SOME NEWS AND TOP STORIES FROM RECENT EVENTS

DRUG STORE COWBOYS
Dan Frosch, AlterNet
Pharmacies and drug companies have come up with a novel way to make more money -- use our medical records to pitch us more drugs.
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/20512/

ACT LIKE CHRISTIANS
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation
For the next four years and well beyond, liberals and progressives will need to emulate the original Christians,who stood against imperial Rome with their bodies, their hearts and their souls.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20507/

VEIL OF TEARS
Noy Thrupkaew, The American Prospect
A documentary by and about Afghan women pulls its punches.
http://www.alternet.org/movies/20509/

LEARNING FROM THE WINNERS
John Stauber, Sheldon Rampton, AlterNet
Rather than focusing on the growing power of the conservative movement, much of the liberal rhetoric during the campaign focused on Bush's flaws and the failings of his administration.
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20503/

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS
Sunny Lewis, Environment News Service
The first off-shore wind farm in the U.S. will produce clean energy, lower electricity prices, create jobs and harm no animals, birds or fish. So what if it blocks the view.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/20502/

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? Gandhi