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New Report Documents How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities (Truth Out, 6-6-14)
Central Banks Shift Into Shares as Low Rates Hit Revenues (Financial Times, 6-15-14)
"Cluster of Central Banks" Have Secretly Invested $29 Trillion in the Market (Global Research, 6-17-14)
The Highest Paid CEOs are The Worst for Investors (Business Insider, 6-18-14)
How Inherited Wealth Helps the Economy (New York Times, 6-22-14)
Forget Retirement, Americans Aren't Even Set for Emergencies (Daily Finance, 6-23-14)
June - 2014 - Environmental
America Will Fail On Climate Change (Common Dreams, 6-5-14)
Why Did Cosmos Ignore Nuclear Energy? (NEI Nuclear Notes, 6-8-14)
How a Big Agribusiness Firm Infiltrated the EPA and Made a Mockery of Science (Alternet, 6-9-14)
Underworld Threat to Melting Icecap (Truth Dig, 6-16-14)
Coal's Share of Energy Consumption at Highest Level Since 1970 (The Atlantic, 6-16-14)
With Millions of Tons of Plastic in Oceans, More Scientists Studying Impact (Richard Dawkins, 6-16-14)
Why Californians Will Soon Be Drinking Their Own Pee (City Lab, 6-18-14)
Our Survival Depends on the Health of the Oceans (Washington Post, 6-22-14)
Insecticides put world food supplies at risk, say scientists (The Guardian, 6-23-14)
There Are 1,401 Uninspected High-Risk Oil and Gas Wells. Here's Where They Are (Mother Jones, 6-23-14)
U.N. report: Our oceans are trashed with plastic (CNN, 6-24-14)
The Millions Behind Bjorn Lomborg's Copenhagen Consensus Center US Think Tank (Desmog Blog, 6-24-14)
Report: World's Oceans on Brink of Collapse (Common Dreams, 6-25-14)
June - 2014 - Health
Dangerous Pesticides Showing Up More and More In Our Urine and Breast Milk (Alternet, 6-1-14)
Over 10,000 American Toddlers Are Being Given ADHD Drugs (ANH, 6-3-14)
Elliot Rodger, Like Nearly All Young Killers, Was Taking Psychiatric Drugs (Xanax) (Natural News, 6-3-14)
8 Things America Gets Terribly Wrong About Sex (Alternet, 6-9-14)
Destroying Bacterial Cell Walls May End Antibiotic Resistance Forever (Vice, 6-18-14)
“Performative sex is utterly different from private sex”: A porn star takes on the California State Capitol (Salon, 6-24-14)
UN Response on Detroit: Disconnecting water from people who cannot pay – an affront to human rights, say UN experts (Detroit Water Brigade, 6-25-14)
Former BBC celebrity Jimmy Savile accused of scores of sexual assaults in hospitals (The Washington Post, 6-26-14)
Should Porn Performers Be Required by Law to Wear Condoms? (Alternet, 6-30-14)
June - 2014 - Religion
Full Text of Pope Francis' Interview With 'La Vanguardia' (Patheos, 6-13-14)
Pope Francis Says He Opposes Making Recreational Drugs Legal (CNN, 6-20-14)
June - 2014 - Foreign
Voters Reject Traditional Left Parties in EU Parliament Elections (Truth Dig, 6-1-14)
Israel's Medieval Ban on Intermarriage (Jonathan Cook, 6-3-14)
Deconstructing Russophobia (Catherine Brown, 6-6-14)
The French Are Right: Tear Up Public Debt (Portside, 6-9-14)
How Bad is Sex Trafficking in Cambodia? (Al Jazeera, 6-9-14)
The Cleansing of Iraq's Christians is Entering Its End Game (National Review, 6-10-14)
Serious Real Questions About Benghazi (Truth Out, 6-11-14)
The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History (Truth Dig, 6-11-14)
Internet Restrictions Must Not Touch Upon Freedom of Speech (RT, 6-12-14)
Iraq Crisis: Created by Bush and Blair and Bankrolled by Saudi Arabia (Common Dreams, 6-13-14)
Revealed: How Obama SET FREE the merciless terrorist warlord now leading the ISIS horde blazing a trail of destruction through Iraq (Daily Mail, 6-13-14)
Opinion: 'Thirty Years' War in the Middle East? (DW, 6-15-14)
Baghdad Blames Saudi Arabia for 'Encouraging Genocide' in Iraq (RT, 6-17-14)
3 Muslims Killed in Buddhist Mob Attacks in Sri Lanka (CNN, 6-17-14)
Extremists Said to Take Control of Iraq's Biggest Oil Refinery (New York Times, 6-18-14)
A Tale of Two Policies: US in Iraq and South Sudan (Al Jazeera, 6-18-14)
Dugin’s Evil Theology (National Review, 6-18-14)
'Gov't Has Failed': Poverty Doubles in UK Over Last 30 Years (RT, 6-19-14)
'Is ISIL Really 'Sunni'? Not at All' (Press TV, 6-20-14)
The Strong Female Voice of Hamas (Spiegel, 6-20-14)
ISIL Saudi Creation Trained by Western Agents: Analyst (Press TV, 6-20-14)
A Winning Strategy for Iraq and Syria (The Daily Beast, 6-21-14)
Marry Me, Quick! ISIS Fighters "Seek Brides" in Iraqi Town (ABNA, 6-22-14)
Paul: ISIS emboldened after US armed its allies in Syria (The Hill, 6-22-14)
Heil Hipster: The Young Neo-Nazis Trying to Put a Stylish Face on Hate (Rolling Stone, 6-23-14)
Palau Moves to Protect Diminishing Fish Stocks in Face of Global Inaction (Truth Out, 6-23-14)
"We gave America a Blowjob and got nothing" -Polish FM (RT Video, 6-23-14)
Curious wiretapping affair rocks Polish government (DW, 6-23-14)
Obama's Central American Follies (National Interest, 6-23-14)
Kerry Goes to Egypt to Support Murderous Dictator Sisi: 5 U.S.-Funded Nations That Torture, Execute and Jail With Impunity (Alternet, 6-23-14)
Is U.S. 'game of thrones' in Iraq and Syria responsible for the rise of ISIS? (Stop The War Coalition, 6-24-14)
Why You Need an Electric Vehicle: Radicalism in Iraq Menaces World’s Most Important Oil Fields (TruthDig, 6-24-14)
What Is the Quality of Scientific Evidence Against Iran? (Truth-Out, 6-24-14)
Did Obama Know that ISIS Planned to Invade Iraq? (Counter Punch, 6-24-14)
How Obama Is Driving Russia and China Together (The National Interest, 6-24-14)
ISIS Post PR Photos They Took With John McCain (Counter Currents, 6-25-14)
Report: Obama drone policy destabilizing for world, US democracy (Aljazeera, 6-26-14)
Syrian rebel command sacked over graft claims (Al Arabiya, 6-27-14)
How to Have a Big Disastrous War with China (National Interest, 6-27-14)
Big four accounting firms warn Hong Kong over democracy push (Financial Times, 6-27-14)
From Stalwarts to Scapegoats: America's Foreign Clients (The National Interest, 6-27-14)
Bosnian Serbs erect statue to Gavrilo Princip, teen assassin who ignited WWI (AOL news, 6-27-14)
Land used for opium cultivation at historic high – UN (RT, 6-28-14)
Who Violated Ukraine’s Sovereignty?(Common Dreams, 6-29-14)
June - 2014 - Political
Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Committed War Crimes (Nation of Change, 6-3-14)
Hillary Clinton 2016: A Recipe for Endless War (YouTube, 6-3-14)
What Excuse Remains for Obama’s Failure to Close GITMO? (The Intercept, 6-3-14)
Obama's Europe Doctrine: Too Much Stupid, Not Enough Serious (RT, 6-4-14)
Superpowers Don't Retire, But Robert Kagan Should (National Interest, 6-4-14)
5 Conservatives Who Are Still Mad That Women Have the Right to Vote (Alternet, 6-5-14)
The Common Roots of Misogynist Culture in Pakistan in the U.S. (Common Dreams, 6-6-14)
Are Reparations Due to African-Americans? (New York Times, 6-8-14)
Human Rights Watch's Revolving Door: Edicts and Positions in Line With US Policy (Global Research, 6-8-14)
Human Rights Watch's Revolving Door (Jacobin, 6-8-14)
U.S. Nearly Used Nukes During Vietnam War (Huffington Post, 6-10-14)
The Democracy-Promotion Industry is Adrift (National Interest, 6-11-14)
Ensuring a Nuclear Nightmare Never Happens (National Interest, 6-11-14)
Tea Party Groups That Offered Dave Brat Zero Support Sure Are Thrilled He Defeated Eric Cantor (Washington Examiner, 6-11-14)
America's Covert Re-Invasion of Iraq (Global Research, 6-13-14)
Defense Officials Prepare to Fight the Poor, Activists and Minorites (The Guardian, 6-13-14)
The Fall of Teachers Unions (Politico, 6-13-14)
Events in Iraq Open Door for Interventionist Revival, Historian Says (New York Times, 6-15-14)
