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December - 2014 - Financial
Starboard Value's Jeff Smith: The investor CEOs fear most (Fortune, 12-3-14)
Banks urge clients to take cash elsewhere (Yahoo, 12-8-14)
5 Reasons America Should Be Ashamed of Itself (Alternet, 12-8-14)
Charity Tax-Break Plan Falters as White House Threatens Veto (Bloomberg, 12-10-14)
The Vanishing Male Worker: How America Fell Behind (New York Times, 12-11-14)
The Ominous ‘Cromnibus,’ A Budget Bill That Should Have Died (Common Dreams, 12-12-14)
Dodd-Frank Budget Fight Proves Democrats Are a Bunch of Stuffed Suits (Rolling Stone, 12-13-14)
Market Euphoria: The Mother of All Ponzi Schemes (Global Research, 12-14-14)
The 6-Step Process to Wipe Out the Poor Half of America (Common Dreams, 12-15-14)
Least Expensive Homes Languish Underwater Even As Equity Rises (The Wall Street Journal, 12-17-14)
A Big Safety Net and Strong Job Market Can Coexist. Just Ask Scandinavia. (The New York Times, 12-17-14)
America’s Big Five Are Plunging the World Into Another Banking Crisis
(Sputnik International, 12-18-14)
Dmitry Orlov – Are Americans Prepared For A Soviet Style Collapse – Interview (drescapes, 12-19-14)
Five myths about gas taxes (Washington Post, 12-19-14)
China Steps In as World's New Bank (Bloomberg View, 12-25-14)
One in Five Young Adults Lives in Poverty (Truth Dig, 12-26-14)
Billionaire Mark Cuban Warns Of Massive Crash That Will Wipe Out America’s Colleges: “You’re Going To See A Repeat Of What We Saw In The Housing Market” (DC Clothesline, 12-28-14)
Program that funded Solyndra failure producing success stories (The Washington Post, 12-30-14)
Russian Economy Attacked Through Oil Prices (RT, 12-30-14)
The Year in Charts (The New York Times, 12-30-14)
Ten Reasons Why the TPP Must Be Defeated (Common Dreams, 12-31-14)
The Hidden Student-Debt Bomb (The Wall Street Journal, 12-31-14)
The Finance Industry Is Gorging Itself on Your Future - The Trend Lines Will Blow You Away (Alternet, 12-31-14)
December - 2014 - Environmental
Are Humans Going Extinct? (Truth-Out, 12-1-14)
An Open Letter to Environmentalists on Nuclear Energy (Brave New Climate, 12-15-14)
Seeds of Truth: Vandana Shiva and The New Yorker (Truth-out, 12-17-14)
Denmark Eyes North Pole, but How Much Oil and Gas Await? (National Geographic, 12-17-14)
Major coral bleaching in Pacific may become worst die-off in 20 years, say
experts (The Guardian, 12-19-14)
UN urges Israel
to repay Lebanon $850mn in oil spill damages (RT, 12-20-14)
Delaware-size gas plume over West illustrates the cost of leaking methane (Washington Post, 12-29-14)
December - 2014 - Religion
8 Reasons Why the US and its Allies Are Responsible for Islamic Extremism (Alternet, 12-13-14)
Anti-LGBT Pastor Arrested for Grabbing Man’s Genitals at Indiana Park (Alternet,
12-20-14)
My horrible right-wing past: Confessions of a one-time religious right icon (Salon, 12-24-14)
9 ways that the bible condones torture (Alternet, 12-31-14)
December - 2014 - Health
Why Caring for Older Adults Is Getting Costlier (Daily Finance, 12-4-14)
December - 2014 - Foreign
Chinese Hypersonic Strike Vehicle May Overcome US Missile Defense: Expert (Sputnik News, 12-5-14)
Prominent Germans urge West to stop sabre rattling toward Russia (RT, 12-6-14)
Podemos: the political upstart taking Spain by force (Roar Mag, 12-9-14)
China's Big Plans for Pakistan (The National Interest, 12-10-14)
China’s water diversion project starts to flow to Beijing (The Guardian, 12-12-14)
8 Reasons Why the US and its Allies Are Responsible for Islamic Extremism (Alternet, 12-13-14)
Go West, Young Han (RT, 12-17-14)
Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front Of Their Mothers (The Anti Media, 12-17-14)
86 Year Old German Woman lays charges against the Central Council of the Jews in Germany (Justice For Germans, 12-17-14)
The US is behind the
current drop in oil prices – Bolivia’s president (RT, 12-19-14)
Dangerous Escalation: U.S. Backs Putin Into a Corner (The National Interest, 12-23-14)
Brazil's 'chainsaw queen' appointed new agriculture minister (The Guardian, 12-24-14)
State Duma chief suggests trying US for WWII nuke attacks (RT, 12-26-14)
Ukraine forced to shut down nuclear power station for second time in a month after 'accident' (Daily Mail, 12-29-14)
The Outlook for the New Year. The Insanity of Nuclear War against Russia (Global Research, 12-30-14)
Russian Economy Attacked Through Oil Prices (RT, 12-30-14)
Crimean Prosecutor-General Nataliya Poklonskaya's new years message (YouTube Video, 12-30-14)
Russia's New Military Doctrine: Should the West Be Worried? (National Interest, 12-31-14)
December - 2014 - Political
Tell Obama: Stop Mass Surveillance Under Executive Order 12333 (EFF Action Petition)
Hillary Praises Fracking, Stays Silent on Keystone (The Daily Beast, 12-1-14)
Thanks GOP! Michigan Is Now a Theocracy and They’re Coming for YOUR State Next! (AATTP, 12-7-14)
Bill de Blasio details talk with biracial son about interacting with police: You 'train them to be very careful when they have ... an encounter with a police officer' (New York Daily News, 12-8-14)
Rep. Amash: Congress last night gave massive new domestic surveillance powers to the President (Against Crony Capitalism, 12-10-14)
Congress Quietly Bolsters NSA Spying in Intelligence Bill (Defense One, 12-11-14)
Republicans seek to cripple IRS (Politico, 12-11-14)
U.S. Congress Now Virtually 100% All-In on Ukraine's War Against Russia; Americans are at Least 67% Opposed (RINF, 12-12-14)
Dodd-Frank Budget Fight Proves Democrats Are a Bunch of Stuffed Suits (Rolling Stone, 12-13-14)
Dick Cheny on "Meet the Press": Forced rectal feeding was for "medical reasons" (Salon, 12-14-14)
Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking (TruthDig, 12-16-14)
How Business Created Pensions to Thwart Unions (BloombergView, 12-17-14)
Study: Over Half of Americans Think CIA Torture Methods Revealed in Senate Report Are Justified (TruthDig, 12-18-14)
Pols who take sides against the police pay the price (The Washington Post, 12-24-14)
Bill de Blasio, desperate for a scapegoat, whacks the media (Fox News, 12-24-14)
Indefinite Detention, A Legitimate Threat for Every American (Pontiac Tribune, 12-26-14)
December - 2014 - Technology
The Internet’s Future Lies Up in the Skies (The Wall Street Journal, 12-15-14)
Goliath strikes back: Google takes legal action against Mississippi State Attorney General Jim Hood (The Verge, 12-19-14)
Elon Musk's Hyperloop Could Be Just 10 Years Away (Huffington Post,
12-19-14)
Hundreds of NYPD officers turn backs on de Blasio during funeral address (RawStory, 12-27-14)
Government Report: No High Speed Broadband Competition: Blame AT&T, Verizon & CenturyLink's Two Decades of Broken Promises. (Huffington Post, 12-27-14)
December - 2014 - Miscellaneous
‘Mass resignations’ at The New Republic follow editors’ departure (Washington Post, 12-5-14)
Detroit by Air (The New York Times, 12-7-14)
16 Facts About Al Sharpton the Media Won't Tell You (Newsmax, 12-9-14)
