CHRONOLOGICAL LIST 2016
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IMF Chief Convicted, But Spared Jail Time, for Corruption (Common Dreams, 12-19-16)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (ZeroHedge, 12-22-16)
Be 'very afraid' about globalization's next phase (CNN Money, 12-23-16)
Debtors’ Prison For Kids: Poor Children Incarcerated When Families Can’t Pay Juvenile Court Fees (Counter Current, 12-28-16)
December - 2016 - Environmental
US to give 30-year wind farm permits; thousands of eagle deaths seen (Raw Story, 12-15-16)
Nearly 3,000 US Communities Have Lead Levels Higher Than Flint: Reuters (Common Dreams, 12-20-16)
Spiking Temperatures in the Arctic Startle Scientists (New York Times, 12-21-16)
Trump Is Anti-Environment, But So Was Obama (Mintpress, 12-29-16)
December - 2016 - International
Gaza doctors launch an appeal to save children's lives (Aljazeera, 12-6-16)
Libya Is Spiraling into Bloodshed and Disaster (Alternet, 12-7-16)
British Govt-Funded Outlet Offered Journalist $17,000 a Month to Produce Propaganda for Syrian Rebels (Alternet, 12-8-16)
U.S. and U.K. Continue to Actively Participate in Saudi War Crimes, Targeting of Yemeni Civilians (The Intercept, 12-10-16)
Mosul Dam collapse 'will be worse than a nuclear bomb' (Aljazeera, 12-11-16)
UNICEF: One child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen (Aljazeera, 12-13-16)
Hypocrisy Behind the Russian-Election Frenzy (Common Dreams, 12-13-16)
Who planned the terrorist operation in Palmyra? (Oriental Review, 12-14-16)
In collapse of US-Russian military ties, some experts see nuclear risk (PBS, 12-14-16)
In Historic Decision, Canada Declares Internet Access a Fundamental Right for All (Common Dreams, 12-22-16)
First female Afghan air force pilot asks US for asylum (CNN, 12-27-16)
‘No one shot at evacuees’: Filmmaker who witnessed Aleppo liberation speaks to RT (RT, 12-30-16)
December - 2016 - U.S. Foreign Affairs
New report reveals spread of US war on Al-Qaeda around the world (RT, 12-5-16)
James Mattis Is a War Criminal: I Experienced His Attack on Fallujah Firsthand (Truth-Out, 12-6-16)
Mexico's war on drugs: what has it achieved and how is the US involved? (The Guardian, 12-8-16)
U.S. SPECIAL OPERATIONS NUMBERS SURGE IN AFRICA’S SHADOW WARS (The Intercept, 12-30-16)
Selling Death: US Weapons Kill a Yemeni Child Every 10 Minutes (The Counter Punch, 12-30-16)
December - 2016 - U.S. Domestic
Heroin deaths surpass gun homicides for the first time, CDC data shows (Washington Post, 12-8-16)
North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy (The News and Observer, 12-22-16)
Was Claim by Department of Homeland Security and FBI About Russian Hacking Fake News? (Truthdig, 12-31-16)
Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid (The Intercept, 12-31-16)
The 16 Black Panthers Still Behind Bars (Color Lines, 12-31-16)
December - 2016 - Politics
Obama's dirty secret: the fossil fuel projects the US littered around the world (The Guardian, 12-1-16)
Senate Responds to Trump-Inspired Anti-Semitism By Targeting Students Who Criticize Israel (The Intercept, 12-2-16)
The Smear Campaign Against Keith Ellison Is Repugnant but Reveals Much About Washington (The Intercept, 12-4-16)
Condemning Keith Ellison's DNC madness and attempts to smear Min. Louis Farrakhan (The Final Call, 12-7-16)
Ohio Passes Bill That Bans Abortion After A Month And A Half (Buzz Feed News, 12-7-16)
McCarthy’s Ghost Smiles as Dems Point the Finger at Russia (Common Dreams, 12-8-16)
Leonardo DiCaprio Just Met With Donald Trump on Green Jobs (NBC News, 12-8-16)
Hillary Clinton Lost. Get Over It And Stop Blaming Russia, WikiLeaks And ‘Fake’ News (The Huffington Post, 12-13-16)
Former NSA Officer William Binney: CIA Lying About Russians Hacking DNC (Sputnik News, 12-15-16)
WaPo Does It Again: CIA “Secret” Assessment Discredited By Top US Spy Agency, FBI And CIA Itself (Mintpress News, 12-15-16)
