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Demand an End to Mass Surveillance: Support the People’s Principles

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/27-5

Bernie Sanders: To Defeat Oligarchy, I Would Run for President

Latest interview with senator from Vermont shows that his reluctance to run would be outweighed by the scale of unaddressed crises and ignored issues

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/27-4

Anti-Drone Movement Speaks: 'End the Secrecy, No to Kill List'
'After ten years of using drones it is about time that American citizens demand accountability from our government'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-4

Resetting the Trillion-Dollar Student-Loan Debt Problem
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/higher-education/report/2013/11/21/79821/resetting-the-trillion-dollar-student-loan-debt-problem/

Warrantless Surveillance Continues to Cause Fallout
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/us/warrantless-surveillance-continues-to-cause-fallout.html?src=recg&_r=1&

New Report Shows Pentagon Has Lost Track Of More Than $8.5 Trillion In Taxpayer Money Since 1996
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/new-report-shows-pentagon-has-lost-track-over-85-trillion-taxpayer-money-1996#

Corporate Espionage Undermines Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/26-7

The Government's Secret Plan to Shut Off Cellphones and the Internet, Explained
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/11/internet-phone-kill-switch-explained

IRS sets its sights on political 'dark money'
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/11/27/13819/irs-sets-its-sights-political-dark-money

How To Protect Humanity From Perpetual Animosity And Wars?http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja171113.htm

Are food and water really the priority in a humanitarian crisis?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Security-Watch/Reality-Check/2013/1121/Are-food-and-water-really-the-priority-in-a-humanitarian-crisis-video

The Logic Behind Mass Spying: Empire and Cyber Imperialism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36888.htm

Interview Your Political Candidates - Ask Politicians About Atheism, Secularism
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessatheistpolitics/a/Interview-Political-Candidates.htm?nl=1

Old-Fashioned Political Activism Doesn't Work
http://www.countercurrents.org/spritzler151113.htm

Christian Militarism and Sacred Violence
http://atheism.about.com/od/christianityviolence/a/Christian-Militarism-Sacred-Violence.htm?nl=1

Court Orders DHS to Release "Internet Kill Switch" Plans
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/15-3

WikiLeaks and the Drone Strike Transparency Bill
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/15-5

Abusing The Surveillance Scandal To Punish Internet Freedom Even More
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131114/17382925250/abusing-surveillance-scandal-to-punish-internet-freedom-even-more.shtml

Why Does Anyone Trust the National-Security State?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36882.htm

Our Schools Are Not For Sale

Our Schools Are Not For Sale from Media Mobilizing Project TV on Vimeo.

Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/11/15

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: $22 Minimum Wage, Iraq Debacle, Peace to Palestine, Dissent in Theory, NATO Cyber Warfare, Banking System, US Invasion a Crime, Warrantless GPS, Pentagon Drone Program, Israel a Racist State, Religion Destroying the World, Capitalism's Moral Blinders, 2.8 Billion People Face Water Shortage, more.

Elizabeth Warren: Fair Minimum Wage Would Be $22 An Hour
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/money/jobs-and-careers/elizabeth-warren-fair-minimum-wage-would-be-22-hour

1 Million Civilians Dead, 37,000 American Soldiers Dead or Injured -- And We've Learned Nothing from Iraq Debacle
http://www.alternet.org/1-million-civilians-dead-37000-american-soldiers-dead-or-injured-and-weve-learned-nothing-iraq

Obama won’t bring peace to Palestine
http://electronicintifada.net/content/obama-wont-bring-peace-palestine/12292

Dissent in Theory and Practice: Mass Democracy Works Against Dissent, Individuals
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessliberals/a/FearConform.htm?nl=1

NATO Rules For Cyber Warfare Names Civilian Hacktivists “Legitimate Targets”
http://occupycorporatism.com/nato-rules-for-cyber-warfare-names-civilian-hacktivists-legitimate-targets/

Why The Banking System Would Make Lenin Proud
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/03/why-banking-system-would-make-lenin.html

The US Invasion of Iraq Was a Crime and Its Perpetrators Are Murderers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/19-10

Obama administration believes no warrant is needed for authorities to use GPS tracking on vehicles
http://www.slashgear.com/obama-administration-believes-no-warrant-is-needed-for-authorities-to-use-gps-tracking-on-vehicles-19274560/

CIA Must Hand Over Drone Program to Pentagon: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
http://www.heavy.com/tech/2013/03/cia-drone-pentagon-dod-obama/

The laws that enshrine Israel as a racist state
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/the-laws-that-enshrine-israel-as-a-racist-state/

