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Taxes for 34 Countries Ranked. (CNN Money, 12-20-15)
A Crisis Worse Than Islamic State? Bank ‘Bail-Ins’ Begin (Truthdig, 12-29-15)
December - 2015 - Environmental
Bloomberg Carbon Clock (Bloomberg)
The Pope's Most Powerful Quotes About Climate Change (Huffington Post, 12-1-15)
"The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn": Former Bolivian Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón (Democracy Now, 12-1-15)
Poison Fire - the movie (Poison Fire, 12-2-15)
Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say (The Guardian, 12-2-15)
Ten Reasons Why Large Hydropower Is a False Solution to Climate Change (Common Dreams, 12-4-15)
U.S. Accused of Shifting Responsibility of Climate Crisis Despite Role as Largest Historic Polluter (Democracy Now, 12-4-15)
Astronauts have a moving message about climate change for world leaders. (On Earth, 12-8-15)
US Should Join French and Civil Society in Initiative to Solve Global Warming with Regenerative Farming Plan (Common Dreams, 12-10-15)
Interactive map: Historical emissions around the world (Carbon Brief, 12-12-15)
The Ocean Is Contaminated by Trillions More Pieces of Plastic Than Thought (Take Part, 12-15-15)
These Fish Started Life as Boys. Now Scientists Aren't Sure What Sex They Are. (Organic Consumers, 12-30-15)
December - 2015 - International
Britain is on the verge of entering into a long war in Syria based on wishful thinking and poor information (The Independent, 12-1-15)
Syria vote: David Cameron ignores repeated calls to apologise (Facebook, 12-1-15)
Chilling Video May Show NATO Member State Greeting and Providing Refuge to ISIS Militants (Alternet, 12-2-15)
Xinjiang violence: Does China have a terror problem? (CNN, 12-3-15)
In Paris, Negotiators Trim a Draft Climate Agreement, Climate Scientists Press for Nuclear Energy, Activists Prepare for Failure (International New York Times, 12-4-15)
In Nigeria, Chinese Investment Comes With a Downside (New York Times, 12-5-15)
Paris, Peace, and Humanity on the Precipice (Common Dreams, 12-5-15)
Era of ignoring Saudi terror sponsorship over: Germany (Press TV, 12-6-15)
RUSSIA TO BECOME WORLD’S LARGEST SUPPLIER OF ORGANIC FOOD (My Science Academy, 12-6-15)
‘Hopefully, no nukes will be needed’ against ISIS – Putin (RT, 12-9-15)
Yes, Really, Destroy ISIS With Turboprop Light Attack Aircraft (National Interest, 12-9-15)
Bacteria Resistant to All Drugs Shows up in Denmark (My Science Academy, 12-09-15)
Ukraine 'On the Cusp' of an All-Out War - Biden (Sputnik News, 12-10-15)
Fukushima report declassified: Worse than we were told (RT, 12-12-15)
“An Accidental Nuclear War between the U.S. and Russia is Possible”. Nuclear Holocaust in Just 30 Minutes – Former US Navy Advisor (Global Research, 12-13-15)
Bashar Al-Assad Has More Popular Support than the Western-Backed “Opposition”: Poll (Global Research, 12-14-15)
Young people vote far-right in Europe (DW, 12-14-15)
Bashar Al-Assad Has More Popular Support than the Western-Backed “Opposition”: Poll (Global Research, 12-14-15)
Germany: Web giants pledge to delete hate speech in 24 hours (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-15-15)
A Blind Eye Toward Turkey’s Crimes (Common Dreams, 12-16-15)
The Child Martyrs of Pakistan (New York Times, 12-16-15)
Pakistan’s Failed War On Ideology (Foreign Policy, 12-18-15)
India Is Building a Top-Secret Nuclear City to Produce Thermonuclear Weapons, Experts Say (Foreign Policy, 12-18-15)
Joe Scarborough's 'Putin Kills Journalists' Charge Totally Demolished (Russia Insider, 12-18-15)
China Just Launched the Most Frightening Game Ever — and Soon It Will Be Mandatory (The Anti-Media, 12-21-15)
Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis (Global Post, 12-22-15)
French Peacekeepers Sexually Abuse African Children, Bestiality Rumored (Sputnik, 12-23-15)
Saw it Coming: Daesh Now Has US-Made TOW Missiles (Sputnik News, 12-26-15)
A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack (Common Dreams, 12-27-15)
US Wars Created Daesh 'Monster' - German Politician (Sputnik News, 12-29-15)
December - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
The U.S. Is A World Leader In Gun Deaths (NPR, 12-8-15)
Why bans on so-called ‘assault weapons’ are unlikely to reduce mass shooting deaths (Washington Post, 12-8-15)
Top 10 Signs the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World (Juan Cole, 12-10-15)
US Nuclear Weapons Complex Leaves 'Legacy of Death on American Soil' (Common Dreams, 12-11-15)
‘Is Islam Compatible With American Values?’: Watch CNN Anchor’s Reaction, Response to Famous Pastor’s Answer (The Blaze, 12-15-15)
December - 2015 - Health
Bacteria Resistant to All Drugs Shows up in Denmark (My Science Academy, 12-09-15)
December - 2015 - Political
14 Percent of Democrats Will Not Support Hillary Clinton. Only Bernie Sanders Prevents Low Voter Turnout (Huffington Post, 12-2-15)
Poll: Sanders more electable than Hillary against top Republicans (The Hill, 12-2-15)
Former Defense Secretary Warns US is Pushing Towards Nuclear Apocalypse (Sputnik News, 12-3-15)
Hilary 2016? Benn's ‘career-defining’ speech could see him challenge Corbyn for Labour leader (RT, 12-3-15)
It's Messed Up for Democrats to Use the No-Fly List to Push for Gun Laws (Common Dreams, 12-5-15)
Here's Why the ACLU Is Suing the Government over the No-Fly List—and Winning (Reason, 12-7-15)
Donald Trump Stands by Barring Muslims Despite Bipartisan Criticism (ABC News, 12-8-15)
To My Old Friend Donald Trump, Stop The Bullsh*t by Russell Simmons (Global Grind, 12-8-15)
Groups Cry Foul as Congress Readies 'Super Bill of Pure Terribleness' (Common Dreams, 12-9-15)
British Parliament Set To Ban Trump After 211,000 Sign Petition Demanding It (Occupy Democrats, 12-9-15)
Hillary Clinton Called Out for Hypocrisy on Islamophobia (Common Dreams, 12-10-15)
