SIGNS OF THE TIMES
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST 2012
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July 2012
August 2012
September 2012
October 2012
November 2012 December 2012
PAST EDITIONS
2007-2008
2009:1-6
2009:7-12
2010:1-6
2010:6-12
2011:1-6
2011:7-12 2012:1-6
2012:7-12
December - 2012 - Financial
A tax we could learn to love (CNN, 12-3-12)
Top U.S. Firms are Cash-Rich Abroad, Cash-Poor at Home (The Wall Street Journal, 12-4-12)
It’s the Simpson-Bowles Personal Profit Tour: Making Money Off the U.S. Debt (Alternet, 12-4-12)
Watch out for the second US cliffhanger (Financial Times, 12-6-12)
Debtpocalypse and the hollowing out of America (Aljazeera, 12-7-12)
A Carbon Tax Should Be Included in a Deficit Reduction Deal (Usnews.com, 12-10-12)
Obama tax plan no small deal to small businessmen (Yahoo News, 12-10-12)
Apple’s Big Manufacturing Boom to the U.S.—200 Jobs (The Fiscal Times, 12-10-12)
526,421 family farms threatened by new death tax (Washington Examiner, 12-11-12)
How U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying the Pentagon to Occupy the Planet (Common Dreams, 12-11-12)
Crashing the Bond Market (Counter Punch, 12-11-12)
When Even Santa Can’t Get a Job (Bill Moyers, 12-11-12)
Inside the Risky Bets of Central Banks (The Wall Street Journal, 12-12-12)
Pain Behind the Budget Cuts (New York Times, 12-13-12)
Ready to jump from the ‘fiscal cliff’ (Washington Post, 12-13-12)
For Student Borrowers, Relief Now May Mean a Big Tax Bill Later (New York Times, 12-14-12)
How US taxpayers are paying the Pentagon to occupy the planet (Aljazeera, 12-14-12)
Today’s challenges go beyond Keynes (Financial Times, 12-17-12)
After Recession, More Young Adults Are Living on Street (Nytimes, 12-18-12)
Check your US tax rate for 2012—and every year since 1913 (Quartz, 12-19-12)
Fiscal Cliff Negotiations Will Delay Tax Filing, Refunds For 100 Million Americans: IRS (Huffington Post, 12-20-12)
Sen. Bernie
Sanders: 'Mr. President, I am Disappointed' (Common Dreams, 12-20-12)
It’s our system on the cliff (Washington Post, 12-23-12)
Cliff Would Strike Low Incomes Hard (The Wall Street Journal, 12-24-12)
Five myths about charitable giving (Washington Post, 12-27-12)
Government Investment Needed in New Economics (Los Angeles Times, 12-27-12)
Why Bernanke’s policies could hurt the economy more than going over the ‘fiscal
cliff’ (Washington Post, 12-28-12)
Why not let taxes rise on the middle class? (Washington Post, 12-28-12)
December - 2012 - Environmental
Photo Gallery: The Consequences of Climate Change (Spiegel Online, 12-3-12)
In Doha, Lead U.S. Negotiator Plays Down Expectations of Climate Action in Obama’s Second Term (Democracy Now, 12-4-12)
Study: Wealthy Nations’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies 5 Times Greater Than Climate Aid to Countries in Need (Democracy Now, 12-4-12)
Carbon Tsunami: World Bank Study Warns of Lethal Global Temperature Rise Even If Emissions Pledges Are Met (Democracy Now, 12-4-12)
Shale Shocked: Studies Tie Rise Of Significant Earthquakes In U.S. Midcontinent To Wastewater Injection (ThinkProgress, 12-4-12)
Mother Nature belongs at bargaining table (Jill Stein, 12-6-12)
Poor Countries Demand Action at Climate Talks (Sci-tech-today, 12-6-12)
BP Oil Spill Flow Rate Vastly Understated For Weeks, Emails Show (Huffington Post, 12-8-12)
Debilitating drought devastates Brazil (Aljazeera, 12-9-12)
Pesticides: Now More Than Ever (New York Times, 12-11-12)
California Public Land Sold to Frackers Despite Public Outcry (It's Our Economy, 12-12-12)
Energy Agency Sees Global Coal Boom Unabated, Europe’s Binge Temporary (New York Times, 12-18-12)
Coal set to rival oil as world’s primary energy source by 2017 (DGR News
Service, 12-18-12)
Report: Ecosystems in Upheaval, Biodiversity in Collapse (Common Dreams, 12-20-12)
Transgenic fish wins US regulatory backing (Nature, 12-22-12)
Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica (New York Times, 12-24-12)
30 years of industrialization in China has destroyed at least 80% of coral reefs
(DGR News Service, 12-27-12)
As Biodiversity Declines, Tropical Diseases Thrive (NPR, 12-29-12)
A bloody year for Southeast Asia's environmentalists (Aljazeera, 12-29-12)
Greens confront own need for diversity (Politico, 12-29-12)
Scientists try to save the frogs as time runs out (Washington Post,
12-30-12)
December - 2012 - Health
Obesity kills more people than hunger (Aljazeera, 12-14-12)
'I Am Adam Lanza's Mother': A Mom's Perspective On The Mental Illness Conversation In America (Huffington Post, 12-16-12)
Beneath Budget Battle, a Health-Spending Juggernaut (The Wall Street Journal, 12-17-12)
TB's Global Resurgence Amplifies U.S. Risk (The Wall Street Journal, 12-18-12)
Study: Booze Damages the Brain, Pot Does Not (Alternet, 12-21-12)
Teen Marijuana Use May Show No Effect On Brain Tissue, Unlike Alcohol, Study Finds (Huffington Post, 12-21-12)
The 6 People Giving You a Cold (Everyday Health, 12-24-12)
Rising painkiller addiction shows damage from drugmakers’ role in shaping
medical opinion (Washington Post, 12-30-12)
December - 2012 - Religion
Christian Right Leader Lauds Uganda Dictator as 'Kill the Gays' Bill Is Revived (Alternet, 12-5-12)
West Point cadet quits military academy because of pervasive Christian evangelism (The Raw Story, 12-8-12)
Atheists, Humanists Suffer Persecution World Wide, Report (Huffington Post, 12-9-12)
Evangelical leader says we need family planning to help fight climate change (Grist, 12-10-12)
Justice Scalia: homosexuality is similar to bestiality (Liberals Unite, 12-11-12)
James Dobson Blames Gays And Abortion For Newtown Massacre (Addicting Info, 12-18-12)
December - 2012 - Technology
NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance (Youtube, 12-2-12)
8 Ways Police Can Spy on You Without a Warrant (Alternet, 12-6-12)
Proposal for global regulation of web (Financial Times, 12-9-12)
Leaks from UN telecom conference show Orwellian proposals (Russian Times, 12-10-12)
America's First Big Digital Defeat (The Wall Street Journal, 12-16-12)
Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos (CNET, 12-17-12)
Disruptions: The Real Hazards of E-Devices on Planes (New York Times,
12-30-12)
Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt (New
York Times, 12-31-12)
December - 2012 - Foreign
Badwill Ambassador: Honorary Chair of Israeli Fund for UNICEF Wants Palestinian Children to “Suffer” (Common Dreams, 12-2-12)
Noam Chomsky: What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel (Alternet, 12-3-12)
The Demographic Success of Israel's Settlement Project (Aljazeera, 12-4-12)
Ten Reasons Iran Doesn't Want the Bomb (National Interest, 12-4-12)
Hamid Karzai: Some Afghanistan Insecurity 'Coming To Us From The Structures That NATO And America Created' (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 12-6-12)
How the 'Silicon Valley of India' is bridging the digital divide (CNN, 12-6-12)
Berlin to buy back grid and go 100 percent renewable (Renewables International, 12-7-12)
Bashar al-Assad, Syria, and the truth about chemical weapons (The Independent, 12-8-12)
The roots of global anti-Americanism (Aljazeera, 12-11-12)
The Congo's Never Ending War (New York Times, 12-15-12)
German State Gives Facebook an Ultimatum Over Real Name Policy (Spiegel Online, 12-18-12)
Struggling Greeks Face Harsh Winter (The Wall Street Journal, 12-18-12)
Are US Munitions to Blame for Birth Defects in Iraq? (Spiegel, 12-18-12)
Mexican Gov’t Slams US-Backed Military Approach to Drug War (Antiwar,
12-18-12)
Pressing President:
Putin grilled by journalists in Q&A marathon (You Tube, 12-20-12)
No panic in Guatemala over 'Mayan Apocalypse' (Aljazeera, 12-20-12)
Israel's colonial strangling of Bethlehem (Aljazeera, 12-20-12)
Bolivia's Morales
Calls for New Era of 'Peace and Unity' to Break Greed of Capitalism (Common
Dreams, 12-21-12)
India confronts mountain of coal problems (Washington Post, 12-23-12)
Rebuilding in Haiti Lags After Billions in Post-Quake Aid (New York Times, 12-23-12)
Dark prospects haunt Pakistan (Financial Times, 12-26-12)
A fight for Afghanistan’s most famous artifact (Washington Post, 12-29-12)
December - 2012 - Political
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe (Mother Jones, 12-1-12)
Dick Armey Quits Tea Party Group, Citing Internal Split (Huffington Post, 12-4-12)
The Rice Question (New York Times, 12-4-12)
Terror Skyrocketing in Face of US War on Terror (Antiwar, 12-5-12)
Clinton: Drug war 'hasn't worked' (Politico, 12-7-12)
Susan Rice and Africa’s Despots (New York Times, 12-9-12)
