June 2012 - Financial

The Mortgage Fraud Fraud (New York Times, 6-1-12)

Why Are Twinkies Cheaper Than Carrots? (Huffington Post, 6-1-12)

Merrill Losses Were Withheld Before Bank of America Deal (New York Times, 6-3-12)

Bear Stearns Ex-Executives Agree to Settle Shareholder Suit for $275 Million (Wall Street Journal, 6-7-12)

Americans saw wealth plummet 40 percent from 2007 to 2010, Federal Reserve says (Washington Post, 6-11-12)

Americans Suffered Record Decline In Wealth During Recession: Report (Huffington Post, 6-11-12)

Fed Conflicts Detailed by GAO (Bernie Sanders, 6-12-12)

Dear Mr. Dimon, Is Your Bank Getting Corporate Welfare? (Bloomberg, 6-18-12)

Forget the PIIGS, the EU as a Whole is Insolvent (ZeroHedge, 6-23-12)

Al-Jazeera video breaks down military spending by the dollar (Raw Story, 6-24-12)

The Human Cost Of Corruption In The U.S. Senate: Cutting Food Stamps While Giving The Sugar Lobby Billions (Republic Report, 6-24-12)

The Disastrous Consequences of a Euro Crash (Spiegel, 6-25-12)

Public pension finances could soon look shakier (CNN, 6-26-12)

June 2012 - Environmental

Consumer Alert: BPA-Free Goods Still Contain Toxic Bisphenol (GreenMedInfo, 6-1-12)

Celeb Bono Partners with Monsanto, G8, to Biowreck Africa (GreenMedInfo, 6-1-12)

Bono Sides with Monsanto and Agribusiness to Complete Africa’s Destruction with GMOs (Gaia Health, 6-2-12)

On Climate Change, Money Trumps Common Sense (Bill Moyers, 6-3-12)

Wind Tax Credits Vital to Energy Independence, Rove Says (Bloomberg, 6-5-12)

International trade 'driving nature loss' (BBC, 6-6-12)

Green decline 'may bring irreversible change' (BBC, 6-6-12)

More record warmth as scientists warn of global tipping point (CNN, 6-8-12)

For the Future of Our Planet, a Dialogue Between Generations (Huffington Post, 6-8-12)

Working Women’s Bodies Besieged by Environmental Injustice (Common Dreams, 6-10-12)

China’s smog city: What Wuhan looks like with 20 times the U.S. dust limit (6-12-12)

Rio+20: understanding the present in the light of the future. (Green Cross, 6-12-12)

Will elephants still roam earth in 20 years? (CNN, 6-15-12)

Deforestation-based policy 'no longer tenable' says Indonesian President (Mongabay, 6-17-12)

Is Duke Energy dictating the terms of our democracy? (Quit Coal, 6-18-12)

A Rio report card (Aljazeera, 6-19-12)

The Earth Cannot Be Saved by Hope and Billionaires (Common Dreams, 6-19-12)

America Could Have Dropped Big Oil Decades Ago -- What Happened? (AlterNet, 6-19-12)

'Shock Doctrine' in Action: Vital Freshwater Resources Under Attack by Privatization Capitalists (AlterNet, 6-19-12)

Is a human 'population bomb' ticking? (Aljazeera, 6-20-12)

Commercial Solar Now Cost-Competitive in US (Clean Technia, 6-20-12)

Silent Spring for Us? (CounterPunch, 6-20-12)

Is GMO Farming Poisoning The World's Drinking Water? (Green Med Info, 6-20-12)

Lame it on Rio: Youth stage Earth Summit walkout (Grist, 6-21-12)

Fire Threat Up as Vintage Air Arsenal Shrinks (New York Times, 6-21-12)

Rio+20 Deal Reveals Little Hope for Progress (Worldwatch Institute Europe, 6-22-12)

Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us (Truthout, 6-22-12)

Rio without the principles (Friends of the Earth International, 6-22-12)

Rio+20: Protest Against ‘The Future Corporations Bought’ (Friends of the Earth International, 6-22-12)

Nature fights back - bugs devour GM Monsanto corn with a vengeance (Natural News, 6-22-12)

Rio+20 draft text is 283 paragraphs of fluff (The Guardian, 6-22-12)

Obama's carrying out Dick Cheney's energy plan (CBS, 6-22-12)

Rio+20 draft text is 283 paragraphs of fluff (Guardian, 6-22-12)

Activists slam Rio+20 sustainable development summit as a 'hoax' (CNN, 6-23-12)

Budget cuts threaten pursuit of nuclear fusion as a clean energy source (The Washington Post, 6-25-12)

How fear led world leaders to betray green economy (OurWourld 2.0, 6-26-12),

Slashing EPA Budget Undercuts Public Health (Green For All, 6-27-12)

June 2012 - Health

Gonorrhea ‘Superbugs’ Tearing Path Across the Globe (Truthdig, 6-7-12)

Rationing Life-Years (New York Times, 6-8-12)

Lisa Brown, Michigan Lawmaker, To Help Perform 'Vagina Monologues' (Huffington Post, 6-16-12)

America’s Dental Care Crisis (PBS, 6-19-12)

Report Highlights Appalling Death Toll From Lack of Affordable Health Insurance (Health Care For America Now, 6-21-12)

Has the Drug Industry’s Grip On Health Care Become a Pharmageddon? (AlterNet, 6-22-12)

Global leaders: Drug war ‘the main reason’ for continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic (Raw Story, 6-25-12)

Criminalization of Drug Use Fuels the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Report (Common Dreams, 6-26-12)

The Supreme Court surprise: Medicaid ruling could reduce coverage (Washington Post, 6-28-12)

A health care victory that's only a start (CNN, 6-28-12)

Some States Reluctant Over Medicaid Expansion (Truthout, 6-30-12)

June 2012 - Religion

Survey: Nearly half of Americans subscribe to creationist view of human origins (CNN, 6-1-12)

Breaking the golden rule (Foreign Policy, 6-1-12)

The Rottweiler’s Rottweiler (New York Times, 6-17-12)

A Biblical Threat to National Security (Truthout, 6-24-12)

5 Reasons America Is Not -- And Has Never Been -- a Christian Nation (AlterNet, 6-24-12)

June 2012 - Foreign

Explaining Nigeria's energy crisis (Aljazeera, 6-1-12)

Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German-Built Submarines (Spiegel, 6-3-12)

George Soros: European Union Could Become 'German Empire' (Huffington Post, 6-4-12)

Russia and China: New horizons for cooperation (Voice of Russia, 6-5-12)

Do Cyberattacks on Iran Make Us Vulnerable? (New York Times, 6-5-12)

US drone war threatens to fan instability (DW, 6-6-12)

Give Obama Elbow Room on Iran (New York Times, 6-13-12)

The People Who Brought You The Iraq War Release A New Ad: Bomb Iran (Think Progress, 6-21-12)

Europe Will Emerge Stronger Than Ever: Mark Mobius (CNBC, 6-19-12)

Blair blocked Cabinet from hearing legal advice on Iraq (The Independent, 6-24-12)

‘Little America’: Infighting on Obama team squandered chance for peace in Afghanistan (Washington Post, 6-24-12)

Regime-Changers’ Report Card (Antiwar, 6-25-12)

Jimmy Carter savages US foreign policy over drone strikes (The Guardian, 6-25-12)

UK ‘three strikes’ piracy legislation could go into effect in March 2014 (Raw Story, 6-26-12)

Israel subjecting Palestinian children to 'spiral of injustice' (The Guardian, 6-26-12)

Corruption and greed in 'Minegolia' (Aljazeera, 6-27-12)

Obama administration using loophole to quietly sell arms package to Bahrain (Foreign Policy, 6-27-12)

Doubts Cast on Turkey's Story of Jet (Wall Street Journal, 6-29-12)

June 2012 - Miscellaneous

Deval Patrick: Romney didn't keep his promises in Massachusetts (CNN, 6-1-12)

