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5 Things We Can Learn from the Battle Against GMOs
http://www.alternet.org/food/5-things-we-can-learn-battle-against-gmos

10 Ways You Can Join the Fight Against Drone Warfare

http://admin.alternet.org/activism/10-ways-you-can-join-fight-against-drone-warfare

The Consequences of US Decline
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36730.htm

A Rogue Superpower Is All Ears
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/01

Why prison is not working
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/uncategorized/vicky-pryce-why-prison-is-not-working/#.UnT3WHCsg69

The 'Preventive Constitution' in the Age of NSA Surveillance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/01-4

Additional NSA Employees Said to Be Following Snowden's Lead
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/01-4

American Hunger and the Christian Right
http://www.opednews.com/articles/American-Hunger-and-the-Ch-by-Mary-Shaw-Child-Poverty_Food-For-The-Poor_Food-Security_Food-Stamps-131103-73.html

CIA Has 'Acquired A Taste' For Killing People With Drones; Won't Give It Up
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131105/17222425140/cia-has-acquired-taste-killing-people-with-drones-wont-give-it-up.shtml

You Will Be Shocked at How Ignorant Americans Really Are
http://www.alternet.org/media/americas-information-inequality-least-shocking-its-economic-inequality

Israel’s Deplorable Human Rights Record
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/israels-deplorable-human-rights-record-by-stephenlendman/

How Atheists Can Be Politically Active
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessatheistpolitics/tp/Atheists-Political-Activism.htm?nl=1

A Brilliant Activist Shows Us a Path to Real Change Through Civil Disobedience
http://www.alternet.org/fracking/brilliant-activist-shows-us-path-real-change-through-civil-disobedience

The Orwellian arithmetic of mass surveillance
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/dom-shaw/orwellian-arithmetic-of-mass-surveillance

FBI 'Mistake' Leads To Six Years Of Monitoring Anti-War Website
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131106/12415825153/fbi-mistake-leads-to-six-years-monitoring-anti-war-website.shtml

The people are rejecting free market capitalism
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ellie-mae-ohagan/people-are-rejecting-free-market-capitalism

Can, or should, America be saved?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Can-or-should-America-be-by-Doug-Thompson-America_American-Capitalism_Crisis_People-131103-797.html

The Price of America Having the Greatest Military in the World? It's Destroying the Country
http://www.alternet.org/world/tragic-history-us-military-supremacy

What militarists don’t want you to know about the labor movement
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/militarists-dont-want-know-labor-movement/

International Human Rights Bodies Starting to Address NSA Surveillance Practiceshttps://cdt.org/blogs/leslie-harris/0511international-human-rights-bodies-starting-address-nsa-surveillance-practice

Has civil disobedience become too predictable?
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/civil-disobedience-become-predictable/

US Christian Zionists plan to take over Palestinian university in Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/content/us-christian-zionists-plan-take-over-palestinian-university-israel/12906

The Debate – Israeli Occupation

Corporate Personhood: How Did We Get Here?

JPMorgan: Too Big To Fine

@dustcirclenews - Special Religion Issue! (Radical Christians, the Religious Threat, and the Right-Wing Fraud)

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The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_radical_christian_right_and_the_war_on_government_20131006

The Threat of the Religious Right is as Old as Christianity
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/20/threat-religious-christianity.html

The Religious Right Is a Fraud
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36592.htm

For the Last Time, the Constitution is Not Based on the Biblehttp://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/31/time-constitution-based-bible.html

Atheists & Christians on Removing "In God We Trust" from America's Currency
http://atheism.about.com/od/Church-State-Survey-Polls/a/Atheists-Christians-Removing-in-God-We-Trust.htm?nl=1

Sam Harris on the ‘banality of evil’ in relation to religious violence

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/31/watch-sam-harris-on-the-banality-of-evil-in-relation-to-religious-violence/

Why Atheists Can’t Be Republicans
http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheists-cant-be-republicans

The Moral Majority

http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/10/28/it-gets-better-the-moral-majority/

Religious organisations should learn what respect looks like in a secular society
http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/religious-organisations-should-learn-what-respect-actually-looks-like

American Legion pulls park funding after atheist official won’t pledge ‘under God’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/30/american-legion-pulls-park-funding-after-atheist-official-wont-pledge-under-god/

Ancient skeletons challenge modern religion in ‘humanity’s cradle’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/29/ancient-skeletons-challenge-modern-religion-in-humanitys-cradle/

Churches facing challenge as congregations age
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Churches-facing-challenge-as-congregations-age-4909464.php

Christian Hate Group Threatens To Sue US Military For Labeling Them A Hate Group
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/26/christian-hate-group-us-military/

10 Facts About The Transforming Global Religious Landscape
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/10-facts-global-religion_n_4117341.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

5 facts about atheists

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/23/5-facts-about-atheists/

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Our Founding Fathers Never Imagined Congress Would Behave This Badly
http://bigthink.com/praxis/what-james-madison-would-say-to-john-boehner

