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CAN BLOGS REVOLUTIONIZE PROGRESSIVE POLITICS?
Lakshmi Chaudhry, In These Times
Bloggers tout the rise of the netroots as changing how politics works, but will the internet just become a new method of conducting politics as usual?
http://www.alternet.org/story/31955/

POWER: IT'S OURS TO GIVE, NOT HIS TO TAKE
Commentary by John Atcheson
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0207-22.htm

LOSING OUR FEMINIST LEADERS
Jessica Valenti, AlterNet
Within a week, America lost three great women who worked for social change in different ways. Who will continue their work?
http://www.alternet.org/story/31954/

MINING DEATHS A WAKE-UP CALL TO PRESERVE CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Commentary by Laurie Gindin Beacham
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0207-24.htm

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... There was never a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin

WE HOLD THIS TRUTHINESS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT
Michael Winship, BuzzFlash
Cable hosts and politicians are increasingly making statements with no foundation in the facts. As with Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, the truth may soon catch up with them.
http://www.alternet.org/story/31945/

THOSE REPUBLICAN JOKERS
Molly Ivins, AlterNet
Apparently, the push for energy independence is just another Bush punchline.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/31950/

"DANGEROUS" ACADEMICS: RIGHT-WING DISTORTIONS ABOUT LEFTIST PROFESSORS
Commentary by Robert Jensen
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0207-26.htm

ECO-ACTIVISTS FIGHT THE *TERRORIST* LABEL
Catherine Komp, The NewStandard
By labeling animal-rights and environmental defense activists as 'eco-terrorists,' business lobbyists hope to clamp down even further on nonviolent protest.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/31933/

SPYING AND LYING
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
Illegal wiretapping, and the administration's mendacity about it, is not only wrong on principle -- it's a perfect wedge issue for Dems.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/31944/