SIGNS OF THE TIMES
NEWS ABOUT OUR WORLD
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST 2013 JANUARY- JUNE
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PAST EDITIONS
2007-2008 2009:1-6 2009:
The Middle Class Faces Extinction - So Does the American Dream (Alternet, 6-3-13)
Bash: IRS Can't Find Its Receipts (Free Beacon, 6-4-13)
Rising Energy Prices Will Challenge Western Way of Life (The Guardian, 6-4-13)
The World Economy Is a Ticking Time Bomb (and The Fuse is Burning) (Common Dreams, 6-5-13)
The Collapse of the Hourly Wage (Counter Punch, 6-10-13)
Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Encouraged Foreclosures, Former Workers Allege (Business Insider, 6-14-13)
Debt-defaulting Detroit on Bankruptcy's Brink (Al Jazeera, 6-15-13)
Suddenly Retiree Nest Eggs Look More Fragile (New York Times, 6-15-13)
Rotting, Decaying and Bankrupt: If You Want to See the Future of America, Just Look at Detroit (The Economic Collapse, 6-16-13)
Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle Class in the World... We're Ranked 27th! (Alternet, 6-18-13)
RIP American Dream? Why It's So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today (The Atlantic, 6-18-13)
76% of Americans are Living Paycheck to Paycheck (CNN, 6-24-13)
On Minimum Wage, Mr. President, It's Your Sole Decision (Common Dreams, 6-27-13)
June - 2013 - Environmental
Energy Gains Burned By Burgeoning Population (Al Jazeera, 6-2-13)
Map: Another Major Tar Sands Pipeline Seeking U.S. Permit (InsideClimate News, 6-3-13)
Congress Hates Carbon Pricing. The Rest of the World Doesn't. (Washington Post, 6-4-13)
Methane Leaks Could Negate Climate Benefits of U.S. Natural Gas Boom (The Guardian, 6-4-13)
The 'Social Cost of Carbon' is Almost Double What the Government Previously Thought (Climate Progress, 6-5-13)
Jellyfish Cover Beach in Merseyside, England (Huffington Post, 6-9-13)
Pentagon Bracing for Public Dissent Over Climate and Energy Shocks (The Guardian, 6-14-13)
GOP Bill Would Cut Renewable Energy Spending in Half (The Hill, 6-17-13)
Citizens Climate Lobby Pushes for a Carbon Tax and Dividend (The Guardian, 6-17-13)
Lights Out: House Plan Would Protect Nation's Electricity From Solar Flare, Nuclear Bomb (Washington Examiner, 6-17-13)
Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year 2014 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill (US House of Representatives, 6-17-13)
Obama Climate Change Strategy Coming Within Weeks, Adviser Says (Huffington Post, 6-19-13)
Bees Dying By The Millions (The Post, 6-19-13)
Why NASA's Latest Photo of Alaska is Freaking People Out (SF Gate, 6-21-13)
During Record Drought, Frackers Outcompete Farmers for Water Supplies (EcoWatch, 6-21-13)
In Frac Sand Land, Residents Have Little Protection Against Silica Dust Exposure (Earth Works Action, 6-24-13)
Water Scarcity in Singapore Pushes 'Toilet to Tap' Concept (DW, 6-25-13)
Obama's Love Affair With Fracking (Counter Punch, 6-26-13)
The Vacant Climate Plan (Counter Punch, 6-26-13)
Obama's Climate Action Plan: The Devil is in the Follow-Through (Climate Science Watch, 6-26-13)
Scientists Warn: Largest Ocean 'Dead Zone' in History (Common Dreams, 6-27-13)
Quarrels Continue Over Repository for Nuclear Waste (New York Times, 6-28-13)
Humans: The Real Threat to Life on Earth (The Guardian, 6-30-13)
June - 2013 - Health
Michael Douglas' Throat Cancer Caused by Oral Sex Virus, Not Smoking or Drinking (Huffington Post, 6-2-13)
Can Oral Sex Cause Oral Cancer? (Slate, 6-3-13)
Yes, Oral Sex Can Lead to Cancer (CNN, 6-4-13)
Obamacare Leaves Millions Uninsured. Here's Who They Are. (Washington Post, 6-7-13)
Five Myths About Legalizing Marijuana (Washington Post, 6-7-13)
Is the Rise of Filthy Gonzo Porn Actually Dangerous, or Are People Overreacting? (Alternet, 6-7-13)
Top 10 Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now (Alternet, 6-10-13)
More GOP Idiocy: 'The Incidence of Rape Resulting in Pregnancy Are Very Low' (Alternet, 6-12-13)
June - 2013 - Religion
Christian TV 'Prophet': Native Americans Need to 'Repent for Their Ancestors' Animism' (Raw Story, 6-4-13)
When a Doctor Wields a Bible: The Alarming Rise of Catholic Hospitals (Alternet, 6-5-13)
How the Right Got From Christianity to Ayn Rand (Atlas Left, 6-9-13)
White Evangelicals the Most Patriotic, Poll Finds (USA Today, 6-28-13)
Franklin Graham: Supreme Court 'Rearranging God's Divine Order' (Right Wing Watch, 6-28-13)
20 Vile Quotes Against Women by Relkigious Leaders from St. Augustine to Pat Robertson (Alternet, 6-30-13)
June - 2013- Foreign
China's Economic Empire (New York Times, 6-1-13)
The Wonk With the Ear of Chinese President Xi Jinping (Wall Street Journal, 6-4-13)
Syria and the Sham of 'Humanitarian Intervention' (Common Dreams, 6-4-13)
Pakistan's PM Calls for End to Drone Strikes (Al Jazeera, 6-5-13)
Turkey's Resistance Image Forged as Pepper Spray Burns Woman in Red Dress (The Guardian, 6-5-13)
108,000 Private Contractors are in Afghanistan and We Have No Idea What They're Doing (Policy Mic, 6-5-13)
The Onslaught in Burma Continues (Counter Punch, 6-6-13)
What's Delaying the WHO Report on Iraqi Birth Defects? (Al Jazeera, 6-6-13)
Merkel, Other European Leaders Raise Concerns on U.S. Surveillance (Washington Post, 6-10-13)
In a Pure Coincidence, Gaddafi Impeded U.S. Oil Interests Before the War (Salon, 6-11-13)
US Bashing TV Station Gives Interview to Its Benefactor, Vladimir Putin (Christian Science Monitor, 6-12-13)
Ready for More Interventions in Africa? Obama Is (Common Dreams, 6-14-13)
Chemical Weapons Experts Still Skeptical About U.S. Claim That Syria Used Sarin (McClatchy, 6-14-13)
Police: Pakistan Miltants Target Woman on Bus, Go After Survivors at Hospital (CNN, 6-15-13)
Private Money Pours Into Syrian Conflict as Rich Donors Pick Sides (Washington Post, 6-15-13)
President of International War Crimes May Have Worked to Shield Israelis From Prosecution (CNI, 6-16-13)
Analyst Says China's Credit Bubble is Unlike Anything in Modern History (Business Insider, 6-16-13)
GCHQ Intercepted Foreign Politicians' Communications at G20 Summits (The Guardian, 6-16-13)
Bono Can't Help Africans By Stealing Their Voice (The Guardian, 6-17-13)
Election Anxiety: SPD is in Self-Destruct Mode (Spiegel, 6-18-13)
In Drills, U.S. and Jordan Prepare to Attack Syria (Anti War, 6-18-13)
Syria is Becoming Obama's Iraq (Common Dreams, 6-19-13)
In Syrian Chemical Weapons Claim, Criticism About Lack Of Transparency (Washington Post, 6-20-13)
Why China's Plans to be a Superpower Could Set It Up For Collapse (Alternet, 6-20-13)
For Yemenis, US Refusal to Release Gitmo Prisoners is a National Offense (Common Dreams, 6-20-13)
Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists (New York Times, 6-21-13)
Pepe Escobar: Why American Worries About "Containing China" are Premature (Naked Capitalism, 6-21-13)
Syria: 'I Saw Rebels Execute My Boy For No More Than a Joke' (The Telegraph, 6-21-13)
U.S. Spies on Chinese Mobile Phone Companies, Steals SMS Data: Edward Snowden (South China Morning Post, 6-23-13)
Inside Anglo: The Secret Recordings (Independent, 6-23-13)
Making Love a Crime: Criminalization of Same-Sex Conduct in Sub-Saharan Africa (Amnesty International, 6-24-13)
Indian Floods a Man-Made Disaster, Say Environmentalists (CNN, 6-25-13)
Why China Might Be a Better Superpower (Al Jazeera, 6-25-13)
Who is Lebanon's Ahmed al-Assir? (Al Jazeera, 6-26-13)
Forget Nato vs the Taliban. The Real Afghan Fight is India vs Pakistan (The Guardian, 6-26-13)
Syrians Behead Christians for Helping Military, as CIA Ships in Arms (Washington Times, 6-27-13)
Syrian Bishop and His Assistant Beheaded by Militants Logistically Protected by Israel and Armed by NATO/EU/USA Petromonarchies (Intifada, 6-27-13)
Chinese Defense Ministry Accuses U.S. of Hypocrisy on Spying (New York Times, 6-28-13)
Middle-Class Rage Sparks Protest Movements in Turkey, Brazil, Bulgaria and Beyond (Washington Post, 6-28-13)
Qatar's Love Affair with Syria (Asia Times, 6-28-13)
June - 2013 - Political
Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors are Doing (Fiscal Times, 6-3-13)
Unreleased: Probe Finds CIA Honcho Disclosed Top Secret Info to Hollywood (POGO, 6-3-13)
Barack Obama: The Ghost of Columbia University (The Blaze, 6-4-13)
Is The Lawlessness of Obama's Drone Policy Coming Home? (Common Dreams, 6-4-13)
President Obama Makes a National Security Personnel Announcement (YouTube, 6-5-13)
White House: Obama 'Welcomes' Surveillance Debate (Politico, 6-5-13)
White House Defends Phone-Record Tracking as 'Critical Tool' (The Wall Street Journal, 6-6-13)
Obama's Unparalleled Spy State (Alternet, 6-6-13)
Why Republicans Can Get Away With Ignoring Their Problems (National Journal, 6-6-13)
Peter DeFazio Petitions Obama to Fix the Post Office (Business Week, 6-7-13)
All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (The Atlantic, 6-7-13)
Senator John McCain Meets Leaders of Terror Brigade in Syria (Global Research, 6-9-13)
Liar-in Chief: An Integrity Analysis of Bush and Obama (Screeching Kettle, 6-9-13)
America's Most Anti-Democratic Institution: How the Imperial Presidency Threatens U.S. National Security (Alternet, 6-9-13)
Obama's Claim of 500,000 Manufacturing Jobs Month After Month (Washington Post, 6-10-13)
Confidence in Congress Falls to Lowest Mark For Any Institution Ever: Poll (Huffington Post, 6-14-13)
Zbigniew Brzezinski on Syria: U.S. is Engaging in 'Mass Propaganda' (YouTube, 6-14-13)
Obama's Decision to Arm Syrian Rebels Has Nothing to Do With Alleged Chemical Weapons Use (Huffington Post, 6-14-13)
From Hope to Fear: the Broken Promise of Barack Obama (Raw Story, 6-15-13)
Rick Scott Caves to Pressure From Mickey Mouse, Denies Floridians Paid Sick Days (Forward Progressives, 6-15-13)
List of Children Killed By U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan and Yemen (CAV News, 6-16-13)
Obama and His Allies Say the Gov't Doesn't Listen to Your Phone Calls - - But the FBI Begs to Differ (Alternet, 6-16-13)
Obama Rating Drops Sharply in CNN Poll (Wall Street Journal, 6-17-13)
A Corrupt System More Americans Need to be Talking About (Forward Progressives, 6-18-13)
How the U.S. Miltary Presence in Africa Could Spawn a New Era of Radical Terrorism (Alternet, 6-18-13)
Decline and Fall: How American Society Unravelled (The Guardian, 6-19-13)
Noam Chomsky: 'Obama is Running Biggest Terrorist Operation That Exists' (YouTube, 6-19-13)
5 Ways the U.S. Government Has Built 'An Architecture of Oppression' (Alternet, 6-19-13)
Drone 'Signature Strike' Witness Responds to Obama Speech: 'I Don't Trust a Single Word' (Huffington Post, 6-19-13)
Obama Destroyed and Called a War Criminal by Irish Parliament (YouTube, 6-21-13)
