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Nowhere to Hide: The Government's Massive Intrusion Into Our Lives
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/nowhere-hide-governments-massive-intrusion-our-lives

NSA leaker Eric Snowden nominated for EU prize
http://www.mynews4.com/news/story/NSA-leaker-Eric-Snowden-nominated-for-EU-prize/7d1QywXWj0ivY28pbfKvxQ.cspx

Israel's History Of Chemical Weapons Use

http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh170913.htm

Fractured DHS congressional oversight has real world consequences, says report
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/fractured-dhs-congressional-oversight-has-real-world-consequences-says-repo/2013-09-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

'Unleashed and Unaccountable': FBI's Post-9/11 Abuse of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/17-7

For-Profit Corporation Is Not A Person With Ability To Exercise Religious Freedom Rights, Federal Court Says
https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/for-profit-corporation-is-not-a-person-with-ability-to-exercise-religious

Median Family Income Is Lower Today Than in 1989
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/median_family_income_since_1989_is_the_stagnation_real.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

Why American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Sham
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-sham

The Perfect Alternative to Wall Street Banks
http://admin.alternet.org/economy/perfect-alternative-wall-street-banks

We Live Under a Total Surveillance State in America -- Can We Prevent It from Evolving into a Full-Blown Police State?
http://admin.alternet.org/activism/we-live-under-total-surveillance-state-america-can-we-prevent-it-evolving-full-blown-police

Christian Right v Godless Liberalism: Why Do Christians Attack Godless Liberals?

http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/p/GodlessRight.htm?nl=1

US House passes federal funding bill proposing to defund Affordable Care Act
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/us-house-passes-federal-funding-bill-proposing-to-defund-affordable-care-act.php

How For-Profit Colleges Stay In Business Despite Terrible Track Record

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/for-profit-college-accreditation_n_3937079.html

The Proxy 'Civil War' In Syria Is About Gas, Oil And Pipelines
http://www.countercurrents.org/venturini240913.pdf

Will Obama the Bomber protect Israel’s WMD?
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/will-obama-the-bomber-protect-israels-wmd/

10 Ways Religious Groups Suck on the Public Purse

http://www.alternet.org/belief/holy-freeloading-10-ways-religious-groups-suck-public-purse

DOJ Puts Another Leaker In Jail: The War On Whistleblowers Rolls On
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130923/16454624627/doj-puts-another-leaker-jail-war-whistleblowers-rolls.shtml

Israel’s killing of five young Palestinians exposes "peace" talks as charade
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-killing-five-young-palestinians-exposes-peace-talks-charade/12797

Clicking ‘like’ is protected by First Amendment, 4th Circuit says
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/clicking_like_is_protected_by_first_amendment_in_case_of_sheriffs_employee_/

NSA Stories Around The World
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36322.htm

NSA Apologist Says The NSA's Actions Are Fine Because 'Privacy Is Dead'
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130916/17520324540/nsa-apologist-says-nsas-actions-are-fine-because-privacy-is-dead.shtml

World Citizen Asks United Nations to Disarm America: “The World Cannot Stand Idly By”
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/world-citizen-asks-united-nations-to-disarm-america-the-world-cannot-stand-idly-by_092013

Atheism will be ‘the new gay marriage’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/bill-maher-atheism-will-be-the-new-gay-marriage/

Zionist Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36331.htm

The NSA Isn’t the Only Government Agency Destroying Your Right to Privacy
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/nsa-government-right-to-privacy

Michael Mann: Global Warming: An Uncontrolled Experiment

In recognition of climate week, Thom talks with renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann about the dangers of global warming. Dr. Mann in concerned we may be running out of time to rein in global temperatures.

09.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Surveillance Jailing, Undocumented Activists, Israel Criticism, Citizen Assassinations, Kill List Exposed, Cost of Oil, NDAA Indefinite Detention, School Shootings, WMD Speech, more.

