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American Hegemony is Over

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36668.htm

The Lies That Will Kill America
http://www.alternet.org/media/lies-will-kill-america

NSA wiretapping scandal dominates European Union summit
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/eusu-o26.html

America's Most Beloved War Criminals
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36676.htm

How embassy eavesdropping works
http://www.duncancampbell.org/embassy-bugging

Cleaning up Capitalism
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/free-and-ethical-markets/cleaning-up-capitalism-.html

Confessions of a Drone "Warrior"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36647.htm

15 Ways The United States Is The Best (At Being The Worst)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/29/american-exceptionalism_n_4170683.html

NSA Stores Data to Target Any Citizen at Any Time http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36680.htm

Our Invisible Revolution
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/28

Snowden, Assange, Manning, Vanunu - the true heroes of our time
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36664.htm

Cutting food stamps: The ruthlessness of the American ruling class
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/29/pers-o29.html

Where Liberals Diverge: Marianne Williamson and Russell Brand
http://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/where-liberals-diverge-marianne-williamson-and-russell-brand

The Six Primary Reasons for Why They Hate Us
http://disinfo.com/2013/10/six-primary-reasons-hate-us/

Billionaires Are Dangerous to Humanity, Dangerous to the Earth
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Billionaires-Are-Dangerous-by-Rob-Kall-Billionaires_Health-Mental-Sociopath-Narcissism_Inequality_No-Billionaires-Debillionairize-131026-993.html

EU leaders: US spying could hinder fight against terrorism
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/10/eu-leaders-us-spying-could-hinder-fight-against-terrorism.php

NSA head demands end to spying revelations
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/28/pers-o28.html

UN rights expert urges laws supporting right to food http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/10/un-rights-expert-urges-laws-supporting-right-to-food.php

Glenn Greenwald: U.S. Spying on Allies Shows 'Institutional Obsession' with Surveillance

Lee Camp: Are Local Police Preparing For War?

@dustcirclenews - HEADLINES: Government's Intrusion, Eric Snowden, Israel's Chemical use, DHS Oversight Consequences, FBI's Post-9/11 Abuses, Low Median Family Income, American Exceptionalism, Alternative to Banks, Total American Surveillance, Christian Right vs. Godless Liberalism, Federal Funding Bill Passed, For-Profit Colleges, Syria is About Gas and Oil, more.

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Nowhere to Hide: The Government's Massive Intrusion Into Our Lives
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/nowhere-hide-governments-massive-intrusion-our-lives

NSA leaker Eric Snowden nominated for EU prize
http://www.mynews4.com/news/story/NSA-leaker-Eric-Snowden-nominated-for-EU-prize/7d1QywXWj0ivY28pbfKvxQ.cspx

Israel's History Of Chemical Weapons Use

http://www.countercurrents.org/akleh170913.htm

Fractured DHS congressional oversight has real world consequences, says report
http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/fractured-dhs-congressional-oversight-has-real-world-consequences-says-repo/2013-09-16?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal

'Unleashed and Unaccountable': FBI's Post-9/11 Abuse of Power
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/17-7

For-Profit Corporation Is Not A Person With Ability To Exercise Religious Freedom Rights, Federal Court Says
https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/for-profit-corporation-is-not-a-person-with-ability-to-exercise-religious

Median Family Income Is Lower Today Than in 1989
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/09/18/median_family_income_since_1989_is_the_stagnation_real.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content

Why American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerous Sham
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/why-american-exceptionalism-dangerous-sham

The Perfect Alternative to Wall Street Banks
http://admin.alternet.org/economy/perfect-alternative-wall-street-banks

We Live Under a Total Surveillance State in America -- Can We Prevent It from Evolving into a Full-Blown Police State?
http://admin.alternet.org/activism/we-live-under-total-surveillance-state-america-can-we-prevent-it-evolving-full-blown-police

Christian Right v Godless Liberalism: Why Do Christians Attack Godless Liberals?

