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June - 2016 - Financial

Buying Junk Shows ECB Is Getting Desperate (Bloomberg, 6-10-16)

2008 All Over Again (Truthdig, 6-24-16)

June - 2016 - International

The Law of Revenge: Deadly Hatred among Anti-IS Alliance in Iraq (Spiegel, 6-1-16)

Andrew Cuomo and Other Democrats Launch Severe Attack on Free Speech to Protect Israel (The Intercept, 6-6-16)

Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster (Counter Punch, 6-7-16)

Ugandan President Museveni: 'This Is Our Continent, Not Yours' (Der Spiegel, 6-10-16)

My Picture of the Week | Mother burns daughter alive for marrying for love (DW, 6-10-16)

Anti-gay sentiment on the rise in Africa (DW, 6-17-16)

Erdogan wants to be ‘sultan of Islamic state,’ former model-turned-fighter tells RT (RT, 6-23-16)

Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations (The Huffington Post, 6-30-16)

June - 2016 - U.S. Domestic

FBI wants access to Internet browser history without a warrant in terrorism and spy cases (Washington Post, 6-6-16)

Orlando Gunman Was a Pulse Nightclub Regular, Used Gay Dating App (U.S. Uncut, 6-13-16)

How The Drone King Turned Assassination Into Counter-Terrorism Policy (MintPress News, 6-14-16)

US has trained fewer than 100 in Syria to fight Islamic State (Stars and Stripes, 6-27-16)

June - 2016 - Politics

Why Some of the Smartest Progressives I Know Will Vote for Trump over Hillary (Politico, June 2016)

We Now Know Hillary Lied Multiple Times About Her Email Server (Yahoo, 6-2-16)

Hillary Clinton’s war crimes are unforgivable. No real progressive could ever support her (U.S. Uncut, 6-3-16)

Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton: Yes, Trump’s Foreign Policy Ideas Are Scary. But So Are Yours (Truthdig, 6-4-16)

House Democrats Call Out Marsha Blackburn For ‘Reckless Disregard’ After Unredacted Memo Goes Public (Think Progress, 6-8-16)

Bernie or Bust? No, It’s Justice or Bust (Common Dreams, 6-9-16)

Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie (Rolling Stone, 6-9-16)

Full transcript: Donald Trump NYC speech on stakes of the election (Politico, 6-22-16)

A big group of major business leaders just endorsed Hillary Clinton (Yahoo, 6-23-16)

Report: Islamophobia is a multimillion-dollar industry (Aljazeera, 6-24-16)

The Deportation Machine Obama Built for President Trump (The Nation, 6-27-16)

Bernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up (New York Times, 6-28-16)

Neoconservatives Endorse Hillary Clinton for President Because They Know She’s One of Them (Truthdig, 6-29-16)

Obama Granted Over 1,500 Underwater Fracking Permits In Gulf Of Mexico After Deepwater Horizon (MintPress News, 6-29-16)

The Three Harpies are Back! (Counter Punch, 6-30-16)


May - 2016 - Financial

The Hazards of Financial Engineering (The Wall Street Journal, 5-3-16)

Who Can Go After Banks for the Foreclosure Crisis? (The Atlantic, 5-3-16)

Most of Greek bailout money went to banks: study (DW, 5-4-16)

LendingClub’s Loans Come Home to Roost (The Wall Street Journal, 5-17-16)

Insurers Seek Big Premium Boosts (The Wall Street Journal, 5-25-16)

After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure (Common Dreams, 5-31-16)

May - 2016 - Environmental

Hanford's Leaky Nuke Tanks and Sick Workers, A Never-Ending Saga (The Investigative Fund, 5-2-16)

Widely Used Hormone-Disrupting Pesticide Putting Millions at Risk, Including Infants and Children (Alternet, 5-2-16)

Dominoes fall: Vanishing Arctic ice shifts jet stream, which melts Greenland glaciers (The Washington Post, 5-2-16)

