SIGNS OF THE TIMES
NEWS ABOUT OUR WORLD
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST JULY 2013-DECEMBER 2013
July 2013 August 2013 September 2013 October 2013 November 2013 December 2013
PAST EDITIONS
2007-2008 2009:1-6 2009:
A Tax Plan to Please Both Sides (New York Times, 12-1-13)
For Nurses, Hospital Jobs Harder to Come By (Indy Star, 12-1-13)
Noam Chomsky: America Hates Its Poor (Alternet, 12-1-13)
Age of Crushing Anxiety: How the Bottom Fell Out in America (Alternet, 12-2-13)
Fed Eyes Financial System's Weak Link (Wall Street Journal, 12-2-13)
Feeding the Bubble: Is the Next Crash Brewing? (Spiegel, 12-3-13)
The Layers of Unemployment Remain Hidden (Truth Out, 12-4-13)
Chris Hedges on 'The Pathology of the Rich' (Truth Dig, 12-6-13)
My Life Working for the Real 'Wolf of Wall Street' (New York Post, 12-8-13)
Look at the Stats: America Resembles a Broken Banana Republic (Alternet, 12-9-13)
How Wall Street Power Brokers are Designing the Future of Public Education as a Money-Making Machine (Truth Out, 12-11-13)
GM Bailout Produced a Windfall for US Taxpayers (Daily Kos, 12-11-13)
U.S. Government Pays Contractors Twice as Much as Civil Servants for the Same Work (Moyers & Company, 12-12-13)
Shell Way Ahead of the Crowd (The Street, 12-13-13)
The Jungle: Thousands of People Live in Shantytowns at the Epicenter of High-Tech, Super Rich Silicon Valley (Alternet, 12-15-13)
Companies Turning Again to Stock Buybacks to Reward Shareholders (Washington Post, 12-15-13)
Economic Opportunity is Lowest in the Republican Bible Belt, Major Study Finds (Alternet, 12-19-13)
How to Fix the Economy in 13 Easy Charts (Alternet, 12-20-13)
"Housing Bubble 2.0" - Same as "Housing Bubble 1.0"; Just Different Actors (Against Crony Capitalism, 12-20-13)
8.5 Trillion in Unaccounted For DOD Spending (Truth and Action, 12-22-13)
The Convergence of 3 Factors Is Driving a Worldwide Retirement Crisis (Business Insider, 12-29-13)
The Middle Class Myth: Here's Why Wages are Really So Low Today (Salon, 12-30-13)
NAFTA at 20: 1 Million Lost Jobs, 580% Increase In Trade Defecit (Our Future, 12-30-13)
December - 2013 - Environmental
Breaking: 900,000 Dead, Thousands More Maimed (Eco Watch, 12-3-13)
U.N. Launches Green Climate Fund with Little of Money Promised by Rich Nations (Huffington Post, 12-4-13)
How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming (Scientific American, 12-12-13)
Why is the US Getting in the Way of International Efforts to Make Clean Water a Basic Human Right? (Alternet, 12-12-13)
UN Report Says Small-Scale Organic Farming Only Way to Feed the World (Technology Water, 12-14-13)
Oil Billionaire Says Rail Is an Effective, Flexible Alternative to Keystone XL (Think Progress, 12-15-13)
The Coming 'Instant Planetary Emergency' (The Nation, 12-17-13)
Bird Death Risk Puts Massive California Solar Project in Serious Doubt (Eco Watch, 12-17-13)
The Climate Change Scorecard (Tom Dispatch, 12-17-13)
Plants Will Reach a Point Where They Couldn't Possibly Take Another Bite of Our CO2 (Grist, 12-17-13)
No Snow in Siberia? Locals Marvel and Worry at the Snow Shortage (Siberian Times, 12-17-13)
Why You May Never Want to Eat Shrimp Again (Eco Watch, 12-18-13)
Florida Couple Forced to Dig Up 17-Year Old Organic Garden (Natural Society, 12-19-13)
Dramatic Decline in Industrial Agriculture Could Herald 'Peak Food' (The Guardian, 12-19-13)
Obama's Green Record: Some Small Victories; One Gaping Flop (Grist, 12-20-13)
Bee-Killing Pesticides Damage Children's Brain and Nervous System, Says European Authority (Beyond Pesticides, 12-20-13)
A Popular Wild Christmas Tree, Canaan Fir, is Imperiled Because of a Ravenous Bug (Washington Post, 12-22-13)
Earth's Rate of Global Warming is 400,000 Hiroshima Bombs a Day (Think Progress, 12-22-13)
Obama's Carbon-Capture Plan for Coal Plants Has Dirty Trade-Off; Oil Production (Huffington Post, 12-22-13)
McKibben on Obama, Environment: The Cynics 'Were Right' (Truth Dig, 12-23-13)
Bill McKibben's Graph of the Year: We're Extracting More Fossil Fuels Than Ever (Washington Post, 12-26-13)
Environmental Groups: White House Throwing EPA Under Bus on Fracking (Washington Examiner, 12-27-13)
70+ USS Ronald Reagan Crew Members, Half Suffering from Cancer, to Sue TEPCO for Fukushima Radiation Poisoning (Eco Watch, 12-27-13)
Weapon Maker Finds Cheap Way to Desalinize Sea Water (Nation of Change, 12-30-13)
Planet Likely to Warm by 4C by 2100, Scientists Warn (The Guardian, 12-31-13)
December - 2013 - Health
The Real Fix for Obamacare's Flaws: Medicare for All (Common Dreams, 12-3-13)
Short-Term Fix Eyed for Another Problem with US Healthcare Website (Reuters, 12-4-13)
To Make Hospitals Less Deadly, a Dose of Data (New York Times, 12-4-13)
Porn Performer Tests Positive for HIV; Industry Group Seeks Shutdown (Los Angeles Times, 12-7-13)
High Deductibles Fuel New Worries of Health-Law Sticker Shock (Wall Street Journal, 12-8-13)
No, You Can't Keep Your Drugs Either Under Obamacare (Forbes, 12-9-13)
10 Things You've Always Wanted to Know About Lesbian Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (Huffington Post, 12-11-13)
We Have Yet to See the Worst of Obamacare (New York Post, 12-13-13)
ObamaCare's Troubles are Only Beginning (Wall Street Journal, 12-15-13)
Fracking Chemicals Found to Disupt Hormone Function (Eco Watch, 12-16-13)
US Faces Chronic Doctor Shortage (Al Jazeera, 12-18-13)
The F.D.A.'s Not-Really-Such-Good-News (New York Times, 12-18-13)
Health Plan Sticker Shock Ahead for Some Buyers (AP, 12-22-13)
'Sticker Shock' over Obamacare Bolsters Single-Payer Argument (Common Dreams, 12-23-13)
Investing in the Nation's Health (Washington Post, 12-24-13)
Study: A Mother's Love Crucial for an Infant's Social Development (Nation of Change, 12-26-13)
When 'Life Support' Is Really 'Death Support' (CNN, 12-28-13)
US Obesity Spike Brings Bigger Coffins (Al Jazeera, 12-31-13)
The Year-End Countdowns Never Include the 45,000 Health Care Dead in the US (Michael Moore, 12-31-13)
December - 2013 - Religion
Renew America: Gay Marriage is a Satanic Plot to Murder Christians (Right Wing Watch, 12-3-13)
Is Pope Francis Just Doing Savvy P.R. For the Oppressive, Dysfunctional Church? (Alternet, 12-12-13)
When Demons are Real (New York Times, 12-27-13)
December - 2013 - Foreign
Gaza Need Not be a Sewer (New York Times, 12-2-13)
US Covert Actions in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, 12-3-13)
Breaking News: Guarani Leader and Film Star Murdered (Survival International, 12-3-13)
US Halts Army Shipments Out of Afghanistan (Al Jazeera, 12-4-13)
Defeated by the Taliban, Washington Decides to Take on Russia and China (Global Research, 12-4-13)
Silicon Savannah: Africa's Transformative Digital Revolution (Spiegel, 12-5-13)
Mandela's Dream of Black Power Became a 'Neoliberal Nightmare' (Global Research, 12-8-13)
China Spins New Lesson from Soviet Union's Fall (Wall Street Journal, 12-10-13)
India's Supreme Court Declares Homosexual Sex Illegal (CNN, 12-11-13)
Top Western-Backed Rebel in Syria is Forced to Flee (Wall Street Journal, 12-11-13)
Indians Go 'Gay for a Day' to Protest Court Ruling (Al Jazeera, 12-12-13)
Ruslana's Night Shift on Kyiv's Maidan (DW, 12-14-13)
Drone Attacks Must End, Yemen's Parliaments Says (CNN, 12-15-13)
It's Putin vs Bandar Bush on the Syrian Chessboard (RT, 12-15-13)
A Bleak Future for the ANC (Al Jazeera, 12-16-13)
Europe's Brittle Banking Union (Spiegel, 12-19-13)
Strange Bedfellows on Iran: France and Elie Wiesel (Washington Post, 12-19-13)
Ugandan Parliament Approves Anti Gay Law (New York Times, 12-20-13)
'Aggravated' by Uganda's Anti-Gay Law (Washington Post, 12-20-13)
Ugandan Parliament Passes Anti-Gay Bill That Includes Life in Prison (CNN, 12-21-13)
What Really Happened in the Ukrainian Crisis? (Popular Resistance, 12-22-13)
Let People Love Whoever They Want (Virgin, 12-23-13)
Why Iran is the Country to Watch in 2014 (Alternet, 12-24-13)
Canadian Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Human Rights of Sex Workers (Truth Out, 12-24-13)
Uganda's Gays Fear Mounting Violence in Wake of Anti-Gay Bill's Passage (CNN, 12-24-13)
I Live in Uganda: A Country That Hates Gay People and Miniskirts (Alternet, 12-18-13)
North Waziristan Appears Close to Full-Blown Conflict (Dawn, 12-26-13)
PM Sharif Among Billionaire Lawmakers (Dawn, 12-26-13)
Conflict Brings Charities to a Halt in Cairo (Al Jazeera, 12-27-13)
Gay and Afraid in Uganda (CNN, 12-27-13)
December - 2013 - Political
Reid Exempts Staff From O-Care (The Hill, 12-4-13)
Don't be Evil? Google Funding a Slew of Right-Wing Groups (Moyers & Company, 12-4-13)
House Extends Current Health Plans for Lawmakers, Staffers, If Needed (Washington Post, 12-5-13)
Nelson Mandela Was on the U.S. Terrorist Watch List Until 2008 (Huffington Post, 12-5-13)
The Disturbing Reason 97% of Federal Drug Defendants Plead Guilty (Business Insider, 12-5-13)
Patriot Act Author Jim Sesenbrenner: DNI James Clapper Should be Prosecuted for Lying to Congress (Huffington Post, 12-6-13)
ATF Uses Rogue Tactics in Storefront Stings Across the Nation (Journal Sentinel, 12-7-13)
The Phony Pullout from Afghanistan (Information Clearing House, 12-9-13)
Afghanistan Experts Stumped by Simple Questions (Wall Street Journal, 12-11-13)
Lamar Alexander's Chief of Staff Arrested on Child Pornography Charges (Washington Post, 12-11-13)
Lamar Alexander Staffer's Home Searched in Child Porn Probe (Huffington Post, 12-11-13)
The "Plan Ahead for Your Abortion" Rape Insurance Law Now the Law of the Land in Michigan (Daily Kos, 12-11-13)
Conservative Leaders Respond to Attacks on Conservatives on Capitol Hill and Paul Teller (Heritage Action, 12-11-13)
Obama Gets PolitiFact's 'Lie of the Year' Prize for Healthcare Claims (Huffington Post, 12-12-13)
Congress Triples Budget Request to Israel (If Americans Knew, 12-13-13)
Finally, a List of All the Center for American Progress' 2013 Corporate Donors (Huffington Post, 12-13-13)
President Obama's Super Aggressive Drone War in One Graphic (Business Insider, 12-14-13)
Obama's Praise for Mandela is an Insult (Truth Out, 12-15-13)
Mark Udall Demands CIA Report Amid Dispute Over Torture Study (Huffington Post, 12-17-13)
Federal Employee Morale Hits Record Low (Huffington Post, 12-18-13)
Congress Passed a Budget, But It Could Still Blow Up in Their Faces (Huffington Post, 12-18-13)
10 Democratic Committee Chairs Warn Menendez's Iran Sanction Bill Could Blow Up Negotiations (Huffington Post, 12-19-13)
Hardline Dems Line Up Behind 'Dangerous' Iran Sanctions Bill (Common Dreams, 12-19-13)
Bobby Jindal Defends 'Duck Dynasty' Star Who Compared Homosexuality to Bestiality (Huffington Post, 12-19-13)
Jeff Zients Helped Salvage Healthcare.gov, Now He'll be Obama's Go-to Guy on Economy (Washington Post, 12-23-13)
The Goldman Sachs 2013 Christmas Story (Counter Punch, 12-24-13)
This Chart Makes a Joke Out of the American Dream (Business Insider, 12-26-13)
Afghanistan Gains Will be Lost Quickly After Drawdown, U.S. Intelligence Estimate Warns (Washington Post, 12-28-13)
Robert Rubin's Graph(s) of the Year (Washington Post, 12-31-13)
6 Shocking Facts About Benghazi 'Forgotten' by NY Times Report (Occupy Corporatism, 12-31-13)
December - 2013 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
Could Google and the NSA Make Whistleblowers Disappear? (The Nation, 12-3-13)
Microsoft: US Government is a Potential Security Threat (Washington Post, 12-5-13)
NSA Turns Cookies (And More) Into Surveillance Beacons (EFF, 12-12-13)
Encrypt the Web Report: Who's Doing What (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 12-16-13)
Edward Snowden's Christmas Message (Truth Dig, 12-26-13)
Stanford Study: It Is Trivially Easy to Identify People With Metadata (Common Dreams, 12-27-13)
Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit (Spiegel, 12-29-13)
