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America Discredited
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35732.htm

The banality of injustice for Bradley Manning
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-banality-of-injustice-for-bradley-manning/

The Bradley Manning Verdict Will Create Massive Chilling Effects For Whistleblowers And Journalists
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130731/02091524013/bradley-manning-verdict-will-create-massive-chilling-effects-whistleblowers-journalists.shtml

The Myth Of Socialism

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/01/the-myth-of-socialism-2/

JURIST releases inaugural podcast
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/07/jurist-releases-inaugural-podcast.php

As More Leaks Surface, Senators Seek to Curb NSA
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/221445-as-more-leaks-surface-senators-seek-to-curb-nsa/

Edward Snowden's Not the Story. The Fate of the Internet Is
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/28

The Business of Mass Incarceration
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/29

The NSA's Overreach And Lack Of Transparency Is Hurting American Businesses
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/09171423983/nsas-overreach-lack-transparency-is-hurting-american-businesses.shtml

3 Shocking Revelations from NSA's Most Terrifying Program Yet
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/3-shocking-revelations-nsas-most-terrifying-program-yet

America's Imperial Power Is Showing Real Signs of Decline
http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-imperial-power-showing-real-signs-decline

Revealed: NSA Program Collects 'Nearly Everything a User Does on the Internet'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/31-2

Building a Smarter, Stronger Democratic Movement in the Face of Opposition
http://www.alternet.org/activism/building-smarter-stronger-democratic-movement-face-opposition

What Passes for Education In America Is Often Just Indoctrination
http://www.alternet.org/education/educating-idiots

How The US Government Destroys The Lives Of Whistleblowers
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130729/17214923995/how-us-government-destroys-lives-whistleblowers.shtml

Religion Is The Biggest Bane For Any Democracy
http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2013/08/03/religion-is-the-biggest-bane-for-any-democracy/

Cracks widen in the armor of the surveillance state
http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=14458#.UfvXNFORQ7s

Over 100 global civil society groups release human rights principles to govern surveillance
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/07/31/over-100-global-civil-society-groups-release-human-rights-principles-to-gov

Palestinian NGOs reject negotiations with Israeli occupation
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/palestinian-ngos-reject-negotiations-with-israeli-occupation/

10 Things Your Org Can Do Right Now To Give the Progressive Movement a Chance to Win
http://www.alternet.org/visions/10-things-your-org-can-do-right-now-give-progressive-movement-chance-win

The military's new massacres in Egypt
http://socialistworker.org/2013/07/29/the-militarys-new-massacres

Israel Is An Apartheid State
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle020813.htm

FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323997004578641993388259674.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsFifth

The fields are ready but the workers are few -- the urgent need to witness against organized religion
http://new.exchristian.net/2013/07/the-fields-are-ready-but-workers-are.html

WHEN CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, #WENEEDADEMOCRACYMOVEMENTTOFIXTHISSHIT!

http://acronymtv.wordpress.com/2013/07/31/726/

The Lies Your Government Tells You About NSA Surveillance

The folks over at ProPublica have collected a series of flat-out lies by government officials concerning NSA snooping and put them all together in a short video.
It includes statements from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, NSA boss Keith Alexander, Senate Intelligence boss Senator Dianne Feinstein and President Barack Obama -- all stating false claims about NSA surveillance publicly. It then shows how those statements were false. We've said it before but as these very same officials now are trying to assure us there's nothing wrong with the program, given their past lies, how can we take them seriously?

03.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Israel Settlements, Attack on Syria, American Worker Activists, Assault on Unions, Defense Companies, Torture, Farmworkers, Drones Issue, Citizens' Rights, National Security, Chinese Hackers, more.