Protect your property, go to jail
Woman arrested for opposing surveillance device placed in her home

Infiltrating ICE: How Undocumented Activists Are Organizing on the Inside

Fury over Brooklyn College BDS Event is "Desperation" for Growing Israel Criticism

The Myth of Americans Living Beyond Their Means with Robert Reich

Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations of U.S. Citizens

Kill List Exposed: Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of US Citizens

The True Cost of Oil

Daniel Ellsberg: NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision

Court: Gov’t Can Secretly Obtain Email, Twitter Info from Ex-WikiLeaks Volunteer Jacob Appelbaum

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Part 2: Daniel Ellsberg and Jacob Appelbaum on the NDAA, WikiLeaks and Unconstitutional Surveillance

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Antidepressants and School Shootings, Suicide, Addiction

Decade After Iraq WMD Speech at UN, Ex-Powell Aide Lawrence Wilkerson Debates Author Norman Solomon

Globalizing Torture: Ahead of Brennan Hearing, International Complicity in CIA Rendition Exposed

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Radio Ambulante: Spanish-Language Radio Program Showcases the Untold Stories of the Americas

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Bill McKibben: Ahead of Keystone XL Rally, Fossil Fuel Divestment Expands Across U.S. Campuses

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10.Dec.2012 - Activists Occupy Starbucks, Israeli Settlement Project, Snooping Guidelines, Jimmy Carter Slams Drone Attacks, Roots of Zionism, Atheist Voters and American Politics, Black Box Recorders in Cars, American Worship of Empire, Nuclear Hypocrisy, Unrestrained Elite, Striking the Fast-Food Giants, Syrian WMDs Credible? more...

Activists Occupy Starbucks Cafes, Turning Them into Women's Shelters and Day Care Centers Across UK

The protests, which simultaneously focused on the American company's tax dodging and austerity cuts to women's and children's programs, saw activists turn cafes into women's shelters, day cares, homeless shelters and temporary libraries.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/08/1168270/-Activists-Occupy-Starbucks-Cafes-Turning-Them-into-Women-s-Shelters-Day-Care-Centers-Across-UK

Add This Group To Obama's Winning Coalition: 'Religiously Unaffiliated'
They're the "nones" — that's the Pew Research Center's shorthand for the growing number of American voters who don't have a specific religious affiliation. Some are agnostic, some atheist, but more than half define themselves as either "religious" or "spiritual but not religious," Pew found in a recent survey.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/12/09/166753248/add-this-group-to-obamas-winning-coalition-religiously-unaffiliated?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20121209

Israel...Initiates Settlement Project That Would Render Two-State Solution Impossible

Furious international reaction greeted Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to build a "Doomsday" settlement on settlement plan.

http://www.alternet.org/world/israel-crosses-red-line-initiates-settlement-project-would-render-two-state-solution

Dragging Secretive Trade Talks Into the Light: Activists Expose Slow-Motion Corporate Coup

A highly secretive trade agreement aims to penalize countries that protect workers, consumers, and the environment. Luckily, the growing opposition goes beyond the usual trade justice suspects.

http://www.alternet.org/world/dragging-secretive-trade-talks-light-activists-expose-slow-motion-corporate-coup

Why The GOP Is Holding Middle Class Tax Cuts Hostage

Power-crazed Republicans have lost their minds.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/why-gop-holding-middle-class-tax-cuts-hostage

Only A Populist Anti-Corruption Movement Can Repair American Democracy, Says Larry Lessig

AlterNet Radio speaks with the influential legal scholar.

http://www.alternet.org/only-populist-anti-corruption-movement-can-repair-american-democracy-says-larry-lessig

Snooping guidelines: UN document revealed

Can people be hypnotically programmed to kill?

Experts say: "Yes"

What Does the NDAA Really Authorize?

n Tuesday, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, a yearly military spending bill. Last year, the bill affirmed the U.S.'s authority to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely and without charges. The provision had generated plenty of controversy, particularly about whether U.S. citizens could be detained indefinitely. This year, the Senate bill says that citizens can't be detained in the U.S. - but concerns remain about the scope of detention powers.http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/294-159/14929-what-does-the-ndaa-really-authorize

We fight Zionism – Not Judaism.