http://atheism.about.com/od/godlessamericaamericans/p/GodlessRight.htm?nl=1

US House passes federal funding bill proposing to defund Affordable Care Act
http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/09/us-house-passes-federal-funding-bill-proposing-to-defund-affordable-care-act.php

How For-Profit Colleges Stay In Business Despite Terrible Track Record

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/for-profit-college-accreditation_n_3937079.html

The Proxy 'Civil War' In Syria Is About Gas, Oil And Pipelines
http://www.countercurrents.org/venturini240913.pdf

Will Obama the Bomber protect Israel’s WMD?
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/will-obama-the-bomber-protect-israels-wmd/

10 Ways Religious Groups Suck on the Public Purse

http://www.alternet.org/belief/holy-freeloading-10-ways-religious-groups-suck-public-purse

DOJ Puts Another Leaker In Jail: The War On Whistleblowers Rolls On
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130923/16454624627/doj-puts-another-leaker-jail-war-whistleblowers-rolls.shtml

Israel’s killing of five young Palestinians exposes "peace" talks as charade
http://electronicintifada.net/content/israels-killing-five-young-palestinians-exposes-peace-talks-charade/12797

Clicking ‘like’ is protected by First Amendment, 4th Circuit says
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/clicking_like_is_protected_by_first_amendment_in_case_of_sheriffs_employee_/

NSA Stories Around The World
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36322.htm

NSA Apologist Says The NSA's Actions Are Fine Because 'Privacy Is Dead'
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130916/17520324540/nsa-apologist-says-nsas-actions-are-fine-because-privacy-is-dead.shtml

World Citizen Asks United Nations to Disarm America: “The World Cannot Stand Idly By”
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/world-citizen-asks-united-nations-to-disarm-america-the-world-cannot-stand-idly-by_092013

Atheism will be ‘the new gay marriage’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/bill-maher-atheism-will-be-the-new-gay-marriage/

Zionist Apartheid: A Crime Against Humanity
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36331.htm

The NSA Isn’t the Only Government Agency Destroying Your Right to Privacy
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/09/nsa-government-right-to-privacy

Michael Mann: Global Warming: An Uncontrolled Experiment

In recognition of climate week, Thom talks with renowned climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann about the dangers of global warming. Dr. Mann in concerned we may be running out of time to rein in global temperatures.

25.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: School Crime, War on Kids, We the People Amendment, Against Iraq War, Anti-Israel Storm, Climate Reality, Tar Sands Blockade, Guantanamo Torture, US Worst Place to Live, more.

The real public school crime wave

Principals, administrators, board members

The UN tells Haiti: "Tough luck"

The Purpose Of Schooling

To dumb down the population

The War on Kids

It's even worse than you think

We The People Amendment Introduced In Congress

Michael Moore On Speaking Out Against Iraq War

What will power our world in the future?

George Galloway in Anti-Israel "Storm"

Forward on Climate Rally

Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade

Torture at Guantánamo: Lt. Col. Stuart Couch on His Refusal to Prosecute Abused Prisoner

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"The Terror Courts": An Inside Look at Rough Justice, Torture at Guantánamo Bay

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US Worst Place To Live?

22.Dec.2012 - Stories of Resistance, $633B War Spending, Corrupt Politicians, Stop Drones Strikes, Protesters Foil NRA Conference, Drug Dollars, Westboro Blitz Continues, Discrimination Against Nonbelievers, Cyber-security Executive Order, Palestine Won't Surrender to Israel, FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Bill, Emergency Unemployment Benefits, Expanding Voting Rights, Changing Climate Dangers, US Homelessness Rising, more.