Shopping for Spy Gear: Catalog Advertises NSA Toolbox (Spiegel, 12-29-13)
December - 2013 - Technology
Facebook's Cutesy Annual Report to Partners Reveals First Country-by-Country Mobile Stats (Tech Crunch, 12-29-13)
Ask a Billionaire: Eric Schmidt's 2014 Predictions (Bloomberg, 12-30-13)
Codecademy Chief Says Computer Programming Holds the Key (Wall Street Journal, 12-31-13)
December - 2013 - Miscellaneous
12 Mandela Quotes That Won't Be In the Corporate Media Obituaries (Common Dreams, 12-6-13)
Dystopia by the Bay (New York Times, 12-6-13)
How Writers Coped Without Copyright (Reason, 12-7-13)
The Hijacking of Mandela's Legacy (RT, 12-8-13)
Keith Richards: ' I Had a Sound in My Head That Was Bugging Me' (Wall Street Journal, 12-11-13)
Map: Where Homosexuality is Illegal (Economist, 12-14-13)
The 38 Most Haunting Abandoned Places on Earth (Distractify, 12-14-13)
Metro Planners Consider Inner Loop of New Stations to Strengthen System's Core (Washington Post, 12-17-13)
A Map of the Weirdest Sex Laws in the United States (IO9, 12-17-13)
Fox's Geraldo Rivera: "C*cksucking F*ggot" Isn't a "Homophobic Slur" (Media Matters, 12-20-13)
Who Mourns the Coming of the Kali Yuga? (Reality Sandwich, 12-22-13)
2013: A Historic Year for LGBT Progress (Think Progress, 12-24-13)
10 Good Things About the Year 2013 (Progressive Democrats of America, 12-26-13)
Number of Black-Owned TV Stations Plummets to... Zero (Alternet, 12-29-13)
Be Prepared for Stocks to Crash (Business Insider, 11-9-13)
The Real Reason New College Grads Can't Get Hired (Time, 11-10-13)
It's Business That Really Rules Us Now (The Guardian, 11-11-13)
IEA: The World Is Totally Unprepared for When the Great American Shale Boom Fizzles (Business Insider, 11-12-13)
Fed Official: "I'm Sorry. We Feasted on Wall Street, Didn't Help Main Street. And Knew It." (Daily Kos, 11-12-13)
10 Facts About the Growing Unemployment Crisis in America That Will Blow Your Mind (Fed Up USA, 11-20-13)
12 Ways JP Morgan Admitted it Ripped Off Americans to the Tune of Billions (Alternet, 11-20-13)
Krugman Goes 'Splat': On Endless Growth and Permanent Depression (Common Dreams, 11-21-13)
Blowing Bubbles With Paul Krugman (Counter Punch, 11-22-13)
How Wall Street Has Turned America Into Incarceration Nation (Alternet, 11-25-13)
How Wall Street's New Empire of Rental Homes Could Blow Up the Economy (Alternet, 11-26-13)
The Fed Has Created a Huge Global Bubble (CNBC, 11-26-13)
Cuts to Safety Net Programs Threaten Millions (Economic Policy Institute, 11-26-13)
Pope Francis: Unfettered Capitalism is "Tyranny," Economic Inequality "Kills" (Daily Kos, 11-26-13)
November - 2013 - Environmental
Bird's Eye View of Texas Fracking Causes Rumble (Common Sense Canadian, 11-4-13)
BP Gulf Oil Disaster is the Catastrophe that Never Ended, Despite WH Claims (Truth Out, 11-5-13)
Carbon Tax Revenues Could Dwarf Fossil Fuel Losses (Grist, 11-5-13)
90-Car Oil Transport Train Derails and Explodes in Alabama (DGR News Service, 11-8-13)
The Devolution of the Seas (Foreign Affairs, 11-9-13)
Ethanol Investigation: The Secret, Dirty Cost of Obama's Green Power (Huffington Post, 11-12-13)
The Great Green Meltdown (The Breakthrough Institute, 11-13-13)
A Carbon Tax Would Cut the Deficit by $1 Trillion (Think Progress, 11-14-13)
Fears Confirmed: Offshore Fracking a Toxic Mess (Common Dreams, 11-14-13)
Jellyfish Love the Oceans We Pollute (CNN, 11-15-13)
Japan Ditches Pledge to Lower Emissions In Midst of U.N. Climate Talks (Think Progress, 11-15-13)
The Government is Preparing for a Major Natural Disaster: Why Are They Keeping It From Us? (Conscious News Media, 11-18-13)
Fracking Illinois: Two or Three Things We Know for Sure (PDA, 11-19-13)
Leaked Memo Reveals U.S. Plan to Oppose Helping Poor Nations Adapt to Climate Change (Alternet, 11-19-13)
Canada's Tar Sands Oil Boom Yields Toxic Wastewater Lakes (Business Week, 11-21-13)
Polluters Talk, We Walk: Mass Walk-out of Corporate-Captured Climate Talks in Poland (Friends of the Earth International, 11-21-13)
Sea Stars are Wasting Away in Larger Numbers on a Wider Scale in Two Oceans (Washington Post, 11-22-13)
How We've Been Conned Into Using CFLs, and Why They Should be Removed From Your Home (Chemical Free Kids, 11-23-13)
The Year the Monarch Didn't Appear (New York Times, 11-24-13)
Ten Most Radioactive Places on Earth Mapped Out (Climate Viewer, 11-24-13)
How Kids Brains Are at Risk From a Barrage of Common Chemicals (Alternet, 11-25-13
The Climate Disaster Bubbling in the Arctic (Common Dreams, 11-25-13)
U.S. Methane Study Says Emissions 50 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates (Huffington Post, 11-25-13)
Monsanto, the TPP and Global Food Dominance (Counter Punch, 11-26-13)
The Ticking Time Bomb That Could Cause Such Rapid Global Warming We'd be Unable to Prevent Extinction (Alternet, 11-26-13)
November - 2013 - Health
Under Health Care Act, Millions Eligible for Free Policies (New York Times, 11-3-13)
Obamacare 'Victim' Now Claims Loss of Previous Coverage a 'Blessing' (The Big Slice, 11-4-13)
Insurance Scam; How Private Insurance Companies are Using Obamacare Fears to Rip People Off (Addicting Info, 11-5-13)
Our War On Fat Was a Huge Mistake (Business Insider, 11-5-13)
Why Conservatives are More Terrified of Sex Than Violence (Alternet, 11-5-13)
Groundbreaking Report Exposes Chemicals Linked to Cancer in Feminine Products (Eco Watch, 11-5-13)
9 Lies About Fat that Destroyed the World's Health (Business Insider, 11-12-13)
Health Economists Ignore Working Class Realities (Common Dreams, 11-14-13)
McDonald's Closing All Restaurants in Bolivia as Nation Rejects Fast Food (Get Holistic Health, 11-17-13)
The Shame of American Health Care (New York Times, 11-18-13)
Woman Who Obama Cited as Obamacare Success Story Now Says She Can't Afford Health Care Coverage (Reason, 11-19-13)
When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else We'll Lose Too (Wired, 11-20-13)
What's Behind 'Grain Brain': Are Gluten and Carbs Wrecking Our Brains and Our Health? (Alternet, 11-20-13)
21 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better Than Obamacare (Common Dreams, 11-22-13)
Obamacare Cutbacks Shut Hospitals Where Medicaid Went Unexpanded (Bloomberg, 11-25-13)
Obamacare Could Force 80 Million Off Employer-Provided Plans (Free Beacon, 11-26-13)
A Plea to Avoid Crush of Users at Health Site (New York Times, 11-27-13)
November - 2013 - Religion
George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About the Second Coming of Christ (Mother Jones, 11-7-13)
10 Things Traditional Christians Got Very Wrong (Alternet, 11-7-13)
The Child Rape Assembly Line (Vice, 11-12-13)
If Only Right-Wing Christians Knew Where Their Ideas Came From (Alternet, 11-12-13)
Hagee: Jews Will Make End Times Deal With the Antichrist, 9/11 Was God's Judgment (Right Wing Watch, 11-15-13)
November - 2013 - Foreign
Drone Kills Taliban Chief Hakimullah Mehsud; Pakistan Accuses U.S. of Derailing Peace Talks (Washington Post, 11-1-13)
Zakaria: The Saudis are Mad? Tough! (Time, 11-1-13)
Imran Demands Immediate Blockade of NATO Supplies (Dawn, 11-1-13)
Malala and Nabila: Worlds Apart (Al Jazeera, 11-1-13)
British Accuse David Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's Partner, of 'Terrorism' (Huffington Post, 11-2-13)
President Putin Ends Russia/NATO ABM Cooperation (Voice of Russia, 11-3-13)
Trial of Egypt's Morsi Due to Begin (Al Jazeera, 11-4-13)
Afghanistan President Criticizes U.S. Drone Strike that Killed Pakistani Taliban Leader (CNN, 11-4-13)
Imploding the Myth of Israel (Common Dreams, 11-4-13)
A Greater Israel? Faction Says No to Two-State Solution, Yes to Annexing Palestinian Areas (Washington Post, 11-5-13)
Saudi Arabia's Shadow War (Foreign Policy, 11-6-13)
TTP's Ruthless New Commander Fazlullah (Dawn, 11-7-13)
Russia and China Prepare for the Day When They Will Nuke the United States (A Sheep No More, 11-7-13)
The Iron Fist of Maulana Fazlullah (Al Jazeera, 11-8-13)
The Nuclear Handshake (Foreign Policy, 11-8-13)
Italy's Extreme Right-Wing on the Rise (DW, 11-9-13)
Eastern Europe: Which Way to Turn? (The Financial Times, 11-11-13)
Pakistan Private Schools Ban Malala Book (Al Jazeera, 11-11-13)
Le Pen: Repackaging the National Front (DW, 11-12-13)
Israel's Ultranationalist Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman Returns to Office (CNN, 11-12-13)
What Sanctions, War, Occupation Brought to Iraqi Women: Collapse of Rights (Common Dreams, 11-12-13)
Why Iran Nuclear Talks Failed and Why They Will Get Tougher (Truth Out, 11-13-13)
Burning Down a Rainbow in Poland (Al Jazeera, 11-13-13)
India's Top Police Official: 'If You Can't Prevent Rape, You Enjoy It' (Think Progress, 11-13-12)
Pakistan Urged to Vaccinate Against Polio (Al Jazeera, 11-13-13)
Not the Time to Squeeze Iran (New York Times, 11-15-13)
Lavrov Reveals Amended Draft Circulated at "Last Moment" (IPS News, 11-15-13)
Gadhafi's Legacy Leaves Libya on the Brink (DW, 11-18-13)
MEPs Rebel Against Monthly Move to Strasbourg (Spiegel, 11-19-13)
A Time Bomb in Merkel's Government (Spiegel, 11-19-13)
Raw Sewage and Anger Floods Gaza's Streets as Electricity Runs Low (New York Times, 11-20-13)
Meet the Syrian Rebel Commander Assad, Russia and All the U.S. Fear (Wall Street Journal, 11-20-13)
Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Reapers of Their Own Destruction (Common Dreams, 11-25-13)
In Protest Against Unending Drone Attacks, Pakistan Party 'Unmasks' CIA Station Chief (Common Dreams, 11-27-13)
The Dangerous and Childish Behavior of Obama's Pentagon in Asia (Popular Resistance, 11-27-13)
Libya's Hell Enabled by Canadian Humanitarians (Counter Punch, 11-27-13)
Power Outages Hobble Pakistan's Biggest Exporters (Wall Street Journal, 11-29-13)
November - 2013 - Politics
When Billy Graham Urged Nixon to Kill a Million People (Counter Punch, 11-1-13)
The Obamacare Sabotage Campaign (Politico, 11-1-13)
Last Year President Obama Reportedly Told His Aides That He's 'Really Good at Killing People' (Business Insider, 11-1-13)
Full Show: The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About (Moyers & Company, 11-1-13)
Kerry Lauds Saudi Role in Mideast Stability (USA Today, 11-4-13)
Chomsky: Why the Rest of the World No Longer Wants to be Like U.S. (Alternet, 11-5-13)
Bloomberg, Champion of the Poor (New York Times, 11-5-13)
Ralph Nader: Madder Than Ever (In These Times, 11-7-13)
Paranoia Undermined United States Claim to Liberal Democracy (Spiegel, 11-8-13)
US Loses UNESCO Voting Right After Missing Deadline to Pay Debt (Huffington Post, 11-8-13)
US Bullies UK To Keep Bush/Blair Iraq War Dialogue Secret (Common Dreams, 11-14-13)
Ted Cruz's Weekend Plans: Puppy Bombs, Islamophobia, Junk History & Glenn Beck (Right Wing Watch, 11-15-13)
Drone Victims Take on Washington DC (Anti War, 11-15-13)
Bill Moyers Journal: Fighting the Good Fight (Popular Resistance, 11-15-13)
Oklahoma Drops National Guard Benefits for All Couples to Avoid Serving Same-Sex Couples (Think Progress, 11-19-13)
Blackwater Founder Erik Prince: War on Terror Has Become Too Big (The Daily Beast, 11-19-13)
The Republican Coverage Gap: 4.8 Million Denied Medicaid (Alternet, 11-20-13)
No More Easy Wars (Foreign Policy, 11-20-13)
The Biggest Problem With Obamacare's Rollout Is Being Caused Intentionally by Republicans (Moyers & Company, 11-21-13)
Obama Approves Border-Crossing Fracked Gas Pipeline Used to Dilute Tar Sands (DeSmog Blog. 11-26-13)
The Googlization of the Far Right: Why is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC? (Common Dreams, 11-27-13)
CIA Chief Accused of Murder Over Hangu Drone Strike (Dawn, 11-27-13)
Serving Life for a Slice of Pizza (DW, 11-29-13)
November - 2013 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
America as Economic Spy: NSA's Mission is Self-Aggrandizement, Not Fighting Terrorism (Huffington Post, 11-1-13)