Obama ordered Stuxnet cyberattack, reports say. Did it leave US vulnerable? (CSMonitor, 6-1-12)

More New York Times Journalists Speak Out Against Management In Contract Negotiations (Huffington Post, 6-3-12)

Philosophy’s Western Bias (New York Times, 6-3-12)

AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis (Bloomberg, 6-4-12)

The Unfunded Liabilities You Love (New York Times, 6-4-12)

Chomsky: America's Rank Hypocrisy -- Why Is it Only an "Atrocity" When Other Countries Do It? (AlterNet, 6-4-12)

E-Commerce, An Engine of Economic Growth (Broadband for America, 6-5-12)

Obama, America's Assassin-in-Chief (AlterNet, 6-5-12)

America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair Of Lowered Expectations (The Economic Collapse, 6-5-12)

The high price of 'dark fusion' (Aljazeera, 6-6-12)

TimesCast Tech: Speaking With Tumblr’s Founder (New York Times, 6-6-12)

Will The Online Campaign Kill The TV Ad? (Huffington Post, 6-7-12)

'Targeted Propaganda' Campaign Follows 'Targeted Killing' Campaign (Common Dreams, 6-7-12)

If You Think Marijuana Isn't an Important Issue, You're Dead Wrong (Huffington Post, 6-7-12)

DEAR AMERICA: You Should Be Mad As Hell About This (Business Insider, 6-7-12)

So much for that Nobel Peace Prize! How anti-war Obama has become Lord High Executioner! (Truth Today, 6-8-12)

Body Counts (Counter Punch, 6-8-12)

Lax Security at LinkedIn Is Laid Bare (New York Times, 6-10-12)

Liberation as Death Sentence (New York Times, 6-10-12)

Obama campaign’s rough patch concerns some Democrats (Washington Post, 6-12-12)

Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers And Broken Campaign Promises (Huffington Post, 6-13-12)

Do we need a revolution in higher education? (CNN, 6-13-12)

Skip the falsehoods, Mr. President, and give us a plan (Washington Post, 6-14-12)

Drone Me Down on the Killing Floor (Common Dreams, 6-15-12)

Jesse Ventura: ‘Our military has turned into contract killers’ (Raw Story, 6-17-12)

New Normal: Majority Of Unemployed Attended College (Investors, 6-17-12)

Obama The Conservative (Obama The Conservative, 6-17-12)

Stuxnet cyberattack by US a 'destabilizing and dangerous' course of action, security expert Bruce Schneier says (Network World, 6-18-12)

President Obama as 'warrior-in-chief' (Aljazeera, 6-19-12)

Are Americans Catching On, Waking Up, Unplugging? (Truth Theory, 6-19-12)

Eisenhower’s Warning Ignored, Presidential Power Has Risen to Sinister Level (Truthdig, 6-20-12)

How to browse sensitive subjects without being tracked (CNet, 6-20-12)

CIA allegedly ordered ‘torture cage’ at secret black site prison (Raw Story, 6-22-12)

Capitalism and the Mad Uncle in the Attic (Common Dreams, 6-22-12)

Collapsing U.S. credibility (The Saloon, 6-25-12)

Obama's Kill List: Silence Is Not an Option (The Nation, 6-25-12)

More People Killed By Bees, Drowning In Bath Than From Terrorism (Transmission, 6-29-12)

Messing With Texas Textbooks (Bill Moyers, 6-29-12)

May 2012 - Financial

Value-Added Tax Would Raise Tons for U.S. Coffers (Bloomberg, 5-2-12)

Debt inequality is the new income inequality (CNN Money, 5-2-12)

COMMENT: The myth of Russian capital flight (BNE, 5-2-12)

The fiscal cliff cometh (Washington Post, 5-3-12)

Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American' (Huffington Post, 5-3-12)

Gross Says U.S. Economy Suffering From ’Structural’ Unemployment (Bloomberg, 5-4-12)

Rents soar as foreclosure victims, young workers seek housing (Los Angeles Times, 5-5-12)

New Delhi Postpones Tax Rules for a Year (Wall Street Journal, 5-8-12)

Windstream CEO Leading Charge To Halt Dividends Tax Hike (Talk Business , 5-9-12)

Inside Obama's LGBT Donor Machine: How The President Will Make Millions From Gay Marriage Push (Forbes, 5-14-12)

The Union Pension Bomb (Wall Street Journal, 5-14-12)

Global banks see market rally on Greek exit (The Telegraph, 5-17-12)

Shafted! Why are Homeowners Still Left to Struggle Against Big Banks Alone? (AlterNet, 5-18-12)

Number of the Week: Student Loan Bubble (Wall Street Journal, 5-19-12)

Of The Last 2 Presidents, Which Has Caused More National Debt? (Move On, 5-20-12)

Dropping out: Is college worth the cost? (CBS, 5-20-12)

Preying on the poor (Aljazeera, 5-21-12)

Neither the Fed Nor the ECB Can Stop What's Coming (ZeroHedge, 5-21-12)

The Sellout of the Ivory Tower, and the Crash of 2008 ((Huffington Post, 5-22-12)

Nancy Pelosi’s risky pander on taxes (Washington Post, 5-23-12)

Facebook Shows There's a Sucker Born Every Minute (Wall Street Journal, 5-24-12)

Bankers at the Gates (New York Times, 5-24-12)

This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires (The Nation, 5-25-12)

Idaho is for sale and China is buying (Examiner, 5-27-12)

Global cuts 'will reverse progress on child poverty' (BBC, 5-29-12)

Time Bomb? Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt (CNBC, 5-31-12)

U.S. Child Poverty Second Highest Among Developed Nations: Report (Huffington Post, 5-31-12)

May 2012 - Environmental

Erin Brockovich Talks 'Last Call At The Oasis' And Water Contamination Issues (Huffington Post, 5-1-12)

Plants' Reactions To Climate Change Examined In New Study (Huffington Post, 5-2-12)

How Chemicals Affect Us (New York Times, 5-2-12)

Silica dust poses newly revealed health risks from fracking (Switchboard, 5-2-12)

The radical transformation of Palestine's environment  (Aljazeera, 5-2-12)

New Survey of Undiscovered Oil Shows Shift Away from Middle East, Russia (5-2-12)

Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster Than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the US (Truthout, 5-3-12)

The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb (AlterNet, 5-4-12)

Could a Changing Climate Set Off Volcanoes and Quakes? (Yale Environment 360, 5-7-12)

Germany Rejects Fracking (Common Dreams, 5-7-12)

Goodbye Nuclear Power — and Hello More Carbon? (Time, 5-8-12)

‘Bitter Seeds’ documentary reveals tragic toll of GMOs in India (Grist, 5-8-12)

Pacific Garbage Patch has gotten 100 times worse in 40 years (Grist, 5-9-12)

'We Are Losing the Planet' (Spiegel Online, 5-11-12)

'Last Call at the Oasis': Why Time Is Running Out to Save Our Drinking Water (AlterNet, 5-11-12)

'Last Call at the Oasis': Why Time Is Running Out to Save Our Drinking Water (AlterNet, 5-11-12)

Global warming threatens pine forests, forcing federal officials to shift strategy (Washington Post, 5-13-12)

Report: Global biodiversity down 30 percent in 40 years (MSNBC, 5-14-12)

Huge garbage patch in north Pacific is creating changes in the ocean food web (MercoPress, 5-14-12)

Earth 'going downhill' as consumption rises, report says (CNN, 5-16-12)

Is the EPA Covering up Oil Dispersant Dangers? (EcoWatch, 5-16-12)

Our Most Endangered River? In the Shadow of the Capital (EcoWatch, 5-16-12)

Australasia has hottest 60 years in a millennium, scientists find (Guardian, 5-17-12)

AP IMPACT: Evacs and drills pared near nuke plants (Times Union, 5-17-12)