David Friedman, Trump's Radical-right Ambassador, Makes Netanyahu Look Like a J Street Lefty (Haaretz, 12-16-16)
Keith Ellison Abandons Sanders Supporters to Back Wealthy Donor (Observer, 12-16-16)
Trump’s OMB pick seems poised to ignite a worldwide financial crisis (Washington Post, 12-19-16)
What Obama Said to Putin on the Red Phone About the Election Hack (NBC News, 12-19-16)
The Russians weren’t that good;the Obama administration was that bad (Washington Post, 12-19-16)
Nearly 95% of all new jobs during Obama era were part-time, or contract (Investing, 12-21-16)
How Donald Trump’s Health Secretary Pick Endangers Women (New York Times, 12-28-16)
Quietly, Trump and Republicans Are Gunning to Destroy Medicaid (Common Dreams, 12-29-16)
Trump Is Anti-Environment, But So Was Obama (Mintpress News, 12-29-16)
White House fails to make case that Russian hackers tampered with election (Ars Technica, 12-30-16)
Was Claim by Department of Homeland Security and FBI About Russian Hacking Fake News? (Truthdig, 12-31-16)
December - 2016 - Political Theory
One Sociologist's Compelling Theory for How the U.S. Empire Could Devolve Into Fascism and Then Collapse (Alternet, 12-7-16)
December - 2016 - Technology
OF NINE TECH COMPANIES, ONLY TWITTER SAYS IT WOULD REFUSE TO HELP BUILD MUSLIM REGISTRY FOR TRUMP (The Intercept, 12-2-16)
William Binney, Ray McGovern and Other Intel Experts Call Russian Hacking Allegations ‘Baseless’ (Truthdig, 12-13-16)
The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation. (The New York Times, 12-21-16)
In Historic Decision, Canada Declares Internet Access a Fundamental Right for All (Common Dreams, 12-22-16)
Snopes Co-Founder Embezzles $98,000, Drops Weight, Leaves Fat Wife And Marries Actual Whore (ZeroHedge, 12-22-16)
December - 2016 - Archaeology
THE 'LOST CITY' OF ANTARCTICA (The Sun, 12-12-16)
November - 2016 - Financial
Kashkari unveils "too big to fail" plan (The Hill, 11-16-16)
Why China could lead the next phase of globalization (Weforum, 11-22-16)
Cash-strapped and incarcerated: The modern debtor’s prison (The Hill, 11-23-16)
November - 2016 - Environmental
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump looks like a disaster for the planet (Vox, 11-9-16)
Trump victory reverses U.S. energy and environmental priorities (Washington Post, 11-9-16)
Meet Trump’s Pick To Dismantle EPA (Huffington Post, 11-10-16)
November - 2016 - International
Myanmar arms non-Muslim civilians in Rakhine (Aljazeera, 11-3-16)
Afghanistan Itself Is Now Taking In the Most Afghan Migrants (New York Times, 11-5-16)
Hillary’s World: How Clinton’s Foreign Policy Has Destabilized Nearly Every Corner of the Globe (Breitbart, 11-7-16)
In Gaza, we aren't mourning Clinton's loss (Aljazeera, 11-19-16)
Dangerously cheap: Kenya's illegal abortions (Aljazeera, 11-20-16)
U.K. Parliament Approves Unprecedented New Hacking and Surveillance Powers (The Intercept, 11-24-16)
A hard winter: Afghan refugees return from Pakistan (Aljazeera, 11-24-16)
Save South Sudan from destroying itself (Aljazeera, 11-29-16)
A horrifying law just passed in the UK, and it’s turned us into a world-leading arsehole (The Canary, 11-29-16)
November - 2016 - U.S. International Relations
U.S. Policy Prevents Women Who Are Raped By ISIS From Accessing Abortion (The New York Times, 11-1-16)
Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Will Accept Award from Hate Group Behind Trump's Muslim Ban (Alternet, 11-7-16)
November - 2016 - U.S. Domestic
The CIA officially identifies the architects of its post-9/11 torture program (VICE, 11-7-16)
Why so many female veterans are homeless (Crosscut, 11-11-16)
Woman Creates Registry For White Men (Until We Figure Out What’s Going On) (The Huffington Post, 11-18-16)
November - 2016 - Politics
Here's How to Save Obamacare (Mother Jones, November 2016)
Investigating Donald Trump, F.B.I. Sees No Clear Link to Russia (New York Times, 11-1-16)