'Incompetent' and 'Liar' Among Most Frequently Used Words to Describe the President (Washington Post, 6-21-13)
The IRS's Best Friend in Congress (Wall Street Journal, 6-23-13)
Obama Backs First Strike Nuclear War as U.S. Policy (War is a Crime, 6-24-13)
Why Shouldn't David Gregory Be Charged With a Crime? (Salon, 6-24-13)
What the CBO Report Really Says About Immigration Reform (CNBC, 6-25-13)
Ignored by Allies, Obama Tumbles in Polls (Washington Examiner, 6-26-13)
World's Most Evil and Lawless Institution? The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (Alternet, 6-26-13)
What Obama Really Saw at the 'Door of No Return,' a Disputed Memorial to the Slave Trade (Washington Post, 6-28-13)
You Have to Wonder About a Guy Who Keeps Trying to Criminalize Oral Sex (Addicting Info, 6-28-13)
America's Dirty, Global War On Journalists (Alternet, 6-28-13)
The White House Threatens to End Aid if Palestine Joins the ICC (Counter Punch, 6-28-13)
June - 2013 - Whistle Blowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
Bradley Manning Was Our Voice When We Were Ordered to Stay Silent (Truth Out, 6-3-13)
The United States Should Be in the Dock, Not Bradley Manning (The Independent, 6-2-13)
NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Verizon Customers Daily (The Guardian, 6-5-13)
Daniel Ellsberg: ' I'm sure that Obama Would Have Sought a Life Sentence in My Case' (Washington Post, 6-5-13)
NSA Spying: Whistleblowers Claim Vindication on Surveillance State Warnings (Huffington Post, 6-6-13)
'Beyond Orwellian': Outrage Follows Revelations of Mass Domestic Spying Program (Common Dreams, 6-6-13)
U.S., British Intelligence Mining Data From Nine U.S. Internet Companies in Broad Secret Program (Washington Post, 6-6-13)
'No Such Agency' Spies on the Communications of the World (Washington Post, 6-6-13)
NSA Whistleblowers: "All U.S. Citizens" Targeted by Surveillance Program, Not Just Verizon Customers (Democracy Now, 6-6-13)
Cenk Uygur on NSA Scandal: 'Barack Obama is a Liar' (Alternet, 6-7-13)
The PRISM Spin War Has Begun (Foreign Policy, 6-7-13)
The Bill of Rights Exists: An Open Letter to Dianne Feinstein (Common Dreams, 6-7-13)
On Whistleblowers and Government Threats of Investigation (Common Dreams, 6-7-13)
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Petition Gains 65,000 Signatures (Huffington Post, 6-8-13)
Edward Snowden, NSA Files Source: 'If They Want to Get You, in Time They Will' (The Guardian, 6-8-13)
Edward Snowden: Saving Us From the United Stasi of America (The Guardian, 6-10-13)
This is, Hands Down, The Scariest Part of the NSA Revelations (Foreign Policy, 6-10-13)
Fox News Analyst: 'Bring Back the Death Penalty' for NSA Leaker (Raw Story, 6-10-13)
Daniel Ellsburg Calls Edward Snowden 'A Hero,' Says NSA Leak Was Most Important in American History (Huffington Post, 6-10-13)
The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning (Common Dreams, 6-10-13)
What Do They Know About You? An Interview With NSA Analyst William Binney (The Daily Caller, 6-10-13)
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Snowden is a Coward (Washington Post, 6-11-13)
FOX News Bill O'Reilly Calls for PRISM Shutdown (Washington Post, 6-11-13)
NSA Leaks: Obama Officials Caught Lying to Congress (The Liberty Crier, 6-11-13)
NSA Programs Likely to Continue Despite Revelations (Huffington Post, 6-11-13)
Bradley Manning vs. SEAL Team 6 (The Nation, 6-11-13)
Judge Napolitano: NSA Leaker Edward Snowden An American Hero (YouTube, 6-11-13)
Google, Asking Government For Permission to Disclose NSA Data, Isn't Done Defending Itself (Huffington Post, 6-11-13)
Put The NSA on Trial (Salon, 6-11-13)
Let The Smearing of Edward Snowden Begin (Foreign Policy, 6-11-13)
Germany Most-Spied-On EU Country by US - Leaked NSA Report (RT, 6-11-13)
Bradley Manning Testimony Centers on 'Terrible' Afghanistan Air Strike Video (Huffington Post, 6-11-13)
James Clapper's 'Least Untruthful' Statement to the Senate (Washington Post, 6-12-13)
Did We Forget What Led Us to the Patriot Act in the First Place? Bush's Incompetence Before 9/11 (Foward Progressive, 6-12-13)
The Director of National Intelligence Committed Perjury (FedUp USA, 6-12-13)
NSA Surveillance Played Little Role in Foiling Terror Plots, Experts Say (The Guardian, 6-12-13)
Liberty in Shambles (Anti War, 6-12-13)
Snowden Leak Highlights Few Whistleblower Protections for Intelligence Contract Employees (Truth Out, 6-13-13)
Dianne Feinstein: NSA Needs No Court to Query Database (Politico, 6-13-13)
Former NSA Whistleblower: Don't Go to the Cops (Truth Dig, 6-13-13)
Clarity From Edward Snowden and Murky Response from Progressive Leaders in Congress (Common Dreams, 6-13-13)
A Promise of Changes for Access to Secrets (New York Times, 6-14-13)
The NSA and Pentagon Dream of Total Information Awareness (Alternet, 6-14-13)
Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, Not Edward Snowden (Common Dreams, 6-14-13)
U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data With Thousands of Firms (Bloomberg, 6-14-13)
NSA Spying Flap Extends to Contents of U.S. Phone Calls (CNET, 6-15-13)
Fisa Court Oversight: A Look Inside A Secret amd Empty Process (The Guardian, 6-18-13)
Revealed: NSA Does Not Need that Warrant After All (Common Dreams, 6-20-13)
Spying By the Numbers: Hundreds of Thousands Subject to Government Surveillance and No Real Protection (Common Dreams, 6-20-13)
There's a New Facism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Shows Us What It Looks Like (Alternet, 6-21-13)
For Secretive Surveillance Court, Rare Scrutiny In Wake of NSA Leaks (Washington Post, 6-22-13)
'Snowden Exposes Criminals, Criminals Are Going For Him Now' (RT, 6-23-13)
David Gregory Whiffs on Greenwald Question (Washington Post, 6-23-13)
Seven Myths About Edward Snowden (The Nation, 6-24-13)
Nation's Focus Should Be On Broken Whistleblower System and Unchecked Growth of Our National Security State (POGO, 6-24-13)
Bombshell: Government's 'Insider Threat Program' Obligates Federal Workers to Spy on Their Colleagues (Alternet, 6-25-13)
The NSA Can't Tell the Difference Between an American and a Foreigner (Foreign Policy, 6-28-13)
The Criminal NSA (New York Times, 6-28-13)
Misinformation on Classified NSA Programs Includes Statements by Senior U.S. Officials (Washington Post, 6-30-13)
June - 2013 - Technology
How the Chinese Exploited the Shady Relationship Between US Spymasters and Google (Alternet, 6-5-13)
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo Make Similar PRISM Denials (Mashable, 6-6-13)
Fixing the Digital Economy (New York Times, 6-8-13)
How The NSA Could Get So Smart So Fast (Wall Street Journal, 6-12-13)
The Director of the NSA Wants The Internet Under His Control (Business Insider, 6-13-13)
The Secret War (Wired, 6-13-13)
Firefox Plug-in Warns Users of NSA Surveillance (RT, 6-14-13)
Phones Leave a Tell Tale Trail (Wall Street Journal, 6-15-13)
U.S. Surveillance Architecture Includes Collection of Revealing Internet, Phone Metadata (Washington Post, 6-15-13)
Has U.S. Started an Internet War? (CNN, 6-18-13)
A Battery Made of Wood? (UMD Right Now, 6-18-13)
IT Expert Constanze Kurz: Surveillance Programs 'Deeply Ominous' (DW, 6-24-13)
Could Glenn Greenwald Go to Jail? (Washington Post, 6-26-13)
June - 2013 - Education
The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts (Mother Jones, 6-5-13)
Why Student Loans are An Even Bigger Sham Than You Know (Alternet, 6-6-13)
How College Costs are Skyrocketing Out of Middle-Class America's Reach (Huffington Post, 6-14-13)
These Children Are Our Future (New York Times, 6-15-13)
How Online Education Can Create a 'Global Classroom' (CNN, 6-21-13)
June - 2013 - Miscellaneous
The 4 Plagues: Getting a Handle on the Coming Apocalypse (Alternet, 6-4-13)
E.W. Jackson, Virginia Lieutenant Governor Candidate, Says Yoga May Result in Satanic Possession (Huffington Post, 6-4-13)
Death By Zip Code (Counter Punch, 6-5-13)
What's Behind Michael Douglas' Cunnilingus Confession? (Alternet, 6-5-13)
A Revealing Map of the Countries that Are Most and Least Tolerant of Homosexuality (Washington Post, 6-5-13)
Why is Nancy Brinker Still CEO of the Susan G. Komen Foundation? (Washington Post, 6-6-13)
When Regulating the News Becomes Censorship (Al Jazeera, 6-7-13)
Alternate Unemployment Charts (Shadow Stats, 6-7-13)
The American Columnist Who Can't Live in America (CNN, 6-10-13)
Noam Chomsky: Are We on the Verge of Total Self Destruction? (Alternet, 6-4-13)
More White Americans Dying Than Being Born (Wall Street Journal, 6-13-13)
Five Myths About Privacy (Washington Post, 6-13-13)
Face It: Monogamy is Unnatural (CNN, 6-21-13)
Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death (Huffington Post, 6-22-13)
America Can Take a Breather. And It Should. (New York Times, 6-23-13)
Does It Take a Village? (Foreign Policy, 6-24-13)
Postcards from Hell (Foreign Policy, 6-24-13)
How Inbred Elites Are Tearing America Apart (Alternet, 6-26-13)
Mankind: Death By Corporation (Truth Out, 6-26-13)
Bono's Faith Offensive (Counter Punch, 6-26-13)
Foreclosure Settlement Checks Significantly Smaller Than Regulators Forecasted: Homeowners (Huffington Post, 5-1-13)
The Housing Market Recovery Is A Complete Hoax (Truthdig, 5-3-13)
The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion (Alternet, 5-3-13)
Harmful effects of US defense budget (China Daily, 5-4-13)
A Modest Proposal: Let's Outsource The Entire U.S. Defense Base To China! (Forbes, 5-5-13)
U.S. Stock Ownership Stays at Record Low (Its Our Economy, 5-8-13)
Abandonment of Poor: Much Worse Than You Thought (Remapping Debate, 5-8-13)
How $57 Million Holocaust Fraud Unfolded at Claims Conference (Jewish Daily Forward, 5-9-13)
11 European Countries Sign Robin Hood Tax (PHOTO) (Huffington Post, 5-10-13)
Too-Big-To-Fail Banks Have Raked In $102 Billion In Subsidies Since 2009: Report (Huffington Post, 5-10-13)
The Vicious New Bank Shakedown That Could Seriously Ruin Your Life (Alternet, 5-12-13)
James Bovard: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting (Wall Street Journal, 5-14-13)
World's Richest 8 Percent Earn Half of All Planetary Income (Alternet, 5-28-13)
Nearly 40 Percent of Mothers are Now the Breadwinners, Report Says (Washington Post, 5-29-13)
Americans Have Rebuilt Less Than Half of Wealth Lost to the Recession, Study Says (Washington Post, 5-30-13)
The Astonishing Collapse of Black and Latino Household Wealth (Alternet, 5-31-13)
May - 2013 - Environmental
Faster Drilling, Diminishing Returns In Shale Plays Nationwide? (Think Progress, 5-1-13)
Report: Toxic Chemicals Found in Thousands of Children's Products (Common Dreams, 5-1-13)
Facebook Bans Ad Criticizing Mark Zuckerberg's Pro-Keystone XL Stance (Ecowatch, 5-1-13)