Going to Bat for Our Furry Flying Friends (EcoWatch, 5-17-12)

Rainforest Destruction by a Corrupt Industry: Why Obama Should Not Include Palm Oil in Renewable Fuel Standard (AlterNet, 5-17-12)

We're Going to Run Out of Fish (The Atlantic Wire, 5-21-12)

Research ship finds the world's oceans are 'plasticized' (CNN, 5-22-12)

Obama Leaves Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa (Organic Consumers, 5-23-12)

Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return? (Scientific American, 5-23-12)

Greens break silence, ask Obama to attend Earth Summit (Grist, 5-25-12)

Partial veto of Forest Code not enough to protect Amazon or Dilma’s reputation (World Wildlife Fund, 5-25-12)

IEA: Global CO2 Emissions Hit New Record In 2011, Keeping World On Track For ‘Devastating’ 11°F Warming By 2100 (Think Progress, 5-25-12)

Our impoverished Earth (Examiner, 5-26-12)

The World's Most Hated Energy Source Could Make You a Fortune (Street Authority, 5-28-12)

WWF Helps Industry More than Environment (Spiegel, 5-29-12)

File under bad idea: G8 asks Big Ag to take the lead in feeding the world (Grist, 5-31-12)

May 2012 - Health

Kansas House Passes Most Dangerous Sweeping Anti-Abortion Law In The Nation (Addicting Info, 5-7-12)

Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America (AlterNet, 5-8-12)

Inadequate Knowledge About Contraception is Common Among Young Adults (Guttmacher, 5-9-12)

Processed Food: 9 Nasty Truths About The Meals You Eat (Huffington Post, 5-9-12)

Report offers a bit of good news for American moms (CNN, 5-10-12)

Watchdog: Huge Spike in Cancers, Fertility Problems Linked to Chemicals in Household Items (Common Dreamsm, 5-11-12)

Why Are American Teens So Ignorant About Sex and Birth Control? (AlterNet, 5-11-12)

Poor at risk as US state mulls austerity (Aljazeera, 5-18-12)

Are You Safe on That Sofa? (New York Times, 5-19-12)

What’s the Relationship between Childhood Obesity and Chemicals? (EcoWatch, 5-21-12)

STD fears as 70% of single women admit to regularly having unprotected sex (Mail Online, 5-30-12)

May 2012 - Religion

Family Battle Offers Look Inside Lavish TV Ministry (New York Times, 5-4-12)

Franklin Graham: Barack Obama Has 'Shaken His Fist' At God With Support For Same-Sex Marriage (Huffington Post, 5-10-12)

Why Eastern Germany Is The Most Godless Place On Earth (Worldcrunch, 5-13-12)

No more official religion for Norway (Toronto Sun, 5-15-12)

Charles L. Worley, North Carolina Pastor: Put Gays And Lesbians In Electrified Pen To Kill Them Off (Huffington Post, 5-21-12)

Dear Girls -- Here's Why Nasty Old Religious Men Are Terrified of You (AlterNet, 5-23-12)

May 2012 - Foreign

'We've gone way beyond Apartheid' (Aljazeera, 5-2-12)

Europe's Scariest Chart Just Got Scarier-er (ZeroHedge, 5-2-12)

Imitation Outrage: Faking Concern for the Chinese Masses (truthdig, 5-2-12)

Chinese activist Chen leaves U.S. Embassy for hospital, is surrounded by police (Washington Post, 5-3-12)

China sends more ships to disputed shoal: Philippines (Raw Story, 5-3-12)

Fraying deal on Chen Guangcheng shows power of China’s security apparatus (Washington Post, 5-3-12)

When the Only Real Choice Is Protest (Spiegel Online, 5-4-12)

Those Revolting Europeans (New York Times, 5-6-12)

Annotate This: EU Response to Argentina's Nationalization (FPIF, 5-7-12)

A Tipping Point for Israel (AntiWar, 5-10-12)

Underestimate Europe's Extremist Movements At Your Peril (Worldcrunch, 5-10-12)

Pakistani students win international award for film on drones (Tribune, 5-11-12)

The Grammar of Happiness: How an Indigenous Tribe Changed a Missionaries Views Airs May 12 (Indian Country, 5-12-12)

Peace Negotiator Killed in Kabul (Wall Street Journal, 5-13-12)

Attacks on aid workers rising in Pakistan (CNN, 5-14-12)

US to assign army brigade to Africa (Aljazeera, 5-16-12)

Nakba Day: Returning to Lebanon's border (Aljazeera, 5-18-12)

Why Greeks Will Vote for Tsipras (Spiegel Online, 5-21-12)

Obama Leaves Monsanto in Charge of Ending Hunger in Africa (Organic Consumer Association, 5-23-12)

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Nothing New About Ignoring Africa's Farmers (Huffington Post, 5-23-12)

Why do Italians still have a soft spot for Mussolini? (Catholic Heral, 5-25-12)

Treaty on the seas is in rough Senate waters (Washington Post, 5-28-12)

Colombia mulls legalising cocaine (Aljazeera, 5-29-12)

In Yemen, U.S. airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaeda (Washington Post, 5-29-12)

U.S. tech companies warn of threat to Internet from foreign governments (Washington Post, 5-30-12)

Hope Burning (Truthdig, 5-31-12)

Imran Khan: Next man in? (Aljazeera, 5-31-12)

Africa: What Israel's Anti-African Pogroms Tell Us About Zionism (allAfrica, 5-31-12)

May 2012 - Miscellaneous

We're Number ... 2? Are Americans in Denial About the Country's Decline? (AlterNet, 5-1-12)

Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life (truthdig, 5-2-12)

Nonsense on stilts: Brennan's defense of U.S. drone attacks (All Voicesm 5-2-12)

Dan Rather on George W. Bush report: ‘We reported a true story—that’s why I’m no longer with CBS News’ (Yahoo, 5-2-12)

The Right-Wing's 20 Biggest Sex Hypocrites (AlterNet, 5-3-12)

CISPA: The Keyboard Cops (Aljazeera, 5-3-12)

US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations (Guardian, 5-4-12)

UN official calls for US return of native land (BBC, 5-4-12)

White House Counterterrorism Adviser Should Tell the Whole Truth About Drone Strikes (Truthout, 5-4-12)

The incredible shrinking labor force (Washington Post, 5-4-12)

There Are 100 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have Jobs (FedUpUSA, 5-5-12)

Facebook Subscribe Suggestions: 50 People In Politics To Follow (Facebook, 5-7-12)

Hannity Guest And Friend Thinks It Was A ‘Mistake’ To Let Women Vote (Addicting Info, 5-7-12)

Zuckerberg’s Hoodie a ‘Mark of Immaturity,’ Analyst Says (Bloomberg, 5-8-12)

A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? (Common Dreams, 5-8-12)

Obama and Gay Marriage: Thanks for Nothing (Truthdig, 5-9-12)

House Republicans vote to punish the gays (Daily Kos, 5-10-12)

NC Lesbian Arrested Seeking Marriage License: Two Simple Reasons New NC Amendment is Illegal (Addicting Info, 5-10-12)

GOP treads lightly on gay marriage issue (Washington Post, 5-10-12)

Five Facts That Put America to Shame (Common Dreams, 5-14-12)

The president's private war (Fox News, 5-14-12)

Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane (AlterNet, 5-14-12)

5 Ways Conservatives are Destroying the Institution of Marriage (AlterNet, 5-14-12)

Chomsky on Obama (Salon, 5-14-12)

Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane (AlterNet, 5-14-12)

Is the filibuster unconstitutional? (Washington Post, 5-15-12)

Come the Revolution (New York Times, 5-15-12)

Plutonomy and the precariat: On the history of the US economy in decline (Aljazeera, 5-16-12)

Census: Minority babies are now majority in United States (Washington Post, 5-17-12)

A Shocking Number Of Prison Staffers Have Sex With Inmates (Business Insider, 5-17-12)