10 Years Later And I'm Still Protesting War
http://www.opednews.com/articles/10-Years-Later-And-I-m-Sti-by-Ann-Wright-130319-419.html

'Simply Unacceptable': US Gets D+ for Infrastructure
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/19-4

Guerrilla research exposes sponsors of Israeli apartheid
http://electronicintifada.net/content/guerrilla-research-exposes-sponsors-israeli-apartheid/12291

Religion- Helping the World or Destroying It?

http://new.exchristian.net/2013/03/religion-helping-world-or-destroying-it.html

The people who need to wake up the most in the US
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-people-who-need-to-wak-by-Rob-Kall-130321-507.html

'Forever'? Palestinians Decry 'Endless' US Support of Israel
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/20-3

Combating US Capitalism's Moral Blinders
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/20

Some Extremely Effective Grassroots Protest Methods and Exactly Why They Work
http://freethoughtblogs.com/crommunist/2013/03/20/some-extremely-effective-grassroots-protest-methods-exactly-why-they-work/

10th Anniversary Of US Iraq Invasion: 2.7 Million Iraqi Deaths
http://www.countercurrents.org/polya200313.htm

2.8 Billion People Face Water Shortage

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc200313A.htm

Sexual Violence Victims Say Military Justice System Is 'Broken'
http://www.npr.org/2013/03/21/174840895/sexual-violence-victims-say-military-justice-system-is-broken?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20130321

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30.Dec.2012 - Threat to Occupiers, Warrantless Wiretapping, Environmental Justice, West Unleashing Terrorism Against Syria, Millennial Delusions, Anti-Government Propaganda, Times Erases Israel's Crimes, Vitamin Water Deception, War Made Easy, US Became an Orwellian State, Important Bills Blocked by GOP, Social Costs of Austerity, China Prison Labor, more.

PRESIDENT OBAMA: THIS IS NO TIME “FOR A POLITICALLY SELF-INFLICTED WOUND TO OUR ECONOMY”


FBI Ignored Deadly Threat to Occupiers: US Intelligence Machine Instead Plotted with Bankers to Attack Protest Movement

 New documents obtained from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security by the Partnership for Civil Justice and released this past week show that the FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement agencies began a campaign of monitoring, spying and disrupting the Occupy Movement at least two months before the first occupation actions began in late September 2011.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/FBI-Ignored-Deadly-Threat-by-Dave-Lindorff-121227-423.html

Senate Reauthorizes Warrantless Wiretapping

After Defeating Moderate Reforms, Senate Extends Unchecked Surveillance Powers for Five Years

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/28-0

Deprogramming Progressives

 little bit of economics can be a truly terrible thing, for the introductory classes in micro and macro-economics are the most dogmatic and myth-filled part of the neoliberal curriculum. Dogmas that have been falsified for 75 years (such as austerity) are taught as revealed truth. The poor indoctrinated student is then launched into the world "knowing" that austerity is the answer and that mass unemployment and prolonged recessions are small prices to be paid (by others) to achieve the holy grail of a balanced budget. Students are taught that national budgets are really just like household budgets.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15270-focus-deprogramming-progressives

Matt Damon laments U.S. politics: ‘We’re genuinely f*cked’ on long-term issues

Hollywood star Matt Damon recently told Playboy he has little hope that Washington can address long-term environmental issues like using hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/28/matt-damon-laments-u-s-politics-were-genuinely-fcked-on-long-term-issues/

Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

America's "Founding Fathers" Detested the Paradise of Delightful Debauchery and Freedom That Was 18th Century America

There was a lot of fun to be had in early America, before the prudish patrician types did everything they could to stamp it out.

http://www.alternet.org/books/americas-founding-fathers-detested-paradise-delightful-debauchery-and-freedom-was-18th-century

West unleashing terrorism against Syria: Mark Glenn

2012 Apocalypse, the Rapture and Other Millennial Delusions

I once had a noted New Age peace activist tell me that, because all spiritual practice has ripple effects outward, “my cat is a contemplative contributor to the universe.”

http://www.alternet.org/belief/2012-apocalypse-rapture-and-other-millennial-delusions

FBI Violated Constitution by Branding Occupy a Terrorist Threat

Power of Anti-Government Propaganda

Exclusive: By many standards, President Obama has done a remarkable job, steering the U.S. and the world away from a global depression and enacting reforms to benefit millions of Americans. But he has fought against a powerful dynamic of modern U.S. politics, a hatred of the federal government, says Robert Parry.