Rectal rehydration and standing on broken limbs: the CIA torture report's grisliest findings (The Guardian, 12-10-14)
The Washington Post: The Most Reckless Editorial Page in America (National Interest, 12-15-14)
The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years
(Washington Post, 12-18-14)
The lack of any official condemnation for CIA torture ensures it will happen again (The Guardian, 12-18-14)
Penis Control Before Gun Control (San Diego Free Press, 12-19-14)
No, North Korea Didn’t Hack Sony (The Daily Beast, 12-24-14)
4 Ways Neo-Victorianism Reared Its Ugly Head in 2014 (Reason, 12-30-14)
Police Reportedly Say They Aren't Making Arrests After Cop Killings (Huffington Post, 12-30-14)
The Man Who Got Britain Through The Recession Now Says We're 'Very Exposed' To A New Debt Crisis (Chron, 11-3-14)
Paul Singer Slams The Fake World: "Fake Growth, Fake Money, Fake Jobs, Fake Stability, Fake Inflation Numbers" (Zero Hedge, 11-4-14)
Rhyme and Reason (Mauldin Economics, 11-4-14)
Japan Creates World's Biggest Bond Bubble (Bloomberg View, 11-4-14)
Ron Paul Says: Watch the Petrodollar, PD exports go negative for the first time in 18 years (Against Crony Capitalism, 11-6-14)
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare (Rolling Stone, 11-6-14)
The Real Student Debt Problem No One is Talking About (TIME, 11-9-14)
A House Is Not a Credit Card (New York Times, 11-13-14)
Inequality, Unbelievably, Gets Worse (New York Times, 11-16-14)
Social Security advocates fear more cuts in staff and service (Washington Post, 11-18-14)
What Argentina’s Sovereign Debt Dispute Means for Global Finance (NACLA, 11-18-14)
Falling Wages at Factories Squeeze the Middle Class (The New York Times, 11-20-14)
Senate Report: Scale of Wall Street Holdings Are “Unprecedented in U.S. History” (Wall Street on Parade, 11-25-14)
November - 2014 - Environmental
Gates Foundation 'feeds the world' with corporate agriculture (The Ecologist, 11-5-14)
Here Comes the Sun: America’s Solar Boom, in Charts (Bill Moyers, 11-11-14)
The Hip-Hop Battle on Fracking and Climate Change (National Journal, 11-18-14)
United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming (Truth Out, 11-26-14)
November - 2014 - Religion
Israel to build temple in place of Al-Aqsa, minister says (Middle East Monitor, 11-4-14)
November - 2014 - Health
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies (New York Times, 11-17-14)
Million dollar baby: Canadians handed $1M bill after woman gives birth in U.S. (PNHP, 11-19-14)
Single payer: a powerful tool for better care, better health and reduced costs (PNHP, 11-25-14)
November - 2014 - Foreign
105 Israeli ex-generals, spy chiefs call on Netanyahu to make peace with Palestinians (RT, 11-4-14)
Japan Creates World's Biggest Bond Bubble (Bloomberg View, 11-4-14)
Israel to build temple in place of Al-Aqsa, minister says (Middle East Monitor, 11-4-14)
Get Ready, World: Ukraine Is Being Torn to Shreds (National Interest, 11-5-14)
Gorbachev Warns World 'On Brink Of New Cold War' (Huffington Post, 11-8-14)
Vladimir Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany (The Telegraph, 11-9-14)
ISIS, Al Qaeda affiliate reportedly unite to fight US-backed rebels in Syria (Fox News, 11-13-14)
Victim of VIP abuse scandal 'saw Tory MP throttle 12-year-old to death' as police launch probe into THREE deaths linked to depraved sex ring (Daily Mail, 11-15-14)
How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (Alternet, 11-18-14)
'We got this, Bob Geldof, so back off' (Aljazeera, 11-18-14)
How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (Alternet, 11-18-14)
What Argentina’s Sovereign Debt Dispute Means for Global Finance (NACLA, 11-18-14)
In Kenya, Mob Strips Woman Accused Of Being Inappropriately Dressed Despite (Huffington Post, 11-18-14)
SEX OVER POLITICS AT G20: Brothels boom as delegates snap up girls (Malaysia Chronicle, 11-19-14)
Does Russia Think Their New Nuclear Weapons Could Win A War? (Forbes, 11-20-14)
The U.S. government thinks China could take down the power grid (CNN, 11-21-14)
Results of UN Vote on Anti-Nazi Resolution (Sputnik International, 11-25-14)
Rethinking the cost of Western intervention in Ukraine (Washington Post, 11-25-14)
November - 2014 - Political
So Much For That: Obama Syria Strategy In Tatters As U.S.-Backed Rebels Lose To Al Qaeda (Huffington Post, 11-3-14)
Medicaid Expansion For Millions Hinges On Key Governors' Races (Huffington Post, 11-4-14)
Tom Steyer, greens have rough night at the polls (Politico, 11-5-14)
'NOPE': Newspaper covers chronicle Republican takeover of Senate, downfall of Obama Democrats (AOL, 11-5-14)
Michael Savage bottoms out, calls for Republican Congress to arrest Obama (Salon, 11-7-14)
Jon Stewart Calls Out 'Chickensh*t' Democrats (Huffington Post, 11-7-14)
An incoming Senate committee chairman’s views are sure to rile the federal workforce (The Washington Post, 11-9-14)
The Cure for the Democrats' Woes -- Goldman Sachs! (Huffington Post, 11-9-14)
Obama's gum habit lands him in sticky situation (AOL, 11-12-14)
Meet the Warmongering Billionaires Who Will Spend a Fortune to Influence the Next President (Alternet, 11-13-14)
House Republicans Just Banned Scientists From Advising The EPA, Replaced Them With Corporate Lobbyists (Addicting Info, 11-20-14)
7 charts that explain the undocumented immigrant population (Washington Post, 11-21-14)
Did George H.W. Bush really shield 1.5 million illegal immigrants? Nope. (Washington Post, 11-24-14)
“People yelled and carried on”: Howard Dean tells Salon how he remade DNC — and Dems’ new path forward (Salon, 11-25-14)
How Facebook plans to become one of the most powerful tools in politics (Washington Post, 11-25-14)
November - 2014 - Technology
U.S., European authorities strike against Internet’s black markets (The Washington Post, 11-7-14)
More Cracks in Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Mantra as Data Collection, Political Power Soar (Common Dreams, 11-13-14)
Facebook To Make It Harder For Bands To Reach Fans (Tone Deaf, 11-18-14)
How Facebook plans to become one of the most powerful tools in politics (Washington Post, 11-25-14)
November - 2014 - Science
World Famous Biologist James Watson selling Nobel prize 'because no-one wants to admit I exist' (Telegraph, 11-28-14)
Student Loan Debt: A Federal Toxic Asset (The Wall Street Journal, 10-1-14)
Bolivia's Economy Under Evo in 10 Graphs (Center for Economic Policy Research, 10-8-14)
Federal spending was lower this year than Paul Ryan originally asked for (Vox, 10-9-14)
Black Wealth Has Fallen Further Under Barack Obama Than Under Any President Since the Depression (Breaking Brown, 10-13-14)
Evo Morales has proved that socialism doesn’t damage economies (The Guardian, 10-14-14)
Ten Facts You May Not Know About The Federal Budget (Budget Blog, 10-15-14)
Paul Krugman on Limits to Growth: Beware the Bathwater (Huffington Post, 10-15-14)
Brian Czechs Krugman on Limits to Growth (Growth Bias Busted, 10-16-14)
Beware of Calls for QE4 (Financial Times, 10-17-14)
9 Reasons We Should Abolish Tipping, Once And For All (Huffington Post, 10-17-14)