600 tons of melted radioactive Fukushima fuel still not found, clean-up chief reveals (RT, 5-24-16)

May - 2016 - International

Baden-Württemberg debuts Green-led coalition with Merkel's conservative party (DW, 5-2-16)

Most of Greek bailout money went to banks: study (DW, 5-4-16)

Russia Is Building the Largest ICBM Ever (and America Should Be Worried) (National Interest, 5-9-16)

Israel: Will Nazism comparisons trigger soul searching? (Aljazeera, 5-9-16)

After Iraq War, Monsanto, Cargill & Dow Chemical Took Over Iraqi Agriculture (MintPress News, 5-23-16)

May - 2016 - U.S. Foreign Policy

Here's the real reason that photos of bin Laden's body won't ever be shown (Business Insider, 5-1-16)

May - 2016 - U.S. Domestic

Media Silent While 3 Nuclear Disasters are Unfolding Inside the US (Counter Currents, 5-2-16)

Lock Up the Men, Evict the Women and Children (Chris Hedges | Truthdig, 5-29-16)

May - 2016 - Politics

Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado (The Intercept, 5-3-16)

How Donald Trump is running to the left of Hillary Clinton (Washington Post, 5-10-16)

No, Bill Clinton Didn’t ‘Kill’ Himself Trying for a State of Palestine (Video) (TruthDig, 5-15-16)

First look at explosive Hillary documentary, ‘Clinton Cash’ (New York Post, 5-17-16)

13 Minutes of video that shows why Hillary Clinton is n’t unbeatable in the general election (Washington Post, 5-18-16)

Grand Old Potty: Taking Bathroom Panic To Its Lunatic Conclusion (Common Dreams, 5-19-16)

 The Real Reason Neocons Are So Upset About Donald Trump (The Nation, 5-23-16)

Hillary Clinton’s email problems just got much worse (The Washington Post, 5-25-16)

Meet the Bernie Sanders Supporter Who Debated Bill Clinton for 30 Minutes at a New Mexico Restaurant (Democracy Now, 5-31-16)

May - 2016 - Health

Legal opioid history: From 'wonder drug' to abuse epidemic (CNN, 5-12-16)

May - 2016 - Technology

After three weeks in China, it's clear Beijing is Silicon Valley's only true competitor (Recode, 5-13-16)

Internet giants agree to curb hate speech (DW, 5-31-16)


April - 2016 - Financial

The Coming Default Wave Is Shaping Up to Be Among Most Painful (Bloomberg, 4-5-16)

Meet the Venture Capitalist Whom Venture Capitalists Love to Hate (The Wall Street Journal, 4-22-16)

The Full Story Behind Bloomberg's Attempt To "Unmask" Zero Hedge (Zero Hedge, 4-30-16)

April - 2016 - Environmental

7 Arrested at ‘Pancakes Not Pipelines’ Protest at FERC (Eco-Watch, 4-22-16)

April - 2016 - International

Poles protest against proposed abortion ban (DW, 4-3-16)

Time to wake up! Spain’s prime minister wants to end the siesta. (Washington Post, 4-5-16)

If you build it, they won't come: Abandoned architectural marvels in China's largest ghost town (CNN, 4-6-16)

Afghan soldiers desert as Taliban threaten key Helmand capital (CNN, 4-11-16)

Exposed: Russia's Master Plan for Its Next Class of Deadly Submarines (National Interest, 4-14-16)

Poland's culture war: Let the abortion battle commence (DW, 4-15-16)

Mikhail Gorbachev: At a crossroads -- the anxieties of a globalized world (UPI, 4-21-16)

Why the wealth of Africa does not make Africans wealthy (CNN, 4-22-16)

Russia's 'Revolutionary' Hypersonic Weapons Second to None (Sputnik News, 4-23-16)

Haitians Protest Outside Hillary Clinton’s Office Over ‘Billions Stolen’ by Clinton Foundation (Politics in the USA, 4-24-16)

These Russian Nukes Are Better Than America's (National Interest, 4-25-16)

