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WEEKEND EDITION: AlterNet's Best of the Week | Saving Darfur

 

 

 

 

 

Top Stories from AlterNet for April 29-30, 2006

http://www.alternet.org/

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** New This Weekend:

 

AMERICANS RALLY TO SAVE DARFUR

The Progress Report

This Sunday, thousands of people will take to the streets in

dozens of rallies nationwide to speak out against the

ongoing genocide in Darfur, and to urge the White House to

take dramatic and long-overdue action.

http://www.alternet.org/story/35611/

 

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For a change of pace this weekend, why not revisit some of

your favorite AlterNet stories? Below, check out the ten

most trafficked AlterNet articles of the week:

 

IMPEACHING BUSH, STATE BY STATE

Evan Derkacz, AlterNet

Taking advantage of 'Jefferson's Revenge,' state legislatures have

brought impeachment much closer to reality.

http://www.alternet.org/story/35467/

 

ASEXUALS UNITE

Traci Hukill, AlterNet

A small but growing movement believes that asexuality is an

orientation as valid as straight or gay.

http://www.alternet.org/sex/35138/

 

LEARNING TO LOVE AMERICA

Nina Burleigh, AlterNet

I cringed as my young son recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

But who was I to question his innocent trust in America?

http://www.alternet.org/story/35248/

 

REMOVING AMERICA'S BLINDERS

Howard Zinn, The Progressive

If Americans were more aware of how often our leaders have

lied in order to wage war, would anyone have believed this

president's justifications for attacking Iraq?

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/34984/

 

A WAKE-UP CALL FOR PRESIDENT BUSH

John Brown, Tomdispatch.com

In this open letter, a former American diplomat asks, " Mr.

President: have you ever woken in the middle of the night,

realizing what you've done to Iraq? "

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/35386/

 

BUSH'S IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown

The Bush administration has pushed hard for limitless powers

to spy on, imprison and torture American citizens in the

name of 'security.' Is this really what America stands for?

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/35040/

 

ISRAEL LOBBY NUTJOBS ON THE LOOSE

Molly Ivins, AlterNet

The abuse heaped on two academics by America's Israel lobby

only proves that we need an honest debate on the topic.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/35439/

 

BUSH'S '16 WORDS' WERE FALSE

Jason Leopold, AlterNet

A newly declassified State Department memo provides the

first hard evidence that the Bush administration

manipulated and ignored intelligence in their thirst for

war.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/35133/

 

'NOTHING PREPARED ME FOR BUSH'

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet

Robert Scheer has reported on every administration since

Richard Nixon. But as he says in this interview, he never

expected the lies and cynicism of Bush II.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/35568/

 

TIPPING IN AMERICA

Talia Berman, WireTap

They are young, transient and a dime a dozen -- a look at

the ways 2 million food servers survive and don't survive

in the restaurant industry.

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/34988/

 

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*** Freshly Mixed ***

 

Rachel Neumann on Brad and Angelina, 'the most beautiful family

in the world:'

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/35565/

 

Joshua Holland examines of the 9/11 conspiracy theories and

finds that there's more to it than meets the eye:

http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/35594

 

This week's most popular AND most discussed PEEK post:

Malkin can't take what she dishes.

http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/35367/

 

The Latest in PEEK:

'Built like a woman. Thinks like a man.'

Meet talk radio's newest big mouth:

http://alternet.org/blogs/peek/35617/

 

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