- Factory Farms Put Climate at Risk, Experts Say in Urging Health Officials to Speak Out - In a letter, 200 experts called on the next director-general of the World Health Organization to confront the role factory farming plays in climate change. http://www.alternet.org/environment/factory-farms-put-climate-risk-experts-say-urging-health-officials-speak-out 30 comments worldnews
- Trump Is Selling a Privatization Scam, and Calling It an Infrastructure Plan http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trump-selling-privatization-scam-and-calling-it-infrastructure-plan 35 comments economy
- Libertarian Activist Openly Loads Shotgun and Calls for Revolution in D.C. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/libertarian-activist-openly-loads-shotgun-and-calls-revolution-dc 9 comments politics
- Cop Shot Litter of Kittens in Front of Screaming Children http://www.alternet.org/cop-shot-litter-kittens-front-screaming-children 168 comments nottheonion
- Texas Church Argues There's a Biblical Precedent for Strict Racial Segregation - Nacogdoches' Appleby Baptist Church commits a sin against humanity http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/religious-racism-texas-church-argues-theres-biblical-precedent-strict-racial?paging=off 9 comments politics
- How Right-Wing Media Tricked Republicans into Fearing a Group that Doesn't Even Exist. Stephen Colbert ridicules Republicans for believing Hagel had ties to nonexistent "Friends of Hamas" group http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-right-wing-media-tricked-republicans-fearing-group-doesnt-even-exist 4 comments politics
- GOP to Dems: Thanks For Caving On the Filibuster--Now We Can Destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Board http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-dems-thanks-caving-filibuster-now-we-can-destroy-consumer-financial-protection 7 comments politics
- Matt Taibbi: You Can Go to Prison for Pot, While Big Banks Get Away With Laundering Drug Cartel Cash http://www.alternet.org/matt-taibbi-you-can-go-prison-pot-while-big-banks-get-away-laundering-drug-cartel-cash 15 comments politics
- When Police Are Encouraged to Abuse, Not Protect. The NYPD's quota system forces officers to crack down on the very people they are supposed to serve and protect. http://www.alternet.org/when-police-are-encouraged-abuse-not-protect 34 comments politics
- Bankrupt States Listen Up - Colorado Stands to Earn Huge Bucks If It Legalizes Weed http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/bankrupt-states-listen-colorado-stands-earn-huge-bucks-if-it-legalizes-weed 6 comments politics
- Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Sues to Keep New Yorkers' Wages Low: The world's 20th richest man declared recently that a living wage bill passed (over his veto) by New York's city council was the next best thing to Communist central planning. http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/billionaire-mayor-bloomberg-sues-keep-new-yorkers-wages-low 892 comments politics
- Rush Limbaugh and the Right-Wing Nervous Breakdown http://www.alternet.org/story/154452/rush_limbaugh_and_the_right-wing_nervous_breakdown/?page=entire 10 comments politics
- GOP Fund-Raiser Allegedly Corrupt to the Core | AlterNet http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/817502/gop_fund-raiser_allegedly_corrupt_to_the_core/#paragraph7 3 comments politics
- Conservatives 'Grumble' That Fox News is Moving to the Left http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/789522/conservatives_%27grumble%27_that_fox_news_is_moving_to_the_left/ 12 comments politics
- There's a Lot More Going on in Syria Than Meets the Eye - With Saudi, Israeli & Turkish interests aligning against it, the Kremlin could lose its last naval base in the Mediterranean? http://www.alternet.org/world/151295/there%27s_a_lot_more_going_on_in_syria_than_meets_the_eye 3 comments worldnews
- 4 Fantastically Stupid Projects Pushed By Republicans Aiming to Please Their Corporate Masters http://www.alternet.org/story/151043/4_fantastically_stupid_projects_bankrolled_by_republicans_aiming_to_please_their_corporate_masters?akid=7010.142359.x2mcpd&rd=1&t=8 3 comments reddit.com
- AlterNet: 8 Unemployed for Every Job Opening: What Are They Supposed to Do Once Their Benefits Run Out? http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150358 7 comments politics
- Planned Parenthood Busts Conservative "Sting" Attempt Reminiscent of ACORN Smear Campaign. http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/448956/planned_parenthood_busts_conservative_%22sting%22_attempt_reminiscent_of_acorn_smear_campaign/#paragraph5 168 comments politics