Hillary: I 'Couldn't Predict' A Group Named 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria' Would Advance Into Iraq (Breitbart, 6-16-14)
The People Who Broke Iraq Have a Lot of Ideas About Fixing It Now (Think Progress, 6-16-14)
Conservatives are Making Hay Out of Hillary Clinton's Defense of An Accused Rapist (Washington Post, 6-16-14)
Doesn't Hillary Clinton Know the Law? (Wall Street Journal, 6-17-14)
Hillary: Al-Maliki Must Go (Time, 6-17-14)
Wealthy Clintons Use Trusts to Limit Estate Tax They Back (Bloomberg, 6-17-14)
No Wonder No One Wants to Work for the Federal Government (Washington Post, 6-18-14)
Human Rights Watch's Weak Position on Obama's Drones (Common Dreams, 6-18-14)
Groups Appeal to UN for 'Humanity' as Detroit Shuts Off Water to Thousands (Common Dreams, 6-18-14)
Hillary's People (Free Beacon, 6-20-14)
Republican Leaders Threaten Another Government Shutdown Over Climate Action (Nation of Change, 6-21-14)
US Used Depleted Uranium 'Widely' Against Iraqi Civilians: Investigative Journalist (Press TV, 6-21-14)
Leaked Tape Has Polish FM Comparing Ties With US to Giving Oral Sex (RT, 6-23-14)
Cronyism and Coercion (Weekly Standard, 6-24-14)
Still waiting for the most important Obamacare ruling --- and it isn't Hobby Lobby (Washington Examiner, 6-24-14)
Alan Grayson Raises Questions About Keith Alexanders New $600,000/month Security Gig (Daily KOS, 6-26-14)
Student Leaders Ask Hillary To Return 'Outrageous' $225,000 School Speaking Fee (Business Insider, 6-27-14)
Obama Administration Deepens U.S. Role in Syria and Iraq (The Wall Street Journal, 6-27-14)
American Foreign Policy: From Clinton to Obama, a Series of Complete Failures (The National Interest, 6-28-14)
Nearly 300,000 Veterans Have Lost Out on Jobless Compensation Because of the Disdainful House GOP (Alternet, 6-28-14)
The Supreme Court Thinks Corporations Are People but Women Aren't (Truth Out, 6-30-14)
Congress Quietly Deletes a Key Disclosure of Free Trips Lawmakers Take (National Journal, 6-30-14)
Jeb Bush catching up with Hillary Clinton in presidential polls (RT, 6-30-14)
June - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
Noam Chomsky: A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination is Being Created in One of the World's Freest Countries (Alternet, 6-2-14)
Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show (Washington Post, 6-30-14)
June - 2014 - Technology
Death of a Libertarian Fantasy: Why Dreams of a Digital Utopia Are Rapidly Fading Away (Alternet, 6-15-14)
Fear Not the Coming of the Robots (New York Times, 6-21-14)
June - 2014 - Education
The Results Are In: America Is Dumb and on the Road to Getting Dumber (Alternet, 6-9-14)
Why Boarding Schools Produce Bad Leaders (Alternet, 6-16-14)
Mark Zuckerberg Gave New Jersey $100 Million to Fix Newark's Schools, And It Looks Like It Was a Waste (Yahoo! Finance, 5-13-14)
How You'll Get Screwed If Conservatives Kill the U.S. Postal Service (Alternet, 5-19-14)
Piketty Findings Undercut by Errors (Financial Times, 5-23-14)
We (And This Includes You, Democrats) Have Blown a Huge Hole in the Safety Net (Common Dreams, 5-23-14)
Magazine Woes Take Out 6,000 Jobs at Distributor (Wall Street Journal, 5-30-14)
May - 2014 - Environmental
Why Congress Can't Fix Our Crazy Chemical Safety System (National Journal, 5-1-14)
Climate change risk to icy East Antarctica (DW, 5-7-14)
These Stunning Photos Show What Iconic U.S. Locations Look Like After 12 Feet of Sea Level Rise (Raw Story, 5-14-14)
7 States Running Out of Water: 24/7 Wall Street (Huffington Post, 5-24-14)
What Climate Change Would Actually Look Like (YouTube, 5-27-14)
May - 2014 - Health
UN: Spread of Polio is a World Health Emergency (Huffington Post, 5-5-14)
The CIA Aided Polio's Comeback, But Media Have Forgotten the Story (Common Dreams, 5-9-14)
US, Papua New Guinea, Oman are Only Nations Without Paid Maternity Leave (RT, 5-14-14)
I Finally Had an Orgasm and My Husband Didn't Even Know (Alternet, 5-10-14)
Toddlers Dosed With Speed? How Big Pharma Hooks America's Kids on Dangerous Meds (Alternet, 5-23-14)
Carbon Dioxide Levels Topped 400 PPM Throughout Northern Hemisphere in April, WMO Says (Huffington Post, 5-26-14)
May - 2014 - Religion
How God May Replace the US Constitution in Just 3 Easy Steps (Truth Out, 5-10-14)
How Christianity is Disappearing In the Middle East in One Chart (Huffington Post, 5-23-14)
UN Committee Addresses Clergy Rape and Sexual Violence as Torture (CCR Justice, 5-23-14)
Why Billy Graham's Son, Franklin Graham, Is the Next Worst Thing to Happen to God (Alternet, 5-30-14)
May - 2014 - Foreign
Five Pakistani Militants We Should be Paying More Attention To (War On the Rocks, 5-1-14)
Quiet Revolution of the Emerging Countries (DW, 5-6-14)
Netanyahu's Blood and Soil: The Racist Nationalism of His 'Jewish State' Ideal (Truth Dig, 5-7-14)
Boko Haram: US AFRICOM'S Latest False Flag Franchise (21st Century Wire, 5-11-14)
Former German Chancellor Schroder Defends Birthday Bash With Putin (Wall Street Journal, 5-11-14)
Russia Targets Space Station Project in Retaliation for U.S. Sanctions (Huffington Post, 5-13-14)
The Only Way to Save Ukraine: Federalization (National Interest, 5-13-14)
Rebels Cut Off Water to 3 Million People in Aleppo, Syria (YouTube, 5-13-14)
Teaching Liberation to Pakistan's Girls (New York Times, 5-14-14)
Syrian Rebels Cut Off Water Supply to Both Halves of Aleppo (The National, 5-14-14)
Syria: Another Crusade (New Eastern Outlook, 5-18-14)
Bill, Hillary and the Haiti Debacle (The Wall Street Journal, 5-18-14)
Armed Group Deployed in Libyan Capital (Al Jazeera, 5-19-14)
Chernobyl Memories Faded? Kiev Turns Blind Eye to Disaster Risk in Nuclear Deal With US (RT, 5-19-14)
Far-Right Fever for a Europe Tied to Russia (New York Times, 5-21-14)
After Snipers Kill Children, US Affirms "Deep Respect" for "Israeli Army's Moral Code" (Electronic Intifada, 5-22-14)
U.S. Wars in the Middle East: Imperialism and the Battle for Water (Global Research, 5-26-14)
Podemos Hopes to Cement Rise of Citizen Politics in Spain After Election Success (The Guardian, 5-27-14)
Anti-EU, Far-Right Parties Post Strong Gains in European Elections (Wall Street Journal, 5-27-14)
Mr. Perfect from Warsaw: The Rise of Poland's Foreign Minister (Spiegel, 5-30-14)
May - 2014 - Political
'Cold War Against Russia - Without Debate' (RT, 5-2-14)
At Last: The Real Story of the Vietnam War (Alternet, 5-5-14)
Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists (The Daily Beast, 5-7-14)
The Six Principles of the New Populism (and the Establishment's Nightmare) (Truth Dig, 5-7-14)
Bill de Blasio’s risky ‘Boogie Nights’ budgeting (New York Post, 5-7-14)
Obama, Libya, and Boko Haram's Whirlwind (Red State, 5-9-14)
U.S. Bolsters Regimes in Uganda and Nigeria That Persecute Gays and Abuse Human Rights (Alternet, 5-9-14)
Here's Why the U.S. Missile Defense System is Utterly Broken (iO9, 5-9-14)
America Has Switched Sides: Now Backs Al Qaeda and Nazis (Global Research, 5-11-14)
Challenge to Virginia's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Creates an Uneasy Alliance (Washington Post, 5-11-14)
Nobel Peace Laureates to Human Rights Watch: Close Your Revolving Door to U.S. Government (Global Research, 5-12-14)
How Bill Clinton’s Welfare “Reform” Created a System Rife With Racial Biases (Bill Moyers, 5-12-14)
US Military Should Rescue Schoolgirls, Even Without Nigeria's Permission - McCain (RT, 5-13-14)
How the Right Wing Is Killing Women (Nation of Change, 5-13-14)
Karl Rove Suggests Hillary Clinton May Have Brain Damage (Huffington Post, 5-14-14)
Break The Silence: A World War Is Beckoning (John Pilger, 5-13-14)
Netizens to Michelle Obama: #BringBackYourDrones (Al Jazeera, 5-14-14)
Was American Democracy Always Doomed? (Alternet, 5-17-14)
Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer Auditions as Hillary Clinton's Populist Challenger (Wall Street Journal, 5-21-14)
Endless War: Top Obama Lawyers Tell Congress the President Can Do Anything He Wants In War On Terrorists (Alternet, 5-21-14)
Over 60% of US Drone Targets in Pakistan are Homes - Research (RT, 5-25-14)
Nuclear Weapons: Toward Abolition or Armageddon? (Global Research, 5-26-14)
The True VA Scandal is Shared Across the Federal Government (Washington Post, 5-26-14)
GOP Pressing Obama to Confront Russia Over Nukes (Huffington Post, 5-27-14)
May - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
This Email Shows Google and NSA's Close Working Relationship (Huffington Post, 5-6-14)
Former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based on Metadata (Truth Dig, 5-12-14)
May - 2014 - Technology
Chattanooga's Super-Fast Publicly Owned Internet (CNN, 5-20-14)
The FCC May Finally Admit That 4Mbps Doesn't Count as 'Broadband' Anymore (Yahoo! News, 5-31-14)
May - 2014 - Education
Enforcing School Dress Codes Teaches Girls to be Ashamed, Not 'Modest' (The Guardian, 5-21-14)
May - 2014 - Miscellaneous
The Power of Imagination (Truth Out, 5-14-14)
Corporate Lobbyists Assail Tax Overhaul They Once Cheered (New York Times, 4-1-14)
Yellen's Dog Is Eating Homework Congress Didn't Even Assign: Reflections On the Greatest Mission Creep Ever (Contra Corner, 4-2-14)
Amazing Graphic Shows Chicago's Middle Class Disappear Before Your Eyes (CBS, 4-3-14)
Ukraine 'Spillover' Could Wreck World Economy - Lagarde (RT, 4-3-14)
The New Shock Doctrine: 'Doing Business' With the World Bank (Al Jazeera, 4-4-14)
U.S. Corporations Now Hold Over $2 Trillion In Untaxed Profits Overseas: Study (Huffington Post, 4-8-14)
Investor Marc Faber Predicts a Crash 'Worse Than 1987' (Yahoo! Finance, 4-10-14)
Walgreens Urged to Leave US to Gain Tax Benefit (Financial Times, 4-13-14)
Three Expensive Milliseconds (New York Times, 4-14-14)
Four Eras of Slavery, for the Benefit of Corporations (Common Dreams, 4-14-14)
Income Inequality Institute Will Pay Paul Krugman $25,000 Per Month (Popular Resistance, 4-21-14)
Five Ways the 1% Are Killing Us (Truth Out, 4-21-14)
Five Things to Know About How Corporations Block Access to Everything From Miracle Drugs to Science Research (Truth Out, 4-22-14)
Want to Become a Billionaire? Just Solve One of These 10 Problems (Business Insider, 4-22-14)
Demand for Home Loans Plunges (Wall Street Journal, 4-24-14)
Poverty is Killing Us (Truth Out, 4-24-14)
What Problem is Privatizing Fannie and Freddie Meant to Solve? (Truth Out, 4-28-14)
Silicon Valley's Shocking Collusion: Inside One of the Largest Wage Theft Trials in U.S. History (Alternet, 4-29-14)
The Real Unemployment Rate: In 20% of American Families, Everyone is Unemployed (Zero Hedge, 4-29-14)
Ukraine Gets IMF Approval for $17 Billion Loan Amid Unrest (Bloomberg, 4-30-14)
10 Poverty Myths, Busted (Mother Jones, 4-30-14)
April - 2014 - Environmental
"Our Energy Moment": The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz (Desmog Blog, 4-1-14)
Mapping China's Dam Rush - And the Environmental Consequences (New Security beat, 4-3-14)
The Best Way to Deal With Ocean Trash (National Geographic, 4-14-14)
Up to 1,000 Times More Methane Released at Gas Wells Than EPA Estimates, Study Finds (Think Progress, 4-15-14)
Monsanto's Round Up Poison 125 Times More Dangerous Than Regulators Admit (Nation of Change, 4-20-14)
Keystone Pipeline May Be Big, But This Is Bigger (New York Times, 4-22-14)
Where Have All the Green Jobs Gone? (The Nation, 4-22-14)
America's Green Jobs Failure (Daily Kos, 4-22-14)
A Deeper Look at A Study Finding High Leak Rates From Gas Drilling (Dot Earth, 4-23-14)
This Bill Gates Infographic Reveals The World's Deadliest Animal — And It's Not Even A Close Race (Business Insider, 4-28-14)
April - 2014 - Health
Obamacare Has Spawned a Misguided Debate (Washington Post, 4-7-14)
These Maps Show Where Kids in America Get Terrifying Sex Ed (Huffington Post, 4-10-14)
The 8 Most Surprising Nations That Still Require a Prescription for Birth Control (Global Post, 4-9-14)
Medicaid Programs Drowning on Backlog (Truth Dig, 4-9-14)
"Entitled to Life" Trailer (YouTube, 4-16-14)
As U.S. warms, dangerous mosquito thrives (CNN, 4-30-14)
April - 2014 - Religion
Metropolitan Baptist Church Faces Foreclosure on 'God's Promised Land in Largo' (Washington Post, 4-4-14)
Franklin Graham: Putin Is Doing 'What's Right for Russia' by Cracking Down on Gays (Raw Story, 4-20-14)
A Saint, He Ain't (New York Times, 4-22-14)
April - 2014 - Foreign
Alexander Dugin and the Philosophy Behind Putin's Invasion of Crimea (Foreign Affairs, 4-1-14)
How China's Electric Car Dreams Became a PR Nightmare in America (Huffington Post, 4-1-14)
Rebel Leader Supported by the West Admits He Fights Alongside Al-Qaeda (RT, 4-3-14)
Europe Leaders Contend With Defenders of Russia's Putin (Wall Street Journal, 4-4-14)
Will the IMF Bailout Turn Ukraine Into Another Greece? (Common Dreams, 4-7-14)
The Collapsing Syria-Sarin Case (Common Dreams, 4-8-14)
Death Squads Galore: U.S.-Backed Assassinations Wreak Global Havoc (Alternet, 4-8-14)
Baby Charged With Attempted Murder, Goes Into Hiding in Pakistan (NBC News, 4-8-14)
Ukraine and Russia Have Created an International Disorder (Truth Dig, 4-8-14)
'If Stones Could Weep': Syria, Blair's Plans and an Archbishop's Son (Global Research, 4-10-14)
These 10 Countries Have the Highest Murder Rates (Huffington Post, 4-10-14)
Divorce Beltway Style (Free Beacon, 4-11-14)
Russia Tests New Yars ICBM (Voice of Russia, 4-14-14)
Let Asia Go Nuclear (National Interest, 4-14-14)
Ukraine: The Anti-Maidan Begins (New Eastern Outlook, 4-14-14)
Our Big, Fat, Not-So-Secret War In Africa (Common Dreams, 4-14-14)
Decadent DC: The Extravagant Life of "Progressive" Lobbyist Tony Podesta and His Soon-to-Be Ex-Wife (Against Crony Capitalism, 4-14-14)
The Deepwater Horizon Threat (New Year Times, 4-17-14)
China Details Vast Extent of Soil Pollution (Wall Street Journal, 4-17-14)
How Rwanda's Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt (Wall Street Journal, 4-21-14)
The Frightening New Lives of Homosexuals in Uganda (Spiegel, 4-21-14)
Six Questions for Narendra Modi (Counter Currents, 4-22-14)
Abe's Military Push May Please U.S. But Rattle Neighbors (Wall Street Journal, 4-22-14)
Private Sector Hides a Mountain of European Debt (DW, 4-23-14)
Haiti in the Shadow of Cholera (New York Times, 4-25-14)
Kuwait, a U.S. Ally on Syria, is Also the Leading Funder of Extremist Rebels (Washington Post, 4-25-14)
Neoliberalism, the Left, and the Politics of Pachamama (Common Dreams, 4-25-14)
Le Pen Hits France's EU Elections: Far-right Party Predicted to Humiliate Hollande's Socialists at the Polls (Daily Mail, 4-26-14)
Economics of Disintegration in Ukraine (Common Dreams, 4-27-14)
Neo-Nazis March in Lvov 'In Honor' of Ukrainian Waffen SS Division (RT, 4-28-14)
April - 2014 - Political
7 Reasons Obama Should Forget About Crimea (Oriental Review, 4-1-14)
Obama Orders Up More Money for Nukes, Less to Keep Them Safe in Hands (Mother Jones, 4-1-14)
Paul Ryan Has A Plan for the Poor. It's Terrible. (Mother Jones, 4-2-14)
What's the Outlook for Obama's Goal to Double U.S. Exports by 2015? (America's Trade Policy, 4-14-14)
The Media's Disinformation Campaign on Ukraine: "There Are No Neo-Nazis in the Interim Government" (Global Research, 4-3-14)
Money and "Humanitarian Credentials": How the U.S. Government Co-Opts Human Rights Groups (Global Research, 4-6-14)
USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba (Common Dreams, 4-6-14)
Media Blackout Over Syria (Global Research, 4-6-14)