A COLLECTION OF LINKS

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/daily-reminder-we-fight-zionism-not-judaism-for-who-does-not-understand-the-difference-%E2%86%92/

Former US president slams drone attacks

WASHINGTON: Former US President Jimmy Carter has slammed American assassination drone strikes in other countries, saying that killing civilians in such attacks would in fact nurture terrorism.

http://rebel-institute.org/politics/americas/126-united-states/241116-former-us-president-slams-drone-attacks

Roots of the Zionist Genocide of Palestinians

How Atheist Voters Could Change American Politics Forever

Analysis of the exit polls from the last presidential election shows that these ‘nones’ played a key role in President Obama’s victory in November — and demographic data suggests their influence will only grow from here. This could have a major impact on American politics, and maybe even restore the separation that’s supposed to exist between church and state.

http://www.policymic.com/mobile/articles/20404/how-atheist-voters-could-change-american-politics-forever

Obama Gives OK For Black Box Data Recorders to Be Installed in All Cars

The NHTSA says that by September 2014 all car and light trucks will be equipped with EDRs that will silently “record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop.”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33265.htm

The American Worship of Empire
The Republicans who subscribe to Christianity actually think that the man called the Prince of Peace would condone all that they stand for. Duh, like the worship of greed at the expense of 99.5% of us. Yet, when it comes to other foreign policy issues, both of those political parties think they own the cross and the memory of the Christ.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33271.htm

American Nuclear Hypocrisy
http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh101212.htm


Western Powers Have Lost All Sense Of Morality
http://www.countercurrents.org/ziabari101212.htm

The Condition Of Human Rights At The International Setting
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle101212.htm

Climate Change and the Unrestrained Elite

umankind's greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossible to address. By the late 1980s, when it became clear that manmade climate change endangered the living planet and its people, the world was in the grip of an extreme political doctrine, whose tenets forbid the kind of intervention required to arrest it.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14950-climate-change-and-the-unrestrained-elite

Whistleblowers lead to $3.3 billion in US recovery

Justice Department rewards whistleblowers with $439 million in 2012

http://www.koat.com/news/project-economy/Whistleblowers-lead-to-3-3-billion-in-US-recovery/-/9153566/17651806/-/12q7s2nz/-/index.html

Low wages won't work

Peter Rugh reports on a wave of organizing by low-wage workers in New York City.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/10/low-wages-wont-work

Striking the fast-food giants
Peter Rugh reports from New York City on a day of walkouts at fast-food restaurants--another step in what organizers call the largest union drive in fast-food history.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/03/striking-the-fast-food-giants

Why the Bible doesn’t give Israel a claim to the West Bank

Having a passport stamped with the names Judea and Samaria reminds me of a trip my family made to Disneyworld, where I got a passport stamped Neverland.  That day I met Peter Pan and Wendy. Getting my passport stamped for the West Bank these days, I can hope to stand before the graves of Biblical characters in Samaria and Judea. 

http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/alice-bach/why-bible-doesnt-give-israel-claim-west-bank

How credible are reports of Syrian WMDs?

Doha deal extends Kyoto Protocol

Documentary targets family courts and custody evaluators

Antibiotics in chicken causing new infections

7.Sept.2012: Backing Al Qaeda, U.S. Torture Cover Up, CIA Abuses, DNC Speeches, Corporate Power, Monsanto GM Corn, Hacking Romney's Taxes, Arctic Ice Melt, Whistleblower Retaliation, Middle Class at Risk, Struggle for Socialism, Creepy Christian Baby Cult, Chris Hedges, American Dream For Sale, Crony Capitalists, Alex Jones Calls NSA

Sleeping With the Devil:
How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11
Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted on CNN that the U.S. organized and supported Bin Laden and the other originators of “Al Qaeda” in the 1970s to fight the Soviets.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32374.htm

Iraq: How the CIA Says It Blew It On Saddam’s WMD

Now that we’re out of Iraq, the CIA has come clean on how come it was bamboozled about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The FOIA ferrets over at the National Security Archive petitioned for, and got, the Central Intelligence Agency’s equivalent of the dog-ate-my-homework (technically, the NSA obtained this document under a Mandatory Declassification Review request it made in 2006, which can be faster [it still took six years!] than an FOIA request, if the requester has sufficient details on a specific document).

