@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Reclaim the Power, NSA Decryption Technology, Climate Crisis, Economics a Science? Atheists Vote, Global Human Rights, Spying Household Items, Monsanto's Gravest Wrongdoings, Capitalism Cannot Be Reformed, Our Common Wealth, Corporate America, Gangster State, Palestinian Children Routinely Tortured, Gun Toting Evangelicals, more.

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Reclaim the power! A call to action against energy austerity

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/reclaim-the-power-a-call-to-action-against-energy-austerity/

NSA Used Decryption Technology To Spy On The United Nations
http://www.countercurrents.org/gaist260813.htm

Climate Crisis To Harm All Forms Of Marine Life, Finds Study

http://www.countercurrents.org/cc260813A.htm

Is Economics a Science?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/is-economics-a-science_b_3816471.html

Thirteen Things the Government is Trying to Keep Secret from You
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/23-1

Hey Candidates: Atheists Vote, Too -- So Stop Pandering to God!
http://www.alternet.org/belief/hey-candidates-atheists-vote-too-so-stop-pandering-god

Bringing global human rights into the surveillance debate
https://www.cdt.org/commentary/bringing-global-human-rights-surveillance-debate

9 Household Items That Could Be Spying on You
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-levin/9-household-items-that-co_b_3760938.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news&ir=Weird%20News

NSA's Surveillance Programs Are The "Most Serious Attacks On Free Speech We’ve Ever Seen."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35960.htm

A Noxious History: 5 of Monsanto’s Gravest Wrongdoings
http://www.takepart.com/photos/noxious-history-5-monsantos-dastardly-deeds?cmpid=tpnews-eml-2013-08-24-water/unleashing-pcbs


Capitalism Cannot Be Reformed

http://www.countercurrents.org/mickeyz230813.htm

Our Common Wealth; The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Our-Common-Wealth-The-Hid-by-book-excerpt-130823-723.html

Corporate America: Rapidly Proceeding Down The Road To Its Eventual Demise
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Corporate-America-Rapidly-by-michael-payne-130822-502.html

Privacy, and open government: both under assault
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Privacy-and-open-governme-by-Stephen-Unger-130823-752.html

NSA admits: Our analysts ‘willfully violated’ rules of surveillance system
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/24/nsa-admits-our-analysts-willfully-violated-rules-of-surveillance-system/

Bradley Manning and the Gangster State
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Bradley-Manning-and-the-Ga-by-Chris-Hedges-130822-376.html

Palestinian children routinely tortured, some threatened with rape: Israel rights group
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/palestinian-children-routinely-tortured-some-threatened-rape-israel-rights-group

In Defiance of Christ’s Teachings Right Wing Evangelicals Become Gun Toting Maniacs
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/08/23/defiance-christs-teachings-wing-evangelicals-gun-toting-maniacs.html

Creating Chilling Effects On Speech Is A Feature, Not A Bug, Of The Surveillance State
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130822/19270124286/creating-chilling-effects-speech-is-feature-not-bug-surveillance-state.shtml

Study Finds Wealth Gives Rise to a Sense of Entitlement and Narcissistic Behaviors
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35966.htm

Victims Of Forced Labor: 21 Million
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc250813B.htm

The UnAmerican Way
http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/The-UnAmerican-Way-in-Best_Web_OpEds-Congress_Corporate_Corporations-Agriculture_Fast-Track-130825-405.html

Indiscriminate surveillance fosters distrust, conformity and mediocrity: research

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/26/indiscriminate-surveillance-fosters-distrust-conformity-and-mediocrity-research/

More NSA Revelations Emerging

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76785

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: 50 Million Hungry Daily, Fast Food Living Wage, Debt-Free College Education, Espionage Act Abuse, Low-Wage America, Right-Wing Media vs. Science, Post-Constitution USA, Failing American Empire, more.