Presidential campaign theme of 2012: More jobs and more zombies to work them (Natural News, 5-18-12)

On Bill Maher Show, Dan Rather Slams Corporate Media: "To Put it Bluntly, Big Business Is in Bed With Big Government" (AlterNet, 5-19-12)

Europe’s True Identity : Christian or really Pagan ? (Hindu Human Rights, 5-20-12)

American Physics Dreams Deferred (New York Times, 5-21-12)

Indefinite Detention: Senator Sees No Need To Change Law That Was Ruled Unconstitutional (Huffington Post, 5-22-12)

Supreme Court Lets Student’s $675,000 File-Sharing Fine Stand (Gizmodo, 5-22-12)

Top Obama Officials, Secretive Process Create 'Assassination List' (Common Dreams, 5-22-12)

The Road to Nowhere (The Daily Beast, 5-24-12)

Conservatives used to care about community. What happened? (Washington Post, 5-24-12)

When Modern Cities Become Ghost Towns (Spiegel, 5-25-12)

Full Text of Human Rights Record of the United States in 2011 (Xinhua, 5-25-12)

An Old White Lefty's View Of Where Obama Is Coming From (V Dare, 5-27-12)

Facebook: now open for public scrutiny (Aljazeera, 5-27-12)

Internet Shows Signs of Challenging TV for Attention (The Moscow Times, 5-27-12)

It’s time to drop the college-for-all crusade (Washington Post, 5-27-12)

Bush’s Terror Overreach Becomes ’New Normal’ Under Obama (Bloomberg, 5-27-12)

Our Imbecilic Constitution (New York Times, 5-28-12)

Inequality dates back to Stone Age (Archaeology News Network, 5-28-12)

We're Number One! We're Number One! Why, God, Why Are We Number One?! (Upworthy, 5-29-12)

Job recovery is scant for Americans in prime working years (Washington Post, 5-29-12)

Homophobia Threatens to Turn Democracy Into a Fundamentalist Theocracy (Truthout, 5-29-12)

U.S. Drone Policy: Standing Near Terrorists Makes You A Terrorist (Huffington Post, 5-29-12)

Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will (New York Times, 5-29-12)

With Plan X, Pentagon seeks to spread U.S. military might to cyberspace (Washington Post, 5-30-12)

Concerned Citizens Petition President To Not Kill Them With Drones, Pretty Please (Huffington Post, 5-30-12)

Hope Burning (Truthdig, 5-30-12)

Obama's kill list - All males near drone strike sites are terrorists (RT, 5-30-12)

The Kill List of Barack Obama (Counterpunch, 5-31-12)

April 2012 - Financial

Washington, We Have a Revenue Problem (American Prospect, 4-9-12)

Mitt Romney's America: Five Pictures From the Future (AlterNet, 4-10-12)

Income Inequality Worse Under Obama Than George W. Bush (Huffington Post, 4-11-12)

Corruption Is Responsible for 80% of Your Cell Phone Bill (AlterNet, 4-11-12)

TARP Bailout Money Fails To Reach Neediest Homeowners After Two Years: Report (Huffington Post, 4-12-12)

Recovery Fueled By Low-Wage Jobs (Huffington Post, 4-12-12)

How OWS Plans to Take Down Bank of America (Truthdig, 4-12-12)

With a $5 Billion Pipeline Project, Canada Looks to Bypass U.S. for Asia (Wall Street Journal, 4-12-12)

Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! (Washington Post, 4-13-12)

World economy still on life support (CNN, 4-16-12)

Corporations That Spent The Most On Lobbying Saw Tax Rates Decline: Report (Huffington Post, 4-17-12)

The Founding Fathers Knew that Debt-Financed Wars Ruin the Country (Washington's Blog, 4-17-12)

Are we on the deck of another Titanic (Aljazeera, 4-19-12)

Bipartisan Political Elite Implicated in For-Profit Education Fraud (Truthout, 4-19-12)

4/20: 16 Ways Marijuana Affects The Economy (Huffington Post, 4-20-12)

Staggering student debt the next financial crisis? (Raw Story, 4-22-12)

Hundreds of economists agree marijuana legalization could save US taxpayers $13.7 billion per year (Natural News, 4-23-12)

A History of the World, BRIC by BRIC (Truthout, 4-26-12)

April 2012 - Enviornmental

2011 U.S. Solar Market Insight: What Happened While We Weren’t Looking (Arizona Solar Challenge, 4-3-12)

Mexico's Deepwater Drilling Plans Spell Doom (Common Dreams, 4-3-12)

Fukushima Daiichi Site: Cesium-137 is 85 times greater than at Chernobyl Accident (Akio Matsumura, 4-3-12)

Coral Links Ice Sheet Collapse to Ancient 'Mega Flood' (Science Daily, 4-3-12)

Germany's Far-Right Turns to Environmentalism (Spiegel Online, 4-3-12)

Gingrich think tank files for bankruptcy (Raw Story, 4-5-12)

Unregulated Fracking for Decades? Why California May Be a Disaster Waiting to Happen (AlterNet, 4-5-12)

Nasa scientist: climate change is a moral issue on a par with slavery (The Guardian, 4-6-12)

Always Low Prices? That's Amazon, Not Walmart, Say Value Shoppers (Daily Finance, 4-6-12)

Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit (New York Times, 4-7-12)

Federal Funds to Train the Jobless Are Drying Up (New York Times, 4-8-12)

Blank Check for the Military Will Send America the Way of the Soviet Union (Huffington Post, 4-9-12)

The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY (Global Research, 4-9-12)

Fighting the Legacy of Enrico Fermi (EcoWatch, 4-9-12)

Must-See Infographic: Americans Throw Away Enough Trash Per Year To Cover The State Of Texas Twice Over (Think Progress, 4-10-12)

Fish, Bugs and Mercury Contamination in Small Ponds: Why We Should Worry About Aquatic Insects and Hg Contamination (Science Daily, 4-10-12)

EPA approves 'Agent Orange' pesticide (RT, 4-11-12)

Bill Gates Never Ran an Energy Company (Huffington Post, 4-12-12)

Worry About U.S. Water, Air Pollution at Historical Lows (Gallup Politics, 4-13-12)

A Visual Tour of the Fuel Pools of Fukushima (Washington's Blog, 4-15-12)

Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Childhood Obesity (Science Daily, 4-16-12)

2 Years After the BP Oil Spill, Is the Gulf Ecosystem Collapsing? (Washington's Blog, 4-18-12)

Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, A Hidden Health Crisis Festers (The Nation, 4-18-12)

We Used To Have 307 Kinds Of Corn. Guess How Many Are Left? (Upworthy, 4-18-12)

Earth Day Corruption: Big Money Spent $543 Million Lobbying To Doom Human Civilization (Republic Report, 4-20-12)

Earth Day 2012: Environmental Movement at a Crossroads (AlterNet, 4-20-12)

Study Finds Surprising Arctic Methane Emission Source (NASA, 4-22-12)

Phasing out nuclear (Washington Post, 4-23-12)

Renewables Want Level Playing Field (AOL, 4-23-12)

Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the US (Common Dreams, 4-24-12)

Limited Nuclear Exchange In One Of World's Regions Would Trigger Mass Global Starvation After Slashing Chinese, U.S. Food Production (Market Watch, 4-24-12)

A Plea for Rio+20: Don’t Commodify Nature (Common Dreams, 4-25-12)

Homeowners Associations And Solar Panels Don't Always Mix (Huffington Post, 4-25-12)

Almost Seven Million Birds Perish at Communication Towers in North America Each Year (Science Daily, 4-25-12)

People and the planet (Royal Society, 4-26-12)

People and the planet report (Royal Society, 4-26-12)

Ma Jun Maps the Environmental Crisis in China (Sierra, 4-26-12)

Whole Food Blues: Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So Sustainable (Time, 4-26-12)

