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Week ending Friday November 11, 2011   

Readers' Choice / Most Read Views...

  1. Michael Parenti: Occupy America

  2. Chris Hedges: Finding Freedom in Handcuffs

  3. Paul Krugman: Here Comes the Sun

  4. George Monbiot : The 1% Are the Very Best Destroyers of Wealth the World Has Ever Seen

  5. Frances Fox Piven: The War Against the Poor and Occupy Wall Street

  6. Firmin DeBrabander: The Wrath of Ayn Rand

  7. Matt Taibbi: Why Mitt Romney's Entitlement-Privatization Plan is Crazy

  8. Robert C. Koehler: Marijuana: Public Enemy #1

  9. Thomas S. Harrington: Anger and Angry People

  10. Winslow Myers: Social Psychosis and Collective Sanity

Readers' Choice / Most Read News...

  1. Irreversible Climate Change Looms Within Five Years
    Unless there is a "bold change of policy direction," the world will lock itself into an insecure, inefficient and high-carbon energy system.


  2. Koch's Tentacles to Reach Further With Secretive Database
    David and Charles Koch, oil tycoons with strong right-wing views and connections, look set to tighten their grip on US politics.


  3. US Weapons 'Full of Fake Chinese Parts'
    Thousands of United States' warplanes, ships and missiles contain fake electronic components from China, leaving them open to malfunction, according to a US Senate committee.


  4. US Military: Israel May Not Warn US Before Iran Attack
    Senior U.S. military official tells CNN U.S. 'increasingly vigilant' over military developments in Iran and Israel, says 'absolutely' concerned Israel may attack Iran nuclear facilities.


  5. Maine Farmer Heads Group Challenging Genetics Giant Monsanto
    A fight to maintain consumer choice and farm independence has landed Maine farmer Jim Gerritsen on Utne Reader's list of "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."


  6. Occupy Wall Street Plans March to Washington
    Protesters set off from Wall Street to meet up with other Occupy movements on the way to DC.


  7. Thousands Gather at White House, Demand No Tarsands Pipeline
    The demonstration is the latest in a series of White House protests aimed at convincing U.S. President Barack Obama to block the $7 billion project that would carry Alberta oilsands crude through six American states.


  8. Occupy the Polls: Tuesday's Critical Tests of Political Power
    Americans who are frustrated with the broken politics of the moment will have plenty of opportunities to Occupy the Polls on Tuesday.


  9. Mystery Radiation Detected 'Across Europe'
    Trace amounts of iodine-131, a type of radiation created during the operation of nuclear reactors or in the detonation of a nuclear weapon, were detected as early as three weeks ago by Austrian authorities and then two weeks ago by the Czech Republic's State Office for Nuclear Safety.


  10. Arizona Topples Senate President Russell Pearce, SB 1070 Immigration Law Architect, in Historic Recall Vote
    In a stunning blow to the Tea Party movement, a huge turnout in Mesa's conservative LD 18 overwhelmingly voted out Arizona's hardline State Senate President Russell Pearce in historic recall election.

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