In a Year of Politicians and Bad News, Surprising Stories of Resistance
Unions once again dropped a lot of cash and burned a lot of shoe leather defending against the greater evils of a Romney administration and a Republican Senate. But winning meant holding the line, at best, and a hard pivot after Election Day to defend what too many Democrats won’t: Social Security and Medicare.

http://labornotes.org/2012/12/year-politicians-and-bad-news-surprising-stories-resistance

House Approves Bill Authorizing $633 Billion in War Spending
The Republican-controlled House approved the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 315-107. The measure must still be approved by the Senate before it can go to President Barack Obama to be signed into law.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33406.htm

Crooked banks and corrupt politicians

US Military Needs to Leave Afghanistan and Stop Widening Drone Strikes

There is perhaps no time in American history when our leaders have fought a war with so little support. More than 60 percent of Americans want out of Afghanistan. Even at the peak of the anti-Vietnam-war movement, after a majority had turned against the war, there were still a large number of citizens who believed in the war and its official justifications. Today, as my colleague Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy notes, “Western leaders have largely given up trying to explain or justify why Western troops are still in Afghanistan and why they are still killing and being killed.”

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/21-7

Protesters Foil NRA Televised Press Conference: 'NRA Killing Our Kids'

US will not support UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements: official

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Tuesday that Washington would not support a proposal for a Security Council resolution being discussed in preliminary talks in response to the plan for new Israeli settlements. 

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/19/278850/us-wont-censure-israeli-settlements-at-un/

Drug dollars prop up the banking system

Hackers' Westboro Baptist Church Blitz Continues: UG Nazi, Jester, Anonymous Take Down Twitter Accounts, Sites
The online offensive against the Westboro Baptist Church continues to gain momentum. The Twitter accounts of two prominent members of the hate-mongering group were apparently infiltrated this week by members of the infamous hacker collective UG Nazi. On Monday, Wired.com confirmed that 15-year-old whiz kid "Cosmo the God," a prolific member of the UG Nazi "hacktivist" group, had successfully carried out a takeover of @DearShirley, the Twitter account opened by WBC spokeswoman Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/hackers-westboro-baptist-church_n_2339135.html

Bill Moyers Essay: Remember The Victims, Reject the Violence

6 Outrageous Incidents of Discrimination Against Nonbelievers

Atheists are often seen as crying wolf when they speak about bigotry. But discrimination against atheists around the world is real.

http://www.alternet.org/belief/6-outrageous-incidents-discrimination-against-nonbelievers

Sexual assault reports jump at military academies, Pentagon finds

Despite the Pentagon's sexual assault awareness programs, reports at military academies rose by nearly a quarter in 2010-2011. Officials say women could be feeling more secure reporting the crimes.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/1221/Sexual-assault-reports-jump-at-military-academies-Pentagon-finds

Don't Trust the Research Saying Video Games Cause Real-World Aggression

In a press conference this morning, the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre addressed the Sandy Hook school shootings by suggesting that, rather than ban assault weapons, we put armed guards in every American school. LaPierre also blamed America’s “culture of violence” on violent movies and video games. The armed guards thing is being addressed elsewhere on this site, but suffice it to say it’s a weird and implausibly expensive idea that will never, ever happen. The video game point, however, merits a little more scrutiny.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2012/12/21/wayne_lapierre_don_t_listen_to_the_nra_the_research_saying_video_games_cause.html

HSBC launders drug money - and gets away with it

Obama likely to issue executive order on cybersecurity as early as January

The long-awaited executive action is unlikely to be taken before the end of the year, given the delicate negotiations over the “fiscal cliff.” Republican lawmakers have made it known that they strongly oppose an executive order on cybersecurity.

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/274175-cybersecurity-order-likely-in-january-observers-say

Palestine won’t surrender to Israel

FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Bill Poised For Renewal Despite Unanswered Questions

With Senate poised to act as early as Thursday night to renew the foreign surveillance bill that authorized the Bush administration's secret warrantless wiretapping program, civil liberties advocates are getting deja vu.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/fisa-reauthorization_n_2341951.html

Congress Should Extend Emergency Unemployment Benefits Now

As President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) work to resolve the fiscal showdown, lawmakers should at least agree that extending emergency unemployment insurance is the right thing to do in order to protect workers and encourage economic growth.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/12/17/48290/congress-should-extend-emergency-unemployment-benefits-now/

