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Extinction Rebellion: Day 1 (Facebook Event. January 26th, 2019) Old but keeping this on here
Environment
Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 (CBS News, 11-2-06) SOURCES: Worm, B. Science, Nov. 3, 2006; vol 314: pp 787-790. News release, SeaWeb. News release, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
That Was Easy: In Just 60 Years, Neoliberal Capitalism Has Nearly Broken Planet Earth (Common Dreams, 1-16-15) REPORT
New UN report finds almost no industry profitable if environmental costs were included (Exposing Truth, 4-9-15) REPORT
Ocean fish numbers on 'brink of collapse': WWF (Reuters, 9-16-15) WORLD WILDLIFE FUND REPORT
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade (Truthdig, 9-21-15) Report (PDF)
New Report Warns Of Dramatic Changes For Arctic Under Global Warming (Huffington Post, 12-18-15)
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns (The Guardian, 10-26-16) LIVING PLANET INDEX
Amid Trump's Deregulatory Bonanza, UN Report Details 'Catastrophic' Impact of Pesticides (Common Dreams, 3-7-17)
Algae is one of the most powerful sources of energy we have access to on Earth. This is how it could revolutionize sustainable energy. (Focal Point, 9-23-17)
Report: Pollution Kills 3 Times More than AIDS, TB And Malaria Combined (NPR, 10-19-17)
Pollution’s Annual Price Tag? $4.6 Trillion and 9 Million Dead (Bloomberg, 10-19-17) Report Source
'Ecological Armageddon': Warnings From Scientists as Flying Insects Disappear (Common Dreams, 10-19-17) Source
Three-quarters of insect population have been lost in nature reserves over three decades (University of Sussex) Source
Thousands of scientists issue bleak ‘second notice’ to humanity (The Washington Post, 11-13-17) Source
We invite all scientists to endorse this global environmental article and engage with a new alliance concerned about global climate and environmental trends (Alliance of World Scientists)
New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas (EcoWatch, 1-16-18) Source
White House to ask for 72 percent cut in renewable energy programs: report (The Hill, 1-31-18)
Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals (The Guardian, 5-21-18) Study
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth (The Guardian, 5-31-18) Study
As Planet Chokes on Plastic Waste, UN Report Offers Roadmap to Tackle Global Crisis (Common Dreams, 6-5-18) UN Report
By 2030, We Will Pass The Point Where We Can Stop Runaway Climate Change (Huffington Post, 9-5-18) Study
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 (The New York Times, 10-7-18) Report
Key global warming target slipping out of reach, UN scientists warn (Axios, 10-8-18) Report
WWF report warns annihilation of wildlife threatens civilisation (The Guardian, 10-30-18) Report
US water suppliers cover up spikes in hormone-disrupting herbicide contamination, report claims (RT, 11-17-18) Report
Insects Are Dying En Masse, Risking ‘Catastrophic’ Collapse Of Earth’s Ecosystems (Huffington Post, 2-11-19) Study
The 'ecological foundations of society' are in peril, a massive UN report warns (CNN, 3-13-19) Report PDF
STUDY: US Annually Uses 388 Million Pounds of Pesticides Banned in Europe, Brazil and China (Return to Now, 12-4-19)
Financial
Report: The Road to Zero Wealth (Institute for Policy Studies, No Date)
World Bank Report Challenges Notions of Declining Poverty in Africa (Global Research, 10-20-15)
Report: Post 9/11 Wars Have Cost Taxpayers Nearly $5 Trillion And Counting (Mintpress, 9-14-16)
Most millionaires now in Asia: report (DW, 6-23-16)
Lawmakers Are Getting Closer to Bringing Back Trillion-Dollar Deficits (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 12-20-17)
It’s Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes (Counter Punch, 1-22-18)
The "War on Terror"
New Report Reveals Bush Administration Ignored Dire Pre-9/11 Warning (Think Progress, 11-12-15)
UNHCR report: More displaced now than after WWII (CNN, 6-20-16)
Report: Post 9/11 Wars Have Cost Taxpayers Nearly $5 Trillion And Counting (Mintpress, 9-14-16)
The Nerve Gas Attack Described in White House Report Did Not Occur, Expert Says of Syria Incident (Truth-dig, 4-19-17)
Security
Poor students often lack a home Internet connection. Is this FCC program a solution? (Hechinger Report, 6-18-15)
CYBERATTACK ON NUCLEAR FACILITIES COULD CAUSE RADIATION LEAK: REPORT (Newsweek, 10-5-15)
Technology
UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World (Futurism, 11-11-16)
Health
Superbug threat requires urgent action: report (Aljazeera, May 2016)
U.S.
2018 Edelman Trust Barometer Reveals Record-Breaking Drop in Trust in the U.S (Edelman, 2018)
The Devil We Know (FILM Facebook Page)
The Day After (Attack Segment) (YouTube, 11-04-06)
Please help the world - COP15 opening film (Bing, 12-7-09)
Permafrost Methane Time Bomb NBC News (YouTube, 9-9-12)
The Five Worst Weapons Still in Use - Truthloader (YouTube, 9-17-13)
The Untold History of the United States (YouTube, 10-11-13)
David Suzuki - Intergenerational Crimes by Corporations and Governments Against Humanity (YouTube, 10-26-13)
The Invasion of America (YouTube, 6-2-14)
Video: The Invasion of America—Watch the Indigenous Land Base Shrink (Indian Country Today Median Network, 6-5-14 )
“Psychedelia” [Documentary] (Video) (The Arcane Front, 7-29-14)
Varanasi - the city of death. Best of "Beyond" (YouTube Video, 1-18-15)
*Earth’s Axis Has Shifted!* And The Sky Has Changed (YouTube, 2-26-15)
NASA Video Reveals How 35 Years of Trash Turned Into Ocean Garbage Patches (Take Part, 8-31-15)
Chinese carpocalypse: Thousands of vehicles stranded on Beijing motorway (PHOTOS, VIDEO) (RT, 10-8-15)
VIDEO: Manufacturing Terror: How Saudi Arabia Helped Create Islamic State (Truthdig, 11-16-15)
Chilling Video May Show NATO Member State Greeting and Providing Refuge to ISIS Militants (Alternet, 12-2-15)
The Himalayas from 20,000 ft. (Teton Gravity Research, YouTube, 3-6-15)
Farrakhan on Hillary Clinton: 'That's a Wicked Woman" (YouTube, 2-28-16)
What is the real "bottom line (Sustainable Human Facebook, 6-6-17)
Planet Earth II: Official Extended Trailer - BBC Earth (YouTube, 10-14-16)
Anime depicts the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs on 6 and 9 August 1945 (Facebook Video, 10-22-16)
Bizarre leaked Pentagon video is a science fiction story about the future of cities (Ars Technica, 10-28-16)
Before the Flood - Full Movie | National Geographic (YouTube, 10-30-16)
How Humans Have Changed The Landscape Google Images (GoGreen, 12-7-16)
Aurora Borealis Observatory - Visit Senja (Aurora Borealis, 7-12-17)
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” (Sustainable Human Facebook Video, 8-3-17)
How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life (Sustainable Human, 8-3-17)
The Most Honest 3 Minutes in History (Writers Guild Award 2017, Video)
Harrison Ford has a Message for You (YouTube)
EPIC Alps in 4 Seasons 4k from Above | Switzerland, Germany, and Italy (AbuShakra Adventure, 1-8-18)
What It’s Like to Endure Aerial Attacks (The New York Times, 4-12-18)
Star Making Machine Nebula (Get Set Fly Science, 8-4-18)
Harrison Ford on tackling climate change (Green Renaissance, 10-2-18)
You Will Want To Recycle Everything After Seeing This! (Facebook Video)
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PICTURES
25 stunning photos that prove just how enormous and incredible our world is (Brightside, No Date)
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SKIES IN THE WORLD ARE ENDANGERED WE VISIT BEFORE THEY’RE GONE. (Stargaze, No Date)
Extreme photos of pollution (CBS News, No Date)
Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs (The Guardian, 5-3-12)
Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures (The Guardian, 4-1-15)
Flowers bloom in the Atacama desert – in pictures (The Guardian, 10-30-15)
See Before-and-After Photos of the Changing Environment (National Geographic, 11-29-18)
Google Unveils a 3-Decade Time-Lapse of the Earth (TIME, 2016)
NICK BRANDT CAPTURES AFRICA'S LOST ANIMAL HABITATS (American Photo, 3-9-16)
Google Earth Update Gives A Clearer Picture On How Humans Have Changed The Landscape (GoGreen, 12-7-16)
Aerial photos reveal Canada oil sands mining (Business Insider, 1-29-17)
The devastating environmental impact of human progress like you've never seen it before (Wired, 10-13-18)
Two Worlds on Our Planet (Facebook Video, 1-10-18)
33 Heart Breaking 10 Year Challenge Photos (EPblog, 2-7-19)
ANIMALS
Homosexuality in Nature (Facebook, 5-2-16)
Homosexuality in Nature (Full Documentary Facebook, 5-2-16)
'We are failing the elephants' (CNN, 12-31-16)
Where Animals Live | Where Humans Live (Longevity Box Facebook, 8-17-17)
Half of dead baby turtles found by Australian scientists have stomachs full of plastic (Independent, 9-13-18)
Monsanto's global weedkiller harms honeybees, research finds (The Guardian, 9-24-18)
Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife – to save ourselves (New Scientist, 9-13-18)
It Will Take Millions of Years for Mammals to Recover From Us (The Atlantic, 10-15-18)
Baby Turtles Struggle to Swim Through Plastic Pollution in Honduras (Now Future Facebook, 11-28-18)
Bees Are Facing Yet Another Existential Threat (Mother Jones, 1-26-19)
'Heartbreaking' scene shows walruses fall off cliff in Netflix's 'Our Planet' (CTV News, 4-9-19)
Diet Of Polar Bears Is Now 25% Plastic (World Atlas, 12-3-19)
Half-Million Hermit Crabs Killed by Plastic Waste on Remote Islands, Sparking Fears of Global Tragedy (The Mind Unleashed, 12-5-19)
RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH
Legal Recognition of the Sacredness of the Earth: Rights of Nature (Pachamama, 10-28-15)
Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife – to save ourselves (New Scientist, 9-13-18)
AGRICULTURE
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (Cowspiracy.com)
New research: synthetic nitrogen destroys soil carbon, undermines soil health (Grist, 2-24-10)
Yes, Monsanto Actually DID Buy the BLACKWATER Mercenary Group! (Counter Currents, 2-2-13)
Neonicotinoids are the new DDT killing the natural world (The Guardian, 8-5-13)
We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it (The Guardian, 3-25-15)
Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history (The Guardian, 9-25-15)
The top 10 foods with the biggest environmental footprint (Business Insider, 9-19-15)
A "Probable Carcinogen," Monsanto's Glyphosate Most Heavily Used Weed-Killer Ever (Common Dreams, 10-3-15)
Is the USDA Silencing Scientists? (The Atlantic, 11-3-15)
How Gates' Billions Silences Criticism of His Development Agenda (Common Dreams, 1-23-16)
NITROGEN FROM FARM FERTILIZERS REMAINS IN SOIL AND COULD POLLUTE DRINKING WATER FOR DECADES (News Week, 3-15-16)
Pools of Waste: Landmark Analysis Exposes Factory Farming Filth (Common Dreams, 6-22-16)
How One GMO Nearly Took Down the Planet (Global Possibilities, 8-7-16)
MEET THE CALIFORNIA COUPLE WHO USES MORE WATER THAN EVERY HOME IN LOS ANGELES COMBINED (Mother Jones, 8-9-16)
Monsanto Seeds Unleash Unintended Consequences Across U.S. Farms (Bloomberg, 9-1-16)
Ending a Century of Ecocide and Genocide, Seeding Earth Democracy (Common Dreams, 10-12-16)
Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops (New York Times, 10-30-16)
Circle of Poison (Aljazeera, 11-18-16)
A Terrifying Superbug Just Showed Up on a US Farm for the First Time (Motherjones, 12-7-16)
How Antibiotic-Tainted Seafood From China Ends Up on Your Table (Bloomberg, 12-15-16)
Beyond Wetiko Agriculture: Saving Ourselves from the Soil Up (Common Dreams, 3-15-17)
Glyphosate 'will destroy the whole ecosystem' (DW, 3-16-17)
Monsanto Isn't Feeding the World—It's Killing Our Children (Alternet, 3-17-17)
Regenerative Agriculture Can Save the Planet (EcoWatch, 5-2-17)
A zero-soil vertical farm is growing fresh greens stacked over 30 feet high (Focal Point, 9-30-17)
Total Health Costs of Industrial Food Systems Are 'Staggering' (EcoWatch, 10-9-17)
EPA keeps Nazi nerve gas pesticide in use in California's fields (Redding, 1-8-18)
Humanity's Meat and Dairy Intake Must Be Cut in Half by 2050 to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change (Alternet, 3-14-18)
Rounding Up the Risks of Big Ag (LA Review of Books, 5-6-18)
Dr. Vandana Shiva speaks out against the merger of Bayer & Monsanto (IFOAM, 5-13-18)
AeroFarms grows plants without soil or sun using Dell Technologies (Business Insider, 10-17-18)
More than half of Earth's land critically endangered: report (Aljazeera, 1-10-19)
CLIMATE CHANGE
Location of New Coal Power Plants in Planning (updated) (Coalexit)
Earth has entered into a sixth mass extinction event (Wired, No Date)
Harrison Ford has a Message for You (YouTube)
Please help the world - COP15 opening film (Bing, 12-7-09)
Scientists discover vast methane plumes escaping from Arctic seafloor (Earthsky, 7-30-14)
The Point of No Return: Climate Change Nightmares Are Already Here (Rolling Stone, 8-5-15)
Bolivia's Morales blames capitalism for climate change (Aljazeera, 10-13-15)
The countries most likely to survive climate change in one infographic (Business Insider, 11-30-15)
Astronauts have a moving message about climate change for world leaders (On Earth, 12-12-15)
The US Owes the World $4 Trillion for Trashing the Climate (Motherboard, 9-9-15)
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade (Truthdig, 9-21-15) Report (PDF)
Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save the Climate, ‘The Private Sector is Inept’ (U.S. Uncut, 10-26-15)
Hydropower Will Undermine COP21 as ‘False Solution’ to Climate Change (Eco Watch, 11-2-15)
Ten Reasons Why Large Hydropower Is a False Solution to Climate Change (Common Dreams, 12-4-15)
New Report Warns Of Dramatic Changes For Arctic Under Global Warming (Huffington Post, 12-18-15)
The Pope's Most Powerful Quotes About Climate Change (Huffington Post, 12-1-15)
"The Paris Agreement Will See the Planet Burn": Former Bolivian Climate Negotiator Pablo Solón (Democracy Now, 12-1-15)
The European Accounting Error That's Warming the Planet (Pulp Fiction, 10-20-15)
This is where 90 percent of global warming is going (Washington Post, 1-20-16)
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Chemistry (Bill Moyers, 3-24-16)
Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever (The Guardian, 4-1-16)
Interactive Map Shows Where Toxic Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Industry Is Threatening 12.4 Million Americans (Eco-Watch, 6-15-16)
Your air conditioner is making the heat wave worse (Washington Post, 7-24-16)
Oh great scientists just confirmed a key new source of greenhouse gases (Washington Post, 9-28-16)
The Anthropocene Is Here: Humanity Has Pushed Earth Into a New Epoch (Common Dreams, 8-29-16)
Slow-motion wrecks: how thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities (The Guardian, 10-14-16)
Scientists have long feared this ‘feedback’ to the climate system. Now they say it’s happening (The Washington Post, 11-30-16)
Global Sea Ice Hits Lowest Levels 'Probably in Millenia' (Common Dreams, 1-16-17)
Climate Change is releasing deadly viruses back into the wild. (Facebook, 1-26-17)
A Conservative Answer to Climate Change (The Wall Street Journal, 2-7-17)
Massive Permafrost Thaw Documented in Canada, Portends Huge Carbon Release (Inside Climate News, 2-28-17)
Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years? (Counter Punch, 2-10-17)
Earth's worst-ever mass extinction of life holds 'apocalyptic' warning about climate change, say scientists (Independent, 3-24-17)
Massive Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico Expected to Increase by 57 Percent (The Inertia, 6-25-17)
As Beijing Joins Climate Fight, Chinese Companies Build Coal Plants (New York Times, 7-1-17)
These experts say we have three years to save the planet from irreversible destruction (Weforum, 7-7-17)
When Will Climate Change Make the Earth Too Hot For Humans? (New York, 7-9-17)
Thirty Years After the Montreal Protocol, Solving the Ozone Problem Remains Elusive (e360, 8-14-17)
A 12 yr old girl delivered a powerful speech to the United Nations. 25 yrs later, her words are more relevant now than ever. (Facebook Climate Change, 9-28-17)
Humans Have Messed With Earth So Much, Formal 'Anthropocene' Classification Needed: Scientists (Common Dreams, 10-2-17)
There’s a Climate Bomb Under Your Feet (Bloomberg, 10-6-17)
The Ecosystem is Breaking Down (Counter Punch, 11-6-17)
The Arctic is full of toxic mercury, and climate change is going to release it (The Washington Post, 2-5-18)
North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists (The Washington Post, 2-26-18)
Climate Change Could Supercharge Threat of Antibiotic Resistance: Study (Common Dreams, 5-25-18)
The most depressing energy chart of the year (Vox, 6-16-18)
Study warns of looming potential for runaway global warming (The Hill, 8-6-18)
Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth (Common Dreams, 8-20-18)
‘Archived’ heat has reached deep into the Arctic interior, researchers say (Yale News, 8-29-18)
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First (Bloomberg, 8-29-18)
What if Carbon Emissions Stopped Tomorrow? (Upworthy, 9-4-18)
Rich Nations Vowed Billions for Climate Change. Poor Countries Are Waiting (New York Times, 9-9-18)
Climate Change Will Cost U.S. More in Economic Damage Than Any Other Country But One (Inside Climate News, 9-24-18)
!!! Tripled climate cuts needed to fulfil pledge (Climate News Network, 11-28-18)
Federal report says climate change will wallop U.S. economy (NBC News, 11-30-18)
Climate change: Arctic reindeer numbers crash by half (BBC, 12-12-18)
As Uprising Spreads Across Globe, Naomi Klein and Noam Chomsky Among Signers of Open Letter Backing Extinction Rebellion (Common Dreams, 12-10-18)
'Whoever You Are, Wherever You Are, We Need You': 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Calls for Global Climate Strike (Common Dreams, 12-12-18)
You Are Stealing Our Future: Greta Thunberg, 15, Condemns the World’s Inaction on Climate Change (Democracy Now, 12-13-18)
'We've 10 years to save the seas or life on earth will become impossible' (Express, 12-23-18)
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall? (The Guardian, 2-15-19)
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse” (Vox, 4-12-19)
It’s a Vast, Invisible Climate Menace. We Made It Visible. (New York Times, 12-12-19)
CLIMATE AND FINANCE
State of the Climate | National Centers for Environmental Information (NOAA)
New UN report finds almost no industry profitable if environmental costs were included (Exposing Truth, 4-9-15) REPORT
Cities Could Save $17 Trillion Just By Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Think Progress, 9-8-15)
Who suffers when disasters strike? The poorest and most vulnerable. (The Washington Post, 9-1-17)
White House admits Trump climate policies will cost Americans $500 billion a year (Think Progress, 11-24-18)