How Obama’s power plays set the stage for Trump (Washington Post, 12-10-15)
Trump Is a Symptom Not the Disease (Common Dreams, 12-11-15)
Memo to politicians: It is a very bad idea to speculate about how many Muslims advocate terrorism (Washington Post, 12-11-15)
Ted Cruz Implies He Would Nuke ISIS Targets (Truth-Out, 12-11-15)
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth (Global Research, 12-12-15)
Merkel, Obama, Erdogan ‘Liars of the Year’ - Poll (Sputnik News, 12-13-15)
Mike Rowe to Bernie Sanders: Stop Telling Everyone College is The Only Thing (Reason, 12-15-15)
Video Compilation of Hillary Clinton Lying (Facebook, 12-16-15)
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act (Zero Hedge, 12-18-15)
Republican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism—and So Do Democrats (Common Dreams, 12-24-15)
December - 2015 - Technology
No, Mark Zuckerberg is not donating 99% of his Facebook stock to charity (Tech Insider, 12-1-15)
Do Not Be Impressed by Mark Zuckerberg's Phony Generosity (Common Dreams, 12-3-15)
How Mark Zuckerberg’s Altruism Helps Himself (New York Times, 12-3-15)
Google Spying on 40 Million K-12 Students, Privacy Advocates Call for Federal Sanctions (Alternet, 12-4-15)
Eric Schmidt on How to Build a Better Web (New York Times, 12-7-15)
Give Us Back Our Data (Aljazeera, 12-7-15)
Everything you need to know about encryption: Hint, you’re already using it. (Washington Post, 12-8-15)
Germany: Web giants pledge to delete hate speech in 24 hours (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-15-15)
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act (Zero Hedge, 12-18-15)
Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA (Wired, 12-22-15)
December - 2015 - Social
James Deen’s Alleged Assaults Were Ignored, Laughed Off by Casts and Crews (Slate, 12-2-15)
Joanna Angel Recounts Details of Relationship With Deen (AVN, 12-2-15)
The coming middle-class tax increase (Washington Post, 11-1-15)
'Absolute Crap' But Brilliant: Corporate America's Plan to 'Misbehave Without Reproach (Common Dreams, 11-1-15)
America is full of high-earning poor people (Quartz, 11-3-15)
Baby boomers are what’s wrong with America’s economy (Washington Post, 11-5-15)
A Record Share of Young Women Are Living at Home (The Wall Street Journal, 11-11-15)
Will Solar Energy Plummet if the Investment Tax Credit Fades Away? (The Wall Street Journal, 11-15-15)
November - 2015 - Environmental
More Than Half of Entire Species of Saigas Gone in Mysterious Die-Off (New York Times, 11-2-15)
Hydropower Will Undermine COP21 as ‘False Solution’ to Climate Change (Eco Watch, 11-2-15)
The Dark Truth About Adélie Penguins Was Kept Secret For More Than A Hundred Years (KE Edited) (IFL Science, 11-2-15)
Is the USDA Silencing Scientists? (The Atlantic, 11-3-15)
Globalization and Terror (Common Dreams, 11-3-15)
The Costs of Solar Energy to the Environment (New York Times, 11-3-15)
A video of a Toxic Mud Flood in South East Brazil (Facebook, 11-26-15)
Bill Gates launches multi-billion dollar clean energy fund (Money, 11-29-15)
November - 2015 - International
VIDEO: Israeli Officers Threaten to Gas Kids to Death at Refugee Camp (Sputnik News, 11-2-15)
Meet the Nigerian woman taking on Boko Haram (Aljazeera, 11-4-15)
Buddhism Loses Ground in Japan - Over 27,000 Temples Will Close In The Next 25 Years (United Humanists, 11-7-15)
'Arctic ice breaker: Russia leads America, 27-1' (RT, 11-11-15)
A star-studded protest in India (Aljazeera, 11-12-15)
America versus Russia: Who Are the Real Supporters of International Terrorism? (Global Research, 11-12-15)
Bolivia: For Journalism (DW, 11-13-15)
My people’s deaths in Beirut do not matter as much as my other people’s deaths in Paris (The Daily Vox, 11-14-15)
Some observations about the carnage in Paris (The Angry Arab News Service, 11-14-15)
Our terrorism double standard: After Paris, let’s stop blaming Muslims and take a hard look at ourselves (Salon, 11-14-15)
My people’s deaths in Beirut do not matter as much as my other people’s deaths in Paris (The Daily Vox, 11-14-15)
Buddhist Monks Issue Death Threats to Social Activists For Teaching Sexual Health (United Humanists, 11-15-15)
VIDEO: Manufacturing Terror: How Saudi Arabia Helped Create Islamic State (Truthdig, 11-16-15)
Abdel Bari Atwan: Inside How the U.S. & Saudi Arabia Aided Growth of the Islamic State (Democracy Now, 11-17-15)
Mongolian trade unionist burns himself alive in a shocking act of protest (VIDEO) (RT, 11-17-15)
Pakistan Military Expands Its Power, and Is Thanked for Doing So (New York Times, 11-17-15)
Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it? (The Guardian, 11-18-15)
ISIL and the West: A clash of savageries (ISIL and the West: A Clash of Savageries, 11-19-15)
The Islamic State's Dream: A Post-Paris "Clash of Civilizations" (Truth-Out, 11-19-15)
Links between Turkey and ISIS are now ‘undeniable’ (Global Research, 11-19-15)
Pakistan's 'most radical mosque' back in spotlight (DW, 11-20-15)
President Al-Assad Interview: “From the Very First Day, We Were Determined to Fight Terrorism” (Global Research, 11-20-15)
Israel dropped 800 tons of bombs on Gaza, the world didn’t blink an eye (The Iran Project, 11-23-15)
Why Russia needs China to buy its weapons (DW, 11-24-15)
Siding With ISIL? Turkey Spotted Dealing With Radical Islamists in Syria (Sputnik News, 11-24-15)
Turkey's Military Equipment Explained (Business Insider, 11-24-15)
Syria's Turkmen Rebels - The Group at The Center of The Russian Turkey Clash (Washington Post, 11-24-15)
Does Turkey's Downing of Russian Warplane Portend Deeper Disaster To Come? (Common Dreams, 11-24-15)
France Begin Shutting Down Alternative News Websites (Your News Wire, 11-26-15)
Syria: Stalingrad of Western 'Regime Changers' (Sputnik News, 11-27-15)
The Dirty War on Syria (Global Research, 11-27-15)
Russia hits back at Turkey by changing Syria 'game' (Aljazeera, 11-29-15)
November - 2015 - U.S. Foreign Policy
