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Is the Future Going Down the Drain? Baby Boomers Going Bust By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet Millions of boomers born into the dawn of the largest economic expansion in history are being forced to re-imagine their retirement futures. Read more » Breaking the Taboo on Israel's Spying Efforts on the United States By Christopher Ketcham, AlterNet Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S., yet public discussion about it is almost nil. Read more » Are We Breeding Ourselves to Extinction? By Chris Hedges, Truthdig Cutting back on fossil fuels, shutting down our coal plants, and building seas of wind turbines, will be useless unless we nip population growth. Read more » Workplace Massacre in Alabama: Did Endless Downsizing and Slashed Benefits Cause the Rampage? By Mark Ames, AlterNet If you keep squeezing workers to fatten filthy-rich executives' already-obscene bonuses, there can be very violent consequences. Read more » "Gay for Rachel Maddow": What a Hot, Smart, Lesbian Pundit Means for an Uneasy America By Jonanna Widner, Bitch Magazine Cable news isn't the most female-friendly or queer-friendly place. As a whole, it is Middle America; Maddow is more Middlesex. Read more » Can Humans Cause Earthquakes and Use Them As Weapons? We'll Probably Find Out Soon Enough By Scott Thill, AlterNet Once the topic of arcane science, defense research and conspiracy theories, wider questions emerge on the role humans played in recent earthquakes. Read more » If We Are in the Death Spiral of Capitalism, Can We Start Using the "S" Word? By Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Nation The electroshock paddles of "stimulus" keep being applied, but the capitalist patient isn't waking up. is it now safe to talk about socialism? Read more » Seymour Hersh: "Executive Assassination Ring" Answered to Cheney, Had No Congressional Oversight By Eric Black, MinnPost.com Investigative journalist Sy Hersh dropped a bombshell revelation on Monday about international killings ordered under Bush. Read more » Read more »