Maine Senator Rips Dick Cheney, Invites Him to be Waterboarded (The Everlasting Cop Stoppers, 4-6-14)
Liberalism's New Bogeyman (Radix Journal, 4-6-14)
Tough Life: After Working Four Straight Days, House GOP Plans 18-Day Vacation (Daily Kos, 4-7-14)
A Peril to the Iran Nuclear Deal (National Interest, 4-8-14)
Republican States' Rejection of Medicaid Expansion is "Almost Awesome in Its Evilness" (Daily Kos, 4-9-14)
Obama's Epic Fail on Equal Pay: LGBT Need Not Apply? (Common Dreams, 4-10-14)
Tennessee Legislature Passes Far-Reaching Bill That Could Make Pregnant Women Criminals (Reality Check, 4-10-14)
The House Voted on The Progressive Caucus and Black Caucus' Budgets (Progressive Democrats of America, 4-10-14)
Evidence of GOP Interference in VW Election Is Now Overwhelming (Truth Out, 4-11-14)
President Obama Will Decide Whether to Accept Iraq's Legalizing Rape of Children (Alternet, 4-11-14)
Google, Once Disdainful of Lobbying, Now a Master of Washington Influence (Washington Post, 4-12-14)
9 Countries That Hate America Most (Huffington Post, 4-13-14)
How the World's Only Superpower is Vulnerable to Catastrophe (Alternet, 4-14-14)
Let's Get Rape Evidence Off the Shelves and Start Solving Crimes (Washington Post, 4-13-14)
Virginia Republicans Aren't Blinking in Medicaid Showdown (Washington Post, 4-13-14)
Progressive Puritans (Reason, 4-14-14)
The Secret Anti-Abortion Law That's Sweeping America (The Guardian, 4-15-14)
Governor Bans Minimum Wage Increases and Paid Sick Leave Laws (Think Progress, 4-15-14)
Prominent Republican: Women Need To be Paid Less So They Can Find Husbands (Think Progress, 4-15-14)
The Pentagon, Libya, and Tomorrow's Blowback Today (Common Dreams, 4-16-14)
Louisiana Lawmakers Refuse to Repeal State Law Banning Oral Sex (Think Progress, 4-16-14)
Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy (Talking Points Memo, 4-18-14)
Lap Dancers, the CIA, Payoffs and BP's Deepwater Horizon (Truth Dig, 4-18-14)
Why Kidnapping, Torture, Assassination and Perjury Are No Longer Crimes in Washington (Alternet, 4-20-14)
In Cold War Echo, Obama Strategy Writes Off Putin (New York Times, 4-21-14)
Nuclear Warfare in the New Cold War (Global Research, 4-21-14)
Anti-Semitic Fliers in Ukraine: Obama Endorses a Forgery, Supports Neo-Nazi Parties (Global Research, 4-21-14)
The Real Port Authority Scandal (New York Times, 4-21-14)
The Most Redacted Administration in History (Washington Examiner, 4-22-14)
New York Times Propaganda Photos On Ukraine Exposed (Global Research, 4-23-14)
"Bomb Syria... for Ukraine's Sake!": The True Colors of the "Humanitarian Interventionist" and "Responsibility to Protect" Crowd (Global Research, 4-24-14)
Film Explores Human Toll of Obama's Crackdown on Whistle-Blowers (Truth Dig, 4-24-14)
Bad Idea of the Day: Bomb Syria to Save Ukraine (National Interest, 4-24-14)
Criminal Investigation of the Nobel Peace Prize (Global Research, 4-25-14)
Tea Party PACs Reap Money for Midterms, But Spend Little on Candidates (Washington Post, 4-26-14)
US Plutocracy and the Dodd-Frank Sausage Machine (Truth Out, 4-27-14)
War Criminal Madeleine Albright is an "Example to Follow" Says US Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights (Global Research, 4-28-14)
How the U.S. Created the Afghan War, Then Lost It (Alternet, 4-29-14)
Freedom Growing for Sex Workers Around the World... Not So Much in the U.S. (Alternet, 4-30-14)
April - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
How Being a Whistleblower Left Me No Choice But to Take a Minimum-Wage Job (Alternet, 4-24-14)
DC Thinks It Can Silence a New Snowden, But the Anti-Leak Hypocrisy is Backfiring (Common Dreams, 4-26-14)
US Govt Can Search Private Emails Stored Overseas: Judge (Common Dreams, 4-28-14)
White House Explains Why It Might Keep Internet Security Flaws a Secret (The Verge, 4-29-14)
April - 2014 - Technology
Physicists Are Building an NSA-Proof Internet (Global Post, 4-2-14)
Facebook and the Future of Global Governance (Truth Out, 4-3-14)
Toxic Tech: Apple and Other Manufacturers Have to Stop Poisoning Their Workers (Alternet, 4-3-14)
Vox Takes Melding Of Journalism and Technology to a New Level (New York Times, 4-6-14)
Calling All Hackers: The End of Windows XP Support Could Herald New Security Risks (DW, 4-8-14)
RIP Windows XP (RT, 4-8-14)
April - 2014 - Education
Most Teens Don't Receive Formal Sex Education Until After They've Already Started Having Sex (Think Progress, 4-9-14)
Next Time a Liberal Asks You to Fork Over More Money for Public Education, Show Them This Graphic (IJ Review, 4-15-14)
High School Students are All About Computers But Get Lottle Instruction in Computer Science (Washington Post, 4-23-14)
April - 2014 - Miscellaneous
Should GM Get the Death Penalty for 57 Cent Premeditated Murder? (Truth Out, 4-4-14)
8 Things Mainstream Media Doesn't Have the Courage to Tell You (Alternet, 4-6-14)
Scale Model WWII Craft Takes Flight With Fuel from the Sea Concept (NRL, 4-7-14)
Belle Knox, Duke University Porn Performer, Becomes Media Star and Target (Alternet, 4-12-14)
Stone Cold Steve Austin On Marriage Equality (YouTube, 4-18-14)
The Rhetoric of Violence (Truth Dig, 4-20-14)
Scary and Sad: There are 63,000 Structurally Deficient Bridges in the US (Daily Kos, 4-24-14)
Stone Cold' Steve Austin's Impassioned, Explicit Defense Of Gay Marriage (The Post Game, 4-24-14)
David A. Stockman Says Tax the Rich and Hogtie the Fed (Contra Corner, 3-1-14)
7 Numbers Show How Most Americans Were Robbed of a Comfortable Retirement (Alternet, 3-2-14)
America's Cavalier Stance on the IMF (Financial Times, 3-17-14)
IRS Puts Taxpayers on Hold Indefinitely (Town Hall, 3-22-14)
The trillion-dollar gap (The Economist, 3-22-14)
Overwhelming Evidence That Half of America is In or Near Poverty (Alternet, 3-23-14)
More Evidence That Half of America Is In Or Near Poverty (Truth Out, 3-24-14)
America Needs a Better Measure of Unemployment (Against Crony Capitalism, 3-24-14)
The Coming Job Apocalypse (Washington Post, 3-26-14)
The Ghosts of America's Long-Term Unemployed (The Guardian, 3-27-14)
US Seniors Shafted by Inflation That 170 Percent in Excess of Savings' Interest (Truth Out, 3-28-14)
We're in a Private Debt Crisis That Will Lead to the Next Economic Collapse (Yahoo!, 3-28-14)
80-Percent of US Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment, Survey Finds (Progressive Democrats of America, 3-30-14)
March - 2014 - Environmental
The Scary New Evidence on BPA-Free Plastics (Mother Jones, 3-3-14)
Virus From Siberian Permafrost Revived (Al Jazeera, 3-3-14)
Scientists: Melting Ice May Unleash Giant, Ancestral Viruses (Common Dreams, 3-3-14)
The Antarctic Half of the Global Thermohaline Circulation is Collapsing (Daily Kos, 3-5-14)
While America Waits on Keystone Decision, A Different Tar Sands Pipeline Just Got Approved (Think Progress, 3-7-14)
Chevron Says Hell Will Freeze Over Before it Pays for Pollution (Green is the New Red, 3-7-14)
Climatologist Who Predicted California Drought 10 Years Ago Says It May Soon Be 'Even More Dire' (Think Progress, 3-7-14)
Keystone XL Pipeline Has Wide Public Support, Poll Finds (Huffington Post, 3-7-14)
The Great American 'Toxic Chemical' Experiment (Common Dreams, 3-19-14)
While America Spars Over Keystone XL, A Vast Network Of Pipelines Is Quietly Being Approved (Think Progress, 3-20-14)
25 Years After Exxon Valdez, BP Was the Hidden Culprit (Truth Dig, 3-25-14)
WHO: Air Pollution Caused One in Eight Deaths (CNN, 3-25-14)
This Sad Map Shows Where Lions Used to Live (red) And Where They Remain Today (blue) (Treehugger,
Climate Change Already Felt 'On All Continents and Across The Oceans,' IPCC Finds (Huffington Post, 3-28-14)
The Vanishing Arctic Ice Cap (Truth Out, 3-31-14)
March - 2014 - Health
