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The Criminal N.S.A.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/opinion/the-criminal-nsa.html?_r=1&

NSA collected US email records in bulk for more than two years under Obama
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/27/nsa-data-mining-authorised-obama

US Rulers Fear American People
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35419.htm

Obama Backs First-Strike Nuclear War As U.S. Policy
http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle250613.htm

Stamping Impunity On Israel’s War Crimes
http://www.countercurrents.org/vlazna250613.htm

NSA surveillance 101: What US intelligence agencies are doing, what they know
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0613/NSA-surveillance-101-What-US-intelligence-agencies-are-doing-what-they-know/Whose-phone-and-Internet-communications-are-being-monitored-by-the-government-exactly

FBI sat on plot of assassinate Occupy Wall Street leaders
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/government-terror/fbi-sat-on-plot-of-assassinateoccupy-wall-street-leaders.html

Fast Food Strikes: What's Cooking?
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/06/fast-food-strikes-whats-cooking

The dismal state of the US banking industry
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2013/06/27/the-dismal-state-of-the-us-banking-industry/

After DOMA: What's Next For Gay Married Couples?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/26/195881288/after-doma-whats-next-for-gay-married-couples

DOMA Struck Down – Thank you
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/kimberlyknight/2013/06/doma-stuck-down-thank-you/

Remembering the UpStairs Lounge: The U.S.A.’s Largest LGBT Massacre Happened 40 Years Ago Today

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/06/24/remembering-the-upstairs-lounge-the-u-s-a-s-largest-lgbt-massacre-happened-40-years-ago-today/

Israel’s Quiet Strategy of Conquest
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/06/24/israels-quiet-strategy-of-conquest/

Google not required to remove harmful data from search index: EU lawyer
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/06/google-not-required-to-remove-sensitive-information-eu-lawyer.php

US Officials Realizing That Snowden May Have Copied Info On Almost Everything The NSA Does
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130625/01393823610/us-officials-realizing-that-snowden-may-have-copied-info-almost-everything-nsa-does.shtml

Leaked Document Shows EU Approach To Cybercrime Is Completely Misguided
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130622/22485623584/leaked-document-shows-eu-approach-to-cybercrime-is-completely-misguided.shtml

IRS called out on the carpet
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/government-corruption/irs-called-out-on-the-carpet.html

Why Hasn't Obama Done More About Guantanamo?

Insider Threat: Government Employees Urged to Tattle On Coworkers In Effort to Stop Classified Leaks

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8 skills of a well-trained activist
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/8-skills-of-a-well-trained-activist/

Erosion Of Our Civil Liberties Highlights Those Who Will Resist When Society Breaks Down
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/erosion-of-our-civil-liberties-highlights-those-who-will-resist-when-society-breaks-down_062013

Revealed: The 48 People Stuck in Guantanamo Forever
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/government-releases-list-indefinite-detainees-guantanamo

The Whistleblowers Are The New Generation of American Patriots
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35324.htm

The NSA Surveillance Story Shows Why Wikileaks And Similar Sites Are Necessary
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/23564623354/yes-nsa-surveillance-story-shows-why-wikileaks-similar-sites-are-necessary.shtml

Obama defends massive spying on Americans
http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/08/pers-j08.html

The NSA Black Hole: 5 Basic Things We Still Don’t Know About the Agency’s Snooping
http://www.alternet.org/nsa-snooping

Fear-Mongering NSA Attempts to Justify Spying Before Congress
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/18-7

Our Government's Secrecy Has Caused Far More Deaths Than 9/11
http://www.alternet.org/bradley-manning

A.C.L.U. Files Lawsuit Seeking to Stop the Collection of Domestic Phone Logs
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/aclu-files-suit-over-phone-surveillance-program.html

Reimagining Independence
http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar060613.htm

Edward Snowden — The Globalisation of Whistleblowing
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35338.htm

The Terror Diaspora: The U.S. Military and the Unraveling of Africa
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35331.htm

DHS Source Warns: “World War About to Break Out… Will Kill Millions of People”
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/dhs-source-warns-world-war-about-to-break-out-will-kill-millions-of-people_062013

It's High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/thom-hartmann-abolish-homeland-security

America's Private Prison System is a National Disgrace
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/14-1

The Latest Outrageous Waste of Money for the Pentagon's Playthings
http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/f-35-basing-vermont-sweet-developers

