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Bill Gross Investment Outlook 2015 (Janus Capital, 2015)
The liquidity timebomb - monetary policies have created a dangerous paradox (The Guardian, 6-1-15)
Banks' Post Crisis Legal Costs Hit $300 billion (Financial Times, 6-7-15)
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman warns of next financial crisis (CNN Money, 6-10-15)
Irony alert: Password-storing company is hacked (CNN Money, 6-15-15)
Wahhabism: Religious deviance and fountainhead of radicalism & extremism (RT, 6-28-15)
An Inadvertent Warning From BlackRock——Get Out Of Mutual Funds ASAP (Contra Corner, 6-30-15)
Bill Gross Warns About Liquidity In Next Crisis (Money Beat, 6-30-15)
June - 2015 - Environmental
In Stunning Reversal, ‘Big Oil’ Asks for Carbon Price (Climate Central, 6-1-15)
Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war (Ecologist, 6-5-15)
Catholic League’s Bill Donohue: ‘Air Pollution Isn’t Evil’ Because The Bible Doesn’t Say It Is (Addicting Info, 6-9-15)
New NASA data show how the world is running out of water (Washington Post, 6-16-15)
Pope Francis: Heed ‘the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ (Crux Now, 6-18-15)
'Epidemic of food riots' could trigger society collapse by 2040, warn scientists (RT, 6-24-15)
Vertical farming: The next big thing for food—and tech (CNBC, 6-24-15)
Giant earthquakes are shaking Greenland — and scientists just figured out the disturbing reason why (The Washington Post, 6-25-15)
June - 2015 - International
How Qatar Used and Abused Its Al Jazeera Journalists (New York Times, 6-2-15)
Ex-intel officials: Pentagon report proves US complicity in ISIS (Medium, 6-2-15)
New WikiLeaks Docs Expose Secret TISA Trade Deal Plans (Sputnik News, 6-3-15)
Probe Reveals Red Cross Raised $500M for Haiti but Built Only 6 Homes (Sputnik News, 6-4-15)
The Red Cross had $500 million in Haitian relief money, but it built just 6 houses (Washington Post, 6-4-15)
Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe are the root causes of war (Ecologist, 6-5-15)
China's Foreign Ministry called on the G7 to "stop making irresponsible remarks" in a comment on Monday's G7 Leaders' Declaration. (Sputnik News, 6-9-15)
Who are Indian politicians helping by ratcheting up war rhetoric? (DW, 6-11-15)
UN reform urged by veteran diplomats (DW, 6-16-15)
China's Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse (Truth-out, 6-21-15)
Vladimir Putin's approval ratings hit an all-time high (The Week, 6-24-15)
UN: South Sudan army raped girls and burned them alive (Aljazeera, 6-30-15)
Greeks, Welcome to the Soviet Union of 1991 (Bloomberg, 6-30-15)
June - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
The Unknown Whistleblower (Common Dreams, 6-1-15)
The Deadly Bi-Partisan Agreement That Brought Us Mass Incarceration with 2.5 Million Behind Bars (Alternet, 6-1-15)
Forty Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People (Truth-Out, 6-2-15)
U.S. Maternal Death Rate Now Highest In The Western World, Thanks To GOP War On Women (Addicting Info, 6-8-15)
Male Teen Has Consensual Sex with Female Teen. He Gets 25 Years as Sex Offender, Banned from Internet. (Reason.com, 6-16-15)
June - 2015 - Religion
Jim Bob Duggar: Molestation Is Common In Christian Families (VIDEO) (Reverb Press, 6-7-15)
The network of powerful Israel partisans who are pushing to bomb Iran (The Council For The National Interest, 6-7-15)
Michael Savage: Pope Francis Like False Prophet 'Directing Mankind To Worship The Antichrist' (Right Wing Watch, 6-17-15)
Pope Francis: Heed ‘the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ (Crux Now, 6-18-15)
Billy Graham’s grandson steps down from Florida megachurch after admitting an affair (The Washington Post, 6-21-15)
June - 2015 - Politics
Dem bill backs broadband for low-income web users (The Hill, 6-1-15)
Insurers seek double-digit Obamacare hikes (Insurers Seek Double Digit Obamacare Hikes, 6-1-15)
Hillary Clinton unfavorable numbers highest in 14 years (Politico, 6-2-15)
U.S. Maternal Death Rate Now Highest In The Western World, Thanks To GOP War On Women (Addicting Info, 6-8-15)
Forget The Benghazi Nonsense–Clinton Finally Facing More Questions On Her Real Mistakes In Libya (Liberal Values, 6-9-15)
Moscow Strikes Back at Clinton's Crusade of Words Against 'Russian Threat' (Sputnik News, 6-14-15)
Rand Paul and the VAT That Dare Not Speak Its Name (New York Times, 6-18-15)
15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World (Alternet, 6-22-15)
June - 2015 - Technology
The F.C.C. Should Help the Poor Get Online (New York Times, 6-6-15)
Internet nightmare: AT&T sells DSL to your neighbors, but not to you (Ars Technica, 6-11-15)
A disaster foretold — and ignored (The Washington Post, 6-22-15)
Popular Security Software Came Under Relentless NSA and GCHQ Attacks (The Intercept, 6-22-15)
Domain name WHOIS anonymity hangs in the balance under ICANN proposal (Ars Technica, 6-25-15)
June - 2015 - Miscellaneous
CNN Is Now Selling Advertorial Programming: News You Can't Trust (Truth-Out, 6-9-15)
Taylor Swift Is A Hypocrite And Apple Has Lost Its Way (Digital Music News, 6-22-15)
This painting just sold for $46.5 million at Sotheby's in New York (Business Insider, 5-13-15)
IMF Estimates Trillions in Hidden Fossil-Fuel Costs (The Wall Street Journal, 5-18-15)
An Exclusive Excerpt From ‘Trade Is War’ (Truthdig, 5-22-15)
The Economic Tsunami Gathering Momentum Off the Shores of America (Nation of Change, 5-24-15)
Wall Street Gamblers At Work—–U.S. Firms Spend More On Buybacks Than Factories (David Stockman's Contra Corner, 5-28-15)
Monopoly power tightens grip on US economy (Aljazeera, 5-29-15)
May - 2015 - Environmental
Is Solving Climate Change as Simple as Sucking Carbon Out of the Air? (Alternet, 5-1-15)
They Are Biocides, Not Pesticides -- And They Are Creating an Ecocide (Huffington Post, 5-4-15)
California Farmers Are Watering Their Crops with Oil Wastewater and No One Knows What’s in It (Nation of Change, 5-6-15)
Toxic Plastic Found in the World’s Favorite Fish (Take Part, 5-7-15)
Fertility of world's soil reaching peak that will threaten food supplies, scientists warn (The Independent, 5-7-15)
Why I Changed My Mind About Climate Change (Niskanen Center, 5-12-15)
Permafrost Thaw Would Have Runaway Effect on Carbon Release (Truthdig, 5-15-15)
Seed Freedom Under Attack from Monsanto-backed G7 Initiative (Common Dreams, 5-15-15)
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures (Resilience, 5-26-15)
The world's first ocean cleaning system will be deployed in 2016 (Minds Alpha, 5-28-15)
May - 2015 - Health
The Post-Launch Problem: The Affordable Care Act’s Persistently High Administrative Costs (Health Affairs Blog, 5-27-15)
Overhead costs exploding under ObamaCare, study finds (The Hill, 5-27-15)
May - 2015 - International
Asia
Pakistan's Drone Strike Victims Accuse U.S. Of Double Standard (Huffington Post, 5-1-15)
We have too little data to know how to help countries like Nepal recover from natural disasters (The Washington Post, 5-1-15)
China Is Becoming Russia's Economic 'Loan Shark' (VICE News, 5-8-15)
Why Is The U.S. Desperate To OK Slavery In Malaysia? (Huffington Post, 5-27-15)
