White Vigilantes in New Orleans | Obama's Divisive Pastor | More 10th Graders Smoke Pot Than Cigs

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No Justice for the African-Americans Targeted by White Vigilantes After the Katrina Flooding By Liliana Segura, AlterNet Journalist A.C. Thompson discusses his groundbreaking piece on the white men who roamed post-Katrina New Orleans shooting African Americans. Read more »   Leaked Obama Transcript Explains Rick Warren Decision (with Draft of Warren's Invocation) By John Aravosis, Linda Hirshman, Huffington Post Satire: Why Obama invited the pastor who compared gay marriage to pedophilia and incest and led the fight for Prop 8 in CA to his inauguration. Read more »   Why Was Cheney So Quick to Admit He's a War Criminal? By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet Cheney confessed because he thinks either Bush will pardon him or that Obama won't prosecute him -- but the law would forbid both approaches. Read more »   Are You Disappointed with Obama? Still Hopeful? No Matter What, There Is Plenty of Work Ahead to Make Change By AlterNet Truth Squad, AlterNet In the midst of the economic crunch, AlterNet insists on telling the truth, and letting the chips fall where they may. Help us do our job! Read more »   The Fed and the Treasury Need to Come Clean About Where The Money Is Going By Nomi Prins, The Nation Some major steps toward transparency are needed to begin to ensure that the bailout money is not being squandered. Read more »   Disney Exhibit Gives Visitors a Warped Idea of Waste and Consumption By Elizabeth Royte, AlterNet The message of the exhibit, sponsored by the largest garbage company, is that we needn't radically change our lifestyle or our way of thinking. Read more »   More 10th-Graders Are Smoking Marijuana Than Cigarettes By Aaron Houston, AlterNet A new survey reveals 13% of 10th-graders reported smoking marijuana in the past 30 days, while just 12.3% smoked cigarettes. Read more »   Autoworkers Forced to Take Concessions in Industry Bailout By Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes Yet another example of the right-wing agenda to do away with labor rights. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     The U.S. Goes Global With its Anti-Gayness By John Ridley, Huffington Post As innocuous as the U.N. declaration was, it could turn into a sharp-toothed boomerang that might whip around and bite Uncle Sam in the backside. Read more »   Minority Voters Helped Defeat Parental Notification Law By Tana Ganeva, AlterNet The Reproductive Justice Alliance, a coalition of reproductive rights groups, mobilized communities of color to defeat California's Prop. 4. Read more »

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