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32369.htm

U.S. Covering Up Torture

The United States government during the Bush administration tortured opponents of Muammar Gaddafi, then transferred them to mistreatment in Libya, according to accounts by former detainees and recently uncovered CIA and UK Secret Service documents, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. One former detainee alleged he was waterboarded and another described a similar form of water torture, contradicting claims by Bush administration officials that only three men in US custody had been water-boarded.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32372.htm

Top Ten Ways We Are Better Off Than in January 2009

t is breathtaking impudence that Republicans should try to campaign on whether we are better off than were were in the last six months of the Bush administration. I can't believe we are even arguing about this. Seriously? The country had fallen off a cliff in the last years of Bush, or rather had been pushed off one by GOP policies.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13332-focus-top-ten-ways-we-are-better-off-than-in-january-2009

Report: Libyans claim waterboarding, other CIA abuses

Mohammed al-Shoroeiya "provided detailed and credible testimony that he was waterboarded on repeated occasions during U.S. interrogations in Afghanistan," Human Rights Watch said in a 200-plus page report.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/06/us/us-libya-torture-report/index.html

Rights Group's Report Reopens CIA Torture Allegations

Libyan fighters opposed to Moammar Gadhafi's regime were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques while in U.S. custody overseas during the administration of George W. Bush, including one prisoner waterboarded by the Central Intelligence Agency, a human-rights advocacy group alleges in a new report.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443589304577633942112181910.html

Media Not Concerned About the Very Poor
Study finds poverty not an issue in most election coverage

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4604

Obama’s Five Rules for Covert Drone Strikes

In his most comprehensive public comments yet on the US covert drone war, President Barack Obama has laid out the five rules he says the United States uses to target and kill alleged terrorists – including US citizens.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/06-1

Corporate Power on Full Display at Dem and GOP Conventions

In the past week, we have been witness to the spectacle of the Republican and Democratic national conventions, events where both parties leave no stone unturned in their attempts to gain the confidence of voting Americans. Perhaps the biggest and best opportunity during presidential campaigns for the parties to differentiate themselves from each other, but the similarities between the two conventions cannot be overlooked. 

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/06-10

Comparing DNC Speeches: Michelle Obama's Written 7 Grade Levels Above Ann Romney's

There have been a lot of comparisons made between Michelle Obama's and Ann Romney's convention speeches, but this is a new one to me (via the University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Affairs' Smart Politics blog)

http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/comparing-dnc-speeches-michelle-obamas-written-7-grade-levels-above-ann-romneys

Black church leaders try to inspire congregants to vote for Obama

Two dozen of this region’s most influential black pastors sat in the cramped conference room of a suburban Baptist church last week, brainstorming how to inspire congregants still dismayed by President Obama’s support for same-sex marriage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/black-church-leaders-try-to-inspire-congregants-to-vote-for-obama/2012/09/03/136b2da0-f3f0-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_story.html

Third-party candidates may hurt Romney in key states

Dark-horse presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Virgil Goode may not be household names, but with a little help from super PACs, they could peel away precious support from Republican Mitt Romney and possibly even President Barack Obama in some key state races.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2012/08/31/10786/third-party-candidates-may-hurt-romney-key-states

Monsanto GM Corn Is Creating Super Worms

gricultural giant Monsanto Company has risen to the top of the corporate food chain largely thanks to its seeds. These are no ordinary seeds - they have been genetically modified (GM) to withstand and even produce herbicides and pesticides. Monsanto's GM corn and soybean seeds have become so widespread over the past two decades that now, a new crop of "superweeds" have evolved to resist these potent chemicals. Farmers then have little choice but to buy Monsanto's beefed up seeds in an arms race with nature.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/13328-monsanto-gm-corn-is-creating-super-worms

Hacker Group Claims to Have Romney's Tax Returns

he secret service said Wednesday it is investigating the reported theft of copies of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's federal tax records during a break-in at an accounting office in Tennessee. Someone claiming responsibility demanded $1m not to make them public.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/13326-hacker-group-claims-to-have-romneys-tax-returns

Arctic Ice Melt 'Like Adding 20 Years Of CO2 Emissions'

The loss of Arctic ice is massively compounding the effects of greenhouse gas emissions, ice scientist Professor Peter Wadhams has told BBC Newsnight.

