Best of the Week: Orwellian Rumsfeld, a US Police State and More

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Best of the Week: Orwellian Rumsfeld, a US Police State and More

 

 

 

 

 

Top Stories from AlterNet for May 27-29, 2006

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Below, check out some of the biggest and best stories from

AlterNet this week:

 

IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO BE A VEGETARIAN

Christina Waters, AlterNet

He got us to stop eating meat. Now ethicist Peter Singer is

out to demolish environmentalist mantras like 'buy local'

and 'eat organic.'

http://www.alternet.org/story/36552/

 

TOP 10 SIGNS OF THE IMPENDING U.S. POLICE STATE

Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast

From secret detention centers to warrantless wiretapping,

Bush and Co. give free rein to their totalitarian impulses.

http://www.alternet.org/rights/36553/

 

INSIDE DONNIE RUMSFELD'S ORWELLIAN PENTAGON

Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown

While claiming that they must 'secure' America for a

post-9/11 world, the BushCheney zealots are taking us back

to a pre-1776 world.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/36593/

 

THE GREAT IRAQ OIL GRAB

Joshua Holland, AlterNet

The official reasons the U.S. invaded Iraq don't hold water.

So, as the man said, follow the money ... straight to the

oil fields.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/36463/

 

ARUNDHATI ROY: BACK IN THE U.S.A.

Democracy Now!

Author/activist Arundhati Roy discusses President Bush's

embarrassing trip to India, the war in Iraq, and why she

avoids America.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36643/

 

THE GUILTIEST GUYS IN THE ROOM

Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet

The Enron verdict is a heartening chapter, but it provides

the beginning, rather than an end of reckoning with a

culture of blame-dodging that bleeds far beyond Ken Lay and

Jeff Skilling.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36718/

 

MR. ICE CREAM STICKS IT TO THE PENTAGON

Deanna Zandt, AlterNet

Ben Cohen has built a grassroots organization of half a

million to fight the obscene size of the U.S. military

budget -- and he uses Oreo cookies to make the case.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36437/

 

AHMADINEJAD: NOT HITLER AFTER ALL

Jan Frel, AlterNet

Another failed attempt by the neocons to compare Iran to

Nazi Germany suggests the public won't stand for another

propaganda campaign meant to drum up war fever.

http://www.alternet.org/story/36654/

 

HATING THE HATE MAIL

Heidi Schnakenberg, Women's eNews

As a female opinion journalist, I've been called everything

from bitch to whore to sweetie.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/36650/

 

TO BLEED OR NOT TO BLEED

Rachel Neumann, AlterNet, The Mix

Ladies, you have a choice.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36597/

 

VIDEO: GOD SAYS TSUNAMI WILL STRIKE US

David DeGraw, AlterNet Video

Pat Robertson is up to his old tricks -- God has told him that a

tsunami

will hit the Pacific Northwest. Luckily, a newscaster was able to get

his hands on a recording of the conversation.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36561/

 

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New this weekend:

 

POLITICAL AMNESIA IS THE ENEMY

Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org

No wonder some studies find that news viewers rapidly forget

what they have just seen; that's the intention.

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/36743/

 

POLITICAL INVISIBLES

Sasha Abramsky, Pop and Politics

Remove the voting power of the urban poor, and issues of

importance to inner-city America are likely to get ignored

come Election Day.

http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/36666/

 

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** New in VIDEO:

 

Why Weren't Lay and Skilling Arrested?

Facing 185 years in prison and allowed to remain free -- at least

until September. What's up with that?

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/36723

 

** New in THE MIX:

 

Evan Derkacz: David Horowitz's attack screed on liberal

academia; specifically, on Cornel West...

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36729/

 

Joshua Holland: my brilliant plan for exiting Iraq.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/themix/36738/

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