Federal report says climate change will wallop U.S. economy (NBC News, 11-30-18)
What If Companies Had to Pay to Pollute the Planet? (Facebook Video, 12-12-18)
From Greenspan to Yellen, Economic Brain Trust Backs Carbon Tax (Bloomberg, 1-16-19)
VANISHING SEA ICE
Vanishing glaciers of Alaska (CBS News, No Date)
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum (NASA, 9-19-14)
Greenland Is Melting Away (New York Times, 10-27-15)
A New Threat Lurks in Greenland's Melting Ice (Take Part, 1-5-16)
Dominoes fall: Vanishing Arctic ice shifts jet stream, which melts Greenland glaciers (The Washington Post, 5-2-16)
NASA: First Map Of Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet (NASA, 8-3-16)
Arctic Sea Ice Collapse Has Destabilized the Stratospheric & Lower Atmospheric Circulations (Daily KOS, 11-16-16)
The Arctic is burning (World Economic Forum, 7-19-18)
‘Archived’ heat has reached deep into the Arctic interior, researchers say (Yale News, 8-29-18)
Glaciers Are Retreating. Millions Rely on Their Water. (New York Times, 1-15-19)
A third of Himalayan ice cap doomed, finds report (The Guardian, 2-4-19)
Earth’s Glaciers Melting Much Faster Than Previously Thought: Study (Huffington Post, 4-8-19)
THE OCEAN
Ocean Shock (Reuters)
The ocean is broken (The Herald, 10-18-13)
Depressing chart of the day: Overfishing (The Interpreter, 10-30-13)
Scientists discover vast methane plumes escaping from Arctic seafloor (Earthsky, 7-30-14)
Horrific Methane Eruptions in East Siberian Sea (Arctic News, 8-13-14)
New Map Reveals Extent of Ocean Plastic (Plastic Oceans, 8-14-14)
NASA Model Maps Show Sea Level Rise (Space.com, 8-26-15)
Sea levels are rising and they’re not going to stop, says NASA (Grist, 8-17-15)
Rise in global sea levels inevitable says Nasa (International Business Times, 8-28-15) Facts from NASA Site
NASA Video Reveals How 35 Years of Trash Turned Into Ocean Garbage Patches (Take Part, 8-31-15)
Ocean fish numbers on 'brink of collapse': WWF (Reuters, 9-16-15) WORLD WILDLIFE FUND REPORT
World's oceans facing biggest coral die-off in history, scientists warn (The Guardian, 10-8-15)
These 5 Countries Account for 60% of Plastic Pollution in Oceans (Eco Watch, 10-15-15)
We dump 8 million tons of plastic into the ocean each year. Where does it all go? (Vox, 10-21-15)
Haunting Photos From Scuba Divers Across the World Show Devastating Impact of Ocean Plastic (One Green Planet, 10-25-15)
The Ocean Is Contaminated by Trillions More Pieces of Plastic Than Thought (Take Part, 12-15-15)
There's Rage-Inducing New Data On The Amount Of Plastic In The Ocean (Huffington Post, 1-7-16)
The Oceans Will Contain More Plastic Than Fish by 2050 (Fortune, 1-19-16)
Why we’ve been hugely underestimating the overfishing of the oceans (Washington Post, 1-19-16)
Why we’ve been hugely underestimating the overfishing of the oceans (Washington Post, 1-19-16)
Study: Over 90% of Great Barrier Reef suffering from coral bleaching (CNN, 4-20-16)
Wave of dead sea creatures hits Chile's beaches, experts blame El Nino (ABC, 5-5-16)
Even the World's Deepest Trench Is Full of Garbage Now (Gizmodo, 6-20-16)
Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers worst ever coral bleaching (CNN, 11-29-16)
The Great Barrier Reef is dying (Washington Post, 3-19-16)
Mass Death Signals Ocean Sickness (The Huffington Post, 1-6-17)
Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem (BBC, 10-10-17)
This monsoon season left a third of Bangladesh underwater and sea level rise is just going to make that worse (DeSmogBlog, 11-3-17)
A colossal ‘sea of plastic’ which stretches for miles has been found floating in the Caribbean (BBC World Service, 11-3-17)
A colossal ‘sea of plastic’ stretching for miles has been found floating in the Caribbean (BBC Earth, 11-4-17)
The world's oceans are in even worse shape than we thought (Business Insider, 1-5-18)
Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans (Scientific American, 2-1-18)
Ocean plastic could triple in decade (BBC, 3-21-18)
'Great Pacific garbage patch' sprawling with far more debris than thought (The Guardian, 3-22-18)
Microfibers from our clothes are poisoning the oceans. (ATTN, 4-1-18)
90% of plastic in the ocean comes from 10 rivers (Brut Nature, 6-15-18)
The Location and Protection Status of Earth’s Diminishing Marine Wilderness (Cell, 8-6-18)
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First (Bloomberg, 8-29-18)
Dangerous Microplastic Is In Our Oceans, Air And Food (Hashem Al-Ghaili Facebook Video, 9-10-18)
Coastal Pacific Oxygen Levels Now Plummet Once A Year (NPR, 10-28-18)
Plastic in the Med | Mediterranean with Simon Reeve (BBC, 10-28-18)
The sea floor is disintegrating because of climate change (World Economic Forum, 11-7-18)
The Seafloor Is Disappearing (EcoWatch, 11-10-18)
Baby Turtles Struggle to Swim Through Plastic Pollution in Honduras (Now Future Facebook, 11-28-18)
'Scary': Warming of Oceans Is Equivalent to 1.5 Atomic Bombs Every Second Over Past 150 Years (Common Dreams, 1-8-19)
Ocean Warming Is Accelerating Faster Than Thought, New Research Finds (New York Times, 1-10-19)
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall? (The Guardian, 2-15-19)
Plastic found in deepest ocean animals (Phys.org, 2-27-19)
Every Animal Pulled From the Deepest Part of the Ocean Had Plastic in Its Gut (Global Citizen, 2-28-19)
Fish stocks continuing to fall as oceans warm, study finds (The Guardian, 2-28-19)
Until the seas run dry: how industrial aquaculture is plundering the oceans (Ecohustler, 4-17-19)
PLASTIC
Microplastics are raining down from the sky (National Geographic, 4-15-19)
DAMS, RIVERS AND WATER
A Megacity Without Water: São Paulo’s Drought (TIME, 10-13-15)
Underground Fire Nears Radioactive Waste Storage Site In St. Louis, MO (Mint Press, 1-4-16)
One of Africa’s Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart (The New Yorker, 2-2-16)
4 Billion People at Risk as 'Water Table Dropping All Over the World' (Common Dreams, 2-12-16)
China and El Niño Are Killing the Mekong River (National Interest, 5-23-16)
The Wrong Climate for Damming Rivers (Vimeo, 6-2-16)
MEET THE CALIFORNIA COUPLE WHO USES MORE WATER THAN EVERY HOME IN LOS ANGELES COMBINED (Mother Jones, 8-9-16)
New Look at Rivers Reveals The Toll of Human Activity (Environment 360, 1-4-17)
America Is Suffering From A Very Real Water Crisis That Few Are Acknowledging (Desmog, 1-24-17)
Affordable water may soon dry up, especially if you live here (PBS, 1-25-17)
Water scarcity in Pakistan – A bigger threat than terrorism (DW, 2-7-17)
Shocking report reveals that 95% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from just TEN rivers including the Ganges and Niger (Daily Mail, 10-11-17)
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First (Bloomberg, 8-29-18)
River Ganga Continues To Be Severely Polluted Even After Modi Govt Spending About 4,000 Cr On Cleaning It: RTI (The Logical Indian, 10-23-18)
Warning: A ‘Shrinking Window’ of Usable Groundwater — and the Oil and Gas Industry Isn't Helping (Desmog, 1-12-19)
Climate change’s impact on groundwater could leave ‘environmental timebomb’ (Carbon Brief, 1-21-19)
Coastal News Roundup: Marshes Sinking Faster Than Previously Thought (New Orleans Public Radio, 2-1-19)
TREES
Canada Largest Contributor To Deforestation Worldwide: Study (Huffington Post, 9-5-18)
NEW TREE CENSUS SHOWS THERE ARE MORE TREES ON EARTH THAN WE THOUGHT (Popular Science, 9-2-15)
The Earth Is Losing 10 Billion Trees Every Year (Slate, 9-8-15)
Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say (The Guardian, 12-2-15)
Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest (The Guardian, 3-25-16)
Brazil’s new government may be less likely to protect the Amazon, critics say (The Washington Post, 5-21-16)
Wilderness land set to disappear from planet by 2100 as humans move in (Independent, 9-8-16)
This artist is showcasing a new form of graffiti to shed light on deforestation (Upworthy, 11-8-16)
Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back (New York Times, 2-24-17)
Forests: The Devastating Ecological and Social Impacts of Monoculture Tree Plantations (Global Research, 3-21-17)
FAO: Plantations are not forests! (The Ecologist, 3-21-17)
Let Forest Fires Burn? What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows (New York Times, 8-6-17)
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” (Sustainable Human Facebook Video, 8-3-17)
Watch the moment scientists realise that the carbon stored beneath the rainforest might go even deeper than they thought. (Greenpeace Unearthed, 11-10-17)
Bolsonaro has made grim threats to the Amazon and its people (Climate Home News, 8-10-18)
Tropical Forests Are Flipping From Storing Carbon to Releasing It (The Nation, 8-30-18)
California has 129 million dead trees. That’s a huge wildfire risk. (VOX, 9-4-18)
Conflicting Data: How Fast Is the World Losing its Forests? (Yale Environment 360, 10-9-18)
How Amazon forest loss may affect water—and climate—far away (National Geographic, 11-19-18)
METHANE, NATURAL GAS AND FRACKING
The Climate Risks of Natural Gas (Union of Concerned Scientists, No Date)
EPA to Allow Consumption of Toxic Fracking Wastewater by Wildlife and Livestock (Nation of Change, 7-14-13)
Scientists discover vast methane plumes escaping from Arctic seafloor (Earthsky, 7-30-14)
The U.S. has been emitting a lot more methane than we thought, says EPA (Washington Post, 4-15-16)
US 'likely culprit' of global spike in methane emissions over last decade (The Guardian, 2-17-16)
Annals of the ‘Methane Age': Gas from Fracked Wells No Longer ‘Unconventional’ (International New York Times, 5-5-16)
Environmentalists Hate Fracking. Are They Right? (Motherjones, 5-11-16)
EPA Issues Final Rules Cutting Oil, Natural Gas Methane Emissions (Wall Street Journal, 5-12-16)
Trembling tundra - the latest weird phenomenon in Siberia's land of craters (The Siberian Times, 7-20-16)
Now the proof: permafrost 'bubbles' are leaking methane 200 times above the norm (The Siberian Times, 7-22-16)
Natural Gas Emissions to Surpass Those of Coal in 2016 (Climate Central, 8-30-16)
Earthquakes triggered by fracking, not just wastewater disposal, study finds (PBS, 11-18-16)
Methane may not last long in the atmosphere — but it drives sea level rise for centuries (The Washington Post, 1-9-17)
Thousands of underground gas bulges, formed by thawing permafrost, set to 'explode' in Siberia (Daily Kos, 3-21-17)
Natural gas leaks from power plants, refineries, 100 times greater than thought (Ecologist, 3-21-17)
Dahr Jamail | Release of Arctic Methane "May Be Apocalyptic," Study Warns (Truth-Out, 3-21-17)
The Global Methane Industry Is Set to Keep the World on Fossil Fuels for the Foreseeable Future (Alternet, 4-12-17)
World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist (Desmog, 4-11-18)
Natural gas boom: Methane emissions are far higher than EPA says (Axios, 6-21-18)
Methane uptake from forest soils has ‘fallen by 77% in three decades’ (Carbon Brief, 8-6-18)
Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade, Adding to Dry Regions’ Water Woes (Desmogblog, 8-15-18)
US Oil And Gas Methane Emissions Are 60% Higher Than Estimated (Hashem Al-Ghali, 8-17-18)
The Fracking Industry’s Flaring Problem May Be Worse Than We Thought (Desmog, 1-29-19)
The Inevitable Death of Natural Gas as a ‘Bridge Fuel’ (Desmog Blog, 2-22-19)
New Warnings on Plastic’s Health Risks as Fracking Industry Promotes New 'Plastics Belt' Build-Out (Desmog, 3-5-19)
Climate Crisis Be Damned, 'Shale Revolution' Poised to Make US Net Exporter of Oil in Three Years (Common Dreams, 3-11-19)
CLEAN ENERGY
Lights Out? Storm Surge, Blackouts, and How Clean Energy Can Help (2015) (Union of Concerned Scientists, 2015)
Green Energy for the Poor (New York Times, 9-9-15)
David Attenborough backs huge Apollo-style clean energy research plan (The Guardian, 9-16-15)
An Interview with Bill Gates on the Future of Energy (The Atlantic, November 2015)
The Costs of Solar Energy to the Environment (New York Times, 11-3-15)
Bill Gates launches multi-billion dollar clean energy fund (Money, 11-29-15)
Run-of-River Hydro: Green Energy or Greenwash? (International Rivers, 2-17-16)
IEA Sees Peak Oil Demand After 2040 (The Wall Street Journal, 11-16-16)
Coal Down, Renewables Up, India on the Rise in 2035 Energy Outlook (Green Tech Media, 4-27-17)
Renewable energy is getting cheaper and it's going to change everything (Weforum, 5-14-18)
White House to ask for 72 percent cut in renewable energy programs: report (The Hill, 1-31-18)
CHEMICALS
The Devil We Know (FILM Facebook Page)
Understand the Impact Your Home Has on Your Health (Hayward Score)
We're Surrounded by Way More Chemicals Than We Thought, and These Doctors Say We're Screwed (Mother Jones, 10-1-15)
Seattle-Area Salmon Are Loaded With Anti-Depressants and Other Drugs Thanks to Human Waste (VICE, 2-24-16)
Five myths about lead in water (The Washington Post, 2-26-16)
Massive US health tab for hormone-disrupting chemicals (Yahoo, 10-18-16)
Amid Trump's Deregulatory Bonanza, UN Report Details 'Catastrophic' Impact of Pesticides (Common Dreams, 3-7-17)
UN experts denounce 'myth' pesticides are necessary to feed the world (The Guardian, 3-7-17)
Environmentally-Caused Disease Crisis? Pesticide Damage to DNA Found 'Programmed' Into Future Generations (Eco-Watch, 8-16-18)
Decades-Old Chemicals, New Angst Over Drinking Water (NPR, 10-2-18)
US water suppliers cover up spikes in hormone-disrupting herbicide contamination, report claims (RT, 11-17-18)
OVER POPULATION
Earth’s population is skyrocketing. How do you feed 10 billion people sustainably? (The Washington Post, 10-10-18)
POLLUTION
Defending Community Health Against Oil (The Rising Film)
Nigeria’s Agony Dwarfs Gulf Oil Spill (Our World, 5-31-10)
Glyphosate May Be Worse Than DDT, Which Has Now Been Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease, Decades After Exposure (Mercola, 2-13-14)
22 Facts About Plastic Pollution (And 10 Things We Can Do About It) (Ecowatch, 4-7-14)
87% of Earth's population lives where the air is toxic (Tree Hugger, 12-9-15)
Malaysia's burning swamps and choking haze (Aljazeera, 1-29-16)
In a World Made Toxic, Nearly a Quarter of All Human Deaths Caused by Pollution (Common Dreams, 3-15-16)
Sperm Whales Found Dead In Germany, Stomachs FULL Of Plastic And Car Parts (Expand Your Consciousness, 5-11-16)
The World is a Gas Chamber (Counter Punch, 6-20-16)
Industrial scars: The environmental cost of consumption – in pictures (The Guardian, 10-24-16)
Florida’s Largest Lake is Now a Toxic Wasteland, a Victim of Politics as Usual (Revolutions 2040, 12-23-16)
We Know What The Country Looks Like Without The EPA: Filthy (The Huffington Post, 1-24-17)
23 Heartbreaking Photos Of Pollution That Will Change The Way You Live (Earth Porm, 5-19-17)
Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals (The Guardian, 9-5-17)
Pollution’s Annual Price Tag? $4.6 Trillion and 9 Million Dead (Bloomberg, 10-19-17)
The Most (And Least) Toxic Places In America (Forbes, 11-7-17)
Pacific plastic dump far larger than feared: study (Yahoo, 3-22-18)
World Water Day for a plastic world (Aljazeera, 3-22-18)
The plastics crisis is more urgent than you know. Recycling bottles won’t fix it (The Guardian, 3-28-18)
Lead isn’t just a big threat to kids. It’s also linked to heart deaths in adults. (Vox, 3-30-18)
Lawns Are an Ecological Disaster (Earther, 5-18-18)
Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals (The Guardian, 8-27-18)
Fast-Rising Demand for Air Conditioning Is Adding to Global Warming. The Numbers Are Striking. (Inside Climate News, 11-12-18)
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs (Green Car Congress, 1-9-19)
New U.S. Oil And Gas Drilling To Unleash 1,000 Coal Plants’ Worth Of Pollution By 2050 (Huffingtonpost, 1-16-19)
In World That Says It’s Cutting Nutrient Pollution, Progress Is Lacking (World Resources Institute, 3-4-19)
Microplastic pollution revealed ‘absolutely everywhere’ by new research (The Guardian, 3-6-19)
Here’s Why America Is Dumping Its Trash in Poorer Countries (Motherjones, 3-9-19)
EXTINCTION
Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 (CBS News, 11-2-06) SOURCES: Worm, B. Science, Nov. 3, 2006; vol 314: pp 787-790. News release, SeaWeb. News release, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought (Quartz, 6-13-13)
The Next Genocide (New York Times, 9-12-15)
Alarming rise in mass animal deaths (DW, 2-19-16)
The diversity of life across much of Earth has plunged below ‘safe’ levels (The Washington Post, 7-14-16)
Human Consumption of Earth's Natural Resources Has Tripled in 40 Years (EcoWatch, 7-25-16)
Leading insecticide cuts bee sperm by almost 40%, study shows (The Guardian, 7-27-16)
ARE WE LOOKING AT A MASS EXTINCTION EVENT (Global Possibilities, 8-7-16)
The world has had five major extinction events (National Geographic TV, 8-16-16)
There are far fewer African elephants than we thought, study shows (CNN, 9-1-16)
Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth's wilderness in 25 years – study (The Guardian, 9-8-16)
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns (The Guardian, 10-26-16) LIVING PLANET INDEX
World's wildlife being pushed to the edge by humans - in pictures (The Guardian, 10-27-16)
Something Is Really Wrong With the Climate If These Penguins Are Under Threat of Being Wiped Out (Alternet, 11-6-16)
African elephants are being born without tusks due to poaching, researchers say (The Intercept, 11-27-16)
'We are failing the elephants' (CNN, 12-31-16)
Earth's worst-ever mass extinction of life holds 'apocalyptic' warning about climate change, say scientists (Independent, 3-24-17)
'Ecological Armageddon': Warnings From Scientists as Flying Insects Disappear (Common Dreams, 10-19-17)
A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe (The Guardian, 10-21-17)
Humans just 0.01% of all life but have destroyed 83% of wild mammals – study (The Guardian, 5-21-18)
Humans Less Than 1% of Life on Earth, But Have Destroyed Half of Its Plants, More Than 80% of All Mammals (Common Dreams, 5-22-18)
Humans and Big Ag Livestock Now Account for 96 Percent of Mammal Biomass (EcoWatch, 5-23-18)
We Are Just 0.01% of Life on Earth, Yet We Annihilated The Rest of It (Hashem Al-Ghaili, 5-27-18)
We Are The Extinction (Revolution News, 5-27-18)
Half the planet should be set aside for wildlife – to save ourselves (New Scientist, 9-13-18)
There Were 1 Billion Monarch Butterflies. Now There Are 93 Million. (Esquire, 9-26-18)
Year Zero: The Year When Wild Animals Are Gone (Sustainable Human, 10-2-18)
It Will Take Millions of Years for Mammals to Recover From Us (The Atlantic, 10-15-18)
Insects Are Rapidly Disappearing Around The World, Leaving Scientists Horrified (Science Alert, 10-19-18)
So many animals will go extinct in the next 50 years that it will take Earth at least 3 million years to recover (EcoWatch, 10-26-18)
The Earth is undergoing a mass extinction (SBS News, 10-19-18)
