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June - 2017 - Financial

The Real Bill Ackman (Facebook, No Date)

5 Charts That Illustrate The Racial Bias In The Nonprofit World (Fast Company, 6-15-17)

Trump Bows to Big Oil, Delays Methane Rule on Public Lands (EcoWatch, 6-15-17)

Lies That Capitalists Tell Us (Counterpunch, 6-26-17)

Work sick or lose pay? (Economic Policy Institute, 6-28-17)

How the Student Loan Industry Is Helping Trump Destroy American Democracy (Alternet, 6-28-17)

June - 2017 - Environmental

Brut - "They're killing all life on Earth (Brut Facebook, 6-14-17)

Five officials will face manslaughter charges for Flint water crisis (Mlive, 6-14-17)

FEMA Is Preparing for a Solar Superstorm That Would Take Down the Grid (Motherboard, 6-20-17)

A Swedish factory just figured out the secret to zero carbon emissions: Algae (Quartz News, Facebook, 6-22-17)

June - 2017 - International

Qatar crisis: This is why Saudi Arabia and its allies have suddenly cut ties to their Sunni Arab neighbour (Independent, 6-5-17)

Political Turmoil Puts Brazil’s Environment at Risk (Truthdig, 6-6-17)

Father of Famous Aleppo Boy Just Exposed How the US & White Helmets Lied to the World (The Free Thought Project, 6-7-17)

Jeremy Corbyn defied all odds drawing crowds (TeleSur English Facebook, 6-9-17)

North Korea could reportedly wreak havoc with high-altitude nuclear blast (Fox News, 6-10-17)

British liberal establishment vs. Corbyn before election (Channel 4 News Facebook, 6-10-17)

Tanzania Forced To Embrace Seed Patents Or Risk Losing Developmental Aid (Mintpress, 6-13-17)

The Sordid History Of State Sponsored Terrorism Against Iran (Mintpress, 6-13-17)

Scapegoating Russia (Counter Punch, 6-14-17)

Gavin Barwell: Theresa May's new chief of staff faces questions over delayed tower block fire safety review (Independent, 6-14-17)

Theresa May's chief of staff 'sat on' report warning high-rise blocks like Grenfell Tower were vulnerable to fire (Mirror, 6-14-17)

Why Don’t the U.S. Mainstream Media Report Vladimir Putin’s Take on the Ukraine Crisis? (Truthdig, 6-14-17)

Why is an easily treatable disease killing thousands in the Arab world's poorest country? (AJ Facebook, 6-15-17)

Aamer Anwar, human rights lawyer and Rector of the Glasgow University on #GrenfellTower (RT Facebook, 6-15-17)

Cladding for Grenfell Tower was cheaper, more flammable option (The Guardian, 6-16-17)

"Austerity is a matter of life and death." Rapper Lowkey (Double Down News, 6-16-17)

Afghan war faces flurry of setbacks as new U.S. military policy nears (Washington Post, 6-18-17)

US and Russia Teetering on the Brink of War: What You’re Not Being Told (The AntiMedia, 6-19-17)

US Human Rights Record, Not Cuba's, Should Be Condemned (TeleSurTV, 6-20-17)

How Greece Became A Guinea Pig For A Cashless And Controlled Society (Mintpress, 6-21-17)

Israel's Plague of Darkness for Gazans Is an Act of Terrorism (Haaretz, 6-21-17)

The images Saudi Arabia doesn't want you to see (CNN, 6-22-17)

RAW: Putin caught in heavy rain during ceremony marking start of Great Patriotic War (Facebook RT, 6-22-17)

EU washes its hands of Gaza (EU Washes Its Hands of Gaza, 6-22-17)

Putin ignores pouring rain to lay wreath on Day of Memory and Sorrow (VIDEO) (RT, 6-22-17)

A Swedish factory just figured out the secret to zero carbon emissions: Algae (Quartz News, Facebook, 6-22-17)

House of Saudi Cards: The Inside Story (Sputnik News, 6-24-17)

As India’s Muslims are lynched, Modi keeps silent (Washington Post, 6-28-17)

Salafism vs. Wahhabism: Qatar and Saudi Arabia’s Proxy War Rages In Syria Thanks To US Militarism (MintPressNews, 6-30-17)

June - 2017 - U.S. International Relations

NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard (Consortium News, 6-29-17)

June - 2017 - U.S. Domestic

The Real Unemployment Number: 102 Million Working Age Americans Do Not Have A Job (The Economic Collapse, 6-4-17)

In one year, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War did (Vox, 6-8-17)

‘Lynching in America’ Site Launched by Google to Confront the ‘Legacy of Racial Terror’ (The Root, 6-14-17)

Mexicans didn’t cross the US border. The border crossed them (Urban Demographics, 6-15-17)

Nabra Hassanen’s death may not legally be a hate crime, but it sure feels hateful (The Washington Post, 6-19-17)

US Human Rights Record, Not Cuba's, Should Be Condemned (TeleSurTV, 6-20-17)

The Most Dangerous religion on earth (Facebook, 6-25-17)

A chilling National Rifle Association ad gaining traction online appears to be 'an open call to violence' (Business Insider, 6-29-17)

June - 2017 - Political

As Trump Exits Paris Agreement, Other Nations Are Defiant  (The New York Times, 6-1-17)

Gergen: Why Trump committed one of US's most shameful acts (CNN, 6-1-17)

Trump’s Superfund Cuts: Doing Less With Less (Our Future, 6-1-17)

Donald Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Accords Is a Crime Against Humanity (The Nation, 6-1-17)