Democrats Target Family Farms for Death Taxes (Republican Policy Committee, 12-11-12)
Noam Chomsky: America, Moral Degenerate (Alternet, 12-13-12)
How Maps Helped Republicans Keep an Edge in the House (New York Times, 12-14-12)
Industry changes may affect Democrats’ domination in digital politics (Washington Post, 12-15-12)
Huckabee Doubles Down, Blaming Contraception Now for Sandy Hook Massacre (Raw Story, 12-17-12)
Sympathy From The Devil (Information Clearing House, 12-17-12)
Wealthiest Kissed, Weakest Kicked: Obama's Ugly 'New Deal' Offers to Cut Social Security (Common Dreams, 12-18-12)
Obama signals four more years of bad relations with Latin America (Aljazeera, 12-18-12)
Republican Mike Huckabee: The Newtown shootings were the fault of gay people (Pink News, 12-18-12)
Obama admits he's already conceded more than warranted (Daily KOS, 12-19-12)
Gingrich: The Challenge Confronting Republicans (Human Events, 12-22-12)
Senators to Return With 5 Days Left and No Clear Fiscal Path (New York
Times, 12-26-12)
Senate approves measure to renew controversial surveillance authority
(Washington Post, 12-28-12)
A Showdown Long Foreseen (New York Times, 12-30-12)
Can GOP Claim Some Victory in ‘Cliff’ Debate? (The Wall Street Journal,
12-31-12)
December - 2012 - Miscellaneous
U.S. Drone Strikes Have Killed 178 Children (You Tube Video, 12-1-12)
U.S. Army plans to send 70,000 troops to the Asia Pacific region (Examiner, 12-1-12)
It's Time to Challenge the Propaganda Regarding Who is Killed by U. S. Drones (Alternet, 12-2-12)
Bin Laden, Torture and Hollywood (New York Times, 12-8-12)
CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, human rights court rules (The Guardian, 12-13-12)
Report finds harsh CIA interrogations ineffective (Washington Post, 12-13-12)
Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke (Rolling Stone, 12-13-12)
U.S. had plans for a ‘full nuclear response’ should the President disappear or
be killed during an attack (io9, 12-13-12)
The Woes of an American Drone Operator (Spiegel, 12-14-12)
30 Top US Officials Guilty Of War Crimes (Secrets of the Fed, 12-15-12)
The moment drone operator in the U.S. realized he had vaporized a child... and
could not go on (Daily Mail, 12-16-12)
Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown (The Wall Street Journal, 12-17-12)
The Connecticut Massacre and America's Estrangement From Reality (Aljazeera, 12-17-12)
Woman Imprisoned for Life for Minor Drug Offense; Banking Giant Immune to Justice for Massive Drug Laundering (Alternet, 12-17-12)
Civilian analysts gained Petraeus’s ear while he was commander in Afghanistan (Washington Post, 12-18-12)
The new vanguard of journalism and transparency (Aljazeera, 12-22-12)
Oliver Stone: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’ (Global Research, 12-29-12)
The West Should 'Change Its Approach to Failing States' (Spiegel, 12-31-12)
November - 2012 - Financial
Scandinavian countries top the list of world's most prosperous nations... but
U.S. drops out of top ten for the first time (Daily Mail, 11-3-12)
The Difference Between Bush's First Term Vs. Obama's First Term In One
Devastating Chart (Business Insider, 11-4-12)
Young workers’ retirement hopes grow bleaker amid economic downturn
(Washington Post, 11-5-12)
The Fiscal Delusion (New
York Times, 11-12-12)
Think the unthinkable on US debt (Financial Times, 11-14-12)
America's Poorest Neighborhoods Lost 91 Percent Of Their Wealth During The Great
Recession: Report (Huffington Post, 11-15-12)
Prison of Debt Paralyzes West (Spiegel, 11-16-12)
To end the fiscal showdown, tax carbon (CNN, 11-16-12)
Investment Falls Off a Cliff (The Wall Street Journal, 11-19-12)
Higher Gas-Tax Idea Joins Fiscal-Cliff Talks (The Wall Street Journal, 11-23-12)
The Faustian Bargain between States and Banks (Spiegel, 11-23-12)
Larry Summers: It’s time to tax carbon and treats (Washington Post, 11-23-12)
Deadline Looms for Long-Term Unemployed (The Wall Street Journal, 11-25-12)
Cox and Archer: Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt (The Wall Street Journal, 11-26-12)
Let’s Talk About X (New York Times, 11-29-12)
Tax Burden Is Lower for Most Americans Than in the 1980s (New York Times, 11-29-12)
It’s 2007 again, thanks to the US Fed (Financial Times, 11-30-12)
November - 2012 - Environmental
It's Global Warming, Stupid (Business Week, 11-1-12)
A Look inside Verizon's Flooded Communications Hub (The Wall Street Journal,
11-1-12)
Costing the Earth: what is the natural world worth? (CNN, 11-1-12)
New York Aquarium May Evacuate: Hurricane Sandy Power Outage Threatens Coney
Island Institution (Huffington Post, 11-2-12)
Staten Island Borough President Urges Residents Not To Donate To (Youtube,
11-2-12)
Deciding Where Future Disasters Will Strike (New York Times, 11-4-12)
Radioactive Water Threatens Middle East (Spiegel, 11-5-12)
Utilities warned of risk from renewables (Financial Times, 11-6-12)
Warmer still: Extreme climate predictions appear most accurate, report says
(Washington Post, 11-8-12)
Kyoto won't save us from climate change – but a carbon tax could (Guardian, 11-8-12)
After Sandy: Solar More Than Ever (Huffington Post, 11-9-12)
Solar- And Wave-Powered Mobile Weather Station Survives Hurricane Sandy (Clean Technica, 11-9-12)
Dealing with oil-Qaeda (Aljazeera, 11-10-12)
A Business-Friendly Climate Agenda for Obama's Second Term (Harvard Business Review, 11-12-12)
Al Gore calls on Barack Obama to ‘act boldly’ on climate change (Grist, 11-14-12)
US chemical policy: Safe until proven toxic? (Aljazeera, 11-15-12)
'We'll Need Conventional Power Plants until 2050' (Spiegel, 11-15-12)
The
Great Mexican Maize Massacre (ETC Group, 11-15-12)
Eating less meat to protect the environment (DW, 11-16-12)
Greenhouse gases reached record highs in 2011, says U.N. study (CNN, 11-20-12)
Norway's plan to kill wolves explodes myth of environmental virtue (Guardian, 11-20-12)
Galapagos Tortoise Species Can Be Revived, Scientists Say (Huffington Post, 11-22-12)
Sexual Cannibalism In Animals Explained By Dr. Carin Bondar In New 'Wild Sex' Series (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 11-22-12)
16 Stunning Aerial Photos of New York City During Sandy (Weather AOL, 11-14-12)
To Change Our Direction, It’s Time to Follow Nature’s Lead (Common Dreams, 11-26-12)
Global Warming Threat: Permafrost Thawing Across Siberia And Alaska Poses New Concern, UNEP Reports (Huffington Post, 11-27-12)
Fracking Our Food Supply (The Nation, 11-28-12)
At the edge of disaster (The Sydney Morning Herald, 11-28-12)
Toxic Fire Retardants Are Everywhere in Homes, New Studies Find (Enviroblog, 11-28-12)
Drinking water for millions - including D.C. - at risk without stronger BLM fracking rules (Switchboard, 11-28-12)
Antarctica, Greenland ice definitely melting into sea, and speeding up, experts warn (NBC News, 11-29-12)
Gulf Of Mexico 52x More Toxic From Corexit Clean Up Than The Original Oil Spill Itself (Before It's News, 11-30-12)
November - 2012 - Health
'Pinkwashing' reaches all-time high as symbol of commercialization, corruption
of breast cancer industry (Natural News, 11-2-12)
Woman's death prompts abortion debate in Ireland (CNN, 11-14-12)
United Nations Declares Access To Contraception A ‘Universal Human Right’
(Think Progress, 11-14-12)
How Fight to Tame TB Made It Stronger (The Wall Street Journal, 11-23-12)
Irish government urged to ease abortion law (Aljazeera, 11-30-12)
November - 2012 - Religion
Sins of the son: Sad treatment for Billy Graham (Washington Post, 11-8-12)
Billy Graham Group, Catholic Bishops Come Under Scrutiny For Blurring Election Lines (Huffington Post, 11-12-12)
When Right-Wing Christians Stopped Thinking of Women as People (Alternet, 11-15-12)
Franklin Graham: God May Have to Cause "A Complete Economic Collapse" to Save Nation From Obama (Mother Jones, 11-16-12)
Christian Group Says Demon Sex Makes You Gay (Alternet, 11-26-12)
Bryan Fischer and the AFA: A portrait of hatred (Liberals Unite, 11-30-12)
November - 2012 - Foreign
Israelis debate significance of apartheid survey (DW, 11-1-12)
Russia enacts restrictive new cyber-law (Aljazeera, 11-1-12)
The Princelings of India (Latitude, 11-5-12)
Obama victory infuriates Pakistani drone victims (Reuters, 11-8-12)
Google blocked in China as government leaders meet (CNN Money, 11-9-12)
Aung San Suu Kyi's sacrifice for politics (DW, 11-9-12)
Pakistani lawyers go from heroes to ‘gangsters’ (Washington Post, 11-11-12)
‘Destroy the idols,’ Egyptian jihadist calls for removal of Sphinx, Pyramids (Al Arabiya News, 11-12-12)
Afghan Warlord’s Call to Arms Rattles Officials (New
York Times, 11-12-12)