Report: NSA, GCHQ Among Worst Surveillance Offenders, Snowden Says (CNN, 11-3-13)
Forget the Back Door: The Government Now Wants the Keys to the Internet (Mother Jones, 11-7-13)
Spying Fallout: German Trust in United States Plummets (Spiegel, 11-8-13)
These Ridiculous Laws Suggest Virginia is for Prudes, Not Lovers (Huffington Post, 11-12-13)
Scared Silent: NSA Surveillance Has 'Chilling Effect' on American Writers (Common Dreams, 11-12-13)
TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Negotiators Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms (Common Dreams, 11-14-13)
Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere (Foreign Policy, 11-20-13)
Leakers, Privacy Activists Find New Home in Berlin (Washington Post, 11-26-13)
Buses in US Capitol Thank Edward Snowden for Exposing the Truth (Popular Resistance, 11-27-13)
November - 2013 - Technology
EMP Blackout Could be Closer Than You Think (Israel National News, 11-7-13)
Facebook Launches New Privacy Policies and You Can Still be Used for Ads (Huffington Post, 11-16-13)
Google's Broken Promises and Who's Running the Search Engine? (Marketing Land, 11-17-13)
Cord Cutters and the Death of TV (Business Insider, 11-24-13)
The Planet's 24 Largest Social Media Sites, and Where Their Next Wave of Growth Will Come From (Business Insider, 11-29-13)
November - 2013 - Education
Bill Gates Imposes Microsoft Model on School Reform: Only to Have the Company Junk It After It Failed (Alternet, 11-26-13)
November - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Robert J. Sameulson: We Need to Stop Coddling the Elderly (Washington Post, 11-3-13)
What is CBS Hiding? Who is CBS Protecting at 60 Minutes? (Media Matters, 11-13-13)
Bill Gates Can't Build a Toilet (New York Times, 11-19-13)
Lawyer Fights for American Student Debt Trap Victims (Lawyers and Settlements, 11-20-13)
Music Video: Occupy - Still Free (Take a Chance On Me!) (Popular Resistance, 11-23-13)
This is The Man Bill Gates Thinks You Should Absolutely Be Reading (Wired, 11-26-13)
Land: Single Moms Selfish, Should Always Put Kids Up for Adoption (Right Wing Watch, 11-26-13)
American Thanksgiving: A Pure Glorification of Racist Barbarity (Global Research, 11-27-13)
Republicans Split on Whether to Give Back Pay to Workers Furloughed in Government Shutdown (Huffington Post, 10-1-13)
7 Signs America Has Regressed Back to the Harsh, Cruel 19th Century (Alternet, 10-2-13)
The Most Often Repeated Fact About US Debt is Wrong (QZ, 10-4-13)
The True State of the U.S. Economy (Counter Punch, 10-4-13)
America Has Become a "Cheater Take All" Nation (Alternet, 10-4-13)
Activists Confront Financial Titans Larry Fink and William Gross (Common Dreams, 10-5-13)
The New York Times on the Scary Growth in Extreme Poverty Among the Elderly (Washington Monthly, 10-6-13)
This Surprising Chart Shows Which Countries Own the Most U.S. Debt (Washington Post, 10-10-13)
As IRS Shutdown Drags On, Some Taxpayers Face Big Problems (Forbes, 10-10-13)
A Repo Implosion (Counter Punch, 10-11-13)
Report: Tea Party Group FreedomWorks is in Deep Financial Trouble (Raw Story, 10-11-13)
Is America a Bubble? (Washington Post, 10-13-13)
Robert Shiller's Devastating Takedown of Housing as an Investment Will Have You Renting for the Rest of Your Life (Business Insider, 10-14-13)
Deal or No Deal on Shutdown and Debt Ceiling, Biggest Fiscal Policy Crisis Remains Unaddressed (Economic Policy Institute, 10-16-13)
Bloated Government? Federal Employment at 47-Year Low (New York Times, 10-22-13)
Many Americans Accumulating Debt Faster Than They're Saving for Retirement (Washington Post, 10-23-13)
The U.S. Labor Force Participation is at a 35-Year Low (Fed Up USA, 10-24-13)
The Trillion Dollar Money Pump for the 1% (Common Dreams, 10-24-13)
Half of Nation's Foreclosed Homes are Still Occupied (Yahoo!, 10-24-13)
American Workers are Way Behind: Blame U.S. Employers (CNN, 10-25-13)
Where's the Next Property Bubble Building? (CNBC, 10-28-13)
What the Recovery is Leaving Behind: The Long-Term Unemployed and Living Wage Jobs (The Shriver Brief, 10-29-13)
Targeting Wall Street, Robin Hood Tax Comes to Washington (Common Dreams, 10-30-13)
Rich People Think the Economy is Doing Just Fine. Here's Why That Matters. (Washington Post, 10-30-13)
Privatization Nightmare: Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Husband Selling Post Offices to His Friends, Cheap (Alternet, 10-30-13)
October - 2013 - Environmental
Human Assault Pushes Ocean to Limit Unseen in 300 Million Years (Common Dreams, 10-3-13)
Shut It All Down: Report Calls for Nationwide Ban on Fracking (Common Dreams, 10-4-13)
The Oceans are Dying, Oxygen is Depleting, Acidity is Rising at Fastest Rate in 300,000 Years (Daily Kos, 10-4-13)
Now They're Fracking California's Oceans? (Huffington Post, 10-7-13)
Why the World Bank Continues to Fund Environmental Destruction (Huffington Post, 10-9-13)
The Last Hours of Humanity: Warming the World to Extinction (Thom Hartmann, 10-11-13)
The Air We Breathe Definitively and Scientifically Linked to Cancer (Alternet, 10-17-13)
Fracking Goes to Sea: California Regulators Startled to Learn of Offshore Hydraulic Fracturing (Think Progress, 10-24-13)
Pesticide Illness Triggers Anti-Monsanto Protest in Argentina (DW, 10-25-13)
Watchdog Warns of 'Dirty Dozen' Hormone Disrupters as Scientists, Industry Argue Regulation (Huffington Post, 10-28-13)
White-Nose Syndrome Fungus is Worse Than We Thought for Bats (Science World Report, 10-29-13)
October - 2013 - Health
Should a 13-Year-Old and Her 12-Year-Old Partner Really Be Considered Sex Offenders? (RH Reality Check, 10-1-13)
Listen to the Question About a Child With Cancer that Appeared to Stump Harry Reid (The Blaze, 10-2-13)
Millions of Poor are Left Uncovered by Health Law (New York Times, 10-3-13)
Dems: Shutdown Might Cause Health Crisis (The Hill, 10-4-13)
Obamacaid (Wall Street Journal, 10-8-13)
Single-Payer Prescription for What Ails Obamacare (Truth Dig, 10-9-13)
This Week in Poverty: What 'Defunding Obamacare' Really Means (The Nation, 10-11-13)
Paul Ryan Wants to Use Debt Ceiling to Deny Women Access to Birth Control (Common Dreams, 10-13-13)
Beyond the Spin, Some Facts About the Affordable Care Act (Al Jazeera, 10-14-13)
This is Your Brain on Toxins (New York Times, 10-16-13)
McDoweel County, USA Has Close to Haiti's Life Expectancy: Welcome to Third World America (Alternet, 10-16-13)
Thousands Get Health Insurance Cancellation Notices (NBC, 10-18-13)
The Great Medicaid Swindle (The Daily Beast, 10-24-13)
Why Obamacare Will Fail to Solve Our Health Care Crisis (Counter Punch, 10-24-13)
CareFirst Says 76,000 Customers Will Lose Current Coverage Due to Obamacare (Washington Examiner, 10-24-13)
Issa, Extend Fed-Worker Health Plan to All Americans (Washington Post, 10-25-13)
Sorry Liberals, Obamacare's Problems Go Much Deeper Than the Website (Washington Post, 10-25-13)
Health Insurance Cancellation Notices Outnumber New Enrollments (The Innoplex, 10-25-13)
You Will Probably Want to See This Saturday Night Live Skit Mocking the Obamacare Website (The Blaze, 10-27-13)
Fox News Sunday Panelists Mislead on Changes to Health Insurance Coverage (Media Matters, 10-27-13)
NBC News: Obama Admin. Knew Millions Would Not Be Able to Keep Their Health Insurance for at Least 3 Years, Promised It Anyway (The Blaze, 10-28-13)
Food Stamps Will Get Cut by $5 Billion This Week - - And More Cuts Could Follow (Washington Post, 10-28-13)
This is Why Obamacare is Canceling Some People's Insurance Plans (Washington Post, 10-29-13)
Another Obamacare Horror Story Debunked (Los Angeles Times, 10-30-13)
Why Sex Workers are Celebrating Obamacare (CNN, 10-31-13)
9 Surprising Everyday Items that Can Wreck Your Health (Alternet, 10-31-13)
October - 2013 - Religion
Churches: Losers in German Reunification? (DW, 10-3-13)
The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government (Common Dreams, 10-7-13)
Ted Cruz Worked With Religious Right Founder Paul Weyrich, to Elect George W. Bush (Talk 2 Action, 10-8-13)
How Christian Delusions are Driving GOP Insane (Alternet, 10-9-13)
Ted Cruz, Dominionism and Jesus (Jonathan Turley, 10-12-13)
Why Nobody Wants to Go to Church Anymore (Huffington Post, 10-14-13)
Hagee: 'We are a Pagan Nation Without Shame' (Right Wing Watch, 10-16-13)
Celebrity Atheist is 'Sure Obama is An Atheist Too' (Huffington Post, 10-26-13)
October - 2013 - Foreign
Torture Is Commonplace in Libyan Prisons (RT, 10-1-13)
Italian Youth Unemployment at All-Time High (Al Jazeera, 10-1-13)
Cheaper, Purer Illegal Substances Suggest Global War on Drugs is Failing (CNN, 10-1-13)
'Big Lender' China Urges U.S. to Avoid Bankruptcy (RT, 10-7-13)
The Golden Dawn Murder Case, Larry Summers and the New Facism (Truth Out, 10-7-13)
Interview With George Soros: "Greece Can Never Pay Back Its Debt" (Spiegel, 10-7-13)
Taliban Renew Vows to Attack Malala (Al Jazeera, 10-7-13)
Israel's Right Targets Textbooks (Al Jazeera, 10-7-13)
More Than Jihadism or Iran, China's Role in Africa is Obama's Obsession (Common Dreams, 10-9-13)
'Bruised Goddesses' Hurt Indian Feminists (Al Jazeera, 10-10-13)
Pakistani Girl, a Global Heroine After an Attack, Has Critics at Home (New York Times, 10-11-13)
Malala, Pakistani Teen Who Survived Taliban Attack, Resented in Hometown (Huffington Post, 10-11-13)
Frackez-Vous: French Court Passes Ultimate Fracking Ban (Common Sense Canadian, 10-12-13)
Niall Ferguson: Why Paul Krugman Should Never be Taken Seriously Again (Spectator, 10-13-13)
'Last Star of the Left' Plays Opposition Spoiler (DW, 10-14-13)
Polish Town Tears Down Statue Marking the Rape of Millions of German Women by Russian Soldiers (Daily Mail, 10-14-13)
Emerging Challenges: What's In Store for the New Global Powers (Spiegel, 10-16-13)
Former Heads of State Call on EU to Set Up State Surveillance of 'Intolerant' Citizens (Life Site News, 10-16-13)
Mexico City Leaders Aim to Fight Cartel Violence By Legalizing Pot (Alternet, 10-17-13)
Norway Rocker in French Court for Alleged Racism (Philly, 10-17-13)
The Secrets of Germany's Economic Success (DW, 10-19-13)
Angela's Agenda: A Grand, Controversial Plan for Europe (Spiegel, 10-21-13)
Is Libya on the Brink of a New Civil War? (Al Jazeera, 10-21-13)
Biological Attack (Foreign Policy, 10-22-13)
Pot Growers Celebrate as Uruguay Legalizes Cultivation and Consumption of Marijuana (Washington Post, 10-23-13)
Libya's Grand Mufti: Teachers Must Veil (The Daily Beast, 10-24-13)
Iraq Facing War of Genocide: Maliki (Press TV, 10-24-13)
Fuel Removal From Fukushima's Reactor 4 Threatens 'Apocalyptic' Scenario (Common Dreams, 10-24-13)
Commentary: Why Germany is Waging its Green Revolution Wrong (Spiegel, 10-25-13)
Are Western Sanctions Against Iran to Blame for Playwright's Death? (CNN, 10-25-13)
David Ignatius: U.S. Inattention to Libya Breeds Chaos (Washington Post, 10-25-13)
How Chinese Censorship is Reaching Overseas (CNN, 10-28-13)
Meet the One-Man Legal Machine Pursuing Justice for Pakistani Drone Strike Victims (Alternet, 10-28-13)
Why Does Sweden Have So Many Billionaires? (Slate, 10-31-13)
Benevolent Protector: Vattenfall Overpowers Coal Critics (Spiegel, 10-31-13)
Pakistani Political Leader Says NATO Supply Routes Will be Cut if US Drone Strikes Continue (Washington Post, 10-31-13)
Belgium Considering Unprecedented Law to Grant Euthanasia for Children, Dementia Patients (Washington Post, 10-31-13)
October - 2013 - Political
Is America a Failed State? (CNN, 10-1-13)
The Shutdown: Why Reasonable Republicans are Afraid to be Reasonable (Moyers & Company, 10-1-13)
Gingrich: Obama to Blame for Shutdown Because he 'Refuses to Act Like An American President' (Right Wing Watch, 10-1-13)
Alan Grayson: Republicans are Rejecting Obamacare Out of Drunken Anger (Raw Story, 10-1-13)