The Great China Crackdown Is Here (and Why You Should Worry) (National Interest, 4-25-16)

Why the Philippine 'Punisher' could be president (Aljazeera, 4-30-16)

The World Should Be Ashamed of the Failure to #BringBackOurGirls (The World Post, 4-14-16)

April - 2016 - U.S. Domestic

The Wages of Sin (Chris Hedges | Truthdig, 4-10-16)

April - 2016 - Politics

‘Young Turks’ Shows How DNC and 33 State Parties Used Loopholes to Put Millions Into ‘Hillary Fund’ (Truthdig, 4-6-16)

Off-Script Bill Clinton Triggers Storm of Critics After Touting Welfare, Prison Legacy (Common Dreams, 4-7-16)

More GOP politicians have been arrested for sexual misconduct in bathrooms than trans people (Dead State, 4-9-16)

Is Hillary's Personal Story About Student Loans a Fabrication? (Alternet, 4-10-16)

How Dennis Hastert Demonized Gays as Predators While He Was the True ‘Super-Predator’ (Huffington Post, 4-14-16)

The Urgency of a Moral Economy: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Centesimus Annus| Bernie Speech (Bernie 2016, 4-15-16)

The Bernie Sanders Miracle: American Crowd in Brooklyn Cheers Palestinian Dignity (Common Dreams, 4-15-16)

Bernie Sanders Is Almost Tied Nationally and Ahead of Clinton in Three Democratic Primary Polls (Huffington Post, 4-15-16)

Empire Files: Abby Martin Exposes What Hillary Clinton Really Represents (Empire Files VIDEO, 4-17-16)

Hillary's Dance: The Two-Faced Hypocritical 12-Step (Common Dreams, 4-18-16)

DONALD J. TRUMP FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH (Donald Trump Official Site, 4-27-16)

Will you be punished for revealing classified info? Depends who you are (The Hill, 4-28-16)

Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels (Strategic-Culture, 4-28-16)

The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today's immigration problem (VOX, 4-28-16)

April - 2016 - Health

America's biggest health insurer UnitedHealth bails on Obamacare, citing big losses (Washington Examiner, 4-19-16)

Paul Ryan’s health care fraud: The speaker previews the GOP’s lousy Obamacare replacement (Salon, 4-29-16)

April - 2016 - Technology

Your In-Flight Wi-Fi Is About to Get Better, Faster, Cheaper (CNBC, 4-12-16)

April - 2016 - Religion

The Catholic Church’s defiance and obstruction on child sex abuse (Washington Post, 4-19-16)

April - 2016 - Social

Amber Rayne’s Obituaries Prove We Don’t Care About Porn Stars (Dirgemag, 4-14-16)


March - 2016 - Financial

Mortgage giants headed for crisis (The Hill, 3-2-16)

Entrepreneur Todd Wagner Launches The Charity Network, Unifying Top Digital Charitable Platforms To Provide Unparalleled Fundraising Possibilities (PRNewswire, 3-8-16)

Once a Darling, Spanish Solar Company Abengoa Faces Reckoning (New York Times, 3-17-16)

March - 2016 - Environmental

Flint-Like Lead Hazards May Be Lurking In Private Water Wells (Huffington Post, 3-10-16)

The Arctic is thawing much faster than expected, scientists warn (The Washington Post, 3-23-16)

March - 2016 - International

Engage Pakistan (Facebook)

Bolivia's president faces multiple scandals (CNN, 3-1-16)

Pakistanis Throng Funeral of Man Hanged for Killing Critic of Blasphemy Laws (The Wall Street Journal, 3-1-16)

We Are Witnessing the Decline of Saudi Arabia as a Major Power (Alternet, 3-9-16)

Russian Boomers Set to Conduct Largest Live-Fire Drill in 25 Years (National Interest, 3-9-16)

Nuclear energy booming in Asia (DW, 3-11-16)

UN blasts rape for wages, child killings in South Sudan (Yahoo, 3-11-16)