Unthinkable Politics and the Bodies of Children (Truthdig, 11-2-16)
This Election Has Disgraced the Entire Profession of Journalism (Observer, 11-2-16)
Hillary's real view of Bernie (Facebook, 11-4-16)
Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit (The Intercept, 11-9-16)
There’s no way around it: Donald Trump looks like a disaster for the planet (Vox, 11-9-16)
The Democratic Party Deserved To Die (Huffington Post, 11-9-16)
Meet Trump’s Pick To Dismantle EPA (Huffington Post, 11-10-16)
Donald Trump's Muslim ban is back up on his website (AOL, 11-11-16)
For Democrats, Cleaning House Means Pelosi And Schumer Too (The Huffington Post, 11-11-16)
A Prayer For Donald Trump And America, From An Old Friend (The Huffington Post, 11-11-16)
Bernie Sanders: Where the Democrats Go From Here (New York Times, 11-12-16)
Democrats Got Wrecked Again in State Legislative Races, and it Matters More Than You Might Think (Reason, 11-14-16)
Democrats lost the moral high ground after they ignored Obama's transformation into Bush (The Screeching Kettle, 11-15-16)
MIKE PENCE WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL CHRISTIAN SUPREMACIST IN U.S. HISTORY (The Intercept, 11-15-16)
Cicilline Leads 169 Reps Asking President-Elect Trump to Reverse Bannon Appointment (David Cicilline, 11-16-16)
We Are One GOP-Controlled Statehouse Away From a Convention to Rewrite the Constitution (Truthdig, 11-16-16)
Gabbard said she urged Trump to ignore the neocons during meeting (Politico, 11-21-16)
Gabbard Statement on Meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump (Gabbard, 11-21-16)
Donald Trump says he believes there is ‘some connectivity’ between humans and climate change in major U-turn (Independent, 11-23-16)
Trump Promised To ‘Drain The Swamp,’ But He’s Filling It With Bush-Era ‘Crazies’ Instead (Mintpress, 11-23-16)
The American political system is broken (The Washington Post, 11-25-16)
Combative, Populist Steve Bannon Found His Man in Donald Trump (New York Times, 11-27-16)
Green Party Opposes Jill Stein’s Recount Effort — Including Her Own Campaign’s Senior Advisor (We Are Change, 11-29-16)
Trump’s Showdown With Manufacturer Exposes Obama’s Weakness on Outsourcing (The Intercept, 11-29-16)
Putin didn’t undermine the election. We did. (The Washington Post, 11-29-16)
House Dems Lose Big, Change Nothing As Pelosi is Re-Elected (The Daily Beast, 11-30-16)
November - 2016 - Political Theory
Everybody Hates Cornel West (Jacobin, November 2016)
Journalist Chris Hedges | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | (PBS, 11-24-16)
Chris Hedges: Waiting for the Barbarians - Chris Hedges (Truthdig, 11-27-16)
Growing Far-Right Nationalistic Movements Are Dangerously Anti-Muslim — and Pro-Israel (The Intercept, 11-29-16)
November - 2016 - Technology
Google Declares War On Alternative Media: Plans To Punish “False News” By Halting Ad Revenue (Mintpress, 11-16-16)
Game over: New US computer search law takes effect Thursday (Ars Technica, 11-30-16)
The FBI Is About To Get The Power To Hack Millions Of Computers (The Huffington Post, 11-30-16)
November - 2016 - Social
Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone | Interviews | Tavis Smiley | (PBS, 11-22-16)
Washington Post Disgracefully Promotes a McCarthyite Blacklist From a New, Hidden, and Very Shady Group (The Intercept, 11-26-16)
The Elite "Have No Idea" - Society Is Near The Breaking Point (Zero Hedge, 10-14-16)
Millions of Men Are Missing From the Job Market (New York Times, 10-17-16)
Struggling to Serve at the Nation’s Richest University (New York Times, 10-24-16)
Housing Bust 2? Low- and No-Down-Payment Mortgages Surge, “Shadow Banks” Dominate (Wolfstreet, 10-25-16)
October - 2016 - Environmental
Bees placed on endangered species list -- a first in the US (CNN, 10-1-16)
Amid water crisis, Flint faces a Shigellosis outbreak (CNN, 10-4-16)
Internal Watchdog Blasts EPA's Egregious Delay on Flint Emergency Order (Common Dreams, 10-20-16)
