential to do so.
http://www.alternet.org/election08/96887/
ARE ORGANIC FOODS GETTING TOO PRICEY FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS?
By Jill Richardson, AlterNet
Even Whole Foods and its upper-middle-class customers are
feeling the pinch.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/96811/
DEMOCRATS: DON'T MAKE AFGHANISTAN YOUR WAR
By Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
Biden, Obama, and the Dems are rallying to escalate the war
in Afghanistan. But trading one war for another would be
catastrophic.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/96740/
YET ANOTHER OBSCENITY TRIAL? WE SHOULD BE ASHAMED
By Dr. Marty Klein, AlterNet
Shocking but true: An American city, in the year 2008, asked
a jury to declare that a movie of adults having sex is
illegal.
http://www.alternet.org/sex/96366/
PLAN B DAMNED: MY QUEST FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
By Nikol Hasler, RH Reality Check
Unless you have Plan B in your medicine cabinet, it's highly
unlikely you'll get your hands on a morning-after pill the
morning after.
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/96527/
KATRINA PAIN INDEX: MEASURING NEW ORLEANS' DEVASTATION THREE YEARS LATER
By Bill Quigley, CounterPunch
The United States' economic crisis and simultaneous wars
have left New Orleans as an afterthought. This is what the
city looks like today.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/96852/
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AlterNet's DNC Coverage:
HOW THE MEDIA'S TARRING OF HILLARY HURT OBAMA TOO
By Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America
>From the primaries to the convention, the media have become
experts at inventing a storyline and skewing facts to
support it.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/96854/
STANDOFF WITH POLICE AS IRAQ VETS DEMAND TO MEET WITH OBAMA CAMPAIGN
By Alex Kane, Jessica Lee, Indypendent
With no reply from Obama to their letter asking him to
endorse their goals, IVAW marched to the Pepsi Center to
demand that their voices be heard.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/96826/
GAY DAYS AT THE DNC
By Richard Kim, The Nation
The era when Democrats ran away from civil rights for gays
and lesbians is over.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/96844/
THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION WAS ANYTHING BUT CONVENTIONAL
By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate
This year's Democratic convention may have helped forge a
new progressive movement.
http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/96846/
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AlterNet Blogs:
MCCAIN'S MILLION DOLLAR PARKING LOT
By Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films
A lot worth $1 million more than the average American home.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/96745/
MICHELLE OBAMA RALLIES WOMEN FOR BARACK
By Adele M. Stan, The Media Consortium
Michelle: Hillary made my husband a better candidate.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/96810/
KARL ROVE IS RUNNING MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN; STILL MEETS WITH BUSH OFTEN
By Matt, Think Progress
Rove is still very much in the thick of it.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/96807/
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