UN Report: Israel Must Immediately Dismantle Settlements or Face ICC

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/31-4

Israel Condemned for Cross-Border Attack on Syria
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/31-0

New Activists Fight for the Life of the American Worker

http://www.alternet.org/labor/new-activists-fight-life-american-worker

The Judicial Assault on Unions

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/judicial-assault-unions

7 Big Defense Companies with Transparency Problems
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/337-166/15806-focus-7-big-defense-companies-with-transparency-problems

Seeing Torture for What It Is
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-richard-l-killmer/seeing-torture-for-what-i_b_2581612.html

Care about Your Food? Then Care about Your Farmworkers Too
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/31-4

Drones Are A Local Issue
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson010213.htm

US Citizens Fear Federal Government Threatens Rights
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33799.htm

The NRA vs. America
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15829-the-nra-vs-america

The State of Israel: Unimportant To The NWO
http://www.countercurrents.org/fenley010213.htm

The True Cost of National Security
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33816.htm

Over the Past Four Months, Chinese Hackers Attacked NY Times
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/over-the-past-four-months-chinese-hackers-attacked-ny-times-342595.html

Writing the Rules for Domestic Drone Use
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2013/01/31/writing-the-rules-for-domestic-drone-use/

An Economic Alternative to Exploitative Free Market Capitalism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/01-3

Five Possibilities for the Next Great Progressive Push
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/01-9

The Dark Side of America
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Dark-Side-of-America-by-Timothy-Gatto-130202-329.html

UN Mission Condemns Israeli Settlements
http://www.opednews.com/articles/UN-Mission-Condemns-Israel-by-Stephen-Lendman-130202-288.html

US Military Struggling to Stop Suicide Epidemic Among War Veterans
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/323-95/15834-us-military-struggling-to-stop-suicide-epidemic-among-war-veterans-

18.Nov.2012 - Attacks on Gaza, Atheist Group Sues IRS, Targeting Civilians, Dissecting IDF Propaganda, Poverty & the 2-Party System, Right-Wing Myths Debunked, Ancient Aliens Debunked, Climate Change Opportunity, Fiscal Cliff Explained

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

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Ancient Aliens Debunked - Full movie

The Fiscal Cliff Explained

Code Pink: Stop the Drones Die-In

Bailout Of The People, By The People.

Gaza Battle Everyone's Battle: Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

Survivors of Israeli attack on Gaza says bombs continued to fall on the al-Shoja’iya neighborhood as civilians raised white flags

13.Nov.2012, Part 2 - Our Tattered Safety Net, Bailout Exposes Bankers' Greed, Progressive Economists Warn Obama, Israel Escalation in Gaza, New US Supreme Court Docket, Stop Spies from your Personal Information, Angry White Conservatives, Vatican Hates Gays, Are US Wars Lawful?

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Five Misconceptions about our Tattered Safety Net

Mitt Romney said he wasn't concerned about the very poor, because they have a safety net. This is typical of the widespread ignorance about inequality in our country. Struggling Americans want jobs, not handouts, and for the most part they've paid for their "safety net." The real problem is at the other end of the wealth gap.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12

Bailout 'Of the People, By the People' Exposes Bankers' Greed

A coalition of activists looking to build popular resistance to predatory lending kicked off a new initiative, The Rolling Jubilee, to challenge the status quo of debt collection by purchasing distressed debts and then—rather than collecting on it—wiping the slate clean.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-6

Progressive Economists Warn Obama Against Austerity Path

As the public dialogue leaves the 2012 election behind and the domestic policy conversation in the US converges towards a singular focus on the so-called "fiscal cliff,"New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman says that those proposing tax cuts for the wealthiest and steep cuts to key social programs like Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid shouldn't just be ignored, they shouldn't even be allowed a seat at the table.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-0

Israel Threatens Ground Troops, Escalation in Gaza after Weekend Strikes

Tensions between Israel and Gaza have intensified once again, as Israeli officials opened up the possibility of a ground troop invasion in the occupied territory.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-3

Student concerns and civil liberties in new U.S. Supreme Court docket
After a whirlwind year with decisions on health care, immigration and campaign finance, the October term for the U.S. Supreme Court is underway. New cases that particularly affect college students and civil liberties face oral argument on both sides following this election cycle. Below are several cases that fall into this category, which have either already been argued or will soon see their day in the highest court in the land. Other civil liberties cases are soon to appear, such as Hollingsworth v. Perry on the subject of same-sex marriage, but are awaiting petition approval. Information was found from both the Oyez Project at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and the SCOTUSblog.
http://www.redandblack.com/news/student-concerns-and-civil-liberties-in-new-u-s-supreme/article_264dec20-2c60-11e2-9bd9-001a4bcf6878.html

