AlterNet's Most E-mailed Stories and Blog Posts
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Naomi Wolf, AlterNet. October 8, 2008. [3,419 e-mails sent]
Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.
Garrison Keillor, International Herald Tribune. October 6, 2008. [891 e-mails sent]
It wasn't their money Wall Street was playing with. It was ours.
AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. October 10, 2008. [723 e-mails sent]
Palin has taken to smearing Obama. But it's her own record that continues to yield alarming information, undermining her skills and credibility.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. October 8, 2008. [721 e-mails sent]
Why are there active duty soldiers stationed on U.S. streets?
Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. October 7, 2008. [573 e-mails sent]
20,000 Christian zealots, anti-abortion fanatics, and mostly white suburbanites reconnected with their high school past at the Palin rally.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, TheNation.com. October 11, 2008. [525 e-mails sent]
A sad tale emerges of willfully arrogant behavior designed to undermine a wise woman's good judgment.
Al Jazeera. October 7, 2008. [353 e-mails sent]
Five prominent economists share their thoughts on what's happening and how bad the situation really is.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 11, 2008. [316 e-mails sent]
A survey of what some of the best thinkers believe we're facing in the coming months and years -- and the best ways to prevent complete disaster.
Emptywheel, FiredoglakeAlterNet: PEEK. October 10, 2008. [304 e-mails sent]
"I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate ..."
ZP Heller, Brave New FilmsAlterNet: Video. October 10, 2008. [286 e-mails sent]
An impassioned speech on racial politics from last week's New Yorker festival.
Matt Taibbi, David Ray Griffin, AlterNet. October 6, 2008. [241 e-mails sent]
The two writers lock horns over the accuracy of Griffin's recent book, 9/11 Contradictions.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay, The American Prospect. October 9, 2008. [205 e-mails sent]
What does an extremely popular blog about white culture tell us about race in America?
Jill Hussein C., Brilliant at BreakfastAlterNet: PEEK. October 5, 2008. [204 e-mails sent]
Isn't it odd how Sarah Palin never talks about the future?
Frank Rich, The New York Times. October 6, 2008. [202 e-mails sent]
Sarah Palin is the only hope for saving a ticket headed by a warrior who is out of juice and out of ideas. It seems she knows this only too well.
Baratunde Thurston, Jack & Jill PoliticsAlterNet: Video. October 7, 2008. [200 e-mails sent]
McCain and Palin condone the worst Obama smears with deafening silence.
AlterNet. October 9, 2008. [194 e-mails sent]
From the housing crisis to the minimum wage, a look at where the candidates stand on nine important economic issues.
Robert Parry, Consortium News. October 8, 2008. [162 e-mails sent]
Palin may not even understand the significance of her baseless attacks on Obama that are straight out of the neocon playbook.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 7, 2008. [161 e-mails sent]
You don't need a crystal ball -- history is repeating itself.
Glenn Greenwald, Salon. October 7, 2008. [155 e-mails sent]
The overarching reality of the country is that we've lived under unchallenged Republican rule, and the country has virtually collapsed on every level.
Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. October 7, 2008. [154 e-mails sent]
A new study shows that after being exposed to information contradicting their ideas, most people still cling to their prejudices.
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Brave New FilmsAlterNet: Video. October 9, 2008. [150 e-mails sent]
A humorous take on a scary scenario.
Ari Berman, The Nation. October 7, 2008. [148 e-mails sent]
The McCain campaign is attacking Barack Obama for his minor ties in Chicago to former '60s radical Bill Ayers -- here's the real story.
Staff, Wasilla ProjectAlterNet: Video. October 8, 2008. [145 e-mails sent]
If someone's home is burglarized, the tools of investigation are not paid for by the victim. Why was rape considered different in Wasilla?
Aaron Glantz, Haymarket Books. October 10, 2008. [141 e-mails sent]
A powerful excerpt from 'Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan' lays bare the racism at the core of the Iraq occupation.
Anand Gopal, Tomdispatch.com. October 10, 2008. [137 e-mails sent]
Afghanistan is filled with poor, jobless people who have seen their families blown up by Americans. And they're itching to get revenge.
David Morris, AlterNet. October 9, 2008. [127 e-mails sent]
The new bailout plan passed by Congress may have put the nail in the coffin on Pickens' dangerous energy proposal.
Alan Snitow, Deborah Kaufman, Tomdispatch.com. October 6, 2008. [125 e-mails sent]
Neglect of public infrastructure has private companies swooping in to buy public systems, like water, with grave consequences.
Staff, Huffington PostAlterNet: Video. October 6, 2008. [125 e-mails sent]
SNL's version of the vice presidential debate starred Queen Latifah as morderator Gwen Ifill.
AlterNet. October 8, 2008. [124 e-mails sent]
Liliana Segura, Don Hazen, Joshua Holland, David Sirota, Jill Tubman, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Sullivan and others share their thoughts.
Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. October 9, 2008. [119 e-mails sent]
The central, undisputed facts of Palin's actions remain hidden in plain sight for all to see. It's time for the press to take a closer look.
Gareth Porter, IPS News. October 7, 2008. [112 e-mails sent]
Mere weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration was too busy planning to invade Iraq to follow through on its mission in Afghanistan.
Arran Frood, Independent UK. October 10, 2008. [102 e-mails sent]
Cluster headaches cause such severe pain that some sufferers are driven to suicide. Now one man believes he's found a surprising cure.
Bruce Wilson, AlterNet: PEEK. October 8, 2008. [92 e-mails sent]
An Alaskan "Strategic Prayer Network" leader, who claims to be a "witch-hunter," says Palin is part of her "prayer group."
Richard L. Hasen, Huffington Post. October 10, 2008. [88 e-mails sent]
Attacks on ACORN appear to be part of a broader GOP strategy to shrink the number of Dem voters and sow doubts if the election turns out to be close.
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. October 7, 2008. [84 e-mails sent]
As Democrats sense victory in November, they are betting a record turnout will overcome partisan interference with the vote count.
Brave New Films, MSNBCAlterNet: Video. October 7, 2008. [83 e-mails sent]
From last night's Countdown.
Seth Colter Walls, Huffington PostAlterNet: Video. October 10, 2008. [83 e-mails sent]
File this one under the "give 'em enough rope" column.
Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. October 8, 2008. [82 e-mails sent]
A small election victory won't drastically turn around any of the darker challenges our country faces -- only a massive victory can do that.
Jed Lewison, Huffington PostAlterNet: Video. October 5, 2008. [81 e-mails sent]
From Woodward's recent appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher.
Kerry Trueman, AlterNet. October 10, 2008. [80 e-mails sent]
We are in danger of passing an extremely dangerous tipping point, with the frightening discovery of massive deposits of sub-sea methane in the Arctic.
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