Uganda to pass anti-gay law as 'Christmas gift'? (USA Today, 11-12-12)
Afghan Women Fear Rights Will Erode as U.S. Leaves (The Wall Street Journal, 11-13-12)
Call to topple Abbas over UN effort (Financial Times, 11-14-12)
The story behind the photo: Journalist’s 11-month-old son killed in Gaza strikes
(Washington Post, 11-15-12)
The World’s Next Genocide (New York Times, 11-15-12)
Strikes against Iranian sites a 'nuclear gamble' (DW, 11-17-12)
The latest Gaza catastrophe (Aljazeera, 11-18-12)
Israel's assassinations raise questions (Aljazeera, 11-18-12)
Israel's medievalism (Aljazeera, 11-19-12)
Gilad Sharon, Son Of Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Writes Op-Ed: 'We Need To Flatten Entire Neighborhoods In Gaza' (Huffington Post, 11-19-12)
Pakistani court throws out blasphemy charges against Christian girl (CNN, 11-20-12)
Sattar Beheshti: When an Islamic Republic goes to 'the abyss of hell' (Aljazeera, 11-20-12)
Syrian Rebels Have Lost Their Innocence (Spiegel, 11-20-12)
Israel Airstrikes Kill Three Palestinian Journalists (Huffington Post, 11-20-12)
Bad News for Africa: 3,000 More U.S. Soldiers are on the Way (Cavnews, 11-23-12)
Uganda lawmakers to vote on anti-gay law (CNN, 11-24-12)
Our Man in Kabul? (The Wall Street Journal, 11-24-12)
China successfully tests aircraft carrier (Financial Times, 11-25-12)
Terrorized, starving and homeless: Myanmar's Rohingya still forgotten (CNN, 11-26-12)
Map: How Europe voted on Palestine at the U.N., in 2011 and now (Washington Post, 11-29-12)
Benghazi explained: Interview with an “Intelligence Insider” (Canada Free Press, 11-29-12)
Drought-stressed trees face race to adapt (CNN, 11-30-12)
November - 2012 - Political
Respect the architect: Malcolm X, the elections and the politics of empire
(Aljazeera, 11-4-12)
Dear Bruce: Obama won't save the working class or the Jersey shore
(Aljazeera, 11-6-12)
Google co-founder Sergey Brin: "I am dreading today's elections" (CNN Money,
11-6-12)
Obama Bombs Yemen Hours After Winning Reelection (Antiwar, 11-7-12)
None of Your Business - Get Out of Our Bedrooms (New York Times, 11-8-12)
Why Did Romney Lose? Conservatives Blame Single Women (Slate, 11-9-12)
If States Were as Big as Their Vote Counts (Slate, 11-9-12)
Christian Right Failed to Sway Voters on Issues (New York Times, 11-9-12)
A global progressive agenda for Obama's second term (Aljazeera, 11-11-12)
Obama’s Nightmare (New York Times, 11-13-12)
Already? Obama Tells Supporters to Expect 'Bitter Pills' (Common Dreams, 11-14-12)
Social and Anti-Social Media (New York Times, 11-15-12)
Boots
on the ground: Obama’s cybersecurity directive could allow military deployment
within the US (RT, 11-16-12)
Susan Rice’s tarnished resume (Washington Post, 11-16-12)
How sexy is Benghazi? (Asia Times, 11-16-12)
VIDEO: United Auto Workers & 6 Other Nonpartisan Watchdog Groups File Ethics Complaint Against Romney (Samuel Warde, 11-19-12)
Petraeus Should Have Been Fired Years Ago (Aljazeera, 11-19-12)
Obama’s Moment (NYtimes, 11-20-12)
4 Most Common Myths About Israel and Gaza -- Debunked (Alternet, 11-20-12)
How to rebuild America (Washington Post, 11-23-12)
Finally, A Politician Admits That Winning The Drug War Is "Impossible" (Business Insider, 11-24-12)
Senators Make Bid To End Indefinite Detention In NDAA (Huffington Post, 11-28-12)
Balancing U.S. secrets with the public’s right to know (Washington Post, 11-29-12)
Susan Rice, Secretary Of State Candidate, Reportedly Has Financial Stake In Canadian Tar Sands (Huffington Post, 11-29-12)
November - 2012 - Technology
Hurricane Tracking in Peril (New York Times, 11-1-12)
How to Devise Passwords That Drive Hackers Away (New
York Times, 11-7-12)
Online Privacy Issue Is Also in Play in Petraeus Scandal (New
York Times, 11-13-12)
Yes, the FBI and CIA can read your email. Here's how (ZDNet, 11-13-12)
Instead of "Dead Dropping," Petraeus and Broadwell Should Have Used These Email Security Tricks (Slate, 11-13-12)
Activists criticise US law on email access (US Politics and Policy, 11-14-12)
Analysts turn negative on Windows 8 prospects (CNET, 11-19-12)
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants (CNET, 11-20-12)
Google enters debate on UN internet control (Aljazeera, 11-22-12)
Google Goes Public over German Copyright Law (Financial Times, 11-27-12)
Keeping e-mail private (Washington Post, 11-28-12)
ECPA Reform: Why Now? (Digital Due Process, 11-28-12)
Assange to RT: Entire nations intercepted online, key turned to totalitarian rule (RT, 11-30-12)
'Father of the internet': Why we must fight for its freedom (CNN, 11-30-12)
November - 2012 - Education
The Problem With America's History Books (Huffington Post, 11-1-12)
Elite education for the masses (Washington Post, 11-3-12)
November - 2012 - Miscellaneous
Should New York Build Sea Gates? (New York Times, 11-2-12)
Should Pornography Come Out of the Closet? (New
York Times, 11-11-12)
Oliver Stone: 'Petraeus is no hero' (Aljazeera, 11-17-12)
Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All (Common Dreams, 11-19-12)
Corpses of Children Killed in Drone Attack (Flickr, 11-19-12)
An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln (That You Won't Hear from Hollywood) (Alternet, 11-20-12)
No Thanks for Thanksgiving (Alternet, 11-21-12)
Porn Stars As 'Damaged Goods' With Sexual Abuse As A Child Is Inaccurate Stereotype, Study Says (Huffington Post, 11-26-12)
October 2012 - Financial
M Stanley chief warns on Wall St pay (Financial Times, 10-4-12)
Is Your Neighbor’s Yard Sale Illegal? Let The Supreme Court Decide
(Corporate Intelligence, 10-4-12)
Thin-Skinned CEO Superstar Jack Welch Quits Fortune, Reuters After His Demented
BLS Tweet Gets Criticized (Huffington Post, 10-9-12)
Copyrighters take legality of second-hand sales to Supreme Court (RT,
10-15-12)
Burden for rebuilding infrastructure may fall to states (Washington Post,
10-27-12)
Science Is the Key to Growth (New York Times, 10-28-12)
New debt forecasts dash Greece hopes (Financial Times, 10-31-12)
October 2012 - Environmental
Half of Great Barrier Reef Lost in Past 3 Decades (Yahoo News, 10-1-12)
An Illustrated Guide To 2012 Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt (Think Progress,
10-4-12)
Pesticide Use Proliferating With GMO Crops, Study Warns (Huffington Post,
10-4-12)
Arctic Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise May Pose Imminent Threat To Island Nations,
Climate Scientist Says (Huffington Post, 10-5-12)
Oil in new Gulf slick matches that of 2010 spill (Washington Post, 10-10-12)
Vestas Wind Systems cuts more Colorado jobs (Denverpost, 10-11-12)
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Record ... High? (National Geographic, 10-13-12)
Coal ash decision stymied in election year (Washington Post, 10-14-12)
Ecological crisis and the need to challenge the 20 per cent (Aljazeera,
10-15-12)
The Future of Agriculture May Be Up (The Wall Street Journal, 10-15-12)
Vermont Leads Way
for "Farm to Plate" Planning (Common Dreams, 10-15-12)
Biodiversity Experts Call For Funding Boost (DW, 10-17-12)
40 Years Later: Clean Water at a Crossroads (Huffington Post, 10-18-12)
Once this landscape was a pristine wilderness roamed by deer now it's 'the most
destructive industrial project on earth' (Daily Mail, 10-20-12)
Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science Positions (Environment 360,
10-22-12)
Evidence of pesticide harm to bees is now swarming (The Guardian, 10-22-12)
Upcoming documentary: "The Human Experiment" (Safer Chemicals, 10-22-12)
Scraping the Seafloor Smooth (New York Times, 10-22-12)
Bumblebees, Too,
Face Threat from Toxic Pesticides: Study (Common Dreams, 10-22-12)
Food Mythbusters: Do we need industrial agriculture to feed the world? [VIDEO]
(Grist, 10-24-12)
Japan struggling to store radioactive water (Aljazeera, 10-25-12)
GM Wheat May Permanently Alter Human Genome, Spark Early Death (Natural
Society, 10-25-12)
Feed
your soil — and the rest will follow (Grist, 10-25-12)
Bernie Sanders Exposes 18 CEOs who took Trillions in Bailouts, Evaded Taxes and
Outsourced Jobs (Politicus USA, 10-25-12)
One Chart Says It All: Why Oil’s New Supply Boom Is A Bust For The Climate
(Think Progress, 10-26-12)
Time-lapse video captures superstorm Sandy’s wrath on New York City (Yahoo
News, 10-31-12)
Long Recovery Ahead for Battered Region (The Wall Street Journal, 10-31-12)
Experts warn of superstorm era to come (CNN, 10-31-12)
October 2012 - Health
The Cancer Lobby (New York Times, 10-6-12)
Urgent warning: Widely used sleep, anxiety drugs double chance of dementia
(Natural News, 10-9-12)
My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life.