How to Stop Spies from Digging Up Your Personal Information

The goal of spying is to gain information and anyone can find plenty of personal information about you—or anyone, really—by knowing where to look. I spoke with security and investigations expert Brandon Gregg to find out the most common sources:

http://lifehacker.com/5959080/how-to-stop-spies-from-digging-up-your-personal-information

Dear Angry White Conservatives Mourning Romney's Loss: Chill Out

Dear conservatives: The right-wing media machine betrayed you.

http://www.alternet.org/media/dear-angry-white-conservatives-mourning-romneys-loss-chill-out

The Vatican Hates Gays

Its latest claim, that gay marriage causes polygamy, is as absurd as it is offensive. Where does it stop?

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/vatican-hates-gays

Danger Ahead: The Oligarchs Don't Understand That Economic Collapse Happens When They Get All the Money

The corporate masters seem to have forgotten they depend on working people for their own survival.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/danger-ahead-oligarchs-dont-understand-economic-collapse-happens-when-they-get-all-money

US Supreme Court to consider challenge to 1965 Voting Rights Act

The 1965 Voting Rights Act ranks among the most significant reforms that emerged from the upheavals of the civil rights period. The act overruled and abolished the myriad state laws designed to disenfranchise black voters in many Southern states, and established a strict regime of federal oversight for those areas of the country that had a history of discriminatory voting practices.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/vote-n12.shtml

U.S. Wars: Are They Lawful?
First, there are clear laws on the books that make U.S. wars unlawful, along with U.S. threats of war and U.S. propaganda for war. The laws are either forgotten, ignored, evaded, or cleverly reinterpreted to reverse their meaning. But they could be enforced someday.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Wars-Are-They-Lawful-by-David-Swanson-121112-877.html

NOW IS THE TIME! To Form an Independent Progressive Political Party
Numerous progressive authors and spokespersons have continually voiced their opinions about our "broken" and dysfunctional political system. And a few brave souls like Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) recently entered the fray and stuck their necks out to provide alternatives to our two party political system to represent elements of the progressive forces. Prior to this, Ralph Nader had been a hero to many of us with his challenges to the corporate duopoly. Yet, as I tried to describe in my recent blog, the two party duopoly system--Democrat and Republican--maintained total control and places the nation in imminent danger. Jill Dalton also describes the corrupt electoral voting system very well in her recent blog entitled "Does Voting Really Matter?" Ironically, our national antitrust laws are intended to prevent monopolies or duopolies in the corporate sector but our government does not demand it of themselves.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/NOW-IS-THE-TIME-To-Form-a-by-Dr-Tom-Baldwin-121111-628.html

Veterans Day and a Caution Against a Cult of the Military

A soldier in uniform can scarcely navigate an airport terminal without being accosted every 30ft with spontaneous expressions of appreciation. Because, as we are reminded again and again and again, by play-by-play announcers and presidents, men and women in the uniform are heroes defending our freedom.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14503-veterans-day-and-a-caution-against-a-cult-of-the-military

The Israeli Documentary Putting Military Rule in Palestine on Trial

Juan Cole: Real Petraeus Failure Was Counterinsurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan

Hastings: From Iraq War to Covert Drone Attacks: Examining Petraeus for Affair is Ironic

12.Nov.2012 - Iran Clashes with US Drone, Future of US Global Power, Empty Politics of Duopoly, Restoring US Democracy, US Violates Iran Agreement, Palestine Entangled, Occupy Sandy Helps Hurricane Victims, Taxing the Rich, Food Movement Full Speed Ahead, Voting Rights Act, Obama's Militancy, Americans Hate Their Own Government, Capitalism is Devouring American Culture, Record Number of Women Serve in Congress

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Getting the US elections out of proportion

On the eve of the US elections the Arab media has been full of analyses and forecasts about the consequences of the results and their potential impact on the turbulent Middle Eastern area with its conflicts, crises and revolutions.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/salam-al-kawakibi/getting-us-elections-out-of-proportion

Superstorm Sandy—a People's Shock?