We've lost 60% of wildlife in less than 50 years (Weforum, 10-30-18)
Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN (The Guardian, 11-3-18)
Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’ (The Guardian, 1-15-19)
Bees Are Facing Yet Another Existential Threat (Mother Jones, 1-26-19)
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' (The Guardian, 2-10-19)
Insects Are Dying En Masse, Risking ‘Catastrophic’ Collapse Of Earth’s Ecosystems (Huffington Post, 2-11-19) Study
'Terrifying': Rapid Loss of Biodiversity Placing Global Food Supplies at Risk of 'Irreversible Collapse' (Common Dreams, 2-22-19)
Vandana Shiva: We Must Fight Back Against the 1 Percent to Stop the Sixth Mass Extinction (Democracy Now, 2-22-19)
The Web of Life Is Unraveling (Truthdig, 3-3-19)
EARTH COULD TAKE 10 MILLION YEARS TO RECOVER FROM MASS EXTINCTION CAUSED BY HUMANS (Newsweek, 4-8-19)
So many animals are going extinct that it could take Earth 10 million years to recover (Business Insider, 4-8-19)
This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out (Rolling Stone, 4-9-19)
SCIENCE
Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say (The Guardian, 1-7-16)
Look What We've Done: Human-Made Epoch of Nightmares Is Here (Common Dreams, 1-8-16)
We had all better hope these scientists are wrong about the planet’s future (Washington Post, 3-22-16)
SOLAR STORM
The devastating potential of an extreme solar storm and what the White House is doing about it (Washington Post, 10-29-15)
How the Sun Could Knock Out Electrical Grids Worldwide (Facebook, 2-15-16)
EPA
Civil Rights Report Calls Out EPA’s Chronic Failure to Protect Most Vulnerable Communities (Waterkeeper, 9-23-16)
Ex-EPA boss Whitman offers first-ever apology for bad info on post-9/11 air quality: ‘People have died because I made a mistake’ (New York Daily News, 9-11-16)
The Devil We Know (FILM Facebook Page)
OTHER
Poison Fire - the movie (Poison Fire, No Date)
E.O. Wilson’s Wants Us to Leave Half of the Earth Alone—Here's Why (Audobon, September-October/2015)
Chinese environment: Ground operation (Financial Times, 9-1-15)
Hitler’s world may not be so far away (The Guardian, 9-16-15)
Globalization and Terror (Common Dreams, 11-3-15)
Earth has lost a third of arable land in past 40 years, scientists say (The Guardian, 12-2-15)
Paris, Peace, and Humanity on the Precipice (Common Dreams, 12-5-15)
The Neoconservatives’ Hegemonic Goal Of Making Sovereign Countries Extinct Is Bringing Instead The Extinction Of Planet Earth (Global Research, 12-12-15)
Earth Has Lost a Third of Arable Land in Past 40 Years (Climate Central, 12-19-15)
She's recycling carbon dioxide with hopes of reducing oil dependence (CNN Money, 2-12-16)
Where’s The Next Flint Water Crisis? Anywhere (Huffington Post, 4-4-16)
Nuclear Winter on a Planetary Scale: The Biggest Threat to Mankind Virtually No One Is Talking About (Alternet, 4-8-16)
China Pledged to Curb Coal Plants. Greenpeace Says It’s Still Adding Them. (New York Times, 7-13-16)
Melting Permafrost Releases Deadly, Long-Dormant Anthrax in Siberia (Common Dreams, 8-1-16)
Crisis on high (ABC, 7-25-16)
Energy Poverty And Its Human Costs (The Huffington Post, 10-6-16)
Cobalt mining for lithium ion batteries has a high human cost (Washington Post, 10-12-16)
Planet Earth II: Official Extended Trailer - BBC Earth (YouTube, 10-14-16)
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist review – why the human race is heading for the fire (The Guardian, 4-12-17)
How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life (Sustainable Human, 8-3-17)
Greenland actually caught fire — and that's bad news for our planet. (Verge Science, 9-16-17)
Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles (e360yale, 9-21-17)
A 12 yr old girl delivered a powerful speech to the United Nations. 25 yrs later, her words are more relevant now than ever. (Facebook Climate Change, 9-28-17)
The story of coal in the 21st century, in one amazing map (Vox, 6-7-18)
Yes, humans are depleting Earth’s resources, but ‘footprint’ estimates don’t tell the full story (The Conversation, 7-30-18)
HSBC: Earth is running out of the resources to sustain life (Digital Journal, 8-8-18)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
AMERICA
Best Places to Work Agency Rankings (Best Places to Work, No Date)
Overworked America: 12 Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil (Motherjones, 7-6-11)
Who Is Saving Whom? - How we are paying for the risks of the financial market (YouTube Video, 11-5-12)
How Many People Have Lost Their Homes? US Home Foreclosures are Comparable to the Great Depression (Global Research, 5-17-13)
US wealth inequality - top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90% (The Guardian, 11-13-14)
New Research Documents Growth of Extreme Poverty in US (Bill Moyers, 9-3-15)
Robert Reich: How Silicon Valley Giants Are Destroying U.S. Capitalism (Alternet, 9-21-15)
Waiting for Collapse: USA Debt Bombs Bursting (Counterpunch, 9-23-15)
Why Community Banks Are Dropping Like Flies Across America (Alternet, 10-21-15)
'Absolute Crap' But Brilliant: Corporate America's Plan to 'Misbehave Without Reproach (Common Dreams, 11-1-15)
America is full of high-earning poor people (Quartz, 11-3-15)
Baby boomers are what’s wrong with America’s economy (The Washington Post, 11-5-15)
Cheap Labor 2.0: America’s Self-Employment Crisis (Fox Business, 12-14-15)
Meet the Secretive Family Making Billions From America’s Painkiller Overdose Epidemic (U.S. Uncut, 12-30-15)
North Dakota wakes up to hangover as oil swoons (CNBC, 3-11-16)
The middle class is shrinking just about everywhere in America (Washington Post, 5-12-16)
Some 66 million Americans have ‘zero’ emergency savings (Market Watch, 6-21-16)
So why did the Fed let Lehman fail? (AEI, 7-18-16)
Pointing a Finger at the Fed in the Lehman Disaster (New York Times, 7-21-16)
Could financial reform worsen the next crisis? (Washington Post, 7-31-16)
This Boring Service Is Suddenly a Big Concern for Treasurys (The Wall Street Journal, 7-31-16)
America’s Racial Wealth Divide Is Nothing Short of Shocking (Common Dreams, 8-10-16)
Economists Doubt the U.S. Can Regain Many of the Factory Jobs Lost in Recent Decades (The Wall Street Journal, 12-8-16)
Central Banks Embrace Risk in Era of Low Rates (The Wall Street Journal, 1-23-17)
Everyone Is Suddenly Worried About This U.S. Mortgage-Bond Whale (Bloomberg, 2-5-17)
US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns (Independent, 4-21-17)
‘Moral crisis’: Gates, Buffett & Bezos richer than poorest half of America combined (RT, 11-9-17)
‘Not a typo’: Disbelief as Boston Globe confirms median net worth of black Bostonians is $8 (RT, 12-12-17)
The American Dream is really an American Nightmare. (teleSur English, 12-19-17)
The Next Recession Is Really Gonna Suck (Huffington Post, 2-10-18)
New evidence shows that our anti-poverty programs, especially Social Security, work well (LA Times, 5-7-18)
An Update for 2018: More Evidence That Half of Americans Are In or Near Poverty (Common Dreams, 6-28-18)
It’s No Accident Americans Are Still Broke in a Booming Economy (Vice, 7-9-18)
Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear in One Generation (Black Agenda Report, 7-18-18)
'Poverty Is Criminalized, Wealth Is Immunized': Report Shows Corporate Crime Enforcement Has Plummeted Under Trump (Common Dreams, 7-25-18)
‘Too Little Too Late’: Bankruptcy Booms Among Older Americans (New York Times, 8-5-18)
Is The U.S. Really a 1st World Country? (teleSur English, 8-12-18)
Soaring bankruptcy rates signal a 'coming storm of broke elderly,' study finds (ABC News, 8-16-18)
What Just Happened? $30 Trillion to the Richest White Americans Since 2008 (Common Dreams, 9-3-18)
Retirement Is In Peril For Most Working Class Americans, Warns New Report (Forbes, 9-17-18)
The Evidence Pours In: Poverty Getting Much Worse in America (Common Dreams, 11-5-18)
In 2018, The Average Family Paid More To Hospitals Than To The Federal Government In Taxes (Forbes, 1-26-19)
Why wealth equality remains out of reach for black Americans (The Conversation, 2-28-19)
The ‘heartbreaking’ decrease in black homeownership (The Washington Post, 2-28-19)
CAPITALISM AND ECONOMIC THEORY
Who Were the Witches? – Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism (End of Capitalism, 11-5-09)
'Capitalism is Mother Earth's Cancer': World People's Summit Issues 12 Demands (Common Dreams, 10-12-15)
Bill Gates: Only Socialism Can Save the Climate, ‘The Private Sector is Inept’ (U.S. Uncut, 10-26-15)
Capitalism Is Collapsing -- and the Weird Thing Is That Nothing Is Rising to Replace It (Alternet, 12-28-16)
The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves (Sustainable Human, 1-2-17)
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (The Atlantic, 2-21-17)
Note To Wall Street: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance." On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead. (Common Dreams, 8-11-17)
The Silencing of Dissent (Truth-Dig, 9-17-17)
Late-Stage Capitalism: Denying the Imperium of Death (Mintpress, 11-21-17)
The Next Recession Is Really Gonna Suck (Huffington Post, 2-10-18)
Beware the ‘mother of all credit bubbles’ (The Washington Post, 6-8-18)
Before Capitalism, Medieval Peasants Got More Vacation Time Than You. Here’s Why. (Evonomics, 11-2-18)
Anthropologist Debunks Bill Gates' BS Narrative That Free-Market Capitalism Has Solved Crisis of Global Poverty (Common Dreams, 2-1-19)
CHILD CARE
The staggering cost of day care when you make only the minimum wage (Washington Post, 10-6-15)
Hard to Believe: In Most States, Child Care Is Now More Expensive Than College Tuition (Alternet, 10-12-15)
Opinion Day Care For All (The New York Times, 2-9-19)
CORPORATE CORRUPTION
The Devil We Know (FILM Facebook Page)
Their lives weren’t worth 57 cents to GM (Socialist Worker, 4-8-14)
Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (The Washington Post, 12-30-14)
Corporate Philanthropism: Who Exactly Benefits Most from the “Global Giving” by Billionaires? (Global Research, 1-20-16)
The Fake Largesse of CEO’s One-Off Bonuses to Workers (Our Future, 1-22-18)
Kinder Morgan bailout to cost north of $15 billion (National Observer, 5-29-18)
CORPORATE TAX RECEIPTS TOOK AN UNPRECEDENTED DROP THIS YEAR (PGPF, 10-17-18)
DEBT
The dangerous deficits our candidates aren’t talking about (Washington Post, 1-31-16)
The World's Debt Is Alarmingly High. But Is It Contagious? (Bloomberg, 2-22-16)
Triple A quality fades as companies embrace debt (Capital Markets, 5-24-16)
Trillions in Debt—but for Now, No Reason to Worry (The Wall Street Journal, 5-25-16)
Lawmakers Are Getting Closer to Bringing Back Trillion-Dollar Deficits (Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, 12-20-17)
White House budget proposes increase to defense spending and cuts to safety net, but federal deficit would remain (The Washington Post, 2-12-18)
New Fed chair doesn’t understand why student debt can’t be discharged in bankruptcy (Market Watch, 3-4-18)
The $247 trillion global debt bomb (Washington Post, 7-15-18)
The Big, Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt (The New York Times, 8-9-18)
The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined (New York Times, 8-25-18)
$250 Trillion in Debt: the World’s Post-Lehman Legacy (Bloomberg, 9-13-18)
Student Debt Must Become Part of the Battle Against Poverty (Truth-Out, 12-4-18)
"It Is Affecting My Blood Pressure" - Americans Over 60 Are Struggling With Student Debt (Zero Hedge, 2-3-19)
FEDERAL
Even Without Sequestration, Non-Defense Spending Still Headed Toward Historic Low (Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, 10-8-15)
Federal Employment at Record Lows as a Share of Employment, Population−Yet Trump May Freeze Hiring (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1-12-17)
4 charts shed light on the Fed’s mysterious $4.5 trillion portfolio (Business Insider, 5-3-17)
5 Key Points About the Budget Likely Before the House This Month (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 9-5-17)
GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
Ten Reasons Why There Will Be Another Systemic Financial Crisis (Forbes, 12-8-14)
The new global economy (CNN Money, 2015)
7 years on from crisis, $150 billion in bank fines and penalties (CNBC, 4-30-15)
The World Bank and the IMF Are Enabling the Next Crisis (Truthdig, 10-10-16)
Financial crisis 2.0? (Washington Post, 10-17-16)
No Recovery: An Analysis of Long-Term U.S. Productivity Decline (Compete, 12-5-16)
The Next Recession Is Really Gonna Suck (Huffington Post, 2-10-18)
Global Debt: The Next Great Financial Crisis? (National Interest, 5-3-18)
As Global Debt Hits A Record $247 Trillion, The IIF Issues A Warning (Zero Hedge, 7-10-18)
The Next Financial Crisis Lurks Underground (New York Times, 9-1-18)
GLOBAL WEALTH INEQUALITY
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’ (Common Dreams, 1-26-12)
Union decline and rising inequality in two charts (EPI, 6-5-12)
US wealth inequality - top 0.1% worth as much as the bottom 90% (The Guardian, 11-13-14)
'Out of Control' Inequality: Global One Percent Owns Half of World's Wealth (Common Dreams, 10-14-15)
Top 1 Percent Own More Than Half of World’s Wealth (Global Research, 10-14-15)
Richest 1% own 53% of India’s wealth (Live Mint, 10-14-15)
1 percent of the world's people control 50 percent of its wealth (VOX, 10-15-15)
Here’s all the money in the world, in one chart (Market Watch, 12-21-15)
They Don’t Just Hide Their Money. Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth is Unearned (Evonomics, 4-8-16)
People's Economies vs Corporate Control: First Commodification, Then Financialization, Now Demonetization (Common Dreams, 12-5-16)
Eight men who are as rich as half the world (Aljazeera, 1-16-17)
Morbid Inequality: Now Just SIX Men Have as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population (Common Dreams, 2-20-17)
Now Just Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population (Common Dreams, 6-12-17)
Now 5 Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World’s Population (Truthdig, 6-13-17)
Overpopulated and Underfed: Countries Near a Breaking Point (New York Times, 6-15-17)
The Hunger Games: How Modern Imperialism Creates Famine Around the World (Mintpress News, 7-3-17)
This Thanksgiving Goes to Corporations: Thanks for the Greatest Free Gift in History (Economy and Markets Daily, 11-23-17)
The U.S. elite makes trillions every year through the war, sanctions, trade agreements and climate change it inflicts upon the rest of the world. (TeleSur English, 12-15-17)
The 1% grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017 (CNN, 1-22-18)
Under GOP Tax Law, Top 1% Get Extra $33,000 Per Year. The Poor? $40 (Common Dreams, 3-30-18)
MIDDLE CLASS
The coming middle-class tax increase (Washington Post, 11-1-15)
The Death of the Middle Class Is Worse Than You Think (Fortune, 7-13-16)
1 in 4 workers have less than $1,000 saved for retirement (CNN, 3-21-17)
Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class (Our Future, 9-13-17)
MILLENNIALS
A Record Share of Young Women Are Living at Home (The Wall Street Journal, 11-11-15)
Today’s Renters Really Are Worse Off Than Their Parents (The Wall Street Journal, 6-29-16)
America’s ‘quiet catastrophe’: Millions of idle men (Washington Post, 10-5-16)
Percentage of Young Americans Living With Parents Rises to 75-Year High (The Wall Street Journal, 12-21-16)
POVERTY
Exposing the great 'poverty reduction' lie (Aljazeera, 8-21-14)
Poverty 101: The Official Poverty Statistics are a Fraud (Daily KOS, 2-22-16)
What Do World Bank Poverty Statistics Really Tell Us? (Common Dreams, 3-16-12)
Bankster Fraud Has Driven 100 Million Into Poverty, Killing Many (Washington Blog, 8-11-12)
Exposing the great 'poverty reduction' lie (Aljazeera, 8-21-14)
Food Stamp Beneficiaries Exceed 45 Million for 49 Straight Months (Before It's News, 8-12-15)
New Research Documents Growth of Extreme Poverty in US (Bill Moyers, 9-3-15)
World Bank Report Challenges Notions of Declining Poverty in Africa (Global Research, 10-20-15)
Why Half a Million People Will Lose Their Food Stamps This Year (CNBC, 1-26-16)
Net worth of white households in D.C. region is 81 times that of black households (The Washington Post, 11-2-16)
But Seriously, Let’s Talk About Millennial Poverty (Every Day Feminism, 11-27-16)
One third of children in Silicon Valley are homeless while tech profits soar (Raw Story, 12-28-16)
How the Hyde Amendment and HR 7 Punish America’s Poor Women (Video) (Truthdig, 1-29-17)
Who suffers when disasters strike? The poorest and most vulnerable. (The Washington Post, 9-1-17)
Blacks and Latinos Will Be Broke in a Few Decades (Fortune, 9-19-17)
Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists (Common Dreams, 11-6-17)
Death by Inequality: Poverty and Racism Are Killing America’s Children (OurFuture, 1-22-18)
More Than Half Of American Babies Are At Risk For Malnourishment (Huffington Post, 2-3-18)
Afghanistan War Spending, In 2018 Alone, Could End US Homelessness—TWICE (The Free Thought Project, 2-7-18)
Yes, Deniers, Millions of Americans are Among the Poorest People in the World (Common Dreams, 2-12-18)
42% of Americans are at risk of retiring broke (CNBC, 3-6-18)
Forget work requirements for the poor — guarantee them a job instead (The Hill, 4-16-18)
'Poverty Is Criminalized, Wealth Is Immunized': Report Shows Corporate Crime Enforcement Has Plummeted Under Trump (Common Dreams, 7-25-18)
By the Best Definition, the Poverty Rate Should Be Tripled (Common Dreams, 1-7-19)
PUBLIC HOUSING
Fixing Public Housing: A Day Inside a $32 Billion Problem (New York Times, 7-26-18)
STUDENT LOAN DEBT
Watch America’s student-loan debt grow $2,726 every second (Market Watch, 1-30-16)
Some Colleges Have More Students From the Top 1 Percent Than the Bottom 60. Find Yours (New York Times, 1-18-17)
More than 1 million people default on their student loans each year (CNBC, 8-13-18)
"It Is Affecting My Blood Pressure" - Americans Over 60 Are Struggling With Student Debt (Zero Hedge, 2-3-19)
TAXES
45% of Americans pay no federal income tax (Yahoo, 2-24-16)
Report: Post 9/11 Wars Have Cost Taxpayers Nearly $5 Trillion And Counting (Mintpress, 9-14-16)
Infographic Comparing Candidates’ Tax Plans (Fiscal Fact Check, 11-16-15)
Taxation Without Exasperation (The Wall Street Journal, 4-8-16)
THE US TAX BURDEN IS LOW COMPARED TO MOST ADVANCED ECONOMIES (Peter Peterson, 4-14-16)
The Role of Border Adjustments in International Taxation (American Action Forum, 11-30-16)
A Carbon Tax With Legs (The Washington Spectator, 8-10-17)
GOP tax law a one-two punch to charities — and American giving (Politico, 1-13-18)
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway made $29 billion off the Republican tax cuts (Vox, 2-24-18)
A gas tax hike is worth considering (The Hill, 3-2-18)
CORPORATE TAX RECEIPTS TOOK AN UNPRECEDENTED DROP THIS YEAR (PGPF, 10-17-18)