Watch 62 Years of Global Warming in 13 Seconds (Climate Central, 5-2-13)
Spread of Hydrofracking Could Strain Water Resources in West, Study Finds (New York Times, 5-2-13)
Tribes vow to fight-to-the-death to save Amazon rainforest (NBC News, 5-3-13)
Lost in the Geometry of California's Farms (New York Times, 5-4-13)
Their Friends Turned Into Foes, Mozambique Rhinos Are No More (Take Part, 5-4-13)
Ocean Acidification Threatens Arctic Ecosystem, Study Shows (Huffington Post, 5-6-13)
Global Expansion of Tar Sands and Oil Shale (Tarsands World, 5-7-13)
Carbon-dioxide levels are at their highest point in at least 800,000 years (Washington Post, 5-8-13)
Radioactive fracking debris triggers worries at dump sites (Trib Live, 5-11-13)
Insanity: US Approves Bee Death Pesticide as EU Bans It (Natural Society, 5-12-13)
Four Examples From the Last Week Prove Obama is Full of Hot Air On Climate Protection (Alternet, 5-17-13)
Pesticides Make a Comeback (The Wall Street Journal, 5-21-13)
Frog, Toad and Salamander Populations Plummeting, US Survey Finds (Washington Post, 5-22-13)
Europe's Green Fuel Search Turns to America's Forests (The Wall Street Journal, 5-27-13)
U.S. Groundwater Consumption Accelerating (Alternet, 5-27-13)
May - 2013 - Health
The Next Pandemic: Not if, but When (New York Times, 5-9-13)
CDC Says 20 Percent of U.S. Children Have Mental Health Disorders (Washington Post, 5-19-13)
Deadly 'Superbug' MRSA Found at US Water Treatment Plants (CS Globe, 5-22-13)
Diet Soda as Bad as Meth or Crack Cocaine for Your Teeth: Study (Daily News, 5-25-13)
May - 2013 - Religion
Church statistics show continued decline, call into question establishment (Humanism, 5-7-13)
My Big Virginity Mistake (Alternet, 5-7-13)
The Crushing of Middle Eastern Christianity (The National Interest, 5-10-13)
Why Do Christian Megapastors Keep Getting Caught in Sordid Sex Scandals? (Alternet, 5-14-13)
10 Ridiculous Christian Right Prophesies (Alternet, 5-15-13)
May - 2013- Foreign
Bolivian President Evo Morales orders expulsion of USAID (CNN, 5-1-13)
China's version of Google marks Worker's Day by banning discussion on Marx, labor,strikes (Washington Post, 5-1-13)
Japan's Nuclear Plan Unsettles U.S. (Wall Street Journal, 5-1-13)
From Playboy to Radical: Imran Khan Takes on Pakistan's Old Guard (Spiegel Online, 5-2-13)
Brzezinski Joins Lugar Warning Against U.S. Role in Syria (Bloomberg, 5-4-13)
Bangladeshi capital wears an eerie calm a day after Islamists battle police (CNN, 5-6-13)
Iraq, Syria and the death of the modern Middle East (Aljazeera, 5-7-13)
The UN and 250,000 Dead Somalis (Counter Punch, 5-7-13)
Minister No - By Susan B. Glasser (Foreign Policy, 5-8-13)
Libyan defence chief reverses move to quit, gunmen press siege (Yahoo News, 5-8-13)
Zambian men arrested over alleged homosexual acts (CNN, 5-9-13)
Pakistan High Court Declares US Drone Strikes as Illegal (Information Clearing House, 5-10-13)
US Prepares For War With Syria as pro-US Opposition Loses Ground (Information Clearing House, 5-10-13)
Consequences of western intransigence in nuclear diplomacy with Iran (Aljazeera, 5-10-13)
America is Losing Its Covert Syria War: US Sponsored Al Nusra Rebels Defeated by Syrian Armed Forces (Global Research, 5-12-13)
Is This the Most Disgusting Atrocity Filmed in the Syrian Civil War? (Foreign Policy, 5-13-13)
Keep On Truckin' (Foreign Policy, 5-13-13)
Consolidated National Assembly Results (Dawn, 5-13-13)
The Last of the Semites (Al Jazeera, 5-14-13)
Iraq: War's Legacy of Cancer (Al Jazeera, 5-15-13)
Iraq Then, Syria Now? (FAIR, 5-15-13)
Cable News Hates the Turkish Prime Minister (Huffington Post, 5-16-13)
'US Opens Pandora's Box in Iraq, Regional Sectarian Violence Almost Impossible to Stop Now' (RT, 5-22-13)
Was the London Killing of a Britsh Soldier 'Terrorism'? (The Guardian, 5-23-13)
Filthy India (Photos) (Memolition, 5-23-13)
Indonesia is Seeing a New Corporate Colonialism (The Guardian, 5-25-13)
'The Enemy is Everywhere': Former MI5 Head Calls for People to Spy on Their Neighbors Following Murder of Soldier Lee Rigby (The Daily Mail, 5-27-13)
Israeli Defense Chief Indicates if Russia Ships Advance Missiles to Syria, They Could Be Hit (Washington Post, 5-28-13)
As Syrian Islamists Gain, It's Rebel Against Rebel (The Wall Street Journal, 5-29-13)
German Official Warns of Immediate 'Revolution' if EU Adopts US Model (Common Dreams, 5-29-13)
Pakistan's Taliban Rejects Peace Talks, Citing No. 2 Leader's Death in U.S. Drone Strike (Washington Post, 5-30-13)
High Turnover Rate Hobbles Afghan Army (Al Jazeera, 5-31-13)
Myths, Falsehoods and Misinterpretations About Iran (Open Democracy, 5-31-13)
A Shameful Neglect (Foreign Policy, 5-31-13)
May - 2013 - Political
Barney Frank Talks Common Sense (The Nation, 5-1-13)
Jon Stewart On Syria's 'Red Line': Republicans Think 'Freedom Magic' Will Win War (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 5-1-13)
How Did These Five Lobbyists Become Congressional Staffers? (The Nation, 5-6-13)
Benghazi Whistleblower: I was demoted after questioning Susan Rice's talking points (The Blaze, 5-8-13)
Obama in Plunderland: Down the Corporate Rabbit Hole (Common Dreams, 5-9-13)
Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report Personal Health ID Info to IRS (Americans For Tax Reform, 5-10-13)
Stephanie Cutter, Former Obama Adviser, To Help Bank Of America Elude Regulation (Huffington Post, 5-10-13)
6 Reasons Why Obama's Popularity is Likely to Plummet (Alternet, 5-10-13)
NSA Whistleblower: Justice Department Covers Up Crimes of Obama, Bush Administrations (The Dissenter, 5-12-13)
New Government Report Undercuts Obama Anti-Gun Agenda (Ammo Land, 5-13-13)
U.S. Taxpayers Footing Bill That Promotes Monsanto Abroad: Report (Huffington Post, 5-14-13)
John Glaser: 3 Glaring Hypocrisies in Obama's Iran Policy (Huffington Post, 5-16-13)
Is Obama the New Nixon? (Common Dreams, 5-16-13)
5 Worst Obama Assaults on Civil Liberties Besides the AP Scandal (Alternet, 5-16-13)
Jeremy Scahill and Noam Chomsky: The Truth About America's Secret, Dirty Wars (Alternet, 5-16-13)
IRS Official In Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office (ABC News, 5-16-13)
Astoundingly Disturbing: Obama Administration Claims Power to Wage Endless War Across Globe (Democracy Now, 5-17-13)
Washington Gets Explicit: Its 'War on Terror' is Permanent (Guardian, 5-17-13)
The Biggest Obama Scandals are Proven and Ignored (The Atlantic, 5-17-13)
Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees '10 to 20' More Years of War Against Al Qaida (Wired, 5-17-13)
Obama's Arctic Strategy Sets Off a Climate Time Bomb (Common Dreams, 5-18-13)
A Bushel of Pinocchios for IRS's Lois Lerner (Washington Post, 5-20-13)
Enabling Greed Makes U.S. Sick (Moyers and Company, 5-20-13)
Obama Administration Mistakes Journalism for Espionage (Washington Post, 5-20-13)
Are You a Liberal Imperialist? (Foreign Policy, 5-20-13)
An Increasingly Unchecked Surveillance State (Al Jazeera, 5-20-13)
Obama DOJ Formally Accuses Jornalist in Leak Case of Committing Crimes (The Guardian, 5-20-13)
Obama Administration's Media Surveillance Unleashes Wave of Condemnation (Huffington Post, 5-22-13)
'Worse Than Nixon': Outrage Grows Over Obama Assault on Press (Common Dreams, 5-22-13)
Leonard Downie: Obama's War on Leaks Undermines Investigative Journalism (Washington Post, 5-23-13)
'Obama Must be Taken Before ICC For The War on Terror' Chomsky to RT (RT, 5-23-13)
Obama Fact Sheet (St. Pete for Peace)
Silencing the Whistle-Blowers (The New York Times, 5-27-13)
Lobbying for the Greater Good (New York Times, 5-29-13)
Drone On (Slate, 5-30-13)
The Drone War is Far From Over (New York Times, 5-30-13)
Obama's Imperialism and This "Fire-Free Zone" Called Earth (Common Dreams, 5-30-13)
Perpetual War - and Obama's Perpetual Con Game (Common Dreams, 5-30-13)
American Drone War: Murder and Democracy (Common Dreams, 5-30-13)
President Obama Uses a Sledgehammer Against Dissent (Common Dreams, 5-31-13)
May - 2013 - Technology
Defense Distributed to Release 3D Printable Gun Blueprints (PCMag, 5-3-13)
This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos) (Forbes, 5-3-13)
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? (Guardian, 5-4-13)
Online masses flock to re:publica 13 conference (DW, 5-5-13)
Liberator - Dawn of the Wiki Weapons (YouTube, 5-5-13)
The First 3D-Printed Gun Has Been Fired (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 5-6-13)
Google Aims To Patent Policy Violation Checker, Potentially Revolutionizing Email Snooping (Huffington Post, 5-6-13)
U.S. Weighs Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws (New York Times, 5-7-13)
Patent Filing Claims Solar Energy Breakthrough (Common Dreams, 5-8-13)
The US government might be the biggest hacker in the world (RT, 5-10-13)
Obama Wants to Wiretap Your Facebook Feed (Policy Mic, 5-17-13)
Google to Fund, Develop Wireless Networks in Emerging Markets (The Wall Street Journal, 5-24-13)
Move Over, God, the Biotech Companies Are Here (Common Dreams, 5-29-13)
May - 2013 - Education
The High School Science Experiment That Ended In Handcuffs (ACLU, 5-7-13)
29 Shocking Facts That Prove That College Education In America Is A Giant Money Making Scam (Blacklisted News, 5-7-13)
U-Va. MOOC Finds High Attrition, High Satisfaction (Washington Post, 5-13-13)
Court Opens Window of Hope for Student Debtors (CBS, 5-27-13)
May - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Jean Ziegler: 'Famine is murder (DW, 5-1-13)
Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary (TPM, 5-1-13)
Kid Who Rapped About "Marathon Bombing" Now Faces Terrorism Charges (Gawker, 5-2-13)
Chomsky: The Boston Bombings Gave Americans a Taste of the Terrorism the U.S. Inflicts Abroad Every Day (Alternet, 5-2-13)
The US and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On (Common Dreams, 5-3-13)
The Death of Truth (Truth Dig, 5-5-13)
Air Force Officer In Charge Of Sexual Assault Prevention Arrested For Sexual Assault (Think Progress, 5-6-13)
The Death-Positive Movement (Pacific Standard, 5-16-13)
America: Where the Poor Don't Get Holidays Off (The Atlantic, 5-24-13)
Is Success Killing the Porn Industry? (Alternet, 5-27-13)
Judge: FBI Doesn't Need a Warrant to Access Google Customer Data (The Atlantic Wire, 5-31-13)
The battle over the 2014 budget (The Washington Post, 4-1-13)
Total Debt in Selected Countries Around the World (Global Finance, 4-1-13)
Reducing unemployment: Lessons from Germany (Aljazeera, 4-1-13)
The Economy is "Recovering" By Creating More Low-Wage Jobs... Increasingly Filled By Graduates (Alternet, 4-1-13)
Why Was Paul Krugman So Wrong? (The Nation, 4-1-13)
International Monetary Fund: US Is #1 Fossil Fuel Subsidizer (Clean Technica, 4-2-13)