Trump will stop paying into the Green Climate Fund. He has no idea what it is (The Washington Post, 6-2-17)

Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas (Counter Punch, 6-2-17)

 This Slumlord Is Donald Trump’s Good Pal (The Nation, 6-8-17)

Dear Paul Ryan: Listen to Planned Parenthood Patients (New York Times, 6-9-17)

DUP’s Record On Abortion, Creationism And LGBT Rights (Huffington Post, 6-9-17)

While you were busy watching Comey, House Republicans voted (AJ+, 6-12-17)

Revealed: reality of life working in an Ivanka Trump clothing factory (The Guardian, 6-12-17)

The Federal Government Is Setting Up to Protect the Elite from Nuclear Attack While Letting the Rest of Us Die (Alternet, 6-12-17)

Ivanka Trump's Garment Workers Can't Afford to Live with Their Children (Alternet, 6-13-17)

A Bernie Sanders-Led Party Would Still Be an Imperialist, Pro-War Party (Truthdig, 6-13-17)

A Resolution Condemning White Supremacy Causes Chaos at the Southern Baptist Convention (The Atlantic, 6-14-17)

Bernie Sanders - Why do we continue to sell billions of arms to Saudi Arabia (Facebook, 6-15-17)

I’ve covered Obamacare since day one. I’ve never seen lying and obstruction like this. (VOX, 6-15-17)

Theresa May was too scared to meet the Grenfell survivors. She’s finished (The Guardian, 6-17-17)

Reality Check: Why you shouldn't be so quick to blame only socialism for Venezuela's current crisis (UpFront, 6-17-17)

Six resign from presidential HIV/AIDS council because Trump 'doesn't care' (The Hill, 6-17-17)

Randy Bryce for Congress Campaign Announcement (YouTube, 6-18-17)

Russell Brand Grenfell: A Symbol Of All That Is Wrong? (Facebook, 6-19-17)

Robert Mueller: Establishment Sweetheart Helped Bush Sell The Iraq War (TYT Politics, 6-19-17)

I’ve read the Republican “health care” bill. This is blood money. They’re paying for tax cuts with American lives. (Elizabeth Warren - Facebook, 6-22-17)

The Senate health-care bill is even worse than the House’s version (The Washington Post, 6-22-17)

PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC FUNDRAISERS REALIGN TO LOBBY FOR TRUMP’S AGENDA (The Intercept, 6-23-17)

How Corporate Media Enabled the GOP's Audacious Plan to Steal Health Care Coverage from 23 Million Americans (Alternet, 6-23-17)

John McCain and Paul Ryan Hold 'Good Meeting' With Veteran Ukrainian Nazi Demagogue Andriy Parubiy (Alternet, 6-23-17)

Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes (New York Times, 6-24-17)

Congressman John Conyers, Jr., the longest-serving current member of Congress, has been pushing for "Medicare for All" for more than a decade. (Facebook, 6-25-17)

No Ramadan celebration at White House, though Trump said during campaign he was open to it (ABC News, 6-25-17)

How Nancy Pelosi is helping Republicans win (CNBC, 6-27-17)

Welcome Nina Turner, the new president of Our Revolution! (Facebook, 6-29-17)

This. This. This. (Now This Politics, 6-29-17)

Present at the Destruction: How Rex Tillerson Is Wrecking the State Department (Politico, 6-29-17)

White House council for women and girls goes dark under Trump (Politico, 6-30-17)

Here’s what Iowan women have to say about their Planned Parenthood clinics shutting down (Facebook Now This Her, 6-30-17)

June - 2017 - Media

Breitbart employees infuriated by colleagues' 'appalling' comments after London terror attack (CNN, 6-4-17)

How the Alt-Right Is Using Sex and Camp to Attract Gay Men to Fascism (Slate, 6-5-17)

"Do I want to go out like Tony Montana from Scarface? Or do I want to go out like Malcolm X?" (Facebook The Root, 6-19-17)

June - 2017 - Religion

I got pregnant. I chose to keep my baby. And my Christian school humiliated me. (Washington Post, 6-1-17)

TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE WON'T ACKNOWLEDGE JUNE AS LGBT PRIDE MONTH, EVEN AS EVERYONE ELSE DOES (Newsweek, 6-5-17)

The Satanic Temple is fighting to protect women's right to safe and legal abortion (VICE Facebook, 6-15-17)

Vatican’s 3rd most powerful figure charged with multiple child sex offences (Church and State, 6-28-17)

June - 2017 - Health

Abstinence-Only Leader Appointed to Key HHS Leadership Role (SIECUS, 6-6-17)

These are the people who suffered when Kansas’s conservative experiment failed (Washington Post, 6-14-17)

208,500 additional deaths could occur by 2026 under the Senate health plan (Vox, 6-28-17)

June - 2017 - Technology

Exclusive: GM CEO Mary Barra says the world needs more coders (CNN, 6-28-17)


May - 2017 - Financial

Trump’s Tax Cuts May Be More Damaging Than Reagan’s (The New York Times, 5-1-17)

HUD secretary Ben Carson: Poverty is largely 'a state of mind' (CNN, 5-25-17)

May - 2017 - Environmental

EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels (Washington Post, 5-8-17)  

Trump's EPA Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers. (Mother Jones, 5-15-17)

EPA Violated the Law When It Approved 59 Bee-Killing Pesticides (Truth-out, 5-17-17)

Arctic stronghold of world’s seeds flooded after permafrost melts (The Guardian, 5-19-17)

May - 2017 - International

 In a Beijing ballroom, Kushner family pushes $500,000 ‘investor visa’ to wealthy Chinese (The Washington Post, 5-7-17)

