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Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the Five Crops You Need to Survive
Makenna Goodman, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/148562/food_in_uncertain_times%3A_how_to_grow_and_store_the_5_crops_you_need_to_survive

Obama Prepares to Triangulate Himself
Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report
http://blackagendareport.com/?q=print/content/obama-prepares-triangulate-himself

The Perfect storm That Threatens American Democracy
Robert Reich’s Blog
The top one-tenth of one percent of Americans now earn as much as the bottom 120 million of us.
http://www.alternet.org/story/148558/the_perfect_storm_that_threatens_american_democracy

PBS Just as Corporate, White, Male and Republican as Commercial TV
Lauren Kelley, AlterNet
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/20/pbs-just-as-corporate-white-male-and-republican-as-commercial-tv/

Missing Bill Moyers: Exposé Reveals a Diminished PBS
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2762?akid=232.19616.ex4bH3&t=2

US Funds in Central Asia Feed War, Not Democracy
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2763?akid=232.19616.ex4bH3&t=4

Activists 'Agree': Big Oil Should Clean Up Their Messes
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2764?akid=232.19616.ex4bH3&t=6

Amy Goodman When Banks Are the Robbers
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2795?akid=233.19616.NE_dCr&t=22

Danny Schechter Can There Be a Rescue of US Workers Facing Foreclosure and Unemployment?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2752?akid=231.19616.QqiqVP&t=16

Chris Hedges Heroes for the Beaten, Foreclosed on, Imprisoned Masses
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2755?akid=231.19616.QqiqVP&t=22

Leaker of Pentagon Papers Stresses Importance of Telling the Truth to Student Audience
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2809?akid=235.19616.aaF8E9&t=10

Robert Naiman Britain's Budget Cuts - Will the Bell Toll for Us?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2818?akid=235.19616.aaF8E9&t=28

Nick Turse Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan
http://act.commondreams.org/go/2819?akid=235.19616.aaF8E9&t=30