Report: China Doing Most Global Warming Abatement, World Still Far Behind Necessary Target (Clean Technica, 4-29-12)

OECD environmental outlook for 2050 is grim (EarthSky, 4-29-12)

Three Charts That Illustrate Why Solar Has Hit A True Tipping Point (Think Progress, 4-30-12)

April 2012 - Health

Is sugar toxic? (CBS, 4-1-12)

Batshit Insane Lawmakers Attempting to Declare Women ‘Pregnant’ Two Weeks Before Conception (Jezebel, 4-3-12)

The Most Unreasonable Assumption We've Ever Heard One Woman Make About Other Women (Move On, 4-3-12)

Drug-resistant malaria is spreading and it could be a public health disaster (The Extinction Protocol, 4-6-12)

The Real Health Care Debate (Common Dreams, 4-9-12)

Arizona Abortion Bill: Legislators Pass Three Bills, Including One That Redefines When Life Begins (Huffington Post, 4-10-12)

Red State Fail: Abstinence Only Education Leads To Highest Rates Of Teen Pregnancy In The Country (Addicting Info, 4-11-12)

Lee Fang: Howard Dean Advises Corporate Health Care Clients to Fund "Both Sides," Run Attack Ads (Truthout, 4-12-12)

You're On Your Own, Kids (Common Dreams, 4-12-12)

World’s Cheapest Food Is in the U.S.—But at What Cost? (EcoWatch, 4-18-12)

Pepsi's 'Next' generation - Less sugar, more toxins! (Natural News, 4-22-12)

Governor Rick Scott Vetoes Funds For Rape Crisis Centers During Sexual Assault Awareness Month (Huffington Post, 4-24-12)

Profit-Driven Medicine Violates American Patients Young and Old (Common Dreams, 4-26-12)

Building the Perfect Bug (Aljazeera, 4-27-12)

Just the Numbers: The Impact of U.S. International Family Planning Assistance (Guttmacher, 4-27-12)

Human Metabolism Negatively Impacted by High-Fructose Corn Syrup (Natural Society, 4-27-12)

Abortion and Contraception Protect Women’s Health: That's an Incontrovertible Medical Truth (AlterNet, 4-28-12)

April 2012 - Religion

Sheikh Abdul Aziz Bin Abdullah, Saudi Islamic Leader, Says Churches Should Be Destroyed (Huffington Post, 4-2-12)

Christian Groups Take Issue With Anti-Bullying Laws (Huffington Post, 4-6-12)

Why Paul Krugman Avoids Thinking About Israel (Truthdig, 4-24-12)

Christian think tank leader: Obama birth certificate ‘a legitimate issue’ (Raw Story, 4-25-12)

Christians of the Holy Land (Aljazeera, 4-26-12)

April 2012 - Foreign

Born Again! George Galloway Stuns Labor, Shakes Up Britain (Counter Punch, 4-1-12)

Hafiz Saeed Bounty: U.S. Offers $10 Million For Pakistani Militant Chief (Huffington Post, 4-3-12)

Nobel Laureate Grass Attacks Israel in New Poem (Spiegel, 4-4-12)

Pakistani militant taunts U.S. over $10M bounty (CBS, 4-4-12)

Why We Need an Open Debate on Israel (Spiegel Online, 4-6-12)

The Other Arab Spring (New York Times, 4-7-12)

Under Israel's Divorce Laws, Men Get The Final Word (NPR, 4-7-12)

Obama Administration Silencing Pakistani Drone-Strike Lawyer (Common Dreams, 4-9-12)

Everyone wants to talk to Brazil's President Rousseff, except Obama (The Guardian, 4-11-12)

Gaza “More Dire Than Ever” (IPA, 4-11-12)

Panama: Village of the damned (Aljazeera, 4-12-12)

5 Countries That Do It Better: How Sexual Prudery Makes America a Less Healthy and Happy Place (AlterNet, 4-12-12)

The UK government's war on internet freedom (Aljazeera, 4-13-12)

The President Of Iceland Tells Us How He Had The Balls To Stand Up To Britain (Business Insider, 4-13-12)

Afghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis: ‘I had to speak out – lives are at stake’ (Raw Story, 4-14-12)

Egypt 'needs £7.5 billion bail-out to avoid bankruptcy' (The Telegraph, 4-16-12)

EU unemployment hits all-time high (The Telegraph, 4-18-12)

Chinese Melamine and American Vioxx: A Comparison (The American Conservative, 4-18-12)

China’s Rise, America’s Fall (The American Conservative, 4-18-12)

A German Pirate Party could bring a European coalition (Aljazeera, 4-19-12)

News of Drama in China Consulate Reached Obama (Wall Street Journal, 4-21-12)

Bernard-Henri Lévy, a friend to Israel (Aljazeera, 4-22-12)

More Mexicans returning home, fewer immigrating to U.S. (USA Today, 4-23-12)

The Global Power Shift from West to East (The National Interest, 4-25-12)

Remarks by Former Official Fuel Israeli Discord on Iran (New York Times, 4-28-12)

A year after bin Laden raid, Pakistan still harboring U.S.’s biggest enemies (McClatchy, 4-30-12)

Nailing the legal architects of crimes (Aljazeera, 4-30-12)

April 2012 - Miscellaneous

Bill Moyers | The Real Costs of War (Truthout, 4-1-12)

Hoodie Politics: Trayvon Martin and Racist Violence in Post-Racial America (Truthout, 4-2-12)

Someone You Love: Coming to a Gulag Near You (Truthout, 4-2-12)

The Age of Obama: What Went Wrong (and How to Fix It) (Common Dreams, 4-2-12)

Consumer Groups: Verizon's Cozy Deal With Cable Would Create a Wireless Duopoly (Truthout, 4-3-12)

EXCLUSIVE: "Guidebook to False Confessions": Key Document John Yoo Used to Draft Torture Memo Released (Truthout, 4-3-12)

U.S. Standard of Living Has Fallen More Than 50%: Opinion (The Street, 4-3-12)

Thought Destroyed, Bush-Era Torture Memo Released (Anti War, 4-4-12)

Even worse than SOPA: New CISPA cybersecurity bill will censor the Web (RT, 4-4-12)

Trayvon Martin Case Used For Politics By President Obama, According to Richard Land (Huffington Post, 4-4-12)

Conservatives Really Do Hate Science (Truthdig, 4-4-12)

Americans brace for next foreclosure wave (Reuters, 4-4-12)

Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey (AlterNet, 4-4-12)

Data Mining for a New American World (Truthdig, 4-5-12)

Sequel to SOPA could see NSA spy on journalists, media pirates (Raw Story, 4-5-12)

Keith Olbermann Sues Current TV (Huffington Post, 4-5-12)

It's About Time: Democratic Party Should Adopt Marriage Equality in Platform (Huffington Post, 4-5-12)

New Bush-Era Torture Memo Released, Raises Questions About What Has Changed And What Hasn't (Huffington Post, 4-6-12)

'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders (The Guardian, 4-7-12)

Obama, the happy drug warrior (SFGate, 4-8-12)

Obama turns super-hawk (Aljazeera, 4-8-12)

Study: Homophobes May Be Hidden Homosexuals (Yahoo, 4-9-12)

GOP blueprint: The failure of conservative welfare reform (Aljazeera, 4-9-12)

Who is the Biggest Drug Cartel in the World? Big Pharma (Buzzflash, 4-9-12)

Fired Up! Republicans Are Taking the Country Back ... in Time (Huffington Post, 4-9-12)

Chris Christie Tunnel: Report Disputes Governor's Basis For Scrapping Hudson River Rail Project (Huffington Post, 4-10-12)

Deepening the progressive bench (Washington Post, 4-10-12)

This Internet provider pledges to put your privacy first. Always. (Cnet, 4-11-12)

We Need a New Works Progress Administration (Addicting Info, 4-11-12)