Taliban Broaden Their Reach in Villages Across Afghanistan (The Wall Street Journal, 5-8-17)

Ukrainian general calls for destruction of Jews (The Jewish Chronicle, 5-11-17)

Shadow War in the Sahara (Aljazeera, 5-13-17)

The war you’ve never heard of (Vice News, 5-18-17)

Afghanistan Sets New Record In Opium Production (TOLO News, 5-20-17)

THE GREAT WHITE FATHER COMES TO SAUDI ARABIA (Eric Margolis, 5-27-17)

Saudi Institute Reverses Decision Allowing Women to Wear Pants (Breitbart, 5-28-17)

May - 2017 - U.S. Domestic

Native Americans call for ban on Christians entering the United States (ACC Mag, 5-22-17)

Rural America Is the New ‘Inner City’ (The Wall Street Journal, 5-26-17)

May - 2017 - Political

Trump’s nifty plan to spend more and hurt poor people more — at the same time! (Washington Post, 5-1-17)  

Exposing GOP Cruelty, Alabama Rep Says Pre-Existing Conditions Are Your Fault (Common Dreams, 5-2-17)

Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die (Amazon, 5-2-17)

Health ‘reform’ will make sexual assault survivors sick (The Hill, 5-3-17)

The New Study That Shows Trumpcare’s Damage (New York Times, 5-3-17)

Obama Says His Presidential Library Will Be a ‘Hub for the Community (New York Times, 5-3-17)

Nancy Pelosi Rejects Single Payer Being Added to Democratic Party Platform (The Observer, 5-4-17)

The “pro-life” party has become the party of death: New research on why Republicans hate poor and sick people (Salon, 5-4-17)

How Many People Will Die For Each Rich American’s Trumpcare Tax Cut? (Our Future, 5-4-17)

President Obama's team sought NSA intel on thousands of Americans during the 2016 election (Circa, 5-4-17)

I Have Never Seen Lawmakers So Deeply Hurt So Many of Their Own Constituents (Common Dreams, 5-4-17)

These are all the people the Republican health care bill will hurt (Vox, 5-4-17)

New Health Bill or Old, Insurers Signal They’re Ready to Make Big Changes (The Wall Street Journal, 5-4-17)

$8 Billion Comes Nowhere Close to Meeting Republican Commitments to People with Pre-Existing Conditions (Common Dreams, 5-4-17)

Here's Why the Republican AHCA-But-Worse Plan Should Not Be Passed by the House Today (Common Dreams, 5-4-17)

All the ways Republicans want you dead (SFGate, 5-4-17)

Did the Marquis de Sade Write This Health Care Bill? (Common Dreams, 5-5-17)

Mail my body to Paul Ryan’: An extremely morbid way to protest the GOP health-care bill (The Washington Post, 5-6-17)

The Republican Party is sociopathic: If you didn’t know that already, the health care bill should make it clear (Salon, 5-6-17)

Yes, It Is Definitely Possible For The House And Senate To Agree On Health Care (Huffington Post, 5-8-17)

GOP's message to Americans: You're on your own (CNN, 5-8-17)

Trump Wants $800 Billion, 10-Year Cut in Entitlement Programs (Roll Call, 5-10-17)

Republicans plan massive cuts to programs for the poor (Politico, 5-14-17)

How a Trump order on abortion could hurt the fight against AIDS in Africa (Washington Post, 5-17-17)

 Trump’s first full education budget: Deep cuts to public school programs in pursuit of school choice (Washington Post, 5-17-17)

The Death of the Republic (Truthdig, 5-21-17)

Trump budget seeks huge cuts to disease prevention and medical research departments (Washington Post, 5-22-17)

Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire (New York Times, 5-23-17)

SENATORS FROM BOTH PARTIES BLAST “OUTRAGEOUS” TRUMP CALL PRAISING DUTERTE FOR ANTI-DRUG KILLING SPREE (The Intercept, 5-25-17)

20 Ways Trump's Budget Declares New War on the Poor by Hurting Seniors, People with Disabilities, Children and Single Mothers (Alternet, 5-26-17)

Obamacare isn't failing – Trump is sabotaging it (Facebook, 5-27-17)

President Trump's War On Children (Common Dreams, 5-29-17)

How Congress dismantled federal Internet privacy rules (Washington Post, 5-30-17)

The GOP hates red tape except when it comes to giving poor people healthcare (Washington Post, 5-30-17)

Appalling' Draft Rule by Trump Threatens Contraceptive Access for Millions of Women (Common Dreams, 5-31-17)

May - 2017 - Health

A conservative case for single-payer health care (The Week, 5-3-17)

How Many People Will Die For Each Rich American’s Trumpcare Tax Cut? (Our Future, 5-4-17)

I Have Never Seen Lawmakers So Deeply Hurt So Many of Their Own Constituents (Common Dreams, 5-4-17)

These are all the people the Republican health care bill will hurt (Vox, 5-4-17)

New Health Bill or Old, Insurers Signal They’re Ready to Make Big Changes (The Wall Street Journal, 5-4-17)

$8 Billion Comes Nowhere Close to Meeting Republican Commitments to People with Pre-Existing Conditions (Common Dreams, 5-4-17)

50 Preexisting Conditions That Can Make You Lose Your Insurance If Trump and GOP Have Their Way (Our Future, 5-5-17)

'Worst Bill for Women' Could Get Worse as 13 Men Tackle Trumpcare in Senate (Common Dreams, 5-5-17)

GOP's message to Americans: You're on your own (CNN, 5-8-17)