Before Her Assassination, Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Backing Honduran Coup (Democracy Now, 3-11-16)

Dreaming of Gay Rights in Delhi (New York Times, 3-20-16)

Stop Irrigating 'Organic' Food with Fracking Wastewater, New Petition Says (Common Dreams, 3-22-16)

Q&A: Call for Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia (Human Rights Watch, 3-22-16)

What it's like to be a cancer patient in Yemen today (Aljazeera, 3-23-16)

In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA (LA Times, 3-27-16)

Grumbling mounts in China, even in the party. Is President Xi losing his grip? (Washington Post, 3-29-16)

Fallujah crisis: 'We are being left to slow death' (Aljazeera, 3-30-16)

Polish foreign minister: No more ‘negro mentality’ toward US (Politico, 3-30-16)

China Set To Deploy Longest-range Nuclear Missile (Financial Times, 3-31-16)

March - 2016 - U.S. Foreign Relations

How to Sink Battleships: U.S. Navy Reveals Anti-Ship SM-6 Missile (National Interest, 3-8-16)

Hillary Clinton’s State Department Armed Saudi Arabia to the Teeth (Common Dreams, 3-8-16)

Four Million Muslims Killed in US-NATO Wars: Should We Call It Genocide? (Global Research, 3-18-16)

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Is Preparing for Iraq’s Mosul Dam to Burst (War is Boring, 3-31-16)

Turkish president's security guards rough up journalists at D.C. event (Mashable, 3-31-16)

March - 2016 - U.S. Domestic

The Brussels Attack and Liberal Islamophobia (Common Dreams, 3-22-16)

HARRY DENT: Civil unrest is coming to America (Business Insider, 3-27-16)

Why is the American government ignoring 23 million of its citizens? (Washington Post, 3-31-16)

March - 2016 - Politics

Artists for Bernie (Bernie Sanders)

Payday Loan Sharks Have Good Friend in Government: Democratic Party Chair (Common Dreams, 3-1-16)

How the establishment will now try to steal the nomination from Donald Trump (Dougwead, 3-7-16)

Hillary Clinton’s State Department Armed Saudi Arabia to the Teeth (Common Dreams, 3-8-16)

Outrage After Hillary Clinton Falsely Credits Reagans for AIDS 'Advocacy' (Common Dreams, 3-11-16)

Progressive Leaders Urge Mass Mobilization over 'Five-Alarm Fire' Trump (Common Dreams, 3-15-16)

Reminder: John Kasich Is Also Evil (Gawker, 3-17-16)

Moya-Smith: Trump Calls Out Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Indian Blood,’ Then Warren Said This Madness (Indian Country Today Media Network, 3-21-16)

Cruz calls for patrols of Muslim neighborhoods (Politico, 3-22-16)

John Pilger: Why Hillary Clinton Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump (New Matilda, 3-23-16)

Hillary Clinton's faux feminism (Aljazeera, 3-29-16)

Trump Wants to Outlaw Abortions and Punish Women Who Still Get Them (Motherjones, 3-30-16)

March - 2016 - Health

Kenneth Arrow says single payer is better than any other system (PNHP, 3-16-16)

March - 2016 - Miscellaneous

How Long Should Sex Last? (Alternet, 3-7-16)

Laundry Detergent From Jessica Alba’s Honest Co. Contains Ingredient It Pledged to Avoid (The Wall Street Journal, 3-10-16)


February - 2016 - Financial

Here is the letter the world's largest investor, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, just sent to CEOs everywhere (Business Insider, 2-2-16)

Professor Who Exposed Flint Crisis Says Greed Has Killed Public Science (Common Dreams, 2-3-16)

The World's Debt Is Alarmingly High. But Is It Contagious? (Bloomberg, 2-22-16)

February - 2016 - Environmental

Pandora’s Box: How GM Mosquitos Could Have Caused the Zika Virus Outbreak (Counter Punch, 2-2-16)