Government Shutdown, GOP Breakdown (Washington Post, 10-1-13)
Government Shutdown: John Boehner's Private Fight for Hill Health Subsidies (Politico, 10-1-13)
GOP: Crazy Like Foxes (Common Dreams, 10-2-13)
Now 20 House Republicans are Ready to Throw in the Towel in Obamacare Fight (The Blaze, 10-2-13)
EJ Dionne: Why This Shutdown is Different (Washington Post, 10-2-13)
President Obama's Interview with John Harwood (CNBC, 10-2-13)
30 Ways the Shutdown is Already Screwing People (Mother Jones, 10-3-13)
Transcript of Pelosi Remarks at Press Stakeout Following Meeting at White House on GOP Shutdown (Democratic Leader, 10-2-13)
GOP Congressman: "We Have to Get Something Out of This, and I Don't Even Know What That Even Is." (Daily Kos, 10-2-13)
How the Whitehouse Sees the Shutdown (and debt ceiling!) Fight (Washington Post, 10-3-13)
GOP's Missed Opportunity: A Budget Win (Politico, 10-3-13)
Niall Ferguson: The Shutdown is a Sideshow. Debt is the Threat (Wall Street Journal, 10-4-13)
Government Shutdown: Democrats Actually Hated the 'Clean' Funding Plan (Huffington Post, 10-4-13)
John Boehner Blamed for Shutdown in New 'Temper Tantrum' Ad to Air During Sunday Football (Huffington Post, 10-4-13)
Hillary Clinton: It's Not Her Turn (Common Dreams, 10-4-13)
White House Threatens Veto on New Piecemeal Spending Bills (Politico, 10-4-13)
10 Most Appalling Statements From America's Right-Wing Madhouse This Week (Alternet, 10-5-13)
The 13 Reasons Washington is Failing (Washington Post, 10-7-13)
Two More Dems Back Clean CR (Washington Post, 10-7-13)
Rep. Michele Bachmann Declares that We Are in the End Times: 'His Day Is at Hand' (Daily Kos, 10-8-13)
Meet the Evangelical Cabal Orchestrating the Shutdown (The Nation, 10-8-13)
The Whole Government Shutdown in One Chart (Business Insider, 10-8-13)
It May Be Hard to Believe, But GOP Will Become Even More Extreme, Respected Political Forecasters Say (Alternet, 10-8-13)
Chomsky: For Almost 70 Years, the U.S. Has Been the World Leader in Spreading Destruction and Misery Across the Planet (Alternet, 10-8-13)
Shutdown Cancels Entire U.S. Antarctic Research Program (Live Science, 10-8-13)
Obama: Complaints About Federal Employees 'Destructive' (Huffington Post, 10-9-13)
Committee To Protect Journalists Issues Scathing Report on Obama Administration (Common Dreams, 10-10-13)
Government Shutdown: D.C. Democrats Fight Obama, Reid (Politico, 10-10-13)
Right-Wing Coup: How Deluded Secessionists Have Already Won (Alternet, 10-10-13)
General in Charge of U.S. Air Force's Nuclear Missiles Fired Over Personal Misbehavior (Business Insider, 10-11-13)
Ted Cruz Wins Values Voter Summit Straw Poll (Politico, 10-12-13)
Here Are the Sleaziest Things Congress Has Done During the Situation (Huffington Post, 10-14-13)
The Folly of Empire (Truth Dig, 10-14-13)
In Debt Deal, Republicans Aren't Surrendering Anything (Washington Post, 10-15-13)
Pass and Flee: The Hot New Plan Rumored to be Afoot in the House (Huffington Post, 10-15-13)
Big Win for War Profiteers: Obama Rolls Back Limits on Arms Exports (Alternet, 10-15-13)
Why GOP Has to Remember Who Did What (Washington Post, 10-16-13)
Lessons From the Great Default Crisis of 1975 (The Nation, 10-16-13)
Petition Calls for Arresting and Charging Tea Party Republicans With Sedition (Addicting Info, 10-16-13)
'Fox & Friends' Suggests House Stenographer Targeted for Bringing 'Message from God' (Raw Story, 10-17-13)
Tea Party Leader Proposes 'Class-Action Lawsuit' Against 'Homosexuality' (Raw Story, 10-18-13)
At What Point do We Start Arresting Members of Congress for Sedition? (Forward Progressives, 10-18-13)
Behind Debt Deal: Silence, Distrust and Hardball (Wall Street Journal, 10-18-13)
Husband of House Stenographer Says God Spoke Through His Wife on the House Floor (Right Wing Watch, 10-21-13)
The Price of America Having the Greatest Military in the World? It's Destroying the Country (Alternet, 10-21-13)
U.S. May be Guilty of War Crimes Over Drone Use (RT, 10-22-13)
Inside the Meeting Where Obama and Reid Vowed Not to Be 'Taken in By These Crazy People' (Huffington Post, 10-22-13)
White House Official Fired for Tweets (Politico, 10-22-13)
Ted Cruz Gets His Health Insurance from Goldman Sachs, His Wife Confirms (Huffington Post, 10-23-13)
US - Saudi Relationship: It's Complicated (Al Jazeera, 10-23-13)
Kerry and Top State Dept. Officials Split Over Syria Talks (Foreign Policy, 10-23-13)
Sheldon Adelson Says Obama Should Nuke Iran (Huffington Post, 10-23-13
How Ken Cuccinnelli's Anti-Sodomy Obsession Could Set Real Sexual Predators Free (Alternet, 10-24-13)
Meet the 37 House Republicans Who Could Lose Their Jobs for Shutting Down the Government (Huffington Post, 10-24-13)
Ex-CIA Chief: No Solution to EMP Attack (WND, 10-28-13)
The Definitive Guide to Decoding Washington's Anonymous Sources (Huffington Post, 10-29-13)
Tome DeLay: I'm Back and I'm On a Mission From God (Raw Story, 10-29-13)
Can Congress, Hawks and the Israel Lobby Wreck the US-Iran Talks? (Common Dreams, 10-30-13)
Is There a Revolution Coming? Americans Finally Realize Global Capitalism is a Murderous Sham (Alternet, 10-30-13)
Obama's Pledge That 'No One Will Take Away Your Health Care' (Washington Post, 10-31-13)
The Deadenders: John McCain Wants Us Back in Iraq (Anti War, 10-31-13)
October - 2013 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
A WikiLeaks Family Feud Erupts on Twitter (Foreign Policy, 10-3-13)
Secret NSA Documents Show Campaign Against Tor Encrypted Network (Washington Post, 10-4-13)
Silicon Valley, Spy Agencies and Software Sovereignty (Al Jazeera, 10-21-13)
NSA Disinformation: There's No Evidence that Massive Data Collection Thwarts Terror Attacks (Alternet, 10-23-13)
Tales from the Crypto Community (Foreign Affairs, 10-23-13)
Congressional Oversight of the NSA is a Joke: I Should Know, I'm in Congress (The Guardian, 10-25-13)
NYT Calls White House 'Outright Liars' on Surveillance (Business Insider, 10-25-13)
NSA Official: Obama Was Informed of Spying on Merkel's Cell Phone, Let It Continue (The Dissenter, 10-27-13)
Tom Engelhardt: The Fantasy of a Clean War (Anti War, 10-29-13)
Matt Bors: It's Not Just Mosques They're Spying on Now (Alternet, 10-29-13)
October - 2013 - Technology
The State of Android: How It's Finally Solving Its Fragmentation and Monetization Problems and Conquering the Planet (Business Insider, 10-4-13)
Let's Build a More Secure Internet (New York Times, 10-9-13)
There's an International Plan to Censor the Internet in the Works - - Let's Stop It in It's Tracks (Alternet, 10-14-13)
China Achieves Wireless Internet Access Via Lightbulbs (ZD Net, 10-18-13)
Facebook May Join Forces With Police to Thwart Protests (Truth Dig, 10-26-13)
October - 2013 - Education
Is There a Common Sense of European History? (DW, 10-14-13)
Study: Poor Children are Now the Majority in American Public Schools in South, West (Washington Post, 10-16-13)
October - 2013 - Miscellaneous
A Corporate Coup in Disguise (Alternet, 10-1-13)
Richard Branson Reveals the Business Mogul With a Moral Compass He Admires the Most (Business Insider, 10-2-13)
Strong Enough for a Man, Effective Enough for a Woman (Moyers & Company, 10-9-13)
Women are Fighting Back Against 'Revenge Porn' Exposure, But the Solutions are Not Always Simple (Alternet, 10-12-13)
Columbus Day is the Official Endorsement of White European and US Conquest of Indigenous Peoples (Truth Out, 10-14-13)
New Amazon Shame: Holocaust Denial (Kernel Mag, 10-14-13)
Who Masterminded US Pot Prohibition? (Alternet, 10-16-13)
I'm Daisy Coleman, the Teenager at the Center of the Maryville Rape Media Storm, and This is What Really Happened (XO Jane, 10-18-13)
I Was Raped, Left to Die, Harassed by My Classmates - - the Boy Who Did It Never Faced Justice (Alternet, 10-18-13)
The United States, Falling Behind (New York Times, 10-22-13)
Russell Brand: 'Revolution is Coming... I Ain't Got a Flicker of Doubt' (Common Dreams, 10-24-13)
Sean Hannity Admits Huge Mistake, Does the Right Thing (Forward Progressives, 10-25-13)
Confronting the Legacies of Slavery (New York Times, 10-29-13)
Hedges: Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Have 'Destroyed Satire' (Popular Resistance, 10-29-13)
Discredited Definition of Anti-Semitism No Longer in Use, Says BBC (Electronic Intifada, 10-30-13)
Fighting Poverty, and Critics (New York Times, 9-2-13)
The Untold Story of How Clinton's Budget Destroyed the American Economy (Business Insider, 9-5-13)
BRIC Markets Create $100 Billion Buffer (CNN, 9-6-13)
Unemployment Dips to 7.3 Percent, but only 63% of Americans are in Labor Force (Washington Post, 9-6-13)
Which Emerging Markets are Most Vulnerable to a Freeze in Capital Inflows? (Economist, 9-7-13)
Wealthiest Americans Take Home Biggest Share of Income Ever Recorded (Alternet, 9-11-13)
We've Got a Billionaire Bailout Society (Alternet, 9-12-13)
10 Reasons Millenials are the Screwed Generation (Alternet, 9-12-13)
Exposing the Financial Core of the Transnational Capitalist Class (Global Research, 9-13-13)
Not One Top Wall Street Executive Has Been Convicted of Criminal Charges Related to 2008 Crisis (Huffington Post, 9-13-13)
Food Stamp Fight on Deck in the House (Washington Post, 9-13-13)
Wanted: Jobs for the New 'Lost' Generation (Wall Street Journal, 9-14-13)
Five Charts You Need to See to Understand the Financial Crisis, Five Years Later (Think Progress, 9-15-13)
Goldman Sachs Projects Lower Federal Employment Next Year (Washington Post, 9-16-13)
Pentagon Too Broke to Buy New Fax Machine (RT, 9-16-13)
The Typical American Family Makes Less Than It Did in 1989 (Washington Post, 9-17-13)
Why is the Federal Poverty Line So Far Off? (Moyers & Company, 9-18-13)
Mark Warner Rants Against Congress' Absurd, Divorced-From-Reality Economics (Huffington Post, 9-19-13)
RIP, the Middle Class: 1946-2013 (Alternet, 9-20-13)
By the Numbers: The Incredibly Shrinking Middle Class (Moyers & Company, 9-20-13)
Low-Income Preschoolers, Cancer Patients Take Hit in GOP Budget Extension (Think Progress, 9-20-13)
The Twilight of Appropriations? (Politico, 9-22-13)
Add It Up: The Average American Family Pays $6,000 a Year in Subsidies to Big Business (Common Dreams, 9-23-13)
What We Could Do With a Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn't Cost Taxpayers a Dime (Truth Out, 9-24-13)
Many Big Cities Face Serious Pension Debt (Washington Post, 9-26-13)
Five Things You Might Have Missed on "Poverty Day" (The Nation, 9-27-13)
5 Industries That Are Mercilessly Robbing the American People (Alternet, 9-29-13)
September - 2013 - Environmental
Greenhouse-Gas Fight Escalates (Wall Street Journal, 9-2-13)
The Chamber of Commerce's Surprising Comments on a Carbon Tax and How It Could Change The Game in Congress (Think Progress, 9-5-13)
L.A. City Council Members Call for Fracking Moratorium (Eco Watch, 9-5-13)
Harper Offers Obama Climate Plan to Win Keystone Approval (CBC, 9-6-13)
EPA Quietly Withdraws Two Proposed Chemical Safety Rules (Huffington Post, 9-6-13)
And Now It's Global Cooling: Record Return of Arctic Icecap As It Grows by 60% in a Year (Daily Mail, 9-8-13)
Forget Keystone. Tar Sands Drilling is On in Utah (Esquire, 9-12-13)
Ecuador's Paradise Lost (The Nation, 9-13-13)
From Yosemite to Colorado, Our Approach to Wildfires is All Wrong (Washington Post, 9-13-13)
The Real Fukushima Danger: Spent Fuel Pools (Fukushima Update, 9-15-13)
Frackademia: The People and Money Behind the EDF Methane Emissions Study (DeSmog Blog, 9-16-13)
Time Magazine Pushes Phony 'Global Cooling' Meme With Cartoon Penguin (Think Progress, 9-17-13)
The Global Toll of Fine Particulate Matter (Earth Observatory, 9-19-13)
Germany's Effort at Clean Energy Proves to be Complex (New York Times, 9-19-13)
In the Midst of the Budget Battle, Congress Is Handing Out Favors to the Mining Industry (Think Progress, 9-20-13)