Strengthening Our Democracy by Expanding Voting Rights

The past two years were not kind to those who hold dear one of our most cherished rights—the right to vote. After the Republican wave of 2010, which saw conservative majorities swept into governors’ mansions and state legislatures, more than a dozen states—including Wisconsin, Florida, and Texas—passed legislation making it more difficult for voters to cast a ballot. The conservative cause celebre became legislation enacting voter ID, shortening early voting, and requiring citizens to show a birth certificate or passport in order to register to vote.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/civil-liberties/report/2012/12/18/48396/strengthening-our-democracy-by-expanding-voting-rights/

5 Reasons Our Changing Climate Is More Dangerous Than You Think

Our failure to give a crap is more frightening than flesh-eating fungi.

http://www.alternet.org/environment/5-reasons-our-changing-climate-more-dangerous-you-think

Hunger and Homelessness Rise in US Cities

cross the United States, the number of hungry and homeless people is growing, and budget fights at the federal level are threatening the aid many need to survive, the U.S. Conference of Mayors said on Thursday.

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/15146-hunger-and-homelessness-rise-in-us-cities

UN not serious when it comes to Israel

"End of the World": Apocalypse or Shopocalypse? Reverend Billy on Consumerism and Climate Change

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New Report Sheds Light on Bin Laden Murder, as Pakistan Faces Fallout from U.S.-Led Vaccination Plot

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06.Dec.2012 - World is in a Race Against Time, Rogue Nation Status, Settlements Violate International Law, American Drone Captured, US Tests EMP Bomb, WikiLeaks' Bigger Picture, Kyoto Again, Police Ability to Track Your Driving, Police Can Record Inside your Home, Rolling Jubilee and Borrower Risk, Who Controls the Internet?

For Pete's Sake, What's Happened to Our Democracy?
Down through the millennia, specific individuals have changed the course of history. Some made their indelible mark through their intellect, some through their courage, and still others through the depth and breadth of their vision.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33231.htm

Five facts about America's Pathological Wealth Distribution
Most people associate inequality with the income gap. As distorted as the distribution of income may be, our wealth distribution is even more extreme. Americans are beginning to realize that years of preferential tax treatment for the rich, under the guise of "supply-side job creation" nonsense, have bloated the fortunes of the super-rich to a level that would make Rockefeller and Carnegie envious. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33236.htm

UN Secretary-general Says World is in a Race Against Time 


The US and Israel: a Short Quiz on 'Rogue Nation' Status
The phrase "rogue nation" is one of the terms that get tossed around often in political discourse without much effort devoted to its actual meaning.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33230.htm

Israel's West Bank Settlements Violate International Law
The Israeli government’s announcement that it is to expand settlements in the West Bank in response to the United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood violates human rights and international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33235.htm

Video of the American Drone Captured By Iran


Doomsday for Iran? US Tests EMP Bomb

Wikileaks: Bradley Manning and the bigger picture – Assange interview and Ratner video

Oliver Stone's: The Untold History of World War II

The new television series - Full episode

A LOOK BACK AT 2012

Why the World Bank Must Divest from Fossil Fuels

The World Bank’s latest report on climate change, “Turn Down the Heat,” warns that the planet is on track for a four-degree Celsius temperature rise by 2100. Like many scientists, the bank fears that such an increase would be incompatible with civilization as we know it. At the very least, rapid global warming—and the storms, droughts and other extreme weather it would unleash—would render the bank’s mission of alleviating poverty and fostering sustainable development impossible.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/05-7

Mother Nature Belongs at the Bargaining Table

As the highly scripted stagecraft of the presidential campaign fades from the headlines, there's a new show in Washington. ”Fiscal Cliff” stars President Barack Obama, who urges Republicans and Democrats to agree on a ”grand bargain” that would soften the economic shock of the impending across-the-board tax and spending cuts. But that bipartisan handshake would be nothing to celebrate.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/05-8

Kyoto all Over Again? US Obstructive Force at Climate Talks

World leaders have agreed on one thing at COP18—so called developing countries will suffer the most extreme effects of climate change; however, the world's richest nations continued on Wednesday to refuse to help prepare these nations for their current and imminent disasters and, more pointedly, to help curb global warming greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable energy development.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/05-2

Police Have the Scary Capability to Track Wherever You're Driving

License-plate reading technology's jaw dropping capabilities are already deployed across America.