Opinion: The Rohingya crisis and Suu Kyi's silence (DW, 5-29-15)
Who’s Driving the Rohingya into the Sea? (New Eastern Outlook, 5-30-15)
Middle East and Africa
Israeli defense minister promises to kill more civilians and threatens to nuke Iran (Electronic Intifada, 5-6-15)
War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure (The Ecologist, 5-14-15)
US rejects nuclear disarmament document over Israel concerns (Yahoo, 5-22-15)
U.S. Saw Islamic State Coming, Let It Take Ramadi (BloombergView, 5-28-15)
The New Unknown Soldiers of Afghanistan and Iraq (Foreign Policy, 5-29-15)
Russia and Ukraine
U.S. and Europe Boycott Russia’s V-Day Celebration of Its 9 May 1945 Victory Over Hitler (Global Research, 5-9-15)
Something Truly Amazing Happened at the V-Day Parade (Russia Insider, 5-11-15)
Europe
Tories’ repeal of Human Rights Act will spark constitutional crisis, erode civil liberties – experts (RT, 5-11-15)
Vladimir Putin calls Ukraine fascist and country’s new law helps make his case (Reuters, 5-14-15)
France to force big supermarkets to give unsold food to charities (The Guardian, 5-22-15)
NPD delegate Voigt: "Germany needs its own nuclear weapons" (Profil, 5-26-15)
The British left must learn to speak a new language – Spanish (The Guardian, 5-27-15)
NATO Breaks Treaty to Establish Permanent Forces in Baltic (Sputnik News, 5-28-15)
South America
Colombia Moves Toward Ending Aerial Assault on Coca Crops (The Wall Street Journal, 5-9-15)
Northern America
US Imperialism Wages Permanent Warfare to Prevent Its Inevitable Collapse (Global Research, 5-1-15)
Canadian Government Says Free Speech is For Offending Muslims - Not Opposing Israel (The Intercept, 5-11-15)
Global
Countries around World Are Revoking Freedom of Assembly (Films For Action, 5-5-15)
Greatest Threat to Free Speech Comes Not From Terrorism, But From Those Claiming to Fight It (The Intercept, 5-13-15)
U.S. Foreign Relations
How America and Russia Could Start a Nuclear War (National Interest, 5-7-15)
May - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
US 'worst place to be a mother' among developed nations - report (RT, 5-5-15)
If America really valued mothers, we wouldn’t treat them like this (Vox, 5-10-15)
Why race is the main reason the murderous bloodbath in Waco was handled with velvet gloves (Daily KOS, 5-18-15)
5 Ways Baltimore Police Were Out Of Control Long Before Freddie Gray's Death, From David Simon (Alternet, 5-22-15)
FCC looks to subsidize low-income Americans' Internet access (The Hill, 5-28-15)
May - 2015 - Religion
Christianity faces sharp decline as Americans are becoming even less affiliated with religion (The Washington Post, 5-12-15)
In Regards to Conservatives Fierce Defense of Child Rape (The Daily KOS, 5-24-15)
May - 2015 - Politics
House committee approves $200 million for arming Ukraine (RT, 5-1-15)
Carter: Return of the Crimea to Russia was Inevitable (Fortruss, 5-1-15)
The G.O.P.’s War on Science Gets Worse (The New Yorker, 5-6-15)
Soros Backs New ‘Progressive Agenda’ With $159 Million (MRC Business, 5-12-15)
Obama Hurls Insults at Liberals on Trade (Observer, 5-12-15)
Progressive Contract with America Aims to 'Rewrite the Rules' in Favor of 99% (Common Dreams, 5-12-15)
The New NSA Reform Bill Would Give the Government Even More Power to Spy on Your Smartphone (VICE, 5-14-15)
Backed by green advocates, some U.S. conservatives push for solar (Japan Times, 5-16-15)
Senator Warren Releases Report Highlighting Decades of Broken Promises and Failures to Enforce Labor Standards in Trade Agreements (Elizabeth Warren Official Site, 5-18-15)
Mike Huckabee stands by Josh Duggar, family (CNN, 5-22-15)
O'Malley announcement overshadowed by tech glitches, Freddie Gray protestors and crowd chanting 'We don't need you' (Washington Examiner, 5-30-15)
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders Raises $3 Million In Four Days (Huffington Post, 5-6-15)
Bernie’s Announcement (Bernie Sanders, 5-26-14)
'Today We Begin a Political Revolution': Bernie Sanders Launches Presidential Bid in Vermont (Common Dreams, 5-26-15)
Hillary Clinton
The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada (Washington Post, 5-3-15)
Meet The Political David To Hillary Clinton's Goliath (Forbes, 5-4-15)
The Billionaire Whose Clinton Foundation Ties Could Be Trouble for Hillary Clinton (Bloomberg, 5-7-15)
Meet the man behind hawkish Hillary Clinton's foreign policy (Vox, 5-11-15)
‘Hillary Clinton Sold Her Soul When They Accepted That Money’ (Politico, 5-15-15)
Clinton Friend’s Memos on Libya Draw Scrutiny to Politics and Business (New York Times, 5-18-15)
Bride of Frankenfood: Hillary Clinton pushes GMO agenda... hires Monsanto lobbyist... takes huge dollars from Monsanto (Natural News, 5-18-15)
Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit (Washington Examiner, 5-27-15)
Hillary Appoints Former Junk Food Lobbyist As Head Of Black Outreach (Alternet, 5-29-15)
The cash donations Hillary simply has no answer for (Salon, 5-31-15)
Barack Obama
Almost everything we think we know about Osama bin Laden’s death is a lie, reports Sy Hersh (Quartz, 5-11-15)
Obama’s Account of Bin Laden’s Death is One Fabricated Lie - Seymour Hersh (Sputnik News, 5-12-15)
Canada Just Threw A Grenade Into Elizabeth Warren's Trade Fight With Obama (Huffington Post, 5-14-15)
The Post-Launch Problem: The Affordable Care Act’s Persistently High Administrative Costs (Health Affairs Blog, 5-27-15)
Overhead costs exploding under ObamaCare, study finds (The Hill, 5-27-15)
The HOPE poster guy is done with Obama. And Republicans now have their metaphor (The Washington Post, 5-28-15)
May - 2015 - Technology
'Web-sharing censored!' Activists unite to 'Save the Link' from restrictive laws (RT, 5-7-15)
Nearly 200 scientists warn of cellphone health risks (RT, 5-13-15)
Boeing debuts powerful electromagnetic pulse weapon (Digital Journal, 5-26-15)
In 5 years, 80 percent of the whole Internet will be online video (Washington Post, 5-27-15)
FCC looks to subsidize low-income Americans' Internet access (The Hill, 5-28-15)
The world's first ocean cleaning system will be deployed in 2016 (Minds Alpha, 5-28-15)
May - 2015 - Social
Miley Cyrus Is Launching A Nonprofit To Help Homeless, LGBT Youth (Huffington Post, 5-5-15 )
This painting just sold for $46.5 million at Sotheby's in New York (Business Insider, 5-13-15)
None Dare Call It Fraud—–Its Just A “Savings Glut” (David Stockman Contra Corner, 4-13-15)
Study: Over 27% of Student Loans are in Default (Breitbart, 4-15-15)
Signs That 'The Elites' Are Feverishly Preparing For Something Big (Zero Hedge, 4-17-15)
The Ten Biggest Power Plants In America -- Not What You Think (Forbes, 4-20-15)
Yale to impose carbon tax on itself, led by the man who helped invent it (E&E Publishing, 4-22-15)
In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals (International New York Times, 4-24-15)
Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign (Global Research, 4-27-15)
SEC Investigating Whether Bank of America Broke Customer-Protection Rules (The Wall Street Journal, 4-28-15)
April - 2015 - Environmental
The dystopian lake filled by the world’s tech lust (BBC, 4-2-15)
Why Is Jerry Brown Letting Big Ag and Oil Gluttons Suck Up Most of California's Water? (Alternet, 4-3-15)
