Rick Warren's Condom Burnings and Witch Hunts | Unimaginable Destruction in Gaza | Tax-Cutting Orgy

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Condom Burnings and Anti-Gay Witch Hunts: How Rick Warren Is Undermining AIDs Prevention in Africa By Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast Team Obama likes to cite Warren's work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms save lives? Read more »   "Everything You Can Imagine, We Do Not Have": A Q&A with Gaza-Based Journalist Sameh A. Habeeb By Zahra Hankir, Indypendent "Today I wanted to go to the market to bring home some food. Thank God, I did not go; there was a massacre from artillery shells." Read more »   Obama to Continue Bush's Tax-Cutting Orgy? By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group Who can seriously argue that a family still earning an income of up to $200,000 is enduring such economic hardship that it, too, needs a tax cut? Read more »   Republicans Fight Obama's Stimulus Plans, Fearing Its Success Will Mean Years of Political Oblivion By Dean Baker, AlterNet For Republicans, one lesson of the New Deal is that it left the Democrats firmly in power for more than 20 years. Read more »   Sanjay Gupta: What the Next Surgeon General Doesn't Know About Pot By Russ Belville, NORML The next surgeon general needs to stop putting politics before science. Gupta may not be ready for that. Read more »   Body Count Nation By Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com Judging by our wars, we're not much more advanced than ancient civilizations. Read more »   Monbiot Grills Shell Oil CEO: Is There Any Investment You Would Not Make on Ethical Grounds? By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com Shell will pour big money into alternative energy when more lucrative opportunities are blocked. Where is the government brave enough to block them? Read more »   Harry Reid Gets Played By Blagojevich, Blows It with Burris By Jane Hamsher, Huffington Post Reid is about as smooth as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. He's a hazard to Obama's agenda. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     In Gaza, Having to Choose Between My Pregnant Wife and My Mother and Siblings By Fares Akram, Independent UK Alaa is due any day now, but I also have the responsibility of my siblings, their kids and my mother, especially after my father was killed. Read more »   Krugman Has a Problem with Sanjay Gupta By Melissa McEwan, Shakesville As do a few other folks ... Read more »   Absurd: Joe 'the Plumber' to Become War Correspondent By Isaac Fitzgerald, AlterNet Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for a conservative website called pjtv.com. Read more »   Cunning Stunt? Porn Industry Wants Bailout By Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt has asked the government for a $5 billion dollar bailout package. Read more »

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