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This Is Change? 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama's White House By Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet A who's who guide to the people poised to shape Obama's foreign policy. Read more »   Former News Radio Staffer Spills the Beans on How Shock Jocks Inspire Hatred and Anger By Dan Shelly, Milwaukee Magazine Behind the scenes of one of the largest and most successful news/talk radio stations in America. Read more »   Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! The bailout is a parting gift to the people that George Bush once referred to jokingly as "my base." Read more »   Our Economy May Be in a Death Spiral -- Will Washington Stop the Bleeding? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet The Bush-Paulson plan isn't doing anything to address the underlying problems threatening America's economic future. Read more »   Wall Street's Bailout is a Trillion-Dollar Crime Scene -- Why Aren't the Dems Doing Something About It? By Naomi Klein, The Nation Washington's handling of the bailout is not merely incompetent. It may well be illegal. Read more »   How Did We Ever Let This Guy Get Away with Being a War President? By Gary Brecher, eXiled Online Only a fool like Bush could pick an anti-American Arab country, add an invading army, and expect a nice fluffy democracy souffle. Read more »   Why Sarah Palin Fired up the Public's Sexual Imagination By Susannah Breslin, The Frisky From her hairstyle to her politics, America remains obsessed with the female politician who seemingly came out of nowhere. Read more »   Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change? By Lisa Bennett, Greater Good Climate scientists wonder why people don't do more about global warming. Social scientists have some troubling answers. Read more »   Why the Economy Grows Like Crazy Amid High Taxes By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet The raw truth is that the economy has grown faster when taxes were higher, but how can we explain that phenomenon? Read more »   Exposed: Federal Air Marshals Too Busy Smuggling Coke and Molesting Kids to Protect You By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Since 9/11, air marshals have logged an impressive number of hours committing felony-level crimes. Read more »

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