The Wickedness of Our Foreign Policy (Reason, 11-1-15)
Al Aqsa TV Chronicles Palestinian Uprising, Keeping Hamas in Picture (New York Times, 11-14-15)
Former Drone Pilots to Obama: Civilian Killings Driving 'Terrorism, Instability' (Common Dreams, 11-18-15)
Pakistani army chief's 'futile' US visit (DW, 11-19-15)
Retired US Air Force General: Turkey Broke International Law (Russia Insider, 11-27-15)
Could U.S.-Russia Tensions Go Nuclear? (Politico, 11-27-15)
November - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
Despair, American Style (New York Times, 11-9-15)
The US government is already lying like crazy about surveillance after the Paris attacks (The Verge, 11-16-15)
Texas Women Are Inducing Their Own Abortions (The Atlantic, 11-17-15)
Bridges, Broadband, Water Mains — What to Fix First? (New York Times, 11-24-15)
November - 2015 - Health
Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Amazon)
New Study: You Probably Have Herpes (Alternet, 11-2-15)
What we know (and mostly don't) about the science behind Theranos (CNN, 11-12-15)
The “modern” workplace doesn’t just make us lonely, it can make us physically ill (Quartz, 11-12-15)
Superbugs breach final antibiotic line of defence (Irish Times, 11-19-15)
‘Post-antibiotic era’ looms amid unregulated drugs market – UK govt review (RT, 11-20-15)
Contaminating Our Bodies With Everyday Products (New York Times, 11-29-15)
November - 2015 - Religion
Why are we so surprised by the less-than-pious lives of religious terrorists? (The Washington Post, 11-20-15)
Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather To Be ‘Inspired’ — Not Just Mosques (Think Progress, 11-20-15)
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority (Politico, 11-23-15)
Christian group's survey finds that Christians have highest abortion rates by a lot (Daily KOS, 11-30-15)
November - 2015 - Political
Ben Carson's file (Politifact, 2015)
The coming middle-class tax increase (Washington Post, 11-1-15)
A Hillary Clinton Presidency Would be a Disaster, A Nightmare for Americans (Global Research, 11-2-15)
Ben Carson: Archaeologists Are Wrong, The Pyramids Were Built To Store Grain (Talking Points Memo, 11-4-15)
The 2015 election tightened the Republican stranglehold on state government (Washington Post, 11-4-15)
Bernie Sanders Shatters All-Time Record For Most Individual Donors (Occupy Democrats, 11-5-15)
Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point 'scholarship' but never applied (Politico, 11-6-15)
Why Obama Won’t Challenge Burma’s ‘Lady’ (Politico, 11-7-15)
Hypocrite Ben Carson Caught Lying About Receiving Award For “Honesty” (Occupy Democrats, 11-7-15)
Release the Records: Ben Carson vs. Barack Obama, College Edition (The Blaze, 11-9-15)
Je Suis Scumbag: Charlie Hebdo Mocks Victims of Russian Plane Crash (Russia Insider, 11-9-15)
Sen. Tom Cotton: Social Security benefits cause people to ‘spiral downward’ into heroin addiction (Raw Story, 11-9-15)
In new shock poll, Sanders has landslides over both Trump and Bush (The Hill, 11-11-15)
Hillary Clinton is on the wrong side of everything: Stop telling me I have to vote for her because of the Supreme Court (Ring of Fire, 11-12-15)
Ted Cruz and Rand Paul’s hidden tax (Washington Post, 11-12-15)
Why aren’t Hillary Clinton’s exaggerations of her life story bigger news? (The Washington Post, 11-12-15)
New Report Reveals Bush Administration Ignored Dire Pre-9/11 Warning (Think Progress, 11-12-15)
The GOP Race Just Keeps Getting More Chaotic (Slate, 11-13-15)
Ex-CIA director: White House ignored months of warnings about 9/11 to avoid leaving ‘paper trail’ of culpability (Raw Story, 11-13-15)
Viewers Tune Out, Voters Lose Out as DNC Buries Democratic Debate (Common Dreams, 11-16-15)
Democratic Socialism: Let Us Finish What FDR and MLK Started (Common Dreams, 11-19-15)
41 years. $3 billion. Inside the Clinton donor network (Washington Post, 11-19-15)
Clinton Sheds Progressive Façade with Bold Rightward Lurch (Common Dreams, 11-19-15)
Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather To Be ‘Inspired’ — Not Just Mosques (Think Progress, 11-20-15)
'Terrorism for Dummies': Clinton’s Neo-Conservativsm Is Simply Dangerous (Common Dreams, 11-20-15)
A Compilation of Hillary Lies (Facebook, 11-20-15)
Believe It: Trump Can Defeat Hillary (The Nation, 11-20-15)
US Congressmen to Obama: Forget Assad, Fight ISIL (Sputnik News, 11-20-15)
Top Clinton donor and “Koch Brother of Israel” supports profiling and “intense” interrogation of refugees (Salon, 11-20-15)
From Ocean to Ocean: Bernie Sanders Wants Russia to Be Part of NATO (Sputnik News, 11-21-15)
Ben Carson Isn’t the Only US Politician With a Hand in Shady Latin American Dealings (The Nation, 11-25-15)
The Age of the Demagogues (Truthdig, 11-29-15)
November - 2015 - Technology
The Cyberthreat Under the Street (New York Times, 11-7-15)
How the TPP Could Blow Up the Free Internet as We Know It (Alternet, 11-9-15)
The 911 System Isn’t Ready for the iPhone Era (New York Times, 11-23-15)
What these photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about the future of work (The Washington Post, 11-30-15)
How Big Tech Convinced Us to Become Our Own Informants (Alternet, 11-30-15)
The staggering cost of day care when you make only the minimum wage (Washington Post, 10-6-15)
'Out of Control' Inequality: Global One Percent Owns Half of World's Wealth (Common Dreams, 10-14-15)
Richest 1% own 53% of India’s wealth (Live Mint, 10-14-15)
Look inside Amazon's giant warehouses ahead of the coming Christmas rush (Business Insider, 10-14-15)
1 percent of the world's people control 50 percent of its wealth (VOX, 10-15-15)
Excessive drinking is draining America's economy (CBS News, 10-16-15)
Amazon hiring more than Penney's, Walmart combined (Yahoo, 10-20-15)
Goodbye Middle Class: 51 Percent Of All American Workers Make Less Than 30,000 Dollars A Year (End of the American Dream, 10-20-15)