Six Myths About Renewable Energy (Wall Street Journal, 9-22-13)
Air Pollution Deaths Around the World (Popular Science, 9-23-13)
Antarctic Sea Ice Hit 35-Year Record High Saturday (Washington Post, 9-23-13)
The Oil and Gas Industry's Fractured Fairy Tales (Common Dreams, 9-23-13)
Is Natural Gas 'Clean'? (New York Times, 9-24-13)
Is Organic Farming the Key to Solving Hunger? And Climate Change? (Take Part, 9-24-13)
Environmentalists Take Hard Line With Obama on Keystone XL (Washington Post, 9-24-13)
China's Disappearing Rivers: Is Climate Change to Blame? (The Atlantic Cities, 9-24-13)
Risky Repair of Fukushima Could Spill 15,000 Times the Radiation of Hiroshima, Create 85 Chernobyls (Truth Out, 9-26-13)
White House: America is Within Reach of Fulfilling Its Climate Pledge to the World (Climate Progress, 9-27-13)
Destabilization of Arctic Sea Ice Would be "Game Over" for Climate (Truth Out, 9-29-13)
September - 2013 - Health
'Addicted Man of Europe': Study Says Drug, Alcohol Addiction a Crisis in UK (RT, 9-1-13)
Porn Moratorium Reinstated After Third Performer Tests Positive for HIV (Gawker, 9-7-13)
Left Behind: Stories From Obamacare's 31 Million Uninsured (Washington Post, 9-8-13)
10 Things Porn Gets Wrong About Women and Sex (Alternet, 9-12-13)
Drug-Resistant Bacteria Pose Potential Catastrophe, CDC Warns (Washington Post, 9-16-13)
How Factory Farms May be Killing Us (Alternet, 9-17-13)
8 Things That Could Go Wrong With Obamacare (Reason, 9-19-13)
GOP Obamacare Defunding Bill Would Gut Children's Health Insurance Program (Huffington Post, 9-19-13)
People Want Full Medicare for All (Common Dreams, 9-26-13)
Government Shutdown Would Halt Seasonal Influenza Program (Huffington Post, 9-27-13)
Porn Director: I Was Totally Against Mandatory Condom Use in Sex Flicks, Until Now (Alternet, 9-28-13)
The Heritage Foundation Designed Obamacare to Preclude Single Payer. Republicans Win Again! (Fire Dog Lake, 9-28-13)
Argument for One-Year Delay of Health Reform Riddled With Flaws (Truth Out, 9-29-13)
September - 2013 - Religion
Mission Congo: A New Documentary Reveals How Pat Robertson's African Charity Was a Scam (Alternet, 9-5-13)
How Weird Christian Right Beliefs Impact America (Alternet, 9-11-13)
Pope Francis Assures Atheists: You Don't Have to Believe in God to Go to Heaven (Independent, 9-11-13)
Holy Freeloading! 10 Ways Religious Groups Suck on the Public Purse (Alternet, 9-18-13)
One-Third of Americans Under 30 Have No Religion - - How Will That Change the Country? (Alternet, 9-19-13)
Breaking Their Will: The Sick Biblical Literalism That Leads to Child Abuse and Even Death (Alternet, 9-25-13)
Bill O'Reilly's New Book Says Jesus Died to Save the Jews from Taxation (Daily Kos, 9-27-13)
Let's Face It: Christianity Has Been an Accomplice to More Wars and Genocides than Any Other Religion (Alternet, 9-27-13)
September - 2013 - Foreign
Winston Churchill's Shocking Use of Chemical Weapons (The Guardian, 9-1-13)
Which Syrian Chemical Attack Account is More Credible? (Fair, 9-1-13)
Latest on Syria: 10 Ways Bombing Syria Would be Bad for the U.S. and Syrians (Policy Mic, 9-1-13)
Pakistan Polio Outbreak Grows Amid Militant Threats (Al Jazeera, 9-2-13)
China's Brand New Abandoned Cities Could be Dystopian Movie Sets (IO9, 9-2-13)
Iran's Chemical Weapon Survivors Show Twin Horrors of WMD and Sanctions (The Guardian, 9-2-13)
The Purge (Foreign Policy, 9-3-13)
Putin Talks Syria, 'Doesn't Exclude' Supporting UN Resolution Despite Warnings (Huffington Post, 9-4-13)
As Syria Deteriorates, Neighbors Fear Bioweapons Threat (Washington Post, 9-4-13)
Syria War Propagandists Debunked (YouTube, 9-4-13)
Waiting for the Tomahawks (Foreign Policy, 9-5-13)
Iraqis, Looking Across Border, See Replays of Past and Fears for Future (New York Times, 9-5-13)
Saudi Arabia's 'Chemical Bandar' Behind the Syrian Chemical Attacks? (RT, 9-5-13)
Brutality of Syrian Rebels Poses Dilemma in the West (New York Times, 9-5-13)
As Noose Tightens, Palestinians in Gaza Face Darkest Days (Electronic Intifada, 9-5-13)
Syria: Russia Will Stand by Assad Over Any US Strikes, Warns Putin (Telegraph, 9-6-13)
What Will Russia Do? (Alternative Right, 9-6-13)
Two Years After Libya's Revolution, Government Struggles to Control Hundreds of Armed Militias (Washington Post, 9-6-13)
Ex-World Leaders Urge US to Forego Military Attack on Syria (Nation of Change, 9-7-13)
Pakistan to Take US Drone Strikes to UN (Press TV, 9-10-13)
Bolivia Seeks to Protect Indigenous From Extinction (Info Sur Hoy, 9-10-13)
Russia Chess Move Stalls US Actions as Al-Qaeda Air Force (RT, 9-10-13)
From Hiroshima to Syria, the Enemy Whose Name We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger, 9-11-13)
Belgian Academic Blames Syrian Poison Gas Attacks on US-Backed Opposition (World Socialist Website, 9-12-13)
French Ex-PM: Law, Not Force, Only Solution for Syria (YouTube, 9-13-13)
Russian Military Resumes Permanent Arctic Presence (RT, 9-14-13)
Libya FM Admits, Troops and Arms to Syria a Source of Pride (NSNBC, 9-15-13)
The World After the Kerry-Lavrov Accord on Syria (Informed Comment, 9-15-13)
China Broadcasts Confession of Chinese American Blogger (Washington Post, 9-15-13)
Globalist Challenges to be Overcome by National Revival - Putin (RT, 9-17-13)
Attenborough Criticizes Food Aid (Yahoo!, 9-18-13)
America's Afghan Victims (The Nation, 9-18-13)
Germany Industry in Revolt as Green Dream Causes Cost Spiral (Telegraph, 9-18-13)
China Intensifies Social-Media Crackdown (Wall Street Journal, 9-19-13)
President Bashar Al-Assad's Interview on Syria's Chemical Weapons (Global Research, 9-19-13)
Two Years After that Famous Report on Chinese Ghost Cities, Things Might be Getting Even Worse (Business Insider, 9-19-13)
Bolivia to Sue US for Crimes Against Humanity (Alalam, 9-20-13)
Humankind's Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4 (Global Research, 9-20-13)
Neoliberalism Plays Key Role in Economically Forced Mexican Migration to US (Truth Out, 9-20-13)
Spying Scandal Sends US Influence on Latin America into Nosedive (RT, 9-21-13)
A Nun Lends a Voice of Skepticism on the Use of Poison Gas in Syia (New York Times, 9-21-13)
Private Donations Give Edge to Islamists in Syria (Washington Post, 9-21-13)
Tunisian Girls are Coming Home Pregnant After Performing 'Sexual Jihad' in Syria (Business Insider, 9-21-13)
Nasrallah: Saudi Arabia, Turkey Have Failed Syria (Alakhbar, 9-23-13)
US Sending Saudi Arabia Thousands of Cluster Bombs, Despite International Ban (Anti War, 9-23-13)
Egyptian Court Bans Ousted President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, Seizes Assets (Washington Post, 9-23-13)
Let Them Speak (YouTube, 9-24-13)
China Builds Successful High Speed Rail While U.S. Flails Under Austerity (Daily Kos, 9-24-13)
Largest Syrian Rebel Groups Form Islamic Alliance, in Possible Blow to US Influence (Washington Post, 9-25-13)
Syria Schism: West-backed Rebels Shun West-backed Opposition Coalition (RT, 9-25-13)
African Nations Push for Permanent UNSC Seat (Al Jazeera, 9-26-13)
Pakistan's Iran Pipeline to Proceed (Wall Street Journal, 9-26-13)
Understanding Imran (Dawn, 9-29-13)
Ms. Kalashnikov: The Women Rebels of Congo (Spiegel, 9-30-13)
September - 2013 - Politics
CNN Caught Staging News Segments on Syria With Actors (Friends of Syria, 9-1-13)
12 Very Good Reasons Why America Should Stay Out of Syria (Alternet, 9-2-13)
Noam Chomsky Weighs in on Syria (Huffington Post, 9-2-13)
Obama's Proposed Syria Strikes are 'Largely Divorced From the Interests of the Syrian People' (Washington Post, 9-2-13)
To Some, U.S. Case for Syrian Gas Attack, Strike Has Too Many Holes (McClatchy, 9-2-13)
Top Secret US Intelligence Files Show New Levels of Distrust of Pakistan (Washington Post, 9-2-13)
US Evokes Ghost of Hitler as PR Campaign Against Assad Goes Crazy (RT, 9-3-13)
Is the United States Going to War With Syria Over a Natural Gas Pipeline? (Economic Collapse, 9-3-13)
Congressional Progressive/Pentagon Caucus (Popular Resistance, 9-3-13)
Calling Off America's Bombs (Common Dreams, 9-3-13)
How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria (Truth Out, 9-3-13)
America is More Terrifying than Orwell's Fiction (Alternet, 9-3-13)
Timeline of Military Intelligence Operation: U.S. Had Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007 (Global Research, 9-4-13)
Liberal Groups Break With Obama on Syria (Progressive Democrats of America, 9-4-13)
Syria: Another Illegal War Based on Manipulation and Fake Intelligence (Global Research, 9-4-13)
Maybe a Government that Constantly Violates Its Rights is More Rotten Than We Realize (Reason, 9-4-13)
The World Should Join in Call to Stop US War in Syria (Common Dreams, 9-4-13)
10 Chemical Weapons Attacks Washington Doesn't Want You to Talk About (Policy Mic, 9-4-13)
Democratic Leadership More Pro-War Than GOP Leadership (Washington Examiner, 9-4-13)
The Biggest Assault on Our Democracy is Coming from the Center of Our Own Government (Alternet, 9-4-13)
Will Congress Now Save Obama's Face by Selling Out Democracy and the Syrian People and Setting the Stage for World War III? (Global Research, 9-4-13)
Can U.S. Separate the Good Guys from Jihadists in Syria? (Washington Examiner, 9-5-13)
John Kerry's Lie: 'The President is Not Asking You to Go to War' (The Atlantic, 9-5-13)
State Lists 10 Countries Backing Military Action (Politico, 9-5-13)
Syria: Obama's Pretext for War (Global Research, 9-5-13)
No Law Will Stop Obama's Democracy Bombs over Syria (RT, 9-5-13)
US Congress Speaker Refuses to Meet Russian Delegation (RT, 9-5-13)
Media Questions Kerry's Mysterious 1,429 Death Toll in Syria (The Nation, 9-5-13)
9 Ways America Has Fueled the Bloody War in Syria (Progressive Democrats of America, 9-5-13)
Kerry's Characterization of Syrian Opposition Contradicts Intel Reports (RT, 9-5-13)
Syria (The White House, 9-6-13)
Woman Informing Kerry, McCain's Opinions on Syria Also an Advocate for Syrian Rebels (Information Clearing House, 9-6-13)
Questions About War With Syria (National Interest, 9-6-13)
Stopping Barry O'Bomber's Rush to War (Common Dreams, 9-7-13)
Will Syria's Chemical Weapons Take Down Assad - or Obama? (Al Jazeera, 9-7-13)
5 Acts of Terror By the People We Chose to Protect Us (Alternet, 9-8-13)
Why Didn't the US Invade Israel When It Used Chemical Weapons on Palestinians? (Apartheid Exists, 9-8-13)
Shady PR Operatives, Pro-Israel Ties, Anti-Castro Money: Inside the Syrian Opposition's DC Spin Machine (Alternet, 9-8-13)
Eliot Spitzer's Record: Abuse of Power (Wall Street Journal, 9-8-13)
Help Kickstart World War III! (YouTube, 9-9-13)
Obama is Presiding Over the Biggest Rogue State in the World, Trampling Over Every Law It Demands That Others Uphold (Alternet, 9-9-13)
Kerry: Military Action in Syria Would be 'Unbelievably Small' (Washington Post, 9-9-13)
All Who Opposed Iraq War Must Oppose Syria Strike (CNN, 9-9-13)
America Violates, Exempts Self from 'International Norms' it Aims to Unilaterally Enforce (Reason, 9-9-13)
Most Iraq, Afghanistan Vets in Congress Oppose Syria Strike (Washington Post, 9-10-13)
White House Mum on Rebel Chemical Weapons Use (Military News, 9-10-13)
Obama's Rogue State Tramples Over Every Law It Demands Others Uphold (Common Dreams, 9-10-13)
Obama's National Security Advisor Delivers Myth-Addled Speech on Waging War in Syria (Common Dreams, 9-10-13)
Kerry's Claim That he Opposed Bush's Invasion of Iraq (Washington Post, 9-10-13)
Lois Lerner's Own Words (Wall Street Journal, 9-11-13)
The Silent Military Coup That Took Over Washington (Common Dreams, 9-11-13)
Democracy as Chimera (New York Times, 9-11-13)
Kerry and McCain's Favorite Syria 'Expert' Fired For Faking Credentials (Raw Story, 9-11-13)
The President's Speech Reveals He Has Never Seen War (Truth Out, 9-11-13)
Chomsky: 9/11 is the Basis for 'Obama's Massive Terrorist War' (Alternet, 9-11-13)