U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1979 (Huffington Post, 4-6-13)
Truthdigger of the Week: David Stockman (Truthdig, 4-6-13)
Many in U.S. Illegally Overstayed Their Visas (The Wall Street Journal, 4-7-13)
Workers Stuck in Disability Stunt Economic Recovery (The Wall Street Journal, 4-7-13)
The Wall Street Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Your Bank Account (Alternet, 4-9-13)
Andy Kessler: The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy (The Wall Street Journal, 4-9-13)
Scant Relief in Foreclosure Payouts (The Wall Street Journal, 4-9-13)
Harvard Economist: 'The Crisis Isn't Over in the US or Europe' (Spiegel Online, 4-10-13)
Deficit Reduction, Minus the Reduction (New York Times, 4-11-13)
How Uncle Sam made $100 billion on student debt (MSN Money, 4-11-13)
Banking Committee Hearing - Illegal Foreclosures (YouTube, 4-11-13)
Is Raising the Federal Gasoline Tax the Best Way to Pay for Highways? (The Wall Street Journal, 4-12-13)
Unmarried Women Are Desperately Struggling in Our Failed Economy (Alternet, 4-17-13)
Austerity, Deregulation and the Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (The Nation, 4-18-13)
Wall St. Redux: Arcane Names Hiding Big Risk (New York Times, 4-18-13)
Cutting the Budget, Bleeding Us Dry (Common Dreams, 4-18-13)
Why Not a New Deal Financed by Workers? (Truth-Out, 4-19-13)
How to Put America Back Together Again (New York Times, 4-20-13)
Those who need housing in Fairfax face tough times because of sequester (Washington Post, 4-21-13)
S&P Has Unusual Defense (The Wall Street Journal, 4-22-13)
Standard & Poor's Admits Its Claims Of Objectivity, Integrity Are Mere 'Puffery' (Huffington Post, 4-23-13)
Americans Suffer While Finance Tax Waits for CongressAttention (Truthdig, 4-24-13)
Helping whom, exactly? (Economist, 4-24-13)
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever (Rolling Stone, 4-25-13)
What Apple Can Learn From Warren Buffett (Bloomberg, 4-25-13)
Markets Insight: US mortgage market depends on state support (Financial Times, 4-26-13)
While Wronged Homeowners Got $300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got $2 Billion (Rolling Stone, 4-26-13)
Middle-class Americans still aren't being helped by Washington (Washington Post, 4-27-13)
April - 2013 - Environmental
America Gets a D+ in Energy Infrastructure (Green Tech Media, 4-1-13)
Top 5 Things You Should Know About Transporting Oil Sands Crude (Oil Sand Fact Check, 4-1-13)
The Downside of Expecting America's Agriculture System to Feed the World (Alternet, 4-1-13)
All but 23 of 10,000 bats in Durham bat mine have died (Phillyburbs, 4-1-13)
A $10 Billion Taxpayer Subsidy for LNG, Fracking (The Canadian, 4-2-13)
The limits of renewable energy (Washington Post, 4-4-13)
Blocked Migration: Fish Ladders (Environment 360, 4-4-13)
Three years after BP oil spill, USF research finds massive die-off (Tampa Bay, 4-4-13)
Sharp bee decline 'linked to pesticides' (Aljazeera, 4-6-13)
Wood: The fuel of the future (The Economist, 4-6-13)
Pictured: Pregnant orangutan clinging to the last remaining forest tree after bulldozers clear jungle to make way for oil plantation (Daily Mail, 4-7-13)
What America Will Look Like Under 25 Feet Of Seawater (Business Insider, 4-8-13)
Is Humanity Pushing Earth Past a Tipping Point? (Wired, 4-8-13)
The Worst Wildlife Disease Outbreak Ever in North America Just Got Way Worse (Mother Jones, 4-9-13)
Pesticide blamed for declining bee population (CBS News, 4-9-13)
White House Looks To Trim EPA's Budget In FY2014 Request (GHGNews, 4-10-13)
Obama Budget Reduces Spending for Environmental Protection Agency (Fox Business, 4-10-13)
Pesticides & pollinator decline (PAN North America, 4-10-13)
Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities (Grist, 4-10-13)
Great Lakes Garbage Patch Presents Major Threat To Region's Marine Life, Scientists Say (Huffington Post, 4-10-13)
Climate Change Keeps Expanding Canada's Unprecedented Epidemic Of Forest-Destroying Beetles (Climate Progress, 4-11-13)
Record-breaking Portugal generates 70 per cent of power from renewables (Business Green, 4-11-13)
Feds Will Take Their Sweet Time Evaluating Pesticide Linked to Bee Deaths (Mother Jones, 4-12-13)
Let's stop hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption (Guardian, 4-12-13)
Think Those Chemicals Have Been Tested? (New York Times, 4-13-13)
Ninety-eight percent of cave-hibernating bats have died in Pennsylvania, say biologists (Natural News, 4-15-13)
Are Biofuels Really a Boondoggle? The Perils and Promise of Turning Plants into Gasoline (Alternet, 4-15-13)
Will Global Coal Boom Go Bust (Environment360, 4-15-13)
Krill Fisheries, the Next Collapse? (Sea Shepherd, 4-16-13)
Environmental Cost of Business Estimated at $4.7T Annually (Bloomberg, 4-17-13)
Failed Emissions Trading Reform: 'The End of a European Climate Policy' (Spiegel Online, 4-17-13)
None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use (Grist, 4-17-13)
IEA Clean Energy Report Says Progress May Be Too Slow To Limit Climate Change (Huffington Post, 4-17-13)
None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use (Grist, 4-17-13)
Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis report (Guardian, 4-18-13)
Scientist to Moyers: It's time to beat the Save the Worlddrums (Raw Story, 4-19-13)
A Brief History of Our Deadly Addiction to Nitrogen Fertilizer (Mother Jones, 4-19-13)
Resource Shock: How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion (Alternet, 4-21-13)
Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring John Muir Day (Office of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr, 4-21-13)
Tackling "Monoculture of the Mind" (Common Dreams, 4-24-13)
EPA: We Should Probably Get Rid of That 2.6 Billion Pounds of Toxic Waste in Our Drinking Water (Take Part, 4-24-13)
OFA On Climate Change: Obama-Allied Group Enters The Climate Wars (Huffington Post, 4-25-13)
Corexit, Oil Dispersant Used By BP, Is Destroying Gulf Marine Life, Scientists Say (Huffington Post, 4-25-13)
CO2 level nears 400ppm climate milestone (Responding to Climate Change, 4-26-13)
You Are a Guinea Pig (Huffington Post, 4-28-13)
You Are a Guinea Pig: What Happens to Your Body As It's Bombarded by Toxic Chemicals in Your Home (Alternet, 4-28-13)
Majority of EU countries support partial ban of bee-killing pesticides (Green Peace, 4-29-13)
Bees in Decline (Greenpeace, 4-29-13)
Facebook Rejects Ad Highlighting Zuckerberg Group's Support For Keystone XL (Think Progress, 4-30-13)
Climate Change Is An Existential Threat To Humanity, Just Don't Mention Protecting The Environment (Think Progress, 4-30-13)
April - 2013 - Health
Health Law Provision for Small Business Is Delayed (New York Times, 4-1-13)
Lack of Paid Sick Leave Is Unhealthy for America (Common Dreams, 4-2-13)
Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester. (Washington Post, 4-3-13)
Medicare For All Gets An Unexpected Boost (The Big Slice, 4-6-13)
Study spells out fatal danger of coal pollution (DW, 4-8-13)
Some Small Businesses Opt for the Health-Care Penalty (The Wall Street Journal, 4-8-13)
Breeding mental illness in the US (Aljazeera, 4-10-13)
The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies (Businessweek, 4-10-13)
Many factors can turn a house into an unhealthy place to live (The Washington Post, 4-11-13)
U.S. Ranks at the Bottom of Child Well-Being (Alternet, 4-12-13)
Obama Budget Medicare Hike Could Hit Some In Middle Class (Huffington Post, 4-13-13)
Lies of ObamaCare (New York Post, 4-13-13)
San Diego County considers forcing residents to take psychiatric medication under Laura's Law (Natural News, 4-13-13)
Hospitals serving the uninsured face challenge under Obamacare (Washington Post, 4-16-13)
Rove: Steaming Toward the ObamaCare 'Train Wreck' (The Wall Street Journal, 4-17-13)
Doctors Are Third Leading Cause of Death (Health-Care-Reform, 4-18-13)
Steaming Toward the ObamaCare 'Train Wreck' (Karl Rove, 4-18-13)
30 Is The New 45. Today's Adults Getting Diseases 15 Years Faster Than Their Grandparents (Truth Theory, 4-19-13)
ObamaCare's pre-existing problems need a pragmatic fix (The Hill, 4-23-13)
At chicken plants, chemicals blamed for health ailments are poised to proliferate (Washington Post, 4-25-13)
Health Chaos Ahead (New York Times, 4-25-13)
A New Life For A Deadly Disease (The New Yorker, 4-25-13)
Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock (The Wall Street Journal, 4-29-13)
84 Million US Adults Lack Adequate Health Care Coverage (World Socialist Website, 4-29-13)
April - 2013 - Religion
10 Craziest Things Pat Robertson Has Said (Alternet, 4-4-13)
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans Would Make Christianity Official Religion of US (Newsmax, 4-6-13)
Bill Donohue speaks: Marriage is 'not about love' (Daily Kos, 4-18-13)
Top Ten Ways Islamic Law Forbids Terrorism (Alternet, 4-19-13)
Saudi Arabia to Keep Ban on Churches (Antiwar, 4-24-13)
Mother Theresa's Masochism: Does Religion Demand Suffering to Keep People Passive? (Alternet, 4-28-13)
April - 2013 - Foreign
Survey: Young Pakistanis harbor doubts about future, democracy (LA Times, 4-3-13)
Pakistani Candidates Face Religious Vetting (The Wall Street Journal, 4-4-13)
11 Afghan Children Among Dead in Latest US/NATO Bombing (Common Dreams, 4-7-13)
Bangladesh protesters demand blasphemy law (Aljazeera, 4-7-13)
Syria: German Journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter at Russia Today (Syria News, 4-8-13)
How the West Fueled the Ever-Growing Carnage in Syria (Alternet, 4-9-13)
Syria Behind The Lines (PBS Frontline, 4-9-13)
Europe's Poorest? Look North (The Wall Street Journal, 4-10-13)
Iraqi Birth Defects Worse Than Hiroshima (CAV News, 4-10-13)
Leaked report: Nearly half of US drone strikes in Pakistan not against al-Qaeda (RT, 4-11-13)
In Palestine, 'death' by a thousand micro jobs (Aljazeera, 4-11-13)
Waziristan: 'The most dangerous place in the world' (Aljazeera, 4-12-13)
BBC in hot seat as anti-Thatcher song climbs chart (Social Reader, 4-12-13)
North Korean EMP Attack Unstoppable (WND, 4-14-13)
A Better Approach Towards North Korea (Huffington Post, 4-15-13)
Production of Opium by Afghans Is Up Again (The New York Times, 4-15-13)
We Are All Osama: Jabhat al-Nusra Celebrations for the Establishment of Islamic State in Syria (YouTube, 4-15-13)
Pakistan's unending battle over Balochistan (Aljazeera, 4-16-13)
Can Europe get its high-speed rail network together? (CNN, 4-17-13)
Madonna and Africa's 'celebrity saviors' (CNN, 4-17-13)
Is China Changing Its Position on Nuclear Weapons? (New York Times, 4-18-13)
'Like 1930s Germany': Greek Far Right Gains Ground (Spiegel Online, 4-18-13)