Why Community Banks Are Dropping Like Flies Across America (Alternet, 10-21-15)
Elizabeth Warren’s claim that the bottom 90 percent got ‘zero percent’ of wage growth after Reagan (Washington Post, 10-23-15)
Which Republican Has the Most Delusional Tax Plan? Here’s a Handy Graphic (Slate, 10-28-15)
Payday Loans Cost the Poor Billions, and There’s an Easy Fix (New York Times, 10-29-15)
October - 2015 - Environmental
Who Owns Organic? (Cornucopia, 10-1-15)
Are Your Children Roundup-Ready? (Cornucopia, 10-1-15)
We're Surrounded by Way More Chemicals Than We Thought, and These Doctors Say We're Screwed (Mother Jones, 10-1-15)
Honeybees Are Facing a Global Threat, and If They Go, So Do We (Alternet, 10-6-15)
The Company Determined to Fix Nuclear Energy (The Atlantic, 10-13-15)
Toxic Influence: How a Chemical Industry Trade Group You've Never Heard of Threatens Your Health (Huffington Post, 10-19-15)
X-ray technology reveals California's forests are in for a radical transformation (LA Times, 10-20-15)
We dump 8 million tons of plastic into the ocean each year. Where does it all go? (Vox, 10-21-15)
Haunting Photos From Scuba Divers Across the World Show Devastating Impact of Ocean Plastic (One Green Planet, 10-25-15)
OBAMA’S LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS? (Earth Justice, 10-27-15)
Photos Show 1,000-Year Flood Striking Death Valley (Huffington Post, 10-30-15)
October - 2015 - Health
Major Medical Groups Increasingly Warning Of Toxic Chemical Risks To Unborn Babies (Huffington Post, 10-22-15)
October - 2015 - International
President orders Moscow monument to victims of political repressions (RT, 10-1-15)
Photographer captures haunting images of Syria's lost children (Mashable, 10-2-15)
Russia “Violated” Turkish Airspace Because Turkey “Moved” Its Border (Global Research, 10-6-15)
How Europe Conquered the World (Foreign Affairs, 10-7-15)
In Israel, A New Battle Over Who Qualifies As Jewish (NPR, 10-10-15)
'Capitalism is Mother Earth's Cancer': World People's Summit Issues 12 Demands (Common Dreams, 10-12-15)
Bolivia's Morales blames capitalism for climate change (Aljazeera, 10-13-15)
Is the China Model Better Than Democracy? (Foreign Policy, 10-19-15)
Harry Potter author JK Rowling leads resistance to cultural boycott of Israel (RT, 10-23-15)
From the mountains to the sea: A Chinese vision, a Pakistani corridor (Washington Post, 10-23-15)
Netanyahu’s Blood Libel Against Palestinians (Truthdig, 10-23-15)
Turkish Whistleblowers Corroborate Story on False Flag Sarin Attack in Syria (Global Research, 10-23-15)
Hersh Vindicated? Turkish Whistleblowers Corroborate Story on False Flag Sarin Attack in Syria (Counter Punch, 10-23-15)
The ‘Donald Trump of Guatemala’ was just elected president (The Washington Post, 10-26-15)
China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system (BBC, 10-26-15)
Hero Ibrahim Ahmad: The original female Peshmerga (Aljazeera, 10-29-15)
Myanmar's 'Muslim-free' election (Aljazeera, 10-29-15)
October - 2015 - U.S. Foreign Relations
Why Foreign Troops Can't fight our fights (Washington Post, 10-2-15)
The 'hippo trench' across Africa: US military quietly builds giant security belt in middle of continent (Mail and Guardian Africa, 10-15-15)
Afghan Plan to Expand Militia Raises Abuse Concerns (New York Times, 10-16-15)
Stephen Cohen: Washington an Obstacle to Peaceful Multipolar World (Sputnik News, 10-25-15)
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Special Ops ‘Successes’ (Truthdig, 10-26-15)
One Year After Murder Of Journalist Who Had Revealed ISIS-Turkey-US Link, MSM, WH Silent (Anonhq, 10-30-15)
October - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
The War on Women is Over and Women Lost (Mother Jones, October 2015)
‘Camping’ on Your Own Land is Now Illegal — Govt Waging War on Off-Grid Living (The Free Thought Project, 10-2-15)
Here’s a way the government can easily get your phone records without even asking a judge (The Washington Post, 10-5-15)
Hard to Believe: In Most States, Child Care Is Now More Expensive Than College Tuition (Alternet, 10-12-15)
PEW: ANNUAL FIREARM-RELATED HOMICIDES DOWN NEARLY 50 PERCENT FROM 20 YEARS AGO (Breitbart, 10-24-15)
After a public kiss, vacationing lesbian couple violently arrested in Hawaii by off-duty cop (Daily KOS, 10-29-15)
October - 2015 - Education
How a $100M Facebook Donation for Neoliberal School Reform Sparked a Grassroots Uprising in Newark (Democracy Now, 10-21-15)
What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About Germany’s Free College (Reason, 10-22-15)
Free speech is flunking out on college campuses (Washington Post, 10-22-15)
Higher Education: Capitalism at Its Most Despicable (Truthdig, 10-26-15)
October - 2015 - Political
A Clinton Email Scandal Checklist (The Wall Street Journal, 10-1-15)
Republican extremists allow most successful parks program to die (Daily KOS, 10-2-15)
Go Ahead, Back Hillary Clinton and Forget All About Her Record (Nation of Change, 10-13-15)
Why You Actually Should Care About Hillary Clinton's Damn Emails (VICE, 10-14-15)
Investigation into Hillary's email server focuses on Espionage Act and could get her 10 years in jail (Daily Mail, 10-16-15)
Rand Paul: Bernie Sanders’ Universal Healthcare & Education Will Lead To Genocide (Occupy Democrats, 10-16-15)
The Clintons and the Emirates (The Wall Street Journal, 10-16-15)
Was George W. Bush President On 9/11? An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart (Think Progress, 10-17-15)
More CEOs donate to Clinton than to any GOP candidate (CNBC, 10-20-15)
What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About Germany’s Free College (Reason, 10-22-15)
Elizabeth Warren’s claim that the bottom 90 percent got ‘zero percent’ of wage growth after Reagan (Washington Post, 10-23-15)
Ignoring U.S. Destabilization of Libya, GOP Benghazi Hearing Asks Clinton All the Wrong Questions (Democracy Now, 10-23-15)