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50 Million Go Hungry Each Day
http://www.alternet.org/food/moyers-50-million-go-hungry-each-day

Creating A Living Wage For Fast Food Workers Would Cost Pennies For Business And Consumers
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/04/creating-a-living-wage-for-fast-food-workers-would-cost-pennies-for-business-and-consumers/

FBI can remotely activate microphones in Android smartphones, source says
http://worldduh.com/2013/08/03/fbi-can-remotely-activate-microphones-in-android-smartphones-source-says/

‘We Are Slowly Dying’: Fast-Food Workers Strike for Wages, Rights and Dignity
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/we_are_slowly_dying_fast-food_workers_strike_for_wages_rights_20130803/

Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2013/08/violence-will-rise-as-climate-changes-scientists-predict.html

A Debt-Free College Education

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-8

Obama's Abuse of the Espionage Act is Modern-Day McCarthyism
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/06-14

The Surveillance State Is as Strong as Ever
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_surveillance_state_is_as_strong_as_ever_20130804/

5 Ways Right-Wing Media Make Their Fans Fear Science
http://www.alternet.org/5-ways-right-wing-media-make-their-fans-fear-science

5 Ways the War on Terror Has Changed Your Life
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/5-ways-war-terror-impacting-you

Talk About Police States
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35774.htm

Low-wage America
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/07/pers-a07.html

Feds Accused Of Distributing Malware That De-Anonymizes Tor Users
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130805/12263024073/federal-government-distributing-malware-that-de-anonymizes-tor-users.shtml

It's Dangerous For Free Speech When We Confuse Leakers With Spies
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130802/14032124047/its-dangerous-free-speech-when-we-confuse-leakers-with-spies.shtml

Should Businesses Make Money From Poor People?
http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/should-businesses-make-money-from-poor-people

Washington Thinks You Are Stupid
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Washington-Thinks-You-Are-by-Paul-Craig-Roberts-130806-33.html

Welcome To Post-Constitution America

http://www.countercurrents.org/buren070813.htm

Polls Keep Showing That Americans Are Fine with the Surveillance State
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/08/poll-after-poll-shows-americans-are-fine-surveillance-state/68038/

Is the United States a failing empire?
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/15143110-is-the-united-states-a-failing-empire

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON FOR BRADLEY MANNING | JILL STEIN INTERVIEW

@dustcirclenews - Free DOCUMENTARIES: Do the Math, Vatican Inc., Fiefdom of Speech, Children for Sale, Crack House USA, Radical Islam's War Against the West, Rise of Artificial Intelligence, Hawking Paradox, Battered and Bruised, Iran and the Bomb

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Do the Math

Like most people, Bill (environmentalist and co-founder of 350.org), is not an activist by nature. There’s really not that many people whose greatest desire it to go out and fight the system. His theory of change was that he’ll write his book, people will read it and they’ll change. But that’s not how change happens. What is required is to make a little noise, be a little uncomfortable, and push other people to be a little uncomfortable. The moment has come where we have to take a real stance, because we’re reaching limits.

Vatican Inc.

Every Sunday worshipers crowd the Saint Peter’s colonnades in square and from its balcony the Pope imparts a sacrament and the latest behavioral guidelines. Over one billion Catholics look to the pontiff for guidance and donate their money to the Catholic Church. A large portion of this money makes its way to the Vatican and into the vaults of the IOR, the Institute for Religious Works, the Vatican’s Bank.

Fiefdom of Speech

The right to freedom of expression is recognized as a human right under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Children for Sale

From slums and misery in Brazil, hundreds of children and teenagers leave each day in search of tourists. At home there is no food on the table. On the beaches of Fortaleza there are plenty of men eager for easy and cheap bodies. Left to themselves or encouraged by their parents into prostitution, many children try to survive with what the night of Fortaleza has to offer – sex and drugs. 