Peaceful Syrian Opposition Ignored by Peace Laureate Obama (Who What Why, 9-12-13)
Shocking New Research Reveals Obama's Legacy Could Be an America of Aristocrats and Peons (Alternet, 9-12-13)
Vladimir Putin's New York Times Op-Ed, Annotated and Fact Checked (Washington Post, 9-12-13)
Syria Situation Further Strains Obama's Relationship With the Anti-War Movement (Washington Post, 9-13-13)
Antony Blinken Steps Into the Spotlight with Obama Administration Role (Washington Post, 9-15-13)
Will It Fly? (Vanity Fair, 9-16-13)
Former Attorney General: US Sanctions are Genocidal (Global Research, 9-17-13)
Obama Waives Ban on Arming Terrorists So He Can Aid Syrian Rebels (AntiWar, 9-17-13)
Who is a 'Journalist'? People Who Can Afford to Be (Al Jazeera, 9-17-13)
Dana Milbank: After Navy Yard Shooting, RIP for Gun Control (Washington Post, 9-17-13)
Marc Faber Warns "The Endgame is a Total Collapse" - But From a Higher Diving Board Now (Zero Hedge, 9-18-13)
Karl Rove: The GOP's Self-Defeating 'Defunding' Strategy (Wall Street Journal, 9-18-13)
John McCain: A National Embarrassment (The Libertarian Republic, 9-19-13)
The House's Un-American Activities (Common Dreams, 9-19-13)
U.S. Has Not Addressed Real Threat of Strategic Terrorism (Washington Post, 9-20-13)
How Doug Brand Drove a Wedge Through a Political Dynasty (New Republic, 9-22-13)
A Shield Law is Necessary to Protect U.S. Journalists (Washington Post, 9-22-13)
Obama's 'Independent' NSA Review Board Staffed With Administration Insiders (RT, 9-23-13)
How the Senate's Absurd Rules Could Allow Ted Cruz to Shut Down the Government (Think Progress, 9-23-13)
The US is an Insane Power Like the Nazis (Voice of Russia, 9-24-13)
Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press (Common Dreams, 9-24-13)
Faulty Background Checks: Hundreds of US Security Clearance Records Falsified (Huffington Post, 9-25-13)
Jeremy Scahill: Obama Is an Enforcer of Empire (Alternet, 9-25-13)
45 Top Lies From Obama's UN Speech (Counter Punch, 9-25-13)
CR Fight Sleeper Issue: Budget Caps (Politico, 9-26-13)
Live Updates: The Shutdown Showdown (Washington Post, 9-27-13)
Morales: Obama Can Invade Any Country for US Energy Needs (RT, 9-27-13)
Senate Voting to Table (Kill) House Amendments to Fund Gov't. and Delay Health Care Law (C-SPAN, 9-27-13)
Gore Accuses GOP of 'Political Terrorism' (Washington Post, 9-27-13)
Shutdown Crisis Rooted in GOP's Budget (Politico, 9-28-13)
Brian Williams' Iran Propaganda (The Guardian, 9-28-13)
The House's Food Stamps Cuts Aren't Just Cruel. They're Dumb. (Washington Post, 9-28-13)
Bill Clinton: 'If I Were President, I Wouldn't Negotiate' Over Funding Government (National Journal, 9-29-13)
Dear Congress: Stop This Manufactured Crisis (Common Dreams, 9-29-13)
Drunk on Booze and Power: House GOP/Tea Party Members Reek of Booze on House Floor! (Americans Against the Teaparty, 9-29-13)
Congressmen Still Boozing as Government Shuts Down (Huffington Post, 9-30-13)
Senator Warren on Republicans' Shut Down Threats (YouTube, 9-30-13)
Congressional Republicans Violate Oath of Office (Huffington Post, 9-30-13)
The Senate Continuing Resolution Is Already a Compromise (American Progress, 9-30-13)
11 Reasons Why a Government Shutdown is Terrible for You (Huffington Post, 9-30-13)
September - 2013 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
Accepting Whistleblower Prize, Snowden Declares 'This Belongs to the Public' (Common Dreams, 9-4-13)
NSA Able to Foil Basic Safeguards of Privacy on Web (New York Times, 9-5-13)
Privacy Scandal: The NSA Can Spy on Smartphone Data (Spiegel, 9-7-13)
Tor Anonymity Network Could be 'Easily Compromised' Researcher Says (RT, 9-7-13)
'Undermining the Very Fabric of the Internet': Bruce Schneier on NSA's Secret Spying (Nation of Change, 9-8-13)
The NSA's Next Move: Silencing University Professors? (Common Dreams, 9-11-13)
Obama Administration Dishonestly Wants Public to Believe It Voluntarily Declassified Secret NSA Documents (Common Dreams, 9-11-13)
NSA Disguised Itself as Google to Spy, Say Reports (CNET, 9-12-13)
Inside the Mind of NSA Chief Gen. Keith Alexander (Common Dreams, 9-15-13)
Former NSA and CIA Director Says Terrorists Love Using Gmail (Washington Post, 9-15-13))
Deliberately Flawed? RSA Security Tells Customers to Drop NSA-related Encryption Algorithm (RT, 9-20-13)
Zuckerberg Lap Dog for Surveillance State (YouTube, 9-23-13)
NSA Surveillance Goes Beyond Orwell's Imagination (The Guardian, 9-23-13)
Documents Show US Spied on Martin Luther King (Al Jazeera, 9-26-13)
"The President's Private Army": NSA-CIA Spying is Central to Carrying Out the Obama Administration's Assassination Program (Global Research, 9-29-13)
September - 2013 - Technology
Facebook Employees Reveal 16 Awful Things About Working at Facebook (Business Insider, 9-2-13)
Africa 'Leapfrogs' to Wider Internet Access (Al Jazeera, 9-2-13)
'Africa's Father of the Internet': Web Pioneer on Bringing a Continent Online (CNN, 9-4-13)
The Next Wireless Revolution, in Electricity (New York Times, 9-11-13)
Translate This: Google's Quest to End the Language Barrier (Spiegel, 9-13-13)
September - 2013 - Education
When Will Public Schools Stop Telling Our Kids That Nuking Cities is Okay? (The Screeching Kettle, 9-25-13)
Job Market Embraces Massive Online Courses (Wall Street Journal, 9-26-13)
September - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Germ War: the US Record (Counter Punch, 9-3-13)
Wal-Mart, Walgreens Found Selling Chemical Used to Manufacture Deadly Nerve Gas Weapons Based on Nazi Science Research (Natural News, 9-4-13)
Fairfax County Library Revamps System, Discards Books, Reduces Librarians (Washington Post, 9-9-13)
Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition (Truth Dig, 9-9-13)
Don't Quit Your Day Job (Moyers & Co., 9-10-13)
The Bay of Pigs' Unfinished Battle (Washington Post, 9-13-13)
An Inside Look at How NYT's Ownership Meddled With Coverage to Push Their Pet Projects (Alternet, 9-15-13)
Jimmy Carter Writing New Book - Says Atheist Countries Treat Women Better (Daily Kos, 9-19-13)
Don't Link Video Games With Mass Shootings (CNN, 9-20-13)
Seymour Hersh: Story About Killing Osama Bin Laden is One Big Lie (Alternet, 9-27-13)
From the Mean-Spirited to the Asinine - - 7 Prime Examples of Right-Wing Lunacy This Week (Alternet, 9-28-13)
Britain's Harsh Crackdown on Internet Porn Prompts Free Speech Debate (Washington Post, 9-28-13)
The Return of the 19th Century (Daily Kos, 9-30-13)
Halliburton's Lethal Crimes Get a Slap on the Wrist While Non-Violent Minority Drug Offenders Get Long-Prison Terms (Truth Out, 9-30-13)
This Graph Calls the Entire Economic Recovery Into Question (Washington Post, 8-1-13)
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud, Brought to You By Big Finance & Co. (Alternet, 8-2-13)
The Price of 'Made in China' (New York Times, 8-4-13)
8 Ways Privatization Has Brought Pain and Misery to American Life (Alternet, 8-5-13)
Boomerang Babies: Record Number of Young Adults Live with Parents at Terrible Cost (Alternet, 8-5-13)
Obama to Millenials Stuck Living at Home: I've Got Nothing for You (Business Insider, 8-7-13)
How the World Bank Puts Self-Interest Before Development (Huffington Post, 8-8-13)
Marc Faber: Look Out! A 1987-style Crash is Coming (CNBC, 8-8-13)
Suppressing Corporate Wages and Increasing Corporate Profits (MyBudget 360, 8-12-13)
How Libertarian-Style Capitalism Killed My Father and My Best Friends (Alternet, 8-15-13)
Report: Half of All Homes are Being Purchased With Cash (Wall Street Journal, 8-15-13)
The 'Bankization' of America (Common Dreams, 8-16-13)
Sequestration Forces Scientist to Euthanize His Genetically Modified Rabbits (Huffington Post, 8-16-13)
'A Seismic Change is Underway': The Death of the Middle Classes (Daily Mail, 8-23-13)
Here's Where Middle Class Jobs are Vanishing the Fastest (Washington Post, 8-27-13)
The Leveraged Buyout of America (Counter Punch, 8-27-13)
Nearly 20 Percent of Scientists Contemplate Moving Overseas Due in Part to Sequestration (Huffington Post, 8-29-13)
Are We Being Ruled by Self-Centered Jerks? What New Studies Reveal About the Ultra Wealthy (Alternet, 8-29-13)
Liberal Small Business Owner, Once an Obamacare Supporter, Now Rips Program Costs (The Blaze, 8-31-13)
August - 2013 - Environmental
Caribbean Has Lost 80% of Its Coral Reef Cover in Recent Years (The Guardian, 8-1-13)
Greenland Experiences 'Record High' Temperatures (Blue and Green Tomorrow, 8-1-13)
A Republican Case for Climate Action (New York Times, 8-2-13)
The World Water Shortage Looks Unstoppable (Salon, 8-4-13)
Extreme Heat is Killing Off Thousands of Fish in Alaska (Think Progress, 8-5-13)
As Our Planet Fries, Think We are Headed for Renewable Energy? Think Again (Alternet, 8-8-13)
The Plight of the Honeybee (Time, 8-9-13)
A Texan Tragedy, Ample Oil, no Water (The Guardian, 8-11-13)
Fracking Boom Could Lead to Housing Bust (Grist, 8-16-13)
Gorgeous Glimpses of Calamity (New York Times, 8-18-13)
We've Covered the World in Pesticides. Is That a Problem? (Washington Post, 8-18-13)
Fracking the Ocean and California's San Andreas Fault (Nation of Change, 8-18-13)
Ohio Earthquakes are Triggered by Fracking, Research Shows (Al Jazeera, 8-19-13)
UN Climate Change Report Draft Warns of 3 Foot Sea Level Rise by 2100 (Huffington Post, 8-19-13)
Decentralized Renewables Won't Fuel Modern Cities (The Breakthrough, 8-19-13)
Warren Buffett Invests Big Time in Tar Sands (Alternet, 8-19-13)
Experts Even Surer Now: Humans are Cause of Global Warming (NBC, 8-20-13)
Government Recklessly Reopened Fisheries in the Gulf (Natural Society, 8-21-13)
Preaching to the Choir (The Breakthrough Institute, 8-22-13)
Arsenic in Groundwater May Affect 20 Million People in China (Yale Environmental 360, 8-23-13)
Ditch Ethanol Mandates. Try a Carbon Tax. (Washington Post, 8-25-13)
14 U.S. Cities That Could Disappear Over the Next Century, Thanks to Global Warming (Huffington Post, 8-26-13)
Wrecking the Earth: Fracking Has Grave Radiation Risks Few Talk About (RT, 8-28-13)
Banks Put a Price on Earth's Life Support (Truth Dig, 8-30-13)
August - 2013 - Health
Obama Negotiates Cuts to Medicare as the Program Reaches Its 48th Anniversary (Truth Out, 8-6-13)
What Mainstream Culture Hides About Sex, Women and Orgasms (Alternet, 8-8-13)
What It's Like to Grow Up in a Country That Doesn't Hate Sex (Alternet, 8-16-13)
5 Myths About Sex and Aging (Alternet, 8-22-13)
Obamacare Endangers Obamacare (Washington Post, 8-25-13)
Poverty Strains Cognitive Abilities, Opening Doors for Bad Decision-Making, New Study Finds (Washington Post, 8-29-13)
August - 2013 - Religion
7 Right-Wing Christians Who Broke the Same Sexual Rules They Impose on Others (Alternet, 8-7-13)
'Horrible': Christian Churches Across Egypt Stormed, Torched (CNN, 8-16-13)
5 Most Absurd, Self-Pitying Gripes of the Christian Right (Alternet, 8-22-13)
August - 2013 - Foreign
'Hey Obama, You Are Stupid, Bad Man': Viral Egyptian Music Video Accuses Obama of Supporting Terrorism, Muslim Brotherhood (The Blaze, 8-5-13)
Saudi Arabia Offers Russia Deal For Backing Off Assad Support (Huffington Post, 8-7-13)
To Be a Gazan in Tahrir (Al Jazeera, 8-7-13)
A 'Traitor'? Wave of Hate Follows False Story of Gorbachev's Death (Spiegel, 8-9-13)
76 Countries Where Anti-Gay Laws are As Bad or Worse Than Russia's (Buzzfeed, 8-9-13)
The Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse (Common Dreams, 8-9-13)
The WHO Must Release Reports on Iraqi Birth Defects Now (Al Jazeera, 8-11-13)
Chinese Ship's Historic Route Marks Sign of Warning Times (Common Dreams, 8-12-13)
Putin's Weapon in the War of Images (Spiegel, 8-13-13)
Being Honest About the Dominant Zionist Narrative (Al Jazeera, 8-13-13)
For President, Karzai Floats Islamist With Bin Laden Tie (Wall Street Journal, 8-14-13)