Second Opinion: Talks on Sexual Abstinence Have No Place in Our Schools (Irish Times, 3-5-14)
Sigh: No, Obamacare Hasn't Reached 'Five Million Enrollments' (Town Hall, 3-18-14)
Tuberculosis Makes a Comeback (Al Jazeera, 3-24-14)
Sex Impacts Your Health and Well-Being: So Why Aren't More Doctors Trained to Talk About It? (Alternet, 3-29-14)
March - 2014 - Religion
9 Valiant Religious Rights Efforts to End Masturbation Forever (Alternet, 3-12-14)
Bible Belt Leads the Nation in Consumption of Gay Porn (Patheos, 3-13-14)
Christian Right Has Major Role in Hastening Decline of Religion in America (Alternet, 3-22-14)
Christian Charity Backtracks on Gays (New York Times, 3-28-14)
March - 2014 - Foreign
Ukraine: One 'Regime Change' Too Many? (Michael Moore, 3-2-14)
Libya Is Still in Crisis (DW, 3-3-14)
Why is the Mainstream Media Ignoring the Rabid Anti-Semitism of the New Ukraine Government? (Global Research, 3-3-14)
Two Lawmakers Shot in Libya as Protesters Storm Parliament (DW, 3-3-14)
The 'Hidden Debts' of Russia and Ukraine (Business Insider, (3-4-14)
CODEPINK Co-Founder Medea Benjamin Detained, Brutally Attacked and Deported From Egypt en Route to Gaza with International Delegation of Women (Progressive Democrats of America, 3-4-14)
A Monster Reawakens: The Rise of Ukrainian Fascism (Anti War, 3-4-14)
Spring Fails in Ukrainian Plunderland (Asia Times, 3-5-14)
"Democratization" and Anti-Semitism in Ukraine: When Neo-Nazi Symbols Became "The New Normal" (Global Research, 3-6-14)
US Readies for Modi Ahead of 2014 India Elections as Indian Media Becomes Campaign Focus (Truth Out, 3-6-14)
Nazis Come to Power in Europe for First Time Since World War II: Where is the Outrage? (iAcknowledge, 3-6-14)
Israel's Love-In With Europe's New Nazis (Middle East Monitor, 3-6-14)
This is the Modern Axis of Buddhist Hate (Foreign Policy, 3-7-14)
Putin's Full One-Hour Interview Transcript (Veterans Today, 3-7-14)
Russia May Halt Arms Inspections Following Ukraine Crisis (Wall Street Journal, 3-8-14)
Who's Who in Ukraine's New "Semi-Fascist" Government: Meet the People in the U.S. and EU are Supporting (Global Research, 3-8-14)
The Dark Side of Ukraine's Revolt (The Nation, 3-10-14)
Nuland, Ashton, "Klitsch," "Yats," and... Oleh Tyahnybok? (China Matters, 3-10-14)
Somali Farmers Benefit From Al-Shabab Reforms (Al Jazeera, 3-11-14)
Heidegger's 'Black Notebooks' Reveal Anti-Semitism at Core of His Philosophy (The Guardian, 3-12-14)
American Proxy Wars in Africa (Anti-War, 3-13-14)
Franklin Graham Endorses Vladimir Putin's Anti-Gay Crackdown (Right Wing Watch, 3-14-14)
William Hague Deceived House of Commons Over Ukraine (Spin Watch, 3-14-14)
Ahead of Crimea Vote, Disenchanted Ukrainian Officers Expose Pro-Russia Sentiments (Washington Post, 3-15-14)
95.7% of Crimeans Give the Finger to White House Tyrant (Institute for Political Economy, 3-16-14)
Ukraine, Russia, and the World: Five Questions to 3 Authors (Tlaxcala, 3-16-14)
Foes of America in Russia Crave Rupture in Ties (New York Times, 3-16-14)
Wave of Sexual Abuse Allegations for Private Boys Schools in Britain (New York Times, 3-17-14)
Crimean Referendum in Line With International Standards, Laws - Austrian Observer (Voice of Russia, 3-17-14)
Yes, There Are Bad Guys in the Ukrainian Government (Foreign Policy, 3-18-14)
Five Ways You're Wrong About Libya (National Interest, 3-19-14)
Ukrainian TV Boss Assaulted and Forced to Resign by Far-Right Svoboda MPs (Euro News, 3-19-14)
Sara Netanyahu, Israel's Marie Antoinette (Haaretz, 3-20-14)
Kiev Authorities Giving School Camps to Neo-Nazis for Military Training (Voice of Russia, 3-22-14)
Time to Grab Guns and Kill Damn Russians - Tymoshenko Leaked in Tape (RT, 3-24-14)
When the Afghan and Pakistan Taliban Unite (Foreign Policy, 3-25-14)
Russia's Actions in Crimea 'Completely Understandable' - German ex-Chancellor (RT, 3-26-14)
The Third Position is Dead (Syncretic Studies, 3-26-14)
Ukraine's IMF Deal Means Greece-Like Depression (Common Dreams, 3-28-14)
Ukraine's Inconvenient Neo-Nazis (Common Dreams, 3-30-14)
Women in Revealing Clothes Deserve to be Raped, Say Brazilians in New Poll (Washington Examiner, 3-30-14)
Prominent Germans Have Understanding for Russian Annexation of Crimea (Spiegel, 3-31-14)
March - 2014 - Political
It Turns Out Monsanto Actually Did Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group (Counter Current News, 3-1-14)
Obama's Dumbest Plan Yet (Truth Dig, 3-2-14)
Hard-Hit Federal Training Gets Attention in Obama's 2015 Budget Proposal (Washington Post, 3-2-14)
Washington Post 'News Article' Slams President Obama for Not Bombing Russia (Common Dreams, 3-3-14)
Segal: US Not Listening to Russia About Ukraine (YouTube, 3-3-14)
Ukraine Crisis Calls for Less Neocon Bluster, More Common Sense (Alternet, 3-4-14)
George Galloway: US Approach to Ukraine 'Ludicrous, Nonsensical' (YouTube, 3-4-14)
Hillary Clinton Says Putin's Actions Are Like 'What Hitler Did Back in the '30s' (Washington Post, 3-5-14)
Video: RT Anchor Quits On Air (The Daily Beast, 3-5-14)
When It Comes to Sexual Assault, The Military Keeps Coming Up With New Ways to Appall Us (Washington Post, 3-6-14)
Vermont's Bernie Sanders Readies 2016 Run, Blasts 'Clinton Type of Politics' (Washington Examiner, 3-6-14)
The Clumsy Greed of the U.S. and the West on Full Display in Ukraine Disaster (Alternet, 3-6-14)
Bill Clinton Cashes in On Struggling Nonprofit Hospital, Gets $225,000 in Speaking Fees as Workers Laid Off (Against Crony Capitalism, 3-7-14)
The Hidden Line in Obama's Budget and What It Means for Cities and Metro Areas (Brookings, 3-7-14)
Hillary Clinton and Christine Legarde Team Up at Women in the World (The Daily Beast, 3-10-14)
Gitmo Inmate: 'All I Want Is What President Obama Promised' (Common Dreams, 3-11-14)
U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack (Wall Street Journal, 3-12-14)
Total U.S. National Security Spending, 2014-2015 (Pogo, 3-13-14)
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev (RSN, 3-14-14)
Neocons Have Weathered the Storm (Common Dreams, 3-14-14)
In 21st Century's Biggest Media Sale, CIA-Inflated Amazon Chills WaPo Journalism (Alternet, 3-14-14)
The Hypocritical United States of Amnesia and Russia (Dissident Voice, 3-15-14)
US Experts on the Crimean Crisis: 'We Shouldn't Threaten Putin' (Spiegel, 3-15-14)
As Viewing Habits Change, Political Campaigns Must Change Their Habits As Well (Washington Post, 3-15-14)
How America's Spirit for Revolution Was Crushed (Alternet, 3-16-14)
The Politics of Hopelessness (Washington Post, 3-16-14)
Obama Just Announced Sanctions Against 7 Russian 'Cronies' (Business Insider, 3-17-14)
Belafonte: U.S. Should Hit Uganda Where It Hurts on Gay Rights (CNN, 3-17-14)
How the US Dream of World Supremacy Was Buried in Crimea (Vineyard Saker, 3-17-14)
Obama Declares a National Emergency: Crimea Self-Determination Constitutes a "Threat to US National Security" (Global Research, 3-17-14)
America's Right Wing Has Gone Gay Crazy (Alternet, 3-18-14)
The War On Russia (Radix Journal, 3-18-14)
Democrats Want Holder to Discuss Issues With Mortgage-Fraud Prosecutions (Washington Post, 3-18-14)
No Russian Ever Called Me a Terrorist (Common Dreams, 3-20-14)
Abby Martin Takes Down the Cold War-Obsessed Neocons Behind the Curtain (YouTube, 3-20-14)
The Voluntarism Fantasy (Democracy Journal, 3-22-14)
A Casualty of Rick Scott, The Florida Legislature, and The Party of 'No' (Women on the Move, 3-23-14)
Is Rick Scott Guilty of Murder? (Truth Out, 3-25-14)
Anger, Disbelief as Obama Defends US Invasion of Iraq (Common Dreams, 3-26-14)
This Interview With Franklin Graham is One of the Most Homophobic Things We've Ever Seen (Huffington Post, 3-26-14)
Obama Expands Bush's Fascist Domestic and International Infrastructure (Global Research, 3-26-14)
