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Why I'm Rooting for 3 Big Economic Bubbles By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real We need a healthcare bubble, an infrastructure bubble and a green bubble right now -- or else the whole thing will pop. Read more »   What Rick Warren and the Gay Community Have in Common By Richard Kim, The Nation Obama and Warren both oppose gay marriage, yet say they support full equal rights for gays and lesbians -- let's push for a federal civil unions bill. Read more »   The Right-Wing Economics That Got Us into This Mess Should Go the Way of Soviet Communism By Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post It's high time we cast "free market" economic theory into the dustbin of history. Read more »   The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com America garrisons the globe in ways that are truly unprecedented, but if you live in the United States, you rarely hear a word about it. Read more »   How NASA Became Massively Dysfunctional By Karl Grossman, CounterPunch "At the highest levels of the agency, there seems to be a belief that you can mandate reality ..." Read more »   Sodomy Laws Are Rooted in British Colonialism By Nergui Manalsuren, IPS News In many countries, conservatives claim homosexuality came from the colonizing West. In fact, it's homophobia that's a legacy of Western colonialism. Read more »   Potential Franken Victory Sends GOP into Paranoid Fits By Sam Stein, Huffington Post When Republicans lawyer up, that's just preserving the sanctity of the vote; when Dems do it, they're 'stealing' ... something. Read more »   Confessions of an Evangelical Tree Hugger By Matthew Sleeth, Sierra Club Books It took us a thousand years to prove this biblical truth: that trees are, indeed, the breath of life. Read more »   How the West's Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica A rush to develop domestic oil, gas and uranium deposits along the Colorado River and its tributaries is a threat to our children's future Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Fox News Spins History (Again) By David Sirota, Daily Kos The New Deal was responsible for extending the Great depression, according to the "fair and balanced" propaganda channel. Read more »   Most ER Personnel Say Cops Use Excessive Force By Digby, Hullabaloo But Tasers weren't included in the study. Read more »

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