Economists Say We Should Tax The Rich At 90 Percent (Huffington Post, 10-22-14)
7 Facts That Show the American Dream Is Dead (Alternet, 10-22-14)
'A Generation Cast Aside': Child Poverty On Rise in World's Richest Countries (Common Dreams, 10-28-14)
The Hidden Deficit (My Gov Cost, 10-28-14)
Quantitative Easing Is Ending. Here’s What It Did, in Charts. (The Upshot, 10-29-14)
Number of Billionaires Doubles Since Financial Crisis (Daily Finance, 10-30-14)
World’s Major Banks Poured Over $80 Billion into Coal Last Year Alone (Desmogblog, 10-30-14)
The Koch Brothers are more anti-war than the center for American Progress (Daily Caller, 10-30-14)
How Long Can the Top 10% Households Prop Up the "Recovery"? (Of Two Minds, 10-31-14)
October - 2014 - Environmental
Living Planet Report 2014 (WWF Global, 10-1-14)
Widely Used Pesticides Pose Bigger Threat Than DDT: Watchdog (Common Dreams, 10-8-14)
NASA Confirms A 2,500-Square-Mile Cloud Of Methane Floating Over US Southwest (Desmog Blog, 10-17-14)
How Bill Gates and Peabody Energy Share Vision For Coal Powered Future Through Views of Bjorn Lomborg (Desmogblog, 10-28-14)
The Revolution That Wasn’t: Why the Fracking Phenomenon Will Leave Us High and Dry (Post Carbon, 10-28-14)
These Maps of California's Water Shortage Are Terrifying (Mother Jones, 10-30-14)
Our Failing Weather Infrastructure (New York Times, 10-30-14)
October - 2014 - Health
Bio-Disaster Hospital Preparedness Program Has Been Cut 50 Percent Since 2003 (Huffington Post, 10-13-14)
Ebola outbreak killing 70 percent of victims (Aljazeera, 10-14-14)
Kids come to school sick because we can't stay home from work (Washington Post, 10-14-14)
Obama Also Pushed For CDC Cuts In Years Before Ebola Outbreak (Huffington Post, 10-15-14)
Resurrecting Smallpox? Easier Than You Think (The New York Times, 10-15-14)
Is sex only for rich people? (Washington Post, 10-16-14)
Kansas Governor Is Forcing Disabled People Off Medicaid (Think Progress, 10-28-14)
Fault Lines investigates the battle over the most popular and controversial drugs in the US, opioid painkillers. (Aljazeera, 10-29-14)
October - 2014 - Religion
'Jesus NEVER existed': Writer finds no mention of Christ in 126 historical texts and says he was a 'mythical character' (Daily Mail, 10-1-14)
Shiite rebels are Yemen’s new masters (Washington Post, 10-5-14)
Shlomo Sand: ‘I wish to resign and cease considering myself a Jew’ (The Guardian, 10-10-14)
Influential Right-Wing Anti Porn Rabbi Arrested for Voyeurism (Alternet, 10-15-14)
Godless millennials could end the political power of the religious right (The Guardian, 10-26-14)
Sorry, But Media Coverage of Pope Francis is Papal Bull (TIME, 10-29-14)
October - 2014 - Foreign
Why Russia's President Is 'Putin the Great' in China (The Wall Street Journal, 10-1-14)
Paying Afghanistan’s Bills (New York Times, 10-1-14)
Hungarian ultra-nationalist Barna Csibi seeks ties with Donetsk separatists (The Budapest Beacon, 10-2-14)
Narendra Modi was speaking in code when he visited America. Here’s what he was really saying to his Hindu nationalist base (Washington Post, 10-3-14)
Why is the truth about Rwanda so elusive? (Jonathan Cook, 10-4-14)
Hong Kong Protests: Now The Hard Part, Kick Out The US, Build National Consensus (Counter Currents.org, 10-5-14)
Pakistan Reports Record Polio Cases This Year (The Wall Street Journal, 10-5-14)
Why Evo Morales Will Likely Win Upcoming Elections in Bolivia (Common Dreams, 10-8-14)
John Pilger on ISIS: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Blood Begin to Dry (Films For Action, 10-13-14)
The Reckoning: Kohl Tapes Reveal a Man Full of Anger (Spiegel, 10-14-14)
The Secret Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons (New York Times, 10-14-14)
Syrian opposition falls deeper into disarray (The Washington Post, 10-15-14)
A Deadly Legacy in Iraq (The New York Times, 10-15-14)
Evo Morales: A Bolivian idol (Aljazeera, 10-18-14)
Bolivia Is An Example of How Socialism Can 'Work' (Alternet, 10-21-14)
Putin unleashes fury at US 'follies' (Financial Times, 10-24-14)
Washington Is Defaming Putin (RIA Novosti, 10-25-14)
Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over (ClubOrlov, 10-29-14)
No Judge, No Jury, No Trial • BRAVE NEW FILMS: SECURITY (YouTube, 10-30-14)
October - 2014 - Political
An open letter to my Democratic Spammer (Truth-Out, 10-3-14)
Federal spending was lower this year than Paul Ryan originally asked for (Vox, 10-9-14)
The U.S. Is Number One -- But in What? (Alternet, 10-13-14)
New York Times exposes another Bush WMD deception (Daily Kos, 10-14-14)
Calling Russia ‘threat to humanity’ puts Obama’s sanity in doubt - Medvedev (RT, 10-15-14)
Democratic Fundraising Gets Shriller And Shriller As Party Abandons Candidates (Alternet, 10-15-14)
Republican Governor's Campaign Photoshops Black Supporter into Picture (Alternet, 10-17-14)
White House Chief Of Staff Negotiating Redaction Of CIA Torture Report (Huffington Post, 10-21-14)
GOP changes tune on cutting Social Security with elections on the line (Washington Post, 10-23-14)
So Long, Liberty: 10 Ways Americans Have Lost Their Rights (Alternet, 10-27-14)
Congressional Democrats assist billionaire hedge-fund manager in Wall Street feud (California Watchdog, 10-28-14)
October - 2014 - Technology
Dear Facebook: Sorry is a Start. Now Let's See Solutions. (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 10-1-14)
Tech World vexed by slow progress of batteries (The Wall Street Journal, 10-5-14)
Stop worrying about mastermind hackers, start worrying about the IT guy (The Washington Post, 10-17-14)
'Google grown big & bad': Assange reveals company & its founder's links to US govt (RT, 10-25-14)
Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability (The Upshot, 10-30-14)
October - 2014 - Education
Robert Reich: Why Is the Government Subsidizing the 1 Percent of Colleges? (Alternet, 10-15-14)
Campaign for ‘Floating Train’ to Connect New York and Washington Gathers Pace (The Wall Street Journal, 10-23-14)
October - 2014 - Miscellaneous
New York Times Announces Deep New Round Of Staff Cuts As Digital Initiatives Stall (Huffington Post, 10-1-14)
Conservative states are more likely to search for sex and porn online (Washington Post, 10-7-14)
Three short films about peace (New York Times, 10-7-14)
Fracking company teams up with Susan G. Komen, introduces pink drill bits “for the cure” (Salon, 10-8-14)
There Is No Such Thing As a Vaginal Orgasm (Alternet, 10-9-14)
The Western Model is broken (The Guardian, 10-14-14)
Women Who Have Rough Sex: Why It Can Be Liberating (Alternet, 10-14-14)
Financial reforms will make the next crisis even messier (Financial Times, 9-1-14)
World's poorest countries lose $1 trillion a year to corruption (DW, 9-3-14)
U.S. Manufacturing Is Rolling on Aged Wheels (The Wall Street Journal, 9-3-14)
The American Bankers Association and the Quiet War on Students (Nation of Change, 9-3-14)
Gap Between Richest And The Rest Widened After The Recession: Fed (Huffington Post, 9-4-14)
Argentina passes law to reclaim default debt from New York (RT, 9-5-14)