FCC proposal would require carriers to disclose network reliability in disasters
http://www.fiercemobilegovernment.com/story/fcc-proposal-would-require-carriers-disclose-network-reliability-disasters/2013-10-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Where are the Unions?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Where-are-the-Unions-by-Robert-De-Filippis-Business_Capital_Class_Economic-131003-399.html

World Should Pressure Israel To Eliminate Its Chemical Weapons
http://www.countercurrents.org/gottinger041013.htm

We Now Live in World in Which No One Is Listening to the Planet’s Sole Superpower
http://www.alternet.org/world/we-now-live-world-which-no-one-listening-planets-sole-superpower

More Snowden Revelations Coming, Guardian Cryptography Analyst Says
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/more_snowden_revelations_coming_says_guardian_cryptography_analyst_20130926

The Rising Antiscience
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/rising-antiscience-faith_b_3991677.html

NSA Chief, General Alexander defends US surveillance programs as a Noble Mission
http://thehackernews.com/2013/09/nsa-chief-general-alexander-defends-us.html

Why No One’s Investigating Wall Street

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36355.htm

Leaks Show NSA is Working to Undermine Encrypted Communications, Here's How You Can Fight Back
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/leaks-show-nsa-working-undermine-encrypted-communications-heres-how-you-can-fight

People Want Full Medicare for All
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/26-11

Time to Speak Up Against the NSA’s Mass Spying
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/09/time-speak-against-nsas-mass-spying

Look Around, Workers Are Pissed

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/26

Rules for (hunger-striking) radicals
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/rules-hunger-striking-radicals/

Surveillance and Human Rights Principles are launched at 24th Session of the Human Rights Council
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/09/22/surveillance-and-human-rights-principles-are-launched-at-the-24th-hrc

Snowden urges EU parliament to protect whistleblowers
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Snowden-urges-EU-parliamen-by-RT-TV-Prism_Russia_Snowden_Surveillance-131001-729.html

Global Warming Could Destroy the Lives of 750 Million People in the Short Future
http://www.alternet.org/environment/global-warming-could-potentially-destroy-lives-750-million-people-next-three-decades

NSA using metadata to compile “social network diagrams” on Americans
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/30/surv-s30.html

Eye on Palestine – This is occupation: Deprivation of Healthcare
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/eye-on-palestine-this-is-occupation-deprivation-of-healthcare/

Study: Combative People "Remember" Hostile Acts That They Didn't Commit
http://bigthink.com/Mind-Matters/study-combative-people-remember-hostile-acts-that-they-didnt-commit

Opinion poll shows big opposition to “faith schools”
http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2013/09/opinion-poll-shows-big-opposition-to-faith-schools

Breaking Their Will: The Sick Biblical Literalism That Leads to Child Abuse and Even Death
http://www.alternet.org/belief/breaking-their-will-sick-biblical-literalism-leads-child-abuse-and-even-death

Edward Snowden: Surveillance of Whole Populations Threatens to be the Greatest Human Rights Challenge of Our Time
http://www.alternet.org/edward-snowden-surveillance-whole-populations-threatens-be-greatest-human-rights-challenge-our-time

WHY AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM IS WRONG
http://americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-10-why-american-exceptionalism-is-wrong

Atheist students use federal law to pursue same rights as Christians for ‘secular safe zones’
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/30/atheist-students-use-federal-law-to-pursue-same-ri/

Send the Bill For the Shutdown to the Evangelicals
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/frankschaeffer/2013/10/send-the-bill-for-the-shutdown-to-the-evangelicals/

America For Sale: Outsourcing Exposed

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Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/15-3

Which Nations Hate The U.S.? Often Those Receiving U.S. Aid
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/07/22/204516430/which-nations-hate-the-u-s-often-those-receiving-u-s-aid

US Expands Global Drone Warfare
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist230713.htm

Surviving the New American Economy
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76636

US Reporters May Be Forced To Reveal Their Sources
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc200713A.htm

Fighting for Farmworkers
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76637

Bradley Manning 'Aiding the Enemy' Charge is a Threat to Journalism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35606.htm

America , The Powerful And The Powerless
http://www.countercurrents.org/khawaja210713.htm

The Seeds of Rebellion Are Taking Root, and Protests Against Injustices Are Blooming Across the Country

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Seeds-of-Rebellion-Are-by-Kevin-Zeese-130720-935.html

How Monsanto Can Be Defeated
http://www.alternet.org/food/how-monsanto-can-be-defeated

The American Dream Has Turned into a Grueling Quest for Survival for Millions of People
http://www.alternet.org/labor/american-dream-has-turned-grueling-quest-survival-millions-people

Mind Raped by the Christian Right
http://www.alternet.org/belief/mind-raped-christian-right