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/police-have-scary-capability-track-wherever-youre-driving

Police Can Record Video Inside Your Home Without A Warrant, Appeals Court Says

Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court provided some comfort to those fearing the seemingly limitless potential of new technologies to enable government privacy invasion. In holding that police could not attach a GPS device to a car and track it for 30 days without a warrant, the court said, “At bottom, we must ‘assur[e] preservation of that degree of privacy against government that existed when the Fourth Amendment was adopted.’”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/03/1273621/police-can-record-video-inside-your-home-without-a-warrant-appeals-court-says/?mobile=nc

Why Occupy Wall Street’s Rolling Jubilee Puts Borrowers at Risk

The strategy is well-meaning, but there are better approaches to relieving debt.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/why-occupy-wall-streets-rolling-jubilee-puts-borrowers-risk

How the Government Can Still Get Your Digital Data

he U.S. government isn't allowed to wiretap American citizens without a warrant from a judge. But there are plenty of legal ways for law enforcement, from the local sheriff to the FBI, to snoop on the digital trails you create every day. Authorities can often obtain your emails and texts by going to Google or AT&T with a simple subpoena. Usually you won't even be notified.The Senate last weektook a step toward updating privacy protection for emails, but it's likely the issue will be kicked to the next Congress. 

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/339-182/14871-focus-how-the-government-can-still-get-your-digital-data

Who controls the internet? The debate is live and clicking

The ITU is currently meeting in Dubai under the banner of the World Conference on International Telecommunication (WCIT-12). The agenda is to consider changes to the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) – a treaty signed by 178 countries in 1988 to establish principles for the operation of international telecommunications.

http://machineslikeus.com/news/who-controls-internet-debate-live-and-clicking

The Times Should Have a Reporter at the Bradley Manning Hearing

In failing to send its own reporter to cover the fascinating and important pretrial testimony of Bradley Manning, The New York Times missed the boat.

http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/05/the-times-should-have-a-reporter-at-the-bradley-manning-hearing/

The World's Most Powerful Psychopaths

Fast food workers hit the streets to fight for a living wage

The value of a woman's life

We need to make sure that we do not take the blame for the violence that is visited upon us. We need to develop a sense of self that cannot be eroded, a sense of self that is rounded and whole. It is what saves a woman in the final analysis.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rahila-gupta/value-of-womans-life

No Surprise Here: Congress Passes Unanimous Resolution Telling The ITU: Hands Off The Internet

One thing that's been somewhat universal in the US is pretty much everyone's opposition to the whole ITU WCIT charade going on in Dubai right now. It doesn't matter what political party they belong to or what general views on technology or the internet they hold, pretty much everyone recognizes, even if there are faults with the system today, giving the ITU more control will inevitably make things worse. So it should come as little surprise that Congress has passed another resolution (they did an earlier one in August that more or less said the same thing) unanimously (397-0) telling the ITU to not even think about trying to take over any aspect of internet governance.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121205/15500921246/no-surprise-here-congress-passes-unanimous-resolution-telling-itu-hands-off-internet.shtml

No Warrant, No Problem: The Government Can Still Get Your Data

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121204/13100221222/no-warrant-no-problem-government-can-still-get-your-data.shtml

From Fossil Fuels to Global Warming Denial, Koch Brothers May Be Biggest Force Behind U.S. Inaction

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Amy Goodman Questions Top U.S. Negotiator on Alleged Obstruction of U.N. Climate Talks in Doha

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"We Are Running Out of Time": Obama Urged to Match Rhetoric to Action on Climate Deal

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