53 Million Temps: All You Need To Know About The "Jobs Recovery" (Zero Hedge, 9-5-14)
Millions of Dead Fish Mysteriously Surface in Lake in Mexico (Vocativ, 9-8-14)
Ex-Wall Street chieftains living large in post-meltdown world (The Center For Public Integrity, 9-10-14)
Skills Gap Bumps Up Against Vocational Taboo (The Wall Street Journal, 9-12-14)
Hard Lesson For Your 20s (Business Insider, 9-14-14)
Life in the “Income Depression” (Against Crony Capitalism, 9-21-14)
Why Ordinary People Bear Economic Risks and Donald Trump Doesn’t (TruthDig, 9-22-14)
Five Ways Most Americans Are Blind to How Their Country is Stacked for the Wealthy (Alternet, 9-22-14)
The Middle-Class Squeeze (American Progress, 9-24-14)
Public pensions face $2 trillion hole: Moody's (CNBC, 9-26-14)
1 in 4 Americans 25-54 Not Working (Weekly Standard, 9-26-14)
Record Global Debt Risks New Crisis - Geneva Report (RT, 9-30-14)
Mario Draghi pushes for ECB to accept Greek and Cypriot 'junk' loan bundles (Financial Times, 9-30-14)
Our criminal justice system is making it really hard for people to find jobs (Washington Post, 9-30-14)
September - 2014 - Environmental
How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World (Mother Jones, September 2014 Issue)
The Gulf of Mexico Is Rapidly Swallowing Southeastern Louisiana (Altneret, 9-4-14)
Groups: Time Is Now To End 'Shocking Degradation' of World's Forests (Common Dreams, 9-4-14)
U.S. trade deficit with China hits record high (Market Watch, 9-4-14)
Shut California’s Fukushima: Diablo Must Go (Nation of Change, 9-8-14)
The Gulf Is Still So Far From Recovering. Just Ask This Oyster Farmer. (Mother Jones, 9-10-14)
U.N. says the ozone layer will be a little less screwed — a long time from now (Grist, 9-11-14)
Every Map of Louisiana Is A Lie - What it Really Looks Like Should Scare You (Business Insider, 9-17-14)
The Carbon Underground: Reversing Global Warming (Common Dreams, 9-18-14)
These Stunning Photos of Greenland's "Dark Snow" Should Worry You (Mother Jones, 9-19-14)
To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees (The New York Times, 9-19-14)
How the People’s Climate March Became a Corporate PR Campaign (Alternet, 9-20-14)
US will not commit to climate change aid for poor nations at UN summit (The Guardian, 9-20-14)
Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of Peace) at the opening of Climate Summit 2014 (YouTube, 9-23-14)
Memo To Obama: Expanded Natural Gas Use Worsens Climate Change (Think Progress, 9-24-14)
Obama's Pitiful Pledge Epitomizes Failure of UN Summit: Climate Campaigners (Common Dreams, 9-24-14)
Our Life or Death Task: Move Several Billion Tons of Excess CO2 Back Underground (Alternet, 9-25-14)
Why Good News for the Ozone is Bad News for the Climate (Truth Out, 9-27-14)
Humans To Blame For Major Decline In Wildlife Populations, WWF Report Finds (Huffington Post, 9-30-14)
Walrus mass in vast numbers on Alaska beach as sea ice retreats (The Guardian, 9-30-14)
September - 2014 - Health
Putting ‘Medicare for All’ on the Agenda (The Nation, 9-5-14)
CDC Study Finds 1 in 5 U.S. Women Have Been Victims of Rape and That’s Not Even the Scariest Part (TruthDig, 9-6-14)
Decriminalize, Regulate Heroin, Cocaine, Commission Says (The- Wall Street Journal, 9-8-14)
September - 2014 - Religion
No one likes the Dalai Lama anymore (Global Post, 9-4-14)
Gambia Passes Anti-Gay Bill Imposing Life Imprisonment For Some Same-Sex Acts (Huffington Post, 9-8-14)
Yale chaplain forced out by Zionist attacks (World Socialist Website, 9-18-14)
24 Reasons ISIS are Wrong: Muslim Scholars Blast Islamic State (RT, 9-25-14)
September - 2014 - Foreign
SYRIA AND IRAQ
Why ISIS Is the Spawn of Washington (Alternet, 9-2-14)
Middle East Time Bomb: The Real Aim of ISIS Is to Replace the Saud Family as the New Emirs of Arabia (Huffington Post, 9-2-14)
The US Government Produced A Really Grisly Video About ISIS (Business Insider, 9-4-14)
Islamic State Fighting With Weapons From US and 'Moderate' Syrian Rebels: Report (Common Dreams, 9-9-14)
McCain: “Everyone on the National Security Team Recommended Arming ISIS” (The AntiMedia, 9-10-14)
The Real Reason Why We Can't Defeat ISIS (Alternet, 9-10-14)
How the west created the Islamic State (Medium, 9-11-14)
Turkey refuses US permission for combat missions against ISIS: official (The Daily Star, 9-11-14)
Obama’s “Successful” Airstrike Strategy in Yemen and Somalia Resulted in Major Increase in Terrorist Attacks (Global Research, 9-11-14)
ISIS Strikes Deal With Moderate Syrian Rebels: Reports (Huffington Post, 9-12-14)
War on Islamic State: No chance without Iran (Aljazeera, 9-12-14)
The Sunday political shows debate: Can non-American ground troops eliminate the Islamic State threat? (The Washington Post, 9-14-14)
To Crush ISIS, Make a Deal With Assad (The New York Times, 9-15-14)
Cold Turkey: Ankara not keen on supporting US led anti-ISIS coalition (RT, 9-17-14)
America’s “Coalition of the Guilty” is the Problem in Iraq and Syria (Global Research, 9-19-14)
Video Imagines Pushing Rewind On Devastation In Syria, Will Stop You In Your Tracks (Huffington Post, 9-24-14)
24 Reasons ISIS are Wrong: Muslim Scholars Blast Islamic State (RT, 9-25-14)
The Real Network of Death – ISIS Atrocities Pale When Compared to those of the U.S. Masters of War (Global Research, 9-25-12)
Islamic State Militants Execute Female Iraqi Human Rights Activist (Huffington Post, 9-25-14)
Did We Really Create ISIS? (Truth-Out, 9-30-14)
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
Even After the Latest Gaza Horrors, No U.S. Senator Dares Question Israel's War Machine (Altneret, 9-1-14)
When the occupation machine falls off a cliff (Jonathan Cook, 9-2-14)
Gaza conflict: Drone footage reveals extent of damage (BBC, 9-5-14)
The 47-year-old nuclear elephant in the room (The Center for Public Integrity, 9-16-14)
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan in the shadow of Ahmad Shah Massoud (Aljazeera, 9-9-14)
Opinion: Afghan voters are being tricked (DW, 9-21-14)
Karzai’s farewell speech: US didn’t want peace in Afghanistan (RT, 9-23-14)
Afghanistan’s Failed Transformation (The New York Times, 9-25-14)
AFRICA
Gambia Passes Anti-Gay Bill Imposing Life Imprisonment For Some Same-Sex Acts (Huffington Post, 9-8-14)
Missing Nigeria School Girls (NBC News, 9-10-14)
Armed fighters take over Libyan capital (Aljazeera, 9-2-14)
Report: Nearly a Dozen Commercial Airliners Missing Ahead of 9/11 Anniversary After Islamists Overrun Libyan Airport (The Blaze, 9-2-14)
UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
Time to end the bloody Ukraine conflict (Washington Post, 9-9-14)
U.S. has been a force for nothing good in Ukraine (Alternet, 9-9-14)
The False Promise of Petro Poroshenko (National Interest, 9-24-14)
Ukraine’s Uprising Against NATO, Neoliberals And Oligarchs – An Interview With Boris Kagarlitsky (Counter Currents.org, 9-28-14)
Oliver Stone on Why Russia is a Natural Ally of the U.S. (Russia Beyond the Headlines, 9-30-14)
EUROPE
Boost for far right Le Pen as poll finds she would triumph in presidential election (Telegraph, 9-5-14)