Less than three days after Sandy made landfall on the East Coast of the United States, Iain Murray of the Competitive Enterprise Institute blamed New Yorkers’ resistance to big-box stores for the misery they were about to endure. Writing on Forbes.com, he explained that the city’s refusal to embrace Walmart will likely make the recovery much harder: “Mom-and-pop stores simply can’t do what big stores can in these circumstances,” he wrote.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/06-1

Iran confirms clash with US drone, claims it was in Iranian airspace (+video)
The US says the drone was flying in international airspace; last year, a CIA stealth drone was brought down deep inside Iran. The aerial confrontation comes as more nuclear talks loom.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/1109/Iran-confirms-clash-with-US-drone-claims-it-was-in-Iranian-airspace-video

Beyond Bayonets and Battleships:
Space Warfare and the Future of U.S. Global Power
Amid all the post-debate media chatter, however, not a single commentator seemed to have a clue when it came to the profound strategic changes encoded in the president’s sparse words. Yet for the past four years, working in silence and secrecy, the Obama administration has presided over a technological revolution in defense planning, moving the nation far beyond bayonets and battleships to cyberwarfare and the full-scale weaponization of space. In the face of waning economic influence, this bold new breakthrough in what’s called “information warfare” may prove significantly responsible should U.S. global dominion somehow continue far into the twenty-first century.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32990.htm

US Elections: The Empty Politics of Duopoly
In the nation that gave birth to the marketing concept of branding, it is to be assumed that politicians would eventually adopt the same techniques used to promote consumer products – enter Obama. After eight years under the Bush administration, America desperately needed change. Instead of any meaningful structural reform, America ushered in a global super star whose charm and charisma not only resuscitated American prestige, but also masked the continued dominance of deregulators, financiers, and war-profiteers. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32989.htm

Restoring Democracy In The United States
The Occupy Wall Street movement's slogan, “We are the 99%”, points to the fact that a very small power elite, perhaps only 1% of the population, has a hugely disproportionate amount of economic and political power in the United States. In this sense, the United States is no longer a democracy, since neither the economic system nor the government serve the will and needs of the people.
http://www.countercurrents.org/avery101112.htm

US Violates Agreement; Punishes Iran
In its latest act of blatant hypocrisy, the Obama administration has sanctioned Iran over internet and media censorship . The Administration's pretentious concern for the Iranian peoples' welfare is all the more offensive in light of the harsh, illegal, and life-threatening sanctions imposed on that nation, aptly described byThe New England Journal of Medicine as a “ war against public health ” ( Gowans ).
http://www.countercurrents.org/ulrich101112.htm

Palestine Entangled: The Politics of Money
Working under the umbrella of Viva Palestina Malaysia (VPM), the group shows solidarity through empowerment projects: interest free loans for micro projects, providing employment for women, supplying thousands of solar lamps aimed at ending the persistent darkness for many families, and more.
http://www.countercurrents.org/baroud101112.htm



Occupy Sandy Offers Aid to Hurricane Victims

he sanctuary at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew on Clinton Avenue is brimming with donated clothes, children's books and diapers. The church's heavy wooden doors are open and the air inside is cool. Volunteers in wool hats and down jackets flit about, chatting with each other as they assemble care packages with toothbrushes and toothpaste and load cars with cleaning supplies and bottled water to deliver to neighborhoods devastated by Hurricane Sandy.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/440-occupy/14465-occupy-sandy-offers-aid-to-hurricane-victims

The Next Game of Economic Chicken: Taxing the Rich

ith the election behind us I had hoped we'd get beyond games of chicken. No such luck.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14468-the-next-game-of-economic-chicken-taxing-the-rich

Full Speed Ahead for Food Movement, Despite GMO-Labeling Loss

upporters of California's Proposition 37 are not giving up the fight after Tuesday's rejection. In fact, they're saying that the organizing around the initiative helped forge a diffuse group of individuals interested in healthy food into a powerful, organized movement.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/14456-full-speed-ahead-for-food-movement-despite-gmo-labeling-loss

Will Obama Fulfill His 2007 Promise to Label GMOs?

ith the passing of election day 2012, massive awareness was spread throughout the country thanks to the California GMO labeling bill known as Proposition 37. While the bill did not passthrough California legislation due to the many dirty tactics employed by the 'No on 37' campaign such as falsely using FDA backing and even sending out fake voting flyers, it has truly invigorated the discussion on proper GMO labeling. Labeling that was promised back in 2007 by the newly re-elected Barack Obama.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/14462-focus-will-obama-fulfill-his-2007-promise-to-label-gmos