Beneath California Crops, Groundwater Crisis Grows (New York Times, 4-5-15)
The Last Time Oceans Got This Acidic This Fast, 96% of Marine Life Went Extinct (Motherboard, 4-9-15)
Oceans Facing Carbon Rates Which Spurred Mass Die-Off 250 Million Years Ago (Common Dreams, 4-10-15)
Save The Very Hungry Caterpillars (On Earth, 4-17-15)
Louisiana five years after BP oil spill: 'It's not going back to normal no time soon' (The Guardian, 4-18-15)
Thirty years on, scientist who discovered ozone layer hole warns: ‘it will still take years to heal’ (The Guardian, 4-18-15)
Hope for Carbon Storage Rises Again (Truthdig, 4-20-15)
Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet? (The Guardian, 4-21-15)
Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Earth Day (Office of Edmund G. Brown Jr, 4-22-15)
Thawing Permafrost: the Arctic's Slow, Giant Carbon Release (Inside Climate News, 4-23-15)
China is building a Great Wall of Trees to fight climate change and the encroaching Gobi Desert (Quartz, 4-27-15)
What a gas: Using water and air to run a car (CNN Money, 4-28-15)
Scientists discover swirling, oxygen-depleted dead zones in North Atlantic (Aljazeera, 4-30-15)
April - 2015 - Health
Researchers Discover New Source Of Airborne Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (Huffington Post, 4-1-15)
U.S. Blocked Declaration of “Right to Health Care”, Says Bolivia’s President at OAS Summit (Global Research, 4-16-15)
US Tops for Income Inequality and Incarceration, but Near Bottom for National Health (Truth-Out, 4-30-15)
April - 2015 - International
Why 1.3 million Iraqis killed in the US-UK war on Iraq are not worth mentioning (Stop The War Coalition, 4-2-15)
The Real Nuclear Threat (Truth-Out, 4-2-15)
Rwanda Revisited (Foreign Policy, 4-5-15)
The simple, free solution to Asia's myopia epidemic (CNN, 4-6-15)
Where the Argentine Debt Case Stands Now, and Why it Still Matters (NACLA, 4-6-15)
The Real Afghan War: How a Fantasy Conflict Created Disaster in Afghanistan (Truth-Out, 4-6-15)
Six Things You Didn't Know The U.S. and Its Allies Did to Iran (The Intercept, 4-7-15)
Saudi grand mufti 'issues fatwa permitting man to chop up and eat wife in event of extreme hunger' (International Business Times, 4-9-15)
Hiding America’s War Crimes in Laos, While Reporting on the Grim Results (Nation of Change, 4-9-15)
Nordic countries extend military alliance in face of Russian aggression (The Guardian, 4-10-15 )
Americans have yet to grasp the horrific magnitude of the ‘war on terror’ (Aljazeera, 4-10-15)
New division threatens Ukraine (DW, 4-11-15)
Hungarian far right pushes moderate image - and wins (DW, 4-13-15)
War Authorization Dies in House But US Bombs Keep Falling on Iraq and Syria (Common Dreams, 4-14-15)
U.S. Blocked Declaration of “Right to Health Care”, Says Bolivia’s President at OAS Summit (Global Research, 4-16-15)
Chelsea Manning and the Deepwater Horizon Deaths (Truth-dig, 4-19-15)
Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program: 5 Things You Need to Know (National Interest, 4-21-15)
Enough with WWII apologies: Japan PM sees no need to reinforce remorse (RT, 4-21-15)
Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program: 5 Things You Need to Know (National Interest, 4-21-15)
Ukraine as I Knew It Is Over Forever (Global Research, 4-22-15)
World Ignores Genocide In Central African Republic Because It’s Not ISIS & There’s No Oil (Mint Press, 4-23-15)
U.S.-Backed Saudi War in Yemen Continues as Aid Groups Describe "Catastrophic" Humanitarian Crisis (Democracy Now, 4-23-15)
In India, Profitable Farming With Fewer Chemicals (International New York Times, 4-24-15)
Haiti: What Happened to the $10 Billion in U.S. Aid Pledged After the Earthquake? (Global Research, 4-24-15)
Obama Says Sorry for Vaporizing Two Westerners With a Drone. Brown People Still Fair Game (Russia Insider, 4-25-15)
China is building a Great Wall of Trees to fight climate change and the encroaching Gobi Desert (Quartz, 4-27-15)
Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign (Global Research, 4-27-15)
April - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
Why IS the US military moving back into 'Stargate' base deep under the Rocky Mountains a decade after it was abandoned? (Daily Mail, 4-8-15)
Enjoying the Low Life? (New York Times, 4-9-15)
If Downtown NYC Was Hit by a Modern Nuclear Weapon (Russia Insider, 4-9-15)
A Nation’s Shame: Trillions in New Wealth, Millions of Children in Poverty (Nation of Change, 4-13-15)
Captain Kirk Wants To Beam Down Water For California's MegaDrought (Forbes, 4-27-15)
April - 2015 - Religion
How Religious 'Liberty' Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History (Alternet, 4-6-15)
April - 2015 - Politics
Liberals warn Senate Dems on Iran: Don't choose war (Politico, 4-8-15)
Can't get through to the IRS? Call your GOP Congressman (Daily Kos, 4-10-15)
Hillary Clinton: The International Neocon Warmonger (Voltaire, 4-13-15)
War Authorization Dies in House But US Bombs Keep Falling on Iraq and Syria (Common Dreams, 4-14-15)
Clinton video production team credit disputed (Reuters, 4-15-15)
Democrats make uphill push for gas tax increase (USA Today, 4-15-15)
When Hillary Clinton Pitched the Iraq War to CodePink (Foreign Policy in Focus, 4-23-15)
The trade-off Obama missed on trade (The Washington Post, 4-24-15)
What's Behind Michael Dyson's Over-the-Top Takedown of Cornel West? (Alternet, 4-24-15)
Why They Hate Cornel West (Jacobin, 4-24-15)
Veteran defense lawyers see possible criminal inquiry for Clintons (Fox News, 4-25-15)
Psychologists worked with CIA, Bush administration to justify torture (Aljazeera, 4-30-15)
April - 2015 - Education
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much (New York Times, 4-4-15)
April - 2015 - Technology
Your Porn Is Watching You (Motherboard, 4-6-15)
Silicon Valley Firms Plant Roots in Farm Belt (The Wall Street Journal, 4-6-15)
The NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted data (The Verge, 4-12-15)
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg hits back in Internet.org India row (BBC News, 4-17-15)
No half loaves: Why Mark Zuckerberg’s argument for internet.org sucks (Times of India Blog, 4-20-15)
U.S. Is Faulted for Risking Edge in R&D (The Wall Street Journal, 4-27-15)
New MIT report details benefits of investment in basic research (MIT News, 4-27-15)
April - 2015 - History
Forget the Nazis, Polish President Credits Darkest Hour in WWII to Soviets (Sputnik News, 4-7-15)
Cupid and his friends at the post office are fighting back against flimflamming privatizers (High Tower Lowdown, March 2015)
Nearly at ‘Full Employment’? 10 Reasons Why the Unemployment Numbers Are a Massive Lie (Global Research, 3-8-15)
Nearly At ‘Full Employment’? 10 Reasons Why The Unemployment Numbers Are A Massive Lie (The Economic Collapse, 3-8-15)
Not All Working Women Can 'Lean In' (Huffington Post, 3-8-15)
Why Finance Is Still a Problem (Time, 3-9-15)
End the Ethanol Rip-Off (New York Times, 3-10-15)
Six Years Of Bull Market Bull (David Stockman, 3-11-15)
The Biggest Scam Bankrupting the Middle Class (PBS, 3-11-15)
