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The Woman Who Just Might Save the Planet and Our Pocketbooks What if our economy was not built on competition? Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom talks about her work on cooperation in economics. READ MORE Fran Korten, Elinor Ostrom / YES! Magazine The Video That Will Put Geithner Behind Bars The NY Fed, and likely Geithner himself, undermined, perhaps even violated, laws designed to protect investors and markets. READ MORE Mike Whitney / The Smirking Chimp Walmart Fires Cancer Patient for Legally Using Medical Marijuana Joseph Casias, 29, has an inoperable brain tumor. Last November, Walmart fired him after 5 years on the job because he tested positive for (legal) marijuana. READ MORE Mike Meno / Marijuana Policy Project Racist Right-Wing Shock Jock Who Threatened the Lives of Judges Beats Jail Rap for Second Time Hal Turner, an internet shock jock and F.B.I. informant, beat the rap again as his second federal “Death-Threat Trial,” ended in yet another mistrial. READ MORE
By Rory O’Connor / AlterNet Gonzo Journalist Mac McClelland on the Badass Group Battling Violence and Repression In “For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question” Mac McClelland chronicles the 60-year genocide the Burmese government has waged against an ethnic minority. READ MORE
By Mac McClelland / AlterNet Big Oil Wreaks Havoc in the Amazon, But Communities Are Fighting Back This time it’s not Chevron in Ecuador but Occidental Petroleum in Peru. And the local community has had enough of giveaways to corporate polluters. READ MORE
By Kelly Hearn / AlterNet Stakes Getting Higher For Obama, Latino Voters, and Immigration Reform The President had a series of meetings on immigration reform that reflect the pressure he is feeling to act. READ MORE
By Douglas Rivlin / AlterNet They are supporting a system they know will lead to ecocide, because more revenue will run through their accounts, for a while, as the collapse occurs. READ MORE
By Johann Hari / The Nation Kucinich Airs His Disagreement with Markos Moulitsas on Health Care Bill The founder of Daily Kos slammed Kucinich for threatening to vote against the Democrats’ healthcare reform bill. Kucinich defends his position. READ MORE
By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez / Democracy Now!
If you’re in New York, come see Mother Jones’ Mac McClelland, The Daily Beast’s Dana Goldstein and the Nation Institute Investigative Fund’s Gabriel Thompson, discuss the importance and challenges of human rights coverage at the Bookstore Cafe on Monday, March 15th at 7:00 pm, at 126 Crosby Street. Mac McClelland will be signing copies of her new book, For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story from Burma’s Never-Ending War. You are subscribed as: affordableweb.psycler@blogger.com SUPPORT ALTERNET | CONTACT US | PRIVACY POLICY | UNSUBSCRIBE © 2010 Independent Media Institute
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