Gaza, November 2012 @ News.Ph.MSN.com

Attacks On Gaza: What Israel Doesn’t Want You To Know

There’s a reason that pictures are cropping up with Israelis holding signs in support of Palestinian rights. There’s a reason that Jewish organizations such as Jewish Voice For Peace and the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions are fighting for the rights of Palestinians. The reason is that the truth about the official Israeli narrative is coming out–too slowly, to be sure, but inevitably, given technological advances in communication.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/16/attacks-on-gaza-what-israel-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

Atheist Group Sues IRS Over Defiant Churches’ Tax Exempt Political Speech

How can it be that the IRS quickly discovers that my husband has mistakenly claimed the wrong number of exemptions on his W2 form, but completely fails to notice over 1,000 evangelical churches ostentatiously defying them in broad daylight? Last October, over 1,000 conservative churches across the US participated in October 7th’s “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” to endorse GOP former Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, and to protest a 1954 Internal Revenue Service regulation banning direct endorsements of political candidates from tax-exempt religious institutions — even though these churches are perfectly free to endorse whomever they want, as long as they stop claiming tax-exempt status.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/16/atheist-group-sues-irs-over-defiant-churches-tax-exempt-political-speech/

Targeting Civilians: Israel's Specialty

Bullies choose easy adversaries to pummel. Equal fights are shunned. It's the same in schoolyards or battlefields. America and Israel operate this way. They avoid foes able to give as much as they take. Rogue governments never say they're sorry.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33063.htm

Dissecting IDF Propaganda: The Numbers behind the rocket attacks
Israeli spokespeople frequently remind the world that a million Israeli citizens are within range of Gaza rockets, twelve thousand of which have been fired into Israel in the last twelve years, inflicting thousands of injuries and several dead.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33062.htm

Stop Pretending the US is an Uninvolved, Helpless Party in the Israeli Assault on Gaza
The Obama administration's unstinting financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel is a key enabling force in the conflict.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33061.htm

Why Fox News and the Wall Street Journal Reward Their Pundits for Being Wrong About Everything

Something is deeply amiss when completely misjudging the election can get you touted as a sharp thinker in the conservative media world.
http://www.alternet.org/media/why-fox-news-and-wall-street-journal-reward-their-pundits-being-wrong-about-everything

Poverty and the American two-party system

Nearly 50 million people are living in poverty in the United States. This was the dire news delivered eight days after the presidential election in a report from the US Census Bureau.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n17.shtml

How the Left Can Become a True Political Force to Be Reckoned With

We need to assert a new culture of organizing capable of meeting the demands it will place on us, and now is the time to begin.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/how-left-can-become-true-political-force-be-reckoned

10 Right-Wing Election Myths Debunked by Reality in 2012

The conservative information bubble has popped.

http://www.alternet.org/10-right-wing-election-myths-debunked-reality-2012

Living With the Contradictions: A Human Potential Visionary Talks About Our Infinite Potential and How We Also Block Progress

Joseph Chilton Pearce, one of the elders of the human potential movement, lives with the contradiction that everything is possible, yet nature's plan has gone awry.

http://www.alternet.org/culture/living-contradictions-human-potential-visionary-talks-about-our-infinite-potential-and-how

Benjamin Franklin’s New Desk: The 2012 Ed Likover Memorial Lecture