Supreme Court to Review Key Section of Voting Rights Act

he Supreme Court said Friday it will review a key provision of the Voting Rights Act that has been the federal government's most forceful tool in protecting minority rights at the polls. The decision ensures that race and civil rights will be the hallmark of the current Supreme Court term.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/316-20/14454-supreme-court-to-review-key-section-of-voting-rights-act

Obama's Post-Election Militancy
Obama didn't miss a beat. He picked up where he left off. He's America's most belligerent leader. He's waging multiple direct and proxy wars abroad and at home by other means.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-Post-Election-Mili-by-Stephen-Lendman-121110-991.html

Obama Won, But He Still Has to Contend with Millions of Americans Taught to Hate Their Own Government

It's no small obstacle that tens of millions of voters think government is the problem.

http://www.alternet.org/obama-won-he-still-has-contend-millions-americans-taught-hate-their-own-government

If We Call Obama "Progressive," Are We Ignoring His Record?

Broadcaster Tavis Smiley and professor and activist Dr. Cornel West discuss President Obama’s re-election, and what kind of president we have on our hands.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/if-we-call-obama-progressive-are-we-ignoring-his-record

How America Is Turning into a 3rd World Nation in 4 Easy Steps

It starts with destroying our manufacturing base.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/how-america-turning-3rd-world-nation-4-easy-steps

How Raw Capitalism Is Devouring American Culture

The publishing industry is teetering again as Random House and Penguin plan to merge. It's time for a government policy to protect the arts

http://www.alternet.org/culture/how-raw-capitalism-devouring-american-culture

Wall Street's Plan to Push Obama to Betray Those Who Elected Him
Through its lobbying group Third Way and media mouthpieces, Wall Street is determined to destroy the social safety net.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wall-streets-plan-push-obama-betray-those-who-elected-him

Christian Teacher Burned Crosses onto Students' Arms and Pushed Creationism -- Now He's Claims His "Free Speech" Was Violated?

A teacher who allegedly burned students and contested validity of evolutionary theory filed a lawsuit charging that his right to free speech and academic freedom had been violated.

http://www.alternet.org/christian-teacher-burned-crosses-students-arms-and-pushed-creationism-now-hes-claims-his-free-speech

Record Number Of Women Will Serve In Congress

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/11/record-women-congress.php

4 out of 5 House "Flat Earthers" Get the Boot

Climate-lovers are happy about some of the hawks elected on Tuesday. But they're also cheering the unceremonious dismissal of several congressional climate villains. That includes four of the lawmakers that the League of Conservation Voters deemed the"Flat Earth Five" and spent $3 million to unseat

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/11/4-out-5-house-flat-earthers-get-boot

Who's helping, who's not

Hint: FEMA is not

The Red Cross is NOT helping

Just like after 9/11 and Katrina

What is the government good for?

Not a whole lot it turns out

She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for!

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy

We Got This (Occupy Sandy)

After the 2012 Election: WINEP Discusses Implications for U.S. Middle East Policy

08.Nov.2012 - Occupy Freedom and Vigilance, Impressions of Gaza, Monsanto Tricked Voters? Obama's Next Economy, Don't Trust Fox News! Climate Change Legacy, Dissatisfied Electorate, Trial for Israel, Why Bankers Rule the World, Sandy Victims Waiting for Help, Super-Earth Discovered, IRS Not Enforcing Rules on Churches, Republicans Out of Step, Bradley Manning Admits to Leaking Info

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Occupy Freedom And Vigilance (post-Sandy)
Is freedom just a matter of bigger cages and longer chains? Is it merely a commodity sold to the highest bidder? Must the majority of us sit by and drool while freedom fries on the grill of capitalist avarice?
http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz081112.htm

To Humiliate And Degrade: Impressions Of Gaza
Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment, with no purpose other than to humiliate and degrade, and with the further goal of ensuring that Palestinian hopes for a decent future will be crushed and that the overwhelming global support for a diplomatic settlement that will grant these rights will be nullified.
http://www.countercurrents.org/chomsky081112.htm
Obama, Climate, History