Shielding the whistleblowers
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/military-sexual-assault-whistleblower-protections-92284.html

Pursuing Truth about Israel/Palestine
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/01/pursuing-truth-about-israelpalestine/

America’s Excessive Nuke Arsenal
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/10/americas-excessive-nuke-arsenal/

8 Most Un-Christian Things the Christian Right Has Done Recently
http://www.alternet.org/belief/christian-right

Study: "Spiritual" People More Likely to Commit Crimes than Atheists
http://www.alternet.org/religious-people-more-likely-commit-crimes-atheists

The Palestinian struggle is a black struggle
http://electronicintifada.net/content/palestinian-struggle-black-struggle/12530

Leaders stand up for what is right

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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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"Get Your Money Out of the Banks" 
Jim Rogers on CNBC 3/28/13
'Looting' of Bank Accounts Has Rogers Worried

In Her Passing, Margaret Thatcher Leaves Behind A Legacy Of Destruction

Paul Cameron: “Gays more likely to have sex with kids and animals, according to survey produced by My Rectum”

Thatcher – THIS is why people reviled her

Watch: Chicago School Closing Protests

Anonymous – #Operation Israel (v2.0)

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On 45th Anniversary of His Death, Martin Luther King Jr. on the Power of Media and the Horror of War

Youth Will Pay the Price of Austerity

Elites profit from "smaller" government while youth unemployment soars

Obama Gives Monsanto Get a Out of Jail Free Card, Signs GMO Protection Legislation

Noam Chomsky: If Nuclear War Doesn't Get Us, Climate Change Will

"Skim-Milk Marriage": Justices Cast Doubt on DOMA in Case Brought by 83-Year-Old Lesbian Widow

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Debate: Does Marriage Equality Reinforce a Conservative Institution or Support Social Change?

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"Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement": Film Portrays Lesbian Couple Behind Defense of Marriage Case

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"The Kissinger Cables": Three Years After "Collateral Murder," WikiLeaks Explores U.S. Diplomacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why The GOP Is Holding Middle Class Tax Cuts Hostage

Power-crazed Republicans have lost their minds.

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

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

AlterNet Radio speaks with the influential legal scholar.

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

Snooping guidelines: UN document revealed

Can people be hypnotically programmed to kill?

Experts say: "Yes"

What Does the NDAA Really Authorize?

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

We fight Zionism – Not Judaism.

A COLLECTION OF LINKS

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

Former US president slams drone attacks

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

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

Roots of the Zionist Genocide of Palestinians

How Atheist Voters Could Change American Politics Forever

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

Climate Change and the Unrestrained Elite

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

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

Whistleblowers lead to $3.3 billion in US recovery

Justice Department rewards whistleblowers with $439 million in 2012

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

Low wages won't work

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

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

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

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

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

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

How credible are reports of Syrian WMDs?

Doha deal extends Kyoto Protocol

Documentary targets family courts and custody evaluators

Antibiotics in chicken causing new infections

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Hurricane Sandy Pushing Obama, Romney to Break Climate Silence

While the candidates haven't spoken to climate change directly since Sandy has made landfall, the storm itself may have already injected itself into the national dialogue--breaking the so-called "climate silence"--whether the campaigns like it or not.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/30-9

Yes, Global Warming Systemically Caused Hurricane Sandy

Systemic causation is familiar. Smoking is a systemic cause of lung cancer.  HIV is a systemic cause of AIDS.  Working in coal mines is a systemic cause of black lung disease. Driving while drunk is a systemic cause of auto accidents.  Sex without contraception is a systemic cause of unwanted pregnancies.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/30-8

Has Sandy Abruptly Put Climate Change on the Election Agenda?

Last week, both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney stressed their commitment to developing oil and gas to improve energy security. Climate change was not mentioned. This position is senseless. The U.S. Midwest has just experienced the worst drought in60 years, one which has seen economic growth depressed by 0.4 percent GDP as a result and higher food prices resulting from a 13 percent drop in corn production. As the East Coast slowly emerges from the deluge and debris of the past 24 hours, the job of counting the cost has only just begun.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/30-10

Name Storms After Oil Companies (The Ones Most Responsible for Climate Change)

As gutsy New Yorkers begin the task of drying out the city, here’s one thought that occurred to me last night watching the horrifying pictures from a distance. It’s obviously not crucial right now — but in the long run it might make a difference. Why don’t we stop naming these storms for people, and start naming them after oil companies?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/30-12

Bank of England Executive: Occupy Movement Was 'Right'

A senior executive at the Bank of England on Monday said the Occupy London Stock Exchange was "loud and persuasive" and helped prompt a "reformation of finance."