From Greenspan to Yellen, Economic Brain Trust Backs Carbon Tax (Bloomberg, 1-16-19)
US Taxpayers Have Been Funding Big Business’s Wars for 233 Years (Truthout, 1-22-19)
WAGE GAP
Low-Income Workers See Biggest Drop in Paychecks (International New York Times, 9-2-15)
The staggering cost of day care when you make only the minimum wage (Washington Post, 10-6-15)
Taxes for 34 Countries Ranked. (CNN Money, 12-20-15)
THE ASSET VALUE OF WHITENESS: UNDERSTANDING THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP (Demos, 2-6-17)
Worker Wages Flat, But Since 1978 CEO Pay Has Soared by 'Outrageous' 937% (Common Dreams, 7-20-17)
VC Funding Fueled 20-Year Silicon Valley Wage Decline: Study (Insights, 11-27-18)
The typical US worker can no longer afford a family on a year's salary, showing the dire state of America's middle class (Business Insider, 2-25-20)
WALL STREET
Shiller PE Ratio (Multipl)
Destructive Stock Buybacks—That You Pay For (Common Dreams, 9-14-17)
America’s Inequality Machine Is Sending the Dow Soaring (Bloomberg, 12-15-17)
Elizabeth Warren Speaks On Stock Buybacks (Facebook ATTN: Video, 8-14-18)
Wall Street bonuses were 3x the earnings of all full-time workers making federal minimum wage (CNBC, 4-2-19)
OTHER
Public Pension Funds Roll Back Return Targets (The Wall Street Journal, 9-4-15)
Your job is literally ‘killing’ you (Washington Post, 10-28-15)
Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice (New York Times, 10-31-15)
A Crisis Worse Than Islamic State? Bank ‘Bail-Ins’ Begin (Truthdig, 12-29-15)
How to End the Stock Buy Back Deluge (Washington Post, 12-30-15)
Skewed Courts Team Up with Debt Predators to Screw Nation's Poor (Common Dreams, 1-21-16)
How Gates' Billions Silences Criticism of His Development Agenda (Common Dreams, 1-23-16)
Less Than Zero (Bloomberg View, 1-29-16)
Here is the letter the world's largest investor, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, just sent to CEOs everywhere (Business Insider, 2-2-16)
Obama to propose new oil tax to fund $300 billion in transportation spending (RT, 2-5-16)
As Roads Crumble, Infrastructure Spending Hits a 30-Year Low (Yahoo, 2-25-16)
Now It’s Even Worse Than it Was When Lehman Collapsed, But It’s “Contained” (Wolf Street, 2-26-16)
Mortgage giants headed for crisis (The Hill, 3-2-16)
Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income (The Guardian, 3-7-16)
So Much Nonsense Out There, So Little Time…. (Reality Check, 3-10-16)
Cautious Banks Hinder Charity Financing (The Wall Street Journal, 3-30-16)
"The Game Is Rigged": From Luxurious Lake Como Villa, Finance Professor Admits "QE Adds To Inequality" (Zero Hedge, 4-8-16)
Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired (New York Times, 4-9-16)
Meet the Venture Capitalist Whom Venture Capitalists Love to Hate (The Wall Street Journal, 4-22-16)
Most of Greek bailout money went to banks: study (DW, 5-4-16)
Gross Says Negative Rates Are Like ‘Supernova’ That Will Explode (Bloomberg, 6-9-16)
$12 trillion of QE and the lowest rates in 5,000 years ... for this? (CNBC, 6-13-16)
US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart (Mint Press, 7-12-16)
As Union Membership Declines, Organized Labor Focuses on Nonunion Workers (The American Prospect, 8-30-16)
IEA Sees Peak Oil Demand After 2040 (The Wall Street Journal, 11-16-16)
Did the Emptying of Mental Hospitals Contribute to Homelessness? (KQED, 12-8-16)
The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started (The Wall Street Journal, 1-2-17)
Are we heading toward another subprime mortgage crisis? (CNN, 3-15-17)
In Stark Warning, IMF Finds Over 20% Of US Corporations At Risk Of Default Should Rates Rise (Zero Hedge, 4-19-17)
How “Shareholder Value” is Killing Innovation (New Economic Thinking, 7-31-17)
Note To Wall Street: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance." On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead. (Common Dreams, 8-11-17)
This Thanksgiving Goes to Corporations: Thanks for the Greatest Free Gift in History (Economy and Markets Daily, 11-23-17)
Kinder Morgan bailout to cost north of $15 billion (National Observer, 5-29-18)
The "Jobs for Everyone" Fantasy (Common Dreams, 6-18-18)
We now have a dollar value for one of oil’s biggest subsidies (VOX, 9-21-18)
Gillibrand, Kaine Lead Group Of 13 Senators To Introduce New Legislation To Overhaul Flawed Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, Ensure Millions Of Americans Will Now Be Eligible For The Loan Forgiveness They Have Earned (Kirsten Gillibrand, 4-11-19)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
AFRICA
Aid to Africa: donations from west mask '$60bn looting' of continent (The Guardian, 7-15-14)
Haiti’s Humanitarian Rape: Five Years After Earthquake – Reconstruction Fraud, Military Occupation (21st Century Wire, 1-14-15 )
War Crime: NATO Deliberately Destroyed Libya's Water Infrastructure (Truth-Out, 5-30-15)
How Ghanian Artist Azizaa Is Challenging Christianity's Grip on Ghana (The Fader, 9-2-15)
What Happened to South African Democracy (New York Times, 9-22-15)
Yemen is now the world’s worst humanitarian crisis (Global Post, 12-22-15)
One of Africa’s Biggest Dams Is Falling Apart (The New Yorker, 2-2-16)
'Humanitarian catastrophe' unfolding in Yemen: UN (Aljazeera, 2-17-16)
The Saudi Slaughter in Yemen (Common Dreams, 2-19-16)
Tanzania’s anti-gay effort raises risk of HIV rebound (76Crimes, 11-25-16)
No, the Libya Intervention Wasn't a Humanitarian Success (National Interest, 4-7-16)
The U.S. Pushes Regime Change in South Sudan (TesfaNews, 8-19-16)
6 Countries That Grew Filthy Rich From Enslaving Black People (Atlanta Black Star, 3-8-17)
Humanitarian crisis In Yemen is worst in the world – Oxfam report (RT Video, 3-27-17)
Africa is not poor, we are stealing its wealth (Aljazeera, 5-24-17)
Why Don’t Internationalists Care About Yemen? (The Nation, 7-25-17)
A Slaughter in Silence - How Trump's America First Policy Made Things Worse in the DRC (VICE, 8-1-18)
AFRICA EMBRACES AN $8 BILLION SOLAR MARKET FOR GOING OFF-GRID (OZY, 2-4-19)
ASIA
Bangladesh
This monsoon season left a third of Bangladesh underwater and sea level rise is just going to make that worse (DeSmogBlog, 11-3-17)
Bhutan
Bhutan Is No Shangri-La (New York Times, 6-28-13)
Bhutan's Dark Secret to Happiness (BBC, 4-8-15)
Bolivia
BOLIVIA TO BE COMPLETELY FOOD INDEPENDENT IN 2020 BY INVESTING IN SMALL FARMERS (Underground Reporter, 4-27-16)
Buddhists
Thailand's tainted robes (Aljazeera, 12-19-14)
Is Buddhist Militancy The Next Big Wave of Global Terrorism? (Fair Observer, 7-13-15)
Buddhist Monks in Burma Are Helping The Government Enact Anti-Muslim Laws (United Humanists, 11-3-15)
Stunning photos from Tibetan Buddhists’ Bliss Dharma Assembly (Washington Post, 11-5-15)
Buddhism Loses Ground in Japan - Over 27,000 Temples Will Close In The Next 25 Years (United Humanists, 11-7-15)
The shameful silence of Aung San Suu Kyi (The Washington Post, 9-6-17)
China
China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger (The Guardian, 8-10-13)
How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century (The Washington Post, 3-24-15)
China's Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse (Truth-Out, 6-21-15)
You Won’t Believe How Bad Pollution In China Has Become (All That Is Interesting, 7-20-15)
China Tests New Missile Capable of Hitting Entire United States (The Diplomat, 8-19-15)
China Tests Its Most Dangerous Nuclear Weapon of All Time (National Interest, 8-19-15)
Much of China Is Now An Unrepairable Ecological Disaster (Daily KOS, 8-31-15)
Why China Is Turning Back to Confucius (Wall Street Journal, 9-20-15)
Chinese carpocalypse: Thousands of vehicles stranded on Beijing motorway (PHOTOS, VIDEO) (RT, 10-8-15)
Is the China Model Better Than Democracy? (Foreign Policy, 10-19-15)
Russia and China: Beware the Budding Eurasian Colossus? (The National Interest, 10-25-15)
China is showing the world how things should be done. (Facebook Science Nature Page, 11-12-17)
Xinjiang violence: Does China have a terror problem? (CNN, 12-3-15)
The most polluted city is? Hint: Not Beijing (USA Today, 12-7-15)
How China Tries To Censor The Whole World (World Crunch, 12-29-15)
Xinjiang Seethes Under Chinese Crackdown (New York Times, 1-2-16)
Look out, China: India's Lethal Ballistic Missile Sub Is Ready to Go (National Interest, 2-24-16)
Rural Water, Not City Smog, May Be China’s Pollution Nightmare (New York Times, 4-11-16)
How China used more cement in 3 years than the U.S. did in the entire 20th Century (The Washington Post, 5-8-16)
Xi Embraces Mao’s Radical Legacy (The Wall Street Journal, 5-13-16)
China's Silicon Valley: Lawns and pools but no free food (CNN Money, 5-20-16)
China Spends More on Infrastructure Than the U.S. and Europe Combined (Bloomberg, 6-15-16)
America Wants to believe China can’t innovate. Tech tells a different story (Washington Post, 7-21-16)
The Ultimate 21st Century Choice: Chinese-Led Prosperity or War (Russia Insider, 9-1-16)
Western contact with China began long before Marco Polo, experts say (BBC, 10-12-16)
Tibetans in anguish as Chinese mines pollute their sacred grasslands (Washington Post, 12-26-16)
Is China Outsmarting America in A.I.? (New York Times, 3-28-17)
China and Big Brother’s watchful eye (Playground +, 9-28-17)
China Uses ‘Digital Leninism’ to Manage Economy and Monitor Citizens (The Wall Street Journal, 10-17-17)
This Chinese City Makes 90% of the World's Electronics (World Economic Forum, 11-14-17)
What the West Doesn’t Get About Xi Jinping (New York Times, 3-20-18)
CHINA MILITARY TELLS RUSSIA 'WE'VE COME TO SUPPORT YOU' AGAINST U.S. (News Week, 4-3-18)
China to make it rain over area 3 times the size of Spain (RT, 4-8-18)
Xi Jinping’s Superpower Plans (Wall Street Journal, 7-19-18)
Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China (Washington Post, 8-2-18)
Scientists in China claim to have created first gene-edited human babies (CNET, 11-25-18)
China, Russia Building Super-EMP Bombs for ‘Blackout Warfare’ (Freebeacon, 1-24-19)
China’s Hard Edge: The Leader of Beijing’s Muslim Crackdown Gains Influence (The Wall Street Journal, 4-7-19)
China devours Asia’s wildlife (MM Times, 4-12-19)
India
Varanasi - the city of death. Best of "Beyond" (YouTube Video, 1-18-15)
What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people? (The Washington Post, 9-3-15)
India's Hindu Fundamentalists (Aljazeera, 10-8-15)
Richest 1% own 53% of India’s wealth (Live Mint, 10-14-15)
India Is Building a Top-Secret Nuclear City to Produce Thermonuclear Weapons, Experts Say (Foreign Policy, 12-18-15)
Mother Teresa Was No Saint to Hindus (Missionaries of Charity, 1-19-16)
Why Monsanto’s Biotech-Food Business Isn’t Growing in India (The Wall Street Journal, 3-13-16)
India set to start diverting major rivers including Ganges in unprecedented $300bn project (RT, 5-19-16)
India's Nuclear Riddle (Aljazeera, 9-1-16)
India’s Digital ID Rollout Collides With Rickety Reality (The Wall Street Journal, 1-13-17)
Unraveling the Myriad Causes Of North India’s Pollution Pall (Yale Environment 360, 2-9-17)
How the BJP has come to dominate lower-caste politics (Aljazeera, 3-11-17)
India, Long at Odds With Pakistan, May Be Rethinking Nuclear First Strikes (The New York Times, 3-31-17)
Coal Down, Renewables Up, India on the Rise in 2035 Energy Outlook (Green Tech Media, 4-27-17)
Parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could become too hot for humans by 2100 (We Forum, 8-10-17)
2018: India’s Year of Turmoil (National Interest, 2-12-18)
By rewriting history, Hindu nationalists aim to assert their dominance over India (Reuters, 3-6-18)
The Empire Strikes Back: Leaving Indian Farmers in the Dirt (Counter Punch, 6-5-18)
India is World’s Most Dangerous Country for Women, US 3rd: Survey (The Quint, 6-26-18)
British Raj siphoned out $45 trillion from India: Utsa Patnaik (Livemint, 11-21-18)
India’s Secular Democracy at the Crossroads (National Interest, 12-9-18)
New soil study confirms 1943 Bengal famine was caused by Winston Churchill’s policies, not drought (Scroll in, 3-30-19)
India's rural poverty has shot up (Live Mint, 12-3-19)
'This Is Fascism': Indian Law Stripping Naturalization Rights From Muslims Sparks Criticism and Protest (Common Dreams, 12-10-19)
Indonesia
Indonesian Borneo is Finished: They Also Sell Orangutans into Sex Slavery (Counter Punch, 6-2-17)
Japan
Buddhism Loses Ground in Japan - Over 27,000 Temples Will Close In The Next 25 Years (United Humanists, 11-7-15)
Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal How The Fukushima Exclusion Zone Was Swallowed By Nature (Bored Panda, 11-19-15)
The Religious Cult Secretly Running Japan (The Daily Beast, 7-10-16)
Japan Reverts to Fascism (National Review, 7-16-16)
Mishima and the maze of sexuality in modern Japan (Japan Times, 1-14-17)
After the Tsunami, Japan’s Sea Creatures Crossed an Ocean (New York Times, 9-28-17)
Myanmar
A Hero Turned Villain: Aung San Suu Kyi and the Annihilation of Myanmar’s Rohingya (The Nation, 10-13-17)
North Korea
Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea (VOX, 8-3-15)
This New Map Shows The Stunning Range Of North Korea’s Missiles (The Daily Caller, 2-11-16)
North Korea’s “not quite” ICBM can’t hit the lower 48 states (The Bulletin, 8-11-17)
Note To Wall Street: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance." On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead. (Common Dreams, 8-11-17)
How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis (Information Clearing House, 12-30-17)
Pakistan
How the bin Laden Raid Put Vaccinators Under the Gun in Pakistan (National Geographic, 2-25-15)
Pakistan mulls elevating status of Gilgit-Baltistan on Chinese insistence (DAWN, 1-7-16)
Pakistanis Throng Funeral of Man Hanged for Killing Critic of Blasphemy Laws (The Wall Street Journal, 3-1-16)
Water scarcity in Pakistan – A bigger threat than terrorism (DW, 2-7-17)
In Pakistan, a shrine to murder for 'blasphemy' (Aljazeera, 2-10-17)
India and Pakistan are quietly making nuclear war more likely (Vox, 4-4-18)
Philippines
Why the Philippine 'Punisher' could be president (Aljazeera, 4-30-16)
The Philippines Genocide 3 million Filipinos Killed (Brits in the Phillipines, 4-25-17)
The Philippines Genocide 3 million Filipinos Killed (Brits in the Phillipines, 5-1-18)
Vietnam
The massacre of Vietnamese civilians is just one of the many atrocities committed by the U.S. military for the duration of the war. (TeleSur English, 11-17-17)
The Terrible Violence of ‘Pacification’ (The New York Times, 1-18-18)
General
Nuclear energy booming in Asia (DW, 3-11-16)
A Nuclear Armageddon in the Making in South Asia (Truthdig, 4-4-16)
Most millionaires now in Asia: report (DW, 6-23-16)
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Afghanistan
US Puppet State in Afghanistan dominates heroin trade (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, No Date)
US to Blame for Spike in Opium Production in Afghanistan (TeleSurTV, 4-16-15)
‘14 years of occupation by world’s richest nation, Afghanistan remains desperate’ (RT, 12-22-15)
Heroin Dealer in Chief. Afghanistan, Source of 90% of The World’s Heroin (Global Research, 12-29-15)
Afghan youngsters use hip hop to speak for women's rights (DW, 1-29-16)
A wave of political defections spells new trouble for Afghanistan (The Washington Post, 3-29-16)
The War In Afghanistan Is A Good Thing (If You're A Drug-Dealer) (Zero Hedge, 7-23-16)
Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Denounces President Ghani as Unfit for Office (New York Times, 8-11-16)
Afghan Opium Production 40 Times Higher Since US-NATO Invasion (Mintpress, 8-31-16)
DOD Continues To Enable Mass Pedophilia In Afghanistan (Huffington Post, 12-11-17)
How the U.S. Government Misleads the Public on Afghanistan (New York Times, 9-8-18)
Dubai
15 stunning photos that show how Dubai has become the 'Manhattan of the Middle East' (Business Insider, 12-11-15)
The Killing of Farkhunda VIDEO (New York Times, 12-26-15)
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)
Israel and Palestine
The tragedy of Palestine in shocking images (Facebook, 9-10-15)
The future of Gaza looks bleak (Aljazeera, 9-15-15)
In Israel, A New Battle Over Who Qualifies As Jewish (NPR, 10-10-15)
Israel dropped 800 tons of bombs on Gaza, the world didn’t blink an eye (The Iran Project, 11-23-15)
So much for tolerance: Israel bans Arab-Jewish romance novel for promoting interracial relationships (Salon, 12-31-15)
Nearly half of Israeli Jews believe in ethnic cleansing, survey finds (Independent, 3-8-16)
New IDF Chief Rabbi Says Soldiers Can Rape Arab Women To Boost Morale (Mintpress, 7-12-16)
Israel’s Ongoing Blockade Of Gaza Could Force Palestinians To Drink Sewage (Mintpress, 9-9-16)
No, Israel Is Not a Democracy (Jacobin, 5-5-17)
Palestinian deaths are largely ignored by US media (If Americans Knew, 12-20-17)
How each country voted at the UN on Jerusalem status resolution (CNN, 12-22-17)
Israel’s DNA Screening for ‘Jewishness’ Epitomizes the Discriminatory Spirit of the EthnoState (Mintpress, 3-13-19)
'Israel is the nation-state of Jews alone': Netanyahu responds to TV star who said Arabs are equal citizens (Haaretz, 3-19-19)
Iraq
Iraq's all-female combat unit seeks revenge on Islamic State (Reuters, 5-4-16)
Iraq in 360 degrees: Explore the malls destroyed in Baghdad’s worst suicide bombing (The Big Story, 7-18-16)
WHO HOLDS THE INITIATIVE, AND WHO HAS THE POWER TO MOBILISE THE STREET IN IRAQ? (ELIJAH J. MAGNIER, 3-12-19)
Iran
How False Stories of Iran Arming the Houthis Were Used to Justify War in Yemen (Truth-out, 12-31-15)
‘Any differences?’ Iran Supreme Leader's cartoon equates ISIS with Saudi Arabia after executions (RT, 1-3-16)
ONE MAP THAT EXPLAINS THE DANGEROUS SAUDI-IRANIAN CONFLICT (The Intercept, 1-6-16)
Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’ (New York Times, 7-15-17)
Iran Designates US Military a Terrorist Organisation - Reports (Sputnik News, 4-8-19)
ISIS
ISIL and the Taliban (Aljazeera, 11-1-15)
Chilling Video May Show NATO Member State Greeting and Providing Refuge to ISIS Militants (Alternet, 12-2-15)
ISIL propaganda videos imitate Hollywood to win converts (Quartz, 1-7-16)
Lebanon
IDF Commander: We Fired More Than a Million Cluster Bombs in Lebanon (Haaretz, 9-12-06)
Census and sensibility (The Economist, 11-5-16)
Libya
In Libya 'there are no winners today' (November, 2016)
African slaves cut open for their kidneys in Libya's burgeoning organ trafficking market (IBT, 12-5-17)
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Textbooks Incite Hate, Say Leaders in American Publishing (The Daily Beast, 10-17-12)
ONE MAP THAT EXPLAINS THE DANGEROUS SAUDI-IRANIAN CONFLICT (The Intercept, 1-6-16)
The Secret Stupid Saudi-US Deal on Syria. Oil Gas Pipeline War (Global Research, 3-16-16)
As the Saudis Covered Up Abuses in Yemen, America Stood By (Politico, 7-30-16)
As the Saudis Covered Up Abuses in Yemen, America Stood By (Politico, 7-30-16)