(Washington Post, 10-15-12)
Obamneycare Converts Health Care Into Profits (Paul Craig Roberts, 10-19-12)
Buying the Vote on G.M.O.’s (Opinionator, 10-23-12)
Multi-Drug Resistant TB Rises in Eastern Europe ( DW, 10-29-12)
October 2012 - Religion
Paul Broun: Evolution, Big Bang 'Lies Straight From The Pit Of Hell'
(Huffington Post, 10-6-12)
Pastors to take on IRS in plan to preach politics from the pulpit (Fox News,
10-7-12)
Percentage of Protestant Americans Is in Steep Decline, Study Finds (New
York Times, 10-9-12)
The Fall of D’Souza’s Star? (Religion Dispatches, 10-16-12)
Dinesh D'Souza in Hot Water with Religious Right over Sex Scandal (Right
Wing Watch, 10-16-12)
Billy Graham Launches 'Biblical Values' Ads After Meeting Mitt Romney
(Huffington Post, 10-18-12)
Billy Graham Website Down: "Mormonism Cult" Scandal Widens (Alternet,
10-20-12)
Revisionist memory: White evangelicals have always been at war with abortion (Patheos, 10-29-12)
October 2012 - Foreign
Syria Berates Hamas Chief, an Old Ally, on State TV (New York Times,
10-2-12)
Iraq: Ten Years, a Million Lives and Trillions of Dollars Later (Huffington
Post, 10-2-12)
Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering Truth (My Science Academy, 10-3-12)
An Afghan hospital too unsafe to open (Aljazeera, 10-3-12)
Bo Xilai Scandal Might Have Strengthened Chinese Leadership (Spiegel,
10-4-12)
Anti-Drone Protesters Start March in Pakistan (Ajazeera, 10-6-12)
Age-Old Fixes for India’s Water (New York Times, 10-8-12)
Washington should get real and understand why Venezuela prefers Chavez
(Aljazeera, 10-8-12)
Increase in development aid funding (The Norway Post, 10-9-12)
Could it finally be springtime for Nigeria? (CNN, 10-9-12)
Teenage rights activist shot in Pakistan (Aljazeera, 10-10-12)
Pakistani girl still unconscious after surgery; clerics mostly silent on
shooting (Washington Post, 10-10-12)
Moscow to
block US from monitoring Russia’s nuke arsenal (RT, 10-10-12)
The Malalas you'll never meet (Amanpour, 10-12-12)
Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry, use money to help world (Grist,
10-12-12)
Drone attacks will lead to inevitable blowback in Pakistan (Global Research,
10-14-12)
Iraq records huge rise in birth defects (The Independent, 10-14-12)
An Army of One (Foreign Policy, 10-15-12)
After a Bullet in the Head, Assaults on a Pakistani Schoolgirl’s Character
Follow (The Lede, 10-16-12)
Ground under Fukushima Unit 4 sinking, structure on verge of complete collapse
(Natural News, 10-16-12)
Pakistani Taliban's indoctrinated child bombers (Aljazeera, 10-17-12)
Obama's 'hope' message a mirage for hostile Pakistanis (CNN, 10-17-12)
Evidence of mass murder after Gaddafi's death (Aljazeera, 10-17-12)
US-Led Iran Sanctions Putting Millions of Lives at Risk, Iranian Charity Says
(Antiwar, 10-17-12)
African Children Denounced As "Witches" By Christian Pastors (Huffington
Post, 10-18-12)
US drones
kill up to 80% civilians – Pakistan Interior Minister (RT, 10-18-12)
The Negligent
Pakistani (Dawn, 10-18-12)
Belo Monte Justice Now! (Video) (Youtube, 10-18-12)
The dismal state of Pakistan's education system (Global Post, 10-19-12)
Jimmy Carter Claims Israel Creating ‘Catastrophic’ Situation With Palestinians
(CBS Local, 10-22-12)
Mayans demand an end to 2012 doomsday myth (Raw Story, 10-24-12)
Attack on schoolgirl fuels Pakistani conspiracy theories (The Washington
Post, 10-24-12)
Entire Indian tribe threatens to commit mass suicide after Brazil court rules
they must leave sacred burial land (Daily Mail, 10-24-12)
Navy hero told he cannot accept Russian military honour (The Bolton News,
10-25-12)
Anti-Taliban men killed in Pakistan's Swat (Aljazeera, 10-26-12)
France Free Abortion Bill: Lawmakers Vote To Fully Reimburse Procedure
(Huffington Post, 10-26-12)
The unfolding human catastrophe in Iran (Aljazeera, 10-28-12)
Brazil's Indigenous Fight For Their Land (DW, 10-28-12)
Chile's Most Wanted: One Man Is Fighting To Save His Ancestral Lands From
Destruction (Aljazeera, 10-31-12)
Minorities Fear End of Secularism in Egypt (Der Spiegel, 10-31-12)
October 2012 - Political
Romney’s Health Plan Leaves 72 Million Uninsured: Study (TPM, 10-2-12)
The Truth About Bain: Inside The House That Mitt Built (Forbes, 10-3-12)
Exclusive: Akin poll shows him beating Missouri Sen. McCaskill (The
Examiner, 10-3-12)
Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama (Reason.com, 10-3-12)
Fact Checking Romney's Statements About Green Energy At The Debates (New
York Times, 10-4-12)
The first debate: A win for Romney, a nothingburger for climate and clean energy
(Grist, 10-4-12)
Fact Check: Romney Told 27 Myths in 38 Minutes During the Debate (Alternet,
10-4-12)
Noam Chomsky: The Fate of Humanity Is at Stake -- Why Are Romney and Obama Too
Cowardly to Talk About What Really Matters? (Alternet, 10-5-12)
Beck: Romney's Debate Performance Was Divine Providence (Youtube, 10-5-12)
Obama Ad About Big Bird Cannot Find One Prominent Wall Street Criminal
Prosecuted By Administration (Fire Dog Lake, 10-9-12)
Why I, a Former GOP Senator, Will Vote for Obama (Reader Supported News,
10-9-12)
Scott DesJarlais, Pro-Life Republican Congressman And Doctor, Pressured Mistress
Patient To Get Abortion (UPDATE) (Huffington Post, 10-10-12)
Bill Maher to Right-Wing Christians: If You Do God's Work, Why Are You Always
Wrong? (Alternet, 10-13-12)
Pity poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy (Non-Intervention,
10-13-12)
Charity president unhappy about Paul Ryan soup kitchen ‘photo op’
(Washington Post, 10-15-12)
Is David Axelrod to Blame for Climate Change's Absence From the Election?
(The Atlantic, 10-16-12)
Obama Openness Promise Ends With Whistle-Blower Hunt (Bloomberg, 10-17-12)
Mitt Romney's Heartless Advice to a Woman Whose Pregnancy Might Have Killed Her
(Alternet, 10-17-12)
A World of Harm for Women (New York Times, 10-19-12)
Democrat Jim Graves Has a Chance to Unseat Michele Bachmann (The Daily
Beast, 10-20-12)
Todd Akin Likens Claire McCaskill To 'One Of Those Dogs,' Fetching Taxes,
Bureaucracy (AUDIO) (Huffington Post, 10-21-12)
Whistleblower
who revealed CIA torture sentenced to prison (RT, 10-23-12)
The Top 7 Critiques of Obama from a Left (Reality-Based) Perspective (Films
For Action, 10-23-12)
GOP Senate Candidate: Rape Babies "Gifts From God" (Class Warefare Exists,
10-24-12)
Likud, Meet Lieberman (The Daily Beast, 10-26-12)
The Winner of the Election: George W. Bush (Huffington Post, 10-29-12)
Bush’s FEMA Director During Katrina Criticizes Obama For Responding To Sandy Too
Quickly (Think Progress, 10-30-12)
Mitt Romney In GOP Debate: Shut Down Federal Disaster Agency, Send
Responsibility To The States (Huffington Post, 10-31-12)
Paul Ryan stages another 'charity' stunt (Daily Kos, 10-31-12)
Mitt Romney Disaster Relief Position Faces Scrutiny (Huffington Post,
10-31-12)
Romney’s ‘Storm Relief’ Sends Its Red Cross Rejects ONLY To Swing States (Not NY
or NJ) (Addicting Info, 10-31-12)
Clearing the path for future tyranny (Aljazeera, 10-31-12)
October 2012 - Technology
The Seeds That Federal Money Can Plant (New York Times, 10-6-12)
Ten Mind Blowing Facts About The Internet (Youtube, 10-11-12)
Carriers react as social messaging kills SMS (DW, 10-12-12)
Accused of infringement? AT&T will take away YouTube and Facebook and send you
to Copyright Reeducation Gulag (BoingBoing, 10-14-12)
Megaupload Is Dead. Long Live Mega! (Wired, 10-18-12)
Why Google should acquire SoundCloud: We need a YouTube for audio (The
Independent, 10-18-12)
Internet anti-censorship tools are being overwhelmed by demand (Washington
Post, 10-21-12)
Boeing tests microwave missile that knocks out electronics, represents our worst
nightmare (video) (Engadget, 10-23-12)
Obama Closer to Seizing Control of Cyberspace; Exec. Order Imminent (The New
American, 10-24-12)
Boeing Now Has A Missile That Destroys Only Electronics And Leaves All Else
Intact (Business Insider, 10-25-12)
U.S. Satellite Plans Falter, Imperiling Data on Storms (New York Times,
10-26-12)
Taking power through technology in the Arab Spring (Aljazeera, 10-26-12)
October 2012 - Education
Academic paywalls mean publish and perish (Aljazeera, 10-2-12)
Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School (New York Times, 10-9-12)