A "Probable Carcinogen," Monsanto's Glyphosate Most Heavily Used Weed-Killer Ever (Common Dreams, 2-3-16)

Mark Ruffalo:Flint isn’t an anomaly. We’re heading toward a national water crisis (Washington Post, 2-5-16)

She's recycling carbon dioxide with hopes of reducing oil dependence (CNN Money, 2-12-16)

How the Sun Could Knock Out Electrical Grids Worldwide (Facebook, 2-15-16)

Alarming rise in mass animal deaths (DW, 2-19-16)

Fukushima – Deep Trouble (Counter Punch, 2-22-16)

Seattle-Area Salmon Are Loaded With Anti-Depressants and Other Drugs Thanks to Human Waste (VICE, 2-24-16)

February - 2016 - International

Civilians trapped in battle for Yemen's Taiz (Aljazeera, 2-4-16)

Six OPEC Members, Plus Russia, Now Open to Emergency Meeting (Yahoo, 2-4-16)

The Narco-State of Afghanistan (The Diplomat, 2-12-16)

'Humanitarian catastrophe' unfolding in Yemen: UN (Aljazeera, 2-17-16)

Colombian police chief resigns over male prostitution ring scandal (DW, 2-17-16)

No, Israel Should Not Flatten Beirut (Telesurtv, 2-18-16)

Revealed: China's Radars Can Track America's Stealthy F-22 Raptor (National Interest, 2-19-16)

Indonesian Defense Minister: LGBTI movement more dangerous than nuclear war (Gay Star News, 2-23-16)

The United States Has Blocked a Plan By India to Expand Solar Power and Create Local Jobs (Truthdig, 2-26-16)

US Airstrikes In Afghanistan Killing Civilians At Greatest Rate In Seven Years (Mint Press News, 2-26-16)

Saudi Arabia sentences a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism on Twitter (Independent, 2-27-16)

Hong Kong Booksellers Confess to Illegal Sales in China (The Wall Street Journal, 2-29-16)

February - 2016 - U.S. Foreign Relations

Western Warmongers Have All the Answers, and They're All Wrong (Common Dreams, 2-1-16)

Putin’s National Security Chief: US Provoked Russia Into Taking Over Crimea (Russia Insider, 2-1-16)

Berlin homeless face eviction for refugees (DW, 2-3-16)

The Saudi Slaughter in Yemen (Common Dreams, 2-19-16)

More U.S. troops killed by Halliburton than by Iraqis (American Herald Tribune, 2-23-16)

February - 2016 - U.S. Domestic

The Michigan Senate Passed a Bill That Makes it a Felony to be Anal or Oral (Winning Democrats, 2-8-16)

Once Every 16 Hours, An American Woman Is Fatally Shot by a Current or Former Romantic Partner (The Trace, 2-9-16)

IMPRISONED CIA WHISTLEBLOWER RENEWS PUSH FOR PRESIDENTIAL PARDON (Shadow Proof, 2-24-16)

Meet the 24-year-old who could change how the US handles sexual assaults (The Guardian, 2-23-16)

February - 2016 - Health

Horrifying website shows you just how easily you'll die in the viral apocalypse (AOL, 2-26-16)

February - 2016 - Politics

FACT SHEET: President Obama Proposes $1.1 Billion in New Funding to Address the Prescription Opioid Abuse and Heroin Use Epidemic (White House, 2-2-16)

Hail to the Censor! (Reason, 2-3-16)

Hillary Clinton Turns Stand-Up Comic: "I’m a Progressive Who Gets Things Done" (Common Dreams, 2-4-16)

Can We Forgive Hillary Clinton For Her Past War On Video Games? (Forbes, 2-5-16)

Hillary Is the Candidate of the War Machine (Common Dreams, 2-5-16)

My Special Place in Hell, Courtesy of Unfettered Greed (Common Dreams, 2-8-16)

What Clinton said in her paid speeches (Politico, 2-9-16)

