Democracy Now's 2013 Year in Review [Video]

2013 In Review: Power, Politics and Resistance

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HEADLINES: The 72 Who Rule the World, Human Rights Council Annual Report, Surveillance in Developing Countries, Taxpayers Abandoning the U.S., American Christianity Selfishness, Losers from Lost Wars, Dark Side of Data, more.

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The 72 Who Rule The World

Our annual snapshot of the politicians and financiers, entrepreneurs and CEOs, and billionaire philanthropists who matter most.

http://www.forbes.com/powerful-people/

The Time Has Come For $15 Minimum Wage
http://www.countercurrents.org/vorpahl101113.htm

The 10 Giant Corporations That Have Taken Over Much of Our Economy
http://www.alternet.org/10-giant-corporations-have-taken-over-much-our-economy

UN Human Rights Council presents annual report
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/11/un-human-rights-council-presents-annual-report.php

100 Ways To Undermine The Machine
http://www.opednews.com/articles/100-Ways-To-Undermine-The-by-Keith-Farnish-Disruption_The-Machine_Undermining-131113-915.html

Development and humanitarian aid initiatives enable surveillance in developing countries
https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/development-and-humanitarian-aid-initiatives-enable-surveillance-in-developing-countries

More Taxpayers Are Abandoning the U.S.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-taxpayers-abandoning-u-181500097.html

Russell Brand: We Deserve More From Our Democratic System
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36798.htm

The Gospel of Selfishness in American Christianity
http://www.alternet.org/belief/gospel-selfishness-american-christianity

Can you change the world from your living room?http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/jacob-z-hess-joan-blades/can-you-change-world-from-your-living-room

How Evil Can the CIA and NSA Get? How to Restrain US Intelligence Agencies
http://www.opednews.com/articles/How-Evil-Can-the-CIA-and-by-Rob-Kall-Assassination_Diane-Feinstein_FOIA_General-Keith-Alexander-131110-138.html

Democracy Trampled as Big Money Overwhelms Grassroots Campaigns
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-4

America's Rampage Through the Middle East
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36863.htm

Ever Purchase a Book on Lying? You Might Be on a Govt Watch List
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/14-1

Are Politicians who Cut Food Stamps and Deny Health Access Truly 'Pro-Life'?http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/are-politicians-who-cut-food-stamps-and-deny-health-access-truly-pro-life

6 Things You Buy That Help Support Israeli Brutality
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36791.htm

How the Super-Rich Are Abandoning America

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-1

U.S. Is a State Sponsor of Terrorism
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Is-a-State-Sponsor-of-by-William-Boardman-America_Bombing_Children_Children-131108-967.html

The Great Austerity Shell Game: Here's How the Capitalist Scam Works
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/04-3

George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36790.htm

Silent Soldiers, The Losers From Our Lost Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/07-5

Secret Persuasion: How Big Campaign Donors Stay Anonymous
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/06/243022966/secret-persuasion-how-big-campaign-donors-stay-anonymous

Top 10 Survival Tips Every Hiker Should Know
http://news.discovery.com/adventure/survival/top-10-survival-tips-every-hiker-should-know-131107.htm#mkcpgn=emnws1

The dark side of data (11 talks)

Data can be used for good, harnessed for the betterment of society, but it can also be abused. Find out about some hidden not-so-sunny uses of Big Data.

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  Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching

  09:56
  

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  Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act

  19:18
  

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  Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption

  18:57
  

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  Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science

  14:19
  

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  Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters

  15:00
  

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  Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!

  14:30
  

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  Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack

  09:23
  

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  Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

  15:22
  

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  Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked

  16:56
  

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  Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS

  15:45
  

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  Christopher "moot" Poole": The case for anonymity online

  13:10
  

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Total run time 2:42:36

 http://www.ted.com/playlists/130/the_dark_side_of_data.html

@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/

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Our Founding Fathers, FCC Disclosure Proposal, Where Are the Unions, Israeli Chemical Weapons, More Snowden Revelations, The Rising Anti-Science, People Want Full Medicare, NSA's Mass Spying, Hunger-Striking Radicals, Global Warming, Social Network Diagrams, Opposition to Faith Schools, Biblical Child Abuse, American Exceptionalism, American Outsourcing Exposed, more.