Hillary Clinton Is Stepping Up Her Smear Campaign Against Bernie (Slate, 10-23-15)
Why Donald Trump Should Be Taken Seriously on Foreign Policy (Foreign Policy, 10-27-15)
The Real Benghazi Scandal Everyone Is Missing (National Interest, 10-28-15)
The devastating potential of an extreme solar storm and what the White House is doing about it (Washington Post, 10-29-15)
'Total propaganda'? Turns out, Ben Carson had a contract with dodgy supplement maker (Daily KOS, 10-30-15)
Cruz, Jindal And Huckabee To Join Multiple Speakers Who Want Gays Put To Death (Right Wing Watch, 10-30-15)
October - 2015 - Technology
Global Coalition to Facebook: 'Authentic Names' Are Authentically Dangerous for Your Users (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 10-5-15)
Electromagnetic Pulse: One Day We Will Wake Up In An America Without Electricity And Society Will Totally Break Down (Michael Snyder, 10-6-15)
New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos (Ars Technica, 10-21-15)
Censorship on Rise as Global Internet Freedom Continues Downward Spiral (Common Dreams, 10-28-15)
U.S. Tech Giants May Blur National Security Boundaries in China Deals (New York Times, 10-30-15)
October - 2015 - History
How Europe Conquered the World (Foreign Affairs, 10-7-15)
Low-Income Workers See Biggest Drop in Paychecks (New York Times, 9-2-15)
Public Pension Funds Roll Back Return Targets (The Wall Street Journal, 9-4-15)
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion Just By Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Think Progress, 9-8-15)
S&P Cuts Brazil's Credit Rating to Junk (Financial Times, 9-10-15)
Citi's Chief Economist Says China Is 'Financially Out of Control' (Bloomberg, 9-11-15)
Ocean fish numbers on 'brink of collapse': WWF (Reuters, 9-16-15)
WSJ-Cited Economist Says Bernie's Plan SAVES the US $5.081 Trillion on Health Care (Daily KOS, 9-16-15)
The New Bond Market: Bigger, Riskier and More Fragile Than Ever (The Wall Street Journal, 9-21-15)
IMF Flashes Warning Lights for $18 Trillion in Emerging-Market Corporate Debt (The Wall Street Journal, 9-29-15)
Saudi royal writes letters calling for regime change (The Washington Post, 9-29-15)
September - 2015 - Environmental
Vanishing glaciers of Alaska (CBS News, September 2015)
New Study Shows How Climate Change Is Already Reshaping The Earth (Climate Progress, 9-3-15)
Devastating photos of the world’s deforestation (ZME Science, 9-4-15)
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion Just By Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Think Progress, 9-8-15)
The US Owes the World $4 Trillion for Trashing the Climate (Motherboard, 9-9-15)
The Next Genocide (New York Times, 9-12-15)
David Attenborough backs huge Apollo-style clean energy research plan (The Guardian, 9-16-15)
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade (Truthdig, 9-21-15) Report (PDF)
Warning: TTIP Aims To Defang Local Rules Against Hazardous Chemicals (Common Dreams, 9-22-15)
Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic Ocean (The Washington Post, 9-24-15)
Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history (The Guardian, 9-25-15)
September - 2015 - Health
Confirmed: One-third of the vets on VA's waiting list are dead (Examiner, 9-2-15)
50% US adults have diabetes or pre-diabetes - study (RT, 9-9-15)
Giant Viruses Frozen for Millennia in Siberian Permafrost May Wreak Havoc (Sputnik News, 9-9-15)
An Aging Population, Without the Doctors to Match (New York Times, 9-22-15)
10 of the Worst Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American History (Alternet, 9-24-15)
The Rising Risk of a Contaminated Blood Supply (The Wall Street Journal, 9-27-15)
Diabetes, obesity linked to chemical exposure – Endocrine Society (RT, 9-29-15)
September - 2015 - International
How Ghanaian Artist Azizaa Is Challenging Christianity's Grip On Ghana (The Fader, 9-2-15)
Heartbreaking Images of Drowned Refugee Boy Requires Humanity Take Action (Revolution News, 9-2-15)
Britain's battleship of the future (CNN, 9-2-15)
The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees (The Washington Post, 9-4-15)
Gaza water shortage catastrophic: ‘We can’t drink, cook or wash with it’ (RT, 9-6-15)
Russia is building a nuclear-armed drone submarine (Business Insider, 9-9-15)
Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked (The Daily Beast, 9-9-15)
Migrant Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines (Mint Press News, 9-9-15)
The German Prostitution Model: Reducing Violence Against Sex Workers (Fair Observer, 9-13-13)
The future of Gaza looks bleak (Aljazeera, 9-15-15)
Why China Is Turning Back to Confucius (The Wall Street Journal, 9-20-15)
‘Extremism’: Russia reviews code for rehabilitation of Stalinist crimes (RT, 9-21-15)
Xi Gives America Inc. a Reality Check (The Wall Street Journal, 9-22-15)
What Happened to South African Democracy (New York Times, 9-22-15)
The Rape of Afghanistan (Anti-War, 9-23-15)
US Targets Bolivia With Secret Drug Indictments Against Evo Morales’ Government (Mint Press News, 9-23-15)
A Spanish mayor's left turn on housing (Aljazeera, 9-24-15)
US special operations forces deployed to 135 countries in 2015 - report (RT, 9-25-15)
Austrian right makes huge poll gains over migrant fears (DW, 9-27-15)
Medics: 131 killed in airstrike on Yemen wedding party (USA Today, 9-29-15)
September - 2015 - U.S. Foreign Relations
14 Years After 9/11, the War on Terror Is Accomplishing Everything bin Laden Hoped It Would (The Nation, 9-8-15)
CIA Ops Finally Revealed: What the US Ambassador in Benghazi was Really Doing (Global Research, 9-8-15)
The United States Probably Has More Foreign Military Bases Than Any Other People, Nation, or Empire in History (The Nation, 9-14-15)
More Civilians Killed by US Drone Strikes Than Al-Qaeda Terrorists (Sputnik News, 9-15-15)