French President Francois Hollande In Trouble Both In Public And Private (Huffington Post, 9-6-14)
US, Europe at odds over NATO expansion (DW, 9-9-14)
TTIP draws flak from local leaders in Europe and the US (DW, 9-25-14)
OTHER
Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks (The New York Times, 9-6-14)
Saudi Arabia Fast-Tracks to Nuclear (The Break Through Institute, 9-15-14)
Success of Indigenous Peoples World Conference 'integral to humanity's progress' – Ban (UN News Centre, 9-22-14)
The Case Against Qatar (Foreign Policy, 9-30-14)
September - 2014 - Political
How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World (Mother Jones, September 2014 Issue)
Warning To The World: Washington And Its NATO And EU Vassals Are Insane (Counter Currents, 9-3-14)
The Rift in the ACLU Over Free Speech (Huffington Post, 9-8-14)
The Most Discouraging Sentence in Obama’s Entire ISIS Speech (Think Progress, 9-10-14)
Obama losing the confidence of key parts of the coalition that elected him (Washington Post, 9-11-14)
Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits? (The Nation, 9-12-14)
The Assault Weapon Myth (New York Times, 9-12-14)
Who's Paying the Pro-War Pundi-ts? (The Nation, 9-12-14)
The falsehoods in President Obama's speech on the Islamic State (Aljazeera, 9-13-14)
Remember #BringBackOurGirls? This Is What Has Happened In The 5 Months Since (Huffington Post, 9-14-14)
Can America Still Win the Information War? (National Interest, 9-15-14)
Top 5 Contradictions in Obama’s Emerging Islamic State Strategy (TruthDig, 9-15-14)
Obama Is Open to Ground Troops in Iraq, a Top General Says (The Nation, 9-16-14)
8 Reasons Why Congress Should Vote No on Training and Funding Syrian Rebels (Huffington Post, 9-17-14)
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 507 (U.S. House of Representatives, 9-17-14)
The ISIS Campaign Is Off to a Shaky Start (The New York Times, 9-17-14)
CIA Privately Skeptical About New Syria Strategy, Sources Say (Huffington Post, 9-17-14)
Democrats turn on Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Politico, 9-17-14)
The Beheading Coalition (Truthdig, 9-18-14)
How Does This End? (YouTube, 9-18-14)
Beloved War Veteran Commits Suicide (TruthDig, 9-19-14)
‘Anti-nuclear’ Obama plans to spend $1 trillion on nukes (RT, 9-22-14)
Bill Clinton continues to mess up Hillary’s message (Washington Post, 9-24-14)
Meet President Barack W. Obama (The Washington Post, 9-25-14)
15 Values Voter Summit Speakers Who Think The US Is Becoming Nazi Germany (Right Wing Watch, 9-25-14)
Senate Dems have more money, because Citizens United is killing Republicans (The Daily KOS, 9-26-14)
Why Obama’s assurance of ‘no boots on the ground’ isn’t so reassuring (Washington Post, 9-26-14)
Francis Fukuyama's 'Political Order and Political Decay' (Financial Times, 9-26-14)
Obama's Propagandistic UN Address (Truth Out, 9-26-14)
From shaming to semi-stalking, Democrats flood inboxes for last-minute campaign cash (Washington Post, 9-30-14)
Are Liberals Fund Raising Hypocrites? (The New York Times, 9-30-14)
Global Inquisition of Lies at the UN Security Council: “State Sponsors of Terrorism Present Themselves as Champions of Justice” (Global Research, 9-30-14)
September - 2014 - Technology
Tech Giants Pull Massive Bait and Switch on Your Privacy (Alternet, 9-11-14)
10 Horrifying Technologies That Should Never Be Allowed To Exist (io9, 9-16-14)
US-Backed study finds forced labor at core of electronics industry (The Verge, 9-18-14)
Are Apple and Google Really on Your Side Against the NSA? (Alternet, 9-22-14)
Tech Firms and Lobbyists: Now Intertwined, but Not Eager to Reveal It (The New York Times, 9-24-14)
Orwellian Nightmare in the UK: A “No Social Media List” For “Extremists” And Potential Terrorists? (Global Research, 9-30-14)
Extremists may face broadcast ban, social media vetting - home secretary (RT, 9-30-14)
September - 2014 - Miscellaneous
The Top 10 Craziest Sex Laws in America (Alternet, 9-22-14)
Senate Bombshell Testimony Today: Citigroup and Bank of America Stock Worthless Without Implied Government Guarantees (Daily Kos, 8-1-14)
The Rising Tide: Will All Boats Be Lifted? (Truthdig, 8-1-14)
For FedEx and UPS, a Cheaper Route: the Post Office (The Wall Street Journal, 8-4-14)
Elizabeth Warren slams banks for cruel treatment of parents of deceased daughter with student loan (Daily KOS, 8-4-14)
How Tax Inversions Became the Hottest Trend in M&A (The Wall Street Journal, 8-5-14)
Why Is the Government Pretending Foreign-Made Goods Are U.S. Exports? (8-8-14)
Obama Can End Argentina’s Debt Crisis with a Pen (Nation of Change, 8-9-14)
Fed Officials Suggest Limiting Banks' Repo Exposure (The Wall Street Journal, 8-13-14)
Another tax reform solution: taxing consumption (The Washington Post, 8-13-14)
In the Sharing Economy, Workers Find Both Freedom and Uncertainty (The New York Times, 8-16-14)
Fed Blow to Banks over 'living wills' (Forbes, 8-17-14)
It's Not a Skills Gap: U.S. Workers Are Overqualified, Undertrained (Business Week, 8-19-14)
U.S. Factories Keep Losing Ground to Global Rivals (The Wall Street Journal, 8-25-14)
8 Budget Cuts BofA's $12B Tax Dodge Could Restore (Readers Supported News, 8-26-14)
Poverty eradicated at a statistical stroke (Financial Times, 8-27-14)
4 Calamities Destroying America's Economy Being Ignored by Elites (Alternet, 8-27-14)
Russia and economic warfare: RIP the free market new world order (The Guardian, 8-31-14)
August - 2014 - Environmental
Pakistan Ill-Prepared for Climate Crises (Truthdig, 8-1-14)
Hear from the scientists who saw the Ohio algae blooms coming (PBS, 8-3-14)
For Canada, Tar Sands Are Bigger Than Keystone XL (Climate Central, 8-8-14)
Will fracking in the Gulf of Mexico lead to the next Deepwater Horizon? (Grist, 8-8-14)
West Coast devastation continues: seals, oysters, pelicans, fish, squid -- all sick, dying or failing to breed (Natural News, 8-8-14)
Extreme space weather threatens to leave the U.S. in the dark (Washington Post, 8-9-14)
Enviros Blamed for Bursting Frack Bubble (EcoWatch, 8-11-14)
A Climate Crusader's Comeuppance (Wall Street Journal, 8-14-14)
Reality Check: Germany Does Not Get Half of its Energy from Solar Panels (The Energy Collective, 8-18-14)
World's Largest Ice Sheets Melting At Fastest Rate Ever Recorded (Huffington Post, 8-21-14)
Large Holes Forming Near The New Madrid Fault And A Giant Crack In The Earth In North Mexico (DC Clothesline, 8-22-14)
The Strange Thing Happening to the Land in Western U.S. Because It’s 63 Trillion Gallons of Water Short (The Blaze, 8-22-14)
Gunning for Vandana Shiva (Counterpunch, 8-22-14)
Soon, Europe Might Not Need Any New Power Plants (Think Progress, 8-24-14)
Germany's Expensive Gamble on Renewable Energy (The Wall Street Journal, 8-26-14)
The Poisoning of Africa’s Vultures (The New York Times, 8-27-14)
Congress should do more to protect the country from wildfires (Washington Post, 8-28-14)
As Louisiana Sinks And Sea Levels Rise, The State Is Drowning. Fast. (Huffington Post, 8-28-14)