Passports for a Price: The Business Showing Poor Countries How to Sell Citizenship (Bloomberg, 3-11-15)
Tax Breaks For Oligarchs: The $100 Million NY Apartment With A Property Tax Rate Of 0.017% (Zero Hedge, 3-12-15)
No one knows the size of the government’s contracted workforce (The Washington Post, 3-12-15)
From Yellen Put To Yellen Massacre (The Automatic Earth, 3-12-15)
The Bonds That Can Cure America's Ills (Bloomberg View, 3-19-15)
10 Charts Which Show We Are Much Worse Off Than Just Before The Last Economic Crisis (Zerohedge, 3-21-15)
The Top 15 Economies Winning in Global Trade (Bloomberg, 3-23-15)
Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism (Middle East Eye, 3-27-15)
Tax Proposals Would Move U.S. Closer to Global Norm (The Wall Street Journal, 3-29-15)
Tech bigwigs help launch economic policy group (Politico, 3-31-15)
March - 2015 - Environmental
Amazon Rainforest Scrubbing Half as Much Carbon as it Used to, New Study Shows (Sierra, 3-2-15)
Explosion in Brazilian Amazon rainforest logging (The Independent, 3-10-15)
Mass Deaths in Americas Start New CO2 Epoch (Scientific American, 3-11-15)
South America's largest city is almost out of water (PRI, 3-12-15)
Why Vertical Farming Could Be On The Verge Of A Revolution -- And What's Keeping It Down (Huffington Post, 3-12-15)
These Tiny Bubbles May Save the Planet (Bloomberg, 3-16-15)
Study raises concerns over big, rapidly thinning Antarctic glacier (CNN, 3-18-15)
Even scarier than California’s shrinking reservoirs is its shrinking groundwater supply (PBS, 3-20-15)
World Could Have 40 Percent Water Shortfall By 2030, UN Warns (Huffington Post, 3-20-15)
WHO: Ingredient in Monsanto Roundup 'probably carcinogenic' to humans (Aljazeera, 3-21-15)
Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans — with potentially dire consequences (The Washington Post, 3-23-15)
This is absolutely terrifying: “There are really only two big patches of intact forest left on Earth” (Salon, 3-23-15)
New Study: The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax (Niskanen Center, 3-23-15)
10,000 Dead Sea Lions Wash Up In California, Officials Announce “Crisis” (Your News Wire, 3-24-15)
So Roundup “probably” causes cancer. This means what, exactly? (Grist, 3-24-15)
Climate Change: Mankind Must Stop Destroying ‘Our Own Mystical Place’ (Indian Country Today Media Network, 3-30-15)
Canada Pushes Ahead with Alternatives to Keystone XL (Climate Central, 3-30-15)
The Price of Damming Tibet’s Rivers (New York Times, 3-30-15)
6,000 Acres of Old Growth Forests Slated for Logging, the Largest Sale in Decades (Nation of Change, 3-31-15)
March - 2015 - Health
The legal drug epidemic (The Washington Post, 3-11-15)
If Obamacare survives, this is what needs to be fixed (Yahoo, 3-13-15)
The Long-Term Damage of the War on Drugs (The Fix, 3-23-15)
Stop Playing 'Whack-A-Mole' With Toxic Flame Retardants, Health Advocates Urge (Huffington Post, 3-31-15)
March - 2015 - International
Asia
India: 400 men cut off their testicles to 'get closer to God' following advice from 'guru' (International Business Times, 3-1-15)
U.S. Should Be Appalled by Japan's Historical Revisionism (National Interest, 3-9-15)
Sorry, America: China Is NOT Going to Collapse (National Interest, 3-10-15)
Africa
US Ally in Libya Joins ISIL and Leads Its Forces in the Country - Reports (Sputnik News, 3-5-15)
Let’s be honest. We ignore Congo’s atrocities because it’s in Africa (The Guardian, 3-6-15)
Washington’s Al Qaeda Ally Now Leading ISIS in Libya (Global Research, 3-10-15)
Islamist extremism rears its head across swath of Africa (CNN, 3-20-15)
Middle East
What ISIS Really Wants (The Atlantic, March 2015)
Netanyahu a ‘danger’ to Israel, say 200 security veterans (Middle East Eye, 3-1-15)
WATCH: In United Nations Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel (Democracy Now, 3-2-15)
Iraqi women: 'Things were so much better before' (Aljazeera, 3-8-15)
Israeli foreign minister calls for beheading Palestinians (Electronic Intifada, 3-9-15)
Jewish settlers desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque (Days of Palestine, 3-11-15)
Syria's beleaguered opposition-in-exile is about to collapse (Global Post, 3-13-15)
Jewish settlers attack Pal girl in the head (Days of Palestine, 3-21-15)
Josh Earnest Couldn’t Even Convince an MSNBC Panel to Believe What He Was Saying on Live TV [About Yemen] (The Blaze, 3-26-15)
Islamic State is the cancer of modern capitalism (Middle East Eye, 3-27-15)
The Often Overlooked Role of Natural Gas in the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Mother Jones, 3-27-15)
Russia and Ukraine
US to Deploy Six National Guard Companies to Ukraine This Week (Sputnik News, 3-3-15)
US Commander in Europe Panics, Goes on Bizarre Anti-Putin Rant (Sputnik News, 3-4-15)
Russia’s anti-American fever goes beyond the Soviet era’s (Washington Post, 3-8-15)
Russia says has right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea: report (Reuters, 3-11-15)
Northcom: Russian Cruise Missile Threat to U.S. Grows (Free Beacon, 3-20-15)
Drills for me but not for thee: NATO launches war games near Russian border (RT, 3-21-15)
Nuclear midnight ticks closer in wake of Russia’s Crimea threats (Reuters, 3-23-15)
Right Sector Insignificant? President Offers Neo-Nazi Defense Ministry Post (Sputnik News, 3-27-15)
Western Europe
French Submarine 'Sinks' Entire US Aircraft Carrier Group During Wargames (Sputnik News, 3-6-15)
Germany slams NATO European commander’s comments on Ukraine as ‘dangerous propaganda’ – Spiegel (RT, 3-8-15)
‘Abandoned’ French working class ready to punish left’s neglect by voting for far right (The Guardian, 3-22-15)
Marine Le Pen Could Win 2017 Presidential Election in France - Advisor (Sputnik News, 3-30-15)
Latin America
South America's largest city is almost out of water (PRI, 3-12-15)
Pacific
Documents Shine Light on Shadowy New Zealand Surveillance Base (The Intercept, 3-7-15)
Caribbean
How America and the Rest of the World Ruined Haiti (Alternet, 3-25-15)
The United States
9 Things Many Americans Just Don’t Grasp (Compared to the Rest of the World) (Alternet, 3-25-15)
Nobel Prize-Winning NGO: US Wars in Last Decade Killed Estimated 2 Million (Sputnik, 3-27-15)
Leading Papers Incite ‘Supreme International Crime’ (Fair Blog, 3-30-15)
March - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
Monica Jones to the UN: US Must Decriminalize Sex Work (Truth-out, 3-20-15)
Here are 9 things many Americans just don’t understand — compared to the rest of the world (Raw Story, 3-28-15)
March - 2015 - Religion
Franklin Graham: Muslims Who 'Hate Israel And Hate Christians' Run The White House (Right Wing Watch, 3-2-15)
Americans are turning away from organized religion in record numbers (Raw Story, 3-2-15)
An Open Letter to Franklin Graham (Sojo, 3-19-15)
March - 2015 - Politics
The Terrifying Future of Republican America Revealed in 27 Photos (Addicting Info, 3-1-15)
Obama’s claim that Keystone XL oil ‘bypasses the U.S.’ earns Four Pinocchios (The Washington Post, 3-2-15)
New Poll: Obama Aids Rich, Not Middle Class (Daily Caller, 3-5-15)
Tom Udall’s Unlikely Alliance With the Chemical Industry (New York Times, 3-6-15)
Daniel Ellsberg: Petraeus Case Shows Hypocrisy of Whistleblower Crackdown (Common Dreams, 3-6-15)