Syrian Rebels To Receive $123 Million More In Aid From United States (Huffington Post, 4-20-13)
Strike capability just got real (Times of Israel, 4-20-13)
Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa by Maximilian Forte (Cease Fire Magazine, 4-22-13)
Report documents 'Rohingya persecution' (Aljazeera, 4-23-13)
When Food Isn't the Answer to Hunger (Opinionator, 4-24-13)
TED talks embraced as a learning platform in China (Aljazeera, 4-24-13)
A Bet on Peace for War-Torn Somalia (The Wall Street Journal, 4-26-13)
Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy (New York Times, 4-27-13)
The Nuclear New-Boy we Should be Watching is India (Common Dreams, 4-27-13)
Radioactive Water Imperils Fukushima Plant (New York Times, 4-29-13)
Bangalore's reality lags behind image (Washington Post, 4-29-13)
SYRIA: NATO's Next “Humanitarian War? (Global Research, 4-30-13)
The Big One? (Foreign Policy, 4-30-13)
April - 2013 - Political
"A Symptom of Unfortunate Tendencies": Iraq and the Failure of the Liberal Elite (Truth-Out, 4-1-13)
Obama's continued use of the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack background checks (Washington Post, 4-2-13)
Symbols of Bush-era Lawlessness Flourish Under Obama (Rolling Stone, 4-2-13)
Survey Finds Most Republicans Seek Action on Climate Change (New York Times, 4-3-13)
Majority Now Supports Legalizing Marijuana (Pew Research, 4-4-13)
"Liberals": Partisan or Principled? (Truth-Out, 4-4-13)
7 Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare (Alternet, 4-7-13)
Obama Wants to Be the President Who Rolled Back the New Deal (Alternet, 4-7-13)
The Hijacking of Human Rights (Truth Dig: Chris Hedges, 4-7-13)
Double trouble: In US both political parties are failing - and in denial (Aljazeera, 4-9-13)
Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administration Lied About Who Drones Kill (Alternet, 4-10-13)
The shocking events that everyone saw coming (except Obama) (Daily KOS, 4-10-13)
Three key lessons from the Obama administration's drone lies (Guardian, 4-11-13)
Ann Coulter Calls for Murder of Sen. John McCain's Daughter (Daily KOS, 4-11-13)
10 Facts Obama Doesn't Want You to Know About His Social Security Slashing Budget Plan (Alternet, 4-11-13)
Social Conservatives To GOP: Maintain Anti-Gay Marriage Stance Or We'll Abandon Republican Party (Huffington Post, 4-11-13)
Rights Groups, in Letter to Obama, Question Legality and Secrecy of Drone Killings (New York Times, 4-12-13)
Survey Finds Broad Resistance to Gun Laws Among Cops (The Wall Street Journal, 4-12-13)
Has Obama Already Given Up On Climate Change? (Think Progress, 4-13-13)
Obama's Chained-CPI Social Security Cut is Smart Politics... For the GOP (Common Dreams, 4-14-13)
House bill would fire tax-delinquent federal workers (Washington Post, 4-15-13)
Congress Refuses to Allow USPS to Fix Its Budget Woes (The Nation, 4-15-13)
False hope and folly in gun-control bill (Washington Post, 4-16-13)
Nonpartisan review concludes Bush knowingly ordered torture (The Raw Story, 4-16-13)
New Report Documents US War Crimes Over 3 Administrations (World Socialist Web Site, 4-17-13)
New Torture Report Blames Obama and the Media for Not Confronting the Truth (Huffington Post, 4-17-13)
Amina Ismail To Jay Carney: Are U.S. Bombings That Kill Afghan Civilians 'A Form Of Terrorism'? (Huffington Post, 4-18-13)
US Torture 'Indisputable', CNN's Humiliation, and Iran Sanctions (Guardian, 4-18-13)
Concealed Carry Bill Garners More Votes Than Background Checks (The New York Times, 4-18-13)
Senator Lindsey Graham Says Suspend the Constitution For Boston Marathon Suspect And Designate Him An Enemy Combatant (Forbes, 4-19-13)
Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weapons plan emerges (Raw Story, 4-21-13)
No Bully In The Pulpit: After Gun Control Failure, Maureen Dowd Says Obama Still Has Not Learned How To Govern (Climate Progress, 4-22-13)
Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption (Politico, 4-24-13)
Obama administration bypasses CISPA by secretly allowing Internet surveillance (RT, 4-24-13)
Mark Zuckerberg's New Political Group Spending Big On Ads Supporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling (Think Progress, 4-26-13)
Noam Chomsky: Obama's Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination (Alternet, 4-26-13)
Slideshow: Six Whistleblowers Charged Under the Espionage Act (Moyers and Company, 4-26-13)
Still the guy who taught America to torture (Economist, 4-26-13)
The Top 10 Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama -- None of Them Are Good (Alternet, 4-30-13)
Examiner Editorial: President Obama's second term shaping up as a train wreck (Washington Examiner, 4-30-13)
April - 2013 - Technology
Biometric ID Cards Coming Your Way (Maybe) (Front Porch Republic, 4-1-13)
How Digital Technology Has Helped Unleash a Devastating New Era of Propaganda (Alternet, 4-2-13)
Another Legal Victory for YouTube: When Will Viacom Wise Up and Walk Away? (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 4-18-13)
The Dark Side of the Digital Revolution (The Wall Street Journal, 4-19-13)
Study: There may not be a shortage of American STEM graduates after all (Washington Post, 4-24-13)
Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont (The Wall Street Journal, 4-26-13)
April - 2013 - Education
Colleges Struggling to Stay Afloat (New York Times, 4-12-13)
Academia's Indentured Servants (Alternet, 4-12-13)
IMF Sees Risk in U.S. Pension-Fund Strategies (The Wall Street Journal, 4-17-13)
EFF Fights to Protect Electronic Reserves at College Libraries (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 4-25-13)
April - 2013 - Miscellaneous
The Collapse of the Anglo-Saxon Imperium (Counter Punch, 4-1-13)
America's Sell Out Intellectuals and the Perks They Get (Alternet, 4-1-13)
Scientific racism, militarism, and the new atheists (Aljazeera, 4-2-13)
Beatings, Attempted Suicides and Deliberate Starvation: The Dystopic Hell of Guantanamo Bay (Alternet, 4-12-13)
America Has Turned a World Without Serious Enemies into the Most Threatening Place in the Universe (Alternet, 4-14-13)
Hunger Striking and Force Feeding at Guantanamo Bay (New York Times, 4-14-13)
America's Prison System Is An International Embarrassment (Business Insider, 4-14-13)
Drones out of everywhere! Washington march against US drone warfare (RT, 4-14-13)
A Dangerous Lie (The Screeching Kettle, 4-16-13)
The Boston Marathon and U.S. Drone Attacks: a Tale of Two Terrorisms (Films for Action, 4-16-13)
The Mass Murder That The Media Is Choosing To Ignore (The Free Patriot, 4-17-13)
UNICEF: U.S. kids worse off than many of their Western counterparts (Washington Post, 4-18-13)
Shock: Tom Brokaw Acknowledged That America's Attacks Abroad Increase the Risk of Attacks at Home (Alternet, 4-25-13)
The Book That Exposes How America's Imperial Global War on Terror Makes Life Much More Dangerous for Us at Home (Alternet, 4-26-13)
We Are in the Middle of a Global Civil War (Alternet, 4-27-13)
Cuts in science funding: Where is our country heading? (Aljazeera, 3-1-13)
Sequester likely to hurt most vulnerable, despite protections (Washington Post, 3-3-13)
The Real Reason Wall Street Always Escapes Criminal Charges? The Justice Dept Fears The Aftermath (Forbes, 3-6-13)
Eric Holder Admits Some Banks Are Just Too Big To Prosecute (Huffington Post, 3-6-13)
Deficits do matter (Washington Post, 3-8-13)
US Housing: Is the Recovery Real? (Counter Punch, 3-8-13)
Raise Social Security and Medicare (FICA) Taxes on the Rich, Don't Feed the Cat Food of Austerity to the Elderly (Truth Out, 3-8-13)
Another step towards an East-West trade war (The Telegraph, 3-8-13)
10 Worst People on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List (Alternet, 3-12-13)
The Back to Workbudget (Economic Policy Institute, 3-13-13)
Iraq War Cost U.S. More Than $2 Trillion, Could Grow to $6 Trillion, Says Watson Institute Study (Huffington Post, 3-14-13)
Stop Stealing From Our Kids (New York Times, 3-14-13)
Obama: "There is no Debt Crisis" (RT, 3-14-13)
Foundation for Growth: Restoring the Promise of American Opportunity (Senate Budget Committee, 3-14-13)
'Homeland security': The trillion-dollar concept that no one can define (Aljazeera, 3-14-13)
The Long Shadow of Budget Cuts on U.S. Science Investment (Dot Earth, 3-15-13)
What's Not to Like? It Raises Needed Revenues and Curbs the Beasts of Wall Street (Common Dreams, 3-15-13)
A Real Carbon Solution (New York Times, 3-15-13)
Debt addiction, USA: How much debt reduction has the crisis caused? (Detliv Schlichter, 3-16-13)
Elizabeth Warren: Minimum Wage Would Be $22 An Hour If It Had Kept Up With Productivity (Huffington Post, 3-18-13)
Barney Frank and the Bums of the Navarone (The Big Slice, 3-18-13)
Contractors reap $138bn from Iraq war (Financial Times, 3-18-13)
Cyprus levy plan bleak day for banking union (Financial Times, 3-18-13)
Workers Saving Too Little to Retire (The Wall Street Journal, 3-19-13)
Iraq War To Remain A Significant U.S. Debt-Driver For Years To Come [CHART] (Huffington Post, 3-19-13)
Chaos rolls over the eurozone - again (DW, 3-20-13)
The Greatest Retirement Crisis In American History (Forbes, 3-20-13)
Wall Street wears the pants at Sears and J.C. Penney (CNN Money, 3-21-13)
China forecast to overtake US by 2016 (Financial Times, 3-22-13)
The US on suicide watch: Death by 'moderation' (Aljazeera, 3-22-13)
NY Times Ignores Banks' Latest Role In Distorting The Housing Market (Alternet, 3-22-13)
Freelancers Union Tackles Concerns of Independent Workers (The New York Times, 3-24-13)
Utilities Facing a 'Mortal Threat' From Solar (The Wall Street Journal, 3-25-13)
College Grads May Be Stuck in Low-Skill Jobs (The Wall Street Journal, 3-26-13)
IMF: End fossil fuel subsidies, tax carbon (The Hill, 3-27-13)
IMF, citing $1.9 trillion in government subsidies, calls for levies to curb use (Washington Post, 3-27-13)
Think Your Money is Safe? Think Again: The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors (Alternet, 3-28-13)
Federal Downsizing Can Degrade Services, Workers Coalition (Coalition For Effective Change, 3-29-13)
Pesticide Lobby Spends Millions To Defend Chemicals Tied To Bee Deaths (Huffington Post, 3-29-13)
This Is What Happens When You Rip a Hole in the Safety Net (Common Dreams, 3-29-13)
March - 2013 - Environmental
Green Groups Decry Sequester's Effects (Rendezvous, 3-4-13)
African Forest Elephant Population Plummeting (Science Now, 3-4-13)
30 Facts About The Coming Water Crisis That Will Change The Lives Of Every Person On The Planet (The Economic Collapse Blog, 3-4-13)
Pesticides are killing our sperm (Grist, 3-5-13)
The Coal Monster: Pollution Forces Chinese Leaders to Act (Spiegel, 3-6-13)