Crack House USA

Summer 2005: federal agents and police record over a thousand hours of surveillance footage inside a crack house in Rockford Illinois. For six weeks the gang smoke weed, play with guns and sell crack and heroin, unaware that their every move is being filmed. The customers come and go with no clue that their secret lives would be exposed. This is an intimate portrait of the rise and fall of a crack house and of an American urban community brought down by drugs. Interviews with gang members, their families and cops reveal the inescapable tragedy – and occasional dark comedy – of a world that lies hidden within every modern city.

Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West

Today, we find ourselves confronted by a new enemy, also engaged in a violent struggle to transform our world. As we sleep in the comfort of our homes, a new evil rises against us. A new menace is threatening, with all the means at its disposal, to bow Western Civilization under the yoke of its values. That enemy is Radical Islam.

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is an ever evolving goal for researchers, and the object of endless fascination for writers, filmmakers, and the general public. But despite our best science fiction visions, creating digital intelligence is incredibly difficult. The universe is a very complicated place, and humans have had millions of years to evolve the ability to navigate and make sense of it. Contemporary attempts to create AI have us looking more at how our own brains work to see how a computer could simulate the core activities that create our intelligence. No matter how we get there, it is certain that artificial intelligence will have tremendous impact on our society and economy, and lead us down a path towards evolving our own definitions of humanity.

The Hawking Paradox

Stephen Hawking is the most famous scientist on the planet. His popular science book A Brief History of Time was a publishing sensation, staying at the top of the bestseller lists longer than any other book in recent history. But behind the public face lies an argument that has been raging for almost 30 years.

Battered And Bruised

In PNG’s Western Highlands Provinces, 97 per cent of women surveyed by an NGO said they had been attacked by male family members. From middle-class households in the capital Port Moresby to villages where tribal law rules an estimated one million children live in volatile family environments.

Iran And The Bomb

The West says Iran is making a nuclear bomb. Tehran says they’re treating cancer. This compelling investigation gets right to the heart of the maelstrom, interrogating facts, falsehoods and shocking allegations.

21.Feb.2013 - HEADLINES: Feds Buy 2-Billion Rounds of Ammo, Arrested for Your Politics, Civil Disobedience, America Not the Greatest, Exceptionalism, Human Misery Profiting, Homeless Shelter Abuses, Retail Apocalypse, Israeli Occupation Prisons, more.

Feds Buy 2 Billion Rounds of Ammunition

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/feds-buy-2-billion-rounds-of-ammunition_022013

Arrested for Your Politics in America? It's Already Happening
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/arrested-your-politics-america-its-already-happening

Civil Disobedience: The Only "Weapon" We Have Remaining?

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Civil-Disobedience-The-On-by-Camillo-Mac-Bica-130217-620.html

How Can Anyone Still Believe That America Is the Greatest Country on Earth?
http://www.alternet.org/glenn-greenwald-how-can-anyone-still-believe-america-greatest-country-earth

The Premises And Purposes Of American Exceptionalism

http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Premises-And-Purposes-by-Glenn-Greenwald-130218-15.html

Profiting From Human Misery

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/18

I Went Undercover at a Homeless Shelter -- You Wouldn't Believe the Shocking Abuses I Found There

http://www.alternet.org/i-went-undercover-homeless-shelter-you-wouldnt-believe-shocking-abuses-i-found-there

Retail Apocalypse: Why Are Major Retail Chains All Over America Collapsing?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34003.htm

Thousands Protest 'Israeli Occupation Prisons' as Hunger Strikers Press On

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/18-6

Large study links excessive TV in childhood to criminal behavior in adults
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/18/large-study-links-excessive-tv-in-childhood-to-criminal-behavior-in-adults/

Sounding the global warming alarm
http://socialistworker.org/2013/02/19/sounding-the-global-warming-alarm

Voting Rights Act In The Supreme Court’s Crosshairs
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-section-5.php

Minimum Wage: Who Decided That Hard-Working Americans Should Fall Behind?
http://www.alternet.org/economy/minimum-wage-who-decided-hard-working-americans-should-fall-behind