'Total failure': Only '4 or 5' US-trained rebels are fighting in Syria, US general says (RT, 9-16-15)
Down the Memory Hole: NYT Erases CIA’s Efforts to Overthrow Syria’s Government (FAIR, 9-20-15)
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies (New York Times, 9-20-15)
Noam Chomsky: The United States, Not Iran, Poses Greatest Threat to World Peace (Democracy Now, 9-22-15)
Marine Forced into Retirement After Beating up US-Protected Pedophile (The Antimedia, 9-22-15)
Obama’s Flak Demeans Putin’s Posture (Information Clearing House, 9-25-15)
U.S.-trained fighters in Syria gave equipment to al-Qaeda affiliate (Washington Post, 9-25-15)
Obama Snub Likely to Set Tone for Abbas' UN Speech (Haaretz, 9-29-15)
September - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
The fishy claim that ‘100,000 children’ in the United States are in the sex trade (The Washington Post, 9-2-15)
The Real Enemy Is Within [Chris Hedges] (Truth Dig, 9-6-15)
The Nightmare Since 9/11 — 14 Years of War, Torture and Kidnappings (Alternet, 9-8-15)
The Story of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Filmmakers and the CIA Just Got Creepier (Truthdig, 9-9-15)
Former CIA leaders release book defending brutal tactics (AOL, 9-9-15)
1/2 of Americans see their government as threat – poll (RT, 9-22-15)
September - 2015 - Religion
Why You Need to Understand Evangelical Christianity's Outrageous and Influential Far-Right Fringe (Alternet, 9-1-15)
Petition to make bigoted clerk following 'God's Laws' be stoned for adultery (Addicting Info, 9-2-15)
Why Is the ‘Radical Pope’ About to Canonize a Priest Who Helped Enslave and Murder Native Americans? (Alternet, 9-21-15)
September - 2015 - Education
Should Sex Ed Be Mandatory? (The Daily Beast, 9-3-15)
September - 2015 - Politics
Hillary Parties Like It’s 1938 (The Wall Street Journal, 9-2-15)
Return of the Wahhabis: The Al-Qaeda connection & plausible political deniability (RT, 9-9-15)
Clinton Campaign Coordinating Directly With SuperPAC Running Negative Bernie Ads (Reverb Press, 9-15-15)
Carly Fiorina, Marijuana Did Not Kill Your Step-Daughter (Marijuana Politics, 9-21-15)
Progressive Groups Release Letter Urging DNC Chair to Host Additional Presidential Debates (Move On, 9-21-15)
Donald Trump sends Club for Growth cease and desist letter (Politico, 9-22-15)
Jeb Bush: The Pope Shouldn't Discuss Climate Change Because 'He's Not A Scientist' (Huffington Post, 9-24-15)
Double suicide: the presidential campaign of 2015 (Washington Post, 9-24-15)
Obama’s Flak Demeans Putin’s Posture (Information Clearing House, 9-25-15)
September - 2015 - Technology
Britain's battleship of the future (CNN, 9-2-15)
Musk-have WiFi: Internet everywhere if Elon Musk’s 4,000-satellite idea gets US greenlight (RT, 9-15-15)
No, e-book sales are not falling, despite what publishers say (Fotrune, 10-24-15)
12 Horrifying Photos of the Tech Industry Apple Never Wants You to See (U.S. Uncut, 9-29-15)
September - 2015 - Society
This Artwork Is Probably The Most Accurate (And Scary) Portrayal Of Modern Life We’ve Ever Seen (True Activist, 9-1-15)
Beyond Rentboy: Will the LGBT Movement Really Fight for Sex Worker Rights? (Truth-out, 9-1-15)
Clerk in Ky. marriage fight has turbulent marital history (CBS, 9-2-15)
IRON MAIDEN's BRUCE DICKINSON Says Common Sexually Transmitted Virus Caused His Tongue Cancer (Blabber Mouth, 9-2-15)
Ronda Rousey: “I’m against them testing for any weed at all.” (Marijuana Politics, 9-16-15)
The Quadrillion Dollar Derivative Debt and the “Bail-in”: When you Deposit Funds in a Bank, it Becomes “Their Money” (Global Research, 8-3-15)
Where Should a Poor Family Live? (New York Times, 8-5-15)
The Next Financial Crash. “The Writing is on the Wall”. Don’t Say “You Weren’t Warned” (Global Research, 8-5-15)
Drunk on power: Booze distributors ply statehouses to keep profits flowing (Public Integrity, 8-6-15)
$60 Trillion of World Debt in One Visualization (Visual Capitalist, 8-6-15)
How the crowdfunding dream machine has changed everything for artists (Washington Post, 8-6-15)
Why conservative billionaires have started talking like Bernie Sanders: “We are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape” (Salon, 8-11-15)
None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use (Grist, 8-17-15)
Yuan devaluation is tiny vs. dramatic drops in euro, yen and ruble (CNN, 8-17-15)
Bankers Are Buying Baltimore’s Debt, Charging Families Crazy Interest Rates, Then Taking Their Homes (Think Progress, 8-27-15)
August - 2015 - Environmental
Sea defences not enough to protect delta cities from rising flood risk (The Guardian, 8-6-15)
Religion Loses When It Competes With Beautiful Nature, Study Suggests (Huffington Post, 8-7-15)
50% of Forest Service budget going up in flames fighting wildfires – report (RT, 8-7-15)
Evoking the Wrath of Nature (Truthdig, 8-9-15)
In California, an unsatisfying settlement on pesticide-spraying (Public Integrity, 8-11-15)
DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception (The Intercept, 8-11-15)
The Midwest’s corn fields are even worse for the planet than we thought (Grist, 8-12-15)
This Is the Real Cost of Coal (Mother Jones, 8-14-15)
The New Mass Extinction: There’s A Pipeline Ready To Burst Under The Great Lakes (Addicting Info, 8-17-15)
William Rivers Pitt | Greed Dies Hard in a Poisoned Land (Truth-Out, 8-18-15)
Pesticides Blamed for Bee Declines Widespread in US Waterways (Alternet, 8-20-15)
The troubling reasons why NASA is so focused on studying sea level rise (Washington Post, 8-26-15)
August - 2015 - Health
Insurers Win Big Health-Rate Increases (The Wall Street Journal, 8-27-15)
August - 2015 - International
The real nuclear danger isn't Iran or North Korea (Aljazeera, 8-4-15)
Mehdi Hasan goes Head to Head with Michael T Flynn (YouTube, 8-4-15)
'I'm a Russian Mongol': Steven- Seagal takes a trip to Russian Yakutia (RT, 8-7-15)
Undelivered Goods (Harpers, 8-13-15)