In the Future, Who Will Need Teachers? (The Wall Street Journal, 10-23-12)
October 2012 - Miscellaneous
Angelina Jolie Refuses to Celebrate Thanksgiving, Feels It's a 'Story of Murder'
(White Wolf Pack, 10-5-12)
Civilisation and Savagery at War (Aljazeera, 10-7-12)
"The Measure of a Nation" Challenges Illusions of American Superiority
(Truth Out, 10-7-12)
New York Times Staffers Walk Out Over Contract Negotiations (Huffington
Post, 10-8-12)
Project Censored (Boulder Weekly, 10-11-12)
The fraud of "humanitarian wars" (VIDEO) (You Tube, 10-12-12)
Killing the Kids that Don't Need to Die (Reader Supported News, 10-12-12)
Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
(Washington Post, 10-12-12)
Help Stop The NDAA (StopNDAA,
10-16-12)
The Dark Side of Thomas Jefferson (Smithsonian, 10-18-12)
America's Pussy Riot (Aljazeera, 10-19-12)
Plan for hunting terrorists signals U.S. intends to keep adding names to kill
lists (Washington Post, 10-23-12)
UN Official:
Aspects of US Drone Program Clearly 'War Crimes' (Common Dreams, 10-26-12)
How Britain tortured Nazi PoWs: The horrifying interrogation methods that belie
our proud boast that we fought a clean war (Daily Mail, 10-26-12)
Pakistani drone critic questioned by U.S. authorities (CNN, 10-29-12)
Drone Warfare: An Illegal Tactic Sure to Perpetuate U.S.-Muslim War Indefinitely
(Truthdig, 10-30-12)
Drowning
on Wall Street and Ending World War II (Information Clearing, 10-30-12)
Drones, My Lai, and Prosecuting the Powerful (Antiwar, 10-31-12)
Polish singer faces two years in jail over Bible-tearing stunt (Guardian,
10-31-12)
September 2012 - Financial
The Real Welfare
Problem: Government Giveaways to the Corporate 1% (Common Dreams, 9-3-12)
Exceptional upward mobility in the U.S. is a myth, international studies show
(Institute For Social Research, 9-5-12)
Many U.S. families are underwater with debts: U-M study (Institute For
Social Research, 9-5-12)
Student debt crisis enters a tipping point (My Budget 360, 9-6-12)
Mortimer Zuckerman: Those Jobless Numbers Are Even Worse Than They Look (The
Wall Street Journal, 9-7-12)
Economic Policy Beyond Gimmicks (Huffington Post, 9-8-12)
US debt collectors
cash in on $1 trillion in student loans (RT, 9-9-12)
California Prison System Soaring Costs Directly Connected To Cuts In Higher
Education (Class Warfare Exists, 9-9-12)
Ignore the Young, Forget the Old (Huffington Post, 9-10-12)
Shouldn't we fix our nation's
leaky roof? (Jim High Tower, 9-11-12)
Census: Middle class shrinks to an all-time low (Washington Post, 9-12-12)
US incomes fall to 1989 levels. How did that happen? (Yahoo News, 9-12-12)
America's ailing ports invisible amid the country's failing infrastructure
(Washington Post, 9-13-12)
The
Revolution From Above (Information Clearing House, 9-13-12)
US Credit Rating Cut by Egan-Jones
... Again (CNBC, 9-14-12)
Marc Faber: If I Were Bernanke, I
Would Resign (CNBC, 9-14-12)
OMB Issues Report on Sequestration: "Deeply Destructive" (Fire Dog Lake,
9-14-12)
The Gas Tax Is Running Low. But What Should Replace It? (The Wall Street
Journal, 9-17-12)
California Takes On the Retirement Crisis (New York Times, 9-22-12)
Fed Virtually Funding the Entire US
Deficit: Lindsey (CNBC, 9-26-12)
September 2012 - Environmental
Methane trapped in Antarctic ice will be a great help to the horrible warming
feedback loop (Grist, 9-2-12)
Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits (New York
Times, 9-3-12)
New England Groundfisheries: Time To Hit The Reset Button (Think Progress,
9-5-12)
A Great Silence Is
Spreading Over the Natural World' (Common Dreams, 9-5-12)
Pesticides could cost sub-Saharan Africa $90bn in illness bill, UN warns
(The Guardian, 9-6-12)
Chinese farms cause more pollution than factories, says official survey (The
Guardian, 9-6-12)
Record Ice Thaw in Arctic, Greenland (The Wall Street Journal, 9-6-12)
Yangtze River Turns Red: Photos Of China's Once Golden, Now Scarlet Pathway
[PICTURES] (International Business Times, 9-8-12)
Tornadoes Touch Down in Brooklyn and Queens (New York Times, 9-8-12)
Chinstrap penguin
numbers declining (DW, 9-9-12)
The Mountains Weep for Larry Gibson (Sierra Club, 9-10-12)
The Ecological Case Against Organics (New York Times, 9-10-12)
Ignore the Young, Forget the Old (Huffington Post, 9-10-12)
Is toxic chemical reform on the horizon? (EDF, 9-11-12)
A bleak future for
the world's glaciers (DW, 9-11-12)
Clean Water Act Is 40 Years Old: Landmark Water Law Hits A Milestone During
Critical Time (Huffington Post, 9-11-12)
On natural gas, green groups can’t make up their minds (Grist, 9-12-12)
The Farm Bill Should Help Save The Planet, Not Just Crops (New York Times,
9-12-12)
Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size (Yahoo News, 9-19-12)
Sept. 19 News: Nine Planned Australian Mines Would Release More CO2 Than The
Entire UK Economy (Think Progress, 9-19-12)
How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement (New York Times,
9-21-12)
Forget the Melting Arctic, Sea Ice in Antarctica is Growing! (Climate
Central, 9-22-12)
The Shocking News About Cod (New York Times, 9-23-12)
Green Wash (Guy Pearse,
9-25-12)
How The Government Subsidized The Fracking Of America (Occupy, 9-26-12)
The Geography of Nope (New York Times, 9-27-12)
Scientist Who Saw Drowned Polar Bears Reprimanded (Huffington Post, 9-28-12)
Ocean acidification emerges as new climate threat (Washington Post, 9-30-12)
September 2012 - Health
Report Cites $750 Billion in Annual Health-Care Waste (The Wall Street
Journal, 9-6-12)
With Medicaid, Long-Term Care of Elderly Looms as a Rising Cost (New York
Times, 9-6-12)
We spend $750 billion on unnecessary health care. Two charts explain why
(Washington Post, 9-7-12)
9/11 Anniversary Marked Under Cloud Of Health Problems, Funding Fights
(Huffington Post, 9-9-12)
Planned Parenthood Makes Largest Single Ad Buy (Huffington Post, 9-10-12)
Richard Posner, Federal Judge, Slams 'Absurd' Laws Against Marijuana, Other
Drugs (Huffington Post, 9-11-12)
Despite slight drop in uninsured, last year’s figure points to 48,000
preventable deaths: health expert (Physicians For National Health, 9-12-12)
Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing (The Independent, 9-20-12)
Health Care Tax Penalty To Hit Nearly 6 Million Uninsured People (Huffington
Post, 9-20-12)
Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic (New York Times, 9-21-12)
How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us (The Wall Street Journal, 9-21-12)
Clinton, Others Announce Contraception Prices For Developing World Will Be
Halved (Huffington Post, 9-26-12)
Septemner 2012 - Foreign
Monks stage anti-Rohingya march in Myanmar (Aljazeera, 9-2-12)
Pakistani Blasphemy Case Shifts as Cleric Is Arrested (New York Times, 9-2-12)
Could a state for Greater Kurdistan be on the horizon? (Aljazeera, 9-2-12)
Myanmar monks
protest against minority Muslims (DW, 9-3-12)
Israel Blasts U.S. Over Iran (The Wall Street Journal, 9-12-12)
Brutal Elephant Slaughter Funds African Conflicts (Spiegel Online, 9-13-12)
All aboard the New Silk Road(s) (Aljazeera, 9-16-12)
US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis (The Council
For The National Interest, 9-16-12)
Feminist Group in Paris Marches Topless Through Muslim Neighborhood
(Spiegel, 9-19-12)
US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis (Veteran News
Now, 9-17-12)
U.S. to Halt Civil Society Programs in Russia (The Wall Street Journal,
9-18-12)
Look In Your Mirror (Commentary on the Storming of the Embassies) (New York
Times, 9-18-12)
‘Future of Europe’ Group Backs
Plan For European Military Force (StatRisks, 9-20-12)
Pakistan minister announces $100,000 bounty on anti-Islam film maker (Dawn,
9-22-12)
Will other countries follow? Norway bans tax deductions for donations to Israeli
settlement (Council For The National Interest, 9-22-12)
Many Muslims denouncing anti-Islam film decry violent protests, too (NBC
News, 9-22-12)
Study: ‘Counterproductive’ Drone War ‘Terrorizes’ Civilians in Pakistan
(Antiwar, 9-25-12)
Terrorism by Drone: How U.S. Bombing Makes Pakistani Civilians Endure a Living
Hell (Alternet, 9-25-12)
Bolivia General Debate 67th Session (UN Web TV, 9-26-12)
Iran accuses West of nuclear 'intimidation' (Aljazeera, 9-26-12)
Mongolia: Do Oligarchs See Politics as a Growth Opportunity?