Should the U.S. legalize hard drugs? (Washington Post, 4-12-12)

The Real Hilary Rosen Scandal (The Nation, 4-13-12)

Google’s Sergey Brin: China, SOPA, Facebook Threaten the ‘Open Web’ (Wired, 4-15-12)

Many U.S. Immigrants’ Children Seek American Dream Abroad (New York Times, 4-15-12)

Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits (Huffington Post, 4-15-12)

The Senate Can and Should Save the Postal Service (The Nation, 4-17-12)

Warming Up to the Officeless Office (Wall Street Journal, 4-17-12)

How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian's Nightmare (AlterNet, 4-18-12)

CIA seeks new authority to expand Yemen drone campaign (Washington Post, 4-18-12)

Top Five Special Interest Groups Lobbying To Keep Marijuana Illegal (Republice Report, 4-20-12)

Meet the Media Companies Lobbying Against Transparency (Raw Story, 4-20-12)

USA Today: Online Pentagon Payback Campaign Targeted Us (Wired, 3-20-12)

Rubio: George W. Bush ‘did a fantastic job as president’ (Raw Story, 4-22-12)

Department of Homeland Security buying up enough ammo to wage seven-year war against the American people (Natural News, 4-22-12)

Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns (Raw Story, 4-25-12)

Facebook Protesters Demand Social Network Add Women To All-Male Board (Huffington Post, 4-25-12)

The Self-Made Myth: Debunking Conservatives' Favorite -- And Most Dangerous -- Fiction (AlterNet, 4-25-12)

Facebook Lobbies Washington to “Like” Spying on Users (Common Dreams, 4-27-12)

How Karl Rove's Billionaire-Backed Super PAC Will Be Election Game Changer (Forbes, 4-27-12)

Warrior in Chief (New York Times, 4-28-12)

Why The Rest of the World Should Tell the U.S. to F*cK Off (Disinformation, 4-28-12)

Celebrating our “Warrior President” (Salon, 4-29-12)

Imperialism didn't end. These days it's known as international law (The Guardian, 4-30-12)

U.S. Torturers are Still Awaiting Arrest (Other Words, 4-30-12)

March 2012 - Financial

Inefficient Wall Street Wastes $280 Billion A Year: Study (Huffington Post, 3-2-12)

Bank of America In Trouble? (Common Dreams, 3-2-12)

As Pension Crisis Looms, Golden Years Fade to Black: Clive Crook (Bloomberg, 3-6-12)

Banks Repaid Fed Bailout With Other Fed Money: Government Report (Huffington Post, 3-9-12)

Beware The 'Student Debt Bomb', says New Report (Common Dreams, 3-9-12)

Microcredit doesn’t end poverty, despite all the hype (Washington Post, 3-10-12)

Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail (Rolling Stone, 3-14-12)

IRS employee-screening records found lacking (Washington Post, 3-20-12)

The Shadow Bailout: How Big Banks Bilk US Towns and Taxpayers (Common Dreams, 3-22-12)

Faber: ‘Massive Wealth Destruction’ Coming, Well-to-Do ‘May Lose 50%’ (Money News, 3-27-12)

Harper budget has $8M to restrict 'political activities' of charities (The Hook, 3-29-12)

BRICS leaders edge closer to setting up development bank (CNN, 3-30-12)

Money Talks, Science Walks: Millions Spent to Weaken FDA (Common Dreams, 3-30-12)

March 2012 - Environmental

Apa, Sherpa Mountaineer And Everest Hero, Highlights Flood Threat in Himalayas (Huffington Post, 3-2-12)

Science: Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity’s Ability to Feed Itself (Think Progress, 3-2-12)

Why Obama Is Wrong About Natural Gas (Rolling Stone, 3-2-12)

Pandora's Box: Digging the Earth, Killing the Future (Common Dreams, 3-2-12)

Plastic-Eating Fungi Found In The Amazon May Solve World’s Waste Problem (PSFK, 3-7-12)

Plastic-eating fungi found in Amazon may solve landfill problems (Digital Journal, 3-10-12)

Oceans Will Not Survive ‘Business as Usual’ (IPS News, 3-12-12)

No more Fukushimas (The Baltimore Sun, 3-11-12)

Video Explores Where Coral Reefs Are Most At Risk (Spoiler Alert: Pretty Much Everywhere) (Climate Progress, 3-14-12)

EPA looking for ways to 'manage or minimize' injection earthquakes (E&E Publishing, 3-15-12)

Scientists Warn of Low-Dose Risks of Chemical Exposure (Environment 360, 3-19-12)

‘Pink slime’ is the tip of the iceberg: Look what else is in industrial meat (Grist, 3-19-12)

Marine problems cost world billions, study says (DW News, 3-21-12)

10 Million Pounds of Toxic Chemicals Dumped into Pennsylvania’s Waterways (Penn Environment, 3-22-12)

Las Vegas bets on desert water pipeline as Nevada drinks itself dry (Raw Storym, 3-23-12)

Raging hormone disruptors: Common chemicals cause trouble even in small amounts (Grist, 3-26-12)

Eating This Common Food Could Damage Your Kidneys (Mercola, 3-27-12)

Scarce Resources May Slow Low-Carbon Growth (Scientific American, 3-27-12)

Bee research details harm from insecticides (Washington Post, 3-29-12)

Civilization Is At Risk Absent ‘Urgent And Large-Scale Action’ Warns Planetary Summit (Climate Progress, 3-30-12)

March 2012 - Health

Rush Limbaugh: Women Who Want Birth Control Are Sluts (Gawker, 3-1-12)

Bill O'Reilly Attacks Sandra Fluke: 'You Want Me To Give You My Hard-Earned Money So You Can Have Sex?' (Huffington Post, 3-3-12)

ANALYSIS: The end of health insurance as we know it? (iWatch News, 3-5-12)

Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Bill In Utah Passes Senate, Prohibits Talk Of Homosexuality In Class (Huffington Post, 3-7-12)

Physicians in Congress Committing Malpractice on Millions (Truthout, 3-9-12)

Why Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Will Reduce Health Care Access (The Atlantic, 3-9-12)

Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood President: Mitt Romney's Plan To 'Get Rid Of' Us Won't Balance Budget (Huffington Post, 3-14-12)

Health chief warns: age of safe medicine is ending (The Independent, 3-16-12)

Latest House Republican Budget Threatens Medicare and Shreds the Safety Net (American Progress, 3-20-12)

Commonly prescribed drugs and hospitals are killing and harming the elderly (Natural News, 3-28-12)

Woman arrested for trespassing at hospital dies in jail (Raw Story, 3-29-12)

March 2012 - Religion

Scottish Cardinal Calls Gay Marriage As Bad As Slavery (Addicting Info, 3-6-12)

Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right (AlterNet, 3-11-12)

The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: 'There is no real hunt. It's fixed' (The Guardian, 3-20-12)

Pedophile Priests in Germany: 'Zero-Tolerance' Bishop Accused of Leniency (Spiegel Online, 3-22-12)

Muslim Brotherhood asserts its strength in Egypt with challenges to military (Washington Post, 3-25-12)

Were Jews ever really slaves in Egypt, or is Passover a myth? (Haaretz, 3-26-12)

Pat Robertson On Homosexuality: It's Related To A Type Of "Demonic Possession" (Huffington Post, 3-27-12)

Peter Beinart's liberal Zionist fantasy (Aljazeera, 2-28-12)

March 2012 - Foreign

Why Egypt doesn't trust us (LA Times, 3-7-12)

Legalization Debate Takes Off in Latin America (Huffington Post, 3-10-12)

Egypt's Islamist-dominated parliament votes in support of expelling Israel's ambassador (Yahoo, 3-12-12)

Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? (Truthout, 3-14-12)

UN body "appalled" by Israel’s racial segregation policies (Electronic Intifada, 3-16-12)

Pakistan’s legislators are urged to seek halt to U.S. drone strikes (Washington Post, 3-20-12)

Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran Refused Cooperation (IPS News, 3-20-12)

Is tension building before a 'Gaza Spring'? (Aljazeera, 3-20-12)

Why do we continue to ignore China's rise? Arrogance (The Guardian, 3-24-12)

Central American drug summit inconclusive (LA Times, 3-25-12)

The west has lost in Afghanistan (Financial Times, 3-25-12)

India's coal rush (Aljazeera, 3-26-12)

Fakhra Younus Dead: Pakistani Acid Victim Commits Suicide (Huffington Post, 3-28-12)

Rights group criticises Afghan 'moral crimes' (Aljazeera, 3-28-12)

The third British Empire (Aljazeera, 3-28-12)

Who speaks for Iranian-Americans? (Aljazeera, 3-28-12)

March 2012 - Miscellaneous

Does H.R. 347 Change Anything About Your Right to Protest Politicians Under Secret Service Protection? It's All In the Word Change (Reason, 3-1-12)

The disappearing virtual library (Aljazeera, 3-1-12)

EXCLUSIVE: In ’02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds (ABC News, 3-2-12)

Mitt Romney May Be Finished (Youtube, 3-3-12)

The Bipartisan Force Behind the For-Profit College Scam: Big Money (Truthoutm 3-7-12)

Why the American Empire Was Destined to Collapse (AlterNet, 3-7-12)

Manufacturers Pay a Bounty for Skilled Workers (CNBC, 3-8-12)

Supreme Court Likely to Endorse Obama's War on Whistleblowers (Truthout, 3-12-12)

US Subjected Manning to Cruel, Inhuman, Degrading Treatment, UN Torture Chief Concludes (Truthout, 3-12-12)

What if George W. Bush had done that? (Politico, 3-13-12)

Santorum: Wrong on pornography (Chicago Tribune, 3-15-12)

218 reasons NOT to vote for Obama (Post Libertarian, 3-15-12)

The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) (Wired, 3-15-12)

Author hilariously illustrates why copyright math is bogus (Raw Story, 3-16-12)

‘Kony 2012′ filmmaker arrested for public masturbation (Raw Story, 3-16-12)

Jason Russell Arrested? Co-Founder Of Invisible Children, 'Kony 2012' Creator, Not Charged In San Diego (Huffington Post, 3-16-12)

Five Right-Wing Violations Against Women That We Must Crush (Truthout, 3-17-12)

The States Get a Poor Report Card (New York Times, 3-19-12)

State of the News Media 2012 (Jim Romenesko, 3-19-12)

You Can’t Occupy This (Slate, 3-19-12)

Martial Law by Executive Order (Huffington Post, 3-21-12)

Chairman Ryan’s Call for “Welfare Reform, Round Two” Ignores Inconvenient Facts About Round One (Off the Charts Blog, 3-21-12)

The myth of freedom in the land of the free (Aljazeera, 3-22-12)

Totalitarian Systems Always Begin by Rewriting the Law (Truthout, 3-26-12)

The Horrors of an Ayn Rand World: Why We Must Fight for America's Soul (AlterNet, 3-26-12)

America's economic crisis ignored on campaign trail (CNN, 3-27-12)

Maxwell's Hammer Redux: Syracuse University and the Effort to Break Down the Rule of Law (Truthout, 3-27-12)

Obama made the wrong World Bank call (Financial Times, 3-27-12)

Republicans are causing a moral crisis in America (Washington Post, 3-27-12)

Gov't Report: DC Nuke Blast Wouldn't Destroy City (ABC, 3-27-12)

How the New American Empire Really Works (Counter Punch, 3-24-12)

U.S. Outgunned in Hacker War (Wall Street Journal, 3-28-12)

Bobby Rush, Illinois Congressman, Thrown Off House Floor For Wearing Hoodie (Huffington Post, 3-28-12)

Mitt Romney Tells 'Humorous' Story About Father Closing A Michigan Factory (Huffington Post, 3-28-12)

The Truth About the US Postal Service (Common Dreams, 3-28-12)

General: U.S. may export terror war tactics to fight drug gangs (Raw Stroy, 3-30-12)

Big Government Seeks New Ways to Manage "Big Data" (Activist Post, 3-30-12)

February 2012 - Financial

CRFB's New Realistic Baseline (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 2-1-12)

Romney's plan would shred safety net for poor (CNN, 2-3-12)

The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class, and Why Mitt Romney Doesn't Know (Huffington Post,  2-6-12)

House Transportation Bill 'Technical Correction' Would Strip Workers Of Pay Protections (Huffington Post, 2-12-12)

Zakaria: Mitt, you need to worry about the very poor (CNN, 2-12-12)

Nothing is 'settled': Fighting fraud with a fraud (Aljazeera, 2-14-12)

Social Security Is Failing Even Faster Than We Thought (Daily Finance, 2-14-12)

Obama’s cut in Metro funds is ominous (Washington Post, 2-15-12)

Homeland Security headquarters move strained by budget request (Government Executive, 2-17-12)

Water Bills to Triple Due to Crumbling Infrastructure (It's Our Economy, 2-27-12)

Cold War is Long Over, Occupations Have Failed, No Significant Military Enemy to Justify $800 Billion War Budget (It's Our Economy, 2-29-12)

February 2012 - Environmental

Boehner’s last stand: House leader wants to kill transit funding (Grist, 2-2-12)

India and Pakistan at Odds Over Shrinking Indus River (National Geographic, 2-12-12)

Funding Shortage Threatens Germany's Energy Revolution (Spiegel Online, 2-13-12)

Joe Nocera Is Still Wrong and “Very Unfair” About the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. McKibben, Hansen and I Explain Why. (Think Progress, 2-13-12)

How to spur innovation? Tax carbon (Aljazeera, 2-17-12)

Humanity’s Growing Impact on the World’s Freshwater (National Geographic, 2-17-12)

Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate (Earth Policy Institute, 2-19-12)

Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems' (Global Develpment, 2-20-12)

'Perpetual Growth Myth' Leading World to Meltdown: Experts (Common Dreams, 2-20-12)

Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth (The Guardian, 2-20-12)

Bill Gates: We Need Genetically Modified Seeds (Common Dreams, 2-23-12)

Finally, a smoking gun connecting livestock antibiotics and superbugs 18 (Grist, 2-24-12)

10 reasons why Arctic drilling is a really stupid idea (Greenpeace, 2-24-12)

February 2012 - Health

War on birth control (Washington Post, 2-10-12)

Changing the Dialogue: C. Everett Koop, Public Health, and the AIDS Epidemic (The Revealer, 2-15-12)

Virginia’s Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination (Slate, 2-16-12)

5 sexual health services insurance will cover… for men (The Raw Story, 2-20-12)

Specter denies making deal with Santorum to support judges (The Raw Story, 2-23-12)

Texas taking health care away from 130,000 poor women to punish Planned Parenthood  (Daily Kos, 2-24-12)

Brownback: ‘Go work somewhere else’ if you want contraception (Raw Story, 2-27-12)

The Nightmare Scenario: Supreme Court Guts Public Healthcare and Guarantees the Private Insurance Monopoly (AlterNet, 3-29-12)

February 2012 - Religion

Bishops Reject White House’s New Plan on Contraception (New York Times, 2-11-12)

A Christian Conservative in Every Bedroom? Rick Santorum's Nightmare Vision for America (AlterNet, 2-14-12)

Franklin Graham Calls Obama's Religious Beliefs Into Question (Huffington Post, 2-21-12)

Franklin Graham Calls Obama's Religious Beliefs Into Question (Huffington Post, 2-21-12)

Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum (Truthout, 2-22-12)

CNN host to Franklin Graham: ‘You’re a Republican in preachers clothing’ (The Raw Story, 2-22-12)

February 2012 - Foreign

The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read (Rolling Stone, 2-10-12)