Are Atheists the New Campus Crusaders?
http://www.alternet.org/belief/are-atheists-new-campus-crusaders

Bad Arguments against Marriage Equality
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/02/bad-arguments-against-marriage-equality/

NDAA: Pre-emptive Prosecution Coming to a Town Near You
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34039.htm

Crowdfunding The Push For A Federal Anti-SLAPP Law To Protect Free Speech
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130220/02221522035/crowdfunding-push-federal-anti-slapp-law-to-protect-free-speech.shtml

Will Obama Confiscate Guns and Gold?
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/will-obama-confiscate-guns-and-gold_022013

A Free Falling Economy Makes Bartering Go Boom
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/a-free-falling-economy-makes-bartering-go-boom_022013

Mike Bloomberg Will Leave the Homeless Worse Off Than He Found Them
http://gawker.com/5985591/mike-bloomberg-will-leave-the-homeless-worse-off-than-he-found-them

13.Feb.2013 - DOCUMENTARIES: Networked Society, Supersize Me, Bad Behavior Online, Clean Technology Future, Food Speculator

Life in a Networked Society

Technologies enable people to interact, innovate and share information in totally new ways. People are empowered, business is liberated and the society is more transparent. But how to take advantage of all this? And what does it take to become a networked society?

Supersize Me – Morgan Spurlock vs McDonald’s Fastfood

While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald’s food for one month.
Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock’s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he ate only McDonald’s food. The film documents this lifestyle’s drastic effect on Spurlock’s physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry’s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit.
Spurlock dined at McDonald’s restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chain’s menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.92 megajoules or 5,000 kcal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment.
As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained 24½ lbs. (11.1 kg), a 13% body mass increase, a cholesterol level of 230, and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his future wife, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes.
The reason for Spurlock’s investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society, which the Surgeon General has declared “epidemic,” and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald’s on behalf of two overweight girls, who, it was alleged, became obese as a result of eating McDonald’s food.
The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

Bad Behavior Online: Bullying, Trolling and Free Speech

The internet is a powerful tool for communication, but it can sometimes be a double-edged sword. As most of us have seen or experienced, the internet can bring out the worst behavior in people, highlighting some of the cruelest and most hurtful aspects of humanity. Issues such as bullying online and trolling have garnered a lot of attention recently, prompting questions about who does, and should, regulate the internet, and what free speech means online.

The Clean Technology Future

What if we could live in a clean world?A world in which energy would be 100% renewable, water no longer polluted, transportation truly green and production methods clean and regenerative? There will be such a world. This documentary explores the unprecedented possibilities of a new industrial revolution: Cleantech.
Signs of a new future are visible everywhere, from China to the US and from Europe to Thailand. Green mobility powered by sustainable energy, clean drinking water for all thanks to nanotechnology, dyeing textiles using recycled CO2. All of this is possible and is happening successfully now! Working together with Cleantech-founder Nick Parker, this film shows what our world will be like in the decades to come. The film team travels the world in search of a clean future.

The Food Speculator

The film examines the global commodities futures markets and aims to understand the role of speculation on food prices.
Assuming the role of a speculator, director Kees Brouwer tries to find out whether he is merely taking advantage of the opportunity offered to investors by the food scarcity, or that, through this abstract world of financial products, he is drastically interfering in poor people’s lives.
Increasing food prices are increasingly causing unrest in the world. It was no coincidence that when the Arab Spring first began Tunisian protesters attacked the order police with baguettes. Is there just not enough food for so many people, or are the price increases caused by speculators, looking for quick profits? Backlight tries to find an answer by doing a little food speculation of its own. A quest that leads us to places including the streets of Tunisia and the Chicago Stock Exchange.

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

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Getting the US elections out of proportion

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

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

Superstorm Sandy—a People's Shock?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Occupy Sandy Offers Aid to Hurricane Victims

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

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

The Next Game of Economic Chicken: Taxing the Rich

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

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

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

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

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

Will Obama Fulfill His 2007 Promise to Label GMOs?