Britain admits selling $12 billion in weapons to Israel
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/britain-admits-selling-12-billion-weapons-israel

Godless Political Values: Importance of Godless Values to Modern Democracy
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/p/PoliticalValues.htm?nl=1

Why Can't We Call A Whistleblower a Truth Teller?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Can-t-We-Call-A-Whistl-by-Kenneth-Kendrick-130721-14.html

Unemployment and Its Symptoms
http://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/unemployment-and-its-symptoms

Creationists are wrong. Science is actually concerned with the truth.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2013/07/19/creationists-are-wrong-science-is-actually-concerned-with-the-truth/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20130719

God, Religion, and American Politics
http://atheism.about.com/b/2013/07/12/god-religion-and-american-politics.htm?nl=1

The 12 Best Reasons Why The U.S. Is Not Now, And Never Should Be, A Christian Nation
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/20/christian-nation/

Is Religion Good or Evil?

Is Religion a Force for Good or Evil in the World?

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Resisting the Big Brother State, New Thought Police, Syria's Revolution, US Surveillance Drones Acknowledged, Excuse for War, Supreme Court Rulings, Military Presence in Africa, Bible-Thumper Politics, Edward Snowden, more.

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Bradley Manning: Truth on trial? Featuring Exclusive Interview with Julian Assange

VIDEO --> http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76482

Resisting the Big Brother state
http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/25/resisting-the-big-brother-state

American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People
http://www.alternet.org/chomsky-nsa

The new thought police

http://machineslikeus.com/news/new-thought-police

Walmart Costs U.S. 1 Billion in Foodstamps for Workers Not to Starve to Death
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76448

Will the U.S. hijack Syria's revolution?http://socialistworker.org/2013/06/25/will-the-us-hijack-syrias-revolution

FBI Director Acknowledges Use Of Surveillance Drones In The US
http://www.countercurrents.org/london200613.htm

10 Problems With The Latest Excuse For War
http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson200613.htm

The National Security State and the Whistleblower
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-National-Security-Stat-by-Melvin-Goodman-130619-288.html

Google Challenges NSA Gag Order, Cites 1st Amendment
http://blogs.findlaw.com/technologist/2013/06/google-challenges-nsa-gag-order-cites-1st-amendment.html

4 Recent Supreme Court Rulings Show Which Way the Wind Is Blowing: Corporations Are Getting Whatever They Want
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/us-supreme-court-furthers-corporate-assault-america

How the U.S. Military Presence in Africa Could Spawn a New Era of Radical Terrorism
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-military-and-unraveling-africa

The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA
http://www.alternet.org/economy/bank-americas-former-employees-expose-inhuman-greed

The Fascist State of America
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Fascist-State-of-Ameri-by-Glen-Barry-130625-853.html

There's a New Fascism on the Rise, and the NSA Leaks Show Us What It Looks Like
http://www.alternet.org/media/understanding-latest-leaks-understanding-rise-new-fascism

Are the Bible Thumpers Losing Their Grip on Our Politics?
http://www.alternet.org/belief/christian-right-0

How American Society Unravelled After Greedy Elites Robbed the Country Blind
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/how-american-society-unravelled

United States of Surveillance

The TRUTH About Whistleblowers Edward Snowden And Bradley Manning

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Criminalization of Political Dissent, CISPA Sponsor to Head FBI, US's Cyberwar Strategy, IRS Fallout, Psychopathy in Politics and Finance, Americans Demand Guantanamo Closure, Total Internet Surveillance Law, Military Sexual Assaults, Leaked Offshore Documents, Unregulated Capitalism, USA's Helplessness Syndrome, Cutthroat Capitalism, Illegal US Drone Attacks, America's Wealthy Losing Ground, Homeless Americans Rising, Israel Fights America's Battles, more.

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The Criminalization of Political Dissent in Americahttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34941.htm

FBI files reveal Anti-Defamation League spied on Arab students
http://electronicintifada.net/content/fbi-files-reveal-anti-defamation-league-spied-arab-students/12453

CISPA Sponsor Mike Rogers May Go On To Lead The FBI
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130507/18341622994/cispa-sponsor-mike-rogers-may-go-to-lead-fbi.shtml

US's 'Cyberwar' Strategy: Making The Public Less Secure In The Name Of 'Security'

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130511/17253823048/uss-cyberwar-strategy-making-public-less-secure-name-security.shtml

IRS Fallout: The Real Scandal Is Secret Money Influencing US Elections
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/14-12

Is Congress failing on Homeland Security oversight?
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2009/07/16/2822/congress-failing-homeland-security-oversight

Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/10/are_the_fbi_and_irs_secretly

Elizabeth Warren and Al Franken Team Up To Fight For The People, And Social Security
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/10/senators-elizabeth-warren-and-al-franken-join-power-team-up-to-fight-social-security-cuts-videos/

Psychopathy in Politics and Finance
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/corporate-criminality-/how-psychopaths-run-the-world-and-what-to-do-about-it-.html