Study Finds a Third of FDA-Approved Drugs Subject to Later Safety Issues (The Wall Street Journal, 5-9-17)

A citizen tells the truth about Republican health "care"  (Facebook, 5-11-18)

What the New Health-Care Bill Means for Chronically Ill People Like Me and Our Families (Rewire, 5-11-17)

A Whistle-Blower Tells of Health Insurers Bilking Medicare (The New York Times, 5-15-17)

Health insurance premiums will keep going up, under either ACA or AHCA (The Washington Post, 5-15-17)

Why is the world suffering from a penicillin shortage? (Aljazeera, 5-21-17)

Cuts to AIDS Treatment Programs Could Cost a Million Lives (New York Times, 5-23-17)

May - 2017 - Religion

I got pregnant. I chose to keep my baby. And my Christian school humiliated me. (Washington Post, 6-1-17)

May - 2017 - Education

Reps. Katko and Delaney File Legislation to Help Americans Struggling with Student Loan Debt (Katko, 5-8-17)

May - 2017 - Technology

If You Still Use Windows XP, Prepare For the Worst (Wired, 5-14-17)

IBM was a pioneer in the work-from-home revolution — now it's cracking down (Business Insider, 5-27-17)

For Army Infantry’s 1st Women, Heavy Packs and the  Weight of History (New York Times, 5-26-17)

Our generation is going to deal with tens of million of jobs replaced by automation (Facebook, 5-29-17)


April - 2017 - Financial

Most Americans Are Getting Poorer. How "Healthcare for the Rich" Is Killing Many of Them (Common Dreams, 4-3-17)

The Militarized Budget 2017 (The National Priorities, 4-3-17)

Trump quietly revoked Fair Pay order, leaving women vulnerable to workplace abuse (New York Times, 4-4-17)

This Skyscraper Is a Perfect Illustration of the Trump Administration’s Intractable Conflicts of Interest (Slate, 4-7-17)

Loans ‘Designed to Fail’: States Say Navient Preyed on Students (New York Times, 4-9-17)

DeVos Undoes Obama Student Loan Protections (Bloomberg, 4-12-17)

STUDY BY MIT ECONOMIST: U.S. HAS REGRESSED TO A THIRD-WORLD NATION FOR MOST OF ITS CITIZENS (The Intellectualist, 4-20-17)

April - 2017 - Environmental

EPA regulation cuts likely to hurt children most, experts say (CNN, 4-13-17)

April - 2017 - International

Do You Think the Syrian Government Is Brain-Dead? Because That's the Only Way the 'Sarin Gas Strike' Makes Sense (Russia-Insider, 4-6-17)

King Abdullah: Compromise with Russia on Crimea to get its help in Syria (Washington Post, 4-6-17)

Gloves Are for Sissies: Photographs Show White Helmets Are Immune to Sarin (Russia Insider, 4-6-17)

Pentagon Trained Syria’s Al Qaeda “Rebels” in the Use of Chemical Weapons (Global Research, 4-7-17)

US Intelligence Already Knows Assad Did Not Drop Chemical Weapons (Popular Resistance, 4-9-17)

This pastor called gays ‘sinners’ after Pulse shooting. Now he’s convicted of child molestation (Washington Post, 4-12-17)

White House claims on Syria chemical attack ‘obviously false’ – MIT professor (VIDEO) (RT, 4-13-17)

"Everything's Worse" - Where India's Disintegration Is Set To Begin (Zerohedge, 4-21-17)

What The U.S. Wants You to Forget About North Korea (Facebook Rachel Blevins, 4-30-17)

April - 2017 - U.S. Domestic

The Racist Roots of Marijuana Prohibition (FEE, 4-11-17)

What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know (Common Dreams, 4-12-17)

The CIA’s heroin connection (New Age, 4-30-17)

April - 2017 - Political

 Trump’s Generals Are Considering a Wider War in Yemen (The Nation, 4-3-17)

The Militarized Budget 2017 (The National Priorities, 4-3-17)

Schwarzenegger accuses Trump of 'robbing (children) blind' (CNN, 4-5-17)

'US was not attacked': Strike on Syria divides lawmakers in both parties (RT, 4-7-17)

 This Week in Reproductive Rights: Trump defunds the UN's maternal health fund (Mic, 4-10-17)

A new report makes it clear: Trump’s administration is all in on the war on drugs (Vox, 4-10-17)

Top Missile and Chemical Weapons Expert Debunks Trump’s Claims About Syrian Chemical Weapons (Zero Hedge, 4-13-17)

New Revelations Belie Trump Claims on Syria Chemical Attack (Truth-out, 4-13-17)

Trump Has Killed Beautiful Babies in Four Countries (Global Research, 4-18-17)

The GOP’s latest health-care plan is comically bad (Washington Post, 4-18-17)

Trump Thinks This Is Pro-Life? (New York Times, 4-22-17)

What Trump’s Budget Means for the Filet-O-Fish (New York Times, 4-24-17)

Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal (Vox, 4-25-17)

Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American who is unapologetic about her support for her people, is a lightning rod for attack. (Alternet, 4-28-17)

Surprise! Most Americans Want Trump to Slash Military Spending by $41 Billion (Fox, 4-30-17)

April - 2017 - History

Beyond the Dream: Living the King's Legacy (Beyond the Dream, NO DATE)

April - 2017 - Health

Should you walk or run for exercise? Here's what the science says. (Vox, 4-5-17)

If abortions become illegal, here’s how the government will prosecute women who have them. (Washington Post, 4-28-17)