Cairo Massacre: After Today, What Muslim Will Ever Trust the Ballot Box Again? (The Independent, 8-14-13)
US Encourages Democracy in Yemen, Then Turns Deaf Ear (Common Dreams, 8-14-13)
Paolo Dall'Oglio Dead: Missing Jesuit Priest Killed in Syria According to Human Rights Group (Huffington Post, 8-14-13)
Dangerous Operation at Fukushima's Reactor No. 4 Could Ignite "Atomic Chain Reaction" (Common Dreams, 8-14-13)
Diplomats: Egypt Could Have Avoided Bloodshed (Al Jazeera, 8-15-13)
'Bloodbath That Is Not a Bloodbath': Why Egypt is Doomed (RT, 8-15-13)
Egypt Military Backed Out of Prisoner-Release Deal That Could HAve Averted Killings: Sources (Huffington Post, 8-15-13)
Egypt's Blood, America's Complicity (New York Times, 8-16-13)
Israeli's Booming Secretive Arms Trade (Al Jazeera, 8-16-13)
General Sisi Kills His Own Family (Middle East Monitor, 8-16-13)
China's Leader Embraces Mao as He Tightens Grip on Country (Wall Street Journal, 8-16-13)
Arab Revolutions: Ignoring a Potential Catastrophe (Al Jazeera, 8-16-13)
Dodgy Data May Add $1 Trillion to Chinese Economy (CNBC, 8-16-13)
11 Facts About the Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Holocaust That Are Almost Too Horrifying to Believe (The Daily Sheeple, 8-22-13)
Three Good Reasons to Liquidate Our Empire (Truth Dig, 8-23-13)
If Pakistan Is to Prosper, We Must Stop Bashing India (Telegraph, 8-23-13)
KP Schools Will Teach Jihad Again (The Friday Times, 8-23-13)
A Veteran Saudi Power Player Works to Build Support to Topple Assad (Wall Street Journal, 8-25-13)
'Them and Us': One in Four Children Living in Poverty in UK (RT, 8-25-13)
U.S. Prepares to Attack Syria - - 60% of Americans Are Against It, Obama Has No U.N. Approval, and No Proof of Who Was Behind Gas Attacks (Alternet, 8-26-13)
Pundits Say Syrian 'Intervention' Won't End Well, Push for War Anyway (Moyers & Company, 8-26-13)
4 of the Most Awful Arguments for Attacking Syria Made So Far (Alternet, 8-27-13)
Here Comes Obama & Co., With Guns and Missiles About to be Blazing in Syria (Alternet, 8-27-13)
UN Diplomat: Jihadists May Have Used Gas - - Not Assad (Jewish Press, 8-27-13)
Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arabia if West Attacks Syria (European Union Times, 8-27-13)
'Violent Chaos': Libya in Deep Crisis Two Years Since Rebels Took Over (RT, 8-28-13)
Heading to War With Syria and the U.S. Media (Common Dreams, 8-28-13)
In Syria, Obama's Calculations Reveal Stupidity of US Imperialism (Common Dreams, 8-28-13)
Cheat Sheet on Syria (Films for Action, 8-28-13)
In Rush to Strike Syria, US Tried to Derail UN Probe (Common Dreams, 8-28-13)
China: The Debt Dragon (Financial Times, 8-28-13)
Syria Asks UN to Investigate 3 New 'Chemical Attacks' by Rebels (RT, 8-28-13)
Economist Jayati Ghosh: India's Woes Foretell 'Chaos and Violence' (Spiegel, 8-28-13)
Beijing Water Shortage Worse than the Middle East (China Dialogue, 8-29-13)
Chemical Weapons are a Nightmare for Syrians (CNN, 8-29-13)
Arab League States' Views on Syria Response Far From Uniform (The National, 8-29-13)
Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack (Mint Press News, 8-29-13)
Nuremberg to Spend 70 Million on Rebuilding Nazi Rally Grounds (RT, 8-30-13)
Looming Airstrikes in Syria Pose Test for Egypt's Leaders and the Opposition (New York Times, 8-30-13)
Syrian Rebels Take Responsibility for the Chemical Attack Admitting the Weapons Were Provided by Saudis (Voice of Russia, 8-30-13)
In Trying to Help Syria, an Intervention Would Destroy It (Washington Post, 8-30-13)
Syria: Putin Rubbishes Chemical Attack Claims (The Guardian, 8-31-13)
Putin: US Should Present Syria Evidence to Security Council (RT, 8-31-13)
August - 2013 - Political
The GOP's Entire Budget Strategy Collapsed Yesterday, and Almost No One Noticed (Yahoo! Finance, 8-1-13)
No, Says State Dept., Drone Attacks in Pakistan Will Not be Ending 'Very, Very Soon' (Common Dreams, 8-2-13)
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance (Films for Action, 8-4-13)
On Obama's Cancellation of Summit with Putin and Extradition (Common Dreams, 8-7-13)
Departure of GOP Operatives Could Imperil Debt-Limit Talks (Washington Post, 8-8-13)
The Origins of The Neoliberal War on the Poor (Counter Punch, 8-9-13)
Do We Really Want a Cold War II? (Anti War, 8-9-13)
Sequestration Ushers In a Dark Age for Science in America (Huffington Post, 8-14-13)
How False History Props Up the Right (Common Dreams, 8-18-13)
Republicans Urged to Defend Budget Cuts (Financial Times, 8-19-13)
Can You Feel It? People Are Getting More Tense as Anti-Human New Political Order Takes Shape (Alternet, 8-20-13)
US, Voicing Anew Its Opposition to Intervention, Seeks Info on Reported Syrian Chemical Attack (Washington Post, 8-21-13)
As a Democrat, I Am Disgusted With President Obama (The Guardian, 8-22-13)
The CIA is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents (Motherboard, 8-22-13)
Forward to Fascism? (Counter Punch, 8-23-13)
No, thanks: Stop Saying "Support the Troops" (Salon, 8-25-13)
Wave of Retirements Hitting Federal Workforce (Washington Post, 8-26-13)
CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (Foreign Policy, 8-26-13)
Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" for Everything (Common Dreams, 8-26-13)
Pentagon Labels Founding Fathers, Conservatives as Extremists (Fox News, 8-26-13)
Does Obama Know He's Fighting on Al-Qaida's Side? (The Independent, 8-27-13)
When it Comes to Chemical Weapons, the US Has a Lot of Explaining to Do (Take Part, 8-27-13)
Another Western War Crime in the Making (Counter Punch, 8-27-13)
They're Baaack: Neocons Push for Regime Change (AntiWar, 8-27-13)
Experts to Obama: Here is What to Do in Syria (Weekly Standard, 8-27-13)
Bill Kristol is Getting the Band Back Together (Prospect, 8-27-13)
Boehner Seeks Answers from President Obama on Syria (Speaker of the House, 8-28-13)
Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Administration Has Not Justified Syria Intervention (Huffington Post, 8-29-13)
Putin Incensed by Obama's 'Bored Kid' Remark (News Max, 8-29-13)
Pro-Obama Super PAC Priorities USA Positions Itself to Support Hillary Clinton (Washington Post, 8-29-13)
The Legal Consequences of Illegal Wars (Foreign Affairs, 8-30-13)
U.S. Syria Conflict: Intelligence on Chemical Weapons "No Slam Dunk," Officials Say (Huffington Post, 8-29-13)
GOP Congressman: Military Members Keep Telling Me To Vote 'No' on Syria (Business Insider, 8-30-13)
John Kerry: 1971 vs. 2013 (Say Anything, 8-30-13)
162 Representatives, Including 64 Democrats, Call for Debate and Vote Before War With Syria (Truth Out, 8-30-13)
Jimmy Carter: Syria Strike Illegal Without UN Support (Huffington Post, 8-30-13)
Obama's Approval Rating Plummets to its Lowest Point Ever, and Syria is to Blame (Business Insider, 8-30-13)
Jimmy Carter Calls for Syria Peace Summit (Politico, 8-30-13)
President Obama Should Listen to US and UK Public: Don't Strike Syria (Common Dreams, 8-30-13)
Israeli Firsters Urge President Obama to Respond to Assad's Chemical Attack (Information Clearing House, 8-31-13)
Could Bombing in Syria Kill More Civilians Than it Saves? (Washington Post, 8-31-13)
August - 2013 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
DEA Special Operations Division Covers Up Surveillance Used to Investigate Americans: Report (Huffington Post, 8-5-13)
To Repair the Damage Done in NSA Blow Up, Start With James Clapper (Alternet, 8-7-13)
Senate Intelligence Panel Could Seek to Declassify Documents, It Just Doesn't (McClatchy, 8-12-13)
The Man Who Misled Congress on Spying Will Pick Obama's Intelligence Review Panel (Washington Post, 8-12-13)
Obama Had Five Years to Host Debate on NSA, But Refused, says Former Senate Staffer (Common Dreams, 8-12-13)
NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Says (Washington Post, 8-15-13)
Michael Grunwald, Time Magazine Reporter, Sends Out Shocking Tweet About Julian Assange (Huffington Post, 8-17-13)
Glenn Greenwald's Partner Detained at UK Airport Under Terrorist Act (Huffington Post, 8-18-13)
Police Can Now Switch Off iPhone Camera and Wi-Fi (Veterans Today, 8-19-13)
Guardian Editor: U.K. 'Security Experts' Entered Offices and Destroyed Hard Drives (Huffington Post, 8-19-13)
Detaining My Partner Was a Failed Attempt at Intimidation (Common Dreams, 8-19-13)
NSA Misrepresented Scope of Data Collection to Secret Court (CNN, 8-20-13)
The Price Gina Gray Paid for Whistleblowing (Washington Post, 8-20-13)
NSA-Corporate Collusion Built Network to Reach 75% of Internet Traffic (Common Dreams, 8-21-13)
Snowden: UK Government Now Leaking Documents About Itself (Common Dreams, 8-23-13)
The NSA Unravels a Civil Rights-Era Win (Washington Post, 8-29-13)
August - 2013 - Technology
XKeyscore a 'God-terminal' into Internet (DW, 8-3-13)
Nearly Half of All Video Gamers are Women (CNN, 8-11-13)
Google Fiber Continues Awful ISP Tradition of Banning 'Servers' (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 8-12-13)
The Tiniest New Technology Poses Unanswered Safety Questions (Common Dreams, 8-12-13)
Internet Launches Fightback Against State Snoopers (FT, 8-13-13)
Most of U.S. Is Wired, But Millions Aren't Plugged In (New York Times, 8-19-13)
Internet Porn Map Reveals US, Holland and Britain as the Largest Providers in the World (Daily Mail, 8-19-13)
Facebook Leads an Effort to Lower Barriers to Internet Access (New York Times, 8-20-13)
Facebook's Internet.org Aims to Get Billions Online (BBC, 8-21-13)
Is Windows 8 a Trojan Horse for the NSA? The German Government Thinks So (Tech World, 8-22-13)
August - 2013 - Education
Students Forced to Attend 'Re-Education' Program Designed by Israel Lobby Group (Electronic Intifada, 8-13-13)
Richard Vedder: The Real Reason College Costs So Much (Wall Street Journal, 8-26-13)
School is a Prison, and Damaging Our Kids (Salon, 8-26-13)
Wealthy Widow is Pouring Millions into Teach for America, Promoting a Pro-Israel Agenda to Needy and Impressionable Children (Alternet, 8-29-13)
August - 2013 - Miscellaneous
Bureau Investigation Finds Fresh Evidence of CIA Drone Strikes on Rescuers (Common Dreams, 8-1-13)
4 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Crack, America's Most Vilified Drug (Alternet, 8-2-13)
Feinstein's Attempt to Define 'Real Journalism' Blasted by Journalists (Against Crony Capitalism, 8-3-13)
After Hiroshima, Truman Failed to Pause-- and Nagaski 'War Crime' Followed (Huffington Post, 8-8-13)
Past Wars on Indians Aren't Even Past (Information Clearing House, 8-9-13)
15 Things Everyone Would Know If There Was a Liberal Media (Addicting Info, 8-10-13)
'I Do Not Want to Die in Prison:' Cancer-Stricken Lawyer Lynne Stewart Seeks Compassionate Release (Nation of Change, 8-10-13)
5 Myths Used to Justify Death by Drone and America's Assassination Policy (Alternet, 8-12-13)
John Grisham: When I Found Out My Books Were Banned at Gitmo, I Had to Learn More - - And I Came Away Horrified (Alternet, 8-13-13)
US Could Easily Verify Massacre of Kurdish Civilians in Syria if They Wanted (RT, 8-16-13)
How Ticketmaster Ruined the Concertgoing Experience, and How it Might be Saved (Washington Post, 8-17-13)
5 Wildly Offensive Comments and Actions by Rich Jerks (Alternet, 8-23-13)
Anti-LGBT Columnist Warns Men: Lesbians Will Have Your Children and Make You Slaves (Raw Story, 8-24-13)
MSNBC Compliments King Family's Approach to 'I Have a Dream' Speech (Washington Post, 8-28-13)
'Revenge Porn' Should Be a Crime (CNN, 8-30-13)
Beauty and the Beasts (New York Times, 8-31-13)
Poverty Maps From 1980 Look Astonishingly Different Compared to 2010 (The Atlantic Cities, 7-2-13)
How Capitalism's Great Relocation Pauperized America's Middle Class (Common Dreams, 7-9-13)
How Unchecked Capitalism Has Brought the World to the Brink of Apocalypse - - and What We Must Do Now (Alternet, 7-9-13)
The American Economy is Eroding the American Job (Washington Post, 7-10-13)