Emails May Be a Key to Addressing 'Pay-to-Play' Whispers at Clinton Foundation (National Journal, 3-8-15)
Hillary Clinton’s Empowerment (Jacobin Magazine, 3-9-15)
5 times Democrats undermined Republican presidents with foreign governments (Washington Examiner, 3-10-15)
No one knows the size of the government’s contracted workforce (The Washington Post, 3-12-15)
Political Cowardice in Selma: Obama Crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge (Truth-Out, 3-13-15)
“Truth in Media is the Enemy of Washington, Truth is Our Country”: Dr. Paul Craig Roberts (Global Research, 3-16-15)
An Expanding U.S. Postal Service Is Very Possible (Huffingpost, 3-16-15)
Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen (Washington Post, 3-17-15)
Experts tell Senate panel Obama is wrong about America's tech labor shortage (Washington Examiner, 3-17-15)
White House exempts itself from FOIA requests (RT, 3-17-15)
Noam Chomsky: Obama Launched ‘the Most Extensive Global Terrorism Campaign the World Has Yet Seen’ (Truthdig, 3-19-15)
Hillary: The New York Times Will Never Tell Us This (New Eastern Outlook, 3-20-15)
Obama Invites Iranian Nuclear EMP Attack On U.S. (Investors, 3-24-15)
By 6:15, the debate between Emanuel and Garcia was as good as over (Chicago Tribune, 3-23-15)
New Study: The Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax (Niskanen Center, 3-23-15)
Hillary Clinton
Clinton e-mails reinvigorate inquiry into allies who got special job status (Washington Post, 3-9-15)
Hillary Clinton is yet again her own worst enemy (The Washington Post, 3-3-15)
Revealed: Clinton’s office was warned over private email use (Aljazeera, 3-3-15)
4 Reasons to Care About Clinton's Personal Email (CNN, 3-4-15)
Hillary Clinton Ran Homebrew Computer System For Official Emails (Politics, 3-4-15)
How Hillary Clinton Exposed Her Emails To Foreign Spies... In Order To Hide Them From The American Public (TechDirt, 3-4-15)
What Hillary Clinton’s Emails Really Reveal (The New York Times, 3-4-15)
Hillary Clinton’s use of private e-mail reflects poor judgment (Washington Post, 3-4-15)
How Hillary Clinton Exposed Her Emails To Foreign Spies... In Order To Hide Them From The American Public (Tech Dirt, 3-4-15)
Clinton's E-Mails Mock Transparency Campaign (Bloomberg, 3-5-15)
Clinton memo warned State Department workers to avoid using personal email (Wexmain, 3-6-15)
Valerie Jarrett Doesn’t Know If Hillary Ever Emailed ANYONE In Obama Administration [VIDEO] (Daily Caller, 3-6-15)
This poll question is very bad news for Hillary Clinton (Washington Post, 3-11-15)
Hillary Clinton email excuses 'laughable,' says top freedom-of-information official (CBC, 3-11-15)
Clinton was required to sign document claiming she turned over emails in 2013 (The Washington Examiner, 3-11-15)
Jen Psaki: Hillary Clinton didn’t use a State Department BlackBerry (Politico, 3-12-15)
Freedom of Information Act expert: Clinton's email system 'laughable' (Politico, 3-12-15)
Fact checking Hillary Clinton’s news conference (Washington Post, 3-16-15)
Hillary’s Email Defense Is Laughable (Politico, 3-16-15)
Hillary’s Emails and the Law (The Wall Street Journal, 3-16-15)
March - 2015 - Education
Here’s Why It’s Time to Give Up the Idea That Everyone Must Go to College (Truthdig, 3-23-15)
March - 2015 - Technology
Surveillance Valley: Why Google Is Eager to Align Itself With America's Military Industrial Complex (Alternet, 3-1-15)
In charge of truth? Google considers ranking sites on facts, not popularity (RT, 3-2-15)
Google Moving to Shut Down Alternative Media by Ranking Sites on “Facts” Rather than Popularity (Global Research, 3-2-15 )
When Social-Media Companies Censor Sex Education (The Atlantic, 3-4-15)
In Battery Revolution, a Clean Leap Forward (The Washington Post, 3-15-15)
The Failure of Modern Industrial Agriculture (Common Dreams, 3-15-15)
How to Set Up a Clinton-Style Home Email Server (The Atlantic, 3-16-15)
Tech bigwigs help launch economic policy group (Politico, 3-31-15)
March - 2015 - Society
John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war (The Guardian, 3-13-15)
Monica Jones to the UN: US Must Decriminalize Sex Work (Truth-out, 3-20-15)
Debt and (not much) delivering (McKinsey, February 2015)
Climbing The Global Debt Mountain (FT, 2-5-15)
The College Loan Bombshell Hidden in the Budget (Politico, 2-5-15)
Oil-Soaked Interest Groups Doing Their Best to Kill Mass Transit (Common Dreams, 2-5-15)
Stock Buybacks Are Killing the American Economy (The Atlantic, 2-8-15)
Large Foundations: Rethink Your Priorities (Huffington Post, 2-9-15)
Back to the future on nuclear spending? (Washington Post, 2-9-15)
Here's what the $294 trillion market of global financial assets looks like (Business Insider, 2-11-15)
Currency Battle Is Tethered to Obama Trade Agenda (The New York Times, 2-15-15)
Three Signs That Young Americans Are Getting a Raw Deal (Campaign For America's Future, 2-19-15)
One-third of America on the brink of financial disaster – survey (RT, 2-23-15)
The Corporate Debt to Society: $10,000 Per Household, Per Year (Common Dreams, 2-23-15 )
Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Wants Austerity ... for the Rich (Truthdig, 2-25-15)
No, Obama, Russia's Economy Isn't 'in Tatters' (Bloomberg View, 2-26-15)
Who Gets Food Stamps? White People, Mostly (Huffington Post, 2-28-15)
February - 2015 - Environmental
Understanding The Dangers of Fluorescent Light Bulbs (Truth Seeker Daily, 2-1-15)
Bringing Balance to Our Oceans (Green Peace Blog, 2-9-15)
Before and After: Devastating Deforestation in Photos (Weather, 2-12-15)
Oceans fill with plastic—and it's hard to remove (CNBC, 2-12-15)
Envisioning a future with less doom and gloom: opportunities for the next generation of optimists (The Guardian, 2-19-15)
In the Sunshine State, a Power Struggle Over Solar Plays Out (The Wall Street Journal, 2-20-15)
Fracking Industry Distorts Science To Deceive Public And Policymakers, Says Watchdog Group (Huffington Post, 2-20-15)
Portland Just Installed Water Pipes That Generate Electricity! (The Mind Unleashed, 2-13-15)
David Suzuki: We Have to Stop Killing Our Oceans With Plastic (EcoWatch, 2-25-15)
February - 2015 - Health
Big Herba Out of Control: Why Vitamins, Minerals and Herbal Remedies Can Be Dangerous (Alternet, 2-9-15)
Elimination of ‘Public Option’ Threw Consumers to the Insurance Wolves (Nation of Change, 2-18-15)
February - 2015 - International
Asia
China's Communist Party Bans Believers, Doubles Down On Atheism (Huffington Post, 2-2-15)
A look beyond the headlines at China's coal trend (The New York Times, 2-18-15)
Is Japan Asia's Next Autocracy? (Bloomberg View, 2-20-15)
'It's not dead... just resting': Indian officials insist sacred tree planted by Barack Obama three weeks ago is still alive despite all its leaves falling off (Daily Mail, 2-21-15)
New Silk Roads and the Chinese Vision of a Brave New (Trade) World (Truth-Out, 2-23-15)
Africa and Middle East
Saudi Arabia 'engineered' oil crisis: Dallas Fed chief (CNN Money, 2-11-15)
Pro-Iran militias’ success in Iraq could undermine U.S. (Washington Post, 2-15-15)
Bernard-Henri Lévy's 'Fair Wind' Blows Foul in Libya (Ron Paul Institute, 2-16-15)