April - 2017 - Religion

Among white evangelicals, regular churchgoers are the most supportive of Trump (Pew Research Center, 4-26-17)

New Witchcraft Museum Features Occult Artifacts Once Owned By Aleister Crowley (Dangerous Minds, 4-28-17)

April - 2017 - Technology

Records show deep ties between FBI and Best Buy computer technicians looking for child porn (The Washington Post, 4-3-17)

Not a Dot-Com Bubble, Not 2007, but a Nasty Mix of Both (The Wall Street Journal, 4-6-17)

Silicon Valley Sweatshops (The Nation, 4-13-17)

Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer to Make $186 Million From Verizon Deal (The Wall Street Journal, 4-25-17)

April - 2017 - Education

The Worst Boarding School Scandals (Ranker, No Date)

The U.S. Makes It Easy for Parents to Get College Loans—Repaying Them Is Another Story (The Wall Street Journal, 4-24-17)


March - 2017 - Environmental

Revealed: Environmental Activist Berta Cáceres' Suspected Killers Received U.S. Military Training (Democracy Now, 3-3-17)

EPA's Environmental Justice Head Resigned After 24 Years. He Wants to Explain Why. (Mother Jones, 3-9-17)

House Republicans Repeat an Obama Error (The Wall Street Journal, 3-9-17)

Native Nations Rise brings DAPL protest to Washington (Aljazeera, 3-11-17)

New UN Report: Pesticides Don’t Feed the World (Civil Eats, 3-13-17)

WGA Awards: Oliver Stone outlines ‘the death of this planet and the extinction of us all’ during speech (Independent, 3-20-17)

Drought and War Heighten Threat of Not Just 1 Famine, but 4 (New York Times, 3-27-17)

Warning: Trump Is About to Make World's "Biggest Humanitarian Crisis" Much Worse (Common Dreams, 3-27-17)

I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations (The Guardian, 3-28-17)

A Message From the End of the World (The New York Times, 3-31-17)

March - 2017 - Financial

Trump suggests ignoring World Trade Organization in major policy shift (Washington Post, 3-1-17)

Economists May Be Underestimating How Fast the Robots Are Coming (Bloomberg, 3-1-17)

America Can’t Escape the Debt Vortex (Wallstreet Journal, 3-10-17)

Should We Pay the Rich to Build Infrastructure, Then Pay Them to Use It? (Common Dreams, 3-14-17)

America Insists On A $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier That's Easy To Sink (Fox Trot Alpha, 3-14-17)

Ten of Trump's budget's cruelest cuts (CNN, 3-17-17)

New research identifies a ‘sea of despair’ among white, working-class Americans (Washington Post, 3-23-17)

March - 2017 - International

War Consumes South Sudan, a Young Nation Cracking Apart (New York Times, 3-4-17)

The U.S. and U.K. Helped Overthrow Gaddafi. This is Libya Now (The Anti-Media, 3-6-17)

Afghan-Pak border reopens, problems still remain (DW, 3-7-17)

Gaza's women of steel (Aljazeera, 3-8-17)

Rebels with a cause: the female biker clubs reclaiming Delhi's public space (The Guardian, 3-8-17)

NATO’s War Of Resources Is Causing A Humanitarian Crisis In West Africa (Mintpress, 3-20-17)

Young female fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia (The Washington Post, 3-23-17)

How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans (The Hill, 3-31-17)

March - 2017 - Domestic U.S.

Win Without War, CREDO, MoveOn.org, and Peace Action, Pledge to Resist Any Trump Administration Effort to Propel the United States into a War of Choice (Win without War, 3-29-17)

March - 2017 - Politics

Welcome to the Progressive Alliance for Freedom, Justice and Solidarity (No Date)

Donors pledge millions to fill void left by Trump's 'global gag rule' (CNN, 3-2-17)

Photo contradicts Pelosi's statement about not meeting Kislyak (Politico, 3-3-17)

IF TRUMP TOWER WAS WIRETAPPED, TRUMP CAN DECLASSIFY THAT RIGHT NOW (The Intercept, 3-4-17)

How the feds could have listened to Trump’s phone calls (Politico, 3-4-17)

Trump’s evidence’ for Obama wiretap claims relies on sketchy, anonymously sourced reports (Washington Post, 3-5-17)

Ex-CIA director on wiretap claim: Trump apparently ‘forgot that he was president’ (Yahoo, 3-6-17)

Republican Congressman Who Scolded Obamacare Recipients for Buying iPhones Exposed as Total Hypocrite (Alternet, 3-7-17)

How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care (The New York Times, 3-7-17)

How ‘A Day Without a Woman’ Could Backfire (Politico, 3-8-17)

Good news for Donald Trump: Your poll numbers are now better than Hillary Clinton’s (Washington Post, 3-8-17)

KING: The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular (Daily News, 3-9-17)

House Republicans Repeat an Obama Error (The Wall Street Journal, 3-9-17)

KING: The Democratic Party seems to have no earthly idea why it is so damn unpopular (NyDaily News, 3-9-17)

The poor ‘just don’t want healthcare’: Republican congressman faces backlash over comments (Washington Post, 3-10-17)

Native Nations Rise brings DAPL protest to Washington (Aljazeera, 3-11-17)

The GOP Health Bill Is an Assault on People of Color (Our Future, 3-12-17)

What should we do about a mentally ill president? (High Tower Lowdown, 3-14-17)

INTERCEPTED PODCAST: SNOWDEN VS. TRUMP (The Intercept, 3-15-17)

How Trumpcare Will Crush Millennials and Their Boomer Parents (The Daily Beast, 3-16-17)