Americans Demand Closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34902.htm

Obama May Back FBI Push for Total Internet Surveillance Law
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/05/07/obama-may-back-fbi-push-for-total-internet-surveillance-law/

Washington fury over military sexual assaults hits the Pentagon
http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/05/08/12636/washington-fury-over-military-sexual-assaults-hits-pentagon

Tax Authorities Move on Leaked Offshore Documents
http://www.icij.org/offshore/tax-authorities-move-leaked-offshore-documents

Death is Preferable to Life at Obama's Guantanamo
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34887.htm

Sex, Economics, and Austerity
http://prospect.org/article/sex-economics-and-austerity

5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society
http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-ways-raw-unregulated-capitalism-acting-cancer-american-society

Central Monitoring System to make government privy to phone calls, text messages and social media conversations
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-05-07/news/39091148_1_single-window-pranesh-prakash-internet

The Myth of American Christians as Persecuted Minority, part 256
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/myth-american-christians-persecuted-minority-part-256

The American "Helplessness Syndrome" and How to Defeat It
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-American-Helplessness-by-Timothy-Gatto-130510-905.html

Is Cutthroat Capitalism Pushing a Growing Number of Baby Boomers to Suicide?
http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/cutthroat-capitalism-pushing-growing-number-baby-boomers-suicide

Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots: US Protest Movement against the Banksters
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34903.htm

Why is America So Religious? Because of America's Inequality
http://atheism.about.com/b/2013/05/03/why-is-america-so-religious-because-of-americas-inequality.htm?nl=1

7 Financial Facts That Will Blow Your Mind
http://www.alternet.org/economy/7-financial-facts-will-blow-your-mind

5 Reasons Why the Smartest Man in the World Is Right to Boycott Israel
http://www.alternet.org/5-reasons-why-smartest-man-world-right-boycott-israel

Give Me An “F”! Creationists Fail a Fourth Grade Science Test
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/09/creationism_in_school_science_quiz_gets_it_totally_wrong.html

Watch Out, World! Even America's Wealthy Are Losing Ground
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34908.htm

Will Pakistan Finally Stand Up Against Illegal US Drone Attacks?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34912.htm

Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA
http://www.blacklistednews.com/Monsanto_Has_Taken_Over_the_USDA/25948/0/38/38/Y/M.html

5 Ways The Republican Party Has Sabotaged Our Economic Recovery
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/5-Ways-The-Republican-Part-in-Best_Web_OpEds-130511-623.html

Pope Francis Says That Only Looking At How To Make A Profit Goes Against God, Chastises ‘Slave Labor’
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/13/pope-francis-passionately-reviles-slave-labor-and-selfish-profit-goes-against-god/

Dirty Wars, Filthy Hands: 5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror
http://www.alternet.org/world/dirty-wars-filthy-hands-5-unsavory-ways-america-conducts-its-global-war-terror

Unimaginable Destruction If Israel Did Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons
http://www.alternet.org/world/unimaginable-destruction-if-israel-did-attack-iran-nuclear-weapons

Number of homeless Americans rising
http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76156

IRS Scandal: Top IRS Officials WERE Involved In Targeting Conservative Groups
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/irs-scandal-top-irs-officials-were-involved-in-targeting-conservative-groups_052013

Israel Fights America’s Battles?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34931.htm

Justice Department's Pursuit of AP's Phone Records is Both Extreme and Dangerous
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34945.htm

US Driven By Nazi War Machinehttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34946.htm

Former DHS Head On Google Glass: Intrusive Surveillance Is Bad -- If It's A Corporation Doing It
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130506/22112722970/former-dhs-head-google-glass-intrusive-surveillance-is-bad-if-its-corporation-doing-it.shtml

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Ron Paul: Bradley Manning Promotes Peace More Than Obama
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/12/ron-paul-bradley-manning-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-more-than-barack-obama

WikiLeaks: Was Chavez Right About U.S. Meddling?
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/wikileaks-was-chavez-right-about-u-s-meddling/

U.S. Ranks at the Bottom of Child Well-Being
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/us-ranks-bottom-child-well-being

FBI Sued for Info on Supersnooping Program
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/10/56533.htm

Why We Want to Keep Church and State as Far Away from Each Other as Possible
http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-we-want-keep-church-and-state-far-away-each-other-possible

Sen. Warren: Regulators Are Watching Out for Banks, Not the American Public
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/12-1

Army Judge Raises Burden in Private’s Trial on Leaks
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/us/military-tightens-media-rules-in-leaks-case.html?_r=1&

Bill Moyers Essay: The United States of Inequality
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/04/12-0

Your Essential Guide To The Background Check Debate
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/04/10/1845721/your-essential-guide-to-the-background-check-debate/

Cut Social Security and Veterans' Benefits? Cut the Pentagon Instead
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Cut-Social-Security--Vete-by-Robert-Naiman-130413-685.html