In Flint, a water crisis with no end in sight (Washington Post, 10-21-16)
Antarctica's Ice Sheets Are Melting Faster — And From Beneath (NPR, 10-25-16)
October - 2016 - International
Momentous Syria Interview Under Fire (Spiegel, 10-1-16)
Large-scale All-Russian civil defense drill to take place from 4 to 7 October (EMERCOM of Russia, 10-3-16)
The Dreadful Chronology of Gaddafi’s Murder (Counter Punch, 10-5-16)
Russia launches massive nuclear war training exercise with '40 million people' (Independent, 10-6-16)
The American-Made Catastrophe in Yemen (Common Dreams, 10-6-16)
German education minister unveils 5-billion-euro 'Digital Pact' for 40,000 schools (DW, 10-12-16)
Asia Bibi's appeal against death penalty - A test case for Pakistan (DW, 10-12-16)
Hiding US Role in Yemen Slaughter So Bombing Can Be Sold as ‘Self-Defense’ (Common Dreams, 10-16-16)
US Again Attacks Yemen Coast, Despite Growing Doubts Over ‘Missiles’ (Antiwar, 10-16-16)
Infant Mortality Soars in Venezuela (The Wall Street Journal, 10-17-16)
Despite Profit Motive, US Banks and Markets Squeezing Venezuela's Economy (Telesurtv, 10-18-16)
Why the Battle for Mosul Could Become a Total Disaster (National Interest, 10-18-16)
Sudan's FM: 'ICC is a court built to indict Africans' (Aljazeera, 10-29-16)
We Must Tell the Truth About the Iraq War (Truthdig, 10-30-16)
How US policy in Honduras set the stage for today’s mass migration (The Conversation, 10-31-16)
October - 2016 - Domestic
Denouncing 'Colossal Waste' of Drug War, Report Makes Case for Decriminalization (Common Dreams, 10-12-16)
October - 2016 - Politics
The Pardon of Marc Rich: How Hillary Clinton Served as the “Secret Weapon” for One of the Biggest Tax Cheats in American History (Counter Punch, 10-3-16)
How many Muslim countries has Obama bombed?' Oliver Stone slams US ‘world domination’ drive (RT, 10-11-16)
Obama Is Killing Yemen: A Yemeni Journalist Speaks Out After U.S.-Backed Bombing Strikes Funeral (Democracy Now, 10-11-16)
Trump just laid out a pretty radical student debt plan (Washington Post, 10-14-16)
Haiti and Africa Projects Shed Light on Clinton’s Public-Private Web (New York Times, 10-16-16)
‘Get A Life’: Clinton Bashed Anti-Fracking Activists During Private Labor Meeting (Common Dreams, 10-17-16)
Trump Has Spent Just a Fraction on Advertising Compared With Clinton (New York Times, 10-21-16)
Hillary Clinton admitted in 2013 that a no-fly zone would “kill a lot of Syrians” — but still wants one (Salon, 10-21-16)
Dear Hillary: You Can’t Be a Pro-War Feminist (TeleSur, 10-25-16)
Hillary’s 33,000 emails might not be ‘missing’ after all (New York Post, 10-25-16)
This Major City’s Drinking Water Was Fine. Then Came the Private Water Company (Mother Jones, 10-26-16)
10 Things Anthony Weiner Did That Were Worse Than Storing Hillary Clinton’s Emails on His Computer (Truthdig, 10-29-16)
John Podesta: Hillary is “Acting Like a Retard – She Smells Like Boiled Cabbage, Urine & Farts” (I Have Truth, 10-31-16)
October - 2016 - Health
H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero (New York Times, 10-26-16)
October - 2016 - Religion
Alexandria Pastor, Wife Indicted in $1.2 Million Fraud (Greater Alexandria Patch, 10-24-16)
October - 2016 - Social Commentary
13th: Netflix Documentary about the criminalization of African Americans (Netflix, 10-26-16)
October - 2016 - Education
1 in 4 U.S. teachers are chronically absent, missing more than 10 days of school (Washington Post, 10-26-16)
Mylan Didn't Lower EpiPen Prices After All; They Just Appeared To (Alternet, 9-1-16)
How the careless errors of credit reporting agencies are ruining people’s lives (The Washington Post, 9-8-16)
The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History (Truthdig, 9-2-16)
5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired over 2 million phony accounts (CNN, 9-9-16)
Wells Fargo exec who headed phony accounts unit collected $125 million (MSN, 9-12-16)