Sanders Should Challenge the Foreign Policy Status Quo (Common Dreams, 2-9-16)

Kasich's Spiritual Adviser Thinks Gay Rights Activists Are Fascist "Thought Nazis" (Motherjones, 2-10-16)

Assange: Vote for Hillary Clinton is ‘vote for endless, stupid war' which spreads terrorism (RT, 2-10-16)

Hillary Clinton’s Congressional Black Caucus PAC Endorsement Approved by Board Awash in Lobbyists (The Intercept, 2-11-16)

Bernie Sanders Is Trying to Distract You (Slate, 2-12-16)

DID JOHN LEWIS JUST MISLEAD THE PUBLIC ABOUT MEETING THE CLINTONS DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ERA? (Daily KOS, 2-12-16)

Hillary Clinton calls Iraq a "Business Opportunity" | Nate Mezmer (Facebook, 2-12-16)

John Kasich and the Clintons Collaborated on Law That Helped Double Extreme Poverty (Common Dreams, 2-13-16)

DESPITE ANTI-WAR CLAIMS, SANDERS ENDORSES PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY (Shadow Proof, 2-13-16)

Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbath (Common Dreams, 2-14-16)

Katy Perry's Clinton endorsement scrutinized after revelation she was paid thousands (The Week, 2-19-16)

Cornel West: ‘Sister Hillary Clinton is the Milli Vanilli of American politics’ (Raw Story, 2-22-16)

Democrats Should Be Very Nervous About Their Terrible Turnout Numbers (Huffington Post, 2-28-16)

Farrakhan on Hillary Clinton: 'That's a Wicked Woman" (YouTube, 2-28-16)

February - 2016 - Religion

VATICAN SAYS BISHOPS NOT OBLIGED TO REPORT CLERICAL CHILD ABUSE (Occupy The Vatican, 2-11-16)

Christian Churches: the “Master Race” and “American Exceptionalism” (Counter Punch, 2-22-16)

February - 2016 - Technology

Why is Silicon Valley so 'tone deaf' to India? (The Guardian, 2-11-16)

Silicon Valley Tech Worker Fired After Blogging About Starving While Working at Billion-Dollar Food Delivery Firm (Alternet, 2-21-16)

The Mood In Silicon Valley Is Like The "Moment After The Titanic Hit An Iceberg" (Zero Hedge, 2-22-16)


January - 2016 - Financial

Three Middle-Class-Killing Industries for 2016 (Common Dreams, 1-4-16)

More Than Half of Americans Reportedly Have Less Than $1,000 to Their Name (Esquire, 1-12-16)

Obama orchestrated a massive transfer of wealth to the 1 percent (New York Post, 1-17-16)

How Gates' Billions Silences Criticism of His Development Agenda (Common Dreams, 1-23-16)

All signs point to a global economic crisis (Deutsche-Wirtschafts-Nachrichten, 1-25-16)

Why Half a Million People Will Lose Their Food Stamps This Year (The Fiscal Times, 1-25-16)

The US Finally States the Obvious: Putin Is Corrupt (The Fiscal Times, 1-26-16)

The dangerous deficits our candidates aren’t talking about (Washington Post, 1-31-16)

ObamaCare’s Wallet-Buster Health Plans (The Wall Street Journal, 1-31-16)

January - 2016 - Environmental

We Need a New Green Revolution (New York Times, 1-4-16)

Did a Bad Decision 40 Years Ago Lead to the California Gas Leak Disaster? (The Fiscal Times, 1-4-16)

Look What We've Done: Human-Made Epoch of Nightmares Is Here (Common Dreams, 1-8-16)

Attempts to Plug the Enormous Porter Ranch Methane Leak Have Made Things Way Worse (Curbed, 1-15-16)

The People of Flint Want You to See These Photos of the Water They Were Told Was Safe to Drink (U.S. Uncut, 1-15-16)

EPA Says It ‘Did Its Job’ Despite Not Telling Flint Its Water Was Contaminated (Against Crony Capitalism, 1-18-16)