Iran's Shiite Militias are Running Amok in Iraq (Foreign Policy, 2-19-15)
19-Year-old Gang Rape Victim to Receive 200 Lashes and 6 Months in Jail in Saudi Arabia (Live Buddhism, 2-19-15)
ISIS Is Proof of the Failed "War on Terror" (Common Dreams, 2-25-15)
Saudi Arabia to allow Israel use of its airspace to strike Iran – report (RT, 2-27-15)
The U.S. Empire and ISIS: A Tale of Two Death Cults (Friends of Syria, 2-27-15)
Europe
French minister urges Facebook, Twitter, Google to cooperate directly, promptly (RT, 2-21-15)
Media Hoax: 20 Muslims Holding Hands Become 1,000-Strong 'Ring of Peace' at Oslo Synagogue (Breitbart, 2-22-15)
German Social Democrats fear free trade (DW, 2-23-15 )
Britain is leading the charge against basic human rights, Amnesty claims (The Independent, 2-25-15)
Internet Needs to Be “Regulated” to Suppress Videos and Search Results Deemed “Anti-Semitic”, French President Says (Global Research, 2-25-15)
Russia and Ukraine
Brookings Institution Wants More Villages Firebombed in Ukraine’s “Anti Terrorist Operation” (Global Research, 2-4-15)
The Great Exodus: Ukraine's Refugees Flee to Russia (National Interest, 2-4-15)
One Year Later, Crimeans Prefer Russia (Truth Dig, 2-6-15)
Ukraine’s currency just collapsed 50 percent in two days (Washington Post, 2-6-15)
Caught in the web of the Russian ideologues (Zeit Online, 2-7-15)
Sarkozy: Crimea cannot be blamed for joining Russia (RT, 2-8-15)
Russia: If U.S. Arm Ukraine We Will Declare War (Your News Wire, 2-10-15)
Nuclear Specter Returns: 'Threat of War Is Higher than in the Cold War' (Spiegel, 2-15-15)
Putin Heads Off A US-Russia War (Common Dreams, 2-15-15)
Do Putin’s comments mark a turning-point for LGBT rights in Russia? (Russia Beyond the Headlines, 2-16-15)
Kremlin rejects copyright defenders’ initiative for ‘internet tax’ - report (RT, 2-17-15)
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa review – an unrivalled account (The Guardian, 2-19-15)
Ukraine Denouement: The IMF’s One-Two Punch (Audio) (Truthdig, 2-20-15)
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico said he saw only political solition to Ukrainian crisis. (Sputnik News, 2-22-15)
Ash Carter warns Russia on nukes (Politico, 2-23-15)
Kiev Ambassador to Germany: Neo-Nazis Are Part of Our Forces. Without Them Russia Would Have Defeated Us (Global Research, 2-24-15)
According to a poll conducted by the US think tank Pew Research Center, more than half of US citizens oppose arms deliveries to Kiev. (Sputnik News, 2-24-15)
Ready for Nuclear War over Ukraine? (Common Dreams, 2-25-15)
US and British army parade 300 yards from Russia border (The Telegraph, 2-25-15)
No, Obama, Russia's Economy Isn't 'in Tatters' (Bloomberg View, 2-26-15)
Russian Jewish community blasts Ukraine and Baltics nations for glorifying Nazi collaborators (RT, 2-27-15)
Greece
Germany Had Their Debts Cancelled After World War II. They Should Return the Favor to Greece (Reader Supported News, 2-4-15)
The Next Syriza? As Greece Rejects Austerity, Meet the Activist Who Could Become Spain’s New PM (Democracy Now, 2-17-15)
Could Greece and Russia Crush the European Union? (National Interest, 2-18-15)
Greece’s Debt Due: What Greece Owes When (Wall Street Journal, 2-19-15)
Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Wants Austerity ... for the Rich (Truthdig, 2-25-15)
Other
The 5 Most Dangerous Nuclear Threats No One Is Talking About (The National Interest, 2-1-15)
Top UN Official Says 'Global War on Terror' Is Laying Waste to Human Rights (Common Dreams, 2-6-15)
Minsk-2: The Useless Agreement Which Everybody Wanted (Information Clearing House, 2-13-15)
Rape as a weapon of War, Made in the USA? (Global Research, 2-18-15 )
Why the rise of fascism is again the issue (John Pilger, 2-26-15)
February - 2015 - Religion
John Hagee: Obama's Treatment Of Benjamin Netanyahu Will Cause God To Destroy America (Right Wing Watch, 2-4-15)
Just As We Suspected: Plenty of Child P*rn Found At The Vatican (Church and State, 2-5-15)
Christian Militias Slaughtering African Muslims Because Christianity Is A Religion Of Peace (Addicting Info, 2-9-15)
‘The Crusades Were Great, Actually!’ (The Daily Beast, 2-10-15)
Media Hoax: 20 Muslims Holding Hands Become 1,000-Strong 'Ring of Peace' at Oslo Synagogue (Breitbart, 2-22-15)
Americans Turning Away From Organized Religion in Record Numbers (Alternet, 2-28-15)
February - 2015 - Politics
Obama Administration Gets Four Pinocchio Noses Over TPP Job Claims (Flush the TPP, 2-2-15)
Why Internet users all around the world should be worried about China’s Great Firewall (The Washington Post, 2-2-15)
Is Ukraine a Proxy Western-Russia War? U.S. Weighs Arming Kiev as Violence Soars (Democracy Now, 2-3-15)
Hillary Clinton’s Stonewalling of Peace Agreement with Libya: Bombshell Tapes Confirm Citizen Commission’s Findings on Benghazi (Global Research, 2-4-15)
Green Group Letter to Whitehouse (Libcloud, 2-5-15)
Lawmakers to Obama: Arm Ukraine now (The Hill, 2-5-15)
The Secret World of a Well-Paid ‘Donor Adviser’ in Politics (The New York Times, 2-5-15)
How ‘No Nukes’ Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (The Daily Beast, 2-6-15)
Rep. Alcee Hastings Says Old Texas Dildo Law Shows The State Is 'Crazy' (Huffington Post, 2-6-15)
Obama budget points to fall in federal pay compared with private sector (Washington Post, 2-8-15)
What happened with the GSA in Vegas Stymies Federal Workers (Politics, 2-8-15)
The True State of the Union 2015 (Huffington Post, 2-9-15)
Green Party may follow in Syriza’s footsteps | Dr. Jill Stein – 2016 U.S. presidential hopeful VIDEO (RT on YouTube, 2-9-15)
Federal Election Commission to Consider Regulating Online Political Speech (CNS News, 2-11-15)
Hillary Clinton’s best frenemies (Politico, 2-11-15)
Currency Battle Is Tethered to Obama Trade Agenda (The New York Times, 2-15-15)
Obama Won’t Wait for CISPA, Signs Own Orwellian Cybersecurity Executive Order (The Anti Media, 2-15-15)
How much debt did each president leave for the country? (The Washington Examiner, 2-16-15)
Risen: Obama administration is greatest enemy of press freedom (Politico, 2-17-15)
Democracy Is in Recession (The New York Times, 2-18-15 )
50 Million Down The Tubes: How 17 Conservative PACs Are Spending Their Money (Right Wing News, 2-18-15)
Obama’s Legacy: Permanent War and Liberal/Radical Accommodation? (Common Dreams, 2-18-15)
Kansas Guv Endangers Thousands of Gays (The Daily Beast, 2-19-15)
Red Badge of Courage: 37 Dems Publicly Break with Netanyahu's Tirade for War (Common Dreams, 2-20-15)
Ben Cardin’s creative proposal for tax reform (The Washington Post, 2-23-15)
Senior Obama Admin Official Arrested in Child Sex Sting (Controversial Times, 2-25-15)
Kerry Makes It Clear: Obama Wants Authority to Deploy Ground Troops in Iraq and Syria (Common Dreams, 2-25-15)
No Weapons to Ukraine: An Open letter to the U.S Senate (Global Research, 2-25-15)
Top Ukrainian Nazi Visits U.S. Congress, Pentagon, Canadian Parliament, Seeks Weapons for Ukraine (Global Research, 2-26-15)
Washington Has Destroyed Trust Between Nuclear Powers, Thus Raising The Specter Of Nuclear War (Global Research, 2-26-15)
"It's Easier to Get Laid at CPAC Than on Spring Break" (Mother Jones, 2-28-15)