Pervasive Sham Deals at Wells Fargo, and No One Noticed? (New York Times, 9-12-16)
I called the Wells Fargo ethics line and was fired (Wells Fargo, 9-21-16)
September - 2016 - Environmental
New report finds 'Erin Brockovich' chemical in US drinking water (CNN, 9-21-16)
Both Parties in Congress Agree: Flint Can Wait a Few More Months for Clean Water (Common Dreams, 9-28-16)
September - 2016 - International
10 new wars that could be unleashed as a result of the one against ISIS (Washington Post, 9-7-16)
Afghanistan: Taliban pushes into Uruzgan's Tarinkot (Aljazeera, 9-9-16)
Troops loyal to rival government seize Libyan oil ports (DW, 9-11-16)
In A Mess Of Corruption & Neoliberal Austerity, Syriza Sells Greece Out To The Highest Bidders (Mint Press, 9-12-16)
Hillary Clinton and the Russian Specter (Counter Punch, 9-13-16)
Harder times for Palestine if Clinton wins US election (Aljazeera, 9-13-16)
In Expanding Russian Influence, Faith Combines With Firepower (New York Times, 9-13-16)
Shocking images of starved kid show horrors of Yemen’s civil war (RT, 9-14-16)
Assad’s Death Warrant (Global Research, 9-15-16)
Tibet is harder to visit than North Korea. But I got in and streamed live on Facebook (Washington Post, 9-16-16)
All-female flotilla aims to break Israeli siege of Gaza (Aljazeera, 9-18-16)
Juncker-Schulz Partnership, A Test for EU Democracy (Spiegel Online, 9-21-16)
Non-Aligned to… Nowhere? (Strategic-culture, 9-22-16)
Brazilian President Michel Temer: Dilma Rousseff Impeached Because She Didn’t Support Neoliberalism (MintPress News, 9-26-16)
September - 2016 - U.S. Foreign Affairs
Inside the US Effort to Clear Millions of Vietnam-Era Bombs in Laos (VICE, 9-6-16)
MUST SEE VIDEO: TRUTH REGARDING SYRIA - NOT CIVIL WAR, BUT US INVASION (YouTube, 9-14-16)
One of India’s most populous states recently banned alcohol. Mayhem ensued (Washington Post, 9-24-16)
September - 2016 - U.S. Domestic
P. Diddy Says Obama Did Nothing For Black People and Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve The Black Vote (YouTube, 9-5-16)
Black Lives Matter, but only if they're American (CNN, 9-6-16)
Truthdigger of the Week: CIA Whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling, in Prison and Fighting for His Life (Truthdig, 9-24-16)
US at the Crossroads: Start a New Nuclear Arms Race? Or Address Climate Change and Human Needs? (Common Dreams, 9-30-16)
September - 2016 - Political
Mike Pence Wrote An Article Urging Employers Not to Hire Gay People (Out, 9-1-16)
Hillary Clinton Raises More Than Donald Trump From Oil Industry (The Wall Street Journal, 9-6-16)
The Clinton For-Profit College Standard (The Wall Street Journal, 9-6-16)
Americans need to know more about Clinton’s health and Trump’s (The Washington Post, 9-11-16)
Why did Hillary hug a child while suffering from pneumonia? Candidate embraced young girl despite having a contagious illness (Daily Mail, 9-12-16)
What Clinton and Millions of Workers Have in Common: Going To Work Sick (Common Dreams, 9-15-16)
Hillary Clinton’s Backers Thought She Couldn’t Lose. Now, ‘I Can’t Go There.’ (New York Times, 9-16-16)
I Was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Trump. Here’s Why (Politico, 9-21-16)
Voting for Jill Stein is a Moral Imperative if George H.W. Bush Votes for Clinton (Huffington Post, 9-21-16)
Party Loyalty Can’t Make Me Vote for Clinton: Lifelong Democrat Andrew Stein Backs Trump (The Wall Street Journal, 9-23-16)
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition (Scientific American, 9-26-16)
Trump denies saying not paying taxes 'makes me smart' an hour after he said it (Daily KOS, 9-26-16)
Support Funding for Flint in the Continuing Resolution (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 9-26-16)
Both Parties in Congress Agree: Flint Can Wait a Few More Months for Clean Water (Common Dreams, 9-28-16)
September - 2016 - Health
