SHAKE UP THE WEEKEND WITH SOME LIBERAL NEWS

BEHIND THE WHITE HOUSE'S BILLION-DOLLAR PROPAGANDA PUSH
Michelle Chen, The NewStandard
In two years, the Bush administration spent $1.6 billion to paint a prettier picture of its failing policies, even as it cut away the social safety net.
http://www.alternet.org/story/32378/

GETTING HIS WAR ON
Dean Kuipers, LA CityBeat
David Rees never wanted to be a political cartoonist, but then 9/11 revealed the ambivalent relationship to violence at the heart of American culture.
http://www.alternet.org/story/32359/

IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME -- ON FOOT
Jay Walljasper, Ode
From Copenhagen to Bellevue, a movement has emerged to reclaim public spaces.
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/31951/

EUREKA! AND BADA-BING!
Arianna Huffington, AlterNet
With its gunplay, good ol' boys and beer, Cheney's Armstrong Ranch is sounding more and more like a Mafia strip club.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/32411/

MORE ON BLACKS AND IMMIGRATION
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Pacific News Service
The last in a three-part series examines the roots and reasoning of some African-American communities' anti-immigration views.
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/32410/

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF SELF-CENSORSHIP
David Morris, AlterNet
As the violence over the cartoons expands, we are no closer to defining the boundaries of free speech in an age ofgrowing religious fundamentalism.
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/32202/