Will the Coming Economic War With China End the American Empire?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Will-the-Coming-Economic-W-by-Richard-Clark-130412-749.html

Is the IRS Tracking You on Facebook?
http://theanti-media.org/2013/04/13/the-resident-is-the-irs-tracking-you-on-facebook/

Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/12-6

The Orwellian Paradigm--Killing You, For Your Own Safety
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34604.htm

Money for Militarism, not for People: Obama’s Betrayal of Social Security
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34609.htm

Why do people pretend that religion isn’t responsible for creationism?
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/why-do-people-pretend-that-religion-isnt-responsible-for-creationism/

Disturbing Facts About State Lotteries: They Prey on the Poor and Trash the Economy, and Political Leaders Don't Care
http://www.alternet.org/hard-times-usa/disturbing-facts-about-state-lotteries-they-prey-poor-and-trash-economy-and-political

Climate Crisis Threatens Millions With Starvation And Destitution
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc140413.htm

People and Peace Over Plutocracy
http://www.opednews.com/articles/People-and-Peace-Over-Plut-by-David-Swanson-130413-995.html

Americans Obsessed with North Korea, Overstate Threat
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/04/11/americans-obsessed-with-north-korea-overstate-threat/

6 Sneaky Ways the Christian Right Foists Its Biblical Agenda on America
http://www.alternet.org/belief/6-sneaky-ways-christian-right-foists-its-biblical-agenda-america

It's Time to Drop the Bomb! Boycott Christmas
http://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Time-to-Drop-the-Bomb-by-Benjamin-Darden-130412-1.html

Is Renewable Energy's Biggest Problem Solved?
http://www.alternet.org/environment/renewable-energys-biggest-problem-solved

Why police states love terrorism
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud-1/why-police-states-love-terrorism.html

Godless Science vs. Religion: Why & How Godless Science is Superior to Religion
http://atheism.about.com/od/philosophyofscience/p/ScienceSuperior.htm?nl=1

FDA Lets Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fda-let-drugs-approved-on-fraudulent-research-stay-on-market&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130416
State Governments Viewed Favorably as Federal Rating Hits New Low
http://www.people-press.org/2013/04/15/state-govermnents-viewed-favorably-as-federal-rating-hits-new-low/

The Economic And Social Crisis: Contemporary Capitalism And Class Struggle
http://www.countercurrents.org/petras120413.htm

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: WikiLeaks Strikes Again, Monsanto Targets Democracy, Hijacked Human Rights, 300,000 American "Terrorists," Margaret Thatcher's Dark Side, Science vs. Conservatism, New Guantanamo Construction, Farmers vs. Monsanto, Cyber Attack on Israel, War on Whistleblowers, Who Drones Kill, Grocery Store Blacklist, 2014 Presidential Budget, Socialists' Elections, Minimum Wage Increase, Zionist Lunacy, 5 Corporate Tax Breaks, IRS Investigators, Atheist Discrimination, School Surveillance State, Animal Abuse Activist Undercover, more.

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WikiLeaks Strikes Again: Website Publishes 1.7 Million Documents on U.S. Foreign Policy

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wikileaks-strikes-again-website-publishes-17-million-documents-us-foreign-policy

Monsanto's Next Target: Democracy
http://www.alternet.org/food/monsantos-next-target-democracy

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Willing to Risk Arrest to Protect Public Education
http://www.alternet.org/education/5-reasons-why-you-should-be-willing-risk-arrest-protect-public-education

How America's Imperial Class Has Hijacked Human Rights to Further Its Interests
http://www.alternet.org/how-americas-imperial-class-has-hijacked-human-rights-further-its-interests

Why Americans Are So Ignorant -- It's Not Only Fox News, There Are Some Understandable Reasons for it
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/why-americans-are-so-ignorant-its-not-only-fox-news-there-are-some

Feds Identify 300,000 Americans as Terrorists
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/04/feds-identify-300000-americans-as.html

The Darker Side of Margaret Thatcher: From Austerity to Apartheid
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/darker-side-margaret-thatcher-austerity-apartheid

People Are Being Physically Beaten So We Can Save Money At Walmart
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/08/people-are-being-physically-beaten-so-we-can-save-money-at-walmart/

Science Versus Conservatism: Science Wins Again, Study Disproves Another Talking Point
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/08/science-versus-conservatism-science-wins-again-study-disproves-another-talking-point/

Obama Plans $195 Million in Renovation and New Construction at Guantánamo
http://intellihub.com/2013/04/09/obama-plans-195-million-in-renovation-and-new-construction-at-guantanamo/

New WikiLeaks Docs Show 'Vast Range & Scope' of US Global Influence
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/08

Farmers and Consumers V. Monsanto: David Meet Goliath
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/08-7