Fungus Discovered in Rainforest Capable Of Eating Plastic Pollution (The Mind Unleashed, 8-28-14)
Confidence -- What Does It Mean For Nuclear Waste? (Forbes, 8-29-14)
August - 2014 - Health
Ebola transmission by aerosols confirmed: virus survives for days outside infected hosts (Natural News, 8-1-14)
4 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Crack, America's Most Vilified Drug (Alternet, 8-2-14)
Non-expanding states will lose $423.6 billion in Medicaid funding (Daily KOS, 8-11-14)
Teen Anal Sex Study: 6 Unexpected Findings (Live Science, 8-13-14)
August - 2014 - Religion
Evangelical leaders will travel to Israel to signal their support (Religion News Service, 8-12-14)
All the GOP Candidates Kiss the Ring of the Radical Christian Right (Alternet, 8-13-14)
Evangelical Leaders Will Visit Israel to Show Support, Ask God To 'Protect Her From Her Enemies' (Huffington Post, 8-17-14)
469 Gaza children killed, over 370,000 need ‘psychosocial aid’ (RT, 8-22-14)
The Decline of Liberalism Threatens Secularism in America (Alternet, 8-26-14)
Fascinating Journey: How a Former Texas Conservative Operative Left the Religious Right (Alternet, 8-29-14)
August - 2014 - Political
Obama: 'Russia doesn't make anything' (Aljazeera, 8-3-14)
PETER HITCHENS: These vainglorious fools will march us into another inferno (Daily Mail, 8-3-14)
Why Obama's Coercion Strategy in Ukraine Will Fail (National Interest, 8-4-14)
Ignorance or deliberate disinformation? Obama’s 'facts' about Russia all wrong (RT, 8-4-14)
Meet the GOPers Trolling Hillary From the Left (Mother Jones, 8-4-14)
My Head Exploded When Obama Sanctimoniously Said, "We Tortured Some Folks" (Truth-Out, 8-5-14)
Rep. Justin Amash says Challenger Brian Ellis ‘owes an apology’ and calls former Rep. Pete Hoekstra a ‘disgrace’ (Fox 17, 8-6-14)
Black Caucus: #StandWithKeith to End Gaza Blockade (Truth-Out, 8-6-14)
Obama Can End Argentina’s Debt Crisis with a Pen (Nation of Change, 8-9-14)
Obama Isn't Half the Man of Richard Nixon (Common Dreams, 8-10-14)
3 homes, $200,000-plus pay for possible mayoral candidate Lewis (Chicago Sun, 8-12-14)
All the GOP Candidates Kiss the Ring of the Radical Christian Right (Alternet, 8-13-14)
James Risen calls Obama 'greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation' (The Guardian, 8-17-14)
Obama Is Seen as Frustrating His Own Party (New York Times, 8-18-14)
CIA Director John Brennan Lies His Ass Off (YouTube, 8-19-14)
Cornel West: “He posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit. We ended up with a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency” (Salon, 8-24-14)
President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law (MSNBC, 8-25-14)
John Boehner And House GOP Tax Guru Profited From Offshore Tax Dodge (Huffington Post, 8-26-14)
5 Most Hawkish Positions Embraced by Hillary Clinton (Alternet, 8-27-14)
Evidence exposing who put ISIS in power, and how it was done. (SCGNews, 8-28-14)
Elizabeth Warren Defends Israeli Shelling of Gaza Schools, Hospitals (Huffington Post, 8-31-14)
August - 2014 - Foreign
Western plutocracy goes bear hunting (Asia Times, 8-1-14)
Death on the march: The West’s plan to suppress domestic dissent is well under way (RT, 8-1-14)
‘Lies, hypocrisy, propaganda’: Russia slams US over claims of nuclear treaty violations (RT, 8-2-14)
Are Israelis and Zionists Really Talking About a Final Solution of the Palestinian Problem? (Truthdig, 8-2-14)
Obama: 'Russia doesn't make anything' (Aljazeera, 8-3-14)
Why Obama's Coercion Strategy in Ukraine Will Fail (National Interest, 8-4-14)
Times of Israel Article: "When Genocide is Permissible" - Just a Little Too Honest (SCGNews, 8-4-14)
Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel (Common Dreams, 8-5-14)
World silence over Israeli war crimes ‘inexcusable’ (Arab News, 8-5-14)
UN warns of 'massive exodus' from Ukraine (Aljazeera, 8-5-14)
Palestinian-American Teen Brutalized by Israeli Police Testifies on Capitol Hill (Truth-out, 8-5-14)
Moscow's Trojan Horse (Foreign Affairs, 8-6-14)
How to Respond to Russia’s INF Treaty Violation (National Interest, 8-6-14)
The movement that dare not speak its name in Israel (Raw Story, 8-6-14)
Is Hamas Really to Blame for the Conflict in Gaza? (National Interest, 8-7-14)
Police to probe why arrest of Labour MP Lord Janner over child abuse accusations 20 years ago was ‘blocked’ (The Daily Mail, 8-8-14)
Russia: The World's Second-Largest Immigration Haven (The National Interest, 8-10-14)
The New Iraqi Monster America Helped Make (TruthDig, 8-11-14)
Islamic State militants threaten Turkey with violence if Euphrates water supply not restored (RT, 8-11-14)
China Confronts Its Coal Problem (The New York Times, 8-16-14)
Reality Check: Germany Does Not Get Half of its Energy from Solar Panels (The Energy Collective, 8-18-14)
ISIS: Region-wide Genocide Portended in 2007 Now Fully Realized (Global Research, 8-20-14)
Starve or surrender: Cut off all food and water to Gaza, says Israeli general (Electronic Intifada, 8-23-14)
John McCain Giving Instructions to ISIS (Friends of Syria, 8-23-14)
People's mandate stolen in 2013 elections, says ex-ECP additional secretary (Dawn, 8-24-14)
Hindu Nationalists flex muscles in Narendra Modi's India (Financial Times, 8-25-14)
Revealed: Benefits mother-of-two from Kent once in all-girl rock band who is now jihadi in Syria - and wants to 'behead Christians with a blunt knife' (Daily Mail, 8-31-14)
August - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance
The U.S. Government Can Brand You a Terrorist Based on a Facebook Post (Alternet, 8-30-14)
August - 2014 - Technology
Big Batteries Are Starting to Boost the Electric Grid (NBC News, 8-5-14)
The Atomic Bomb, Then and Now (The Blog, 8-7-14)
How Google and the Big Tech Companies Are Helping Maintain America's Empire (Alternet, 8-19-14)
This Stealth Attack Boat May Be Too Innovative for the Pentagon (Business Week, 8-21-14)
Google Fiber Is Fast, but Is It Fair? (The Wall Street Journal, 8-22-14)
Electromagnetic Warfare Is Here (IEEE Spectrum, 8-25-14)
August - 2014 - Education
Computer Programming Is a Trade; Let's Act Like It (The Wall Street Journal, 8-3-14)
Sex education is a global dividing line between liberals and conservatives (The Washington Post, 8-31-14)
August - 2014 - Miscellaneous
John Oliver Shames Americans for Public Apathy Toward Prison Rape (Alternet, 8-1-14)
Five Threats More Terrifying Than Ebola Arriving in the U.S. (Bloomberg, 8-5-14)
See Power Plants Most Vulnerable to Flooding (Climate Central, 8-6-14)
Leaving Los Angeles: Porn industry flees condom requirements, welcomed to Las Vegas (RT, 8-6-14)
“He sawed off my hair with a dull knife”: The horrific misogyny of “Mixed Martial Arts” culture (Salon, 8-12-14)
We are all sexters now: America's favorite amateur porn (Alternet, 8-17-14)
Fareed Zakaria’s real sins: Not plagiarism but neoliberal know-it-all-ism (Salon, 8-28-14)
One Quarter Of America Lives In A High-Poverty Neighborhood (Think Progress, 7-1-14)
Asian Steel Industry Eats America’s Lunch (Daily Kos, 7-1-14)
Currency Reserves Swell in Asia (The Wall Street Journal, 7-8-14)
Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.”* (Video) (Against Crony Capitalism, 7-8-14)
One Percent’s Rental Nightmare: How Wall Street's Scheme Blew Up in Its Face (Alternet, 7-12-14)
The Full-Time Scandal of Part-Time America (The Wall Street Journal, 7-13-14)
BIS chief fears fresh Lehman from worldwide debt surge (The Telegraph, 7-13-14)
Elizabeth Warren Splits Progressives On Mortgage Reform (Huffington Post, 7-14-14)
Highways Need a Higher Gas Tax (New York Times, 7-15-14)
Just Whose Job Is It to Train Workers? (The Wall Street Journal, 7-16-14)
BRICS bank rattles the 'Washington Consensus' (Aljazeera, 7-18-14)
Income Inequality Is Not Rising Globally. It's Falling. (New York Times, 7-19-14)
Refusing to share: How the West created BRICS New Development Bank (RT, 7-21-14)
Robert Rubin Echoes Robert F. Kennedy: GDP Is Fatally Flawed Measure Of Economic Health (Think Progress, 7-25-14)
The Typical Household, Now Worth a Third Less (The New York Times, 7-27-14)
The Empire Economy Does Not Serve the Economy or People (Nation of Change, 7-27-14)
You Can’t Taper a Ponzi Scheme: Time to Reboot (Truthdig, 7-27-14)
Dodd-Frank’s Achilles’ heel (The Washington Post, 7-27-14)
Listen up, America: It’s time to start making mass transit free! (Salon, 7-27-14)
The BRICS Bank is a Glimpse of the Future (Financial Times, 7-30-14)
A SHORT PARABLE ABOUT VULTURE CAPITALISM (Pepe Escobar, 7-31-14)
July - 2014 - Environmental
5 Shocking Places Where Fracking Is Taking Off (Alternet, 7-1-14)
Renewables Projected To Add Triple The Capacity Of New Fossil Fuel Plants By 2030 (Think Progress, 7-1-14)
Are EPA's Carbon Rules Really About Nuclear? (Forbes, 7-1-14)
Renewables Projected To Add Triple The Capacity Of New Fossil Fuel Plants By 2030 (Climate Progress, 7-1-14)
Bill Gates: 'We need energy miracles' yet US invests paltry 2% of R&D budget in energy (Tech Republic, 7-2-14)
Newer and Unconventional Gas Wells Leak More Than Old Ones, Says Study (Alternet, 7-2-14)
The Giant Methane Monster That Can Wipe Out the Human Race (Alternet, 7-4-14)
Agriculture: The Surprising Leading Contributor to Pollution (Truth Out, 7-4-14)
Solar has won. Even if coal were free to burn, power stations couldn't compete (The Guardian, 7-6-14)
Chevron Admits The Truth: Oil Shale Will Use Huge Amounts Of Western Water (Climate Progress, 7-8-14)
Fracking Is Causing an Earthquake Boom in Oklahoma (Truth Out, 7-12-14)
These 5 charts show why the world is still failing on climate change (Vox, 7-14-14)
First of Its Kind Map Reveals Extent of Ocean Plastic (National Geographic, 7-15-14)
A Carbon Tax Even Republicans Can Support (Bloomberg Review, 7-21-14)
This Floating Platform Could Filter The Plastic From Our Polluted Oceans (Huffington Post, 7-21-14)
Tomgram: Naomi Oreskes, A "Green" Bridge to Hell (Tom Dispatch, 7-27-14)
"Vast methane plumes escaping from the seafloor" discovered in Siberian Arctic Sea (Daily KOS, 7-28-14)
'There Will Be No Water' by 2040? Researchers Urge Global Energy Paradigm Shift (Common Dreams, 7-30-14)
Does NASA's Data Show Doomsday for New York City? (Truth-Out, 7-30-14)
We Can Reverse Climate Change by the Way We Grow Food (Huffington Post, 7-30-14)
July - 2014 - Health
Scientists Just Created a Virus With the Potential to Wipe Out Humanity (Inhabitat, 7-5-14)
If Tuberculosis Spreads ... (New York Times, 7-8-14)
Busy Doctors, Wasteful Spending (New York Times, 7-20-14)
July - 2014 - Religion
Hobby Lobby Funded Disgraced Fundamentalist Christian Leader Accused of Harassing Dozens of Women (Mother Jones, 7-2-14)
Exploiting nature 'sin' of our time – Pope (RT, 7-5-14)
Does Religious Speech Threaten Democracy? (National Review, 7-11-14)
Secretive National Prayer Breakfast Group, "The Family" Linked to Hobby Lobby Case (Alternet, 7-21-14)
The Christian Theocratic Agenda Imposed on the Bodies of America's Poor Women (Alternet, 7-24-14)
How US evangelicals are shaping development in Uganda (Aljazeera, 7-25-14)
The Religious Right Makes Friends Across The Atlantic (Right Wing Watch, 7-28-14)
July - 2014 - Foreign
ISRAEL AND GAZA
Gaza bombarded as Israel's leaders demand blood after students' bodies found (Stop The War Coalition, 7-1-14)
Jerusalem “lynch mobs” attack Palestinians after Israeli teens’ funerals (The Electronic Intifada, 7-2-14)
Israeli Lawmaker Calls for Genocide of Palestinians…Gets 5,000 Facebook Likes (Addicting Info, 7-8-14)
Spoof of ADL ad justifying attack on Gaza goes viral (Electronic Intifada, 7-9-14)
IDF's Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis (The Guardian, 7-9-14)
Netanyahu's War: What Is It Good For? (Common Dreams, 7-10-14)
On Israel, Ukraine and Truth (Counter Punch, 7-13-14)
“Justified Vengeance”, The Pretext for Bombing Gaza: Was the Netanyahu Government behind the Killings of the Three Israeli Teenagers? (Global Research, 7-13-14)
Israel Is Captive to Its ‘Destructive Process’ (Truth Dig, 7-14-14)
Israel's far-right spreads from the fringes (DW, 7-14-14)
Blood for gas: Why Bibi is punishing Gaza (RT, 7-14-14)
Opinion: Provocation and violence (DW, 7-14-14)
Egyptian press repeat Israeli lies as Sisi keeps Gaza border closed (The Electronic Intifada, 7-15-14)
Israel is Captive to Its ‘Destructive Process': Chris Hedges (Nation of Change, 7-15-14)
How US and Blair Plotted ‘Ceasefire’ Scam (Information Clearing House, 7-16-14)
Gaza faces imminent water crisis (Aljazeera, 7-17-14)
Gaza and Israel: The Road to War, Paved by the West (The New York Times, 7-17-14)
Expel Palestinians, populate Gaza with Jews, says Knesset deputy speaker (Electronic Intifada, 7-19-14)
The Israeli Army Bombed and Destroyed Gaza's Only Rehab Hospital (Aljazeera, 7-19-14)
Israel/Gaza: UN must impose arms embargo and mandate an international investigation as civilian death toll rises (Amnesty, 7-21-14)
7 Nobel Laureates Among 64 Public Figures Calling for Arms Embargo Against Israel (International Middle East Media Center, 7-21-14)
Finally, Israel is alienating the US mainstream media (Mondoweiss, 7-21-14)
Hamas Offers Reasonable Truce, Greeted by Deafening Silence (Alternet, 7-22-14)
Israel in 2014 Is Like Germany in 1933—Can the Madness Be Stopped? (Alternet, 7-23-14)
Merkel stands by Israel even when it kills Germans (Electronic Intifada, 7-24-14)
11 Images Showing The Extent Of Israel’s Palestinian Apartheid (True Activist, 7-24-14)
Where’s BBC scoop on Netanyahu’s big lie? (Jonathan Cook, 7-26-14)
Fire at the Gaza wall, not over it (Aljazeera, 7-28-14)
Israel Takes Away 44% of Gaza Land... Herds Gazans Into Remaining Area (Global Research, 7-29-14)
US Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza (Global Research, 7-30-14)
Israel uses Palestinians as human shields but US lawmakers condemn Hamas (Electronic Intifada, 7-31-14)
IRAQ AND SYRIA
[FULL] First Appearance of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi (English Subtitles) (Youtube, 7-5-14)
First Appearance of ISIS Caliph Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi (English Subtitles) (Youtube, 7-5-14)
1,000-strong Syrian rebel brigade defects to Islamic State - report (RT, 7-11-14)