Who Voted Against U.S. Aid to Ukraine? (Washington Post, 3-27-14)
Forget Russian Gas, Just Frack Europe: Obama (Common Dreams, 3-27-14)
Why Is the U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa? (The Nation, 3-27-14)
Secret Ops Revealed: The U.S. Miltary Averages More Than a Mission a Day in Africa (Alternet, 3-27-14)
GA Voting Record on Ukraine (Scribd, 3-28-14)
Kremlin Finds a Defender In Congress (New York Times, 3-28-14)
Cokie Roberts Attacks US: This Is How DC Works (Alan Grayson Emails, 3-29-14)
GOP's Obamacare Spite Means Death Toll for Red States (Daily Kos, 3-30-14)
America's Secret Weapon to Stop Russia (National Interest, 3-31-14)
March - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
NSA Surveillance Program Reaches 'Into the Past' to Retrieve, Replay Phone Calls (Washington Post, 3-18-14)
US Tech Giants Knew of NSA Data Collection, Agency's Top Lawyer Insists (The Guardian, 3-19-14)
March - 2014 - Technology
Transformers Expose Limits in Securing Power Grid (Wall Street Journal, 3-3-14)
Bill Gates: Bots are Taking Away Jobs (Business Insider, 3-13-14)
Government Computers Running Windows XP Will Be Vulnerable to Hackers After April 8 (Washington Post, 3-16-14)
These Countries Are Among the Biggest 'Enemies of the Internet,' According to a New Report (Global Post, 3-19-14)
Poop-Powered Fuel Cell Cars Are Coming to California (Eco Salon, 3-27-14)
March - 2014 - Education
College Isn't For Everyone. Let's Stop Pretending It Is (Slate, 3-18-14)
March - 2014 - Miscellaneous
12 Stores That Were Essential to Your Childhood That Don't Exist Anymore (Washington Post, 3-4-14)
Banned in Bangalore (New York Times, 3-6-14)
Duke Porn Star Belle Knox Is the Hero I'd Been Waiting For (Alternet, 3-7-14)
The Library is the Last, Best Socialized Institution in America Today, and You're About to Lose It (Daily Kos, 3-8-14)
Amazing Photos Show Us Why the American Transportation Network Has Fallen Off the Rails (Daily Kos, 3-16-14)
MSNBC Is In Serious Trouble (Politico, 3-26-14)
Americans Consume Vast Amounts of Porn - - And We're Giant Hypocrites About It (Alternet, 3-26-14)
The Work of Sex Work: Laura Flanders with Melissa Gira Grant (Truth Out, 3-27-14)
Health Care Law Will Prompt Over 2 Million to Quit Jobs or Cut Hours, a CBO Report Says (Washington Post, 2-4-14)
More Men in Prime Working Ages Don't Have Jobs (Wall Street Journal, 2-5-14)
White House: It's a Good Thing That Obamacare Will Drive 2.5 Million Americans Out of the Workforce (Forbes, 2-5-14)
Marc Faber "US Stocks Need to Drop 40% to Become Attractive (Against Crony Capitalism, 2-5-14)
The Fed's Focus on the "Wealth Effect" is Idiotic (Washington's Blog, 2-7-14)
Tom Perkins' Big Idea: The Rich Should Get More Votes (CNN, 2-14-14)
Celebrities, European Leaders Push for Final Deal on Wall Street Tax (Moyers & Company, 2-19-14)
Student Loans: The Home Mortgage Crisis Redux (Huffington Post, 2-20-14)
29 Percent of All US Adults Under the Age of 35 Are Living With Their Parents (2-20-14)
Fed Fretted Over Reaction to Demise of Lehman (New York Times, 2-21-14)
Robert Reich: What'sApp is Everything Wrong With the U.S. Economy (Alternet, 2-22-14)
Private Equity Eyeing Half of U.S. Farmland (Truth Dig, 2-23-14)
Fair Tax Vs. Flat Tax: Which Is Right for America? (Western Journalism, 2-25-14)
Camp Challenges GOP With Tax Reform (The Hill, 2-26-14)
American Military Dominance in One Staggering Chart (Slate, 2-26-14)
February - 2014 - Environmental
California Draught Saps Water Reserves Above and Below Ground, Says Satellite Data (Circle of Blue, 2-4-14)
Is the Outrage Over GMO Overblown? (Alternet, 2-6-14)
Brief Music Video Offers Everything You Need to Know About Fracking (Moyers & Company, 2-6-14)
EPA Approves Another Pesticide Highly Toxic to Bees (Eco Watch, 2-7-14)
Iowa is Getting Sucked Into Scary Vanishing Gullies (Grist, 2-7-14)
There's No "Warming Pause" - - Trade Winds are Burying Heat in the Pacific (Grist, 2-10-14)
Will Thorium Save Us From Climate Change? (Eco Watch, 2-11-14)
There Have Been Five Mass Extinctions in Earth's History. Now We're Facing a Sixth. (Washington Post, 2-11-14)
Climate Benefits of Natural Gas are Questioned in a Major New Report (Yale Environment 360, 2-14-14)
Why Establishing a Guaranteed Income for All Can Help Prevent Environmental Catastrophe (Alternet, 2-19-14)
It Takes How Much Water to Grow an Almond?! (Mother Jones, 2-24-14)
Catastrophic Solar Storm Inevitable, Insurers Warn (Wall Street Journal, 2-26-14)
Dream of U.S. Oil Independence Slams Against Shale Costs (Bloomberg, 2-27-14)
February - 2014 - Health
Don't Ask Your Doctor About 'Low T' (New York Times, 2-4-14)
People Who Watch More Porn Have More Sex, Survey Finds (Huffington Post, 2-11-14)
Apprehensive, Many Doctors Shift to Jobs With Salaries (New York Times, 2-13-14)
Single-payer Health Care System is Needed to Insure All Americans (Progressive Democrats of America, 2-16-14)
This Map Shows Which States Have the Longest (and Shortest) Sex (Nerve, 2-19-14)
4 Ways Conservatives are Fighting to Control Women's Sex Lives (Alternet, 2-20-14)
February - 2014 - Religion
Thomas S. Monson, Mormon President, Faced With Fraud Charges (Huffington Post, 2-5-14)
Pope Francis Must Finally Root Out Child Abuse (CNN, 2-6-14)
When You Hear Conservatives Talking About Religious Liberty, Watch Out (Alternet, 2-27-14)
Why Christian Conservatives Love Jesus-Hater Ayn Rand (Alternet, 2-28-14)
February - 2014 - Foreign
Three Bankers on Trial in Dublin Over Crash that Brought Ireland to Its Knees (The Independent, 2-3-14)
Karzai Urged to Veto Bill 'Silencing Women' (Al Jazeera, 2-6-14)
US praises Liberman for declaring Kerry to be 'true friend' of Israel (The Jerusalem Post, 2-8-14)
The Shocking Simulation Involving a U.S. Aircraft Carrier and Israeli Cities That Iranian State TV Aired (The Blaze, 2-9-14)
Japan's Historical Revision Deserves Clarification from Prime Minister Abe (Washington Post, 2-11-14)
What did Palestine look like in 1896? (Hummus For Thought, 2-11-14)
Europe Split on Right-to-Die Regulations (DW, 2-13-14)
Russia Under Attack (Paul Craig Roberts, 2-14-14)
Distorting Russia (Information Clearing House, 2-14-14)
Anti-Gay Violence Hits Nigerian Capital (Al Jazeera, 2-15-14)
Uganda Leader Says He Will Sign Anti-Gay Bill (Al Jazeera, 2-15-14)
In Ecuador, Oil Boom Creates Tension (Washington Post, 2-16-14)
Israel is Losing the Fight Against BDS (Electronic Intifada, 2-18-14)
Israeli Military Support to Syria Al Qaeda Terrorists, Operating Out of the Golan Heights (Global Research, 2-19-14)
Ugandan Minister for Ethics & Integrity Says Men Raping Girls Is Natural (Patheos, 2-19-14)
Right Sector the Great Ukrainian Reconquista (YouTube, 2-21-14)
Pakistanis Say No to the Taliban (DW, 2-24-14)
The Brown Revolution in Ukraine (Counter Punch, 2-24-14)
Democracy Murdered by Protest: Ukraine Falls to Intrigue and Violence (Global Research, 2-24-14)
How US Evangelicals Influenced Uganda (CNN, 2-24-14)
Gay Ugandans Committing Suicide (CNN, 2-24-14)
Haiti's Doctored 2010 Elections - A White Coup d'Etat by US, France, and Canada Against Hatian Democracy (Global Research, 2-24-14)
Ugandan Tabloid Prints List of 'Homosexuals' (CNN, 2-25-14)
Ukraine's Revolution: A Fight the West Can't Afford to Win (National Interest, 2-26-14)
Unintended Consequences (Foreign Policy, 2-26-14)
The Swedish Model Criminalising the Purchase of Sex Is Dangerous: The European Parliament Should Have Rejected It (Huffington Post, 2-27-14)
Neo-Nazis Pour Into Kiev (The Daily Beast, 2-28-14)
February - 2014 - Political
The Billionaires Start Lining Up Behind Hillary Clinton (Against Crony Capitalism, 2-2-14)