“American Dream”: Food loaded into Dumpsters while Hundreds of Hungry Americans Restrained by Police
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/american-dream-food-loaded-into-dumpsters-while-hundreds-of-hungry-americans-restrained-by-police_042013

The Message Behind The Cyber Attack On Israel
http://www.countercurrents.org/nazzal080413.htm

Groundbreaking 'War on Whistleblowers' Investigation Exposes Obama Admin's Record of Censorship and Persecution of Unsung Heroes and Journalists
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/groundbreaking-war-whistleblowers-investigation-exposes-obama-admins-record

It’s Time to Debate a Constitutional Landmine
http://bigthink.com/experts-corner/its-time-to-debate-a-constitutional-landmine

Intelligence Documents Suggest Obama Administration Lied About Who Drones Kill
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/intelligence-documents-suggest-obama-administration-lied-about-who-drones-kill

The Grocery Store Blacklist: 12 Food Companies to Avoid (and 95 Sneaky Aliases)
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-grocery-store-blacklist-12-food-companies-to-avoid-and-95-sneaky-aliases_042013

The president's 2014 budget request
http://www.fiercegovernment.com/special-reports/presidents-2014-budget-request

What can socialists hope to accomplish in elections?
http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2132

Minimum wage: Economist tells why it needs to be raised now
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/14379646-minimum-wage-economist-tells-why-it-needs-to-be-raised-now

Want to Get Americans Off Junk Food? Pay Them a Living Wage
http://www.alternet.org/food/want-get-americans-junk-food-pay-them-living-wage

The Corporate Betrayal of America
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/08-1

Zionist Lunacy Taking World to Hell in Handbasket
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34579.htm

Obama Budget Slashes Social Security, Medicare
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34578.htm

Prominent Israeli Journalist Accused of Incitement
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/prominent_israeli_journalist_accused_of_incitement_20130410/

5 Juicy Tax Breaks That Corporations Enjoy That the Public Can't Touch
http://www.alternet.org/economy/5-juicy-tax-breaks-corporations-enjoy-public-cant-touch

How America Breeds Mental Illness from Birth Until Death
http://www.alternet.org/how-america-breeds-mental-illness-birth-until-death

IRS Investigators See No Need For A Warrant To Snoop On Emails
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130411/01260522676/irs-investigators-see-no-need-warrant-to-snoop-emails.shtml

ATHEIST DISCRIMINATION: THE WEIRD (AND SERIOUS) WAYS NONBELIEVERS ARE MISTREATED
http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-04-atheist-discrimination-the-weird-and-serious-ways-no

Debate: After Activists Covertly Expose Animal Cruelty, Should They Be Targeted With "Ag-Gag" Laws?
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/9/debate_after_activists_covertly_expose_animal

Schools: The Ultimate Surveillance State
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/schools-are-prisons-1/schools-the-ultimate-surveillance-state.html

China Broadcasts Executions; Many Outraged
http://worldduh.com/2013/04/10/china-broadcasts-executions-many-outraged/

What Christians Don’t Know About Israel
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34560.htm

Undercover Activist Details Secret Filming of Animal Abuse & Why "Ag-Gag" Laws May Force Him to Stop
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/9/undercover_activist_details_secret_filming_of

@dustcirclenews HEADLINES: Schoolkids Brainwashed, Bradley Manning Recording, Homeland Security Ammo, Imperial Presidency, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Wealth Inequality, Survive Capitalism, Christian Domination Fight, Roman Catholic Church, America's Wars Cost, more.

11 Most Absurd Lies Conservatives Are Using to Brainwash America's School Kids
http://www.alternet.org/education/11-most-absurd-lies-conservatives-are-using-brainwash-americas-school-kids

Recording Of Bradley Manning's Statement In Court Leaked
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130312/13325322300/recording-bradley-mannings-statement-court-leaked.shtml

10 Worst People on Forbes 2013 Billionaires List
http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-worst-people-forbes-2013-billionaires-list

If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/12-0

1.6 Billion Rounds Of Ammo For Homeland Security? It's Time For A National Conversation
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/03/11/1-6-billion-rounds-of-ammo-for-homeland-security-its-time-for-a-national-conversation/

The Threat of the Imperial Presidency
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/12-3

Over 100 Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike
http://www.alternet.org/over-100-guantanamo-detainees-hunger-strike

Why Do Americans Tolerate Extreme Wealth Inequality?
http://bigthink.com/praxis/why-do-americans-tolerate-extreme-wealth-inequality

Can Civilization Survive Capitalism?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34198.htm

Hugo Chavez, R.I.P. - Leader Broke Venezuela Out of America's Imperial Orbit, Threw Neoliberal 'Economics' in the Trash
http://www.alternet.org/world/hugo-chavez-rip-leader-broke-venezuela-out-americas-imperial-orbit-threw-neoliberal-economics

One of the Most Powerful Portrayals of What Has Happened to America That You Will Ever See
http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/alyssa-figueroa/one-most-powerful-portrayals-what-has-happened-america-you-will-ever-see