Obama's 'Just-in-time' Workforce: 17 Million Temporary Workers in America (Information Clearing House, 7-15-13)
Bank of America's Recipe for Getting Away with Massive Fraud, Racketeering and Money Laundering (Alternet, 7-18-13)
The Confiscation of Bank Savings to "Save the Banks": The Diabolical Bank 'Bail-In' Proposal (Global Research, 7-20-13)
Recession Forever? 10 Reasons American Workers are Screwed (Alternet, 7-24-13)
John Oliver: Monopoly Game Removed 'Go to Jail' Option to Reflect America's Financial System (Alternet, 7-26-13)
80 Percent of U.S. Adults Face Near Poverty, Unemployment: Survey (Huffington Post, 7-28-13)
The Financial Crisis Cost More Than $14 Trillion: Dallas Fed Study (Huffington Post, 7-30-13)
July - 2013 - Environmental
Is Environmental Action Impossible in the Corporate-Dominated Age? (Common Dreams, 7-2-13)
"Extinction Crisis": 21,000 of World's Species at Risk of Disappearing (Common Dreams, 7-2-13)
Water Wars on the Way in Absence of a Steady State (Steady State, 7-2-13)
Pesticide Use Spikes as GMO Failure Cripples Corn Belt (Common Dreams, 7-9-13)
Americans Unite to Sue EPA Demanding Protection of Bees (EcoWatch, 7-10-13)
Wake Up to the Danger of Slug Pesticides (The Guardian, 7-10-13)
Monsters of the Deep: Jellyfish Threaten the World's Seas (Spiegel, 7-11-13)
Report: US Energy Infrastructure a Sitting Duck in Face of Climate Change (Common Dreams, 7-11-13)
Fracking Water Injection Could Trigger Major Earthquake, Say Scientists (Alternet, 7-12-13)
When Space Weather Attacks! (Washington Post, 7-15-13)
Catholic Church Levels Centuries-Old Trees in Brazil (Daily Kos, 7-15-13)
Sea Levels May Rise 2.3 Meters Per Degree of Global Warming, Report Says (The Guardian, 7-15-13)
Former Mobil VP Warns of Fracking and Climate Change (Truth Out, 7-19-13)
Like Butter: Study Explains Surprising Acceleration of Greenland's Inland Ice (Think Progress, 7-19-13)
EPA Massively Increase Allowable Herbicide Levels in Food, Despite Public Outcry (David Icke, 7-20-13)
UN Climate Report Will 'Scare Wits Out of Everybody' (Common Dreams, 7-22-13)
Losing Just One Pollinator Species Leads to Big Plant Declines (Mongabay, 7-22-13)
Pakistan Now 'One of the Most Water-Stressed Countries in the World' as 'Demand Exceeds Supply' (Think Progress, 7-22-13)
Edward Snowden: Solar-Flare 'Killshot' Cataclysm Imminent (Internet Chronicle, 7-23-13)
Arctic Methane 'Burp': A Climate Catastrophe with a $60 Trillion Pricetag (Common Dreams, 7-24-13)
Scientists Discover What's Killing the Bees and It's Worse Than You Thought (Quartz, 7-24-13)
Let Us Now Sing About the Warmed Earth (Common Dreams, 7-28-13)
Scientists Envision Fracking in Arctic and on Ocean Floor (Wall Street Journal, 7-28-13)
Germany's Green Energy Bust (The Breakthrough, 7-30-13)
Greenland and Antarctica ' May be Vulnerable to Rapid Ice Loss Through Catastrophic Disintegration' (Think Progress, 7-30-13)
Massive Solar Flare Narrowly Misses Earth, EMP Disaster Barely Avoided (Washington Examiner, 7-31-13)
SkyTruth, the Environment and the Satellite Revolution (Washington Post, 7-31-13)
July - 2013 - Health
Global Outrage: More Than 1/3 of World's Women Suffer Physical or Sexual Violence (Alternet, 7-5-13)
11-Year-Old Rape Victim Banned From Getting Abortion (Alternet, 7-5-13)
Why Do Americans Die Younger Than Citizens of Most Other Rich Countries? (Alternet, 7-18-13)
Thanks to Better Sex Ed, California's Teen Birth Rate Has Plummeted By 60 Percent (Think Progress, 7-19-13)
Why Life in America Can Literally Drive You Insane (Alternet, 7-30-13)
July - 2013 - Religion
The Church's Errant Shepherds (New York Times, 7-7-13)
Pope Francis Reforms Laws in Vatican: Criminalizes Leaks, Sex Abuse (Huffington Post, 7-11-13)
Rev. Jeremiah Wright: 'God Damn America for her Crimes Against Humanity' (Information Clearing House, 7-15-13)
There's Nothing About Abortion in the Bible - So How do Right-Wing Christians Justify Their Crusade Against Women? (Alternet, 7-17-13)
Christian Policies Saturate the U.S. - - What Can We Do About It? (Alternet, 7-21-13)
Beck: America was 'Established for the establishment of Israel' (Right Wing Watch, 7-24-13)
Hagee: Rock Music is 'Satanic Cyanide' That Should be Taken Outside and Burned (Right Wing Watch, 7-30-13)
Los Angeles Catholic Church Sex Abuse Files Released Including Files on Ruben Martinez Who Abused 100 Boys (Huffington Post, 7-31-13)
July - 2013 - Foreign
15 Anti-Obama Photos From Tahrir Square Protests That You Probably Haven't Seen (The Blaze, 7-3-13)
Myanmar's Muslim Minority Confronts Fear and Mistrust (New York Times, 7-3-13)
'Death by China' Documentary Film: Official Trailer (YouTube, 7-3-13)
Egypt's New Age of Unrest is a Taste of Things to Come (The Guardian, 7-4-13)
Massacre of Muslims in Myanmar Ignored (Huffington Post, 7-6-13)
World's First Floating Nuclear Power Plant to Begin Operating in Russia in 2016 (RT, 7-7-13)
Report Says US Bin Laden Raid an 'Act of War' (Al Jazeera, 7-9-13)
The Spectre of Fascism in Greece (Al Jazeera, 7-9-13)
Saudi Arabia to Foreigners: Abide Muslim Ramadan Rules, or Face Punishment (Washington Times, 7-9-13)
Russia Gives UN Forensic Proof Rebels Used Chemical Weapons in Syria (Xinhuanet, 7-10-13)
Isolated Afghans Contemplate Mass Exodus (Washington Post, 7-11-13)
Al Jazeera's Awful Week (Foreign Policy, 7-11-13)
Egypt Punishes the Palestinians (Gatestone Institute, 7-12-13)
Malala Takes Her Fight for Education to UN (Al Jazeera, 7-12-13)
Malala Fires Up a New Generation (Spiegel, 7-12-13)
German Restaurateur Cashes in on Crisis (Spiegel, 7-12-13)
RT's Ruptly Team Detained Filming Anonymous 'United Stasi of America' Action (RT, 7-15-13)
Could the Pakistani Government Have Hidden Bin Laden? (Al Jazeera, 7-15-13)
What India's Sex Workers Want: Power, Not Rescue (Common Dreams, 7-16-13)
Salafists Gain from Chaos in Egypt After Muslim Brotherhood Shooting (Spiegel, 7-16-13)
You Thought the Brotherhood Was Bad? (Foreign Policy, 7-16-13)
Tahrir Turbulence: Washington SCAF as Obstacles to Change in Egypt (RT, 7-17-13)
Drone Attacks in Yemen Hit Mostly Civilians (Al Jazeera, 7-17-13)
Israeli Law Tears Palestinian Families Apart (Al Jazeera, 7-19-13)
Israeli Ambassador Calls Al-Sisi a "National Hero for All Jews" (Middle East Monitor, 7-19-13)
Egypt's 'Democrats' Abandon Democracy (Washington Post, 7-21-13)
Leaked Pakistani Report Confirms High Civilian Death Toll in CIA Drone Strikes (Common Dreams, 7-22-13)
Is the U.S. Ramping Up a Secret War in Somalia? (Foreign Policy, 7-22-13)
War Against Iran, Iraq, and Syria? (Asia Times, 7-23-13)
Christian Suffering Under Jihadi Extremism (Gatestone Institute, 7-24-13)
Al-Qaeda Unleashed Against Syria and Iraq with Acceptance of the West (RT, 7-25-13)
DR Congo: Peacekeepers at War (Al Jazeera, 7-27-13)
Saudi Prince Defects from Royal Family (Top Information Post, 7-28-13)
Arabs, Beware the "Small States" Option (Al-Akhbar, 7-29-13)
Tunisia's Chaambi: Afghanistan-isation? (Al Jazeera, 7-31-13)
July - 2013 - Political
How You (And President Obama) Can Close Guantanamo Prison (Alternet, 7-2-13)
Obama Won't End the Drone War, But Pakistan Might (Al Jazeera, 7-3-13)
Was Washington Behind Egypt's Coup d'etat? (Global Research, 7-3-13)
The Forgotten Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance and America's Weird Naziesque Salute (Addicting Info, 7-4-13)
US Bankrolled anti-Morsi Activists (Al Jazeera, 7-10-13)
New Face of the War on Immigrants?: US Immigration Reform (Al Jazeera, 7-10-13)
The Backlash Begins: Indiana Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Felony Punishable by Prison (Alternet, 7-10-13)
Hillary Rodham Clinton Keeps Busy Giving Paid Speeches to Industry Groups (Washington Post, 7-11-13)
'Signature Strikes' and Obama's Empty Rhetoric on Drones (Alternet, 7-11-13)
Why the US Executive Branch is a Clear and Present Danger to Our Democracy (Alternet, 7-16-13)
Cornel West: President Obama a Global George Zimmerman - Rationalizing the Killing of Innocent Children for Self-Defense (Common Dreams, 7-23-13)
Virginia Lieutenant Governor Nominee: African Americans Should Tone Down Sexuality to Prevent Attacks (Think Progress, 7-24-13)
Jeremy Scahill Condemns White House Opposition to Freeing of Abdulelah Haider Shaye (Huffington Post, 7-25-13)
Shocking 'Extermination' Fantasies by the People Running America's Empire on Full Display at Aspen Summit (Alternet, 7-25-13)
How to be a Rogue Superpower (Al Jazeera, 7-26-13)
Congress Fiddles While the Western States Burn (Moyers & Company, 7-29-13)
Pro-Life? GOP Promotes Nine Out of Ten Things That Cause Death In Unborn Children (Addicting Info, 7-30-13)
July - 2013 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance State
Empire's Useful Idiots: Tom Friedman and Other Pundits Sucking Up to the State (Alternet, 7-1-13)
Why the Story on Snowden and the NSA Doesn't Add Up (Mother Jones, 7-1-13)
The Real Traitors to America are in Washington and New York (Counter Punch, 7-1-13)
Engelhardt, The OED of the National Security State (Tom Dispatch, 7-2-13)
God Bless the 'United Stasi of America' (RT, 7-4-13)
U.S. Creating 'Global Security State' : Oliver Stone (Press TV, 7-5-13)
Edward Snowden's Nightmare Comes True (Politico, 7-5-13)
In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of NSA (New York Times, 7-6-13)
Snowden Made the Right Call When He Fled the U.S. (Washington Post, 7-7-13)
Shocker: Only 1% of So-Called Terrorists Nabbed by the FBI Were Real (Alternet, 7-8-13)
The NSA Slide You Haven't Seen (Washington Post, 7-10-13)
Lawmakers Say Administration's Lack of Candor on Surveillance Weakens Oversight (Washington Post, 7-10-13)
How Obama is Expanding the Century-Long Project to Build a Total Surveillance State (Alternet, 7-14-13)
American Liberalism and the National Security State (Al Jazeera, 7-23-13)
Democratic Establishment Unmasked: Prime Defenders of NSA Bulk Spying (The Guardian, 7-25-13)
Obama's Legacy, Before Snowden and Now (Common Dreams, 7-26-13)
July - 2013 - Technology
What You Can Learn From Phone Metadata (Business Insider, 7-2-13)
Stalkers Use Online Sex Ads as Weapon (Washington Post, 7-14-13)
UK's Scheme to Block Pornography a Threat to Open Internet: Critics (Common Dreams, 7-22-13)
Online Pornography to be Blocked by Default, PM Announces (BBC, 7-22-13)
As Phone Companies Dismantle Landlines, Utilities Have a Lesson to Learn (Green Tech Media, 7-22-13)
Edward Snowden's Not the Story: The Fate of the Internet Is (The Guardian, 7-27-13)
July -2013 - Education
Indiana's Anti-Howard Zinn Witch-Hunt (Common Dreams, 7-19-13)
July -2013 - Miscellaneous
War on Women, or a Lot More? (Daily Kos, 7-2-13)
U.S. Drones Bomb Civilian Rescuers (Business Insider, 7-3-13)
New Report Documents the Human Cost of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen (Rolling Stone, 7-3-13)
The 10 Most Dangerous Places to be a Woman in America (Alternet, 7-5-13)
NYT's David Brooks Should Be Fired for His Bigoted Rant on Egypt (Daily Kos, 7-5-13)
The End of The End of History - And Why the Era of Revolutions is Upon Us (Truth Out, 7-10-13)
The Journalistic Practices of the Washington Post and Walter Pincus (Common Dreams, 7-10-13)
Epic Shanty Towns From Around The World (Slate, 7-10-13)
Journalism is in a Disastrous State - - But for a Handful of Millionaire Pundits, It's a Wonderful Life (Alternet, 7-12-13)
10 Things Most Americans Don't Know About America (Zero Hedge, 7-15-13)
The Flesh Trade: Sex Work in America (Alternet, 7-18-13)
My Experiences Up Close With the People Who Bombed a 700-year-old Civilization Into Dust (Alternet, 7-18-13)
8 Shocking Ways America Leads the World (Alternet, 7-24-13)
The Dreamless Night of Planet Earth (Common Dreams, 7-27-13)
Want World Domination? Size Matters (New York Times, 7-28-13)
Can Same-Sex Couples Help Save Marriage? (Washington Post, 7-31-13)