http://consortiumnews.com/2012/11/06/power-of-anti-government-propaganda/

How The New York Times erases Israel’s crimes

According to The New York Times, there is no siege of Gaza, no occupation of the West Bank, and never was there a Nakba (the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine). Three recent articles erase these key Israeli crimes from the historical record.

http://electronicintifada.net/content/how-new-york-times-erases-israels-crimes/12042

The Vitamin Water Deception

17 Solutions for a Better America in 2013

Don't most Americans believe and want strong law enforcement against corporate crime and fraud and abuses against consumers, taxpayers, the environment and workers? The first step is telling your member of Congress to toughen the weak laws and beef up the law enforcement budgets which will pay for themselves many, many times over in deterrence, damage prevention to innocent people, and fines.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15286-focus-17-solutions-for-a-better-america-in-2013

War Made Easy

Oliver Stone: 'US Has Become An Orwellian State'


How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy

t was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall - so mystifying at the time - was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves -was coordinated with the big banks themselves.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/15285-focus-how-the-fbi-coordinated-the-crackdown-on-occupy

What Could Have Been: The Most Important Bills Blocked by Republicans in 2012

The bills we could have passed if it wasn't for GOP obstructionism -- from a minimum wage increase to the Buffett Rule.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/what-could-have-been-most-important-bills-blocked-republicans-2012

Renewing Warrantless Eavesdropping

To this day, many people identify mid-2008 as the time they realized what type of politician Barack Obama actually is. Six months before, when seeking the Democratic nomination, then-Sen. Obamaunambiguously vowed that he would filibuster "any bill" that retroactively immunized the telecom industry for having participated in the illegal Bush NSA warrantless eavesdropping program.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15275-renewing-warrantless-eavesdropping

The Social Costs of the Austerity Agenda

s we begin what appears to be the final long, slooooowwww roll down the Gentle Fiscal Incline, it is becoming clear that, among our governing elites, and among the courtier press that serves their interests, it is taken as a given that some sort of austerity agenda, which will not materially affect any of their lives, is going to be dropped on the rest of us, probably for our own good, as that good is defined from some tony little bistro in Georgetown, or from the parlor at Ben and Sally's.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15274-the-social-costs-of-the-austerity-agenda

Made in China - By prison labor

"A State Secret"

Congress Extends Surveillance Power

ongress approved a measure Friday that would renew expansive U.S. surveillance authority for five more years, rejecting objections from senators who are concerned the legislation does not adequately protect Americans' privacy.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/311-15/15289-congress-extends-surveillance-power

DOCUMENTARY OF THE DAY:

The Ka-Ching Dynasty

23.Dec.2012 - Giving Up Christmas, Climate is an Economic Problem, Preventing Caucasus Disaster, Drugs and Money Laundering, Democrats Slam NRA, Unemployment Down, America is More Unequal Than Most, All-American Torture Nightmare, Bible Makes Violent Americans? and much more.

How I Gave Up Christmas and Found Serenity

Give Christmas the heave ho-ho!

http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-i-gave-christmas-and-found-serenity

Climate Change Is Not Just an Environmental Problem -- It's an Economic One

The world's economy revolves around carbon-spewing technologies. And until those controlling the resources figure out how to make money in changing, there will be no serious change.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/climate-change-not-just-environmental-problem-its-economic-one

2013 Could Be One Of The Warmest Years
How will by the days and nights of 2013? Scientists have an answer. The year will be one of the warmest years on record. In its annual forecast for the coming year, the Met Office predicts that globally, 2013 will be 0.57C above long-term average.
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc221212B.htm

Preventing The Coming U.S. Disaster In The Caucasus
The United States is risking a disastrous renewal of war in the Caucasus between Armenians and Azeris over the breakaway Armenian-populated Republic of Mountainous Karabagh (RMK, or Artsakh in ancient Armenian).
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyajian221212.htm

Guns, drugs, and money laundering

Former U.S. Attorney for Fort Smith-based Western District of Arkansas (Mena)

Democrats Slam NRA's Response To School Shooting
The nation's largest gun owners group had said little in the immediate aftermath of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. But the National Rifle Association's executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre, broke that silence Friday with a call to place armed guards at all of the nation's schools.