http://www.countercurrents.org/watts060912.htm

Obama campaign brags about its whistleblower persecutions

Excuse me if I don't join in Democrats' sycophantic cheerleading for an Obama presidency that has shredded laws and libertieshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/05/obama-campaign-brags-about-whistleblower-persecutions?newsfeed=true

Whistleblower Retaliation on the Rise, Study Finds

More than one in five employees who reported misconduct they observed to their employers perceived retaliation for doing so, according to a new study.

http://blogs.wsj.com/corruption-currents/2012/09/05/whistleblower-retaliation-on-the-rise-study-finds/

Middle-Class America at Risk

End of US middle class as we know it

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/business/middle-class-america-at-risk-288814.html

Presidential candidate Roseanne Barr warns of ‘Jewish mind control’

Peace and Freedom Party presidential candidate Roseanne Barr issued a tweet on Wednesday saying that “jewish mind control is the hardest to break out of,” Twitchy reported Thursday.

http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/presidential-candidate-roseanne-barr-warns-of-jewish-mind-control/

In Leak Cases, New Pressure on Journalists

Earlier administrations have fired and prosecuted government officials who provided classified information to the press. They have also tried to force reporters to identify their sources.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/washington/30leak.html

Rogue Mormons Turn Chauvinistic Exceptionalists

Though born-again evangelicals glory in personal life-changing experiences, such openness to change withers when latter-day newcomers defy Protestant sects with truly "born-again," collective do-overs.   What's wonderful for individual sinners pales when core Reformation advances are confronted with what the right in other arenas happily elevate as "big ideas."

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rogue-Mormons-Turn-Chauvin-by-Robert-S-Becker-120905-518.html 

Flawed organic foods study really just a media psyop to confuse the public about organics while pushing GMOs

If you read the mainstream news headlines today, you might be shocked to see headlines that say things like, "Organic foods no healthier than conventional foods" or "Organic foods may not be healthier for you." You'll see these headlines all across the usual disinfo outlets: NPR, Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post, WebMD and elsewhere. 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Flawed-organic-foods-study-by-Mike-Adams-120905-835.html

A lost generation and the struggle for socialism

As schools and universities start the new school year across North America and Europe, young people face rising mass unemployment, renewed attacks on public education, and growing poverty

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/pers-s06.shtml

2012 Democrats: Remember That Civil Liberties Thing From 2008? Um, Nevermind

For years, we've pointed out that neither major political party in the US seems to be very good on the issues that concern us most around here -- which is truly disappointing. With the Democratic National Convention going on this week, some are pointing out what a difference four years make.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120904/11532820267/2012-democrats-remember-that-civil-liberties-thing-2008-um-nevermind.shtml

The sixth extinction menaces the very foundations of culture

Human culture is profoundly rooted in nature, yet human activity endangers the survival of entire species of plants and animals
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/05/sixth-extinction-foundations-culture

Former GOPer: How Republicans Went Crazy, Dems Lost Their Mojo, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

Bill Moyers talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/former-goper-how-republicans-went-crazy-dems-lost-their-mojo-and-middle-class-got-shafted

8 Reasons the Duggars -- TV's Christian Baby Factory -- Are A Creepy Cult

Instead of recruiting members, Michelle and Bob just created them with their own bodies. Why do mainstream media outlets like Today and People treat the Duggars as though they're just an ordinary family?

http://www.alternet.org/8-reasons-duggars-tvs-christian-baby-factory-are-creepy-cult

Execution without trial

What Happens When You Pit A Tea Partier With Stale Talking Points Against Actual Journalists?

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Chris Hedges: Hear the 99% Roar

For Sale: The American Dream

Democratic Donors Withhold Contributions over Absence of Climate Change from Obama Campaign Message

As DNC Pushes Through Jerusalem Vote, Critics Ask Why GOP is Dictating the Democrats’ Platform

Occupy vs DNC: Are Dems Crony Capitalists?

How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.

The growing power of the religious right is one reason my guest left the Republican Party and became an Independent. "The mixture of politics and religion," he says, "debases both, and has turned the GOP into an apocalyptic sect." He has his problems with Democrats, too. For one thing, he says, both parties “are captives to corporate loot.”

Alex Jones Calls The NSA

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