Sudanese woman sentenced to lashes, fine for wearing trousers (CNN, 8-14-15)
On Sunday, South Sudan’s president said critical journalists could be killed. Four days later, one was. (The Washington Post, 8-20-15)
Poll: Half of British youth aren’t “exclusively” heterosexual (Vox World, 8-23-15)
Myanmar Democracy Icon Finds Herself Assailed as Authoritarian (New York Times, 8-28-15)
Since Bolivia kicked DEA out of country they've been able to reduce cocaine production (Daily KOS, 8-28-15)
Why Pakistan's nuclear obsession is reason for concern (DW, 8-28-15)
Call For Immediate Release of Rapa Nui Leaders (Intercontinental Cry, 8-28-15)
Old Soviet Missile Makes Easy Work of US M1 Abrams Tank (VIDEO) (Sputnik News, 8-31-15)
August - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
Is the New U.S. ‘Law of War Manual’ Actually ‘Hitlerian’? (Global Research, 8-19-15)
August - 2015 - Religion
With Declining Evangelical Power, Only Two Candidates Attend Southern Baptist Forum (Think Progress, 8-4-15)
Islamic Leaders Call For Phasing Out Global Fossil Fuels (Think Progress, 8-18-15)
Josh Duggar’s Apology: “I Have Been the Biggest Hypocrite Ever" (Gawker, 8-20-15)
Trump-ward, Christian Soldiers? (International New York Times, 8-25-15)
August - 2015 - Education
Stop Universities From Hoarding Money (International New York Times, 8-19-15)
August - 2015 - Political
Outrage as Range turns Netzpolitik treason storm into constitutional row (DW, 8-4-15)
German Justice Minister Maas terminates Federal Prosecutor Range (DW, 8-4-15)
BREAKING: Cheryl Mills to Destroy Emails About Boss Hillary Clinton (Observer, 8-7-15)
White House staffer accused of taking officer’s gun, firing it during dispute (Washington Post, 8-10-15)
Why conservative billionaires have started talking like Bernie Sanders: “We are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape” (Salon, 8-11-15)
Former CIA spy on Clinton emails: 'You and I would get fired and possibly jailed' for this (Washington Examiner, 8-16-15)
Election 2016: Jeb Bush Got $1.3M Job At Lehman After Florida Shifted Pension Cash To Bank (International Business Times, 8-19-15)
Trump-ward, Christian Soldiers? (International New York Times, 8-25-15)
The Great Unraveling (Truth Dig, 8-30-15)
August - 2015 - Technology
Why your smartphone PIN isn't as safe as you think (Techradar, 8-3-15)
How your washing machine can steal computer files (CNN, 8-5-15)
Hackers lead drive to expose vehicles’ online vulnerability (Financial Times, 8-5-15)
Silicon Valley's most feared journalist (DW, 8-5-15)
'The Dream of Internet Freedom is Dying,' Warns Top Civil Liberties Attorney (Common Dreams, 8-6-15)
Waiting for Android’s inevitable security Armageddon (Ars Technica, 8-6-15)
Microsoft Releases Updates To Spy On Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Users (Hack Read, 8-24-15)
Cell Carriers Battle for Wi-Fi Airwaves (The Wall Street Journal, 8-25-15)
Old Soviet Missile Makes Easy Work of US M1 Abrams Tank (VIDEO) (Sputnik News, 8-31-15)
August - 2015 - Miscellaneous
Kristen Stewart, Miley Cyrus and the Rise of Sexual Fluidity (The Wall Street Journal, 8-17-15)
Poll: Half of British youth aren’t “exclusively” heterosexual (Vox World, 8-23-15)
July - 2015 - Financial
In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism (International New York Times, 7-11-15)
We Are All Greeks Now (Truthdig, 7-12-15)
Germany Yet to Swallow Some Economic Medicine Prescribed for Greece (The Wall Street Journal, 7-14-15)
There Were 8.8M Calls the IRS Didn’t Even Try to Answer in 2015 (Government Executive, 7-16-15)
The Bankruptcy Of The Planet Accelerates – 24 Nations Are Currently Facing A Debt Crisis (Global Research, 7-17-15)
Any Way You Look at It, This Government Report on Climate Change Is Really Bad News (VICE, 7-17-15)
More children living in poverty now than during recession (USA Today, 7-21-15)
Hedge Funds Gear Up for Another Big Short (The Wall Street Journal, 7-21-15)
Europe’s Greatest Cover-Up Could Mean the Death of the Euro (Economy and Markets, 7-22-15)
Forget Recession: According To Caterpillar There Is A Full-Blown Global Depression (Zero Hedge, 7-22-15)
Think about this: The US ranks 46th in how easy it is to start a company (American Enterprise Institute, 7-31-15)
July - 2015 - Environmental
Ewaste Republic (Aljazeera, July 2015)
A Knockout Blow for American Fish Stocks (New York Times, 7-7-15)
Toxic Time Bomb: Abandoned US Military Nuclear Dome Threatens Pacific Ocean (Nation of Change, 7-14-15)
Continued destruction of Earth’s plant life places humankind in jeopardy, says UGA research (UGA, Today 7-14-15)
How the West Overcounts Its Water Supplies (New York Times, 7-17-15)
What Our Food Is Really Doing to the Planet, in 15 Jaw-Dropping Images (Films For Action, 7-20-15)
California’s groundwater is disappearing AND widely contaminated (Grist, 7-20-15)
Recession Caused U.S. Emissions Drop, Study Says (Climate Central, 7-21-15)
Palm Oil Is In Everything -- And It's Destroying Southeast Asia's Forests (Huffington Post, 7-24-15)
Germany gets only 3.3% of its energy consumption from wind and solar. Ignore the headlines (Carbon Counter, 7-31-15)
July - 2015 - International
Asia
Xi urges China, Russia to maintain high-level coordination within SCO (Xinhua Net, 7-9-15)
Chinese president attends BRICS summit in Russia's Ufa (Xinhua Net, 7-9-15)
Is Buddhist Militancy The Next Big Wave of Global Terrorism? (Fair Observer, 7-13-15)
China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet (The Wall Street Journal, 7-28-15)
Malaysia Needed a Clean Human Rights Record—So the State Department Just Gave It to Them (The National, 7-29-15)
Europe
Italian PM: EU's Policy on Russia a 'Cultural Crime and Political Mistake' (Sputnik News, 7-1-15)
Europe Wants to Punish Greece With Exit (Bloomberg View, 7-1-15)
Austerity not enough to save Greece - leaked IMF documents (RT, 7-1-15)
In Ukraine, a political power struggle comes to a head (DW, 7-4-15)