Coke's Multilingual "America the Beautiful" Ad Sparks Conservative Outrage (Alternet, 2-3-14)
For the Clowns Hating the Coke Ad With A Gay Family: Guess Who Wrote the Song? (Huffington Post, 2-3-14)
"Road to Perdition": Right-Wing Media React to Multicultural Super Bowl Ad (Nation of Change, 2-4-14)
New US Bill to Punish Academic Boycott Inspired by Israeli Ambassador (Electric Intifada, 2-7-14)
Charlie Crist: Rick Scott is Responsible for Six Deaths a Day (Daily Kos, 2-7-14)
Rios: Gay Rights 'War Between People Who Love This Country' And Those Who Want to 'Destroy' It (Right Wing Watch, 2-11-14)
Kansas State House Passes Bill Allowing Refusal of Services to Same-Sex Couples (Huffington Post, 2-12-14)
'Good' and 'Bad' War - and the Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting (John Pilger, 2-12-14)
The Illuminati, "Obama's Secret Mistress," and Cancer "Cures": CNN's Gingrich Has a Bizarre Email List (Media Matters, 2-12-14)
How An Extreme Anti-Gay Law Could Hurt Gay Couples (Huffington Post, 2-14-14)
Health Care Law Is 'An Answer to a Prayer' For Some Older Americans (Huffington Post, 2-17-14)
Obama Plans to Escalate the War in Syria (The Nation, 2-18-14)
The Conservative Crusade for Christian Sharia Law (The Daily Beast, 2-18-14)
Arizona Senate Actually Does It.. 'Turn Gays Away' Passes (Daily Kos, 2-19-14)
Obama's Latest Red Line: Ukraine (National Interest, 2-21-14)
Anatomy of the Deep State (Moyers & Company, 2-21-14)
State and Local Governments Blame Obamacare for Cutting Worker Hours (Huffington Post, 2-21-14)
10 Most Indebted Members of U.S. Congress (The Richest, 2-22-14)
Obama Needs to Do More, Not Less, On His Own (Washington Post, 2-23-14)
Is the US Backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? (Alternet, 2-24-14)
Virginia Republican Says A Pregnant Woman is Just a 'Host,' Though 'Some Refer to Them as Mothers' (Huffington Post, 2-24-14)
A Republican Lobbyist is Trying to Get Gay Football Players Banned From the NFL (Huffington Post, 2-24-14)
Watch Bill Donahue's Anti-Gay Demagoguery Fall Apart Under Scrutiny (Media Matters, 2-24-14)
When 'Religious Liberty' Was Used to Justify Racism Instead of Homophobia (Think Progress, 2-26-14)
CBO: GOP Obamacare Alternative Costs Jobs (Wonk Wire, 2-26-14)
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Attacks Plan to Steal Medicaid Funding (Daily Kos, 2-26-14)
CWA: How Dare Obama Criticize Uganda's Anti-Gay Law (Right Wing Watch, 2-27-14)
A Nuclear Weapons Strategy That's Stuck in the Past (Washington Post, 2-28-14)
Living Queer in a Red State (RH Reality Check, 2-28-14)
February - 2014 - Technology
10 Companies Apple Could Acquire Instead of Buying Back All That Stock (Wired, 2-10-14)
The Wind Turbine Has Been Reinvented and Is 600% More Efficient Than Current Design (Wonderful Engineering, 2-23-14)
MArk Zuckerberg's Audacious Plan to Bring Free Internet to Billions of People All Around the World (Business Insider, 2-24-14)
February - 2014 - Education
Finally, a Law That Would Protect People From Student Loan Hell (Take Part, 2-12-14)
February - 2014 - Miscellaneous
Humanity's Crisis Is Systemic and Overwhelming - And the Only Way Out Is to Create Bold New Systems (Alternet, 2-15-14)
Meet Lady Bird, a Massive Digging Machine Digging Out a Solution to D.C. Wastewater Woes (Washington Post, 2-15-14)
Comcast's Web of Lobbying and Philanthropy (New York Times, 2-21-14)
What Two Google Execs Said About Glenn Beck That May 'Drive the Left Out of Their Mind' (The Blaze, 2-25-14)
Recline, Don't 'Lean In': Why I Hate Sheryl Sandberg (Washington Post, 2-25-14)
The Next Subprime 'Time Bomb' is Ticking (Here's How You Could Profit From It) (Daily Finance, 1-2-14)
Work Until You're Dead? (Alternet, 1-3-14)
How the College Bubble Will Pop (Wall Street Journal, 1-8-14)
Why Doesn't the Fed Lend Each of Us $10 Million? (Against Crony Capitalism, 1-12-14)
For Recent Grads, Good Jobs are Really Hard to Find (Wall Street Journal, 1-15-14)
I Had a Middle Class Job and I Still Ended Up on Food Stamps at Age 60 (Alternet, 1-15-14)
Keith Ellison Blasts Inaction on Government-Backed Poverty: "The Most Remarkable Dodge I've Ever Seen" (Alternet, 1-15-14)
ILO Says Global Employment Situation Still a Nightmare (DW, 1-20-14)
Bill Gates: Minimum Wage Causes Job Destruction (Against Crony Capitalism, 1-21-14)
Why We Need to Shift to Investment-Led Growth (CNBC, 1-22-14)
Eric Schmidt Just Revealed a Key Truth About the Economy That Very Few Rich Investors and Executives Want to Admit (Business Insider, 1-23-14)
Davos Billionaires: Oblivious to the Coming Revolution (Common Dreams, 1-25-14)
The 20 Richest Americans are Greedy Takers - Not Inspirational 'Makers' (Alternet, 1-26-14)
The Myth of Industrial Rebound (Steven Rather, 1-26-14)
The World's Rich Stay Rich While the Poor Struggle to Prosper (Financial Times, 1-28-14)
President Obama's Defecit Reduction Achievement in Perspective (My Gov Cost, 1-29-14)
Bernanke's Printing Only Delayed the Pain (Against Crony Capitalism, 1-31-14)
The Federal Outsourcing Boom and Why It's Failing Americans (Washington Post, 1-31-14)
January - 2014 - Environmental
Dead Sea Creatures Cover 98% of Ocean Floor off California Coast; Up 1 Percent Before Fukushima (Natural News, 1-3-14)
The Future of Coal: Despite Gas Boom, Coal Isn't Dead (Wall Street Journal, 1-7-14)
Critics: Obama's Allegiance to Gas a Betrayal of Climate Promises (Common Dreams, 1-9-14)
Emperor Penguins Exhibit Strange Behavior Caused by Climate Change (Global Possibilities, 1-12-14)
Here's What the New Omnibus Budget Means for Climate and Energy Policy (Think Progress, 1-15-14)
Does 'Powering Forward' Advise Obama to Frack Our Way to a Clean Energy Economy? (Eco Watch, 1-21-14)
Green Means Stop (Foreign Policy, 1-21-14)
Former West Virginia Miner: We've Been Dumping Those Chemicals In the Water for Decades (Business Insider, 1-21-14)
Bees are Building Nests With Our Waste Plastic (Vice, 1-22-14)
The Price of Fracking: Earthquakes, Explosions and Water Contamination Included (Progressive Democrats of America, 1-26-14)
U.N. Warns Us to Eat Less Meat and Lay Off Biofuels, Or We're in For It (Grist, 1-27-14)
Company Struggles to Keep U.S. in the Uranium Enrichment Game (New York Times, 1-27-14)
Greenpeace Out: Parting Shots from a Battle Hardened Climate Leader (Grist, 1-28-14)
January - 2014 - Health
10 Things Porn Gets Horribly Wrong About Men (Alternet, 1-2-14)
7 Drugs Whose Dangerous Risks Emerged Only After Big Pharma Made Its Money (Alternet, 4-9-14)
Here's an Updated Tally On All The People Who Have Ever Died From a Marijuana Overdose (Huffington Post, 1-3-14)
21 Ways Your Office Job Is Destroying Your Body (Business Insider, 1-6-14)
Newly Discovered Compounds Hundreds of Times More Toxic Than Known Carcinogens (Eco Watch, 1-6-14)
They Lied: Obamacare's 12 False Premises and Broken Promises (Reason, 1-14-14)
Another 25 Million Obamacare Victims (New York Post, 1-14-14)
One Health Care Reformer's Plan to Fix Obamacare 'Disaster' (Huffington Post, 1-14-14)
Five Important Sex Lessons for GOP Lawmakers (Alternet, 1-15-14)
More than 7,100 deaths likely from states' rejection of Medicaid expansion: Health Affairs Blog (PNHP, 1-20-14)
7 Things I Want My Son to Know About Porn (Alternet, 1-21-14)
Little-Known Aspect of Medicaid Now Causing People to Avoid Coverage (Washington Post, 1-23-14)
More Than 7,100 Deaths Likely From States' Rejection of Medicaid Expansion: Health Affairs Blog (PNHP, 1-30-14)
January - 2014 - Religion
Why So Much Religion Is Oppressive (Alternet, 1-8-14)
Some Folks Say It's the Beginning of the End for the Christian Right - - Dream On, They're Getting More Powerful (Alternet, 1-8-14)
The Real Reason Evangelical Christians are Trying to Thwart Women's Right to Birth Control (Alternet, 1-14-14)
