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Is Our Obsession With Weight Misguided? Here’s What Really Matters When it Comes to Good Health Being “overweight” does not put people at significant health risk alone. Fitness, nutrition and socioeconomic status are far more important. READ MORE Jill Richardson / AlterNet The Republicans Are Like Frat Boys in ‘Animal House’ Reckless, anarchic and strident, the American right is living in a parallel world where fear and rage drive out the facts. READ MORE Gary Younge / The Guardian How Financial Reporters Create Illusion to Cover Up Wall Street’s Scams The corporate media’s job is to sell confidence on Wall Street’s numbers, rather than tempered or even depressed expectations, no matter how realistic they may be. READ MORE Scott Thill / AlterNet Josh Stieber talks about how the disturbing video shouldn’t be seen as a few soldiers behaving badly but as a sign of a broken system where the same ‘outrages’ will continue. READ MORE
By Liliana Segura / AlterNet Roadmap to a New Economics: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism We can all be leaders in building a social and economic system that really meets human needs. READ MORE
By Riane Eisler / Tikkun The Dark Side of Our Bright Digital Spaces: 21st Century Wizardry Relies on Dirty Energy of the Past New technology like iPhones, laptops, and iPads wouldn’t be possible without the coal-fired power plants whose design has changed little since the 19th century. READ MORE
By Jason Mark / Earth Island Journal The church drops its defense posture, edits its guidelines to read that church leaders should report clerical sex abuse to civil authorities. READ MORE
By Daniela Perdomo / AlterNet Groups Call for Arrest of West Virginia Mine CEO A coalition of NGOs say Don Blankenship is “as criminally culpable as any mass murderer” for the mine disaster because he had systematically worked to avoid safety regulations. READ MORE
By Daniel Tencer / Raw Story Who’s on the Shortlist to Replace Justice Stevens? Three candidates are rumored to sit atop Obama’s shortlist to replace Stevens — will any of them garner a Republican filibuster? READ MORE
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