This Isn't Saudi Arabia's First ISIS Problem (The National Interest, 8-7-16)
You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia (Huffington Post, 6-20-17)
Saudi Arabia's heir to the throne talks to 60 Minutes (CBS News, 3-19-18)
Syria
Mimi Al Laham (Syrian Girl Facebook)
If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child washed up on a beach don't change Europe's attitude to refugees, what will? (The Independent, 9-3-15)
Migrant Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines (Mint Press News, 9-9-15)
Bashar Al-Assad Has More Popular Support than the Western-Backed “Opposition”: Poll (Global Research, 12-14-15)
What's the Trick? Bashar Assad Still Enjoys Public Support in Syria (Sputnik News, 12-20-15)
A Call for Proof on Syria-Sarin Attack (Common Dreams, 12-27-15)
Why the Arabs Don’t Want Us in Syria (Politico, 2-22-16)
The Truth About Syria: A Manufactured War Against An Independent Country (Mintpress, 5-26-16)
Gruesome Film Shows US-Funded Syrian Rebel Group Behead Child (Common Dreams, 7-20-16)
CIA chief not optimistic Syria will remain one country (Aljazeera, 7-30-16)
How the White Helmets Became International Heroes While Pushing U.S. Military Intervention and Regime Change in Syria (Alternet, 10-2-16)
Inside the Shadowy PR Firm That’s Lobbying for Regime Change in Syria (Alternet, 10-2-16)
Why Is Media Citing Man Accused of Kidnapping Journalists as Credible Source on Syrian Chemical Attack? (Alternet, 4-6-17)
The Nerve Gas Attack Described in White House Report Did Not Occur, Expert Says of Syria Incident (Truth-dig, 4-19-17)
Syria to ratify the Paris agreement, leaving the US alone (Politico, 11-7-17)
NOW MATTIS ADMITS THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE ASSAD USED POISON GAS ON HIS PEOPLE (Newsweek, 2-8-18)
US Ambassador Confirms Billions Spent On Regime Change in Syria, Debunking 'Obama Did Nothing' Myth (The Real News, 2-9-18)
Conflict With Syria Could Lead to World War III (Truthdig, 4-12-18)
Defiant Syrians Protest Illegal U.S. Airstrikes (The People's Voice, 4-14-18)
Fisk rips away excuses for air strike on Syria (Jonathan Cook Blog, 4-17-18)
Sunni Islam
Sunni rebels declare new 'Islamic caliphate' (Aljazeera, 6-30-14)
Turkey
More Than 1000 Academics Call For Peace Talks To Resume Between Turkey And PKK (Kurdish Question, 1-21-16)
Uganda
Does God Love Uganda? – new film explores the ways in which Western Ideologues are at the root of country’s anti-gay laws (U.S. Hypocrisy, 4-14-14)
U.S. War on Terror
Mnar Muhawesh: Nearly 8 Million Muslim Casualties In US-Led War On Terror (Mintpress, 8-28-15)
“Collateral Damage”: Dehumanizing Millions Of Victims In America’s War On Terror (Mintpress, 4-25-17)
General
In 18 Nations, Women Cannot Get a Job Without Their Husband’s Permission (The Wall Street Journal, 9-9-15)
Meeting al-Shabab's elusive leader (Aljazeera, 1-22-16)
Recolonization of Africa by Endless War (Black Agenda Report, 11-8-17)
The Middle East doesn’t lack democracy. It has too much. (The Washington Post, 5-31-18)
WESTERN EUROPE
Britain
A map of the world according to the countries Britain has never invaded (i100, 12-6-14)
The dark side of Winston Churchill’s legacy no one should forget (The Washington Post, 2-3-15)
The ghastly crimes of Winston Churchill (KJ Vids, 8-8-17)
In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer (Washington Post, 3-10-18)
Still no homes for 151 Grenfell fire families stuck in emergency or temporary housing 16 months on (Standard, 10-29-18)
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India (Aljazeera, 12-19-18)
Germany
The German Prostitution Model: Reducing Violence Against Sex Workers (Fair Observer, 9-13-13)
Davutoglu visits: Letter critiques Merkel Turkey policy (DW, 1-21-16)
Germany is trying to teach refugees the right way to have sex (The Washington Post, 5-15-16)
‘Saber-rattling & warmongering’: German FM blasts NATO military drills in Eastern Europe (RT, 6-18-16)
In Germany, they make sure college isn't the only path to success. (ATTN: Life, 7-20-17)
What is Germany’s dual education system — and why do other countries want it? (DW, 4-6-18)
Germany Lays Out a Path to Quit Coal by 2038 (The New York Times, 1-26-19)
Greece
How Greece Became A Guinea Pig For A Cashless And Controlled Society (Mintpress News, 6-21-17)
France
France President Vows To Pay ‘Moral Debt’ To Haiti, But No Mention of Reparations (Urban Intellectuals, 5-15-15)
Norwegian
How the Norse Named Their Children. The Rite of Ausa Vatni and Nafnfesti (Spangenhelm, 5-12-16)
Watch: A Norwegian TV drama imagined a Russian invasion. Moscow isn’t impressed (The Washington Post, 8-31-15)
Norway Then and Now: Tilbakeblikk (The Atlantic, 11-2-15)
After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here’s Why. (Bill Moyers, 1-30-16)
King of Norway delivers emotionally charged speech in favour of LGBT rights, refugees and tolerance (Independent, 9-5-16)
General
How Europe Conquered the World (Foreign Affairs, 10-7-15)
Western Governments Press for Sweeping Powers After Paris Terror (Sputnik News, 11-18-15)
Europe’s Dirty Little Secret: Moroccan Slaves and a ‘Sea of Plastic’ (Ecowatch, 12-18-15)
Permanent State of Emergency? France Seeks Alarming Expanse of Police Powers (Common Dreams, 1-6-16)
New EU Copyright Law Could Force Online Platforms To Ban Memes Across Europe (Zerohedge, 9-20-18)
Irish
Open letter to Bob Geldof, who called the 1916 revolutionaries terrorists (VIDEO) (Irish Times, 4-9-16)
Italy
The fascist movement that has brought Mussolini back to the mainstream (The Guardian, 2-22-18)
Netherlands
Netherlands to grow human embryos for research (RT, 5-28-16)
Other
The New European Fascists (Truthdig, 7-24-16)
Former Nazi college reopens as museum (DW, 9-8-16)
Europeans Debate Nuclear Self-Defense after Trump Win (Spiegel, 12-9-16)
Leaked document: EU Presidency calls for massive internet filtering (EDRi, 9-6-17)
RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE
Poland
Poland Prepares to Demolish Remaining Soviet Monuments to WWII Liberation (Sputnik News, 9-22-15)
Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest (The Guardian, 3-25-16)
Polish foreign minister: No more ‘negro mentality’ toward US (Politico, 3-30-16)
Russia and Ukraine
Commentary: The world's best cyber army doesn’t belong to Russia (Reuters, 12-16-13)
Photos: The Ruins of the USSR’s Secret Nuclear Cities (Wired, 10-15-14)
Winston Churchill's 'bid to nuke Russia' to win Cold War - uncovered in secret FBI files (Daily Mail, 11-8-14)
Russia and America: Stumbling to War (National Interest, 4-20-15)
Bernie Sanders Is a Russia-Bashing, Pro-Israel, Militarist Tool (Russia Insider, 7-21-15)
Russia “Violated” Turkish Airspace Because Turkey “Moved” Its Border (Global Research, 10-6-15)
Russia and China: Beware the Budding Eurasian Colossus? (The National Interest, 10-25-15)
Putin: US missile defense aimed at neutralizing Russia nukes, N. Korea & Iran just a cover (RT, 11-10-15)
America versus Russia: Who Are the Real Supporters of International Terrorism? (Global Research, 11-12-15)
Excellent New Must-See Putin Documentary. Two Thumbs Way Up!! (Russia-Insider, 11-25-15)
Joe Scarborough's 'Putin Kills Journalists' Charge Totally Demolished (Russia Insider, 12-18-15)
Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program (Reuters, 1-16-15)
Turkey Freaks Out After Russia Insists Kurds Participate in Syrian Talks (Sputnik News, 1-21-16)
Putin’s National Security Chief: US Provoked Russia Into Taking Over Crimea (Russia Insider, 2-1-16)
New Kazakh TV series a riposte to Putin and Borat (Aljazeera, 2-5-16)
Who Is to Blame for the Doomed Iraqi Uprisings of 1991? (National Interest, 3-7-16)
Russian rocket engines and China’s ICBM force (The Hill, 3-7-16)
Russian Boomers Set to Conduct Largest Live-Fire Drill in 25 Years (National Interest, 3-9-16)
These Russian Nukes Are Better Than America's (National Interest, 4-25-16)
‘Saber-rattling & warmongering’: German FM blasts NATO military drills in Eastern Europe (RT, 6-18-16)
World War II Isn't Quite Over for Poland and Ukraine (Bloomberg, 7-13-16)
Dangerous Propaganda: Network Close To NATO Military Leader Fueled Ukraine Conflict (Spiegel, 7-28-16)
The town that reveals how Russia spills two Deepwater Horizons of oil each year (The Guardian, 8-5-16)
Why We Still Need to Cooperate with Russia on Nuclear Security (Nukes of Hazard, 8-19-16)
Vladimir Putin resurrects the KGB (Politico, 9-28-16)
Do We Really Want Nuclear War with Russia? (Common Dreams, 10-3-16)
Russia could overrun Baltic states in 36 hours if it wanted to, Nato warned (Independent, 10-27-16)
‘West has been blaming Russia for everything, now there’s backlash’ – Gorbachev (RT, 12-13-16)
Dam leaves Crimea population in chronic water shortage (Aljazeera, 1-4-17)
Mikhail Gorbachev: 'It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War' (Time, 1-26-17)
Gorbachev Warns of Growing Danger (The Gorbachev Foundation, 5-17-17)
The Story of the Deadly Anthrax Outbreak Russia Didn't Want the World Discovering (National Interest, 7-8-17)
America's Ukraine Hypocrisy (National Interest, 8-6-17)
Russia flexes military muscles with new nuclear-capable missile (Facebook Video, Press TV, 10-27-17)
Russia launches 4 ballistic missiles during military drills across the country which also involved long-range bombers (RT Play, 10-27-17)
Putin Hates Lenin: 100 Years From the Communist Revolution That Almost Destroyed Russia (Russia Insider, 11-7-17)
Your guide to top anti-Russia think tanks in US & who funds them (RT, 2-6-18)
Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly (Kremlin, 3-1-18)
Mikhail Gorbachev: The U.S. and Russia Must Stop the Race to Nuclear War (TIME, 3-9-18)
'Novichok' Could Only Come From Russia...or Anyone Who Bought This $8.16 Book on Amazon (Russia Insider, 3-16-18)
CHINA MILITARY TELLS RUSSIA 'WE'VE COME TO SUPPORT YOU' AGAINST U.S. (News Week, 4-3-18)
What if the US and Russia had a nuclear war? (Hashem Al-Ghaili Facebook, 5-13-18)
Russia’s New Doomsday Weapons Can Beat U.S. Missile Defenses (National Interest, 6-6-18)
The U.S. and Russia Are Sleepwalking Toward Nuclear Disaster (Politico, 2-1-19)
LATIN AMERICA
Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group (New York Times, 5-10-13)
Under Nafta, Mexico Suffered, and the United States Felt Its Pain (New York Times, 11-24-13)
Mexico manufacturing surge hides low-wage drag on economy (Reuters, 6-2-14)
Bolivia's Morales blames capitalism for climate change (Aljazeera, 10-13-15)
10 years of Evo Morales as president of Bolivia (Facebook, 1-21-16)
Hugo Chavez — Paul Craig Roberts (Paul Craig Roberts, 3-12-16)
US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart (Mint Press, 7-12-16)
These Photos Reveal the Brutality of Life in Rio’s favelas (Washington Post, 8-3-16)
Bolivian president calls US ‘threat to international law, UN’ over ‘unilateral’ Russia sanctions (RT, 7-30-17)
'We are the forgotten people': It's been almost six months since Hurricane Maria, and Puerto Ricans are still dying (CNN, 3-15-18)
Why I strongly oppose U.S. military intervention in Venezuela (The Washington Post, 1-30-19)
Valuing Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt (Global Research, 2-2-19)
THE CARIBBEAN
Haiti deforestation due to trade policies (Wikipedia)
France President Vows To Pay ‘Moral Debt’ To Haiti, But No Mention of Reparations (Urban Intellectuals, 5-15-15)
A photographer's 20-year exploration of Haitian Vodou (Mashable, 10-11-15)
This puts into question all of US policy towards Cuba VIDEO (The Real News Network, 11-1-17)
AUSTRALIA
'Dome of hot air': Australia blows away heat records (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2-2-19)
OTHER
The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito (VICE, 10-3-12)
What Sex Means for World Peace (Foreign Policy, 4-24-12)
ISIL and the West: A clash of savageries (ISIL and the West: A Clash of Savageries, 11-19-15)
We Need a New Green Revolution (New York Times, 1-4-16)
‘Staggering’ violence: The direct consequence of Western regime change ops (RT, 1-21-16)
Western Warmongers Have All the Answers, and They're All Wrong (Common Dreams, 2-1-16)
Survey: 54 percent in developing world use Internet (Aljazeera, 2-22-16)
Lift the Ban! Kofi Annan on Why It's Time To Legalize Drugs (Spiegel, 2-22-16)
The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People (New York Times, 3-5-16)
The Democracy Activist Who Became a Suicide Bomber (The Wall Street Journal, 4-7-16)
Here are the 10 countries where homosexuality may be punished by death (Washington Post, 6-13-16)
UNHCR report: More displaced now than after WWII (CNN, 6-20-16)
Greenland actually caught fire — and that's bad news for our planet. (Verge Science, 9-16-17)
The Developing World Thinks Hitler Is Underrated (Foreign Policy, 10-6-16)
UN General Assembly recognises ongoing concerns over health risks from depleted uranium (The Fifth Column, 12-12-16)
What went wrong? A withering West (Aljazeera, 12-26-16)
The Times Are Changing: Key NATO Commander Admits The Alliance Is ‘Obsolete’ (We Are Change, 1-19-17)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
UNITED STATES
The bad joke called 'the FISA court' shows how a 'drone court' would work (The Guardian, 5-23-13)
A World of Winless War: US Special Ops Forces Deployed to 137 Nations in 2017 (Truth-Out, 6-26-17)
UN aid workers raped 60,000 people as it’s claimed organisation employs 3,300 paedophiles (The Sun, 2-12-18)
US “Counterterror” Missions Target 40 Percent of the Planet (Truth-Out, 2-19-19)
The U.S. and Russia
How America and Russia Could Start a Nuclear War (National Interest, 5-7-15)
Could U.S.-Russia Tensions Go Nuclear? (Politico, 11-27-15)
Commentary: The world's best cyber army doesn’t belong to Russia (Reuters, 12-16-13)
US missile shield unable to repel massive Russian ICBM attack – chief of strategic missile forces (RT, 12-16-15)
America's Cold War Master Plan to Nuke Russia (National Interest, 12-23-15)
The Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe Is Greater Today Than During the Cold War (The World Post, 1-20-16)
How to Avoid War With Russia (National Interest, 1-29-16)
Kissinger’s Vision for U.S.-Russia Relations (National Interest, 2-4-16)
U.S.-Russian Nuclear Diplomacy is Deadlocked (National Interest, 4-15-16)
These Russian Nukes Are Better Than America's (National Interest, 4-25-16)
Do We Really Want Nuclear War with Russia? (Common Dreams, 10-3-16)
U.S. to Deploy Tanks to the Baltics (The Wall Street Journal, 1-30-17)
The New Yorker’s Big Cover Story Reveals Five Uncomfortable Truths About U.S. and Russia (The Intercept, 2-28-17)
Dmitry Orlov: The US Is Sleepwalking Towards A Nuclear Confrontation (Information Clearing House, 6-15-17)
The U.S. and ISIS
You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia (Huffington Post, 10-27-14)
Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq (The Guardian, 6-3-15)
Exclusive: 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked (The Daily Beast, 9-9-15)
VIDEO: Manufacturing Terror: How Saudi Arabia Helped Create Islamic State (Truthdig, 11-16-15)
Abdel Bari Atwan: Inside How the U.S. & Saudi Arabia Aided Growth of the Islamic State (Democracy Now, 11-17-15)
ISIL and the West: A clash of savageries (ISIL and the West: A Clash of Savageries, 11-19-15)
Saw it Coming: Daesh Now Has US-Made TOW Missiles (Sputnik News, 12-26-15)
US Wars Created Daesh 'Monster' - German Politician (Sputnik News, 12-29-15)
A Crisis Worse than ISIS? Bail-Ins Begin (The Web of Debt Blog, 12-29-15)
We All Are Islamic State (Chris Hedges | Truthdig, 3-27-16)
US War Crimes in Iraq: Fallujah Residents Starving, Murdered, Besieged by US Backed Government Forces and ISIS (Global Research, 4-8-16)
Dr. Jerome Corsi: "Evidence backs claim that Hillary armed ISIS" (Libyan War the Truth, 12-29-16)
The U.S. Wars in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia
How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again (Huffington Post, 2-29-12)
New Docs Detail U.S. Involvement in Saddam's Nerve Gas Attacks (The Atlantic, 8-25-13)
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran (Foreign Policy, 8-26-13)
Elizabeth Warren Finally Speaks on Israel/Gaza, Sounds Like Netanyahu (The Intercept, 8-28-14)
Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front Of Their Mothers (Mint Press News, 12-19-14)
U.S. NERVE GAS HIT OUR OWN TROOPS IN IRAQ (Newsweek, 3-27-15)
Mohammad Mossadegh: An American Parable (National Interest, 7-28-15)
4 Million Muslims Killed In Western Wars: Should We Call It Genocide? (Mintpress, 8-8-15)
14 Years After 9/11, the War on Terror Is Accomplishing Everything bin Laden Hoped It Would (The Nation, 9-8-15)
The United States Probably Has More Foreign Military Bases Than Any Other People, Nation, or Empire in History (The Nation, 9-14-15)
More Civilians Killed by US Drone Strikes Than Al-Qaeda Terrorists (Sputnik News, 9-15-15)
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies (New York Times, 9-20-15)
Noam Chomsky: The United States, Not Iran, Poses Greatest Threat to World Peace (Democracy Now, 9-22-15)
Survivor of US Drone Attack: Obama Belongs on List of World's Tyrants (Common Dreams, 1-23-16)
Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria (Politico, 2-23-16)
More U.S. troops killed by Halliburton than by Iraqis (American Herald Tribune, 2-23-16)
Four Million Muslims Killed in US-NATO Wars: Should We Call It Genocide? (Global Research, 3-18-16)
The Big Lie About the Libyan War (Foreign Policy, 3-22-16)
US War Crimes in Iraq: Fallujah Residents Starving, Murdered, Besieged by US Backed Government Forces and ISIS (Global Research, 4-8-16)
WAR Study reveals that an overwhelming majority of young Iraqis view the U.S. as an enemy (Dead State, 4-16-16)
WAR Study reveals that an overwhelming majority of young Iraqis view the U.S. as an enemy (Dead State, 4-16-16)
I'm on the U.S. "Kill List," Pakistani elder claims (CNN, 4-22-16)
The rise of the aerostate: U.S. carriers scramble as Persian Gulf rivals emerge (The Washington Post, 4-30-16)
When Iraq Was Clinton’s War (Jacobin, 5-6-16)
Transforming a Country into “Collateral Damage”: US Cluster Bombs Killed Children for Decades in Laos, and Now Yemen (Global Research, 9-10-16)
Report: Post 9/11 Wars Have Cost Taxpayers Nearly $5 Trillion And Counting (Mintpress, 9-14-16)
United States confirms that it has fired depleted uranium in Syria (Ban Depleted Uranium, 10-21-16)
“Collateral Damage”: Dehumanizing Millions Of Victims In America’s War On Terror (Mintpress, 4-25-17)
Empire of Destruction: Precision Warfare? Don’t Make Me Laugh (Common Dreams, 7-20-17)
U.S. Spent $5.6 Trillion on Wars in Middle East and Asia: Study (The Wall Street Journal, 11-8-17)
The Price We Pay for Unnecessary War (Truthdig, 3-24-18)
Ex-Abu Ghraib Prisoner Speaks Out On Abuse (Middle East Eye, 3-28-18)
The Left’s Embrace of Empire (The Nation, 3-28-18)
US Budgetary Costs of Wars through 2016: $4.79 Trillion and Counting REPORT (WATSON INSTITUTE) !!!!
