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The Failure of Barack Obama's Presidency

http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Bush-and-Obama-Got-the-by-Eric-Zuesse-130314-460.html

New CYBERCOM to Wage War on Hacktivists With Offensive Ops and Surveillance
http://occupycorporatism.com/new-cybercom-to-wage-war-on-hacktivists-with-offensive-ops-surveillance/

Are We Ready for an Internet Cold War?
http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/are-we-ready-for-an-internet-cold-war

Why CISPA Could Actually Lead To More Hacking Attacks
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130312/08093422297/why-cispa-could-actually-lead-to-more-hacking-attacks.shtml

6 Ways The US Supreme Court Has Defiled Our Constitution
http://www.countercurrents.org/corseri130313.htm

Praising the Troops for Defending Our “Rights” and “Freedoms”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34306.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Obama+to+Israel%3A+%60We+Got+Your+Back%27&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

Court Says National Security Letters Are Unconstitutional, Bans Them
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130315/14254522342/shocker-court-says-national-security-letters-are-unconstitutional-bans-them.shtml

Mississippi Governor Signs Bill Forcing Public Schools To Give Students Open Forum To Push Religious Views On Others
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/15/mississippi-governor-signs-bill-forcing-public-schools-to-give-students-open-forum-to-push-religious-views-on-others/

Court deals blow to CIA drone secrecy
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/court-deal-blow-to-cia-drone-secrecy-88918.html?hp=l1

Do countries lose religion as they gain wealth?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/03/05/f-religion-economic-growth.html

Judge Approves Landmark Settlement in Immigration Policy Case
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/15-2

Third Circuit panel discusses at length all the problems with SORNA
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/03/third-circuit-panel-discusses-at-length-all-the-problems-with-sorna.html

How Rich Is the Catholic Church?
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/03/catholic_church_and_pope_francis_religious_institutions_are_exempted_from.html?wpisrc=newsletter_tis

Nowhere to Run or Hide from America’s 'Financial Nazism'
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34324.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Paul+Craig+Roberts%3A+When+Truth+Is+Suppressed+Countries+Die&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

An Orwellian America
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34321.htm?utm_source=ICH%3A+Paul+Craig+Roberts%3A+When+Truth+Is+Suppressed+Countries+Die&utm_campaign=FIRST&utm_medium=email

Monsanto: Patenting Death
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/15-7

The New York Times defends drone murder
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/11/pers-m11.html

You Wouldn't Believe How Fast Americans Are Losing Their Religion -- But the Fundamentalists Have a Plan
http://www.alternet.org/belief/you-wouldnt-believe-how-fast-americans-are-losing-their-religion-fundamentalists-have-plan

With Inequality Spiraling Out of Control It's Insane to Consider Cutting Social Security

http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/inequality-spiraling-out-control-its-insane-consider-cutting-social-security

Stop Freaking Out About the Debt! 5 Reasons There Is No Debt Crisis
http://www.alternet.org/stop-freaking-out-about-debt-5-reasons-there-no-debt-crisis

The “Dirty War” Pope
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/03/16/pers-m16.html

Boycotting Israel is the "way to go," says Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters
http://electronicintifada.net/content/boycotting-israel-way-go-says-pink-floyd-legend-roger-waters/12287

Elizabeth Warren Debunks GOP Talking Points on Minimum Wage
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/elizabeth_warren_debunks_gop_talking_points_on_minimum_wage_20130318/

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22.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Bank Crimes, Finance Greed, Toilet Strike, Endless War, Vatican Scandal, Climate Change Rally, City Drone Bans, One Billion Rising, Rape in War, NASA Planet Search, Money Trap, Israeli Apartheid, Throwaways

Elizabeth Warren cuts to the chase

Banks commit major crimes with impunity while average citizens have their lives wrecked over trivia

How the Middle Class was destroyed by unchecked financial industry greed

The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke

The Great Toilet Strike of 2013

Congress: End Endless War and Stop Becoming “the Evil That We Deplore”

The Vatican: Don´t Bank on It

A multi-decade financial scandal factory

Thousands rally in Washington against climate change

On climate change, executive orders are needed 'to get around a hostile Congress'

US city bans use of drones

The dancing demonstrators of One Billion Rising

Rape As A Weapon Of War

NASA Continues Search For Planet Capable Of Supporting NASA

The Money Trap: How Banks Control the World Through Debt

Boycott Apartheid: Boycott Israeli - Palestinians Are Second Class Citizens In The State Of Israel

Throwaways: Recruited by Police and Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War’s Latest Victims

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13.Dec.2012 - U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes, Indefinite Detention is Treason, Why We Torture, Feds Reading Your Emails, Right-to-Work is Anti-Labor, This is What Democracy Looks Like, Mindless American Support for Israel, Government War on Small Business, 7 Ways the Military Wastes our Money, National Security Bosses

More Than Thirty Top U.S. Officials Guilty of War Crimes

More than 30 top U.S. officials, including presidents G.W. Bush and Obama, are guilty of war crimes or crimes against peace and humanity “legally akin to those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany,” the distinguished American international law authority Francis Boyle charges.