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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

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: U.S. Government Revealed as Criminals and Liars, U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate Falls, America's Dark Chemical Warfare History, the Pledge of Allegiance, N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption, Civil Disobedience, USDA Whistleblowers Threatened, the Truth About Syrian War, more.

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The West Dethroned
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36164.htm

Why You’re To Blame for the NSA (and So Am I)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/06/nsa_surveillance_we_re_all_to_blame_for_the_government_overreach.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

5 Acts of Terror By the People We Chose to Protect Us
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/5-acts-terror-people-we-chose-protect-us

The US Government Stands Revealed to the World as a Collection of War Criminals and Liars
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36135.htm

US labor force participation rate falls to lowest level since 1978

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/07/jobs-s07.html

Wouldn't It Be Something If We Had A President Who Believed In Liberty?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130830/16242924371/wouldnt-it-be-something-if-we-had-president-who-believed-liberty.shtml

Inside America's Dark History of Chemical Warfare
http://www.alternet.org/world/america-and-chemical-warfare

5 facts about the Pledge of Allegiance
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/04/5-facts-about-the-pledge-of-allegiance/

10 Ways America Has Come to Resemble a Banana Republic

http://www.alternet.org/economy/10-ways-america-has-come-resemble-banana-republic

Secret Documents Reveal N.S.A. Campaign Against Encryption
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/05/us/documents-reveal-nsa-campaign-against-encryption.html?_r=0

How can we change the world?
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/09/how-can-we-change-the-world

Violent Behavior Linked to Nutritional Deficiencies: ‘Their Brains Are Starving’
http://disinfo.com/2013/09/violent-behavior-linked-to-nutritional-deficiencies-their-brains-are-starving/

When Civil Disobedience Becomes Law Enforcement
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/when-civil-disobedience-becomes-law-enforcement

Save the Planet, Starting on Your Own Block
http://onthecommons.org/magazine/save-planet-starting-your-own-block

USDA Whistleblowers: Workers "Threatened" for Making Food Safety Complaints at Pork Plants
http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/blog/28-2013/565-usda-whistleblowers-workers-qthreatenedq-for-making-food-safety-complaints-at-pork-plants

Map: Where You Don’t Want to Be When It Hits the Fan

The Mind-Blowing Truth About War With Syria

KMC » 1pm - Sep 6, 2013

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: NSA Misused PRISM, Snowden Receives Whistleblowing Award, Fast-Food Walkouts Spread, Israel-Palestine Negotiations a Farce, Humanist Case Against Syria Intervention, Our New Heroes, U.S. Regime Criminal Insanity, Latin American Allies Furious, DEA Spy Program, Does Science Disprove God? and more.

Tons of good stuff at: http://www.dustcircle.com

NSA misused PRISM - Spied on Al Jazeera, bugged UN headquarters and used for personal spying
http://thehackernews.com/2013/08/nsa-misused-prism-spied-on-al-jazeera.html

We, The Paranoid
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreasonablefaith/2013/09/we-the-paranoid/

Edward Snowden Receives Whistleblowing Award
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130903/11175824392/edward-snowden-receives-whistleblowing-award.shtml

Grassley Presses The White House For Whistleblowers Protection
http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Grassley-Presses-The-White-House-For-Whistleblowers-Protection-222411191.html

With nothing to lose and a living wage to win, fast-food walkouts spread
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/with-nothing-to-lose-and-a-living-wage-to-win-fast-food-walkouts-spread/

Chomsky: Why the Israel-Palestine 'Negotiations' Are a Complete Farce
http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-why-israel-palestine-negotiations-are-complete-farce

CYCLE OF INSANITY: A HUMANIST CASE AGAINST INTERVENTION IN SYRIA
http://americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2013-09-cycle-of-insanity-a-humanist-case-against-interventi

Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: Our New Heroes
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/03-6

Why we should listen to the world
http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/editors-blog/2013/0903/Why-we-should-listen-to-the-world

Criminal Insanity of US Regime
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36082.htm

US Allies in Latin America Furious at NSA 'Espionage' Revelations
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/03-1

The Creepy Spy Program That Lets the Drug Enforcement Administration Look at Your Phone Records

http://www.alternet.org/creepy-spy-program-lets-drug-enforcement-administration-look-your-phone-records

Study: Climate change to significantly increase wildfires by 2050
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/study-climate-change-significantly-increase-wildfires-2050/2013-09-03?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