U.S. Intelligence Officials Who Warned About False WMD Claims Before Iraq War Are Now Warning About Baseless Syrian Chemical Weapons Claims (Films for action, 4-14-18)
In ‘kill list’ case, judge questions government’s unilateral authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad (Washington Post, 5-1-18)
How the U.S. Government Misleads the Public on Afghanistan (New York Times, 9-8-18)
The U.S. and South America
We looked at every mile of the U.S.-Mexico border. Now you can, too – right here (USA Today)
US Targets Bolivia With Secret Drug Indictments Against Evo Morales’ Government (Mint Press News, 9-23-15)
Why Foreign Troops Can't fight our fights (Washington Post, 10-2-15)
I'm on the Kill List. This is what it feels like to be hunted by drones (Independent, 10-12-15)
As Conflicts Flare Up, Leaders Fan Sectarian Flames in Middle East (New York Times, 10-17-15)
Syria: Stalingrad of Western 'Regime Changers' (Sputnik News, 11-27-15)
US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart (Mintpress News, 7-12-16)
Operation Condor: US-backed ‘Anti Communist’ Terrorism in Latin America (News Click, 11-25-17)
Why I strongly oppose U.S. military intervention in Venezuela (The Washington Post, 1-30-19)
How Chrystia Freeland Organized Donald Trump’s Coup in Venezuela (Strategic, 2-7-19)
Zyklon B
A Short History of Zyklon B on the US-Mexican Border (Please Don’t Share With Donald Trump) (Counter Punch, 3-18-16)
American Imperialism
The United States has abstained from voting on the first-ever resolution by the United Nations General Assembly on the treaty to ban cluster bombs (No Cluster Bombs, 11-19-15)
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II (Global Research, 11-27-15)
Former Defense Secretary Warns US is Pushing Towards Nuclear Apocalypse (Sputnik News, 12-3-15)
Chris Hedges: The American Empire: Murder Inc. (Truthdig, 1-3-16)
A World War has Begun: Break the Silence (Counter Punch, 3-23-16)
Chomsky: “NATO is a global intervention force run by the United States.” (Activism, 5-26-16)
Don't Send U.S. Troops to Bail Out Allies That Won't Defend Themselves (National Interest, 6-22-16)
The Fatal Expense of American Imperialism (Common Dreams, 10-31-16)
Red Cross Poll: Americans Warm to Torture and Indiscriminate Bombing (The Daily Beast, 12-5-16)
US Intelligence Already Knows Assad Did Not Drop Chemical Weapons (Popular Resistance, 4-9-17)
U.S. Military Is World’s Biggest Polluter (EcoWatch, 5-15-17)
USA Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 ‘Victim Nations’ Since World War II (Anti-News-Network, 7-18-17)
THE US EMPIRE, THE CIA, AND THE NGOS (Katehon, 7-19-17)
The West and International Terrorism (Global Research, 8-1-17)
Note To Wall Street: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance." On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead. (Common Dreams, 8-11-17)
Is the U.S. the Largest Purveyor of Genocide on the Planet? (Alternet, 10-30-17)
The massacre of Vietnamese civilians is just one of the many atrocities committed by the U.S. military for the duration of the war. (TeleSur English, 11-17-17)
The U.S. has spent $4.3 trillion on war since 9/11. Every American could have free healthcare for a fraction of that. (Facebook Video, 11-15-17)
Powerful speech by a veteran: Mike Prysner (Facebook, The Free Thought Project, 12-17-17)
Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front Of Their Mothers (The Mind Unleashed, 1-7-18)
US Ambassador Confirms Billions Spent On Regime Change in Syria, Debunking 'Obama Did Nothing' Myth (The Real News, 2-9-18)
How Many Millions Have Been Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars? (Mintpress, 3-23-18)
How America's Wars Fund Inequality at Home (Common Dreams, 6-28-18)
Docs Reveal Pentagon Plan to Destroy USSR, China as “Viable Societies” with Nuclear Weapons (MPN News, 9-3-18)
U.S. History of Chemical Weapons Use and Complicity in War Crimes (Mintpress News, 9-24-18)
US military plan to spread viruses using insects could create ‘new class of biological weapon’, scientists warn (Independent, 10-4-18)
'No More Torture,' Says France. Not So the United States (Common Dreams, 10-7-18)
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II (Global Research, 10-24-18)
Half Million Killed by America's Global War on Terror 'Just Scratches the Surface' of Human Destruction (Common Dreams, 11-9-18)
Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism (Truthdig, 11-26-18)
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II (Global Research, 1-20-19)
US “Counterterror” Missions Target 40 Percent of the Planet (Truth-Out, 2-19-19)
Revealed: The U.S. military's 36 code-named operations in Africa (Yahoo News, 4-17-19)
What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan? (New York Times, 12-9-19)
Other
Amnesty International is US State Department Propaganda (Information Clearing House, 8-22-12)
Despair, American Style (New York Times, 11-9-15)
The US government is already lying like crazy about surveillance after the Paris attacks (The Verge, 11-16-15)
American Leftists Need to Pay More Attention to Rojava (Slate, 11-25-15)
US Should Join French and Civil Society in Initiative to Solve Global Warming with Regenerative Farming Plan (Common Dreams, 12-10-15)
U.S. Doesn’t Know How Many Foreign Visitors Overstay Visas (New York Times, 1-1-16)
The Chinese Plans to Nuke America (National Interest, 1-19-16)
Nearly 500K foreigners overstayed visas in 2015 (USA Today, 1-20-16)
The United States Has Blocked a Plan By India to Expand Solar Power and Create Local Jobs (Truthdig, 2-26-16)
10 New Ways Other Countries Are Actually Solving Problems—and Kicking Our Ass (Alternet, 2-28-16)
How Hedge Funds Held Argentina for Ransom (New York Times, 4-1-16)
After Words with Seymour Hersh (C-Span, 5-10-16)
U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel (Washington Post, 9-28-16)
The Most (And Least) Toxic Places In America (Forbes, 11-7-17)
A powerful confession by US soldier Mike Prysner on his experience fighting in Iraq: (Collectively Conscious, 11-14-17)
U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I (The Washington Post, 11-29-18)
U.S. DOMESTIC
Local Politics
Why Northam’s assault weapons bill never really had a chance in the Virginia Senate (The Washington Post, 2-23-20) IMPORTANT
Drugs
How Rockefeller Founded Big Pharma And Waged War On Natural Cures (Healthy-holistic, NO DATE)
Feature: The Conviction That Keeps On Hurting -- Drug Offenders and Federal Benefits (Stop the Drug War, 2-4-07)
The Heroin Epidemic, in 9 Graphs (U.S. News, 8-19-15)
Meet the Secretive Family Making Billions From America’s Painkiller Overdose Epidemic (U.S. Uncut, 12-30-15)
In one year, drug overdoses killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War did (Vox, 6-8-17)
America’s opioid problem is so bad it’s cutting into U.S. life expectancy (Washington Post, 9-20-17)
Truth About Terrorism & The War On Drugs (New World Order News Center, 11-28-17)
Opioid abuse in the U.S. is so bad it’s lowering life expectancy. Why hasn’t the epidemic hit other countries? (The Washington Post, 12-27-17)
US deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide hit highest level since record-keeping began (Courier Journal, 3-5-19)
Security
DCDC Strategic Trends Programme: Future Operating Environment 2035 (Ministry of Defense)
AP: LNG Tanker Attack Would Be Devastating (Fox News, 12-20-04)
U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack (The Wall Street Journal, 3-12-14)
FERC And EEI Criticism Of WSJ For Recent Article On Terrorism And Power Grid Misses The Point (Forbes, 3-18-14)
Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown (The Guardian, 6-12-14)
7 Ways That You (Yes, You) Could End Up On A Terrorist Watch List (Huffington Post, 7-25-14)
Why Innocent People Plead Guilty (The New York Review, 11-20-14)
EMP TASK FORCE ON NATIONAL AND HOMELAND SECURITY (EMP Task Force, 5-27-15)
North Dakota becomes first US state to legalise use of armed drones by police (The Independent, 9-8-15)
Former CIA leaders release book defending brutal tactics (AOL, 9-9-15)
Here’s a way the government can easily get your phone records without even asking a judge (The Washington Post, 10-5-15)
The Mistake of Only Comparing US Murder Rates to "Developed" Countries (Mises Institute, 10-12-15)
An open casket (An Open Casket, 10-31-15)
The U.S. Is A World Leader In Gun Deaths (NPR, 12-7-15)
US Nuclear Weapons Complex Leaves 'Legacy of Death on American Soil' (Common Dreams, 12-11-15)
A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail (Common Dreams, 1-21-16)
Once Every 16 Hours, An American Woman Is Fatally Shot by a Current or Former Romantic Partner (The Trace, 2-9-16)
HARRY DENT: Civil unrest is coming to America (Business Insider, 3-27-16)
I help innocent people get off terrorism watch lists .As a gun control tool, they’re useless (Washington Post, 6-29-16)
Obsessing About The “Thin Blue Lines” While Elite White-Collar Crime Runs Rampant (Common Dreams, 7-5-16)
Why is the American government ignoring 23 million of its citizens? (Washington Post, 3-31-16)
EMP HIT TO U.S. REACTORS COULD CAUSE '100 FUKUSHIMAS' (WND, 5-30-16)
What would a nuclear war look like? (Hashem Al-Ghali Facebook Video, 8-5-17)
This Video Shows What Happens if Washington, D.C. Is Attacked with Nuclear Weapons (National Interest, 10-17-17)
This Terrifying Video Shows What Happens if Washington, D.C. Was Attacked with a Nuke (National Interest, 4-1-18)
EMP Commission warns ‘blackout’ of electricity, food, water to last ‘year or longer,’ huge death toll (Washington Examiner, 5-9-18)
Americans Are Unprepared for a Nuclear Attack (Politico, 6-11-18)
Miami Will Be Underwater Soon. Its Drinking Water Could Go First (Bloomberg, 8-29-18)
Beyond Denuclearization: Dealing With North Korea’s Other WMDs (The Diplomat, 11-2-18)
America's Spies Warn: Space Is Getting a Lot More Dangerous (The National Interest, 1-25-19)
US nuclear weapons: first low-yield warheads roll off the production line (The Guardian, 1-28-19)
How A U.S. Nuclear Strike Works (Statista, 2-6-19)
One Minute to Midnight (Truth-Dig, 2-12-19)
Florida is drowning. Condos are still being built. Can't humans see the writing on the wall? (The Guardian, 2-15-19)
Pollution
Interactive Map Shows Where Toxic Air Pollution From Oil and Gas Industry Is Threatening 12.4 Million Americans (Eco-Watch, 6-15-16)
What Is It Like to Live Without Running Water? Detroit Families Know (Common Dreams, 4-12-17)
Report: Pollution Kills 3 Times More than AIDS, TB And Malaria Combined (NPR, 10-19-17)
Immigration
More Mexicans Leaving Than Coming to the U.S. (Pew Research Center, 11-19-15)
U.S. Placed Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says (The New York Times, 1-28-16)
Research
American-made innovation begins with federally funded research (The Hill, 4-25-17)
Police State
Half of People Killed by Police Have a Disability: Report (NBC News, 3-14-16)
39% of Prisoners Should Not Be in Prison (TIME, 12-9-16)
Did you know over 1/2 a million Americans are being held in jail with no conviction? (Brave New Films, 7-24-17)
Most women in prison are incarcerated for committing crimes in self-defense. (Liz Plank, 3-17-18)
Guns
FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs than with Rifles of Every Kind (Breitbart, 9-26-18)
Why Northam’s assault weapons bill never really had a chance in the Virginia Senate (The Washington Post, 2-23-20) IMPORTANT
Health Crisis in America
The Extraordinary Danger of Being Pregnant and Uninsured in Texas (Propublica, 12-6-19)
Other
Reality Asserts Itself - Daniel Ellsberg (The Real News Network)
The Hell of American Day Care (New Republic, 4-15-13)
The Terrorists Among Us (Slate, 11-30-15)
De Blasio Postpones Work on Crucial Water Tunnel (4-6-16)
Americans' Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low (Gallup, 9-14-16)
Did the Emptying of Mental Hospitals Contribute to Homelessness? (KQED, 12-8-16)
March catapults Muslim American into national spotlight and social-media crosshairs (The Washington Post, 2-7-17)
US has regressed to developing nation status, MIT economist warns (Independent, 4-21-17)
Where the US Ranks on the List of Most Peaceful Nations in the World (Information Clearing House, 6-6-17)
The Most (And Least) Toxic Places In America (Forbes, 11-7-17)
The American Dream is really an American Nightmare. (teleSur English, 12-19-17)
2018 Edelman Trust Barometer Reveals Record-Breaking Drop in Trust in the U.S (Edelman, 2018)
'This Study Should Alarm Everyone': US Child Mortality Rate 70% Higher Than Other Wealthy Nations (Common Dreams, 1-9-18)
Death by Inequality: Poverty and Racism Are Killing America’s Children (OurFuture, 1-22-18)
42% of Americans are at risk of retiring broke (CNBC, 3-6-18)
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis (New York Times, 4-11-18)
Incredible Bumper-to-Bumper Traffic in Los Angeles (ABC News, 11-30-18)
U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I (The Washington Post, 11-29-18)
Fed Says Student Debt Has Hurt the U.S. Housing Market (The Wall Street Journal, 1-16-19)
The Next American Revolution? Anticipated Civil Unrest (Global Research, 11-27-19)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
GEORGE BUSH
The First Iraq War Was Also Sold to the Public Based on a Pack of Lies (Moyers, 6-27-14)
Was George W. Bush President On 9/11? An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart (Think Progress, 10-17-15)
New Report Reveals Bush Administration Ignored Dire Pre-9/11 Warning (Think Progress, 11-12-15)
How Cheney and His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis (Information Clearing House, 12-30-17)
The Bushes’ ‘Death Squads’ (Consortium News, 12-5-18)
BARACK OBAMA
Under Obama "Black People Have Lost Ground In Every Single Economic Category!" Tavis Smiley (YouTube, 1-5-15)
Obama’s Foreclosure Relief Program Was Designed to Help Bankers, Not Homeowners (Bill Moyers, 2-14-15)
The Obama Legacy: Inequality, Corporate Trade Deals, Worldwide War (Mintpress News, 6-30-15)
Joe Biden Backed Bills To Make It Harder For Americans To Reduce Their Student Debt (IBT, 9-15-15)
Obama’s Flak Demeans Putin’s Posture (Information Clearing House, 9-25-15)
Release the Records: Ben Carson vs. Barack Obama, College Edition (The Blaze, 11-9-15)
Former US defense secretary reportedly found top Obama national-security aides 'dangerously naive' (Business Insider, 1-7-16)
The Hypocrisy of Obama’s Gun Control Crusade (Common Dreams, 1-11-16)
Obama orchestrated a massive transfer of wealth to the 1 percent (New York Post, 1-17-16)
Obama’s state of denial speech (Columbia Daily Herald, 1-21-16)
Obama Administration Sets Record In Lack Of Transparency: Denies Information In 77% Of FOIA Requests (Zerohedge, 3-19-16)
Fatally Flawed: President Obama’s Shocking Drone Strikes Admission (National Interest, 4-8-16)
Obama has failed victims of racism and police brutality (The Guardian, 7-14-16)
15 Years Later, Obama Extends 9/11 ‘National Emergency’ To Justify A Perpetual War On Terror (Mintpress, 9-9-16)
Obama Stands Nuremberg on Its Head (Truthdig, 10-6-16)
False hope, broken promises: Obama’s belligerent legacy (ROAR, 1-11-17)
Obama’s Legacy In Africa: Terrorism, Civil War & Military Expansion (Mintpress, 1-18-17)
Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying (The Hill, 7-25-17)
US Ambassador Confirms Billions Spent On Regime Change in Syria, Debunking 'Obama Did Nothing' Myth (The Real News, 2-9-18)
HILLARY CLINTON
Why I Am Cancelling My Documentary on Hillary Clinton (Huffington Post Media, 11-30-13)
CHELSEA CLINTON MAKES $900,000 FOR DOING ALMOST NOTHING (Shadow Proof, 7-9-14)
Key Democrats, Led by Hillary Clinton, Leave No doubt that Endless War is Official U.S. Doctrine (The Intercept, 10-7-14)
Forget Hillary’s Emails, Here’s Her Real Scandal That Nobody’s Talking About (Mint Press, 3-11-15)
'Impartial' DNC finance chief helps Hillary (Politico, 6-3-15)
15 Ways Bill Clinton's White House Failed America and the World (Alternet, 6-22-15)
Worse Than Benghazi (Jacobin, 7-17-15)
Why Bernie and Hillary Must Address America’s Dying Nuke Reactors (Common Dreams, 10-5-15)
Go Ahead, Back Hillary Clinton and Forget All About Her Record (Nation of Change, 10-13-15)
Shaky Foundations [Clinton Campaign] (Harpers, 11-17-15)
A Compilation of Hillary Lies (Facebook, 11-20-15)
The Two Leading Presidential Candidates -- Clinton And Trump -- Are Both Mocking Free Speech On The Internet (Tech Dirt, 12-8-15)
Video Compilation of Hillary Clinton Lying (Facebook, 12-16-15)
Campaign 2016: Hillary Clinton Says She Is Unaware Of Big Money That Oil And Gas Companies Have Given Her And Family Foundation (International Business Times, 12-17-15)
New Hillary Emails Reveal Propaganda, Executions, Coveting Libyan Oil and Gold (Antiwar, 1-6-16)
Hillary’s State Department Pressured Haiti Not To Raise Minimum Wage to $.61 An Hour (Groopspeak, 1-18-16)
The Clintons' Cynical Race Game: No One Will Say It, but the Clintons' Rise Was Premised on Repudiating Black Voters (Alternet, 1-31-16)
Hillary Clinton's long war on free speech (Reason.com, 2-3-16)
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)
John Kasich and the Clintons Collaborated on Law That Helped Double Extreme Poverty (Common Dreams, 2-13-16)
Hillary Clinton and the Syrian Bloodbath (Common Dreams, 2-14-16)
Cornel West: ‘Sister Hillary Clinton is the Milli Vanilli of American politics’ (Raw Story, 2-22-16)
Hillary Clinton,‘Smart Power’and a Dictator’s Fall (New York Times, 2-28-16)
Farrakhan on Hillary Clinton: 'That's a Wicked Woman" (YouTube, 2-28-16)
Even critics understate how catastrophically bad the Hillary Clinton-led NATO bombing of Libya was (Salon, 3-2-16)
Tough Questions About Haiti for Hillary Clinton (Counter Punch, 4-14-16)
Seymour Hersh: Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels (Mintpress, 4-29-16)
When Iraq Was Clinton’s War (Jacobin, 5-6-16)
First look at explosive Hillary documentary, ‘Clinton Cash’ (New York Post, 5-17-16)
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)
FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook (National Review, 7-5-16)
I’m a lawyer specializing in security clearance cases. Hillary Clinton got off easy. (The Washington Post, 7-7-16)
CLINTON EMAIL: WE MUST DESTROY SYRIA FOR ISRAEL (Cognitive Liberty, 7-15-16)
Hillary Clinton Could Easily Push America into Open Conflict with Russia (National Interest, 8-8-16)
THE 2016 DNC
Seven Minutes That Shook the Convention (Politico, 7-29-16)
Capt. Khan’s parents remember their son (MSNBC, 7-29-16)
BERNIE SANDERS
Why Bernie and Hillary Must Address America’s Dying Nuke Reactors (Common Dreams, 10-5-15)
Mike Rowe to Bernie Sanders: Stop Telling Everyone College Is The Only Thing (Reason, 12-15-15)
Bernie Sanders’s single-payer plan isn’t a plan at all (Vox, 1-17-16)
Bernie Sanders: “I Am Not Actively Involved with Organized Religion” (Patheos, 1-27-16)
Sanders Should Challenge the Foreign Policy Status Quo (Common Dreams, 2-9-16)
Bernie Sanders could have won. That's the Corbyn lesson for America (The Guardian, 6-9-17)
DEMOCRATS
Nancy Pelosi’s record on the Middle East tacks right and undermines human rights. (Institute for Policy Studies, 4-27-09)
Progressive Groups Release Letter Urging DNC Chair to Host Additional Presidential Debates (Move On, 9-21-15)
Elizabeth Warren’s claim that the bottom 90 percent got ‘zero percent’ of wage growth after Reagan (Washington Post, 10-23-15)
New Poll Indicates One-Third Of Democrats Support Islamophobic Policies (Think Progress, 3-29-16)
Democrats Will Learn All the Wrong Lessons From Brush With Bernie (Rolling Stone, 6-9-16)
After Orlando, Democrats and Republicans Clamor for Expanded Police State (Counter Punch, 6-20-16)
My Spiritual Journey - Tulsi Gabbard (Medium, 10-30-17)
Taking Short Break From Denouncing Trump Authoritarianism, House Dems Join With GOP to 'Violate the Privacy Rights of Everyone in United States (Common Dreams, 1-11-18)
The Same Democrats Who Denounce Donald Trump as a Lawless, Treasonous Authoritarian Just Voted to Give Him Vast Warrantless Spying Powers (The Intercept, 1-12-18)
Keep It Up, Ilhan Omar (Haaretz, 3-7-19)
DONALD TRUMP
To My Old Friend Donald Trump, Stop The Bullsh*t by Russell Simmons (Global Grind, 12-8-15)
The Two Leading Presidential Candidates -- Clinton And Trump -- Are Both Mocking Free Speech On The Internet (Tech Dirt, 12-8-15)
Our Nuclear Procedures Are Crazier Than Trump (Foreign Policy, 8-5-16)
No one can stop President Trump from using nuclear weapons. That's by design. (The Washington Post, 12-1-16)
The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect, Using Unverified Claims, as Democrats Cheer (The Intercept, 1-11-17)