A maker of deadly painkillers is bankrolling the opposition to legal marijuana in Arizona (The Washington Post, 9-12-16)
High Cost of New Hepatitis C Drugs Strains Prison Budgets, Locks Many Out of Cure (The Wall Street Journal, 9-12-16)
How companies are quietly changing your health plan to make you pay more (The Washington Post, 9-14-16)
September - 2016 - Social
‘Narcos’ Star Wagner Moura, aka Pablo Escobar: ‘Drugs Should Be Legalized’ (The Daily Beast, 9-4-16)
VICE’s Fall From Counterculture Hipster Rag To Neoliberal Government Mouthpiece (Mintpress, 9-16-16)
September - 2016 - Media
WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer) (The Intercept, 9-18-16)
Mainstream Media Finally Tells Truth About Native Americans (The Investigative, 9-28-16)
As the nation’s capital booms, poor tenants face eviction over as little as $25 (Washington Post, 8-8-16)
Why Mylan's Alleged Solution to Its EpiPen Price-Gouging Scandal is a Scam (Alternet, 8-25-16)
In 10 years, you’ll be paying more in income taxes (Politico, 8-26-16)
DEUTSCHE BANK’S $10-BILLION SCANDAL (The New Yorker, 8-29-16)
August - 2016 - Environmental
EPA's Own Advisory Board Demands Revision of Deeply Flawed Fracking Report (Common Dreams, 8-12-16)
Fracking’s Total Environmental Impact Is Staggering, Report Finds (Think Progress, 8-14-16)
This Region Is Twice Flint’s Size—And Its Water Is Also Poisoned (Mother Jones, 8-17-16)
‘Next year or the year after, the Arctic will be free of ice’ (The Guardian, 8-21-16)
Africa's elephants rapidly declining: study (Aljazeera, 8-31-16)
August - 2016 - International
Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe may prove 'irreversible', says Norwegian Refugee agency report (Crescent, August 2016)
What Khizr Khan Said That Wasn't About Trump and You Probably Won't Hear (Common Dreams, 8-3-16)
Vladimir Putin Just Issued a Chilling Warning to the United States (The AntiMedia, 8-4-16)
World Bank's New Rules Condemned for Disregarding People and Planet (Common Dreams, 8-4-16)
Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Denounces President Ghani as Unfit for Office (New York Times, 8-11-16)
Rap News accurately depicts how the U.S. media portrays Israel's occupation of Palestine (Mint Press News, 8-12-16)
Glenn Greenwald: How Democrats Use ‘Russia Sympathizer’ to Smear Rivals (Truthdig, 8-14-16)
South Sudan recruiting child soldiers as renewed civil war looms (DW, 8-19-16)
Saudi Arabia Kills Civilians, the U.S. Looks the Other Way (New York Times, 8-19-16)
Gaza headed for 'environmental catastrophe' (Aljazeera, 8-19-16)
Mexico’s Zapatista Movement May Offer Solutions to Neoliberal Threats to Global Food Security (Truthdig, 8-21-16)
Syrian boy’s image shamelessly exploited for West’s war agenda (RT, 8-21-16)
Propaganda for Syrian ‘Regime Change’ (Common Dreams, 8-23-16)
Greek Debt and the New Financial Imperialism (Counter Punch, 8-24-16)
Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation? (The Intercept, 8-25-16)
Close all mosques & ban the Koran: Poll-topping Geert Wilders launches ‘de-Islamization’ manifesto (RT, 8-26-16)
August - 2016 - Political
VFW SUPPORTS GOLD STAR FAMILIES (Veterans of Foreign Affairs, 8-1-16)
Why Can't Hillary Clinton Stop Lying? (The Atlantic, 8-1-16)
Michelle Obama Teaming up with Monsanto to Promote Children’s Food (369 News, 8-3-16)
Gaps in Melania Trump's immigration story raise questions (Politico, 8-4-16)
Trump’s Nightmare Week Continues as Atlantic City Casino Announces It’s Closing (USUncut, 8-4-16)
Ex-CIA Chief and Torture Defender Endorses Clinton—Why Are Democrats Cheering? (Common Dreams, 8-5-16)
Hillary Clinton Is No Feminist: Just Look at Her Stance on Palestine (Common Dreams, 8-8-16)
Why Neocons Can’t Stomach Trump (Common Dreams, 8-8-16)
Transcript: Jill Stein Accepts the Green Party Nomination (Jill 2016, 8-6-16)
EX-CIA DIRECTOR WHO ENDORSED CLINTON CALLS FOR KILLING IRANIANS AND RUSSIANS IN SYRIA (The Intercept, 8-9-16)