(Eurasianet.org, 9-27-12)
Bangladesh: Muslims Attack Buddhist Temples, Homes Over Quran Facebook Photo
(Huffington Post, 9-30-12)
Russia's small-scale organic agriculture model may hold the key to feeding the
world (True Activist, 9-30-12)
Is Brazil the inheritor of the Portuguese empire in Africa? (Aljazeera,
9-30-12)
Gaddafi was killed by French secret serviceman on orders of Nicolas Sarkozy,
sources claim (Daily Mail, 9-30-12)
September 2012 - Political
Scaring the Voters in the Middle (New York Times, 9-1-12)
Tony Blair should face trial over Iraq war, says Desmond Tutu (The Guardian,
9-1-12)
The Other Power in the West Wing (New York Times, 9-1-12)
Desmond Tutu: Bush Should Face Trial Over Iraq (Huffington Post, 9-2-12)
The People Behind the Parties - and the Democratic Party - at the DNC
(Truthout, 9-2-12)
7 Worst Media Brown-Nosers Who Enable Paul Ryan's Lies (Alternet, 9-2-12)
Chuck Norris Video: Obama Reelection Will Bring 1,000 Years of Darkness
(Huffington Post, 9-5-12)
2012 Democratic National Convention -
The Official Website of the Convention (Demconvention, 9-5-12)
Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions ( The Guardian,
9-5-12)
Emanuel Cleaver Speech At 2012 Democratic National Convention Fires Up Crowd
(VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 9-5-12)
Democrats' Efforts To Reinsert 'God' And 'Jerusalem' Into Platform Met With Loud
Opposition (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 9-5-12)
GOP Suing to Keep Third Parties Off Ballot in November (The New American,
9-5-12)
Putin Says Romney Would Turn U.S. Missile Shield Against Russia (Bloomberg,
9-6-12)
Democratic Leaders Undermine Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Their Own Procedures
(Information Clearing House, 9-6-12)
DNC 2012: Obama’s speech to the Democratic National Convention (Full transcript)
(Washington Post, 9-6-12)
10 Rankest Hypocrisies of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party (Altneret,
9-7-12)
The Message From Both Parties Is That Americans Are Disposable ~ Paul Craig
Roberts (Paul Craig Roberts, 9-7-12)
Pants On Fire Mitt Romney tells 616 Lies in 33 Weeks (Addicting Info,
9-8-12)
The Election Season
Poverty Tour (Poverty Tour, 9-11-12)
Gridlocked Congress already eyeing early getaway (Yahoo News, 9-11-12)
Fischer Demands Mass Public Executions in Response to Libya Attack (Right Wing Watch, 9-12-12)
Sick Money: How Mitt Romney's Bain Investments Are Exploding the Deficit and
Harming Our Health (Alternet, 9-12-12)
"Values" Voter Summit: Of Train Wrecks and Frankenstein's Monsters
(Alternet, 9-12-12)
Rumsfeld defends Romney: Embassy attacked because of ‘American weakness’
(Raw Story, 9-13-12)
Romney's foreign policy team is jam-packed with neo-conservative smirkers
(Daily Kos, 9-13-12)
How Obama Ignored Congress, and Misled America, on War in Libya (The
Atlantic, 9-13-12)
Why is Paul Ryan Getting Chummy With Family Research Council? (Washington
Post, 9-14-12)
FBI shows up
at teenager's home to ask about his Ron Paul school report (RT, 9-14-12)
Obama Says One Thing in Spotlight, Another Behind Closed Doors (Truth Out,
9-16-12)
Liz Cheney accuses Obama of abandoning non-existent country ‘Czechoslovakia’
(The Raw Story, 9-16-12)
Right Wing Christian Religious Leaders Dream of Holy War With Islam
(Politics USA, 9-18-12)
Mitt Romney Video: 'Palestinians Have No Interest Whatsoever In Establishing
Peace' (Huffington Post, 9-18-12)
Marc Leder, Host Of Mitt Romney Fundraiser, Hosted Sexy Parties, Made Companies
Go Bankrupt (Huffington Post, 9-18-12)
Unlike Afghan leaders, Obama fights for power of indefinite military detention
(Guardian, 9-18-12)
Rep. Connolly: Mitt Romney's Comments Make Him 'Unfit for Office' (Falls
Church Patch, 9-19-12)
Romney ad features miners forced to lose pay during mandatory attendance at
Romney event (Daily Kos, 9-19-12)
Mitt Romney Video: GOP Candidate Wants To 'Clean House' At Federal Agencies
(Huffington Post, 9-21-12)
Why Romney’s tax rate should be low (The Washington Blog, 9-24-12)
The Hypocrisy and Looming Danger of De-Listing MEK (Anti-War, 9-24-12)
Obama's claim that '90 percent' of the current deficit is due to Bush policies
(Washington Post, 9-26-12)
Rev. Dr. King
versus Frightening And Deadly Hypocrisy In Obama's UN Address (Counter
Currents, 9-26-12)
Obama against the world (Alazeera, 9-28-12)
Obama's War Crimes: The U.S. Drone War (You Tube, 9-28-12)
GOP Pollster advised Akin to Withstand Controversy like David Koresh Faced the
ATF in Waco (Right Wing Watch, 9-28-12)
Ann Romney: Biggest Fear Is For Mitt's 'Mental Well-Being' (Huffington Post,
9-28-12)
September 2012 - Technology
Ex-Apple boss tackles poverty in India with mobile technology (CNN, 9-12-12)
Verizon 'failures and deficiencies' blamed in disruption of 911 services during
June storm (Washington Post, 9-14-12)
Seven ways mobile phones have changed lives in Africa (CNN, 9-14-12)
Aging U.S. nuclear arsenal slated for costly and long-delayed modernization
(Washington Post, 9-15-12)
Suit Over Google Book Scanning Delayed on Appeal (The Wall Street Journal,
9-17-12)
CENTURY MEDIA Sues More Than 7,000 People Over Illegal ICED EARTH, LACUNA COIL
Downloads (Blabbermouth, 9-17-12)
Let's Go to the Videotape: Nonprofit Offers News Clips (The Wall Street
Journal, 9-18-12)
Net Neutrality? Baidu Plants its Flag on Disputed Islands. (China Real Time
Report, 9-18-12)
Online Freedom
Under Threat (DW, 9-18-12)
Web giants launch lobbying group (Washington Post, 9-19-12)
A Growing Bi-Partisan Consensus on Internet Freedom? (Broadband For America,
9-19-12)
BfA Applauds Chairman Genachowski’s Statement on Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Internet Governance Resolution (Broadband For America, 9-20-12)
Power, Pollution and the Internet (New York Times, 9-22-12)
How Google Lobbies Germany on Internet Regulation (Spiegel, 9-25-12)
Online Holds Out No More (The Wall Street Journal, 9-25-12)
New Justice Department Documents Show Huge Increase in Warrantless Electronic Surveillance (ACLU, 9-27-12)
September 2012 - Education
Chicago teachers resisting much needed education reforms (Washington Post,
9-10-12)
Class size, teacher's pay and spending: which countries spend the most and pay
the least in education? (Guardian, 9-11-12)
How to Fix the Schools (New York Times, 9-17-12)
Shocking Report Explodes 5 Myths About American Education (Alternet,
9-18-12)
Chicago teachers strike underscores shift among Democrats (Washington Post,
9-27-12)
Still leaving our kids behind (Washington Post, 9-27-12)
September 2012 - Miscellaneous
No Accountability for
Torturers (Common Dreams, 9-3-12)
Top Cia Agent: Obama Changed Virtually None of Bush's Controversial Programs
(PBS, 9-8-12)
America's Refusal to
Extradite Bolivia's Ex-President to Face Genocide Charges (Common Dreams,
9-9-12)
The Bush White House Was Deaf to 9/11 Warnings (New York Times, 9-10-12)
NY Times reporter: Bush White House didn't listen to 9/11 warnings (CBS
News, 9-11-12)
Re-Open the 9/11 Investigation Now (Huffington Post, 9-11-12)
How the war on terror is a war of terror (Aljazeera, 9-11-12)
Security Forces Wary of Hard-Line Islamists (The Wall Street Journal,
9-12-12)
Pat Robertson: Muslims ‘go crazy’ because they have the spirit of a ‘wild
donkey’ (Raw Story, 9-12-12)
Why war with Iran would spell disaster (Aljazeera, 9-12-12)
Taylor Ferrera Musica: Cold War Time Warp (Liberals Unite, 9-13-12)
Report Cites US as Example of World's Failing Democracies (It's Our Economy,
9-14-12)
Finally The Truth: Muslim Protests About NATO Drone Strikes, Backing Saudi
Jihadists VIDEO (Youtube, 9-14-12)
Overcrowding In Federal Prisons Harms Inmates, Guards: GAO Report
(Huffington Post, 9-15-12)
NATO Airstrike in
Afghanistan Kills 8 Women (Common Dreams, 9-16-12)
1
year on, Occupy is in disarray; spirit lives on (Yahoo News, 9-17-12)
Promised Land Movie Trailer (Youtube, 9-21-12)
Anti-Muslim ads bring
Middle East conflict to NYC subways (Digital Journal, 9-22-12)
How to really change the world - and it's easier than you think. (Land
Destroyer, 9-23-12)
Marine
Killed by local Afghan Police Commander, Parents Speak Out (MSNBC, 9-23-12)
U.S. Military Still Using "Jesus rifles" in Afghanistan (Alternet, 9-27-12)
Nazi Tibet statue from space rock (Perth Now, 9-27-12)
US
Delegation Set to Protest Drone Strikes (Information Clearing House,
9-27-12)
August 2012 - Financial
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac won’t be allowed to reduce loan balances for troubled
borrowers (The Washington Post, 8-1-12)
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize-Winning Economist, Facing Probe Over Alleged
Tax-Exempt Status (Huffington Post, 8-3-12)
Financial crisis: 25 people at the heart of the meltdown – where are they now?
(The Guardian, 8-6-12)
Americans need to face the harsh truth and pay more tax (Financial Times,
8-8-12)
A Closer Look at Good Jobs By Education Level (Center for Economic and
Policy Research, 8-8-12)
Why The
Siegel Consultant Never Was (Ritholtz, 8-9-12)
How to Make Congress Do Its Job: No Budget, No Pay (New York Times, 8-9-12)
Companies' training cuts add to jobless woes (USA Today, 8-9-12)
UN urges US to cut ethanol production (CNN, 8-10-12)
Paul Ryan’s Fairy-Tale Budget Plan (New York Times, 8-13-12)
Skilled Work, Without the Worker (New York Times, 8-18-12)
Iceland's debt-relief lessons for eurozone (Guardian, 8-21-12)
Economists Risk Labeling as Political Hacks (Bloomberg, 8-21-12)
Glenn Hubbard, Romney Economic Adviser: Ben Bernanke Should 'Get Every
Consideration' For Another Term (Huffington Post, 8-22-12)
Wealthy Americans ‘less generous’ than middle-class Americans: study
(8-22-12)
Pew Research: 2000-2010 Was a Lost Decade For Middle Class
(Class Warfare Exists, 8-23-12)
Half of mortgage borrowers under 40 are underwater (CNN
Money, 8-23-12)
George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War (The Daily Beast, 8-24-12)
Starving the Future (New York Times, 8-24-12)
Carbon Tax Silence, Overtaken by Events (New York Times, 8-25-12)
U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs (Bloomberg, 8-26-12)
Moyers: Obama ‘should know better’ than to ignore poverty (Raw Story,
8-27-12)
It Is Not Just Your Imagination - American Families ARE Getting Poorer (The
Economic Collapse, 8-28-12)
America’s Descent Into Poverty (Counter Punch, 8-28-12)
Poverty: The New Growth Industry in America (Alternet, 8-29-12)
August 2012 - Environmental
Half of US counties now considered disaster areas (Yahoo, 8-1-12)
Brown coal makes a
comeback amid protests (DW, 8-1-12)
The Science of Genocide (Truthdig, 8-6-12)
The "Clean Development Mechanism" Can Be Gamed: Who Could Have Known?