EPA Says It ‘Did Its Job’ Despite Not Telling Flint Its Water Was Contaminated (The Daily Caller, 1-18-16)

Why we’ve been hugely underestimating the overfishing of the oceans (Washington Post, 1-19-16)

Navajo water contamination more horrific than Flint Michigan's (The Narcosphere, 1-25-16)

NJ family tosses out shovels, melts snow with mind-blowing system (Facebook, 1-28-16)

January - 2016 - International

Xinjiang Seethes Under Chinese Crackdown (New York Times, 1-2-16)

Germany's Spending on Refugees May Reach Unprecedented €50 Billion by 2017 (Sputnik News, 1-2-16)

‘Any differences?’ Iran Supreme Leader's cartoon equates ISIS with Saudi Arabia after executions (RT, 1-3-16)

After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine (The Intercept, 1-4-16)

State of Palestine: 'We stand with Saudi Arabia' - President Abbas (YouTube, 1-6-16)

Permanent State of Emergency? France Seeks Alarming Expanse of Police Powers (Common Dreams, 1-6-16)

Reports: asylum seekers among Cologne attacks suspects (DW, 1-7-16)

Q&A: Nepal's Maoists and forgotten promises (Aljazeera, 1-8-16)

Obama's statement on Pakistan not ground reality: Aziz‏ (Dawn, 1-14-16)

Diplomats, national security officials blast Sanders on Iran normalization, ISIL (Politico, 1-19-16)

Skyscraper fires like the blaze that struck a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai on New Year's Eve, swiftly turning it into a towering inferno, are not that rare (U.S. News, 1-19-16)

The Drone War Goes Awry in Africa (FT, 1-20-16)

More Than 1000 Academics Call For Peace Talks To Resume Between Turkey And PKK (Kurdish Question, 1-21-16)

Fires erupt at Libya oil facilities after 'Islamic State' attack (DW, 1-21-16)

Davutoglu visits: Letter critiques Merkel Turkey policy (DW, 1-21-16)

Turkey Freaks Out After Russia Insists Kurds Participate in Syrian Talks (Sputnik News, 1-21-16)

Merkel looks to Turkey for help to deal with migrant crisis (DW, 1-22-16)

Winston Churchill: Britain’s Greatest Briton Left a Legacy of Global Conflict and Crimes Against Humanity (Counter Punch, 1-25-16)

India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook (Washington Post, 1-28-16)

Afghan youngsters use hip hop to speak for women's rights (DW, 1-29-16)

January - 2016 - U.S. International

Chris Hedges: The American Empire: Murder Inc. (Truthdig, 1-3-16)

The Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Is Greater Today Than During the Cold War (The World Post, 1-20-16)

‘Staggering’ violence: The direct consequence of Western regime change ops (RT, 1-21-16)

The US Finally States the Obvious: Putin Is Corrupt (The Fiscal Times, 1-26-16)

This Could 'Sink' the U.S. Navy: Lethal Stealth Submarines (National Interest, 1-27-16)

US Has Spent $65 B Training Afghan Forces — but They're Still Not Ready (The Fiscal Times, 1-28-16)

How to Avoid War With Russia (National Interest, 1-29-16)

White House accusations aimed at Putin are insults – Kremlin spokesman (RT, 1-29-16)

January - 2016 - U.S. Domestic

VIDEO RELEASE: Greg Walden addresses U.S. House about situation in Harney County, Oregon, federal overreach in the West (Walden, 1-5-16)

Tavis Smiley: On Every Leading Economic Issue Black Americans Have Lost Ground Under Obama (VIDEO) (The Gateway Pundit, 1-11-16)

Thousands Apply to U.S. to Forgive Their Student Loans, Saying Schools Defrauded Them (The Wall Street Journal, 1-20-16)

A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail (Common Dreams, 1-21-16)

NJ family tosses out shovels, melts snow with mind-blowing system (Facebook, 1-28-16)