US Climate Bomb is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn't Want You to Know (Truth-Out, 3-6-13)
15 months of a forest's life shown in 3-minute time-lapse (Tree Hugger, 3-8-13)
Canadian Glaciers Are Melting Fast (Truth Dig, 3-8-13)
Global warming is epic, long-term study says (CNN, 3-8-13)
Green versus gray: Nature's solutions to infrastructure demands (Aljazeera, 3-9-13)
Coming Clean, The Natural Gas Industry (Sierra Club, 3-11-13)
EU bans sale of all animal-tested cosmetics (BBC, 3-11-13)
Waxman, Whitehouse, Blumenauer, and Schatz Release Carbon Price Discussion Draft (Whitehouse, 3-12-13)
The Price of Green Energy: Is Germany Killing the Environment to Save It? (Spiegel, 3-12-13)
Environmental Protections Threatened by Sequestration and Funding Cuts (Center for Effective Government, 3-12-13)
A lengthy weather report again affirms global warming (Washington Post, 3-15-13)
The 'Last American Man' is facing a government shutdown of his camp in the Appalachian Mountains for not adhering to building codes (Daily Mail, 3-17-13)
America's Dirtiest Coal Company (Bloomberg, 3-17-13)
Environmental Woes Could Reverse Global Development (Rendezvous, 3-18-13)
How We Could Prevent Massive Bee Deaths and Save Our Food (Alternet, 3-18-13)
Climate Vulnerability Monitor (Dara Impact Matters, 3-18-13)
Bay's intersex fish mystery remains unsolved (Washington Post, 3-18-13)
EPA Hands the Reins to Industry on Honey Bee (Beyond Pesticides, 3-21-13)
US government sued over use of pesticides linked to bee harm (The Guardian, 3-22-13)
Ice Breaking News: This Is Your 2013 Arctic Freezing Season On Crack (Think Progress, 3-23-13)
Within mainstream environmentalist groups, diversity is lacking (Washington Post, 3-24-13)
Scientists link frozen spring to dramatic Arctic sea ice loss (Guardian, 3-25-13)
New Study Exposes How Natural Gas Isn't the Clean Fossil Fuel It's Hyped up to Be (Alternet, 3-27-13)
The 15 most toxic places to live (Mother Nature Network, 3-28-13)
Post-Tax Energy Subsidies Hit $1.9T in 2011 (Green Tech Media, 3-28-13)
Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies (Business Insider, 3-28-13)
Cost of Environmental Degradation in China Is Growing (New York Times, 3-29-13)
Labor and Environmental Leaders Move Beyond Differences to a Common Vision (Common Dreams, 3-29-13)
Nature's Case for Same-Sex Marriage (New York Times, 3-29-13)
Bee Deaths From Colony Collapse Disorder On The Rise As Researchers Point To Pesticides (Huffington Post, 3-29-13)
March - 2013 - Health
The Scary Hidden Stressor (New York Times, 3-2-13)
The health care leader we need (Washington Post, 3-3-13)
Sexual violence scars Native American women (Aljazeera, 3-6-13)
Getting ObamaCare coverage could be more painful than doing your taxes (Yahoo News, 3-13-13)
Squeeze Looms for Doctors (The Wall Street Journal, 3-14-13)
World Tuberculosis Day 2013: The second biggest global killer (Independent Blogs, 3-24-13)
21 graphs that show America's health-care prices are ludicrous (Washington Post, 3-26-13)
Without Medicaid Expansion, Poor Americans In The South Are Less Likely To Get Medical Care (Think Progress, 3-29-13)
Obamacare Faces Near-Solid Block In The South (Huffington Post, 3-30-13)
A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise (New York Times, 3-31-13)
March - 2013 - Religion
Did God Grant Us American Exceptionalism? (The Big Slice, 3-3-13)
Mother Teresa Humanitarian Image A 'Myth,' New Study Says (Huffington Post, 3-4-13)
Pope Francis Against Gay Marriage, Gay Adoption (Huffington Post, 3-13-13)
New Pope Or Not, Americans Are Losing Their Religion (Alternet, 3-14-13)
The New Pope's Disturbing Past -- Revealing Francis's Ties to Abduction of Priests (Alternet, 3-14-13)
You Wouldn't Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion -- But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan (Alternet, 3-15-13)
Pope Francis was often quiet on Argentine sex abuse cases as archbishop (Washington Post, 3-18-13)
Why the Upset? On the History Channel, Jesus is a White Surfer Guy and Satan Looks Like Barack Obama (Alternet, 3-19-13)
Religious Trauma Syndrome: How Some Organized Religion Leads to Mental Health Problems (Alternet, 3-25-13)
Southern Baptist Leader Fred Luter Links North Korean Threats to Gay Marriage, Boy Scouts (Right Wing Watch, 3-29-13)
March - 2013 - Foreign
How Democracy Kills in Indonesia and Pakistan (Bloomberg, 3-3-13)
Hunting down Shias: Society's deafening silence (Dawn, 3-4-13)
China's Empty Cities: These Satellite Images Will Shock You (AOL Real Estate, 3-5-13)
White House Explores How to Make 'War on Terror' Policies 'Permanent' (Commondreams, 3-7-13)
Prison Handover Agreement Blows Up, Again, During Hagel's First Visit to Afghanistan Quagmire (Empty Wheel, 3-9-13)
Pakistan defies US with gas pipeline to Iran (Aljazeera, 3-11-13)
“To get the gold, they will have to kill every one of us" (CSGlobe, 3-11-13)
Monsieur Unpopular: Hollande's Spectacular Fall from Grace (Spiegel, 3-13-13)
For Xi, a 'China Dream' of Military Power (The Wall Street Journal, 3-13-13)
Putin Calls for Tougher Pupils (The Wall Street Journal, 3-13-13)
Why Democracy Doesn't Solve All Problems: Burma Edition (The American Interest, 3-13-13)
With Steven Seagal in tow, Putin pushes for Soviet-era phys-ed revival (Christian Science Monitor, 3-14-13)
US Drone Strikes In Pakistan Violate Country's Sovereignty, UN Says (Huffington Post, 3-15-13)
Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict (Truth-Out, 3-15-13)
Drones killing innocent Pakistanis, U.N. official says (CNN, 3-15-13)
Afghan Clerics Warn U.S. on Karzai Demands (The Wall Street Journal, 3-16-13)
Singapore's Lessons for an Unequal America (Opinionator, 3-18-13)
Syria: Britain could go it alone in arming rebels (The Telegraph, 3-18-13)
How the Iraq war compares to the worst horrors in world history (Stop the War Coalition, 3-18-13)
Syria Chemical Weapons Claims Prompt Easy Talk Of Hard War On Iraq Invasion Anniversary (Huffington Post, 3-19-13)
Iraq: Where Terrorists Go To School (New York Times, 3-20-13)
China, Pakistan reach secret nuclear reactor deal for Pakistan (Washington Times, 3-21-13)
Plenty for Few: India's Economic Miracle Bypasses Poor (Spiegel, 3-21-13)
The US 'increasingly irrelevant' to Arab audiences (Aljazeera, 3-24-13)
Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A. (New York Times, 3-24-13)
Legal Experts: Stuxnet Attack on Iran Was Illegal Act of Force (Wired, 3-25-13)
America's Other Dark Legacy in Iraq (Antiwar, 3-26-13)
'This Is Working': Portugal, 12 Years after Decriminalizing Drugs (Spiegel, 3-27-13)
The war danger in Korea (Answer Coalition, 3-29-13)
Peru declares state of emergency Over Oil Contamination of the Amazon (CSGlobe, 3-29-13)
March - 2013 - Political
Obama Signals He'd Let Cuts Stand to Avoid U.S. Shutdown (New York Times, 3-1-13)
Bob Woodward Unhinged (The Big Slice, 3-1-13)
CISPA 2.0: Say Goodbye to Our Constitutional Rights (Truth-Out, 3-3-13)
Glenn Greenwald: Why the Obama Administration's Persecution of Bradley Manning Should Terrify Us All (Alternet, 3-5-13)
Patrick Murphy, Disgusted Ex-Republican, Pushes Bipartisan Caucus As Democrat In Congress (Huffington Post, 3-6-13)
Petraeus, Rumsfeld Linked to Iraqi Torture Centers (Truth-Dig, 3-6-13)
Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution without Bill of Rights (Yahoo, 3-8-13)
Inside the West Wing (Washington Post, 3-11-13)
Miguel Rodriguez, Obama's legislative director, is mostly a mystery to those in Congress (Washington Post, 3-11-13)
Mark Kelly's story on AR-15 purchase prompts skeptical open letter (Examiner, 3-12-13)
What's the best way to design a carbon tax? Lawmakers ask for suggestions. (Washington Post, 3-13-13)
Rand Paul's Drone Crusade Needs a Slight Adjustment (Antiwar, 3-13-13)
John Pedesta (Bill Clinton's Former Chief of Staff): Obama should lift secrecy on drones (Washington Post, 3-13-13)
Dear Mr Obama: You're Just Like Dick (Huffington Post, 3-14-13)
GOP elite embraces Portman gay marriage switch (Politico, 3-15-13)
'Worse Than Nixon': Pentagon Papers Lawyer on Obama, Secrecy and Press Freedoms (Common Dreams, 3-20-13)
Why Obama's Major Plans for Climate and Energy Are a Major Disappointment (Alternet, 3-20-13)
Obama sharing Twitter account with controversial campaign spin-off (Washington Post, 3-22-13)
Nixon Has Won Watergate (USA Today, 3-25-13)
President Obama: The drones don't work, they just make it worse (Aljazeera, 3-26-13)
Ken Mehlman, Former RNC Chairman, On Supreme Court's DOMA, Prop 8 Hearings (Huffington Post, 3-26-13)
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Starting Political Group (The Wall Street Journal, 3-26-13)
Obama still funding failed 'faith-based' programmes (Aljazeera, 3-27-13)
How Obama Chose War Over Peace in Syria (Counter Punch, 3-29-13)
Right-Wingers Lying About Food Stamps (Global Possibilities, 3-30-13)
March - 2013 - Technology
We Must Not Fail Wikileaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning (Truth-Out, 3-3-13)
Telecom Firms Seek to Curb Publicly Funded Web Services (The Wall Street Journal, 3-6-13)
Scientists successfully create living embryo of an extinct species (Tree Hugger, 3-15-13)
New Study Finds That Music Piracy Doesn't Negatively Affect Sales (Web Pro News, 3-18-13)
Bipartisan bill would require a warrant for police to search emails (The Raw Story, 3-19-13)
Photo Gallery: Secretly Measuring the Internet (Spiegel, 3-22-13)
EU intent on delivering 30Mbps broadband to everyone by 2020 (Ars Technica, 3-26-13)
Solar power, white spaces bring 16Mbps broadband to towns without electricity (Ars Technica, 3-26-13)
March - 2013 - Education
What if students learn faster without teachers? (CNN, 3-26-13)
March - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Come Home, America (New York Times, 3-4-13)
Anonymous -- "Everyone Is a Suspected Terrorist" Trailer (You Tube Video, 3-4-13)
UN Demands Prosecution of Bush-Era CIA Crimes (Spread Liberty News, 3-5-13)
North Korea and the United States: Will the Real Aggressor Please Stand Down? (Antiwar, 3-5-13)
Two Cheers for Chavez (Counter-Currents, 3-11-13)
Survival Alert: The Myth of the Brutal SavageBrutalizes Tribal People (Take Part, 3-11-13)
Why Does Society Think I'm Some Kind of Freak for Abstaining From Alcohol? (Alternet, 3-12-13)
Sandberg left single mothers behind (CNN, 3-13-13)
Don't Look Away: We Must Confront the Horrific Industrial Violence the American Military Is Capable of (Alternet, 3-14-13)
The Shame of America's Gulag (Common Dreams, 3-18-13)
Tomas Young, Dying Iraq War Veteran, Pens 'Last Letter' To Bush, Cheney On War's 10th Anniversary (Huffington Post, 3-19-13)