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/30-2

SCOTUS reveal little on leanings in surveillance case

More than a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Supreme Court heard its first case Monday challenging the federal government’s terrorist-surveillance programs, but the justices gave no clear signal about whether they plan to allow a group of defense lawyers, journalists and human rights activists to go ahead with their attack on the wiretapping effort.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83015.html#ixzz2AjWKzgWg

Obama’s detention policies are worse than Guantanamo

During the 2008 campaign, President Obama promised he would close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year of his inauguration. Four years later, Guantanamo remains open and will remain open for the foreseeable future. President Obama blames Congress for this failure and says he has reformed the military detention system and bolstered America’s image throughout the world.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/29/obamas-detention-policies-are-worse-than-guantanamo

FBI RELEASES REDACTED INFORMANT MANUALS IN RESPONSE TO FOIA

Documents obtained by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue reveal new details about the FBI's rules of conduct for informants. The FBI released 147 pages of heavily redacted manuals and policies related to the use of informants, in response to a FOIA request by Trentadue, who is engaged in a years-long lawsuit with the FBI over documents related to the Oklahoma City bombing. Read the documents here

http://news.intelwire.com/2012/10/fbi-releases-redacted-informant-manuals.html

Globalization Is The Number One Health Risk Facing Humanity

In today's world - globalization is the number one health risk facing humanity. A new study released this week by the Blacksmith Institute reveals, for the first time ever, the impact of industrial pollutants on communities across the planet. 

http://www.countercurrents.org/hartmann301012.htm

Corrupt Capitalism -- The Denial Of Equality Of Opportunity

Those who have been successful in society anywhere in the world either in business, the professions, academia or political achievements fall into two categories: either they consider themselves fortunate, or attribute their achievements solely to their hard work and relentless drive.

http://www.countercurrents.org/aldaini301012.htm

Regardless of whether Obama or Romney wins, America's relations with the Arab World will change

After last week's Obama-Romney love-fest for Israel, the Arabs have been slowly deciding which of the two men would be best for the Middle East. It looks like Barack Obama is their man; but the problem – as always – is the sad, pathetic and outrageously obvious fact that it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32896.htm

Drone-War Doublethink

Obama has added a new term to the doublespeak lexicon, "the disposition matrix."

http://reason.com/archives/2012/10/30/drone-war-double-think

Mitt Romney Is Just Not That Into Federal Disaster Relief

Who would have thought that a late-season hurricane would sweep up the East Coast of the United States on the eve of one of the closest election contests in the country's history?

Not, presumably, Mitt Romney.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Mitt-Romney-Is-Just-Not-Th-by-John-Nichols-121030-578.html

A Hostile Takeover of our Country -- Treasonous, Noxious, Thieving, Tyrannical

American democracy is under assault.

In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Hostile-Takeover-of-our-by-Robert-F-Kennedy-121029-930.html

I have Questions; The Candidates Don't Have Answers

Most of the questions--and responses--in the three presidential debates had been asked--and answered--several times during the campaign. But there are critical questions that were not asked. Let's begin with Foreign Policy.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/I-have-Questions-The-Cand-by-Walter-Brasch-121030-519.html

Obama Rejects Palestinian Statehood

What do you call a Black man who rejects equal rights for his own people and others? A racist traitor.

What do you call a rejectionist leader? A criminal who should be impeached, removed and prosecuted.

Obama stands guilty on multiple counts. 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Rejects-Palestinian-by-Stephen-Lendman-121030-190.html

Helpful Dictionary For Republicans: Communism, Socialism, Privatization And More!

I’m sure you have noticed that Republicans use a different dictionary than everyone else does.Their grasp of certain terms is shaky at best, and they like throwing around words they do not understand. These words often get people who are even more low-information (read: not very bright) all agitated and red-faced, and they get their crayons out to make angry, misspelled signs with, er, creative punctuation. It’s particularly entertaining when they combine two or more terms which mean mutually exclusive things together in one big rant.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/29/republican-dictionary/

Monster God

What's Behind the Libya Attack?

Coastal nuke plants vulnerable

Oyster Creek in New Jersey

FEMA: 'We Are Still in Response Mode'