Navajo Water Supply is Poisoned Worse Than Flint, but ‘No One Cares Because They’re Native American’ (Counter Current News, 1-31-16)

January - 2016 - Health

The Trouble with For-Profit Healthcare: Even the Insured Face Mountains of Debt (Common Dreams, 1-5-16)

Texas Hasn't Been Able to Fully Defund Planned Parenthood, So It Did This Instead (Mother Jones, 1-7-16)

4 of the Most Commonly Prescribed Drugs That May Be a Lot More Risky Than Pharma Is Letting On (Alternet, 1-17-16)

When It Comes to Supplements, What’s Really in the Bottle? (Frontline, 1-19-16)

ObamaCare’s Wallet-Buster Health Plans (The Wall Street Journal, 1-31-16)

January - 2016 - Political

People's State of the Union (Jill 2016, January 2016)

This crowd shot from Donald Trump’s Massachusetts rally is absolutely mind-boggling (Washington Post, 1-5-16)

Jeb Bush says brother George may join campaign to help save candidacy: ‘He is very popular’ (Raw Story, 1-5-16)

New Hillary Emails Reveal Propaganda, Executions, Coveting Libyan Oil and Gold (Antiwar, 1-6-16)

Michiganders Demand Governor’s Arrest For Poisoning Entire City With Lead To “Balance” Budget (Occupy Democrats, 1-7-16)

The Hypocrisy of Obama’s Gun Control Crusade (Common Dreams, 1-11-16)

CNN’s Van Jones: Democratic Base in ‘Full-on Rebellion’ Against Hillary Clinton (Mediaite, 1-13-16)

Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill (The Nation, 1-15-16)

Howard Dean, Now Employed by Health Care Lobby Firm, Opposes Bernie Sanders on Single-Payer (The Intercept, 1-14-16)

Tell the Truth about Bernie’s Health Care Stand (Moyers, 1-15-16)

Video Surfaces of Hillary Clinton Blaming Homeowners for Financial Crisis (U.S. Uncut, 1-16-16)

Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big (New York Post, 1-17-16)

Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan isn’t a plan at all (Vox, 1-17-16)

Sanders’ people-powered movement: Don’t expect his free-thinking voters to give up their populist idealism (Salon, 1-21-16)

The smoking gun? (The Hill, 1-21-16)

Clinton’s Emails: A Criminal Charge Is Justified (The Wall Street Journal, 1-21-16)

Half the Foreign Policy Experts Signing Clinton’s Anti-Sanders Letter Have Ties to Military Contractors (The Intercept, 1-21-16)

Of Course Clinton Has Foreign Policy Experience, But Her Experience Has Been a Total Disaster (Alternet, 1-22-16)

An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from One Progressive Woman (Common Dreams, 1-23-16)

Survivor of US Drone Attack: Obama Belongs on List of World's Tyrants (Common Dreams, 1-23-16)

Ha Ha: Hillary Clinton’s Top Financial Supporter Now Controls “The Onion” (The Intercept, 1-26-16)

Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says (The Washington Post, 1-28-16)

On Kenneth Thorpe's Analysis of Senator Sanders' Single-Payer Reform Plan (Huffington Post, 1-29-16)

Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight. (VIDEO, 1-29-16)

Bernie Sanders Sets New All-Time Contributions Record on Eve of Iowa Caucus (US Uncut, 1-30-16)

The Clintons' Cynical Race Game: No One Will Say It, but the Clintons' Rise Was Premised on Repudiating Black Voters (Alternet, 1-31-16)

January - 2016 - Religion

The West’s big lie about Mother Teresa: Her “glorification of suffering instead of relieving it” has had little impact on her glowing reputation (Salon, 1-3-16)

Hillary Clinton Whiffs on Reforming Wall Street’s Ratings Agencies (The Intercept, 1-12-16)

January - 2016 - Technology

India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook (The Washington Post, 1-28-16)

January - 2016 - Culture

What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016? (Center For the Study of Public Domain, 1-1-16)