SOME NEWS THAT’LL ROAST YOUR CHESTNUTS

Obama’s Greatest Betrayal: The Coming Sell-Out to the Super Rich and What it Means for the Rest of Us
Michael Hudson, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/148857/obama%27s_greatest_betrayal%3A_the_coming_sell-out_to_the_super_rich_and_what_it_means_for_the_rest_of_us

We’re Losing Our Intelligence – How the Purge of True Dissent Has Starved Our Discourse
Chris Hedges, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/148858/hedges%3A_we%27re_losing_our_intelligence_--_how_the_purge_of_true_dissent_has_starved_our_discourse

World Comparison Shows Sorry State of US Healthcare
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3200?akid=285.19616.1ErKFq&t=1

Not Everyone Agrees Deficit Is Major Problem
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3202?akid=285.19616.1ErKFq&t=5

Yvonne Yen Liu The Physical and Emotional Costs of Long-Term Unemployment
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3212?akid=285.19616.1ErKFq&t=25

Russell Mokhiber War Is a Drug
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3213?akid=285.19616.1ErKFq&t=27

Democracy Now! Headlines – Manufacturers of Full Body Scanners Increase Lobbying Effort
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/23/headlines#5
As the national debate over airport screening practices intensifies, little attention has paid to the increasing lobbying power the manufacturers of full body scanning machines have in Washington. USA Today reports L3 Communications has spent $4.3 million on lobbying, up from $2.1 million in 2005. L3 has sold nearly $40 million worth of machines to the federal government. Lobbyists for L3 have included Linda Daschle, the wife of former U.S. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle. Meanwhile Rapiscan Systems has spent more than $270,000 on lobbying so far this year, compared with $80,000 five years earlier. The company made headlines last year when it hired former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff who has become a prominent proponent of body scanners. The CEO of Rapiscan’s parent company, Deepak Chopra, recently traveled with President Obama on his three-day trip to India.

Making the Impossible Possible: The Power of Community Spirit
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3183?akid=284.19616.Yz212e&t=1

Protecting People: A Progressive Alternative to Austerity
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3184?akid=284.19616.Yz212e&t=3

Medea Benjamin Protesters Say George Bush Library Should be a Pile of Rubble
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3192?akid=284.19616.Yz212e&t=20

Jobless Benefits About to Lapse As Senate Dems Mull Strategy
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3162?akid=280.19616.looCVV&t=7

Angry Left to Obama: Stop Caving on Agenda
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3164?akid=280.19616.looCVV&t=9

Kabul Is No Child's Playground
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3243?akid=287.19616.HGILYZ&t=7

Unemployment Extension Standoff 'A Crummy Deal For The American Public'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3244?akid=287.19616.HGILYZ&t=9

Ralph Nader: Bush's Friend Barack
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3248?akid=287.19616.HGILYZ&t=17

Margaret Flowers: New Health Care Law Fails to Make the Grade
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3249?akid=287.19616.HGILYZ&t=19

Exposing the Insurance Industry’s Vast Conspiracy to Smear Michael Moore
Bill Berkowitz, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/148950/exposing_the_insurance_industry%27s_vast_conspiracy_to_smear_michael_moore

More Profits at Corporate Top, More Pain on Jobless Bottom
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3261?akid=288.19616.KUOIMl&t=1

New York City Prepares for Nation's Largest Bike Share System
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3265?akid=288.19616.KUOIMl&t=9

Illness, Medical Bills 'Plunge Millions Into Poverty'
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3266?akid=288.19616.KUOIMl&t=11