The U.S. and Christian Persecution (National Review, 1-18-14)
Conservatives Launch War on Cookies: Evangelicals Attack Girl Scouts USA (Truth Out, 1-31-14)
January - 2014 - Foreign
Europeans United, in Hating Europe (New York Times, 1-1-14)
Russian Navy Gets New Nuclear Attack Submarine (Press TV, 1-1-14)
Torches Lit, Ukrainian Nationalists Celebrate an Inconvenient Hero (Foreign Policy, 1-3-14)
'Cutting the Nose, Lips and Ears': Brutality Against Afghan Women at Record Level (RT, 1-4-14)
25 Reasons Norway is the Greatest Place on Earth (Huffington Post, 1-7-14)
Pakistanis Protest Fuel Shortages, Criticize Sharif as They Suffer Through Frigid Winter (Washington Post, 1-9-14)
The Plundering of South Sudan (Global Research, 1-9-14)
Nigeria Passes Law Against Gay Relationships (Al Jazeera, 1-13-14)
Dozens Arrested for Being Gay in North Nigeria (AP, 1-14-14)
Missile defense buster: China tests new hypersonic glide vehicle (RT, 10-15-14)
MIT Study of Ghouta Chemical Attack Challenges US Intelligence (Global Research, 1-16-14)
Gay Rights: Africa's Anti-Gay Backlash (France 24, 1-16-14)
Global Terrorism and Saudi Arabia: Bandar's Terror Network (Fars News, 1-18-14)
Al-Qaeda Slaughters on Syria's Killing Fields (Al Jazeera, 1-21-14)
Iran to Reveal Evidence of Sponsors of Terrorism in the Middle East (Global Research, 1-21-14)
Syria and the Geneva 2 Charade (RT, 1-22-14)
Rouhani Reaches Out to Western Countries (Al Jazeera, 1-23-14)
Did AIPAC Go Too Far in Attacking Jewish Lawmaker Over Iran? (Haaretz, 1-24-14
Nigeria's New Anti-Gay Law is Just a Smokescreen for Government Incompetence (Vice, 1-24-14)
Gay Nigerians Targeted as 'Un-African' (Al Jazeera, 1-26-14)
Muslims in CAR Wary of French Presence (Al Jazeera, 1-26-14)
Benjamin Netanyahu Faces Zionist Racism from Son Dating Norwegian (Truth Dig, 1-27-14)
German Universities Unsure How to Deal With Neo-Nazi Students (Spiegel, 1-29-14)
Ukraine and the Rebirth of Facism in Europe (Global Research, 1-31-14)
January - 2014 - Political
Stop the Bailout - Now (Washington Post, 1-2-14)
A New Power in Conservative Media (Politico, 1-4-14)
'Our Leaders Do Not Mean Well' (Truth Out, 1-4-14)
47 US Senators Side With Israel Lobby Against Iran (Press TV, 1-4-14)
Bill Young's First Family Emerges to Tell Their Story (Tampa Bay Times, 1-4-14)
Aaron Schock Outed As Gay by Itay Hod, Journalist, On Facebook? (Huffington Post, 1-4-14)
Republicans Have Unveiled Their 2014 Agenda: Do Nothing (Huffington Post, 1-5-14)
The Last Gasp of American Democracy (Truth Dig, 1-5-14)
The Republican Sabotage of America (Truth Out, 1-7-14)
Obama Didn't Believe in His Own Afghanistan Strategy, Robert Gates Claims in Memoir (Huffington Post, 1-7-14)
Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery' (Common Dreams, 1-9-14)
House Republicans Kick Off 2014 With Renewed Focus on Birth Control, Abortion (Huffington Post, 1-8-14)
Here's Proof That Governor Christie is Still Misleading the Public on Bridge Scandal (Nation of Change, 1-10-14)
White House Challenges Democratic Senators Who Want More Iran Sanctions to Admit They Want War (Daily Kos, 1-10-14)
Port Authority Head Seethed Over Fort Lee Lane Closures: 'I Pray That No Life Has Been Lost' (Huffington Post, 1-10-14)
Terrorism As An Instrument of Imperial Conquest. From Afghanistan to Syria, America Supports Al-Qaeda (Global Research, 1-10-14)
The Government is Spending a Ton on Penis Pumps (Huffington Post, 1-13-14)
The "Israel First" Industry and CEO Profiteering (The James Petras Website, 1-14-14)
Invading Iraq Was Dumb Enough. Now Congress Wants to Derail the Iran Deal (Common Dreams, 1-14-14)
The Budget Deal Came Out and the Scientific Research Community Isn't Thrilled (Huffington Post, 1-14-14)
Blue Dog Democrats, Whittled Down in Number, Are Trying to Regroup (Washington Post, 1-15-14)
Must Watch: Fallon and Springsteen's Brilliant 'Born to Run' Parody Takes Down Chris Christie (Alternet, 1-15-14)
Mitch McConnell Aims to Torpedo EPA Carbon Rules With Obscure Legislative Tool (Huffington Post, 1-16-14)
Jay Rockefeller: 'Zero Evidence' Chris Christie Bridge Closings Were Part of 'Legitimate Traffic Study' (Huffington Post, 1-16-14)
House Republicans are Pushing a Bill That Would Force the IRS to Audit Rape Victims (Think Progress, 1-16-14)
Sen. Feinstein: 'We Cannot Let Israel Determine When and Where the US Goes to War' (Daily Kos, 1-16-14)
What Obama Really Meant Was... (Truth Dig, 1-19-14)
One of Ezra Klein's Last Wonkblog Posts Made an Unwonky Mistake About My Obamacare Op-Ed (Michael Moore, 1-21-14)
'Red' States Have Higher Divorce Rates than 'Blue' States, And Here's Why (Huffington Post, 1-21-14)
Justice Department Says USIS Submitted 665,000 Incomplete Background Checks (Washington Post, 1-23-14)
Contrary to Obama's Promises, the US Military Still Permits Torture (Common Dreams, 1-26-14)
Darrell Issa, Other Lawmakers Want Obama to Fire James Clapper for 'Lying to Congress' (Huffington Post, 1-27-14)
27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State of the Union (Common Dreams, 1-28-14)
In State of the Union, Obama Vows to Expand Opportunity, With or Without Congress (Washington Post, 1-28-14)
What Obama Ignored About the 'Lowest Unemployment Rate in Over 5 Years' (Huffington Post, 1-29-14)
The Tory Gagging Bill is Passed (Another Angry Voice, 1-29-14)
Obama's State of the Union's Most Despicable Moment: Using Wounded Vets as Props (Reason, 1-29-14)
Four Pinocchios for an Over-the-Top Ad Attacking the Keystone XL Pipeline (Washington Post, 1-31-14)
U.S. Hypocrisy Over Russia's Anti-Gay Laws (Washington Post, 1-31-14)
January - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
The NSA Can't Tell Bernie Sanders If It's Spying On Him, Because That Would Violate His Privacy (Huffington Post, 1-14-14)
If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox (Wired, 1-27-14)
January - 2014 - Technology
David Cameron's Internet Porn Filter Is the Start of Censorship Creep (Common Dreams, 1-3-14)
In Keeping Grip on Data Pipeline, Obama Does Little to Reassure Industry (New York Times, 1-18-14)
Turning the Tide? Technology Provides New Ways to Combat Gender-Based Violence (New Security Beat, 1-23-14)
Erik Brynjolfsson Explains How Technology Drives Inequality and the Scary Truth About Robots Taking Human Jobs (Business Insider, 1-26-14)
Facebook's Toying With a Radical New Idea: Letting You be Anonymous (Huffington Post, 1-30-14)
January - 2014 - Education
7 Things We Should Start Teaching In Schools ASAP (Huffington Post, 1-13-14)
7% of College Men Admit to Attempting Rape, Most of Them Multiple Times (Alternet, 1-23-14)
The First Person in My Family NOT to Go to College (Forbes, 1-23-14)
How to Get More Early Bloomers (New York Times, 1-30-14)
January - 2014 - Miscellaneous
Why the 'Doomsday Prepper' Culture's Idea That You Can Survive Apocalypse All On Your Own Is a Recipe for Sure Death (Alternet, 1-2-14)
Forecast 2014 - Burning Down the House (Kunstler, 1-6-14)
Another Media Platform for the World's Rich and Powerful? (Common Dreams, 1-9-14)
Legalize Prostitution to Fight Sex Trafficking? Sex Workers Say "Yes" (Reason, 1-14-14)
Chart of the Day: What's Bigger, Porn or Music? (CNBC, 1-15-14)
How to Shelter From Fallout After a Nuclear Attack on Your City (I09, 1-16-14)
Think Again: Prostitution (Foreign Policy, 1-19-14)
Here's Why the Idea of 'Traditional Marriage' is Total Bullsh*t (Huffington Post, 1-20-14)
Exclusive: Politico Tries to Manipulate Hannity Comment on Michael Savage (Breitbart, 1-24-14)
The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (Truth Dig, 1-26-14)
The Two Faces of Empire: Melville Knew Them, We Still Live With Them (Moyers & Company, 1-27-14)