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

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

Supreme Court to Review Key Section of Voting Rights Act

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It starts with destroying our manufacturing base.

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

How Raw Capitalism Is Devouring American Culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Record Number Of Women Will Serve In Congress

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

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

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

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

Who's helping, who's not

Hint: FEMA is not

The Red Cross is NOT helping

Just like after 9/11 and Katrina

What is the government good for?

Not a whole lot it turns out

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

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy

We Got This (Occupy Sandy)

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

19.OCT.2012, PART 2 - The Third-Party Factor, Breaking the Silence on Israel, America's Plutocrats, Onward Mormon Soldiers, CIA to Beef Up Armed Drones, transparency in Judicial Elections, DOMA Ruled Unconstitional, Inside the Mind of a Whistleblower, Occupied Palestine, Is Homosexuality a Choice?

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The Third-Party Factor: Will 2012 Look Like 2000?

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=163201458&m=163224641

Losing their grip in Afghanistan

As another anniversary of the Afghanistan war passed this month amid growing "green-on-blue" attacks, Ashley Smith analyzes the prospects for the occupation.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/15/losing-their-grip-in-afghanistan

Breaking the silence on Israel

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine brought together civil rights leaders, authors, actors and others dedicated to revealing Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people. Sherry Wolf, one of the organizers and press officer for the event, describes the weekend of testimony.

http://socialistworker.org/2012/10/15/breaking-the-silence-on-israel

Bill Moyers: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland to Take on America's Plutocrats

On this week’s Moyers & Company Bill is joined by two veteran journalists to discuss how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America’s interest.

http://www.alternet.org/bill-moyers-matt-taibbi-and-chrystia-freeland-take-americas-plutocrats

Onward Mormon Soldiers: Ann Romney Compares Mormon Mission to Military Service

Ann Romney told The View that her sons and her husband didn't serve, but they did spend a two-year tour proselytizing, which is pretty much the same thing.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/onward-mormon-soldiers-ann-romney-compares-mormon-mission-military-service

TSA removes X-ray body scanners from major airports

The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe are safer.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/19/tsa-removes-x-ray-body-scanners-from-major-airports/

Why Romney Doesn’t Support Equal Pay For Women, In One Picture

Mitt Romney’s campaign just can’t figure out whether he supports equal pay for women or not. When asked last April about Romney’s view on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which restored equal pay rights the Roberts Court cut back in 2007, Romney’s campaign responded with an awkward six second silence followed by a promise to “get back” with an answer to the question. 

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/10/17/1035571/why-romney-is-against-equal-pay-for-women-in-one-picture/

The CIA Wants To Beef Up Its Armed Drone Fleet

The CIA is apparently pushing the White House to sign off on a significant expansion of the agency's fleet of armed drones, increasing its size by roughly a third.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/10/19/cia_drone_use_washington_post_reports_cia_wants_a_significant_expansion.html

Disclosure Laws Needed to Ensure Transparency in Judicial Elections

Earlier this year, the Supreme Court reaffirmed its controversial Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission decision from 2010, following a challenge to a Montana law that prohibited corporate spending in elections. Disclosure laws would enable voters to know who is buying judicial elections in their states.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/report/2012/10/16/41451/policy-solutions-to-the-corporate-capture-of-state-supreme-courts/

DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional By Federal Appeals Court In New York

Saying the gay population has "suffered a history of discrimination," a divided federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled Thursday that a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman was unconstitutional, adding fuel to an issue expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court soon.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/doma-defense-of-marriage-act_n_1980197.html

