The Blog Peoria Project

Alex Kane, AlterNet

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told U.S. interrogators that U.S. wars motivated him and his brother to carry out the attacks in Boston. READ MORE»

Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check

Her attacker went on to assault another girl just 2 weeks later. And the story only gets worse. READ MORE»

Alex Kane, AlterNet

A new poll shows that President George W. Bush’s reputation has a chance of being rehabilitated. READ MORE»

AlterNet

The most trusted name in news? READ MORE»

By Ryan Koronowski, Climate Progress

Here are the reasons EPA said that the State Department’s assessment needs more work. READ MORE»

By Murtaza Hussain, Al Jazeera

Why tens of thousands of gun deaths a year can be taken in stride as “the price of freedom”, while a single bombing prompts calls for the suspension of civil liberties. READ MORE»

By Alex Kane, AlterNet

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg can’t stop politicizing the Boston Marathon bombings. READ MORE»

By Jonathan Bernstein, Salon

Has the party become “post-policy”? The modern GOP simply have given up on and lost the capacity for developing policy ideas. READ MORE»

By Angad Bhalla, Creative Time Reports

Over 80,000 people are being held in solitary confinement in the United States. READ MORE»

By Alex Kane, AlterNet

The bill legalizing gay marriage passed today by 331 to 225. READ MORE»

Brad Jacobson, AlterNet

A deeply flawed study that ignores the harmful environmental and health impacts of gas drilling is being used to rally for exports. READ MORE»

Sandra Steingraber, AlterNet

Steingraber issued a letter from Chemung County Jail in Elmira, New York after being jailed for civil disobedience. READ MORE»

Ryan Koronowski, Climate Progress

Here are the reasons EPA said that the State Department’s assessment needs more work. READ MORE»

By Alison Rose Levy, AlterNet

Gasland Part II contends that an industry should not be allowed to break what it cannot fix. READ MORE»

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!

Tim DeChristopher discusses his ordeal, his newfound freedom, and his plans to continue his activism in the climate justice movement.READ MORE»

By Steven Hsieh, AlterNet

Researchers also linked climate skepticism to general conspiracism.READ MORE»

By Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet

Ono’s campaign against hydraulic fracking calls to New Yorkers through a dramatic window installation. READ MORE»

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet

What will it take before we have a critical mass to move us toward a sustainable future? READ MORE»

By Maureen Nandini Mitra, Earth Island Journal

Most people have lost faith the in the recovery process, says photojournalist Julie Dermansky. READ MORE»

By Michael T. Klare, Tom Dispatch

Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced. READ MORE»

Peter Hart, FAIR

Journalists pushed for a certain story while covering the Boston bombing. READ MORE»

Alyssa Figueroa, AlterNet

“Not to be into racial profiling…” Matthew warns, before he asks if we can racially profile. READ MORE»

Max Blumenthal, AlterNet

Amidst a national manhunt, up to 8 million Americans were bombarded with wildly dangerous speculation and anti-Muslim incitement. READ MORE»

By Steven Hsieh, AlterNet

Murdoch’s tabloid has no shame in publishing racially-charged lies and rumors. READ MORE»

AlterNet

This might be the best Daily Show takedown of CNN to date. READ MORE»

By Reed Richardson, The Nation

There are certain demographic realities that can’t be ignored. READ MORE»

AlterNet

The fake news duo took time out of their opening segments to pay tribute to Boston. READ MORE»

AlterNet

“Let me go to school, dude!” READ MORE»

By Andrew Gavin Marshall, AlterNet

Pulling back the curtain on how intent the wealthiest Americans have been on establishing a propaganda tool to subvert democracy READ MORE»

Michael T. Klare, Tom Dispatch

Whether you know it or not, you’re on a new planet, a resource-shock world of a sort humanity has never before experienced. READ MORE»

Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

Why did this story drive the whole country nuts? Because we traded rights for “security,” and didn’t get either. READ MORE»

Tara Lohan, AlterNet

What will it take before we have a critical mass to move us toward a sustainable future? READ MORE»

By Frances Moore Lappé, YES! Magazine

Feelings of fear and powerlessness are driving the cycle of violence that surrounds us. To change that, we need to recognize that we need each other to thrive as individuals. READ MORE»

By Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet

The deficit duo tries to poison the public with more bad policy based on bad math. READ MORE»

By Chip Berlet, AlterNet

If we want to understand the genesis of much Islamic terrorism by a small handful of Muslims, a speculative tour of their apocalyptic worldview may help us design a more effective response. READ MORE»

By Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!

A new film directed by Robert Greenwald looks at four whistleblowers who had their lives practically destroyed after they went to the press with evidence of government wrongdoing. READ MORE»

By Annie Rose Strasser, ThinkProgress

The deal would include major papers such as the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun. READ MORE»

By Marion Brady, The Washington Post

Bill Gates spent $45 million trying to find out what makes a school teacher effective — and failed. READ MORE»

By Maureen Nandini Mitra, Earth Island Journal

Most people have lost faith the in the recovery process, says photojournalist Julie Dermansky. READ MORE»

Les Leopold, AlterNet

It’s perverse: the top 10 hedge funds managers make as much as 196,000 registered nurses. Here’s how we change that. READ MORE»

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

Not a shining moment. READ MORE»

Katherine Paul, Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet

We hate to upset the biotech apple cart, but a pesticide-intensive GMO apple, produced through a possibly risky manipulation of RNA, doesn’t deserve a place on our grocery shelves. READ MORE»

By Kristen Gwynne, AlterNet

Happy 4/20. Don’t get arrested. READ MORE»

By Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism

The growing list of folks getting a juicy return on their association with the President. READ MORE»

By Tara Lohan, AlterNet

Residents in industry-friendly West Virginia share their experiences, photos and videos. READ MORE»

By Peter Hart, FAIR

Journalists pushed for a certain story while covering the Boston bombing. READ MORE»

By Ryan Grim, Huffington Post

The little known origins of the 4-20 holiday READ MORE»

By Dawn Foster, OpenDemocracy

Austerity seems to have caused more than just tear gas usage to rise.READ MORE»

By Shona Ghosh, Al Jazeera English

It’s right to be nervous of cyber sabotage operations, but a one-off doesn’t necessarily mean anything. READ MORE»