Iraq crisis: How Saudi Arabia helped Isis take over the north of the country (Independent, 7-13-14)
Yemen model won’t work in Iraq, Syria (Washington Post, 7-17-14)
Iraq Christians get Islamic State's warning: Convert or Die (Aljazeera, 7-19-14)
ISIS Leader Threatens Obama: 'We're Coming for You' (News Max, 7-24-14)
UKRAINE AND RUSSIA
There's a Big Risk the U.S. Will Back an Anti-Russian Bloodbath in Ukraine (Alternet, 7-3-14)
Russian scientists raising funds to rebuild Tesla Tower, satisfy world energy hunger (RT, 7-4-14)
On Israel, Ukraine and Truth (Counter Punch, 7-13-14)
The Downing of the Malaysian Airliner: Avoid Rushing to Judgment (CSIS, 7-21-14)
Downing of Flight 17 should trigger talks, not more violence (The Washington Post, 7-22-14)
Washington Is Escalating the Orchestrated Ukrainian “Crisis” to War (Global Research, 7-25-14)
Poroshenko's risky power play (DW, 7-25-14)
The US Envisages a First Strike Nuclear Attack against Russia (Global Research, 7-29-14)
When the US Welched on Its NATO Promise (Common Dreams, 7-17-14)
EUROPE
Fighting Google: Europe Eyes Digital Agenda to Better Compete with the US (Spiegel, 7-1-14)
Germany Shelves Shale-Gas Drilling For Next Seven Years (The Wall Street Journal, 7-4-14)
‘Too many of them’: Warnings on pedophiles operating in Westminster were ‘ignored’ (RT, 7-12-14)
Europe's Free Ride on the American-Defense Gravy Train (National Interest, 7-13-14)
Can Ireland face up to its shocking past? (Aljazeera, 7-17-14)
Has Norway reclaimed Utoya?(Aljazeera, 7-22-14)
ASIA
Asian Steel Industry Eats America’s Lunch (Daily Kos, 7-1-14)
'Made in China' high-speed trains going global (DW, 7-3-14)
The China-Europe Lovefest (National Interest, 7-12-14)
'Fascists' in saffron robes? The rise of Sri Lanka's Buddhist ultra-nationalists (CNN, 7-18-14)
Thousands of women, accused of sorcery, tortured and executed in Indian witch hunts (Washington Post, 7-21-14)
China Plans Extension of Railroad to India Through Tibet (New York Times, 7-25-14)
SOUTH AMERICA
Bolivia to allow 10-year-olds into workforce (Aljazeera, 7-4-14)
Ditching Washington to do business (DW, 7-12-14)
OTHER
The Loneliness of Anti-Imperialist Fighters (Truth Out, 7-3-14)
Noam Chomsky | The Sledgehammer Worldview (Truth-Out, 7-7-14)
July - 2014 - Political
American Dissatisfaction With Everything Is Reaching Historic Levels (Huffington Post, 7-3-14)
There's a Big Risk the U.S. Will Back an Anti-Russian Bloodbath in Ukraine (Alternet, 7-3-14)
Going Without Water in Detroit (The New York Times, 7-3-14)
Make them forget: How ‘irrelevant’ news disappears from Google searches (RT, 7-4-14)
Google link for censorship due to EU decision (Google, 7-4-14)
US ‘superbomb’ too classified for Obama to know (Press TV, 7-4-14)
The Next Act of the Neocons: Are Neocons Getting Ready to Ally With Hillary Clinton? (New York Times, 7-5-14)
Which federal agencies have gained and lost the most employees? (The Washington Post, 7-7-14)
Clinton Defends Her Handling of a Rape Case in 1975 (The New York Times, 7-7-14)
For Two Days in a Row, CBS Touts Hillary Clinton as John McCain's 'Favorite Democrat' (News Busters, 7-7-14)
Obama’s Evangelical Gravy Train (The Nation, 7-8-14)
Why We're Still Living With the Threat of State-Sponsored Torture (Alternet, 7-10-14)
Green Party: TTIP trade deal is a corporate power grab, that must be stopped (Green Party, 7-11-14)
Hillary Clinton Cheerleads for Biotech and GMOs (Nation of Change, 7-12-14)
Hillary’s Candid Motto for Democratic Party: “Represent Banks” (Alternet, 7-13-14)
Another White House Iftar, Another Ramadan Without My Brother (Huffington Post, 7-14-14)
Hillary's $2,777 PER MINUTE speaking contracts demand a 'presidential' teleprompter, let her cancel 'for any reason whatsoever' and she's the only one allowed on stage (Daily Mail, 7-16-14)
Obama Humiliates Muslim Guests at White House Ramadan Event, Endorses Israel’s Gaza Assault and NSA Surveillance (Alternet, 7-17-14)
When Rhode Island accidentally legalized prostitution, rape decreased sharply (The Washington Post, 7-17-14)
US Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Supporting Israeli Assault on Gaza (Information Clearing House, 7-18-14)
With liberals pining for a Clinton challenger, ambitious Democrats get in position (The Washington Post, 7-19-14)
Dead Gazans Missing From Senate Endorsement of Israeli Invasion (TruthDig, 7-20-14)
Right-Wing Defender of Israel's Gaza Attack Makes Same Argument As Osama bin Laden (Alternet, 7-22-14)
The Obama administration is spending billions of dollars on nuclear weapons (Global Post, 7-30-14)
Charge: 'Clintons turned the State Department into a racket to line their own pockets' (Washington Examiner, 7-30-14)
US Congressional Black Caucus Endorses Israeli Apartheid and Current War Crimes in Gaza (Global Research, 7-30-14)
July - 2014 - Whistleblowers and the U.S. Surveillance
NSA reformers dismayed after privacy board vindicates surveillance dragnet (The Guardian, 7-2-14)
Google Is Being Forced To Censor The History Of Merrill Lynch — And That Should Terrify You (Business Insider, 7-3-14)
The World We've Constructed Is Far Beyond George Orwell's Worst Nightmare (Alternet, 7-11-14)
The informants: Manufacturing terror (Aljazeera, 7-21-14)
July - 2014 - Technology
Bill Gates: 'We need energy miracles' yet US invests paltry 2% of R&D budget in energy (Tech Republic, 7-2-14)
600 million Apple devices contain secret backdoors, researcher claims (RT, 7-23-14)
Let’s nationalize Amazon and Google: Publicly funded technology built Big Tech (Salon, 7-8-14)
Smartphones Become Next Frontier in Cybersecurity (The Wall Street Journal, 7-31-14)
July - 2014 - Education
Demanding End to 'Toxic Testing,' Teachers Call for Duncan's Resignation (Common Dreams, 7-4-14)
When networks turn deadly (DW, 7-20-14)
July - 2014 - Miscellaneous
Why Heterosexuality Didn't Really Exist Until the 19th Century (Alternet, 7-2-14)
WHY METAL IS RIGHT-WING (Radix Journal, 7-2-14)
Sixty Five Million Left Out of July 4th Celebration (Common Dreams, 7-4-14)
How One Generation Was Single-Handedly Able To Kill The Music Industry (Elite Daily, 7-6-14)
Westminster 'Paedophile Ring': 'Powerful Elite' Of MPs And Ministers Abused Children, Peter McKelvie Says (Huffington Post, 7-8-14)
From Somaly Mam to ''Eden'': How Sex Trafficking Sensationalism Hurts Sex Workers (Truth-Out, 7-9-14)
John Oliver on Why You Should Never Go on Vacation to Antarctica (Truthdig, 7-10-14)
One Sentence Explains Why Sexual Predator Dov Charney Is Back In At American Apparel (Think Progress, 7-11-14)
The UK Ministry of Defence Says Life in 2045 Will Be Unequal and Violent (Motherboard, 7-16-14)
Global Strategic Trends out to 2045 (GOV.UK, 7-15-14)
This Metalhead Has Been Elected President of Indonesia (Metal Injection, 7-22-14)
Heavy Metal Is Gay: Why We Need To Tackle Our Homophobia (Terrorizer, 7-23-14)
Sean Hannity Goes On Wild Screaming Fit At Palestinian Guest (Huffington Post, 7-25-14)
U.S. Holds the World Record of Killings of Innocent Civilians (Global Research, 7-29-14)