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/violence/259038-more-than-thirty-top-us-officials-guilty-of-war-crimes

U.S. Rakes Up Nearly $300 Billion Deficit In First Two Months Of Fiscal 2013

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/money/260389-us-rakes-up-nearly-s300-billion-deficit-in-first-two-months-of-fiscal-2013

Stop Israeli Home Demolishing! Boycott Israel!

According to the American website “If Americans Knew,” the number of Israeli homes demolished by Palestinians since 1967 is zero, whereas the number of Palestinian homes demolished by Israelis within the same period is 24,813. This is equivalent to 82% of the homes in Westerville, Ohio, where I live, being wiped out.
http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/mena/260420-stop-israeli-home-demolishing-boycott-israel

Indefinite Detention of US Citizens without Trial is Treason

Why We Torture

Habeas corpus has been abandoned for the outcasts of the new order in both the US and the UK, secret courts have been created to hear secret evidence, guilt has been inferred by association, torture and rendition nakedly justified (in the UK our government's lawyers continue to argue positively for the right to use the product of both) and vital international conventions consolidated in the aftermath of the Second World War - the Geneva Convention, the Refugee Convention, the Torture Convention - have been deliberately avoided or ignored.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33302.htm

A Plan to Stop the Feds From Reading Your Emails

Four lawmakers are trying to put a stop to warrantless spying.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/warrantless-wiretapping-fisa-authorization-reform-bill

Reich on Why Right-to-Work Legislation is Anti-Labor: ‘As Labor Unions Have Declined, Wages Have Declined in Tandem’

This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Thousands of protestors braved the frigid temperatures and took to the streets today in Michigan over the Republican plan to -- yet again -- weaken unions, trample workers rights and further subjugate the middle class. Despite this significant public opposition, Michigan lawmakers passed the "right to work" law that will make their corporate masters happy.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/This-Is-What-Democracy-Loo-by-Kathy-Malloy-121211-381.html

Mindless American Support For Israel May Be Cracking

The legacy of the Zionist revolutionaries who once enraptured the parlors of Europe and America with talk of a Jewish homeland as a moral beacon in a benighted region has instead bequeathed to the Jewish world and the West a highly militarized dependency -- a state that has achieved great feats of cultural and economic development but has failed to build strong enough institutions to balance its military zeitgeist with imaginative or engaging diplomacy.
 
- Patrick Tyler, from Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country -- and Why They Can't Make Peace

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Mindless-American-Support-by-John-Grant-121212-658.html

Thousands Protest Michigan’s Anti-Union Law, But Deep Pockets of Right-Wing Backers Prevail

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Government war on small business

The perils of no being "too big to fail"

Michigan GOP Push Through Elite-Backed Law

7 Shocking Ways the Military Wastes Our Money

Hint: none of them have anything to do with national defense.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/8-shocking-ways-military-wastes-our-money

National Security Bosses Still Claiming It Would Violate National Security To Tell You If They Violate Your Privacy

Via Julian Sanchez we learn that Senator Ron Wyden has released some updated responsesfrom our national intelligence bosses concerning the questions that Wyden (and a few other Senators) have been asking for years. It's been pretty clear that a "secret" interpretation under the FISA Amendments Act (related to the Patriot Act) has meant that the NSA is scooping up tons of American communications, even as its mandate is that it only cover foreign intelligence—and Wyden has been pushing for more information. 

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121210/13172621339/national-security-bosses-still-claiming-it-would-violate-national-security-to-tell-you-if-they-violate-your-privacy.shtml

29.Nov.2012 - Demanding a People's Recovery, President Signs Whistle-blower Protection Bill, Brutal Face of Global Capitalism, EPA Bans BP from New Fed Contracts, Privacy Groups Challenge Facebook, Military Boycott of Israel, Third World America, more

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Protesting Farmers Spray EU Parliament With Milk 

European farmers protesting in Brussels sprayed the European Parliament building and riot police with fresh milk, demanding that parliamentarians do something to increase milk prices and prevent dairies from going out of business.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/protesting-farmers-spray-eu-parliament-with-milk-photos-319320.html