Inside The Mind Of A Whistleblower

I love being a whistleblower. I'm proud of it. When I wrote my last article about being a whistleblower, the response I received was overwhelming. Many people backed what I did, and I made a lot of contacts I wouldn't have otherwise. Last night I spent 5 hours on the phone with a fellow whistleblower. We had never met before, but it felt like reconnecting with an old friend. We shared war stories that we never told anyone before, because we connected on a level that nobody outside the whistleblowing community will ever truly get. We've both fought impossible odds and seen amazing things. It was the first time I felt like I was talking to someone who really understood me and what I've gone through.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-penny/inside-the-mind-of-a-whis_b_1982779.html

Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech

Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow but rather from thousands of paper cuts of well-intentioned exceptions designed to maintain social harmony.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-four-arguments-the-western-world-uses-to-limit-free-speech/2012/10/12/e0573bd4-116d-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html

Occupied Palestine: humiliation and human rights

UN, international, Palestinian, and Israeli human rights organisations do important work in Palestine. But the magic 'national security' argument is always available as a tool for the government of Israel.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/michael-croydon/occupied-palestine-humiliation-and-human-rights

5 Things You Need to Know About Mitt Romney's Shady Investments Before Election Day

Reporters continue to buy that old "blind trust" ruse. It's time to hold Romney accountable.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/5-things-you-need-know-about-mitt-romneys-shady-investments-election-day

How Kids Are Getting Hooked on Pills for Life

Young children were once expected to outgrow their issues; now they're diagnosed with lifelong psychiatric problems.

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/how-kids-are-getting-hooked-pills-life

6 Ways You Might Be Getting Scammed on Your Monthly Bills

Some companies design their fee structures and agreements in an intentionally confusing manner.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/6-ways-you-might-be-getting-scammed-your-monthly-bills

Is Homosexuality a Choice?

Perhaps sexual preference can be changed – and people have the right to engage in gay sex and have homosexual relationships if they choose to do so. (The fourth option, that gay people have no choice but to be gay, but should be punished for it anyway, is morally unthinkable.)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2012/10/19/is-homosexuality-a-choice/?WT_mc_id=SA_DD_20121019

America: Caught in the Throes of an Escalating "UnCivil War"

Watching what's going on in America today is like reliving the years preceding the destructive Civil War of the 1860's in which the seething anger and great dissension between opposing factions finally reached a boiling point and erupted into extreme violence. It's as if that dissension that tore America apart became embedded in this nation's psyche and has now resurfaced in this society.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/America-Caught-in-the-Thr-by-michael-payne-121018-833.html

Privatization Madness: Now Private Companies are Collecting Our Taxes

I went into my local township building Monday to settle up my local income tax bill. I had filed for an extension of my federal and state taxes back in April because of my father's unexpected death a few weeks before the tax filing date and the need to deal with his funeral and with arranging for care for my widowed mother, who has alzheimers, had taken up all my time.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Privatization-Madness-Now-by-Dave-Lindorff-121018-602.html

Land of Elites

Few Americans have significant influence on the country or the lives of people in it. The number of Americans with real influence is very small, but their influence is very, very great. Although they are not organized into a formal institution, they nonetheless constitute the "invisible government" Edward Bernays wrote about in his book Propaganda in 1928

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Land-of-Elites-by-B-Sidney-Smith-121017-963.html

Palestinian Authority to Hold Sham Elections

Longtime Israeli collaborators Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad scheduled West Bank municipal elections on October 20, 2012. Democracy isn't on the ballot. Palestinians are skeptical for good reason. For the first time since January 25, 2006, they'll vote in an election much different from then. Fed up with institutionalized Fatah corruption and subservience to Israel, Hamas candidates swept to victory.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Palestinian-Authority-to-H-by-Stephen-Lendman-121019-128.html

Mitt Romney: International Man of Mystery

The FBI's Fed Follies

The post-American Middle East

Redefining Happiness, Beating Consumerism

Study Shows How Prayer, Meditation Affect Brain Activity

As Sen. McGovern Nears Death, How the Antiwar Candidate Challenged Vietnam and Inspired a Generation

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