How ‘New Cold Warriors’ Cornered Trump (Antiwar, 2-27-17)
Amid Trump's Deregulatory Bonanza, UN Report Details 'Catastrophic' Impact of Pesticides (Common Dreams, 3-7-17)
I ran a focus group with Trump voters. Half said they support single-payer (VOX, 4-3-17)
White House disavows two controversial tax ideas hours after officials say they’re under consideration (Washington Post, 4-4-17)
Trump’s federal job cuts could lead to more spending (Politico, 4-13-17)
How Many People Will Die For Each Rich American’s Trumpcare Tax Cut? (Our Future, 5-4-17)
Yes, House Republicans, the heartless health-care vote will define you (Washington Post, 5-5-17)
Trump’s America Is Facing a $13 Trillion Consumer Debt Hangover (Bloomberg, 6-6-17)
Trade War Risks From ‘National Security’ Tariffs (The Wall Street Journal, 6-18-17)
Trump Can't Reverse the Decline of White Christian America (The Atlantic, 7-3-17)
Trump administration cancels hundreds of Obama-era regulations (The Washington Post, 7-20-17)
The norms of government are collapsing before our eyes (The Washington Post, 7-26-17)
Trump may be kicking off a new age of nuclear weapons (The Washington Post, 10-12-17)
Could Anyone Stop Trump from Launching Nukes? The Answer: No (Snopes, 11-13-17)
Nothing Can Stop Trump From Launching a Nuclear Weapon (SLATE, 11-14-17)
White House to ask for 72 percent cut in renewable energy programs: report (The Hill, 1-31-18)
Reproductive Rights Groups Slam WH Report on Trump's 'Unconscionable' Global Gag Rule (Common Dreams, 2-8-18)
Trump promised to deliver better pay to workers. This chart says differently. (Vox, 2-10-18)
White House budget proposes increase to defense spending and cuts to safety net, but federal deficit would remain (The Washington Post, 2-12-18)
Trump's New 'Low-Yield' Nuclear Weapon: Two Bad Ideas Rolled into One (The National Interest, 3-10-18)
Trump's Rush to Judgment on Syrian Chemical Attack: Illegal and Deadly (Truth-Out, 4-12-18)
How Trump's Obamacare Administrator is Quietly Taking a Hatchet to Obamacare (Alternet, 4-17-18)
'With friends like that who needs enemies’: Tusk lashes out at Trump (RT, 5-16-18)
Under Trump, federal agencies halt reviews of toxic pesticides that endanger wildlife (Salon, 7-23-18)
How Obama Made It Easier for Trump to Launch a Nuke (Politico, 9-14-18)
White House admits Trump climate policies will cost Americans $500 billion a year (Think Progress, 11-24-18)
Trump has officially ruined climate change diplomacy for everyone (Business Insider, 12-14-18)
What the President Could Do If He Declares a State of Emergency (The Atlantic, 2019 Issue)
Report: Trump’s ‘wrecking ball’ on science is posing a threat to public health and the environment (Washington Post, 1-13-19)
How the Trump Administration Pulled Back on Regulating Toxic Chemicals (e360, 2-12-19)
Report Exposes 'Devastating' Economic, Public Health, and Environmental Impacts of Trump's Industry Giveaways (Common Dreams, 3-5-19)
As trade deficit explodes, Trump finds he can’t escape the laws of economics (The Washington Post, 3-6-19)
Trump to propose massive renewable energy cuts, something Republicans don’t even want (Think Progress, 3-9-19)
'What Cruelty Looks Like': Trump Finalizes Plan to Strip Food Aid From 750,000 Low-Income People by 2020 (Common Dreams, 12-4-19)
CONSERVATIVE
Carly Fiorina, Marijuana Did Not Kill Your Step-Daughter (Marijuana Politics, 9-21-15)
The Page Who Took Down the GOP (Politico, 11-20-15)
Carly Fiorina’s $4 Billion Job Scam at Hewlett-Packard (The Daily Beast, 9-23-16)
Robert P. Jones on the End of White Christian America (The Atlantic, 10-15-16)
MIKE PENCE WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL CHRISTIAN SUPREMACIST IN U.S. HISTORY (The Intercept, 11-15-16)
Republicans' ACA Replacement Proposals Fall Short of Providing the Protections and Care People Currently Enjoy Under the Affordable Care Act (Families USA, February 2017)
How Republicans Plan to Ration Health Care (The New York Times, 3-7-17)
The strange origins of the GOP ideology that rejects caring for the poor (Thinkprogress, 6-9-17)
Rand Paul Is Right: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communications Without Warrants (The Intercept, 3-12-17)
House GOP Budget Cuts Programs Aiding Low- and Moderate-Income People by $2.9 Trillion Over Decade (CBPP, 8-3-17)
GOP tax law a one-two punch to charities — and American giving (Politico, 1-13-18)
Under GOP Tax Law, Top 1% Get Extra $33,000 Per Year. The Poor? $40 (Common Dreams, 3-30-18)
POLITICAL COMMENTARY
Eric Draitser (Facebook)
The long-forgotten racial attitudes and policies of Woodrow Wilson (Boston University, 3-4-13)
Our political foundation is rotting away (The Washington Post, 11-29-17)
War Criminals in High Office Commemorate the End of World War I (Global Research, 11-12-18)
VOTES FOR THE IRAQ WAR
Iraq Resolution: A Majority of Democratic Senators Voted for War (Wikipedia)
RUSSIA SANCTIONS
10 SENATORS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO IMPOSE COMPREHENSIVE SANCTIONS
ON RUSSIA (John McCain, 1-11-17)
CIA
The CIA Didn’t Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings (The Nation, 12-16-14)
Who Is Michael Morell? (National Interest, 1-15-17)
CIA analyst recovering after violent arrest at Haspel hearing/testimony (RT America, 5-11-18)
OTHER
The Spill, The Scandal and the President (Rolling Stone, 6-8-10)
NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY (The American Spectator, 11-5-12)
Ben Cardin’s creative proposal for tax reform (The Washington Post, 2-23-15)
Double suicide: the presidential campaign of 2015 (Washington Post, 9-24-15)
Libertarian superstar Ayn Rand defended Native American genocide: “Racism didn’t exist in this country until the liberals brought it up” (Salon, 10-14-15)
Is the China Model Better Than Democracy? (Foreign Policy, 10-19-15)
The devastating potential of an extreme solar storm and what the White House is doing about it (Washington Post, 10-29-15)
Labour's postwar chancellor makes Corbynomics look Thatcherite – what can he teach us? (The Guardian, 11-8-15)
Infographic Comparing Candidates’ Tax Plans (Fiscal Fact Check, 11-16-15)
Human Rights Watch to Obama: Prosecute Bush officials for torture (Politico, 12-1-15)
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act (Zero Hedge, 12-18-15)
Republican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism—and So Do Democrats (Common Dreams, 12-24-15)
The Illusion of Freedom (Truthdig, 12-27-15)
People's State of the Union (Jill 2016, January 2016)
Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill (The Nation, 1-15-16)
The smoking gun? (The Hill, 1-21-16)
The Idiocy of the Iowa Caucuses (Bill Moyers, 1-31-16)
Hail to the Censor! (Reason, 2-3-16)
What Americans Don’t Get About Nordic Countries (The Atlantic, 3-16-16)
Want a leaner federal government? Hire more federal workers (Washington Post, 4-22-16)
Senate takes 2016 sabbatical (Politico, 5-2-16)
Reform or Revolution (Truthdig, 5-22-16)
Dramatic House Sit-In on Guns Is Undercut by Focus on Secret, Racist Watchlist (The Intercept, 6-22-16)
How the Override of the Veto of the 9/11 Lawsuit Bill Could Come Back to Bite Americans (Truthdig, 9-29-16)
The cost of slavery reparations is now within the boundaries of the politically acceptable (Washington Post, 9-29-16)
Want to be a ‘foreign agent’? Serve in Congress first (Politico, 10-2-16)
How the Hyde Amendment and HR 7 Punish America’s Poor Women (Video) (Truthdig, 1-29-17)
The Best Way to Influence Congress, According to Staffers (Bloomberg, 2-13-17)
How Congress Censored the Internet (Electronic Frontier Foundation, 3-21-18)
SHUTTERED POLLING SITES CAST SHADOW OVER MIDTERM ELECTIONS (Who What Why, 9-5-18)
POLITICAL THEORY
World's Most Evil and Lawless Institution? The Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (Alternet, 6-26-13)
Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich (The Baffler, 5-19-14)
Libertarian superstar Ayn Rand defended Native American genocide: “Racism didn’t exist in this country until the liberals brought it up” (Salon, 10-14-15)
The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People (New York Times, 3-5-16)
Land of the Free? Harvard Study Ranks America Worst in the West for Fair Elections (Global Research, 4-15-16)
PENTAGON VIDEO WARNS OF “UNAVOIDABLE” DYSTOPIAN FUTURE FOR WORLD’S BIGGEST CITIES (The Intercept, 10-13-16)
People's Economies vs Corporate Control: First Commodification, Then Financialization, Now Demonetization (Common Dreams, 12-5-16)
Capitalism Is Collapsing -- and the Weird Thing Is That Nothing Is Rising to Replace It (Alternet, 12-28-16)
Behind the Mask of the ‘Moderates’ (Truthdig, 11-19-17)
'Crisis of Trust': Poll Finds People Living in Democracies Think Governments Aren't Acting in Public Interest (Common Dreams, 6-21-18)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
ANCIENT HISTORY
5 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About Ancient Civilizations (Cracked, 7-7-13)
How Cavepeople Got Their Rocks Off: Stone Age Dildos (Cvlt Nation, 3-31-15)
“We drank Soma, we became immortal...” (Science, 3-9-15)
Animated map shows how the world's first written languages spread (Tech Insider, 12-18-15)
Prehistoric Massacre Hints at War Among Hunter-Gatherers (International New York Times, 1-20-16)
Unearthing secrets of human sacrifice (Knowable Magazine, 8-8-18)
AFRICAN HISTORY
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 (Origins, July 2008)
Does God Love Uganda? – new film explores the ways in which Western Ideologues are at the root of country’s anti-gay laws (U.S. Hypocrisy, 4-14-14)
Father stares at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904 (Rare Historical Photos, 9-21-16)
REFERENCES MADE BY NELSON MANDELA (Facebook Video, 7-24-14)
ASIAN HISTORY
Genocide in India
India's secret history: 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...' (The Guardian, 8-24-07)
The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst genocide in human history for profit (YourStory, 8-15-14)
Islamic India: The Biggest Holocaust in World History… Whitewashed from History Books (The Muslim Issue, 12-24-14)
Islamic India: The Biggest Holocaust in World History Whitewashed from History Books (Sikh, 1-27-15)
GENOCIDE, THE BRITISH DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT – THEY SYSTEMATICALLY STARVED TO DEATH OVER 60 MILLIONS OF EASTERN INDIANS! (FBReporter, 7-7-15)
Gandhi
Gandhi the Imperialist (The Wall Street Journal, 1-8-16)
China
China's Great Famine: A mission to expose the truth (Aljazeera, 1-11-16)
Remembering the biggest mass murder in the history of the world (The Washington Post, 8-3-16)
Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city (The Guardian, 6-18-17)
China’s breathtaking transformation into a scientific superpower (The Washington Post, 1-21-18)
China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (The Wall Street Journal, 1-21-18)
China spirals past US in genome research (Asia Times, 2-25-18)
Globalization Has Created a Chinese Monster (Foreign Policy, 2-26-18)
AMERICAN HISTORY
How The US Has Systematically Destroyed Hawaiian Culture For 240 Years (Weird History)
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Book)
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Amazon, 2-6-07)
The Untold History of the United States (YouTube, 10-11-13)
Star-Spangled Bigotry: The Hidden Racist History of the National Anthem (The Root, 7-4-16)
The Anti-Muslim Origins of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ (Truthdig, 8-30-16)
The west was built on racism. It's time we faced that (Guardian Australia, 9-14-16)
When a Foreign Government Interfered in a U.S. — to Reelect FDR (Politico, 1-16-17)
What Started the Arkansas Sharecropper Massacre of 1919? A Union. (The Progressive, 9-29-17)
Calling the Las Vegas mass shooting the deadliest ever whitewashes U.S. history (AJ+, 10-4-17)
The U.S. is Not a Democracy, It Never Was (Counter Punch, 12-13-17)
Why the Nazis Loved America (TIME, 3-21-17)
How American Racism Influenced Hitler (The New Yorker, 4-30-18)
Native Americans
HOMAGE TO HUMANITY (Jimmy Nelson)
Native American Genocide (Espresso Stalinist, No Date)
The Invasion of America (YouTube, 6-2-14)
Native American Genocide (Espresso Stalinist, No Date)
The Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World (Invasion of America, No Date)
Genocide by Other Means: U.S. Army Slaughtered Buffalo in Plains Indian Wars (Indian Country, 5-9-11)
Video: The Invasion of America—Watch the Indigenous Land Base Shrink (Indian Country Today Median Network, 6-5-14 )
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (Amazon Book, 7-6-15)
Celebrating Genocide – Christopher Columbus’ Invasion of America (Wakeup-world, 10-11-15)
Libertarian superstar Ayn Rand defended Native American genocide: “Racism didn’t exist in this country until the liberals brought it up” (Salon, 10-14-15)
Photo Of The Day: Why America Wouldn’t Be America Without This Mountain Of Skulls (All That is Interesting, 3-27-16)
'Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone' (The Atlantic, 5-13-16)
Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders (Bipartisan Report, 6-19-16)
It's time to acknowledge the genocide of California's Indians (Los Angeles Times, 7-29-16)
Was America Great When It Burned Native American Babies? (Audio and Transcript) (TruthDig, 8-5-16)
‘WE CHARGE GENOCIDE’: SYSTEMATIC MURDER & OPPRESSION OF BLACKS CONTINUES IN US (Shadow Proof, 8-11-16)
How American History Erases Mass Killings Against Native Americans (Counter Currents, 10-4-16)
How did the US deal with Native Americans? By forcing their children into boarding schools so they could become "civilized." (teleSur, 4-12-17)
Don't be afraid to talk about the real history behind Thanksgiving (Facebook Video, 11-21-17)
No Thanks to Thanksgiving (Alternet, 11-22-17)
Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on Thanksgiving: “It Has Never Been About Honoring Native Americans” (Democracy Now, 11-23-17)
EVERYONE MUST KNOW THIS before it is deleted, Why is the US government always hiding it (Indigenous People of America, 12-26-17)
Must watch!! Ghost Dance Wounded Knee (Native American Tribes, 1-23-18)
Bison extinction by white colonizers (Telesur, 6-13-18)
The Dark U.S. Legacy Of Ripping Children From Their Families (Huffington Post, 7-18-18)
European Colonizers' Genocide of 56 Million Native Americans So Devastating "It Literally Cooled the Planet" (Common Dreams, 2-1-19)
European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say (CNN, 2-2-19)
America's Involvement in World War II
Today marks 71 years since the nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki (Facebook, 8-9-16)
Unit 731: How Leaders of Japan’s WWII Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US (Antiwar, 4-23-18)
America's Wars after World War II
US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II – Here’s How (Anonymous, 9-20-16)
Anime depicts the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs on 6 and 9 August 1945 (Facebook Video, 10-22-16)
In the early 1950s, during the Korean War, the US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II (Facebook, 8-19-17)
What America Taught the Nazis (The Atlantic, November 2017)
The massacre of Vietnamese civilians is just one of the many atrocities committed by the U.S. military for the duration of the war. (TeleSur English, 11-17-17)
Docs Reveal Pentagon Plan to Destroy USSR, China as “Viable Societies” with Nuclear Weapons (MPN News, 9-3-18)
General Foreign Affairs
Overthrowing other people’s governments: The Master List (William Blum, 2-2013)
Civil Rights/African American History
The long-forgotten racial attitudes and policies of Woodrow Wilson (Boston University, 3-4-13)
ONLY 13% BLACK CHURCHES SUPPORTED REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING DURING CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT (The Urban Blog, 3-8-13)
Cruel Medical Experiments On Slaves Were Widespread In The American South (Buzzfeed, 4-28-15)
The Dark History of Liberal Reform (New Republic, 1-21-16)
The cost of slavery reparations is now within the boundaries of the politically acceptable (Washington Post, 9-29-16)
Colin Kaepernick Just Started a Black Panther-Inspired Youth Camp to Teach Kids to Fight Oppression (Mintpress, 11-2-16)
This Map Shows Over a Century of Documented Lynchings in the United States (Smithsonian, 1-24-17)
How the Hyde Amendment and HR 7 Punish America’s Poor Women (Video) (Truthdig, 1-29-17)
How the Nazis Used Racist U.S. Jim Crow Laws as Model for the Making of Nazi Race Law (Alternet, 10-14-17)
What America Taught the Nazis (The Atlantic, November 2017)
Martin Luther King says he’s proud to be maladjusted to our sick society (Facebook Video, 11-23-17)
“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865 — it just evolved.” (MIC, 12-13-17)
EUROPEAN HISTORY
Ancient Europe
Map of Europe's Tribes (History Files, No Date)
Hyperborea and Eurasia (The Fourth Political Theory, No Date)
The King, The People and the Parliament – Old Norse Democracy (Blade Honer, No Date)
The Druids : Brahmins of Ancient Europe (Hindu Human Rights, 5-29-13)
Arkaim: Russia’s Stonehenge and a Puzzle of the Ancient World (Mysterious Universe, 1-31-14)
The Vedic People of Scandinavia (India Divine, 11-30-15)
6 ways climate change and disease helped topple the Roman Empire (Vox, 10-30-17)
Ancient Germanic History - ROBERT SEPEHR (Atlantean Gardens, 8-15-18)
Europe's Era of Colonization
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807 (Origins, July 2008)
How Europe Conquered the World (Foreign Affairs, 10-7-15)
Napoleon, the First Modern Politician (National Interest, 12-20-15)
The Shadow of Roger Casement: Were Colonial Regimes More Sensitive to Human Rights Than Our Own Governments? (Counter Punch, 8-8-16)
Europe's standing in the world would not have been possible if it weren't for barbaric colonialism (The Guardian Australia Video, 3-10-17)
The Real Winston Churchill (Jacobin, 1-11-18)
In Winston Churchill, Hollywood rewards a mass murderer (Washington Post, 3-10-18)
World War I
"In Flanders Field" World War I Poems (Great War, 1915)
Fascism and National Socialism
The Sex Obsessed Poet Who Invented Fascism (Atlas Obscura, No Date)
What has medicine learned from the Nazis? (The Guardian, 10-14-04)
Paolo Di Canio is right — Italian Fascism was not racist (Spectator, April 2013)
DALAI LAMA NAZIS (Western Shugden Society)
German expedition to Tibet led by Ernst Schäfer, 1938-1939 (Rare Historical German Photos, 12-26-13)
Carl Jung on Hitler as Personification of the Wotan Archetype (Volkisch Paganism, 10-8-14)
Estimated 190,000 German Women Raped by US Soldiers After WWII (Sputnik News, 3-27-15)
The Sex Obsessed Poet Who Invented Fascism (Atlas Obscura, 12-4-15)
'Orgy of Murder': The Poles Who 'Hunted' Jews and Turned Them Over to the Nazis (Haaretz, 2-11-17)
Ben Ferencz, 98, is the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials. (BBC World Service, 6-1-17)
What America Taught the Nazis (The Atlantic, November 2017)
Russian Communism
The Final Years of Pre-Soviet Russia, Captured in Glorious Color (Wired, 3-20-14)
The End of Communism in Russia Meant the End of Democracy in the West (Russia Insider, 10-26-15)
Docs Reveal Pentagon Plan to Destroy USSR, China as “Viable Societies” with Nuclear Weapons (MPN News, 9-3-18)
Modern Europe
Das Ist Impossible! Germans Are Shocked That US Nukes Would Also Hit Them (Sputnik News, 12-24-15)
CHRISTIAN HISTORY
The Role of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia’s Holocaust (Church and State, 2012)
Christianity’s Lies, Laws and Legacy (Church and State, 7-19-14)
Why Mother Teresa is still no saint to many of her critics (Washington Post, 12-18-15)
The Horrors of the Church and Its Holy Inquisition (April 2016)
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
This is how they broke our grandmothers (Feminist Current, 10-4-16)
OTHER
The story of cities (The Story of Cities, The Guardian)
The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (The Atlantic, 2-21-17)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
Artificial Intelligence
On the Brink of an Artificial Intelligence Arms Race (World Policy, 9-6-16)
Two sides to A.I... you can help stop these weapons here (Collective Evolution Facebook Video, 11-21-17)
China
China's Silicon Valley: Lawns and pools but no free food (CNN Money, 5-20-16)
Chinese Tech Firms Forced to Choose Market: Home or Everywhere Else (New York Times, 8-9-16)
China’s breathtaking transformation into a scientific superpower (The Washington Post, 1-21-18)
China, Unhampered by Rules, Races Ahead in Gene-Editing Trials (The Wall Street Journal, 1-21-18)