Demanding a people's recovery
Peter Rugh reports that grassroots relief efforts after Sandy want bigger changes.
http://socialistworker.org/2012/11/28/demanding-a-peoples-recovery

The Real Threat to Internet Freedom Isn't the United Nations

Governments are cooperating on surveillance in other, less obvious ways.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/11/itu_summit_what_role_will_the_u_n_play_in_governing_the_internet.html

WalMart earns record profits while supporting Republicans who want to slash their employees’ food stamps

Businesses succeed or fail based on providing a quality product consumers demand, but they also depend on delivering good service and it is why courteous and proficient employees are as important an asset as product line. In the service industry, employees are a company’s greatest asset and it is why business owners are wise to take care of their workers and provide incentives for them to give customers an experience that encourages return business. 

http://www.politicususa.com/walmart-earns-record-profits-supporting-republicans-plan-slash-employees-food-stamps.html

Obama's Second Term: The Chance to Unleash the Audacity

Appearing on CNN, retiring Senator Joe Lieberman gave voice to the conventional wisdom: "In my opinion the last two years, 2011-12, have been the least productive and most partisan and uncompromising in my 24 years here." For Lieberman, like much of establishment D.C. -- both political and media -- being a "moderate" or a "centrist" or a "pragmatist" is synonymous with the ability to "get things done." Yet, according to the AP, this year's election resulted in "a thinning of pragmatic, centrist veterans in both parties," and that "among those leaving are some of the Senate's most pragmatic lawmakers, nearly half the House's centrist Blue Dog Democrats and several moderate House Republicans."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/obama-second-term_b_2198723.html

President signs whistle-blower bill to protect federal workers who expose fraud, waste

Capping a 13-year effort by supporters of whistle-blower rights, the new law closes loopholes created by court rulings, which removed protections for federal whistle-blowers. One loophole specified that whistle-blowers were only protected when they were the first to report misconduct.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/president-signs-whistle-blower-bill-to-protect-federal-workers-who-expose-fraud-waste/2012/11/27/4d279d86-38c8-11e2-9258-ac7c78d5c680_story.html

Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Law Banning Recording The Police

You may recall that we've been following the ongoing saga of a poorly-written piece of state legislation in Illinois, which would strip citizens of their First Amendment rights if they were to film law enforcement performing their duties. One gentleman was facing a possible75 years in jail for five counts at up to 15 years each, until the 7th Circuit appeals court ruled that the law could not be enforced, because it very likely violated the First Amendment.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121126/14083621150/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-over-law-banning-recording-police.shtml

The brutal face of global capitalism

The worst factory fire in Bangladesh’s history, which broke out on Saturday night in the Ashulia industrial zone, has exposed the ugly workings of global capitalism.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/pers-n28.shtml

Doha Climate Talks: USA Makes False Claims Of GHG Emission Reduction
Anticipating an onslaught of criticism from poor nations, the US claimed "enormous" strides in reducing GHG emissions at the opening of UN climate talks, despite failing to join other industrialized nations in committing to binding cuts*.
http://www.countercurrents.org/CC281112.htm

Pillar Of Superstition
During this interlude in Israel’s second unprovoked incursion of Gaza, we might pause to reflect on what is, arguably, the real reasons for Netanyahu and Lieberman to execute their victims corralled in the walled prison of Gaza.
http://www.countercurrents.org/cook271112.htm

Babylonian relic to visit US with historic message of tolerance
The 539BC Cyrus cylinder, owned by the British Museum, is seen by some as the first declaration of human rights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/nov/27/babylonian-relic-visit-us-message

5 Ways the GOP (And Obama) Have Undermined Our Democracy

The institutions designed to make campaign finances more transparent and to ensure that election technology is evolving are paralyzed by empty leadership positions.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-ways-gop-and-obama-have-undermined-our-democracy

EPA Bans BP From New Federal Contracts
he Environmental Protection Agency has suspended BP from bidding on any new federal contracts as a result of the company's conduct during the Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster that led to 11 deaths and the largest U.S. offshore spill.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/14773-epa-bans-bp-from-new-federal-contracts

Privacy groups challenge Facebook data policy changes 
Two privacy advocacy groups wrote a letter [text, PDF] on Monday to Facebook[corporate website] CEO Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to withdraw recently announcedproposed changes [press release] to the the site's governance documents. The letter, signed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) [advocacy websites], noted that some of the changes directly affected the company's privacy policy, and that the changes "raise privacy risks for users, may be contrary to law, and violate your previous commitments to users about site governance."
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/11/privacy-groups-challenge-facebook-data-policy-changes.php