Official: No formal Secret Service discussions with Trump camp on remark (Reuters, 8-10-16)
Leftists Against Clintonism: It's Not Just About the Lies, It's About the Record (Common Dreams, 8-11-16)
Mike Pence: Condoms Are Too Modern (Patheos, 8-11-16)
The Perfect G.O.P. Nominee (New York Times, 8-13-16)
With Trump Sure to Lose, Forget About a Progressive Clinton (Truthdig, 8-15-16)
Hillary Clinton: The Anti-Woman ‘Feminist’ (Counter Punch, 8-22-16)
The Debut of Our Revolution: Great Potential. But. (Common Dreams, 8-25-16)
Transcript: Hillary Clinton speech accuses Donald Trump of "steady stream of bigotry" (Vox, 8-25-16)
Aging Candidates' Health Is Voters' Concern (Bloomberg, 8-29-16)
FORMER MODELS FOR DONALD TRUMP'S AGENCY SAY THEY VIOLATED IMMIGRATION RULES AND WORKED ILLEGALLY (Motherjones, 8-30-16)
Hillary Clinton, the Podesta Group and the Saudi Regime: A Fatal Ménage à Trois (Common Dreams, 8-30-16)
THE CLINTON FOUNDATION’S PROBLEMS ARE DEEPER THAN YOU THINK (Current Affairs, 8-31-16)
August - 2016 - Health
This Lifesaving Medicine Unleashed a Global Poo Menace (Mother Jones, July/August 2016 Issue)
At Least Six Million Americans Are Drinking Toxic 'Teflon Chemicals' With Their Water (Common Dreams, 8-10-16)
Fetal Deaths Outnumber Infant Deaths for First Time in US (Medscape, 8-17-16)
Paid Sick Leave Reduces the Flu Rate ‘Significantly,’ Paper Says (The Wall Street Journal, 8-23-16)
August - 2016 - Social
The Platform for Black Lives Matter (Black Lives Matter)
Why millennials are having less sex than Generation Xers (CNN, 8-3-16)
The States That Do Nothing To Help Working Parents (Think Progress, 8-4-16)
It’s Time to Abolish the DEA and America’s "War on Drugs" Gulag (David Stockman's Contra Corner, 8-18-16)
Americans Are Embracing Transgender Rights (The Atlantic, 8-25-16)
America the Illiterate (Truthdig, 8-31-16)
August - 2016 - Technology
Powerful NSA hacking tools have been revealed online (Washington Post, 8-17-16)
Mobile Bank Heist: Hackers Target Your Phone (The Wall Street Journal, 8-26-16)
August - 2016 - Education
Student-Loan Defaulters in a Standoff With Federal Government (The Wall Street Journal, 8-1-16)
Five myths about class in America (The Washington Post, 7-1-16)
Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist Calls For €150 Billion Bailout Of European Banks (Zero Hedge, 7-11-16)
The Arctic is leaking methane 200 times faster than usual: Massive release of gas is creating giant holes and 'trembling tundras' (Daily Mail, 7-22-16)
July - 2016 - International
Netanyahu vs. the Generals (Politico Magazine, 7-3-16)
More than 200 people died in Baghdad in a single day, so why aren't people changing their profile to the Iraqi Flag? (AJ+, 7-4-16)
The Iraqi man who took a sledgehammer to Saddam’s statue wants him back (The Washington Post, 7-5-16)
Corbyn and Blair on the Iraq War (Channel 4 News, 7-5-16)
Labour, Jeremy Corbyn and the search for the party’s Henry VII (The Guardian, 7-8-16)
Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State | Rolling Stone (Rolling Stone, 7-10-16)
Lieberman Appoints IDF Chief Rabbi Who Endorses Rape to Improve Troop Morale (Richard Silverstein, 7-11-16)
Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist Calls For €150 Billion Bailout Of European Banks (Zero Hedge, 7-11-16)
Lieberman Appoints IDF Chief Rabbi Who Endorses Rape to Improve Troop Morale (Richard Silverstein, 7-11-16)
IDF's chief rabbi-to-be permits raping women in wartime (YNet, 7-12-16)
Israel Passes Law Targeting Human Rights Groups (The Wall Street Journal, 7-12-16)
Rights group decries ‘forced anal exams’ used in 8 countries (Washington Post, 7-12-16)
Ban Forced Anal Exams Around World (Human Rights Watch, 7-12-16)
China keeps building coal plants despite new overcapacity policy (Energy Desk, 7-13-16)
US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart (Popular Resistance, 7-14-16)
Freedom for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi! Freedom for Libya! (New Eastern Outlook, 7-14-16)