Now it's time for us in the climate and progressive movements to do our job as citizens and demand that he do the same on climate. It's time, long past time, for Barack Obama to break his own self-imposed silence on climate.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/14427-obama-climate-history

What the 2012 Election Was ... and Wasn't
Most of the commentary about Obama's re-election and the defeat of some of the most reactionary GOP incumbents and candidates such as Rep. Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock has been about how the GOP is demographically and ideologically far too right wing for the majority in the electorate.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/What-the-2012-Election-Was-by-Dennis-Loo-121108-568.html

Obama Wins: So Christians, Will It Be More Hate or Jesus?
Since I was one of the minor nepotistic sidekick architects of the rise of the religious right in the 1970s-80s along with my late evangelist father Francis Schaeffer (before I changed my mind and fled as I describe in my book Crazy For God) maybe I'm the right person to ask: What is the future of a politicized "Christianity" deeply infected by the politics of hate, intolerance, homophobia, xenophobia, victimhood, racism and willful delusion? Bluntly -- will it be Fox News or Jesus?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Wins-So-Christians-by-Frank-Schaeffer-121108-92.html

Did Monsanto Trick California Voters?
Monsanto and their peeps didn't just spend $46 million promoting their opinion. They also lied and got away with it.

http://www.alternet.org/food/did-monsanto-trick-california-voters

Obama's Next Economy

hen the applause among Democrats and recriminations among Republicans begin to quiet down - probably within the next few days - the President will have to make some big decisions. The biggest is on the economy.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/14430-focus-obamas-next-economy

How Did Science, Medicine, and the Environment Do in the Elections?

Your House of Representatives now has twice as many physicists

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/11/science_environment_medical_election_2012_what_the_votes_mean_for_the_future.html?wpisrc=newsletter_tis

Republicans: Don’t Trust Fox News!

How the news network failed the GOP.http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/how_fox_news_failed_the_republican_party_in_the_2012_election.html?wpisrc=newsletter_tis

Now the Work of Movements Begins

The election is over, and President Barack Obama will continue as the 44th president of the United States. There will be much attention paid by the pundit class to the mechanics of the campaigns, to the techniques of microtargeting potential voters, the effectiveness of get-out-the-vote efforts. The media analysts will fill the hours on the cable news networks, proffering post-election chestnuts about the accuracy of polls, or about either candidate’s success with one demographic or another. Missed by the mainstream media, but churning at the heart of our democracy, are social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been re-elected.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/08-9

Climate Change, Not the National Debt, Is the Legacy We Should Care About

The political leadership, including the Washington press corps and punditry, were already intently ignoring the economic downturn that is still wreaking havoc on the lives of tens of millions of people across the country. Now, in the wake of the destruction from Hurricane Sandy, they will intensify their efforts to ignore global warming. After all, they want the country to focus on the debt – an issue that no one other than the elites views as a problem.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/08-7

Five Things to Watch for in Obama’s Second Term

Okay, folks. Elections are exciting, but now the really hard work begins. We need to turn victories won into something real that works for people and the planet. With a divided Congress, we’re unlikely to see big legislative leaps. Rather, we will see complicated bills,. And we’ll see lots of new rules in the executive branch. For both, the devil is in the details. And the angels, too.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/08-2

The disillusioned and dissatisfied electorate

An initial analysis of the results of Tuesday’s presidential election reveals one overriding element that is little noted in the American media: the staggering decline in voter turnout, and in particular the vote for President Barack Obama. More than anything else, the vote is the expression of an electorate that is disillusioned and increasingly alienated from the entire two-party political system.

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n08.shtml

No Show Trial for Israel
Israel squirms and wriggles like a worm on a fishhook over the Turkish trial into the deaths of nine unarmed humanitarian aid volunteers on board a ship bound for Gaza.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32977.htm

It’s the Interest, Stupid! Why Bankers Rule the World
In the 2012 edition of Occupy Money released last week, Professor Margrit Kennedy writes that a stunning 35% to 40% of everything we buy goes to interest. This interest goes to bankers, financiers, and bondholders, who take a 35% to 40% cut of our GDP. That helps explain how wealth is systematically transferred from Main Street to Wall Street. The rich get progressively richer at the expense of the poor, not just because of “Wall Street greed” but because of the inexorable mathematics of our private banking system.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32975.htm