Should Atheists Be Politically Active?
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/a/PoliticsActivis.htm?nl=1

We can't survive on $7.25
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/03/we-cant-survive-on-725

More Cities Sweeping Homeless Into Less Prominent Areas
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/05/218891324/more-cities-sweeping-homeless-into-less-prominent-areas

Nothing humanitarian about the empire
http://socialistworker.org/2013/09/05/nothing-humanitarian-about-empire

Assange Requests Investigation Into US Actions Against WikiLeaks
http://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/stop-for-profit-colleges-from-taking-advantage-of-students?sp_ref=9750472.4.536.o.1.2&source=clickcopy_sp

U.S. Elementary School Homework Teaches Kids ‘Government Is Family’
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/u-s-elementary-school-homework-teaches-kids-government-is-family_092013

Does Science Disprove God?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/amilliongods/2013/09/04/does-science-disprove-god/

Whistleblower Award 2013 - Glenn Greenwald honorific speech for Edward Snowden

KMC » 9am - Sep 5, 2013

@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: The U.S. Empire Provokes Terrorism, Pricey American Health Care, Increase in U.S. Military Suicides, Power of Edward Snowden, Israel Settlements Illegal, Corporate Tax Dodgers, America's Big Prison Population, Public School Police-State Mindset, American Dream is a Scam, more.

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The U.S. Empire Provokes Terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35802.htm

'Paying Till It Hurts': Why American Health Care Is So Pricey
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/07/209585018/paying-till-it-hurts-why-american-health-care-is-so-pricey?utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=20130811&utm_source=mostemailed

Secrecy Has Already Corroded Our Democracy in Real Ways
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/08/how-secrecy-has-already-corroded-our-democracy-in-concrete-ways/278478/

Marked increase in US military suicides
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/09/suic-a09.html

NSA reading content of Americans’ international communications
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/09/surv-a09.html

Edward Snowden Has Awakened the Sleeping Giant
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Edward-Snowden-Has-Awakene-by-Vincent-Guarisco-130809-53.html

The Power of Edward Snowden
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35806.htm

Restore Honor and Pardon Edward Snowden
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/restore_honor_and_pardon_edward_snowden_20130813/

America’s Descent Into Madness
http://www.alternet.org/culture/americas-descent-madness

US continues drone war against Yemen
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/08/13/yeme-a13.html

EU: Israel settlement approval illegal
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/eu-israel-settlement-approval-illegal/

NSA Loophole Allows Warrantless Search for US Citizens' Emails and Phone Calls
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35805.htm

The corporate tax dodgers

Missing your social safety net? Here’s how it happens

http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2412

Government surveillance spurs Americans to fight back

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/government-surveillance-spurs-americans-to-fight-back/2013/08/14/edea430a-0522-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story.html

Obama’s surveillance revisions omit limits on warrantless email searches
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/08/14/4411150/obamas-surveillance-revisions.html#storylink=cpy

Extreme Heat Waves to Quadruple by 2040, According to New Study
http://www.alternet.orghttp://www.alternet.org/environment/extreme-heat-waves-quadruple-2040/environme

Why Does America Have Such a Big Prison Population?http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35868.htm

All Israeli settlements on Palestinian land are illegal, US says
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/all-israeli-settlements-on-palestinian-land-are-illegal-us-says/

Israel's Everyday Racism — and How American Jews Turn a Blind Eye to It
http://forward.com/articles/182171/israels-everyday-racism-and-how-american-jews-tu/

The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Police-State-Mindset-i-by-John-Whitehead-130814-343.html

STUNNING: Comparing U.S. & World Covers for TIME Magazine
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/25/1039957/-STUNNING-Comparing-U-S-World-Covers-for-TIME-Magazine?detail=email

The Disturbing True Story of How The Education System was Intentionally Corrupted
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/the-disturbing-true-story-of-how-the-education-system-was-intentionally-corrupted

The American Dream is a SCAM - by the Federal Reserve
http://stormcloudsgathering.com/the-american-dream-is-a-scam-by-the-federal-reserve

Civil Disobedience As Law Enforcement
http://www.countercurrents.org/brecher150813.htm

Capitalism Run Wild

Watch Encore: Taming Capitalism Run Wild on PBS. See more from Moyers and Company.

Senate Insider Speaks Out: Ex-Wyden Staffer on Secret Laws, Domestic Spying and Obama's NSA Reforms