Mulvaney: Proposed cuts to Meals on Wheels are compassionate to taxpayers (Politico, 3-16-17)

Paul Ryan says he fantasized about cutting health care for the poor at his college keggers (Think Progress, 3-17-17)

Ten of Trump's budget's cruelest cuts (CNN, 3-17-17)

Trump Sends Hate Group to Represent US at UN Women's Rights Conference (Common Dreams, 3-17-17)

This Is What the Brutal Consequences of Trump's Proposed Budget Slash for the Labor Dept. Would Look Like (Alternet, 3-18-17)

Trump’s EPA Cuts: No One Will Protect Us (Chej, 3-20-17)

Union Chief Strikes Back at the ‘Insanity’ of Trump’s Budget Cuts at the EPA (YaleEnvironment360, 3-21-17)

The health care bill could be Donald Trump’s Iraq War (VOX, 3-23-17)

This is a photo of lawmakers discussing taking away maternity coverage  (VOX, 3-23-17)

Trump’s Executive Order Pushes the U.S. Climate Pledge Further Out of Reach (New York Times, 3-28-17)

Congress just killed your Internet privacy protections (CNN, 3-28-17)

Vatican Urges Trump To Change Climate Change Position (The World Post, 3-30-17)

Henry Rollins: Make America Filthy, Hungry, Broke and Stupid Again (LA Weekly, 3-30-17)

March - 2017 - Health

For Chronically Ill People Like Me, the ACA Repeal Is Life Or Death (Common Dreams, 3-6-17)

'This is not your mother's arthritis': Most cases found in younger Americans (CNN, 3-7-17)

The House Republicans’ health-care bill is a thicket of bad incentives (Washington Post, 3-8-17)

Next Phase of Obamacare Repeal Will Target Mandate Requiring Prenatal Coverage, GOP Leader Tells Allies (The Intercept, 3-10-17)

The GOP Health Bill Is an Assault on People of Color (Our Future, 3-12-17)

Republican healthcare plans ‘will leave America vulnerable’ to HIV epidemic (Pink News, 3-13-17)

How Trumpcare Will Crush Millennials and Their Boomer Parents (The Daily Beast, 3-16-17)

GOP plan's odd side effect: More abortions (CNN, 3-17-17)

5 Ways the Republican ACA Repeal Bill Would Roll Back Progress on Health Insurance Coverage for Low-Income Women (American Progress, 3-20-17)

Maddow DSCC Releases New Gut Punch Healthcare Ad (YouTube, 3-22-17)

This is a photo of lawmakers discussing taking away maternity coverage  (VOX, 3-23-17)

Henry Rollins: Make America Filthy, Hungry, Broke and Stupid Again (LA Weekly, 3-30-17)

March - 2017 - Religion

In Donald Trump, Israeli Settlers See A Message From God (The World Post, 3-29-17)

Why the Religious Community Supports a Republican Climate Resolution (Christian Post, 3-30-17)

Vatican Urges Trump To Change Climate Change Position (The World Post, 3-30-17)

March - 2017 - Technology

High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health (Book)

Why is the government searching cellphones? (CNN, 3-28-17)

Comcast-Funded Civil Rights Groups Claim Low-Income People Prefer Ads Over Privacy (The Intercept, 3-29-17)

March - 2017 - Other

Notes on Empire and Spiritual Death: a Recent Episode (Counter Punch, 3-3-17)


February - 2017 - Financial

Students need bankruptcy protection from crushing loans (The Hill, 2-1-17)

Melinda Gates Wrote A Powerful Essay On How Birth Control Empowers Women (Huffington Post, 2-7-17)

Border Tax Could Upend Global Markets, but Investors Shy Away From Any Bets (The Wall Street Journal, 2-12-17)

GE CEO: It is the end of the 'global elite' (Business Insider, 2-27-17)

February - 2017 - Environmental

 A Conservative Case for Climate Action (New York Times, 2-8-17)

Unplugged Natural Gas Leak Threatens Alaska's Endangered Cook Inlet Belugas (Inside Climate News, 2-24-17)

Extinction 2017: California Edition (Alternet, 2-28-17)

Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release (Inside Climate News, 2-28-17)

February - 2017 - International

Does the China-Pakistan economic corridor worry India? (Aljazeera, February 2017)

Highest radiation reading since 3/11 detected at Fukushima No. 1 reactor (Japan Times, 2-3-17)

Gaza's cancer patients: 'We are dying slowly' (Aljazeera, 2-5-17)

South Africa's plan to tackle HIV among sex workers (Aljazeera, 2-5-17)

Iran Is ‘World’s Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism’, Says World's Biggest State Sponsor of Terrorism (Russia Insider, 2-5-17)

Yemen Withdraws Permission for U.S. Antiterror Ground Missions (New York Times, 2-7-17)

My country was destroyed (Medium, 2-8-17)

India tosses out Gates Foundation due to conflicts of interest with Big Pharma (Natural News, 2-14-17)

Sir Edward Heath WAS a paedophile, says police chief: Astonishing claim is made that the former PM is guilty of vile crimes 'covered up by the Establishment'  (Daily Mail, 2-18-17)

Norway Pledges Millions to Growing Anti-Trump Global Abortion Fund (Common Dreams, 2-20-17)

Amend Ghana’s laws to ban homosexuality – Oquaye (Asempa News, 2-20-17)

Helmut Kohl's son gives Merkel partial blame for mother's suicide (DW, 2-22-17)

February - 2017 - U.S. Foreign Affairs

 An Actual American War Criminal May Become Our Second-Ranking Diplomat (The Nation, 2-2-17)

