AlterNet's Weekly Zeitgeist: Phony Drilling, Afghan Escalation, Never-Ending Financial Crisis and Much More
By Don Hazen, AlterNet
From Bush's oil hoax to the New Yorker's sorry attempt at satire, our Zeitgeist list tracks the progressive issues of the week. Read more »

John Cusack: Bypassing the Corporate Media
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet
Cusack's anti-war polemic, War, Inc., continues to defy expectations, despite the traditional media's dismissive reception. Read more »

'Centrists' Are Running the Asylum
By David Sirota, Creators Syndicate
Washington's pundits and politicians have waged an ongoing propaganda campaign to pass off crazy, fringe politics as reasonable and mainstream. Read more »

The Bad Frame: Why Are the New Yorker, Salon and Other Liberal Media Doing the Right's Dirty Work?
By Don Hazen, AlterNet
This week's New Yorker cover image of the Obamas is shocking in the racism and gross stereotyping that is built into its supposed satire. Read more »

Deceptive Questioning in Washington Post's McCain-Friendly Poll on Iraq
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The corporate media keeps giving McCain cover on his unpopular Iraq position. Read more »

FISA Bill's Real Target: What Remains of Our Open Society
By Chris Hedges, LA Times
The new FISA law uses terrorism as a pretext to permit wholesale spying and would seriously cripple our free press. Read more »

Arianna Huffington on the Premiere of Meet The Bloggers
By ZP Heller, Brave New Films
Discussing the importance fusing old and new media forms. Read more »

Daily Show: Dobbs-O-Meter
By The Daily Show
As the Presidential hopefuls address the NAACP, Jon Stewart wonders what Lou Dobbs would think. Read more »

FaceBook In Reality
By John Sellers, Agit-Pop
A social networking lampoon. Read more »