7 Times Boris Johnson, Britain’s New Foreign Secretary, Was Anything but Diplomatic (New York Times, 7-14-16)
US War In Afghanistan Is Fueling Global Heroin Epidemic & Enabling The Drug Trade (MintPress, 7-21-16)
Pakistan killings: What happened after the headlines? (CNN, 7-22-16)
Syrian Children Hold Photos Of Pokemon Hoping The World Will ‘Find Them’ [TWEETS] (Bipartisan, 7-22-16)
Dangerous Propaganda: Network Close To NATO Military Leader Fueled Ukraine Conflict (Spiegel, 7-28-16)
July - 2016 - U.S. Domestic
Navy engineer sentenced for mishandling classified material (Navy Times, 7-6-16)
Veteran commits suicide hours after being turned away at VA facility – Rest In Peace (American Military News, 7-26-16)
A ‘No Buy’ List for Guns Is a Bad Idea (New York Times, 7-1-16)
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook (National Review, 7-5-16)
Clinton-Led Democrats Are Now “to the Right of George W. Bush” on Palestinian Rights (The Intercept, 7-12-16)
Don’t Call Him “Bernie” Anymore: the Sanders Sell-Out and the Clinton Wars to Come (Counter Punch, 7-14-16)
AP EXCLUSIVE: Militant with US bounty walks free in Pakistan (Big Story, 7-14-16)
Newt Gingrich: Test every Muslim in U.S. to see if they believe in Sharia (CNN, 7-15-16)
PAUL RYAN ‘SELFIE’ WITH YOUNG REPUBLICANS BACKFIRES WHEN INTERNET NOTICES ONE VERY TELLING DETAIL (If You Only News, 7-17-16)
How the Clinton Foundation Got Rich off Poor Haitians (National Review, 7-18-16)
100 Sheroes Just Posed Nude At The Republican National Convention (Huffington Post, 7-18-16)
Where white lives matter: Paul Ryan mocked for selfie with more than 100 House interns - with barely a minority in sight (Daily Mail, 7-18-16)
Melania RNC 2016 & Michelle Obama DNC 2008 -- Remix! (YouTube, 7-19-16)
Did Hillary Clinton lie about being named after Sir Edmund Hillary? (Politifact, 7-19-16)
WikiLeaks: Democratic Party officials appear to discuss using Sanders’s faith against him (Washington Post, 7-22-16)
Mission Accomplished at DNC, Clinton Hires Wasserman Schultz for Top Post (Common Dreams, 7-24-16)
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Brings Disgraced DNC Chair Onto Her Campaign (U.S. Uncut, 7-24-16)
Robert Kagan and Other Neocons Are Backing Hillary Clinton (The Intercept, 7-25-16)
Hillary Clinton: Class President of A Failed Generation (David Stockman Contra Corner, 7-25-16)
Clinton Emails Reveal Direct US Sabotage Of Venezuela (Global Research, 7-26-16)
DNC sought to hide details of Clinton funding deal (Politico, 7-26-16)
Goodbye, Late Night Metro: WMATA to Permanently Shut Down Trains After Midnight (Patch, 7-26-16)
Fact-checking the second day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention (Washington Post, 7-27-16)
One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana (Washington Post, 7-27-16)
Slayer's Kerry King Talks Election's Only 'Safe, Correct Choice' (Rolling Stone, 7-27-16)
Ex-CIA Chief's Speech Disrupted by Chants of "Love Not War" at DNC (Common Dreams, 7-28-16)
Slavery, Endless War, and Presidential Politics (Common Dreams, 7-28-16)
Trump Fumes Over $19 Trillion National Debt, but His Plan Would Double It (The Fiscal Times, 7-28-16)
The father of Muslim soldier killed in action just delivered a brutal repudiation of Donald Trump (Washington Post, 7-28-16)
Full text: Hillary Clinton's DNC speech (Politico, 7-28-16)
Pakistan's Imran Khan on the Taliban and Nawaz Sharif (Aljazeera, 7-29-16)
Khizr Khan & Ghazala Khan Exclusive Interview on MSNBC (YouTube, 7-30-16)
Ghazala Khan: Trump criticized my silence. He knows nothing about true sacrifice. (Washington Post, 7-31-16)
July - 2016 - Religion
The Religious Cult Secretly Running Japan (The Daily Beast, 7-10-16)
Belt Clip? How the U.S. Tests Cellphones for Safety (The Wall Street Journal, 7-6-16)
Underwater Oil-Well Bolts Are Failing, Causing Alarm (The Wall Street Journal, 7-8-16)