(Center for Economic and Policy Research, 8-9-12)
The Arctic Ice Crisis (Rolling Stone, 8-16-12)
National parks face severe funding crunch (The Washington Post, 8-19-12)
Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists (Aljazeera, 8-20-12)
In U.S., food is wasted from farm to fork (The Washington Post, 8-21-12)
Yogic Ecology and Mother Earth (Hindu Human Rights, 8-21-12)
Maya Collapse Tied To Drought, Deforestation (Huffington Post, 8-22-12)
Report: Most Antarctic Peninsula Warming Human-Caused (Climate Central,
8-22-12)
Germany faces energy balancing act (Washington Post, 8-23-12)
How Food Production Impacts Water Quality (Think Progress, 8-24-12)
Big Chem, Big Harm? (New York Times, 8-25-12)
Is Chesapeake Energy abandoning the Marcellus shale region? (Examiner,
8-27-12)
On Safe Drinking Water (Environment 360, 8-27-12)
Arctic sea ice extent breaks 2007 record low (National Snow and Ice Data
Center, 8-27-12)
Approval of New Chemical-Resistant GMOs Likely to Prompt Pesticide Escalation (Common Dreams, 8-28-12)
The day the world went mad (Guardian, 8-29-12)
5 Ways the GOP's New Platform Fails the Environment (Treehugger, 8-29-12)
Amazon forest threat is greater outside Brazil (Washington Post, 8-30-12)
August 2012 - Health
Remember Managed Care? It's Quietly Coming Back (The Wall Street Journal,
8-1-12)
Workplace Woes: The ‘Open’ Office Is a Hotbed of Stress (Times Ideas,
8-15-12)
The Shocking Second HIV Epidemic Among U.S. Gay Men That No One Is Talking About
(Alternet, 8-15-12)
Testing Standard Medical Practices (New York Times, 8-19-12)
Don’t Expand Medicaid—One-Third of Doctors Are Already Opting Out of It (The
Foundary, 8-21-12)
Land of the fee: The $1.2 trillion health care tax (Aljazeera, 8-21-12)
The hidden costs of overprescribing drugs (Aljazeera, 8-24-12)
Mexico Now Has Universal Health Care (It's Our Economy, 8-26-12)
How the US abortion war fares globally (Aljazeera, 8-26-12)
‘Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception’ Now The Law In Arizona (The New
Civil Rights Movement, 8-27-12)
Keeping it in the family: BPA’s effects might last in our bodies for generations
(Grist, 8-28-12)
Impoverished Americans Face Environmental Health Problems (Huffington Post,
8-29-12)
The Medicare Killers (New York Times, 8-30-12)
Forced Pregnancy Testing: Blatant Discrimination and a Gross Violation of Human
Rights (RH Reality Check, 8-31-12)
August 2012 - Foreign
U.S. model for a future war fans tensions with China and inside Pentagon
(The Washington Post, 8-1-12)
One Reason Behind India's Blackout: World Bank Policies and Neoliberalism
(IPS, 8-1-12)
The case for recognizing a limited Iranian nuke programme (Aljazeera,
8-3-12)
Scenes
from the Fukushima Crisis (Youtube, 8-3-12)
Outlaw of the Sea, The Senate Republicans Blunder (Foreign Affairs, 8-7-12)
UN Should Get Rid of Cholera Epidemic That It Brought to Haiti (Center For
Economic and Policy Research, 8-9-12)
Russia Battles Online Foes and Freedoms (Spiegel, 8-10-12 )
China's forgotten
famine (DW, 8-11-12)
In Buddhist Myanmar, Monks Gone Wild (Alternet, 8-13-12)
Japan's Nationalist Movement Strengthens (The Wall Street Journal, 8-14-12)
Spain Has Become a Ghost Town (CNN, 8-15-12)
Russia Prepared for
Possible Economic Meltdown (RIA, 8-16-12)
George Galloway on Syria (Youtube, 8-18-12)
The man who changed
Iceland - the message for Greece (Youtube, 8-20-12)
South American
nations back Ecuador in Assange row (DW, 8-20-12)
Greece Austerity Plan Falls Short by 2.5 Billion (Spiegel, 8-20-12)
Nazi Flash Mob (Stern.de, 8-21-12)
Riding 'The Dragon's Back:' 7 inspiring China train journeys (CNN, 8-22-12)
The Canadian Holocaust (The Canadian Holocaust Blogspot, 8-22-12)
Germany Achieves First Half Budgetary Surplus (Spiegel, 8-23-12)
Russia Plays Game of Arctic Roulette in Oil Exploration (Spiegel, 8-24-12)
Merkel criticized
as danger to German democracy (DW, 8-24-12)
Not Ready to Die in Your War (Israel Loves Iran, 8-24-12)
World's biggest
biometric ID scheme forges ahead (BBC, 8-24-12)
‘Probe
Lenin as extremist!’: Historian’s urge divides opinion (RT, 8-24-12)
India: Is China right about the internet? (Global Post, 8-25-12)
August 2012 - Political
Jenna Jameson Offers Mitt Romney Key ‘Wealthy Former Porn Star’ Endorsement
(Jezebel, 8-3-12)
Reform Is Not Enough: The Federal Government Needs a Complete Makeover (The
Atlantic, 8-3-12)
The
Agenda Project: Granny Off the Cliff (Youtube, 8-11-12)
Rules Delayed, Governing Denied (New York Times, 8-11-12)
Christian Right Historian David Barton in Freefall Over ‘Jefferson Lies’
(The Daily Beast, 8-11-12)
Mitt Romney's Pick for VP: Paul Ryan (Barackobama.com, 8-12-12 )
Paul Ryan: Just Plain
Bad for Women (Common Dreams, 8-13-12)
Meet Paul Ryan
(Algore.com, 8-13-12)
Republican Senate Nominee: Victims Of ‘Legitimate Rape’ Don’t Get Pregnant
(Talking Points Memo, 8-19-12)
The reality of trying to shrink government (The Washington Post, 8-19-12)
Southern Poverty Law Center's Lucrative 'Hate Group' Label (American
Thinker, 8-20-12)
Paul Krugman Bashes Niall Ferguson's Newsweek Cover Story As 'Unethical'
(Huffington Post, 8-21-12)
A Full Fact-Check of Niall Ferguson's Very Bad Argument Against Obama (The
Atlantic, 8-21-12)
Tom Morello: 'Paul Ryan Is the Embodiment of the Machine Our Music Rages
Against' (Rolling Stone, 8-21-12)
Bryan Fischer Says Todd Akin's Comments About 'Legitimate Rape' Were 'Absolutely
Right' (VIDEO) (Huffington Post, 8-21-12)
Akin’s rape remark reminiscent of messages in abstinence education
(Washington Post, 8-23-12)
Romney Family Trust Used Potentially Illegal Schemes To Avoid Paying Taxes
(Class Warfare Exists, 8-24-12)
Documentary film ‘2016: Obama’s America’ came out of nowhere to burn up the box
office (Washington Post, 8-27-12)
Paul Ryan stands on a foundation of lies (Maddow Blog, 8-30-12)
Eastwood spars with chair as Obama stand-in, calls Romney 'stellar' businessman
(Fox News, 8-31-12)
California State Assembly passes resolution equating criticism of Israel with
anti-Semitism (Council For National Interest, 8-31-12)
Jerry Brown challenges Chris Christie to a fitness test (The Sacremento Bee,
8-31-12)
Eric Cantor 'Probably Can't Speak' To Why Paul Ryan Included Obama Medicare Cuts
In His Budget (Huffington Post, 8-31-12)
Bill Moyers: Christian Right Hypocrite Ralph Reed Has Resurrected Himself in the
GOP (Alternet, 8-31-12)
August 2012 - Technology
Hack attack exposes major gap in Amazon and Apple security (CNN Money,
8-7-12)
Newly discovered malware linked to Stuxnet, Flame (The Washington Post,
8-9-12)
Forget CDs. Teens Are Tuning Into YouTube (The Wall Street Journal, 8-14-12)
Why
the Internet Is a Great Tool for Totalitarians (Wired, 8-21-12)
Agency Says 19 Million Lack Broadband Access (The Wall Street Journal,
8-21-12)
The internet: Command and control (FT, 8-27-12)
German lawmakers propose charging fees to aggregators like google (Spiegel
Online, 8-30-12)
Genome
Brings Ancient Girl to Life (Wired, 8-31-12)
August 2012 - Miscellaneous
Aging power grid on overload as U.S. demands more electricity (The
Washington Post, 8-1-12)
The Neoconservative War Criminals In Our Midst (Paul Craig Roberts, 8-1-12)
Afghan police chief kills US soldiers invited to dinner (The Telegraph,
8-10-12)
Amazing tattoos covered ancient Siberian princess (News.com, 8-15-12)
What's gone wrong at The Guardian? (Aljazeera, 8-18-12)
Last Call at the Oasis (Youtube, 8-18-12)
US drone strikes target rescuers in Pakistan – and the west stays silent
(The Guardian, 8-20-12)
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects (Amazon,
8-21-12)
Frank Gaffney Accuses the SPLC of Endorsing 'Anti-Semitism and Hatemongering'
(Right Wing Watch, 8-21-12)
U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey's Plane Damaged By Afghan Insurgents
(Huffington Post, 8-21-12 )
The War in the Shadows (Truth Dig, 8-21-12)
Mindset List: Class of 2016 doesn't use radios or watch TVs, and sees women as
leaders (Yahoo, 8-21-12)
Pictures: World’s Worst Power Outages (National Geographic, 8-21-12)
How Privacy in America Went Virtually Extinct in Just a Decade (Alternet,
8-21-12)
Study: In 2009, The U.S. Had The Highest Rate of Child Poverty Among Peer
Countries (Class Warfare Exists, 8-22-12)
U.S. Government Planned Indefinite Detention of Citizens, Suspension of
Constitution, Spying on Americans and Other “Post-9/11 Realities” LONG BEFORE
9/11 (Washington Blog, 8-23-12)
How the U.S. paved the way for Big Oil’s rise — and possible fall — in Iraq
(Grist, 8-24-12)
Mr. Marcus Admits Starting Porn Syphilis Outbreak By Altering His Test Results
(Huffington Post, 8-24-12)
The Department of Homeland Security’s New HQ is an Abandoned Insane Asylum
(Public Intelligence, 8-26-12)
Ex-SEAL’s book says Osama bin Laden made no attempt to defend himself in raid
(Washington Post, 8-29-12)