Israel mistreating detained Palestinian children: report
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/israel-mistreating-detained-palestinian-children-report.php

5 Kids Bravely Fighting Christian Domination of Their Schools
http://www.alternet.org/5-kids-bravely-fighting-christian-domination-their-schools

How Authoritarianism Created the Crisis Engulfing the Roman Catholic Church
http://www.alternet.org/belief/how-authoritarianism-created-crisis-engulfing-roman-catholic-church

The Cost of America’s Wars – $3 Trillion, $4 Trillion, $5 Trillion, $7 Trillion, $8 Trillion, Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD
http://judymorrisreport.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-cost-of-americas-wars-3-trillion-4.html

IRS will pay whistle-blowers less because of federal budget cuts
http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-irs-whistleblower-budget-cut-sequester-20130305,0,4579241.story

Momentum builds to declassify CIA detention program
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/05/momentum_builds_to_declassify_cia_detention_program?wp_login_redirect=0

Americans living longer, less healthy lives
http://machineslikeus.com/news/americans-living-longer-less-healthy-lives

Keeping Watch: The Latest, Biggest Threats From The Religious Right
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/08/keeping-watch-the-latest-biggest-threats-from-the-religious-right/

With Millions in Assets And Hundreds of Attorneys, Christian Right Is Waging War on the Church-State Wall
http://www.alternet.org/belief/millions-assets-and-hundreds-attorneys-christian-right-waging-war-church-state-wall

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25.Dec.2012 - Democracy Doomed? NRA Suggests Police State, Global Persecution of Nonbelievers, Uncover-ed Religion, Old Views of Evolution, Get Rid of Electoral College? Unraveling the Welfare State 1+2, Sabotage of Democracy, Ditching Fossil Fuels, War on Christmas? and more.

Is Democracy Doomed? New Report Shows Tectonic Shifts in Campaign Spending

In a short period of time since the passage of Citizens United, the political funding landscape has dramatically changed.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/democracy-doomed-new-report-shows-tectonic-shifts-campaign-spending

NRA Suggests a Police State
f one follows the "logic" of the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre, the United States should become an armed camp with armored-up police carrying high-powered weapons stationed at virtually every location where children might congregate and where a crazy person might show up with a semi-automatic assault rifle.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15198-nra-suggests-a-police-state

For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall

Low-income strivers face uphill climbs, especially at Ball High School, where a third of the girls’ class failed to graduate on schedule. But by the time the triplets donned mortarboards in the class of 2008, their story seemed to validate the promise of education as the great equalizer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/education/poor-students-struggle-as-class-plays-a-greater-role-in-success.html

Self-Compassion is More Important to Success than Self-Esteem

Being proud of your work and showing some self-esteem and confidence will get you a long way in life, but at the office, sometimes it's the ability to forgive yourself and learn from your mistakes that's more valuable than pure ego. Self-compassion can help you learn and grow, which is key to succeeding in any career.

http://lifehacker.com/5970594/self+compassion-is-more-important-to-success-than-self+esteem

Obama Backed FSA/Al Qaeda Terrorists Using Chemical Weapons in Syria

Militants fighting against the Syrian government have used chemical weapons against the army in Daraya near the capital, Damascus, military sources say.

http://rebel-institute.org/opinion/mena/313630-obama-backed-fsa-al-qaeda-terrorists-using-chemical-weapons-in-syria

Sacred Mysteries : Life After Death, Ancient Texts & the Vril

New Reports Reveal Global Persecution of Nonbelievers

According to Egypt News Daily, the prosecution first sought to charge him in connection with disseminating Innocence of Muslims but when this accusation was proven false, they revised their strategy to target the content of Saber’s video blog. Though sentenced to three years and released on bail he was subsequently locked up due to a clerical error before being released on December 17.

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/6704/new_reports_reveal_global_persecution_of_nonbelievers

Undercover-ed Religion: 13 Stories That Went Missing in 2012

Storm and flood, bad bishops, nones on the bus, vegan leather queens, God’s mom: in this list Peter Laarman plots the angles that were largely invisible in mainstream religion coverage this past year—and likely in our own. A road map for 2013—and a sign to us that there might be more important things to focus on this year than the launch of our signature fragrance, RD’s Apocalypse-Begone (subtle notes of ash, hints of ocean breeze, a wisp of sulphur...). 

http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/6680/undercover_ed_religion__13_stories_that_went_missing_in_2012

Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win, and Now Protect, Voting Rights in U.S.

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Biden: If Obama Comes for my Beretta, He's Got a Problem

The hidden size of nonbelievers

The people who are nonbelievers in any religion sometimes feel like a small minority. But this is purely a local illusion. When it comes to religions, different ones dominate different parts of the world. But when it comes to nonbelievers, we are all pretty much the same everywhere. We are the true uniters, not dividers, our shared unbelief uniting us across nations, races, and ethnicities.

http://machineslikeus.com/news/hidden-size-nonbelievers

New data challenge old views about evolution of early life

A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has tested a popular hypothesis in paleo-ocean chemistry, and proved it false

http://machineslikeus.com/news/new-data-challenge-old-views-about-evolution-early-life

Question: Get Rid of Electoral College?