The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia (The Intercept, 2-28-17)

February - 2017 - U.S. Domestic

Viral Story About Man’s Mom Dying After Trump’s Travel Pause Was A Lie (We Are Change, 2-1-17)

Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’ Signals Beginning of a Mass Awakening for Black America (Truthdig, 2-3-17)

March catapults Muslim American into national spotlight and social-media crosshairs (The Washington Post, 2-7-17)

Homeland Security Secretary Says Passwords May Be Required to Enter U.S. (The Daily Beast, 2-7-17)

Calling the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group would hurt all American Muslims (The Washington Post, 2-8-17)

A Northeast Portland Record Label Lands on a National Hate-Group Registry (Willamette Week, 2-21-17)

February - 2017 - Health

A 50-State Look at Medicaid Expansion (Families USA, February 2016)

February - 2017 - Politics

The One Russian Linking Putin, Erdogan and Trump (Bloomberg, 2-3-17)

Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Is Using H-1B Visas To Pay Low Wages To Immigrants (Huffington Post, 2-3-17)

Trump Needs a Holy War (Haaretz, 2-6-17)

Steve Bannon Wanted Mel Gibson for His Movie About Nazis, Abortion, ‘Mutants’ (The Daily Beast, 2-9-17)

OBAMA’S LOST ARMY (New Republic, 2-9-17)

Trump’s Truth Bomb: “You Think We’re So Innocent?” (Counter Punch, 2-9-17)

Trump's First Deported "Bad Hombre" Is A Working Tax-Paying Mom of Two (American) Teenagers Who's Lived Here For 22 Years (Common Dreams, 2-9-17)

Senate Dems Join Republicans In Criminalizing Boycotting Israel (Mintpress, 2-10-17)

The Spy Revolt Against Trump Begins (Observer, 2-12-17)

KING: Stephen Miller is the latest insufferable liar and bigot on Team Trump (Daily News, 2-13-17)

Trump’s counter-jihad (Vox, 2-13-17)

Republicans to predatory companies: Grab as much as you can (Washington Post, 2-14-17)

The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies (The Intercept, 2-14-17)

Dear Outraged Liberals: Trump’s Just Taking Over Where Obama Left Off (Mintpress, 2-14-17)

Don't Be Fooled by the Politics of Smart (Common Dreams, 2-20-17)

Filmmaker Says MSNBC Blacklisted Him Over Support For Bernie Sanders (Mintpress News, 2-21-16)

Milo Yiannopoulos disinvited from CPAC slot amid tape controversy (Politico, 2-20-17)

Do These 10 Things, And Trump Will Be Toast (The Huffington Post, 2-21-17)

Liberals Beware: Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas (Counter Punch, 2-22-17)

How ‘New Cold Warriors’ Cornered Trump (Antiwar, 2-27-17)

Here's a German parade with a float of President Trump raping a national icon then getting his head cut off by the same (The Daily Caller, 2-27-17)

February - 2017 - Religion

Pope Francis: ‘Let Us Pray for Babies in Danger of Being Aborted’ (Breitbart, 2-6-17)

Franklin Graham Just Unleashed A Vile Attack On Every LGBT Person In America (The New Civil Rights Movement, 2-6-17)

February - 2017 - Education

4 Phases of the Crushing Student Debt Bubble (Zerohedge, 2-9-17)

Haunted by Student Debt Past Age 50 (The New York Times, 2-13-17)


January - 2017 - Financial

Wall Street, America’s New Landlord, Kicks Tenants to the Curb (Bloomberg, 1-3-17)

Free Credit Score? Not Necessarily. Credit Bureaus Busted for Deception (NBC News, 1-4-17)

January - 2017 - Environmental

Dam leaves Crimea population in chronic water shortage (Aljazeera, 1-4-17)

Methane may not last long in the atmosphere — but it drives sea level rise for centuries (The Washington Post, 1-9-17)

FPL Wins Battle to Store Radioactive Waste Under Miami's Drinking Water Aquifer (The Miami New Times, 1-16-17)

January - 2017 - International

Kissinger's Possible Role in US-Russia Normalization is 'Great News for Moscow' (Sputnik News, 1-2-17)

U.S./UK Paid “White Helmets” Help Al Qaeda Blocking Water To 5 Million Thirsty Syrians (Global Research, 1-3-17)

'The Rohingya Alan Kurdi': Will the world take notice now? (CNN, 1-4-17)

Dam leaves Crimea population in chronic water shortage (Aljazeera, 1-4-17)

Cambodia's Deadly Politics (Aljazeera, 1-12-17)

Pakistan's violent cyberspace: No place for dissent (Aljazeera, 1-16-17)

World Bank Aims to Hand Over Seed Industry to Agribusiness (Telesur TV, 1-18-17)

Mexican President’s Support Plumbs New Low as Gasoline Soars (Bloomberg, 1-18-17)

German Newspaper Editor: Assassination Easiest Way To End "Trump Catastrophe" (Zero Hedge, 1-27-17)

Russians may have arrested a source in U.S. probe of election meddling (McClatchy, 1-27-17)

‘I am heartbroken’: Malala criticizes Trump for ‘closing the door on children’ fleeing violence (Washington Post, 1-28-17)

Dual national German politician impacted by Trump immigration order (DW, 1-29-17)

January - 2017 - U.S. International

American Special Operations Forces Are Deployed to 70 Percent of the World’s Countries (The Nation, 1-5-17)

Iraqi MPs call for reciprocal ban on US citizens (Aljazeera, 1-30-17)