February - 2015 - Education
An MBA is just a click away. What that means for brick and mortar schools (CNBC, 2-8-15)
Uncle Sam Losing Money on Student Loans (My Gov Cost, 2-10-15)
February - 2015 - Technology
Why Internet users all around the world should be worried about China’s Great Firewall (The Washington Post, 2-2-15)
The Riddle of Powering Electric Cars (The New York Times, 2-10-15)
Federal Election Commission to Consider Regulating Online Political Speech (CNS News, 2-11-15)
Tesla to unveil new battery to power homes, says Elon Musk (Raw Story, 2-12-15)
Why Tesla's battery for your home should terrify utilities (The Verge, 2-13-15)
Cyber-Security Firm: NSA-Linked Spyware Found in Hard Drives Worldwide (Common Dreams, 2-16-15)
How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley (Truthdig, 2-18-15)
Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections (Ars Technica, 2-19-15)
Google warning: FBI wants to hack any computer in world (RT, 2-19-15)
CIA looks to expand its cyber espionage capabilities (Washington Post, 2-23-15)
Internet Needs to Be “Regulated” to Suppress Videos and Search Results Deemed “Anti-Semitic”, French President Says (Global Research, 2-25-15)
February - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
HRW Claims US 'Most Powerful Proponent of Human Rights'? (Information Clearing House, 2-4-15)
CIA Torture Whistleblower: US Government Lacks "the Guts" to Face Its Crimes (Common Dreams, 2-20-15)
Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case’s undoing (The Washington Post, 2-22-15)
The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site' (The Guardian, 2-24-15)
February - 2015 - Miscellaneous
10 News Outlets Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Follow (The Pontiac Tribune, 2-18-15)
January- 2015 - Financial
Fareed Zakaria: American innovation is in trouble (Washington Post, 1-1-15)
Endangered Species: Young U.S. Entrepreneurs (The Wall Street Journal, 1-2-15)
Seven Troubling Trends for 2015 (Bloomberg View, 1-6-15)
Ominous Decline in the Health of America's Shopping Malls (Daily Finance, 1-7-15)
Raise the gas tax. A lot. (Washington Post, 1-8-15)
Community College Courtesy of the Federal Taxpayer? No Thanks (CATO Institute, 1-9-15)
The US 'manufacturing renaissance' doesn't exist, says new report (The Guardian, 1-12-15)
America's Achilles Heel: A Looming Financial Disaster Awaits (The National Interest, 1-14-15)
Surprising Findings Point to Perfect Storm Brewing in Your Financial Future (Alternet, 1-11-15)
Of More Than 3,000 U.S. Counties, Just 65 Have Recovered From Recession, NACo Says (The Wall Street Journal, 1-12-15)
Sens. Moran, Perdue Introduce "FairTax" Legislation (Jerry Moran, 1-13-15)
London's homes are worth as much as Brazil's economy (CNN, 1-13-15)
Paul Krugman Rejected by His Peers (The Independent Review, 1-19-15)
The State of the Economy, in Eight Charts (The Wall Street Journal, 1-18-15)
Bleak future for retirees as savings slashed (CNBC, 1-19-15)
The FairTax Makes a Comeback (National Review, 1-22-15)
The Woman Who Died From the Lethality of Economic Inequality (Truth-Out, 1-28-15)
Most Americans on Brink of Financial Disaster (Common Dreams, 1-30-15)
Why Is the Debt Rising Faster Than the Deficit? (MyGovCost, 1-30-15)
January- 2015 - Environmental
Where Have All the Cod Gone? (The New York Times, 1-1-15)
Nuclear power is the greenest option say top scientists (Independent, 1-4-15)
Cassin auklets found washed up near Tofino (CBC News, 1-6-15)
Dahr Jamail | The Methane Monster Roars (Truth-Out, 1-13-15)
Airpocalypse Now: Beijing's Toxic Smog Measures "Beyond Index" Levels (Mother Jones, 1-15-15)
Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists (The Guardian, 1-15-15)
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says (New York Times, 1-15-15)
Researchers Propose Earth’s ‘Anthropocene’ Age of Humans Began With Fallout and Plastics (The New York Times, 1-15-15)
That Was Easy: In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth (Common Dreams, 1-16-15)
A Carbon Offset Market for Trees (The New York Times, 1-19-15)
Climate Hawks Aren't Impressed With Obama's Methane Plan (Mother Jones, 1-20-15)
The Leading Cause of Death in Developing Countries Might Surprise You (Global Voices Online, 1-21-15)
A Haunting Timelapse Video Shows Arctic Sea Ice Slowly Slip Away (Slate, 1-23-15)
Obama's EPA breaks pledge to divorce politics from science on toxic chemicals (Public Integrity, 1-23-15)
Something Really, Really Terrible Is About to Happen to Our Coral (Mother Jones, 1-28-15)
The air pollution that's choking Asia (CNN, 1-30-15)
January- 2015 - Health
FDA: Make a Good Thing Even Better: Get Carcinogens Out of Condoms (Takepart Petition)
Why the Eyewear Industry Is An Incredible Rip-Off (Alternet, 1-5-15)
The Great Obamacare-Medicaid bait 'n' switch (CNBC, 1-12-15)
Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered and It Is Not What You Think (Alternet, 1-21-15)
Conservative Think Tank: 10 Countries With Universal Health Care Have Freer Economies Than The U.S. (Forbes, 1-27-15)
Sometimes, the sexual side effects are enough to force people off the medication (Alternet, 1-27-15)
January- 2015 - International
Asia
Why China Is Building The World's Largest "Coast Guard" Cutter (Fox Trot Alpha, 1-6-15)
China’s Great Firewall Gets Taller (The Wall Street Journal, 1-30-15)
Middle East
Obama has killed more people with drones than died on 9/11 (Global Research, 1-7-15)
Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah: Extremists Harm Islam More Than Cartoons (Huffington Post, 1-9-15)
Saudi Arabia blogger flogged 50 times out of 1,000 for 'insulting Islam', to be continued weekly (RT, 1-9-15)
How Alan Dershowitz bullied rape victims to protect a serial child molester (Electronic Intifada, 1-10-15)
Saudi blogger's flogging should outrage world (CNN, 1-13-15)
Another ‘Islamic State’? Boko Haram’s captured area about size of Slovakia (RT, 1-13-15)
Meet the star crossed lovers behind the Islamic State Centcom Hack (Foreign Policy, 1-14-15)
Has Saudi Arabia bought world's silence on human rights abuses? (CNN, 1-16-15)
IS Releases Images Of Man Killed For Being Gay (RFERL, 1-16-15)
Houthis take over Yemen presidential palace (Aljazeera, 1-20-15)
Netanyahu and His Wife Are Being Sued For ‘Racist and Physical Abuse’ of African Bodyguard and Maid (Counter Currents News, 1-26-15)
Seven Shocking Facts About Saudi Arabia under "Modernizing" Reign of King Abdullah (RT, 1-26-15)
Israel defender Alan Dershowitz has long history of attacking sex abuse victims (Electronic Intifada, 1-27-15)
Europe
The PODEMOS ‘Phenomenon’ and its Manifesto (The Socialist Network)
A Fetid Wind of Racism Hovers Over Europe (Counter Punch, 1-16-15)
A Muslim's Response to the 25,000 Anti-Islam Protesters in Germany (Huffington Post, 1-18-15)
Anti-Americanism hits Germany's streets (DW, 1-25-15)
Poland aims to thwart Putin's WWII ceremony (DW, 1-29-15)
Germany plans changes to Prostitution Act (DW, 1-30-15)
Greece:
Greece’s new prime minister wants Germany to pay for Nazi war crimes (Washington Post, 1-26-15)
This is SYRIZA’s New Government Plan in Detail (Greek Reporter, 1-28-15)