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/22/167833089/democrats-slam-nras-response-to-school-shooting

NRA’s LaPierre suggests a solution for 1% of gun deaths

LaPierre starting talking about 20 minutes after the announced starting time. The media was informed that any Q & A would have to wait until Monday at the earliest. Here’s an often-paraphrased, compressed version of what was said. The NRA joined the nation in the horror, outrage, grief and earnest prayer for the fatalities in Newtown. LaPierre said that “Some have tried to exploit the tragedy for political gain.” That’s an apparent reference to those who have introduced responsible gun control legislation.

http://www.politicususa.com/nras-lapierre-suggest-solution-1-gun-deaths.html

The search for water in our solar system and beyond

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a long-term, stable supply of liquid water – essential for the formation and evolution of all organic life. But this doesn’t mean there aren’t other pockets of water elsewhere in our solar system (and around other stars).http://machineslikeus.com/news/search-water-our-solar-system-and-beyond

Unemployment down: which states are doing better than others
Unemployment rates fell in 45 states in November, but the strength of the job market varies widely by region, according to US data. Local resources and housing markets are among the reasons.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/1221/Unemployment-down-which-states-are-doing-better-than-others

Tired Of The Games? Tell Congress To Get Its Priorities Straight

With a little more than a week to go before the country reaches the fiscal cliff, House GOP leadership brought forward an ill-conceived, unbalanced and partisan plan this week only to watch even it fall apart Thursday night.  The so-called “Plan B” would have caused taxes to increase on the middle class and lower income families, placing more of the burden for deficit reduction on those who can least afford it, while giving more special tax breaks (like the estate tax) to the wealthiest households.  Prior to that, House Republicans narrowly passed an NEA-opposed bill that would cut more spending for education and other essential programs and slash critical services for those most in need, including preventing as many as 280,000 low-income children from receiving school meals.  Read NEA’s letter opposing both bills and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel’s response to the House action. 

http://thepoliticsofjamiesanderson.blogspot.com/2012/12/tired-of-games-tell-congress-to-get-its.html

Why America Is More Unequal Than Most

merica has a higher degree of income inequality than almost any other developed country. Only three of the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development rank higher - Chile, Mexico and Turkey.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/15154-why-america-is-more-unequal-than-most

Israeli Parliament Bans Arab MP From Running for Reelection
Today’s only successful ban came against Arab MP Haneen Zoabi, who was on the Mavi Marmara aid ship the Israeli Navy attacked. The right-wing MPs on the committee argued that this amounted to “supporting terrorism” with Likud MP Danny Danon arguing that “Democracy must have its limits” and Zoabi’s place is prison.
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/israeli-parliament-bans-arab-mp-from-running-for-reelection/

Torture: An All-American Nightmare

There's one particular nightmare that Americans need to face: in the first decade of the 21st century we tortured people as national policy. One day, we're going to have to confront the reality of what that meant, of what effect it had on its victims and on us, too, we who condoned, supported, or at least allowed it to happen, either passively or with guilty (or guiltless) gusto.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15156-torture-an-all-american-nightmare

Politicians Decry Fake Torture, Cover Up Real Torture

Even if a lifetime of exposure to the continuous hypocrisy of politicians has turned many of us into jaded, cynical shells of human beings reduced to selecting "None of the Above" when voting, every so often something comes along that breaks through our hardened shells... and carves another slice off our dwindling faith in humanity. This is one of those moments.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121220/15133521458/politicians-decry-fake-torture-cover-up-real-torture.shtml

NRA: To Protect The 2nd Amendment, We Must Trample The 1st and 4th Amendments

As predicted, one element of the NRA's "big announcement" today was to lash out andblame media, music and movies for violence. Most news stories are focusing on the wacky idea of putting armed guards in every school (and to do so in the next few weeks as well) and creating a database of the mentally ill, but the lashing out at video games and movies, despite no evidence that they actually lead to violence, seems equally ridiculous. 

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121221/10123121471/nra-to-protect-2nd-amendment-we-must-trample-1st-4th-amendments.shtml

Does the Bible Make Americans More Violent?

Americans can be notoriously prudish about sex, yet our entertainments are stuffed with violent acts. Could this go all the way back to the Bible?

http://www.alternet.org/does-bible-make-americans-more-violent

Survivors of Israeli offensive on Gaza give heartbreaking testimonies in new video

21.Dec.2012 - Gun Violence, Secret Detentions, Violations of Minorities, Global Religious Landscape, NYSE Being Bought, Vaccine Fraud, Gun Sales Spike, Israel Lobby, US Drone Strikes, Ecosystems in Upheaval, Gun Trade Profit, Targeting of Journalists, more

President Obama establishes plan to curb gun violence
In a Dec. 19 press conference, the president announced a federal task force, headed by Vice President Joe Biden, in response to the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary and said Congress should vote on measures banning the sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as passing a measure to require background checks for any gun sale. 