'Merkel Is Leading Europe in the Wrong Direction' (Spiegel Online, 2-13-12)

Pakistani truckers' perilous journey (Aljazeera, 2-15-12)

The callous cruelty of the EU is destroying Greece, a once-proud country (The Telegraph, 2-15-12)

How the NPD Targets the Mainstream (Spiegel, 2-17-12)

Uncle Sam, Global Gangster (Truthout, 2-19-12)

Strauss-Kahn held in French prostitution probe (Yahoo, 2-21-12)

Pro-Putin rally draws tens of thousands (Aljazeera, 2-23-12)

Koran Burning: Afghanistan Soldier Kills Two NATO Troops At Protest (Huffington Post, 2-23-12)

Fury over Japanese politician's Nanjing Massacre denial(CNN, 2-23-12)

In Kabul, Afghan police sympathize with protesters angry over Koran burning (Washington Post, 2-23-12)

Germany's lesson for U.S. -- keep faith with workers (CNN, 2-24-12)

Rewriting Russian History: Did Boris Yeltsin Steal the 1996 Presidential Election? (Time, 2-24-12)

Afghanistan NATO Staff Recalled Following Attack At Interior Ministry (Huffington Post, 2-25-12)

Senators Offer License To Strike Iran Nuclear Program (Huffington Post, 2-29-12)

Fantasy and reality in Afghanistan (Washington Post, 2-29-12)

March 2012 - History

Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler a fan of yoga (The Telegraph, 2-22-12)

February 2012 - Miscellaneous

Facebook’s new friend request: Political insiders (Washington Post, 2-2-12)

Government 'may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters', scientists fear (The Independent, 2-7-12)

Legalize prostitution (Los Angeles Times, 2-13-12)

700 Club personality accused of stealing husband’s porn (Raw Story, 2-14-12)

‘Losing’ the World: American Decline in Perspective, Part 1 (Truthdig, 2-15-12)

Santorum Funder Friess: ‘Gals’ Used To Put Aspirin Between Their Knees For Contraception (TPM, 2-16-12)

Surge in temp workers reflects fundamental change in American workplace (Washington Post, 2-17-12)

Paul Babeu, Immigration Hawk Sheriff, Outed by Alleged Mexican Gay Lover (The Daily Beast, 2-18-12)

Mitt Romney Wouldn't Know a Free Market If It Bit Him on the Ass (AlterNet, 2-18-12)

US Running on Myths, Lies, Deceptions and Distractions (Common Dreams, 2-20-12)

Sorry, America: Your wireless airwaves are full (CNN, 2-21-12)

Is the US the only country where more men are raped than women? (The Guardian, 2-21-12)

The Increase in Single Moms Is Actually a Good Thing (Jezebel, 2-22-12)

YouPorn: Up To 1 Million Adult Chat Users' Email Addresses And Passwords Exposed (Huffington Post, 2-22-12)

Rick Santorum winning more support from Republican women (Washington Post, 2-23-12)

Santorum’s lightning-fast flip-flop on birth control funding (Washington Post, 2-23-12)

Number of Children Living Amid Poverty Has Surged This Decade: Study (Common Dreams, 2-24-12)

Screwed Unemployed Workers and Rising Concentrated Poverty (Common Dreams, 2-24-12)

Upper class people more likely to cheat: study (Raw Story, 2-27-12)

One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers (Huffington Post, 2-28-12)

People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say (Yahoo, 2-28-12)

Olympia Snowe Opposes GOP’s Anti-Contraception Blunt Amendment (Think Progress, 2-29-12)

January 2012 - Financial

Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs (New York Times, 1-4-12)

34 Shocking Facts About U.S. Debt That Should Set America On Fire With Anger ((The Economic Collapse, 1-5-12)

Little Alarm Shown at Fed At Dawn of Housing Bust (Wall Street Journal (Wall Street Journal, 1-12-12)

West needs to go back to capitalist basics (Financial Times, 1-13-12)

Beware the ‘gush-up gospel’ behind India’s billionaires (Financial Times, 1-13-12)

Social Welfare State, American-Style, Means Relief For The Rich (Huffington Post, 1-13-12)

Obama Must Choose on Housing: Sweetheart Deal for the 1 Percent or Fairness for the 99 Percent? (Truthout, 1-22-12)

January 2012 - Environmental

This is What the U.S. Would Look Like Without Environmental Protections (TreeHugger, 1-4-12)

Rivers must flow: The case against big dams (Aljazeera, 1-10-12)

Solar lamps replace toxic kerosene in poorest countries (CNN, 1-11-12)

Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’ (Grist, 1-13-12)

The Alarming Outlook for Urban Water Scarcity (Climate Progress, 1-23-12)

Activists Crack China’s Wall of Denial About Air Pollution (New York Times, 1-27-12)

New Report by Agency Lowers Estimates of Natural Gas in U.S. (New York Times, 1-28-12)

January 2012 - Health

Doctors going broke (CNN, 1-6-12)

7 Reasons America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity (AlterNet, 1-6-12)

Totally drug-resistant TB at large in India (NewScientist, 1-12-12)

Prescription Drugs Now Kill More People than Illegal Drugs (Health Impact News, 1-16-12)

Government survey finds that 5 percent of Americans suffer from a ‘serious mental illness’ (Washington Post, 1-19-12)

Business As Usual at the FDA (Activist Post, 1-27-12)

January 2012 - Religion

For God So Loved the 1 Percent … (New York Times, 1-17-12)

January 2012 - Foreign

In Nigeria, Boko Haram Is Not the Problem (New York Times, 1-2-12)

Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood plans to put treaty with Israel to a referendum (Haaretz, 1-3-12)

Fury of Moscow over bid to call Estonian SS soldiers 'freedom fighters' (Daily Mail, 1-3-12)

Haiti: Seven Places Where Earthquake Money Did and Did Not Go (Truthout, 1-3-12)

Iraqi Torture Scandal Touches Highest Levels of NATO (Truthout, 1-5-12)

The Myth of Japan’s Failure (New York Times, 1-6-12)

Balochistan: Pakistan's other war (Aljazeera, 1-9-12)

Court refuses to give citizenship rights to Palestinians marrying Israelis to save country from 'national suicide' (Mail Online, 1-12-12)

Human rights equated with national suicide (Aljazeera, 1-12-12)

Israel upholds citizenship bar for Palestinian spouses (BBC, 1-12-12)

Israeli court ruling on citizenship 'racist' (Aljazeera, 1-12-12)

Cocaine: The New Front Lines (Wall Street Journal, 1-14-12)

U.S. losing high-tech manufacturing jobs to Asia (Washington Post, 1-17-12)

German Intelligence Watching Far-Left Politicians (Spiegel. 1-23-12)

January 2012 - Miscellaneous

The NDAA's historic assault on American liberty (The Guardian, 1-2-12)

Why I’m Suing Barack Obama (Truthdig, 1-16-12)

Study proves 95% of people really are sheeple (Natural News, 1-18-12)

Zakaria: Few new jobs in the "tradable sector" (CNN, 1-18-12)

The Entertainment Industry Always Tries To Suppress Innovation And Is Always Wrong (Addicting Info, 1-18-12)

Megaupload shutdown raises new Internet-sharing fears (Washington Post, 1-20-12)

The fading dream of higher education in the US (Aljazeera, 1-20-12)

The Corporate State Will Be Broken (Truthout, 1-23-12)

In the Age of Robotic Weapons (Counterpunch, 1-25-12)

The Economic Normalcy Bias (truthdig, 1-26-12)

Reproductive rights and the Republican primary (Aljazeera, 1-27-12)

Study: Class size doesn’t matter (Washington Post, 1-28-12)

Gingrich: No role model for students? (Washington Post, 1-28-12)

Torture, and impunity in US courts (Aljazeera, 1-30-12)

The American Economy is "Dead": The Illusion of Economic Recovery  (The Global Research, 1-31-12)