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The 10 Greediest People of 2008 By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality For obvious reasons, we probably couldn't have picked a better year than 2008 to "honor" our most avaricious. Read more »   Rove's IT Guru Warned of Sabotage Before Fatal Plane Crash; Was Set to Testify By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Mike Connell, the chief IT consultant to Karl Rove, reportedly asked for protective custody from the government before he died. Read more »   No Justice for the African-Americans Targeted by White Vigilantes After the Katrina Flooding By Liliana Segura, AlterNet A.C. Thompson discusses his Nation report on the men who roamed New Orleans shooting African Americans. (With full text of Thompson's article). Read more »   Why Atheism May Be the Best Way to Understand God By Larry Beinhart, AlterNet Only a lack of belief in God offers the possibility of increasing our understanding of him or her. Read more »   How to Get on an Atheist's Good Side By Greta Christina, Greta Christina's Blog Here's nine tips for believers who want to reach out. After all, atheists are a growing movement and may soon be a force to be reckoned with. Read more »   Pension Funds Collapse: The End of Retirement? By Shamus Cooke, Information Clearing House Unless things change fast, history will show that the phenomenon of "retirement" was limited to one generation. 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 »   Kids Learn That Killing Is Fun at the Army's Lethal New Theme Park By Penny Coleman, AlterNet The Army's new recruitment tool lets high-tech video game centers desensitize, condition, train and even enlist America's youth. Read more »   The Seven Deadly Deficits: What the Bush Years Really Cost Us By Joseph Stiglitz, Mother Jones And how President Obama can get the economy back on track. Read more »   Cheney's Shocking Admissions on How Close He Came to Nearly Destroying the Country By Robert Parry, Consortium News In a series of departing interviews, Cheney challenges anyone to repudiate the imperial presidency constructed in the Bush era. Read more »

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