David Barton Explains Just War Theory: 'We Had to Destroy Indian Tribes' Until They Became Civilized (Right Wing Watch, 3-21-13)
Heavy Metal Islam - The Book (Heavy Metal Islam, 3-21-13)
US Journalists and War Crime Guilt (Consortium News, 3-21-13)
Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Urges Fellow Musicians to Ditch Israel (Music Feeds, 3-21-13)
Amazon Sells 60,000 Sex Toys and Related Products? Welcome to Sex 4.0 (Alternet, 3-22-13)
Hijacking feminism (Aljazeera, 3-25-13)
Lion in Winter: Mikhail Gorbachev's New Memoir (Vogue, 3-27-13)
Beneath the surface, the Beltway crumbles (Washington Post, 3-30-13)
European authorities still punishing Greece - can they be stopped? (Aljazeera, 2-2-13)
How banks could get blown away by bond bubble (CNN Money, 2-11-13)
Why You Should Be Outraged By What Is Being Done to Our Postal Service (Alternet, 2-12-13)
MBIA, BofA In A Billion-Dollar Game of Chicken (Forbes, 2-13-13)
Sequester Could Cost U.S. 750,000 Jobs, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf Says (Huffington Post, 2-13-13)
Former U.S. bailout cop says another crash is inevitable (Amanpour, 2-15-13)
Automatic cuts are getting a big yawn from Washington (Washington Post, 2-15-13)
Too Big to Fail Has Become Too Big for Trial (You Tube, 2-15-13)
Facebook Gets Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Break (Business Week, 2-15-13)
College Grads on Food Stamps on the Rise (Alternet, 2-15-13)
Five myths about manufacturing jobs (Washington Post, 2-15-13)
Obama, Housing and the Next Big Heist (Counter Punch, 2-15-13)
Fiscal trouble ahead for most future retirees (Washington Post, 2-16-13)
USA! USA! America Now Has Less Class Mobility Than Most of Europe (Alternet, 2-18-13)
Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year? (Bloomberg, 2-20-13)
The Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax (New York Times, 2-21-13)
The Many Faces of Censorship in China (New York Times, 2-27-13)
Bernanke Continues Massive QE3 US Land-Grab to Stimulate the Economy (Occupy Corporatism, 2-27-13)
Statement on the Financial Transaction Tax and Harkin-Defazio Bill (Common Dreams, 2-28-13)
Financial Transactions Tax Introduced Again,Can It Pass This Time? (The Nation, 2-28-13)
February - 2013 - Environmental
The end of nuclear power? Careful what you wish for (Guardian, 2-4-13)
India could be burnt by global warming (Money Control, 2-5-13)
Europe consuming more coal (Washington Post, 2-7-13)
A Satellite's View of Ship Pollution (Earth Observatory, 2-8-13)
A New Manhattan Project (Truth Out, 2-9-13)
Arctic Death Spiral Bombshell: CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed (Think Progress, 2-14-13)
The Newly Proposed Carbon Tax Will Fight Global Warming, Protect Low-Income Americans And Reduce The Deficit (Think Progress, 2-14-13)
Keystone Protests Resume, But None Against Oil Imports from Nigeria? (New York Times, 2-14-13)
Small Business Groups Praise Obama's Climate Stance, Call For Regulation Of Existing Power Plants (Think Progress, 2-15-13)
Obama confirms: No big moves on climate in the works (Grist, 2-15-13)
Senator Lautenberg announces two year mission to pass toxics reform (Safer Chemicals, 2-15-13)
The Planetary Crisis of Climate Change is Not Political... It's Physics (Common Dreams, 2-16-13)
Oil Aboard! Tar Sands Industry Eyes Nexen Rail Alternative to Stalled Pipelines (Desmogblog, 2-16-13)
Obama Faces Risks in Pipeline Decision (New York Times, 2-17-13)
Chinese Companies Projected To Make Solar Panels for 42 Cents Per Watt In 2015 (Think Progress, 2-17-13)
Forward on Climate Rally (C-SPAN Video, 2-17-13)
How Not to Fix Climate Change (New York Times, 2-18-13)
Keystone XL Pipeline Won't Have Effect On Climate Change, TransCanada Claims (Huffington Post, 2-20-13)
Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMOs (Grist, 2-22-13)
Why Greenland's melting could be the biggest climate disaster of all (Grist, 2-24-13)
The 'Land of 10,000 Lakes' Is Running Dry (Common Dreams, 2-25-13)
CHARTS: World's GMO Crop Fields Could Cover the US 1.5 Times Over (Global Possibilities, 2-26-13)
The Energy Game is Rigged: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Topped $620 Billion in 2011 (Tree Hugger, 2-27-13)
February - 2013 - Health
Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law (Washington Times, 2-5-13)
Being American is Bad for Your Health (Alternet, 2-7-13)
After seven years, will Medicare finally have a leader? (Washington Post, 2-13-13)
Global TB Fight Hits a Wall (The Wall Street Journal, 2-15-13)
Saving on health care at the cost of people's health (Aljazeera, 2-27-13)
Are You a Woman In Your Twenties? Do You Know Your Rights Are Being Eroded? (Samuel Warde, 2-27-13)
February - 2013 - Religion
The Priest That Preyed (New York Times, 2-6-13)
Religious Right's Last Stand to Block Chuck Hagel (Right Wing Watch, 2-6-13)
The Reality of Burning Witches (The Wild Hunt, 2-7-13)
"No More Pope!" Femen Activists Get Naked in Notre Dame (Youtube Video, 2-12-13)
The Last Supper: Germany's Great Church Sell-Off (Spiegel Online, 2-14-13)
Why Benedict reallyquit (NY Post, 2-23-13)
Jimmy Carter: the impact of religion and tradition on women and girls (VIDEO) (Liberals Unite, 2-28-13)
February - 2013 - Foreign
How Washington Helped Foster the Islamist Uprising in Mali (Global Research, 2-2-13)
Outrage After Saudi Cleric Kills Daughter (Aljazeera, 2-4-13)
Saudi Blood Money Ruling Angers Activists (Al Jazeera, 2-4-13)
Full-scale invasion as the United States deploys troops in 35 African countries (Newstime Africa, 2-5-13)
Afghan Children Deaths: Hundreds Killed By U.S. In Last Five Years, UN 'Alarmed' By Civilian Casualties (Huffington Post, 2-8-13)
Syria: how jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra is taking over Syria's revolution (Information Clearing House, 2-9-13)
Why Assad will fight to the end (Aljazeera, 2-10-13)
Fears of the Future Haunt a Budding Generation of Afghan Strivers (New York Times, 2-11-13)
French assembly passes gay marriage bill (Aljazeera, 2-12-13)
Vows of Change in China Belie Private Warning (New York Times, 2-14-13)
After the Arab Spring: Al-Jazeera Losing Battle for Independence (Spiegel, 2-15-13)
India's rice revolution (Global Development, 2-16-13)
Racism and the hypocrisy of Israel's advocates (Aljazeera, 2-16-13)
After three decades of economic liberalisation, have China's communist ideals been discarded forever? (Aljazeera, 2-21-13)
Does Obama really want a deal with Iran? (Aljazeera, 2-21-13)
Israel Okays Cheney-Murdoch Firm to Drill in Occupied Golan (Antiwar, 2-21-13)
Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMOs (Grist, 2-22-13)
House Republicans Strip Protections From LGBT Victims In New Violence Against Women Act (Think Progress, 2-22-13)
The Rise of Europe's Far-Right Voices (Al Jazeera, 2-24-13)
Chinese pollution study 'blocked on grounds of state secrecy' (Guardian, 2-26-13)
Netanyahu blasts Erdogan's 'dark and libelous' criticism of Zionism (Haaretz, 2-28-13)
North Korea and the United States: Will the Real Aggressor Please Stand Down? (Truth-Out, 2-28-13)
February - 2013 - Political
How the Anti-Defamation League Fuels Islamophobia (Alternet, 2-1-13)
Barack Obama, Drone Ranger (Alternet, 2-4-13)
Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens (Guardian, 2-5-13)
To Kill an American (New York Times, 2-5-13)
US O.K. To Kill Its Citizens (Vanity Fair, 2-5-13)
Liberals love drones too (Salon, 2-7-13)
Bill Moyers Essay: When We Kill Without Caring (Moyers & Company, 2-7-13)
Brennan's Obscene Testimony at Confirmation Hearing (Common Dreams, 2-8-13)
Young, Liberal and Open to Big Government (New York Times, 2-10-13)
The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State (Common Dreams, 2-11-13)
Dana Milibank: State of the Union and Mardi Gras - What a Coincidence? (Washington Post, 2-12-13)
The Perpetual War on Terrorism Ensures Presidents Will be Increasingly Worse on Civil Liberties (The Dissenter, 2-12-13)
Cornel West: Obama is a war criminalwho has killed over 200 children (Rawstory, 2-15-13)
Obama's Chickens are Coming Home to Roost (YouTube, 2-15-13)
'Let Us Not Be Deceived': Cornel West Names Obama as 'War Criminal' (Common Dreams, 2-15-13)
NC GOP Declares War on Women's Bare Breasts (Alternet, 2-18-13)
Congress: End Endless War and Stop Becoming “The Evil That We Deplore" (Common Dreams, 2-20-13)
Obama officials refuse to say if assassination power extends to US soil (Guardian, 2-22-13)
Old white guys (Aljazeera, 2-23-13)
Boehner Tells Finance Pundit President Obama Has Balls Made Out Of Marshmallows(VIDEO) (Addicting Info, 2-25-13)
Sequestration Cuts Crisis Makes Me Want to Strangle Both Sides (Rolling Stone, 2-26-13)
Elizabeth Warren, Ben Bernanke Clash Over 'Too Big To Fail' (Huffington Post, 2-26-13)
Conservative Leaders to File Amicus Curiae Brief Calling on Supreme Court to Recognize Marriage Equality for All in Proposition 8 Case (AFER, 2-27-13)
Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage (NBC, 2-28-13)
Bob Woodward: 'Very Senior' White House Official Told Me I'd 'Regret' Sequester Comments (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 2-28-13)
February - 2013 - Technology
Exclusive: Eric Schmidt Unloads on China in New Book (The Wall Street Journal, 2-1-13)
The Virtual Middle Class Rises (New York Times, 2-2-13)
Fragmentationleaves Android phones vulnerable to hackers, scammers (Washington Post, 2-6-13)
Susan Crawford on Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair (Bill Moyers, 2-8-13)
U.S. Govt: Harsh Punishments Needed to Deter File-Sharers (Minds, 2-12-13)
Dronestagram uses social media to highlight drone strikes (CNN, 2-15-13)
What Could Go Wrong? White House to Partner With Big Business to Combat 'Online Radicalization' (Alternet, 2-19-13)
How KT Corp. Ushered in Broadband (The Wall Street Journal, 2-25-13)
Unequal Internet Access "Widening the Gap" Between Rich and Poor Students (Common Dreams, 2-28-13)
February - 2013 - Education
Dershowitz fights academic freedom at Brooklyn College (Aljazeera, 2-5-13)
It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk (New York Times, 2-19-13)
America's growing education gap (Aljazeera, 2-22-13)
A $1 million bet on students without teachers (CNN, 2-27-13)
February - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Extraordinary Rendition Report Finds More Than 50 Nations Involved In Global Torture Scheme (Huffington Post, 2-4-13)
EMP Weapons Are Real (View Zone, 2-1-13)
Washington rated the worst for traffic congestion again (Washington Post, 2-5-13)
Major US newspapers admit to honoring CIA demands (RT, 2-7-13)
America Is Far from #1 (Alternet, 2-7-13)
Anti Feminist Inadvertently Uses Picture Of Lesbian Brides To Promote Her Agenda (Liberals Unite, 2-9-13)