Taxation in Theory and Reality
The debate over the fiscal cliff has spawned a multitude of suggestions for reforming the tax system, including my own. One possible reason for the wide range of proposals, even from mainstream economists, is that the recommendations of standard economic theory may be very different from what the American economy actually needs today.
http://bigthink.com/econ201/taxation-in-theory-and-reality

Tax the Rich, Take Your Hands Off Medicare: Overwhelming US Majority

A large majority of US citizens would like to see higher taxes on the rich and oppose cuts to Medicare as an answer to the US deficit, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Washington Post and ABC News.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/28-3

Nobel Peace Laureates Call For Military Boycott Of Israel

Fifty-two Nobel peace prize-winners, activists and others today called for an international military boycott of Israel after its latest deadly assault against Palestine earlier this month.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/28-1

Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
Across the world, the battle for free speech is pitting governments and corporations against activists and average citizens.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/defending_free_speech_in_the_digital_age

TSA employees get whistleblower protections

President Obama on Tuesday signed into law a bill that expands safeguards for federal employees who report waste, fraud or abuse. The bill (S. 743), which cleared its last congressional hurdle earlier this month, grants whistleblower protections for employees who lacked them before, including Transportation Security Administration officers. It also establishes ombudsmen to educate employees about their rights to expose mismanagement and strengthens the Office of Special Counsel’s authority to pursue punishment for supervisors who retaliate against whistleblowers, among other provisions.
http://www.govexec.com/management/2012/11/tsa-employees-get-whistleblower-protections/59757/

NPR affiliate launches drone program
Missouri NPR affiliate KBIA has launched a "Drone Program" in the hopes of building drones to collect media, the station tells POLITICO.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/npr-affiliate-launches-drone-program-150409.html

Third World America: Drowning in Debt and Choking on Lies 
If a drunk driver crashed his speeding rental car into your house and killed your spouse, you would be outraged if law enforcers took bribes and refused to give the driver a blood test. If the judge then gave the killer a small fine and ordered you to pay the fine and pay for all the damages, you'd be outraged. If the government then handed the drunk-driver keys to a bigger faster rental car, handed the drunk driver an even bigger bottle of whiskey, and then gave you the rental bill; you'd storm Washington, blizzard elected officials with protests and organize friends and associates to vote these malefactors, the elected officials that betrayed your trust, out of office.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33162.htm

UK Shielding Israel From War Crimes Prosecutions
The Guardian newspaper reported on 27 November that Britain is prepared to back a key vote recognizing Palestinian statehood at the United nations but only if the Palestinian Authority chairman, Mahmoud Abbas, pledges not to pursue Israel for war crimes and to resume peace talks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33159.htm

Simple proof the government helps the drug trade`

Robertson Admits he Blew Election Prediction he Received from God

Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

What Really Happened in Gaza

John Pilger : Media And War Conference

Kucinich: Push the Middle Class Off the Cliff? No WAY!

The Government is Profiling You

Naked Protesters Storm Boehner's Office

Fossil of the Day - Worst Climate Offender Award

Thousands Homeless After Panama Flooding

The electric ride: A roadmap for middle class families

Climate talks: More hot air about hot air?

Let Your Life Be a Friction to Stop the Machine

“Central Park Five”: New Film On How Police Abuse, Media Frenzy Led to Jailing of Innocent Teens

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Former GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on the Roots of American Revolution and Future of U.S. Politics

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23.Nov.2012 - Black Friday Has Dark Roots, Anonymous Activists Prosecution, Walmart Retaliates Against Activists, Global Strike & Consumer Boycott, Palestinians Dying to Live Free, DHS to Double Drones, Food Banks Drying Up, Dealing with Creationists, Fracking in America, Ceasefire in Israel-Gaza Crisis, Woodie Guthrie at 100

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10 Reasons the GOP Is Really Messed Up -- According to Republicans

It's too right-wing. Or not conservative enough. It could be the contempt for voters, or being the Party of Stupid. One thing's for sure: Everybody hates Karl Rove.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/10-reasons-gop-really-messed-according-republicans

Why 'Black Friday' Has Dark Roots
Older generations may still associate "Black Friday" with the stock market crash of 1929, which triggered the Great Depression. But the connotation of financial distress dates back even further, to the collapse of the U.S. gold market on Sept. 24, 1869.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/11/21/165662876/why-black-friday-has-dark-roots?ft=3&f=1001&sc=nl&cc=nh-20121123

Lobbyists pay UK authorities to buy support for Israeli regime

Pro-Israeli lobbyists inside the UK have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds since the last general election taking lawmakers on propaganda tours to the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories.