http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/president-obama-establishes-plan-curb-gun-violence/2012-12-19

Call To Release Report On CIA’s Secret Detention And Interrogation
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc201212A.htm

Human Rights Violations Of Minorities: Effects And Repercussions
Human rights is a concept which is founded on the democratic norms. Last many decades, after the coming into being of United Nations in particular, the concept of human rights has been picking up in a strong way. The global community through UN has tried to evolve the norms for these rights for all the people of the world.
http://www.countercurrents.org/puniyani201212.htm

The Global Religious Landscape
A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World’s Major Religious Groups as of 2010http://www.pewforum.org/global-religious-landscape-exec.aspx

NYSE Being Bought For $8.2B By Atlanta-Based IntercontinentalExchange
In matching press releases, they say the sale "combines two leading exchange groups to create a premier global exchange operator diversified across markets including agricultural and energy commodities, credit derivatives, equities and equity derivatives, foreign exchange and interest rates."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/20/167694219/nyse-being-bought-for-8-2b-by-atlanta-based-intercontinentalexchange 

The Great Vaccine Fraud

Gun Sales Spike After Newtown Tragedy

The Paranoid Style of the Israel Lobby
The anti-Hagel campaign reveals the psychopathology of radical Zionism
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/12/18/the-paranoid-style-of-the-israel-lobby/

Obama Versus the Israel Lobby?

Jim Lobe reports that senior White House officials have leaked information that Chuck Hagel “was likely” to be the Obama Administration’s nominee for Secretary of Defense when Leon Panetta leaves. What’s not surprising is that the neocons have gone into full-on attack mode, including charges of anti-Semitism. Writing in the Wall StreetJournal, Bret Stephens complains because Hagel once said “the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people [in Congress].”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33390.htm

What If All the World’s Debt Just Went Away

How would the world be different?  What would become possible for you personally in your life?  How would nations and corporations invest our newfound wealth differently if we all started from a clean slate?  Problems like global warming and extreme poverty would instantly become financial drops in the bucket—easily tackled with fair contracts and forward-looking investments.  The structural debts of entrenched subsidies, invested capital, tax havens, and trade agreements that keep them from being addressed would simply no longer exist.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/20-1

US Drone Strike Has Revealed A Disturbing Trend

Known as the "double tap," the tactic involves bombing a target multiple times in relatively quick succession, meaning that the second strike often hits first responders. 

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33394.htm

Fight for GMO Labeling Goes On in New Mexico

The fight for mandatory labeling of GMO's in California may have suffered a difficult blow in California this November, but the fight goes on across the country, particularly this week in New Mexico, where one senator just filed an amendment that would require the labeling of all genetically engineered food and feed in the state.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/20-2

Report: Ecosystems in Upheaval, Biodiversity in Collapse

The report (pdf), led by the US Geological Survey, the National Wildlife Federation and Arizona State University, foresees a global loss of biodiversity and major shifts in ecosystems.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/20

Sen. Bernie Sanders: 'Mr. President, I am Disappointed'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gave a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday slamming President Obama for going back on repeated assurances that Social Security would not be part of deficit reduction talks.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/20-3

Who's really profiting from America's gun trade?

Israeli 'Surgical Targeting' of Journalists, Civilians a War Crime: Report

Israeli bombings of media outlets during the recent eight day siege on Gaza broke several international "laws of war," including the targeting of civilians, Human Rights Watch reports Thursday.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/20-0

To Turn the Tide Against the NRA, Leadership Needed at the Top

You know you are not going to be seeing the brightest bulbs on TV defending America's loose gun laws the weekend after the mass slaughter of children. Even the NRA had gone dark, taking down its Facebook and Twitter accounts and refusing to respond to reporters.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/20-7

Water Is Invaluable

A range of private players in the water arena, including water service companies like American Water, are part of a relatively new corporate effort to coordinate public outreach about the “Value of Water.”

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/20-5

How Congress Blocked Research on Gun Violence

The ugly campaign by the NRA to shut down studies at the CDC.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2012/12/gun_violence_research_nra_and_congress_blocked_gun_control_studies_at_cdc.html

Confessions of an economic hit woman

The latest in a long line of economic hit men—and women—is Condoleeza Rice [ht: sm]:
http://anticap.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/confessions-of-an-economic-hit-woman/

The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico

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Domestic Abuse Survivor Goldie Taylor on Giving Up Her Gun & the Unseen Plague of National Violence

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