Trojan Hearse: Greek Elections and the Euro Leper Colony (TruthDig, 1-29-15)
The Artist Wife of Controversial New Greek Finance Minister (Greek Reporter, 1-29-15)
France and Charlie Hebdo
Charlie Hebdo writers once spearheaded effort to ban an entire political party (Top Conservative, 1-2015)
The biggest threat to French free speech isn’t terrorism. It’s the government. (Washington Post, 1-8-15)
45 Examples of Muslim Outrage About Charlie Hebdo Attack That Fox News Missed (Alternet, 1-9-15)
Charlie Hebdo and western liberalism (Aljazeera, 1-10-15)
One Student's Epic Tweets Call Out the Biggest Hypocrites Marching for Free Speech In Paris (World.Mic, 1-11-15)
50 World Leaders at Paris Anti-Terror Rally – HERE’S THE LIST (The Gateway Pundit, 1-11-15)
A Message From the Dispossessed: Chris Hedges (Truthdig, 1-11-15)
PM Netanyahu's Remarks at the Great Synagogue of Paris (Israeli Prime Minister's Office, 1-11-15)
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March (Mediaite, 1-12-15)
Benjamin Netanyahu ridiculed over appearance at Paris solidarity march (Telegraph, 1-12-15)
BBC reporter faces calls to resign after he tells daughter of Holocaust survivors after Paris attacks: 'Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well' (Daily Mail, 1-12-15)
Islamophobia Allowed, Anti-semitism Not – Charlie Hebdo’s Double Standards (Your News Wire, 1-13-15)
History Did Not Start in Paris on Sunday (Huffington Post, 1-13-15)
Official speeches and statements of january 13, 2015 (Base Doc, 1-13-15)
Europe's Muslims feel heat of backlash after Paris terror (Yahoo, 1-13-15)
Paris’ Place in the Middle Eastern Wars (TruthDig, 1-13-15)
Obama Was Right to Skip Paris (Politico, 1-15-15)
After Paris Attacks, Wrong Responses to Charlie Hebdo (The New York Times, 1-15-15)
Charlie Hebdo founder says murdered editor ‘overdid’ provocative cartoons (RT, 1-15-15)
French authorities accused of double standards over hate speech crackdown (RT, 1-15-15)
France’s much vaunted secularism is not the neutral space it claims to be (The Guardian, 1-16-15)
‘Death to blasphemers’: Muslims protest new Charlie Hebdo cartoons across the globe (RT, 1-16-15)
Charlie Hebdo cartoons give impetus to Pakistan's extremists (DW, 1-16-15)
France bans pro-Palestinian rallies as tensions increasingly mirror Israel-Gaza animosity (RT, 1-17-15)
“Netanyahu’s Safety in Paris”: Israel’s Shin Bet Security Force Manhandled France’s Prime Minister in Grand Synagogue, Netanyahu Insulted French Jewish Leadership (Global Research, 1-20-15)
French president’s Holocaust day speech presages crackdown on Palestine supporters (Electronic Intifada, 1-27-15)
France is your homeland’, Hollande tells French Jews (France, 1-27-15)
Marine Le Pen Leads French Presidential Poll (Huffington Post, 1-29-15)
Russia and Ukraine
‘CIA fingerprints’ all over Kiev massacre – Oliver Stone (RT, 1-2-15)
More Russia sanctions to provoke ‘dangerous situation’ in Europe – German vice-chancellor (RT, 1-4-15)
'Something wrong with Ukraine, EU’: Czech leader condemns ‘Nazi torchlight parade’ (RT, 1-4-15)
Russia's "Startling" Proposal To Europe: Dump The US, Join The Eurasian Economic Union (Zerohedge, 1-5-15)
Rebuilding the Obama-Putin Trust (Common Dreams, 1-5-15)
US Concerned About Russian Submarines with Nuclear Armed Cruise Missiles Near Washington (Atlantic Council, 1-6-15)
Vladimir Putin Saved Russia from Disintegration in the Wake of the Cold War, Gorbachev (Global Research, 1-7-15)
Peculiarities of Russian National Character (Club Orlov, 1-13-15)
Post-Soviet Russia: US Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Misrepresents Russia’s Vladimir Putin (Global Research, 1-17-15)
HRW urges Kiev to acknowledge cluster bomb use, stop indiscriminate killings in E. Ukraine (RT, 1-17-15)
Out Of My Face Please" - Why Are US Soldiers In Mariupol? (Zerohedge, 1-25-15)
January- 2015 - Religion
Europe’s Empty Churches Go on Sale (The Wall Street Journal, 1-2-15)
This is why they hate us: The truth about the roots of Muslim extremism (Salon, 1-25-15)
Billy Graham's Son Is One of America's Most Dangerous Islamophobes (Alternet, 1-28-15)
January- 2015 - Politics
Kansas is Totally Screwed (Mother Jones, 1-7-15)
Save the Children (STC) or “Save the War Criminal”: Tony Blair’s Business Philanthropy Mix “Remains Troubling” (Global Research, 1-7-15)
Insane New Policy Would Require Day Care Staff to Report Toddlers Who Are Terrorist Sympathizers (Alternet, 1-8-15)
“The rising tide has lifted fewer boats during the Obama years – and the ones it’s lifted have been mostly yachts.” (Against Crony Capitalism, 1-8-15)
Guantanamo's Shameful 13th Year (Aljazeera, 1-11-15)
Obama Admin’s Year-End Gift to the Oil Industry Quietly Allows Light Oil Exports (Nation of Change, 1-13-15)
Sens. Moran, Perdue Introduce "FairTax" Legislation (Jerry Moran, 1-13-15)
Ex-Republican Congressman Says Jihadists Should Behead Liberals On CNN, MSNBC (AUDIO) (Addicting Info, 1-15-15)
Obama Was Right to Skip Paris (Politico, 1-15-15)
Bill Moyers on LBJ and ‘Selma’ (Bill Moyers, 1-15-15)
Paul Ryan forcefully rejects bipartisan highway fix (MSNBC, 1-16-15)
It’s time for a revolution: Bankrupt policies, historic losses call for new generation of leaders (Salon, 1-18-15)
Libya: U.S. Generals Conclude Obama Backed Al-Qaida and Operated a Secret Gun-Running Program in Benghazi (Global Research, 1-20-15)
Obama’s ‘Mission Unaccomplished’ Moment (FP, 1-20-15)
Richard Engel Tears Into Obama's Misleading 'Tone' At State Of The Union Address (Huffington Post, 1-21-15)
‘What a dreamer!’ Rogozin ridicules Obama claim of Russian economy in ruins (RT, 1-21-15)
Obama Says Family Leave Is an Economic Necessity, Not Just a Women’s Issue (The New York Times, 1-21-15)
EXCLUSIVE: Davos Corporate Elite Debate the End of Democracy (Occupy Corporatism, 1-22-15)
Obama's EPA breaks pledge to divorce politics from science on toxic chemicals (Public Integrity, 1-23-15)
Andrew Cuomo Rebukes Teachers Unions: 'Don't Say You Represent the Students' (Reason, 1-25-15)
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case That Will Likely Wipe Out Public-Sector Unions (Slate, 1-30-15)
January- 2015 - Technology
If Cyberattacks Are Terror, Who’s the Biggest Terrorist? (National Interest, 1-7-15)
NSA develops cyber weapons, ‘attacker mindset’ for domination in digital war – Snowden leaks (RT, 1-17-15)
The State of Windows XP in Numbers (Malwarebytes Unpacked, 1-23-15)
No Free Parking for an App That Tried (The Wall Street Journal, 1-26-15)
A very real violation of privacy,' WikiLeaks editor says of Google email release (DW, 1-26-15)
January- 2015 - Miscellaneous
How Alan Dershowitz bullied rape victims to protect a serial child molester (Electronic Intifada, 1-10-15)
Need a Summer Job? Date a Sugar Daddy (Pittsburgh, 1-13-15)
America's 'Crusader' Media (National Interest, 1-15-15)
The Future of Sex According to VICE (VICE, 1-16-15)
New Snowden Documents Indicate Scope of Preparations for Cyber Battle (Spiegel, 1-17-15)
Head of US state media put RT on same challenge list as ISIS, Boko Haram (RT, 1-23-14)
The US' Dark Empire Has Secret Operations in Over 100 Countries (Alternet, 1-24-15)
This is why they hate us: The truth about the roots of Muslim extremism (Salon, 1-25-15)