Goodbye, Liberty! 10 Ways Americans Are No Longer Free (Alternet, 8-29-12)
It's a Screwed-Up World When Prostituted Women Are Arrested More Often Than the
Johns Who Abuse and Kill Them (Alternet, 8-31-12)
July 2012 - Financial
Poor Land in Jail as Companies Add Huge Fees for Probation (New York Times,
7-2-12)
The price tag on Obama’s tax proposal: $150 billion (Washington Post,
7-9-12)
The
Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama (Esquire, 7-9-12)
Romney’s Bain Yielded Private Gains, Socialized Losses (Bloomberg, 7-15-12)
Banking Is a Criminal Industry Because Its Crimes Go Unpunished (Huffington
Post, 7-16-12)
Paul Volcker, Richard Ravitch Say State Budget Crisis Threatens 'Social Order'
(Huffington Post, 7-17-12)
Wall Street's Biggest Heist Yet? How the High Wizards of Finance Gutted Our
Schools and Cities (Alternet, 7-17-2012)
For the First Time, Canadians Now Richer Than Americans (U.S. News, 7-18-12)
U.S. Poverty On Track To Rise To Highest Since 1960s (Huffington Post,
7-22-12)
Economic Growth Idea: Forgive or Restructure Debt U.S. Citizens Hold (The
Atlantic, 7-22-12)
Reliance on imports leaves U.S. vulnerable to disasters, report says (The
Washington Post, 7-24-12)
New Hitch In Ground Zero Plans: No Takers (The Wall Street Journal, 7-25-12)
GM: Still $42B in
the Hole (The Washington Free Beacon, 7-26-12)
How
Will the 99% Deal with the Psychopaths in the 1%? (Alternet, 7-26-12)
Marc Faber on a Global Crash, the U.S. Treasury Bubble and China’s Slowdown
(Foreign Policy Journal, 7-28-12)
For-Profit Colleges Slammed in Senate Report (FDL, 7-30-12)
3 Big
Lies Perpetuated By the Rich (Alternet, 7-30-12)
Wages aren’t stagnating, they’re plummeting (The Washington Post, 7-31-12)
July 2012 - Environmental
Grinding Energy Shortage Takes Toll on India's Growth (Wall Street Journal,
7-1-12)
Pre-industrial deforestation still warming atmosphere (Mongabay, 7-3-12)
Challenges with End of 1603 Clean Energy Grant Program (CleanTechnica,
7-9-12)
U.S. declares drought-stricken states largest natural disaster area ever
(Yahoo, 7-12-12)
A World Without Coral Reefs (New York Times, 7-13-12)
The U.S. is the most environmentally sustainable country in the world, except
all the others (Grist, 7-13-12)
10 of the Most Toxic Places In The World To Live (Truth Theory, 7-16-12)
Romney surrogate claims green energy investments making the U.S. into the Soviet
Union (Raw Story, 7-17-12)
China’s Worst Self-Inflicted Environmental Disaster: The Campaign to Wipe Out
the Common Sparrow (io9, 7-18-12)
Richard Branson urges Obama to back next-generation nuclear technology (The
Guardian, 7-20-12)
NASA Animation: Watching the Earth Breathe (Climate Central, 7-22-12)
Obama Administration Reneges on Modest Steps to Protect Our Nation's
Waters from CAFO Pollution (Pew Environmentalist, 7-23-12)
Will Drought Cause the Next Blackout? (New York Times, 7-23-12)
Greenland ice sheet had biggest thaw since 1973 this month, scientists say
(The Washington Post, 7-24-12)
In pictures: The effects of climate change (Aljazeera, 7-25-12)
Weather Extremes Leave Parts of U.S. Grid Buckling (New York Times,
7-25-12)
US will not air climate change episode of Frozen Planet (New Statesman,
7-25-12)
GROSS: In The Time It Takes You To Look At This Photo, Its Contents Will Have
Doubled (Upworthy, 7-27-12)
‘Gasland’ Filmmaker Takes on Cuomo and ‘Dot.FlatEarth’ (New York Times,
7-29-12)
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds ‘Global Warming Is Real' (Think Progress,
7-29-12)
July 2012 - Health
Rick Scott on Medicaid expansion: If I can't steal it, Florida does not want it
(Daily Kos, 7-3-12)
US approves first take-home HIV test (The Guardian, 7-4-12)
The Gates Foundation's Leveraged Philanthropy: Corporate Profit Versus Humanity
on Three Fronts (Education Week Teacher, 7-4-12)
Sitting for More Than Three Hours a Day Cuts Life Expectancy (Wall Street
Journal, 7-10-12)
GOP to the uninsured: Drop dead (Washington Post, 7-10-12)
Democrats Mock GOP For Protecting Own Health Care In Repeal Vote
(Huffington Post, 7-16-12)
America in denial: We're number 29 (of 30) (Aljazeera, 7-19-12)
Another School Shooting, Another Psychiatric Drug? Federal Investigation Long Overdue (Citizens Commission On Human Rights International, 7-20-12)
A Bible-Based Approach to Health Care: Something Ails You? You Might Be
Possessed by a Devil (Alternet, 7-26-12)
What Are the Odds Your Employer Will Drop Health Coverage? (The Foundary,
7-27-12)
Romney praises health care in Israel, where research says ‘strong government
influence’ has driven down costs (The Washington Post, 7-31-12)
Problems with fluoride (Irish Times, 7-31-12)
Shocking Health Effects of Commonly Used Pesticide: Brain Problems, Sexual
Deformities and Paralysis (Alternet, 7-31-12)
July 2012 - Foreign
Kristof: The journalist as tourist (Aljazeera, 7-3-12)
Debate over future
of German security agency (DW, 7-4-12)
Rebels with a cause: Botswana's heavy metal heads (CNN, 7-4-12)
'Bloody bandits and Western lies: What’s really going on in Syria' (RT,
7-8-12)
Taliban commander: we cannot win war and al-Qaida is a 'plague' (The
Guardian, 7-10-12)
Germans
outraged at privacy law passed as football kicked off (RT, 7-11-12)
Outrage over Lennox: Dog put to sleep for looking like a pit bull in Northern
Ireland (Yahoo, 7-11-12)
Astana: The world's weirdest capital city (CNN, 7-13-12
Iraq-Iran Ties Grow Stronger As Iraq Rises From The Ashes (Huffington Post,
7-15-12)
China's Asphalt Powerplay in Pakistan (Spiegel Online, 7-17-12)
168 children killed in drone strikes in Pakistan since start of campaign
(The Telegraph, 7-20-12)
Pakistan plans to revoke Afghans' refugee status could displace 3 million
(The Guardian, 7-20-12)
Norway pauses to
remember attacks, one year on (DW, 7-22-12)
Neocons put Israel, and the United States, in a precarious position (New
Jersey, 7-24-12)
Doubts about death toll from Beijing-area rain fuel new suspicions about China’s
leaders (Mcclatchy, 7-24-12)
What is Washington up to in the Chaco region? (Aljazeera, 7-24-12)
Welcome to the new Great Game (Aljazeera, 7-25-12)
The Suffering of Fallujah (Huffington Post, 7-29-12)
Syrian
Blood Etches a New Line in the Sand (Information Clearing House, July-26-12)
Most
likely to attack Iran (Salon, 7-27-12)
Fareed's Take: Is democracy part of Europe's economic problems? (CNN World,
7-28-11)
Coming Soon: The Big Trade-Off (Sunday Review, 7-28-12)
Activists Rap Myanmar
Opposition Leader's Silence on Massacre of Muslims (ABNA, )
Kabul hospital hell
reveals depth of corruption (DW, 7-29-12)
Mitt Romney, at fundraiser in Israel, describes spiritual impact of visit
(The Washington Post, 7-30-12)
Why is the world ignoring Myanmar's Rohingya? (Aljazeera, 7-30-12)
Pakistani doctor in regular contact with spies (CNN, 7-31-12)
India Power Outage: 620 Million People Affected By One Of The World's Biggest
Blackouts (Huffingtonpost, 7-31-12)
The “War On Terror” Has Changed, and Not One In 1,000 Americans Has Noticed
(Washington's Blog, 7-31-12)
July 2012 - Miscellaneous
Job Insecurity: It's the Disease of the 21st Century -- And It's Killing Us
(AlterNet, 7-1-12)
Forget the Propaganda -- Here's the Drug War Data That Really Matters
(AlterNet, 7-5-12)
Power shifts outstrip reforms (The Japan Times, 7-5-12)
Ann Harris, Akron Restaurant Owner, Dies After Serving Obama Breakfast
(Huffington Post, 7-6-12)
Dr. Drew Pinsky’s relationship with drugmaker raises ethical questions
(Washington Post, 7-6-12)
CISPA: Laying Siege to Net Freedom (Media Roots, 7-6-12)
What The
Founding Fathers Thought About Corporations (Addicting Indo, 7-10-12)
Massive Veterans Affairs backlog leaves half a million waiting for benefits
(CBS, 7-10-12)
Gov. Chris Christie: War on drugs is 'a failure' (NJ, 7-10-12)
Obama's Internet Order: Power Grab
or Simple Update? (CNBC, 7-11-12)
Romney's Exit
from Bain: Lying Then or Lying Now? (Common Dreams, 7-12-12)
Cory Booker Slams Drug War (Huffington Post, 7-16-12)
DeMint: Law of the Sea Treaty now dead (Washington Times, 7-16-12)
U.S. missing out on Arctic land grab (CNN, 7-18-12)
Beyond 7
billion (Los Angeles Times, 7-23-12)
Obama Was Right: The Government Invented the Internet (Slate, 7-24-12)
Why the Population Time Bomb Hasn’t Finished Exploding (Smithsonian,
7-24-12)
Europe’s True Identity : Christian or really Pagan ? (Hindu Human Rights,
7-25-12)
Skype makes chats and user data more available to police (The Washington
Post, 7-25-12)
The Rise of the Police State and
the Absence of Mass Opposition (The James Petras Website, 7-25-12)
Barack Obama, Changeling (Truth Out, 7-28-12)
Mitt Romney’s inner circle: Who are these guys? (The Washington Post,
7-31-12)
Senate’s anti-leaking bill doesn’t address the real sources of information
(The Washington Post, 7-31-12)
Extremism Normalized:
How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas (Common Dreams,
7-31-12)