Unraveling the Welfare State

hat do you think the use of technocratic governments in Europe says about European democracy? There are two problems with it. First of all it shouldn’t happen, at least if anybody believes in democracy. Secondly, the policies that they’re following are just driving Europe into deeper and deeper problems. The idea of imposing austerity during a recession makes no sense whatsoever. http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15193-unraveling-the-welfare-state

Unraveling the Welfare State (Part Two)
urope should have agreed to Palestine's observer status at the United Nations being upgraded, but they were, as you know, split on this. The US, of course, was strongly opposed. The reasons are very explicit and it's worth looking at them. They were discussed again in the New York Times last week where, of course, the newspaper took the same position as Washington almost reflexively. There are two problems, they say.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15209-unraveling-the-welfare-state-part-2

The GOP's Sabotage of Democracy

eally, what is to be done about this Republican Party? What force can change it—can stop Republicans from being ideological saboteurs and convert at least a workable minority of them into people interested in governing rather than sabotage? With the failed Plan B vote, we have reached the undeniable crisis point. Actually we’ve been at a crisis point for years, but this is really the all-upper-case Undeniable Crisis Point. They are a direct threat to the economy, which could slip back into recession next year if the government doesn’t, well, govern.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15192-the-gops-sabotage-of-democracy

How a Country With One of the World's Largest Economies Is Ditching Fossil Fuels

The country is headed for 80 percent renewable energy and has complete buy-in from all political parties.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/how-country-one-worlds-largest-economies-ditching-fossil-fuels

There Really Is a War on Christmas -- It's Being Fought by Brave Atheists in the Heartland

There is a growing contingent of atheists from the American heartland who live surrounded by the faithful.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/there-really-war-christmas-its-being-fought-brave-atheists-heartland

The 7 Worst Things About McDonald's

Forcing employees to work on Christmas without overtime pay is just the beginning.

http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/7-worst-things-about-mcdonalds

The Spy State Tightens its Grip

Americans are paying an ever-increasing price, both in dollars and the loss of personal privacy, to maintain the spy state.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/spy-state-tightens-its-grip

Human Rights Watch: Israel’s justifications for killing journalists are "evidence of war crimes"

Bank Rate Fixing Scandals Reveal the Rotten Heart of Capitalism

his is the year the consensus changed. Around the world, policy-makers, regulators and bankers recognised that the legacy of the 20-year credit boom up to 2008 is more corrosive than all but a few realised at the time. The bankers - and the theorists who justified their actions - made a millennial mistake. Navigating a way out of the mess was never likely to be easy, but it is made harder still by not recognising the magnitude of the disaster and the necessary radicalism involved if things are to be put right.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/15211-bank-rate-fixing-scandals-reveal-the-rotten-heart-of-capitalism

Sneaky Apps that Track Cellphones

A perversion of smartphone technology called "stalking apps" - precise, secretive trackings of the movements of cellphone users - is increasingly a matter of national concern, particularly for domestic abuse victims. No less threatening is the routine monitoring of children's locales and phone habits for commercial purposes while parents are kept in the dark. Stealth apps even stoop to cyber-leering through the now notorious app called Girls Around Me, which allows men to search out women, unbeknown to them, by cross-matching GPS technology with information and photo sites like Facebook.

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/183-183/15212-sneaky-apps-that-track-cellphones

Lieberman would have ‘some really serious questions’ to ask Hagel ‘not just about Israel’ but about (Israel’s enemy du jour) Iran

Will the Internet End Up Controlled by Big Business and Politicians?

t's all about control. Of course, nobody uses that particular term. The talk is always about "governance" or "regulation", but really it's about control. Ever since the internet burst into public consciousness in 1993, the big question has been whether the most disruptive communications technology since print would be captured by the established power structures - nation states and giant corporations - that dominate our world and shape its development. And since then, virtually every newsworthy event in the evolution of the network has really just been another skirmish in the ongoing war to control the internet.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/15206-will-the-internet-end-up-controlled-by-big-business-and-politicians

Atheists vs. Christians: Inside One of America's Bitterest Nativity Scene Battles

Santa Monica is ground zero in the fault lines between Christian tradition, separation of church and state, and the First Amendment.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheists-vs-christians-inside-one-americas-bitterest-nativity-scene-battles
Michael Moore: 3 Reasons America Is Falling Apart -- And How We Can Save Ourselves

This holiday season, it is important to reflect on the root causes of America's slide.

http://www.alternet.org/michael-moore-3-reasons-america-falling-apart-and-how-we-can-save-ourselves