Obama Killed a 16-Year-Old American in Yemen. Trump Just Killed His 8-Year-Old Sister. (The Intercept, 1-30-17)

January - 2017 - U.S. Domestic

Faces of the American Muslims who died fighting for their country (Facebook Video)

Federally-Funded 'Peace' Institute Providing Platform for War Mongers and Torture Cheerleaders (Alternet, 1-5-17)

Abby Martin Responds to Exploitation by NY Times (Media Roots, 1-6-17)

The Governor of Washington just declared Donald Trump an enemy of the United States (Groopspeak, 1-28-17)

When war veterans are speaking out loud about corruption and lies, the public should listen. (The Peace Report Facebook, 1-29-17)

Detroit family caught in Iraq travel ban, says mom died waiting to come home (Fox2,1-31-17)

African Union criticises US for ‘taking many of our people as slaves’ and not taking refugees (Independent, 1-31-17)

January - 2017 - Health

Doctor’s Orders: Don’t Repeal Obamacare Until You Have A Plan To Replace It (Huffington Post, 1-4-17)

Abortion rate declines to historic low, with Obamacare a likely contributor, study says (LA Times, 1-18-17)

Where Are States Today? Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility Levels for Children, Pregnant Women, and Adults (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 1-19-17)

Repealing the Affordable Care Act will kill more than 43,000 people annually (The Washington Post, 1-23-17)   Read Study

January - 2017 - Political

Minister Farrakhan to President Barack Obama: "You didn't earn your legacy with Black people." (Minister Louis Farrakhan News Feed)

'Fake News' And How The Washington Post Rewrote Its Story On Russian Hacking Of The Power Grid (Forbes, 1-1-17)

Trump’s Neo-Fascism will be Built on Neo-Fascism of Obama and Democrat Party (Black Agenda Report, 1-3-17)

Why Tom Perez Is a Strong Competitor Against Keith Ellison in the Democratic Party Race (Mother Jones, 1-6-17)

Shocker: 'Proof' of Russia's Trump Support Was Compiled During Obama's Election (Sputnik News, 1-7-17)

Allegations Against Russia Less Credible Every Day (David Swanson, 1-8-17)

Declassified US Intelligence Report on Russia: a Critical Review (Counter Punch, 1-9-17)

Are Democrats the Party of Science? Not Really (News Republic, 1-10-17)

The Most Dangerous Bill You’ve Never Heard Of Just Passed The House (Huffington Post, 1-10-17)

National Intelligence Director Admits U.S. Government Fell For ‘Fake News’ (We Are Change, 1-12-17)

CIA Officer: Clinton Lost Because She Defrauded Bernie Sanders (Your News Wire, 1-12-17)

Obama Opens NSA’s Vast Trove of Warrantless Data to Entire Intelligence Community, Just in Time for Trump (The Intercept, 1-13-17)

Donald Trump may have just destroyed the Republican effort to repeal Obamacare (The Washington Post, 1-16-17)

Jeremy Corbyn Accused of Being Russian “Collaborator” for Questioning NATO Troop Build-Up on Border  (The Intercept, 1-16-17)

A Demand for Russian ‘Hacking’ Proof (Consortium News, 1-17-17)

Obama Carried Out Ten Times More Drone Strikes Than Bush (Mintpress, 1-17-17)

Trump Brags About Not Sleeping Much: Here Are 6 Catastrophes Caused by Sleep Deprivation (Alternet, 1-18-17)

Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan (DW, 1-19-17)

A possible cushion for Trump’s Cabinet nominees: Democrats with elections in 2018 (Washington Post, 1-19-17)

Inflammatory pastor preached to Trump before inauguration (CNN, 1-20-17)

Donald Trump Plagiarized Bane in His Inaugural Speech (Jezebel, 1-20-17)

The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence (Rolling Stone, 1-23-17)

President Trump’s War on Women Begins (The New York Times, 1-26-17)

Trump claims torture works but experts warn of its 'potentially existential' costs (The Guardian, 1-26-17)

Double Standards: Where Were the Liberal Protestors During Obama’s Wars? (Counter Punch, 1-26-17)

Before Leaving Office, Obama Administration Admits It Got Student Loan Data Wrong (Daily Signal, 1-26-17)

Donald Trump didn’t come up with the list of Muslim countries he wants to ban. Obama did (Mic, 1-27-17)

The President of the United States Explicitly Endorses Torture — a Crime Against Humanity (The Intercept, 1-27-17)

Kellyanne Conway Has An Epic Meltdown And Compares Donald Trump To Jesus (Politics USA, 1-29-17)

Remember that time when Neil Gorsuch’s mother tried to dismantle the EPA?  (Grist, 1-29-17)

Did President Trump Order the Building of 'Concentration Camps'? (Snopes, 1-30-17)

Mother of son murdered by illegal immigrant asks Pelosi which of her children is 'expendable' (Examiner, 1-31-17)

January - 2017 - Political Theory

American Psychosis (Chris Hedges | Truthdig, 1-29-17)

January - 2017 - Media

SEYMOUR HERSH BLASTS MEDIA FOR UNCRITICALLY PROMOTING RUSSIAN HACKING STORY (The Intercept, 1-25-17)

January - 2017 - Religion

January - 2017 - Technology

The FBI Never Asked For Access To Hacked Computer Servers (Buzz Feed, 1-4-17)

Facebook Blocks RT From Posting Until After Trump Inauguration (Mintpress, 1-19-17)

January - 2017 - Culture

Why We Put a Transgender Girl on the Cover of National Geographic (National Geographic, January 2017)