- Why Are the Feds Cultivating Their Own "Homegrown Terrorists"? To keep the War going, thats why http://www.alternet.org/story/149160/why_are_the_feds_cultivating_their_own_%22homegrown_terrorists%22 89 comments politics
- Mormon Church Joins Supporters for Progressive Immigration Reform, Helping Sink Arizona-Like Bill - According to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, “local law enforcement resources should focus on criminal activities, not civil violations of federal code.” http://www.alternet.org/belief/148900/mormon_church_joins_supporters_for_progressive_immigration_reform,_helping_sink_arizona-like_bill 3 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren: My Mission Is to Restore America's Great Middle Class [crosspost from /r/economics] http://www.alternet.org/economy/147699/elizabeth_warren:_my_mission_is_to_restore_america's_great_middle_class/ 8 comments politics
- Straight Atheist at Christian gay-conversion camp gets poked with erection http://www.alternet.org/story/146557/?page=entire 4 comments politics
- Americans Pay More to Die Earlier -- Why Is Our Health Care System So Screwed Up? http://www.alternet.org/politics/142811/americans_pay_more_to_die_earlier_--_why_is_our_health_care_system_so_screwed_up 4 comments reddit.com
- The sleazy ways that Goldman Sachs distracted us while pocketing billions from the Treasury http://www.alternet.org/politics/140291/10_sleazy_ways_that_goldman_sachs_distracted_us_while_pocketing_billions_from_the_treasury/ 30 comments business
- FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus http://www.alternet.org/story/140209/ 14 comments politics
- Do the Secret Bush "Memos" amount to Treason? Top Constitutional scholar says yes... http://www.alternet.org/rights/133273/do_the_secret_bush_memos_amount_to_treason_top_constitutional_scholar_says_yes/ 152 comments reddit.com
- We must teach American's how to think instead of what to think http://www.alternet.org/story/132123 6 comments reddit.com
- Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State http://www.alternet.org/story/122810/ 260 comments worldnews
- Is Someone in China Reading Your Emails? http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/119064/is_someone_in_china_reading_your_emails/?page=entire 5 comments technology
- Thousands of Troops Are Deployed on U.S. Streets Ready to Carry Out "Crowd Control" http://www.alternet.org/rights/101958/thousands_of_troops_are_deployed_on_u.s._streets_ready_to_carry_out_%22crowd_control%22/?page=entire 3 comments reddit.com
- Bush's Disastrous 'Rescue' of the Finance Industry-The Bush administration's strategy boiled down to allowing Wall Street to privatize the gains while government socialized the losses. http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/99073 3 comments politics
- Why Are Corporate Journalists So Afraid of Questioning Authority? http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/87625/?ses=82f442a00ccbb1171f53ee0f73936f48 3 comments politics
- Key women Clinton supporters: McCain won't get our vote; McCain is out of touch with women's lives. Women know that he would be a dangerous choice for them http://www.alternet.org/election08/87868/ 3 comments politics
- North Dakota Man Facing Years in Prison After Buying Salvia Divinorum on eBay http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/84158/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Attacks all over the planet by U.S. Predator planes suggest Bush thinks he has the "right" to kill civilians. http://www.alternet.org/audits/79872/ 79 comments politics
- Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food, is a scathing indictment of the food industry and a call for the return to unprocessed food. http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/77330/ 16 comments science
- (video) Meet a Billionaire with a Lower Tax Rate Than Teachers, Firemen, Nurses, Even His Own Cleaning Staff! http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/69840/ 14 comments politics
- Warren Buffett to Congress: Keep Taxing the Mega-Rich.( Calls "death tax" Rhetoric Intellectually Dishonest, Orwellian & Dead Wrong.) http://www.alternet.org/workplace/68145/ 189 comments politics
- Americans' Unhealthy Relationship with Food http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/65379/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Could You Afford to be Poor? http://www.alternet.org/story/39273/ 100 comments reddit.com