http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/lobbyists-pay-uk-authorities-to-buy-support-for-israeli-regime/

Prosecution of Anonymous Activists Highlights War for Internet Control

hatever one thinks of WikiLeaks, it is an indisputable fact that the group has never been charged by any government with any crime, let alone convicted of one. Despite that crucial fact, WikiLeaks has been crippled by a staggering array of extra-judicial punishment imposed either directly by the US and allied governments or with their clear acquiescence.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/298-185/14691-prosecution-of-anonymous-activists-highlights-war-for-internet

Walmart Retaliates Against Black Friday Activists

s Black Friday approached, the honchos at Walmart, the largest employer in the United States, found themselves at a loss to respond to a nationwide rebellion within the ranks of their near-captive workers - people who work for an average wage of $8.81 per hour, according to The National Memo, often in areas where Walmart is the only game in town for a job if you don't have a college degree (or even if you do). And so it seems they started making stuff up, and pulling strings - in at least two locations - to get local police to do their bidding.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/315-19/14690-walmart-retaliates-against-black-friday-activists

Taming the Walmart Bully
Nationwide walkout emboldens America's labor movement.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33134.htm

Wal-Mart: Always Low Wages

Employees are planning a walkout on Black Friday, and that's only the beginning.

https://prospect.org/article/wal-mart-always-low-wages

Occupy Strategy: Global Strike and Consumer Boycott Should Be on the Agenda

The Occupy movement is becoming viral, but its very own merit, which is to be a true grassroots movement without hierarchy or a defined leadership could be its Achilles heel. The global capitalist system, run by the very few people in control of mega corporate entities, will not cave in or even yield an inch just at the sight of camps, banners, and meaningful slogans. If the 99 percent want to have a real impact and effective results, without resorting to violence, they must focus on strategy and tactics. A new discourse must be defined, and this is far from the case at the moment.

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2012/11/23/occupy-strategy-global-strike-and-consumer-boycott-should-be-on-the-agenda/

Palestinians: Dying to Live Free

Occupied Palestine is the longest unresolved conflict of our time. After 64 years, Palestinians remain largely isolated on their own. Their suffering continues. Their rights don't matter. Western nations scorn them. Rhetorical support only is provided. It's insulting, demeaning and meaningless. 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Palestinians-Dying-to-Liv-by-Stephen-Lendman-121123-512.html

DHS to Double US Drone Fleet

espite renewed criticism from both parties in Congress that domestic drones pose a privacy danger to US citizens - and a report from its own Inspector General recommending to stop buying them - the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has indicated it wants to more than double its fleet of Predator drones used to fly surveillance missions inside the United States.
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/335-156/14672-dhs-to-double-us-drone-fleet

Food Bank Stocks Dry Up in Wake of Great Drought

The insufferable drought of 2012 continues to wreak havoc as food banks across the country feel the pinch. As the season of feasting gets underway, soaring food prices have cut government donations to the banks and soup kitchens that provide an essential safety net to over 50 million Americans who struggle to eat.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/21-5

In Gaza, It’s the Occupation, Stupid

“The Palestinian people want to be free of the occupation,” award-winning Israeli journalist Gideon Levy summed up this week. It is that simple. This latest Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza is not an isolated event, but part of a 45-year occupation of the sliver of land wedged between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, where 1.6 million people live under a brutal Israeli blockade that denies them most of the basic necessities of life. Without the unwavering bipartisan support of the United States for the Israeli military, the occupation of Palestine could not exist.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/21-9

Tips for Dealing with Creationists

I hang out with Creationists occasionally and have seen many of the arguments they make. I’d like to tell you what I've found. This isn't a rebuttal against Creationist arguments (perhaps in a future post). Rather, I’d like to sensitize you to general errors that they make. Consider this a list of cautions when evaluating a Creationist presentation.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/2012/11/tips-for-dealing-with-creationists/

Fracking in America

Man Heckles Black Friday 'Zombies' In California

As Bus Bomb Hits Tel Aviv, Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Egypt’s Mediator Role and Gaza’s Ongoing Torment

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Debate: From Short-Term Ceasefire to Long-Term Peace, How to Resolve the Israel-Gaza Crisis?

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Wal-Mart Accused of Threatening Workers With Retaliation Ahead of Black Friday Walkouts, Protests

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Minimum wage: Walkouts show it's time for the federal government to boost rate

One Thing You Need To Remember This Black Friday: Support Wal-Mart Workers!

Woody Guthrie at 100: Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg, Will Kaufman Honor the "Dust Bowl Troubadour"

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