Greece May Face Default Worth Half Trillion Euros in Two Weeks (Sputnik, 7-6-15)
Thomas Piketty has wise words on German hypocrisy and how to solve the Greek debt crisis (Quartz, 7-6-15)
A Pain in the Athens (Foreign Affairs, 7-7-15)
Beyond Greece, the world is filled with debt crises (The Guardian, 7-11-15)
We Are All Greeks Now (Truthdig, 7-12-15)
What everybody needs to know about the deal to save Greece — and what happens next (The Washington Post, 7-13-15)
West Cutting Its Own Throat Pushing Russia Toward China – German Newspaper (Sputnik News, 7-14-15)
Alexis Tsipras: Latest so-called ‘Leftist’ to sell-out to the bankers (RT, 7-15-15)
Overregulating Life in Greece (New York Times, 7-15-15)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel Comes Out Against Gay Marriage (Sputnik News, 7-16-15)
Merkel brings Palestinian refugee child to tears (The Local, 7-16-15)
Thatcher-era cabinet secretary defends MI5 failure to investigate VIP pedophile claims (RT, 7-24-15)
Apocalyptic scenes in Moscow as thunderstorm unleashes freak lightning on city (RT, 7-27-15)
Palestinian girl reduced to tears by Merkel wishes Israel gone (RT, 7-29-15)
Germany Rejects Facebook’s Real-Name Policy (TruthDig, 7-30-15)
Russians feel less positive towards religion now than they did in 1990 (The Economist, 7-31-15)
Germany gets only 3.3% of its energy consumption from wind and solar. Ignore the headlines (Carbon Counter, 7-31-15)
Africa
Today's Civilian Victims in Yemen Will Be Ignroed Because U.S. and it's Allies are Responsible (The Intercept, 7-6-15)
As Yemen Collapses (International New York Times, 7-7-15)
The biggest threat to African lions isn’t foreign hunters—it’s African people (Quartz, 7-30-15)
Africa to Obama: Mind Your Own Business (Common Dreams, 7-30-15)
Middle East
Gaza One Year After The War: Devastation Everywhere (YouTube Video, 7-9-15)
Pakistan's Ramadan laws force everyone to go hungry (DW, 7-12-15)
The Next Gaza War (Truthdig, 7-16-15)
Police shot dead, protesters detained after suicide bombing roils Turkish (Aljazeera, 7-22-15)
US backs Turkey's 'right to self-defense' (Andolu Agency, 7-26-15)
Turkey’s New ‘War on Terror’ Mainly Targets Kurds (Video) (Truth-Dig, 7-27-15)
Israeli foreign minister: Jesus wanted to alter the ' Jewishness ' of Israel and he was condemned to the most excruciating death (AWD News, 7-30-15)
International
11 Things Other Countries Do Way Better Than America (Alternet, 7-6-15)
Pope Francis: Speech at World Meeting of Popular Movements (Vatican Radio, 7-10-15)
The international war on LGBT people (Washington Post, 7-12-15)
America and Russia Test New Tactical Nuclear Missiles (The National Interest, 7-13-15)
Putin and Xi plot the future of Eurasia (Aljazeera, 7-26-15)
Why Amnesty International Must Hold Firm in Its Support for Sex Workers (Open Society, 7-28-15)
Amnesty International says prostitution is a human right – but it's wrong (The Guardian, 7-28-15)
July - 2015 - U.S. Domestic
Bill Cosby Admitted To Drugging Women In 2005 Deposition (Huffington Post, 7-7-15)
This Teen Had Sex with Another Teen, So a Judge Tore His Family Apart (Reason, 7-9-15)
Pentagon Concludes America Not Safe Unless It Conquers The World (Paul Craig Roberts, 7-10-15)
Here are 5 American sex norms Europeans think are crazy (Raw Story, 7-11-15)
The old suburban office park is the new American ghost town (Washington Post, 7-20-15)
July - 2015 - Religion
In Bolivia, Pope Francis Apologizes for Church’s ‘Grave Sins’ (International New York Times, 7-9-15)
Pope Francis drinks coca leaf tea on South American tour (The Guardian, 7-9-15)
In Fiery Speeches, Francis Excoriates Global Capitalism (International New York Times, 7-11-15)
Right-wing Christian ‘expert’ on feminism insists that submitting to marital rape makes Jesus happy (Raw Story, 7-12-15)
Pakistan's Ramadan laws force everyone to go hungry (DW, 7-12-15)
Muslim scholars name climate change as dire threat (RTCC, 7-15-15)
July - 2015 - Political
Nancy Pelosi: Elizabeth Warren doesn't speak for the Democratic Party (Politico, 7-1-15)
Hillary’s Email Story Unravels (The Wall Street Journal, 7-2-15)
Worse Than Benghazi (Jacobin, 7-17-15)
Why Democrats Don't Vote: I'll Tell You Why (Alan Grayson's Emails, 7-8-15)
How to Speak Foreign Policy Like a Beltway Native (Foreign Policy, 7-10-15)
US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion' (The Guardian, 7-11-15)
Congressional House Chairman Bishop Calls Native American Artifacts "Bull Crap - Not an Antiquity" (Native News Online, 7-13-15)
AIPAC to fight White House head-to-head in Congress over Iran deal (HAARETZ, 7-17-15)
Clinton rakes in Wall Street cash amid tough talk (CNBC, 7-21-15)
Kerry’s next challenge (Katrina Vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post, 7-21-15)
Bernie Sanders Is a Russia-Bashing, Pro-Israel, Militarist Tool (Russia Insider, 7-21-15)
Colorado GOP Legislator Implies Gay Boy Scout Leaders Should Be Drowned (RH Reality Check, 7-31-15)
July - 2015 - Technology
Social movements need anonymity, but corporations are taking it away (Aljazeera, 7-1-15)
Copyright Takes Down High-Profile Translation Of Thomas Piketty's Comments On Germany & Greek Debt (Tech Dirt, 7-7-15)
Microsoft’s Four Most Costly Blunders Besides Nokia (Bloomberg, 7-8-15)
It’s Not Just the NSA—the IRS Is Reading Your Emails Too (Truthdig, 7-9-15)
America and Russia Test New Tactical Nuclear Missiles (The National Interest, 7-13-15)
Once-theoretical crypto attack against HTTPS now verges on practicality (Ars Technica, 7-15-15)
The Feds don’t need digital backdoors – they can hack you (Aljazeera, 7-17-15)
China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet (The Wall Street Journal, 7-28-15)
Defending Backpage, Sex Workers Say Removing Online Ads Does Them More Harm (Truth-out, 7-28-15)
The Most Dangerous Nuclear Weapon in America's Arsenal (National Interest, 7-28-15)