Cyberthreats
Hacker claims to be selling stolen NSA spy tools (Arctic News, 8-13-14)
CYBERATTACK ON NUCLEAR FACILITIES COULD CAUSE RADIATION LEAK: REPORT (Newsweek, 10-5-15)
The Cyberthreat Under the Street (New York Times, 11-7-15)
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core (The New York Times, 11-12-17)
Solar Storms and the Power Grid
RESILIENT SOCIETIES FILES APPEAL AT FERC OF DEFECTIVE STANDARD FOR SOLAR STORMS (Secure the Grid, 7-22-14)
Electric grid large power transformers take up to 2 years to build (Energy Skeptic, 1-21-15)
Terror Attack on U.S. Power Grid? “For the Record” (Secure the Grid, 3-26-15)
Nuclear Weapons
The destructive power of nuclear weapons (The Intercepter, 3-5-15)
CYBERATTACK ON NUCLEAR FACILITIES COULD CAUSE RADIATION LEAK: REPORT (Newsweek, 10-5-15)
Note To Wall Street: Never Mind Your Nuclear Stock Tips For “Highly Dovish Forward Guidance." On Account of Everyone Being, You Know, Dead. (Common Dreams, 8-11-17)
Here's a step-by-step breakdown of how launching a nuclear attack can go from a decision to a reality (Vocativ, 11-5-17)
Stopping the Doomsday Machine (Common Dreams, 4-18-18)
The Reality of Nuclear War VIDEO (Facebook, 9-9-18)
Internet
The Future of Public Wi-Fi: What to Do Before Using Free, Fast Hot Spots (The Wall Street Journal, 1-19-16)
Poor students often lack a home Internet connection. Is this FCC program a solution? (Hechinger Report, 6-18-15)
Undersea Cables That Power the Internet (Facebook, 9-14-15)
New attacks on Network Time Protocol can defeat HTTPS and create chaos (Ars Technica, 10-21-15)
Censorship on Rise as Global Internet Freedom Continues Downward Spiral (Common Dreams, 10-28-15)
Fast broadband for all by 2020 pledged by David Cameron (BBC, 11-7-15)
How the TPP Could Blow Up the Free Internet as We Know It (Alternet, 11-9-15)
Germany: Web giants pledge to delete hate speech in 24 hours (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12-15-15)
Social Media: Destroyer or Creator? (New York Times, 2-3-16)
The US ranks 55th in terms of LTE download speeds (The Verge, 2-4-16)
Web Browsers, Not Apps, Are Internet Gatekeepers for the ‘Next Billion’ (The Wall Street Journal, 3-12-17)
Can Airbus bring cheap internet to the world? (CNN, 6-28-17)
"Everything Is Fake": Ex-Reddit CEO Confirms Internet Traffic Metrics Are Bullshit (Zerohedge, 12-28-18)
The Assange Arrest is a Warning From History (Counter Punch, 4-12-19)
Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark public schools failed miserably — here's where it went wrong (Business Insider, 9-25-15)
What these photos of Facebook’s new headquarters say about the future of work (The Washington Post, 11-30-15)
No, Mark Zuckerberg is not donating 99% of his Facebook stock to charity (Tech Insider, 12-1-15)
Do Not Be Impressed by Mark Zuckerberg's Phony Generosity (Common Dreams, 12-3-15)
India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook (Washington Post, 1-28-16)
The company that builds iPhones is replacing workers with robots (Yahoo, 5-25-16)
These two charts tell you everything you need to know about Google’s and Facebook’s domination of the ad business (Recode, 2-13-18)
Facebook’s rules for accessing user data lured more than just Cambridge Analytica (Washington Post, 3-19-18)
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won't ban Holocaust deniers because they deserve 'a voice' (Daily News, 7-18-18)
Mark Zuckerberg clarifies: ‘I personally find Holocaust denial deeply offensive, and I absolutely didn’t intend to defend the intent of people who deny that.’ (Recode, 7-18-18)
Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well (Rolling Stone, 8-13-18)
Google Spying on 40 Million K-12 Students, Privacy Advocates Call for Federal Sanctions (Alternet, 12-4-15)
Phones
The 911 System Isn’t Ready for the iPhone Era (New York Times, 11-23-15)
Hacking Your Phone (CBS News, 4-17-16)
How Spy Tech Firms Let Governments See Everything on a Smartphone (New York Times, 9-2-16)
Automation
47% Of All Jobs Will Be Automated By 2034, And 'No Government Is Prepared' Says Economist (Huffington Post, 1-17-14)
UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World (Futurism, 11-11-16)
The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation. (The New York Times, 12-21-16)
47% of jobs will vanish in the next 25 years, say Oxford University researchers (Big Think, 12-24-16)
Half of American jobs are at risk from automation, new study suggests (CNBC, 7-19-17)
DNA
DNA-testing company 23andMe has signed a $300 million deal with a drug giant. Here's how to delete your data if that freaks you out. (Business Insider, 7-25-18)
General
Tech Underbelly: Indentured Servitude and Bonded Labor in the US (Naked Capitalism, 10-28-14)
12 Horrifying Photos of the Tech Industry Apple Never Wants You to See (U.S. Uncut, 9-29-15)
U.S. Tech Giants May Blur National Security Boundaries in China Deals (New York Times, 10-30-15)
What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success (Truth-Out, 10-30-15)
The Concrete of the Future Lets Water Run Right Through It (Inverse, 11-6-15)
How Big Tech Convinced Us to Become Our Own Informants (Alternet, 11-30-15)
The world's largest cloning factory could one day clone HUMANS: Scientist claims technology is ready but public opinion isn't (Daily Mail, 12-1-15)
Give Us Back Our Data (Aljazeera, 12-7-15)
Everything you need to know about encryption: Hint, you’re already using it. (The Washington Post, 12-8-15)
Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA (Wired, 12-22-15)
AT&T Whines That FCC Report Highlights Broadband Coverage Gaps Company Helped Create (TechDirt, 1-12-16)
Can We Forgive Hillary Clinton For Her Past War On Video Games? (Forbes, 2-5-16)
Why is Silicon Valley so 'tone deaf' to India? (The Guardian, 2-11-15)
Silicon Valley Tech Worker Fired After Blogging About Starving While Working at Billion-Dollar Food Delivery Firm (Alternet, 2-21-16)
Lithium-ion Batteries: Tech Boom Fueled By 40,000 Congolese Child Miners (Global Research, 4-6-16)
A real-time simulation of the Titanic sinking is slow, beautiful, and unsettling (The Verge, 4-18-16)
Department Stores Need to Cull Hundreds of Sites, Study Says (The Wall Street Journal, 4-24-16)
Mining the Ocean Floor: Good Idea? (Bloomberg, 8-14-16)
America’s Dazzling Tech Boom Has a Downside: Not Enough Jobs (The Wall Street Journal, 10-12-16)
PENTAGON VIDEO WARNS OF “UNAVOIDABLE” DYSTOPIAN FUTURE FOR WORLD’S BIGGEST CITIES (The Intercept, 10-13-16)
India’s Digital ID Rollout Collides With Rickety Reality (The Wall Street Journal, 1-13-17)
94-year old Lithium-Ion battery inventor unveils new ultra-efficient glass battery (Digital Trends, 3-31-17)
How Silicon Valley is erasing your individuality (The Washington Post, 9-8-17)
The Way We Get Electricity Is About to Change Forever (Bloomberg, 9-13-17)
Nothing Worked. It Was Tearing Me Apart (Goal Cast, 12-23-17)
We’re Demanding The Government Come Clean on Surveillance of Social Media (Common Dreams, 5-24-18)
VIDEOS ENVIRONMENTAL FINANCIAL INTERNATIONAL THE UNITED STATES
OTHER (Includes Religion, Health, Society, Media, Science, Film, Education)
How local wise-women who carried on ancient traditions were exterminated by Christianity (Church and State, 2008)
Who Were the Witches? – Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism (End of Capitalism, 11-5-09)
The Unlikely Resurrection of Ralph Reed (Observer, 9-25-12)
35 Founding Father Quotes Conservative Christians Will Hate (Addicting Info, 7-4-13)
Why is the US Honoring a Racist Rabbi? (Counter Punch, 4-7-14)
The Largest Religion In Every State Other Than Christianity (Business Insider, 6-20-14)
Religious conservatives lead the nation in search for porn (Professive Secular Humanist, 10-18-14)
Mother Missionary Teresa : The Dark Side (Hindu Human Rights, 2-24-15)
“We drank Soma, we became immortal...” (Science, 3-9-15)
Map: These are the world’s least religious countries (Washington Post, 4-14-15)
NY Bishop Rape Shames Abuse Victims: Boys Are ‘Culpable’ For Their Actions At 7 Years Old (Church and State, 9-16-15)
Surprise! Science proves kids with religious upbringings are less generous — and so are adults (Raw Story, 11-2-15)
Stunning photos from Tibetan Buddhists’ Bliss Dharma Assembly (Washington Post, 11-5-15)
Poll: Christians on the decline in the U.S. (Politico, 12-24-15)
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)
Bernie Sanders: “I Am Not Actively Involved with Organized Religion” (Patheos, 1-27-16)
Christian Churches: the “Master Race” and “American Exceptionalism” (Counter Punch, 2-22-16)
Why People Don't Take Right-Wing Evangelicals So Seriously Anymore (Alternet, 3-7-16)
Secular values triumph in culture war: Study finds prayer and belief in God have hit all-time low (Rawstory, 3-22-16)
Top 10 Things First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress Thinks (Dallas Observer, 5-24-16)
The End of White Christian America (Amazon, 7-12-16)
5 Verses That Prove The Bible Supports Abortion Rights (ReverbPress, 8-1-16)
Louisiana floods destroy home of Christian leader who says God sends natural disasters to punish gay people (Independent, 8-18-17)
CNN: ‘TROUBLED INDIVIDUAL:’ MOTHER TERESA NO SAINT TO HER CRITICS (Missionaries of Charity, 8-31-16)
CALCUTTA WILL TAKE A CENTURY TO RECOVER FROM MOTHER TERESA (Missionaries of Charity, 9-3-16)
'Jesus Hasn't Saved Us': The Young Black Women Returning to Ancestral Religions (Broadly Vice, 9-13-16)
The Obscure Religion That Shaped The West (BBC, 4-6-17)
Trouble in Bible literacy land: King James was gay, translator strangled (Kentucky, 8-24-17)
Survey: White Christians are now a minority of U.S. population (CTV News, 9-6-17)
How to Deal With the Christian Right (Occupy Democrats, 11-10-17)
Exposing the Shocking and Continuing Alliance Between Zionism and Anti-Semitism (Alternet, 11-26-17)
Australia child sex abuse study notes Catholic Church mandatory celibacy as cause (DW, 12-15-17)
When 'God Wills It!': An American Reckoning (Common Dreams, 3-8-18)
MAJORITY OF U.S. MUSLIMS NOW SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE, WHILE WHITE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS REMAIN OPPOSED (Newsweek, 5-1-18)
How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World (New York Times, 6-8-18)
Pope warns climate change turning Earth into desert, garbage (AP News, 7-6-18)
Jewish Groups Condemn Sainthood Candidate Backed By Pope As An ‘Anti-Semite’ (Huffington Post, 7-6-18)
HEALTH
Oral Health for All (Families USA)
6 Ways Your Office Is Literally Killing You (Cracked, 6-26-10)
U.S. Health Care Ranked Worst in the Developed World (TIME, 6-16-14)
Our infant mortality rate is a national embarrassment (The Washington Post, 9-29-14)
Study: Pharmaceuticals Kill More Teens Than Illegal Substances In The US (Reset.me, 3-26-15)
How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain (New York Times, 4-22-15)
10 of the Worst Abuses of the Psychiatric and Psychological Professions in American History (Alternet, 9-24-15)
Jerry Brown’s Personal Message on Assisted Suicide (International New York Times, 10-6-15)
New Study: You Probably Have Herpes (Alternet, 11-2-15)
The “modern” workplace doesn’t just make us lonely, it can make us physically ill (Quartz, 11-12-15)
‘Post-antibiotic era’ looms amid unregulated drugs market – UK govt review (RT, 11-20-15)
Contaminating Our Bodies With Everyday Products (New York Times, 11-28-15)
The Trouble with For-Profit Healthcare: Even the Insured Face Mountains of Debt (Common Dreams, 1-5-16)
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)
Single-Payer Is Worth Fighting For (US News, 1-21-16)
Horrifying website shows you just how easily you'll die in the viral apocalypse (AOL, 2-26-16)
Kenneth Arrow says single payer is better than any other system (PNHP, 3-16-16)
Evidence mounts that sunscreen could weaken sperm (CNN, 4-14-16)
Superbug threat requires urgent action: report (Aljazeera, May 2016)
Researchers: Medical errors now third leading cause of death in United States (The Washington Post, 5-3-16)
Cellphone-Cancer Link Found in Government Study (The Wall Street Journal, 5-28-16)
MOLD-INFESTED PRISONS SICKEN GUARDS AND PRISONERS (The Intercept, 5-28-16)
A 'slow catastrophe' unfolds as the golden age of antibiotics comes to an end (LA Times, 7-11-16)
One striking chart shows why pharma companies are fighting legal marijuana (Washington Post, 7-13-16)
Why the Demand for ‘Medicare for All’ Won’t Go Away (Common Dreams, 7-26-16)
U.S. Healthcare is a Global Outlier, and Not in a Good Way (Visual Capitalist, 8-17-16)
Burden of Health-Care Costs Moves to the Middle Class (The Wall Street Journal, 8-26-16)
Millions at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance (The Guardian, 8-27-16)
Did the Emptying of Mental Hospitals Contribute to Homelessness? (KQED, 12-8-16)
The Depressing Trendlines That Are Driving America's Decline in Life Expectancy (Alternet, 3-9-17)
Are your sperm in trouble? (The New York Times, 3-11-17)
Medicaid is out of control. Here’s how to fix it. (Washington Post, 3-23-17)
Seven reasons we're at more risk than ever of a global pandemic (CNN, 4-3-17)
I ran a focus group with Trump voters. Half said they support single-payer (VOX, 4-3-17)
Forget ObamaCare v. TrumpCare, medical errors are the real challenge (The Hill, 5-4-17)
Global Study Shows Americans Dying from Preventable Causes at Shocking Rates (Common Dreams, 5-19-17)
Sperm counts of Western men plummeting, analysis finds (CNN, 7-25-17)
Psychologists are facing consequences for helping with torture. It’s not enough. (Washington Post, 10-13-17)
HPV Is Spread by Having Sex. So Why Don't People Talk About That? (NBC News, 10-23-17)
Mental Illness Is a Global Crisis (The Nation, 10-26-17)
A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted (New York Times, 12-19-17)
CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak (The Washington Post, 2-1-18)
Abortion rates go down when countries make it legal: report (NBC News, 3-20-18)
1.7 million people could be impacted by Medicaid work requirements in 10 states (The Hill, 4-16-18)
National HIV Testing Day — tests are lagging and the end of the epidemic is far away (The Hill, 6-27-18)
Implications of a Medicaid Work Requirement: National Estimates of Potential Coverage Losses (Kaiser Family Foundation, 6-27-18)
Even Libertarians Admit Medicare for All Would Save Trillions (Jacobin, 7-30-18)
These Are the Economies With the Most (and Least) Efficient Health Care (Bloomberg, 9-19-18)
The Next Generation of Warfare: Genetically Engineered Viruses (Global Research, 11-1-18)
U.S. life expectancy declines again, a dismal trend not seen since World War I (The Washington Post, 11-29-18)
What It Means for Your Sex Life Now That the Worst-Ever Cases of Super Gonorrhea Are Here (VICE, 1-10-19)
Capitalism is Dangerous for Your Mental Health (Medium, 1-10-19)
Video: Slow death for Gaza cancer patients (Electronica Intifada, 2-14-19)
How Does Losing Medicaid Help You Get a Job? (The Nation, 3-25-19)
How Medical Bills Bankrupt Hundreds of Thousands of People Every Year (GQ, 11-29-19)
Medicare, Medicaid underpaid U.S. hospitals by $76.8 billion in 2017, American Hospital Association says (Healthcare Finance, 1-4-19)
Health Insurance Coverage Eight Years After the ACA (Common Wealth Fund, 2-7-19)
SOCIETY
The Lost Legions (Smithsonian, No Date)
Hunter-gatherers enjoy long, healthy lives. (Rewild)
Who Were the Witches? – Patriarchal Terror and the Creation of Capitalism (End of Capitalism, 11-5-09)
8 Laws To Keep Women In Line That Are Somehow Still On The Books (Huffington Post, 3-14-14)
“Psychedelia” [Documentary] (Video) (The Arcane Front, 7-29-14)
5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die (Time, 9-2-14)
How Religious 'Liberty' Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History (Alternet, 4-6-15)
When Women Wanted Sex Much More Than Men (Alternet, 4-19-14)
Sex Pottery of Peru: Moche Ceramics Shed Light on Ancient Sexuality (Ancient - Origins, 5-6-15)
Have You Heard of the Great 'Forgetting'? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life (Over Grow The System, 8-30-15)
This Artwork Is Probably The Most Accurate (And Scary) Portrayal Of Modern Life We’ve Ever Seen (True Activist, 9-1-15)
10 Great Quotes From The Book Bruce Lee Was Writing When He Died (Truth Theory, 9-20-15)
Childcare now costs more than rent. No wonder more women are opting out of the workforce (Fortune, 10-6-15)
The War on Women is Over and Women Lost (Mother Jones, October 2015)
Social Media: Destroyer or Creator? (New York Times, 2-3-16)
Horrifying website shows you just how easily you'll die in the viral apocalypse (AOL, 2-26-16)
The World Has a Problem: Too Many Young People (New York Times, 3-5-16)
The decline of clubbing & bars and the rise of home-tainment (White Hutchinson, 5-5-16)
Amnesty: Attacks on Human Rights Are at All-Time High | Foreign Policy (Foreign Policy, 5-30-16)
The world is getting better at paid maternity leave. The U.S. is not (The Washington Post, 8-14-16)
PENTAGON VIDEO WARNS OF “UNAVOIDABLE” DYSTOPIAN FUTURE FOR WORLD’S BIGGEST CITIES (The Intercept, 10-13-16)
March catapults Muslim American into national spotlight and social-media crosshairs (The Washington Post, 2-7-17)
Reality Asserts Itself - Daniel Ellsberg (The Real News Network)
Dress Rehearsals for Utopia (November/2018, Jacobin)
Confronting the Culture of Death (Truthdig, 1-21-19)
Chris Hedges
The Great Unraveling (Truth Dig, 8-30-15)
The Real Enemy Is Within (Truth Dig, 9-6-15)
American Psychosis (Vimeo, 10-26-18)
MUSIC
SPOTIFY JUST DISCOVERED THAT HEAVY METAL IS MORE POPULAR THAN POP MUSIC (VICE, 6-1-15)
Tupac: This is still so real to the world we live in today (Unilad Sound, 12-7-17)
FILM
The Devil We Know (FILM Facebook Page)
Defending Community Health Against Oil (The Rising Film)
Film Review: Embrace of the Serpent (High Times, 2-22-16)
The spiritual message hidden in 'Star Wars' (CNN, 1-29-18)
SCIENCE
11 images that capture the incredible vastness of space (VOX, 9-3-15)
"Gene drive." Learn the term. Because it could one day transform the world. (VOX, 6-12-16)
Significant ongoing decline in sperm counts of Western men (Science Daily, 7-26-17)
Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms (The Guardian, 12-10-18)
THE MEDIA
The Day After (Attack Segment) (YouTube, 11-04-06)
The Grisly Dead People Pictures of Fernando Brito (VICE, 10-3-12)
Bono exposed as a complete fraud (Hang the Bankers, 9-23-17)
“Psychedelia” [Documentary] (Video) (The Arcane Front, 7-29-14)
10 News Outlets Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Follow (The Pontiac Tribune, 2-18-15)
1970s icon of the BBC Malcolm Muggeridge 'was a serial groper', claims book (The Daily Mail, 2-20-15)
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016? (Center For the Study of Public Domain, 1-1-16)
What Politico’s implosion tells us about the media business (The Washington Post, 1-29-16)
Why the marriage at the top of Politico couldn’t be saved (Washington Post, 2-1-16)
Women Who Have the Chops (and the Punches and the Kicks) (New York Times, 5-5-17)
EDUCATION
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal (Rolling Stone, 8-15-13)
FREE BOOKS: 100 LEGAL SITES TO DOWNLOAD LITERATURE (I Heart Intelligence, 8-31-14)
The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much (International New York Times, 4-4-15)
12 free Noam Chomsky e-books (Year 501, 6-26-15)
Should Sex Ed Be Mandatory? (The Daily Beast, 9-3-15)
Childcare now costs more than rent. No wonder more women are opting out of the workforce (Fortune, 10-6-15)
What Bernie Sanders Doesn’t Understand About Germany’s Free College (Reason, 10-22-15)
Free speech is flunking out on college campuses (Washington Post, 10-22-15)
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2016? (Center For the Study of Public Domain, 1-1-16)
Why Are Universities Fighting Open Education? (Common Dreams, 1-30-16)
Public Domain Day outside the USA: what Canada and the rest of the world get today (BoingBoing, 1-31-16)
Daycare costs top college tuition in NY (Fox 5, 4-14-16)
The Diminishing Returns of a College Degree (The Wall Street Journal, 6-4-17)
College education is failing us all. Can we design something better? (Big Think Science, 8-23-18)
Harvard Business School professor: Half of American colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years (CNBC, 8-30-18)
Student Debt Must Become Part of the Battle Against Poverty (Truth-Out, 12-4-18)
Fed Says Student Debt Has Hurt the U.S. Housing Market (The Wall Street Journal, 1-16-19)
U.S. Student-Loan Delinquencies Hit Record (Bloomberg, 2-22-19)
Among NYC Students, 1 In 8 Is Homeless Before 5th Grade: Study (Patch, 2-28-19)