The Perpetual War on Terrorism Ensures Presidents Will Be Increasingly Worse on Civil Liberties (Dissenter, 2-12-13)
Korea and the “Axis of Evil" (Brial Wilson, 2-13-13)
More Proof That Hiring and Dating Aren't So Different (Wall Street Journal, 2-15-13)
Why Gender Equality Stalled (New York Times, 2-16-13)
U.S. Struggles to Nab Visitors Who Overstay (The Wall Street Journal, 2-18-13)
When Prostitution Wasn't a Crime: The Fascinating History of Sex Work in America (Alternet, 2-18-13)
Green Snot and Deadly Snakes: Napoleon Chagnon's Anthropological Battles (The Daily Beast, 2-19-13)
The wrong way to weed out spies (Washington Post, 2-20-13)
America's Spiritual Death: It's Time to Learn the Dark History of the U.S. You Were Robbed of ... and Oliver Stone Will Help (Alternet, 2-21-13)
Is the US maintaining death squads and torture militias in Afghanistan? (Guardian, 2-26-13)
'Signature Strikes' On Unidentified People: The Drone War Doctrine We Still Know Nothing About (Alternet, 2-27-13)
American Cities Drown in Debt (Spiegel, 1-3-13)
60 Facts That Prove The American Middle Class is Being Wiped Out (Activist Post, 1-6-13)
Bankruptcy regime for nations urged (Financial Times, 1-7-13)
IMF: Yes, America is profligate (Washington Post, 1-11-13)
The Myth of Human Progress (TruthDig, 1-13-13)
The Foreclosure Fiasco (New York Times, 1-14-13)
Why Americans Are Broke, And Getting Further In Debt (Zero Hedge, 1-15-13)
MLK Support For Economic Justice Overshadowed By 'I Have A Dream' Speech (Huffington Post, 1-16-13)
European Agency Finds Insecticide Unacceptable Danger to Bees (Eco Watch, 1-17-13)
Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud, and the Justice Department (Truth Out, 1-21-13)
Report: Unemployment to rise again in 2013 (CNN, 1-22-13)
The Untouchables: How the Obama Administration Protected Wall Street from Prosecutions (Common Dreams, 1-23-13)
Top CEOs Plan to Loot US Social Programs (It's Our Economy, 1-24-13)
The Fall of Lehman Brothers (YouTube, 1-24-13)
Senators Propose Bankruptcy Option for Private Student Loans (The Wall Street Journal, 1-24-13)
Solar power cheaper than coal: One company says it's cracked the code (Grist, 1-25-13)
How America's Outrageous Income Inequality Is Literally Killing Us (Alternet, 1-28-13)
America Is Turning Into One Big Prison for People in Debt (Alternet, 1-29-13)
January - 2013 - Environmental
2012: The Year We Did Our Best to Abandon the Natural World (Alternet, 1-1-13)
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (Royal Society Publishing, 1-9-13)
FCC report blames phone companies for loss of 911 service after derecho storm (Washington Post, 1-10-13)
For all but Shell, Alaska was just too risky (DW, 1-11-13)
SEED: The Untold Story, Documentary Film (Kickstarter, 1-14-13)
China's record-level air pollution, as seen from space (The Verge, 1-16-13)
Worrisome Change to the New York Times' Ability to Cover Climate (Huffington Post, 1-17-13)
Levee Repairs Needed Across America, Including Washington, D.C., Dallas And More, Study Says (Huffington Post, 1-17-13)
Newly Discovered 'Plastic Island' Shows Global Epidemic Worsening (Common Dreams, 1-18-13)
The Myth of Human Progress (Alternet, 1-20-13)
David Attenborough - Humans are plague on Earth (The Telegraph, 1-22-13)
Nature's Capital is the Limiting Resource (Counter Punch, 1-25-13)
China's environment: An economic death sentence (CNN Money, 1-28-13)
Water Demand for Energy to Double by 2035 (National Geographic, 1-30-13)
January - 2013 - Health
Obamacare Guarantees Higher Health Insurance Premiums -- $3,000+ Higher (Forbes, 1-7-13)
Marsha Blackburn, Diane Black Offer Dueling Bills To Defund Planned Parenthood (Huffington Post, 1-8-13)
Anti-Women's Health Legislators Didn't Waste Any Time in the First Days of Congress (Women are Watching, 1-8-13)
Americans Are in Worse Health Than Other Nationalities (My Health News Daily, 1-9-13)
America's Health Disadvantage (New York Times, 1-10-13)
Warnings From a Flabby Mouse (New York Times, 1-19-13)
Psychiatric patients wait in ERs for days and weeks as inpatient beds are scaled back (Washington Post, 1-22-13)
John Boehner: Ending Abortion Is 'One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year' (Huffington Post, 1-25-13)
Worst States For Pregnant Rape Victims (INFOGRAPHIC) (Huffington Post, 1-26-13)
Obamacare 'Glitch' Allows Some Families To Be Priced Out Of Health Insurance (Huffington Post, 1-30-13)
January - 2013 - Religion
6 Biggest Religious Right Threats to America (Alternet, 1-3-13)
Anti-Gay Preacher Tapped for Obama's Inaugural Benediction Withdraws After Firestorm of Public Outrage (Alternet, 1-9-13)
January - 2013 - Foreign
Preserving The Two State Solution (Washington Post, 1-4-13)
Has Bolivia's coca-growing scheme worked? (Aljazeera, 1-4-13)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai heads to Washington, complaints in hand (Washington Post, 1-6-13)
The importance of European court's ruling against extraordinary rendition (Aljazeera, 1-7-13)
John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old Boy (Common Dreams, 1-9-13)
John Brennan vs. 16-Year-Old Tariq Aziz: Why Obama's CIA Nominee is Responsible for the Deaths of Pakistani Civilians (Alternet, 1-9-13)
A Cancer Cycle, From Here to China (Nytimes, 1-11-13)
Disturbing new video of Israeli Jews assaulting Africans in Tel Aviv on New Year's Eve (Electronic Intifada, 1-13-13)
Morsi's Slurs Against Jews Stir Concern (New York Times, 1-14-13)
Upcoming Israeli Elections: Netanyahu Veers Right on Path to Nowhere (Spiegel, 1-16-13)
Republicans: Keep carbon tax buried (The Hill, 1-16-13)
Blood for Uranium: France's Mali intervention has little to do with terrorism (Cease Fire Magazine, 1-17-13)
France in Mali: The longue durée of imperial blowback (Aljazeera, 1-19-13)
Brookings' Bruce Riedel urges intensified US support for Saudi despots (Guardian, 1-19-13)
The Conflict in Mali Has Nothing to Do With Fighting Terrorists (Huffington Post, 1-21-13)
Church and State: Where Catholic Beliefs and Public Needs Collide (Spiegel, 1-24-13)
Israel: Iran slowing nuclear program, won't have bomb before 2015 (McClatchy, 1-28-13)
Anti-Gay Bill: German Foreign Minister Criticizes Russian Legislation (Spiegel, 1-29-13)
January - 2013 - Political
Obama Objects To Whistleblower Protections In NDAA, Surprising Key Backer (Huffington Post, 1-4-13)
In the House, a deck stacked for Republicans (Washington Post, 1-4-13)
America's White Male Problem (Alternet, 1-4-13)
Former Adviser: Obama as 'Ruthless and Indifferent to Rule of Law' as Bush (Common Dreams, 1-7-13)
Catholic League's Bill Donohue Suggests Obama Should Swear In On Marx's 'Das Kapital' (Huffington Post, 1-11-13)
Poll: Congress Has 14 Percent Approval Rating (Huffington Post, 1-11-13)
Matt Taibbi & Bill Black: Obama's New Treasury Secretary a 'Failure of Epic Proportions' (Alternet, 1-11-13)
Who Says You Can Kill Americans, Mr. President? (New York Times, 1-16-13)
Oppose "Assassination Czar" for CIA director and tell Hollywood & Washington: We still reject torture (Demand Progress, 1-17-13)
Ray Nagin: Former New Orleans Mayor Indicted for Bribery (ABC News, 1-18-13)
Cornel West Explains Why It Bothers Him That Obama Will Be Taking The Oath With MLK's Bible (You Tube, 1-20-13)
Grassroots Group Readies Campaign to Counter Anti-Muslim Subway Ads (Time News Feed, 1-20-13)
Inaugural Address by President Barack Obama (Whitehouse.gov, 1-21-13)
How Britain Enthusiastically Teamed Up with Bush's Horrific Torture and Rendition Agenda (Alternet, 1-23-13)
Latest GOP budget scheme would slash federal government to ribbons (Washington Post, 1-23-13)
What The 2012 Election Would Look Like Under The Republicans' Vote-Rigging Plan (Huffington Post, 1-24-13)
Obama's Jobs Council Shuts Down (Huffinigton Post, 1-31-13)
ObamaCare's Broken Promises (The Wall Street Journal, 1-31-13)
January - 2013 - Technology
Speedier Internet Rivals Push Past Cable (The Wall Street Journal, 1-2-13)
Google Complies With Government Requests for User Data 88% of the Time (Weekly Standard, 1-23-13)
January - 2013 - Education
35 Shocking Facts That Prove That College Education Has Become A Giant Money Making Scam (The Idealist, 1-10-13)
The political consequences of academic paywalls (Aljazeera, 1-18-13)
College Degree, No Class Time Required (The Wall Street Journal, 1-24-13)
January - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Have We Lost the War on Drugs? (The Wall Street Journal, 1-4-13)
The Real Causes of Divorce -- America Has to Stop Blaming It on Women (Alternet, 1-4-13)
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (The Royal Society Publishing, 1-8-13)
Americans more likely to be killed with baseball bat than assault rifle (WOAI, 1-9-13)
Meet John Brennan, new CIA director (Signs of the Times, 1-10-13)
Gun Advocates Resort To Lies About Hitler To Push Their Agenda (Addicting Info, 1-11-13)
'So many people died,' The American System of Suffering (Aljazeera, 1-12-13)
Mass Shootings Are Responsible For Less Than 100 Out of 12,000 Annual Homicides in the US (Policymic, 1-12-13)
America Is a Walking Disaster (The Atlantic Cities, 1-16-13)
The Guerrilla Myth (The Wall Street Journal, 1-18-13)
Gang Rapes and Beatings, Brothels Filled with Teenage Prostitutes -- The Depths of American Brutality in Vietnam (Alternet, 1-19-13)
MLK's Vehement Condemnations of US Militarism are More Relevant Than Ever (Common Dreams, 1-21-13)
Martin Luther King's Greatest Anti-War Speech Compared to Obama's Uncle Tom Inaugural (Progressive Alaska, 1-21-13)
A Time for Sublime Madness (Common Dreams, 1-21-13)
Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley's New Film Exposes Hidden Truths of Covert U.S. Warfare (Democracy Now, 1-22-13)
David Attenborough Says Humans are a 'Plague on Earth' Who Need to Stop Breeding (Huffington Post, 1-22-13)
“We Live In The Era Of The End," An Interview with Dari Dougina (Open Revolt, 1-23-13)
UN to examine UK and US drone strikes (Guardian, 1-23-13)
Drones Watch (Drones Watch, 1-24-13)
The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy (Opinionator, 1-26-13)
Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate? (Huffington Post, 1-26-13)
FBI Goes Fishing for Evidence of Government Employee Conversations with Journalists (Dissenter, 1-27-13)
Pentagon's New Massive Expansion of 'Cyber-Security' Unit is About Everything Except Defense (Common Dreams, 1-28-13)
Office Working to Close Guantanamo Is Shuttered (NyTimes, 1-28-13)
Ex-CIA Agent, Whistleblower John Kiriakou Sentenced to Prison While Torturers He Exposed Walk Free (Alternet, 1-30-13)
Savaging Primitives: Why Jared Diamond's The World Until Yesterday Is Wrong (Take Part, 1-30-13)