Why are Sandy victims waiting for help?
Danny Katch describes the failure of official relief operations following Hurricane Sandy--and the grassroots infrastructure that has sprung up to try to fill the vacuum.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/08/why-are-sandy-victims-waiting

SUPER-EARTH DISCOVERED IN STAR'S HABITABLE ZONE

The exoplanet is one of six believed to be orbiting a dwarf star 42 light-years from Earth.

http://news.discovery.com/space/habitable-zone-exoplanet-super-earth-121107.html#mkcpgn=emnws1

IRS Not Enforcing Rules on Churches and Politics

The IRS monitors religious and other nonprofits on everything from salaries to spending, and that oversight continues. However, Russell Renwicks, a manager in the IRS Mid-Atlantic region, recently said the agency had suspended audits of churches suspected of breaching federal restrictions on political activity. A 2009 federal court ruling required the IRS to clarify which high-ranking official could authorize audits over the tax code's political rules. The IRS has yet to do so.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/irs-enforcing-rules-churches-politics-17633236#.UJyMS2_A-Sp

IRRELEVANT: Republicans Increasingly Out Of Step With Modern America
Much will be made of this historic election; debates will be had, dissections of what worked or didn’t will occur; some will ask why Romney lost, others, why Obama won, and ultimately all involved will circle with the same question: “Can Republicans be relevant in the 21st century.”
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/07/irrelevant-republicans-increasingly-out-of-step-with-modern-america/

Bradley Manning Willing To Admit To Leaking Info To Wikileaks, Hoping For More Limited Trial

As the Bradley Manning court martial trial moves forward, Manning has apparently submitted a plea notice more or less looking to speed up the process by effectively admitting to the fact that he leaked the info to Wikileaks, without pleading "guilty" to any of the charges. The idea appears to be a procedural move to try to take a shortcut to focusing on some lesser charges by admitting some factual things, and leaving some of the most serious charges off the table. This isn't a "plea bargain" in which both sides make an agreement -- but rather an attempt to effectively say "here's what we agree to, without having to go through the effort of proving it, and then let's focus on these lesser charges." The judge does not need to accept this offer, however.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121107/15423120965/bradley-manning-willing-to-admit-to-leaking-info-to-wikileaks-hoping-more-limited-trial.shtml

EU Finally Realizes The Public Is Watching CETA: Softens Criminal Provisions For Copyright Infringement

Last month, through all of the secrecy shrouding the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA), it was revealed that the treaty called for the same criminal copyright sanctions that European citizens widely rejected when those same sanctions showed up in ACTA.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121106/10433820949/eu-finally-realizes-public-is-watching-ceta-softens-criminal-provisions-copyright-infringement.shtml

Conservatives Living In A Bubble – Why The Right Was Surprised They Lost

With the President’s victory, I, nor the rest of the world, were surprised with the result. We were relieved, but not surprised. Everyone knew Obama was likely to win, we were just concerned that the right’s barely concealed voter suppression efforts would work. But the right was shocked and horrified. Karl Rove made an ass of himself on national TV by demanding that it wasn’t over when Ohio clearly went for Obama.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/11/07/the-right-was-surprised-they-lost/

How to Fix Health Care in the US

Wozniak: Web crackdown coming, freedom failing

BILL MAHER ON THE ELECTION: AMERICA WINS, COMEDY LOSES


CIA Allegedly Using Drug Money to Overthrow Ecuador President Rafael Correa
 

Rachel Maddow Debunks GOP Myths, Tells Republicans to "Wake Up!"

Jeremy Scahill and Dennis Kucinich: In Obama’s 2nd Term, Will Dems Challenge U.S. Drones, Killings?

Bradley Manning Offers to Plead Guilty to WikiLeaks Charges if Gov’t Drops Espionage, Enemy Case

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John Nichols: Overwhelming Obama Victory Not Just a Mandate for the President, but for Progressives

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Puerto Rico Referendum Approves U.S. Statehood for 1st Time, But Results Show Divided Views

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Juan González: Critical Role in Obama’s Re-Election Heralds New Era of Decisive Latino Vote in U.S.

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