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"I protest": challenging the war policies of the United States

http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/ann-wright/i-protest-challenging-war-policies-of-united-states

The Constitution Is Under Attack as the Right Tries to Establish A State Religion
http://www.politicususa.com/constitution-attack-establish-state-religion.html

Does Obama have authority to wage war without approval of Congress?

http://therealnews.com/t2/component/hwdvideoshare/viewvideo/76234

It's Time to Get Real on Immigration
http://www.opednews.com/articles/It-s-Time-to-Get-Real-on-I-by-John-Bruhns-130521-748.html

The GOP response to global warming is irrational and dangerous
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-GOP-response-to-global-by-Brian-Cooney-130521-109.html

Our Govt. Is Turning into a Surveillance State That's Almost Impossible to Stop
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/our-govt-turning-surveillance-state-thats-almost-impossible-stop

Racism and the American Right
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Racism-and-the-American-Ri-by-Robert-Parry-130519-835.html

Corporations Are Stealing Billions in Tax Breaks, While the Confused, Screwed Citizenry Turn On Each Other
http://www.alternet.org/corporations-are-stealing-billions-tax-breaks-while-confused-screwed-citizenry-turn-each-other

Five Voting Fights You’ll Care About Come Election Time
http://prospect.org/article/five-voting-fights-you%E2%80%99ll-care-about-come-election-time

Confronting the anti-immigrant backlash
http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/14/confronting-anti-immigrant-bigotry

Obama's false promises about Guantánamo
http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/13/false-promises-on-guantanamo

An Experiment That's Never Been Tried: Morality Without Religion
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/an-experiment-thats-never-been-tried-morality-without-religion

How Walmart Paid $24 Million In Bribes To Build On Sacred Mayan Ruins
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/18/teotihuacan-how-mexicos-sacred-mayan-site-got-buried-beneath-walmart-video/

‘Buycott’ App Lets You Track Corporate Parenthood Of Goods
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/19/boycott-app-buycott/

The Price of Pacifism: Refusing to go to War is Finally Being Recognised as a Brave Act
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34994.htm

Corruption And Congress
http://www.countercurrents.org/zargar190513A.htm

Audacity of Godlessness: How and Why Being Godless in America Requires Audacity
http://atheism.about.com/od/godlesslivinginamerica/tp/Audacity-Godlessness-America.htm?nl=1

We'd like a living wage with that order
http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/20/wed-like-a-living-wage

Just How Many Journalists Is the Justice Department Spying On?
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/just-how-many-journalists-justice-department-spying

Marching against Monsanto

http://socialistworker.org/2013/05/20/marching-against-monsanto


How Lotteries Are Bad For Players, Winners, And States
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/05/20/2035751/lottery-powerball-poverty-state-budgets/

Monsanto Has Been Removed And Banned By: Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Madeira, New Zealand, Peru, South Australia, Russia, France, and Switzerland!
http://politicalvelcraft.org/2013/03/23/monsanto-has-been-removed-and-banned-by-austria-bulgaria-germany-greece-hungary-ireland-japan-luxembourg-madeira-new-zealand-peru-south-australia-russia-france-and-switzerland/

The Extremely Bold Tax Evasion Technique Apple Doesn’t Want You To Know They Use
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/21/the-extremely-bold-tax-evasion-technique-apple-doesnt-want-you-to-know-they-use/

Religion Shouldn't Be an Excuse for Discrimination
http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2013/05/21/op-ed-religion-shouldnt-be-excuse-discrimination

Israel killing the two-state solution
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/israel-killing-the-two-state-solution-by-khalid-amayreh/

Smashing the Absurd Myth That More Guns Make Us Safer
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/smashing-absurd-myth-more-guns-make-us-safer

16.Feb.2013 - VIDEOS: Dorner Cabin Fire, Corporate-Government Science, Secret Gun History, Droning Defense, SOTU Rhetoric, XL Pipeline Debate, Obama's Kill List, Blacklisting, Social Media Tracking, Pathway to Citizenship, Middle-Class Revival, U.S. Violent Culture, Afghan War Troops, Police's Intentional Fire, more.

Cops Accused of Starting Fire as Charred Body Found in ‘Dorner’ Cabin

Blind faith in corporate-government science

The Secret History of Guns and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s

MSNBC's Droning Defense of Targeted Assassination

SOTU: Do Policy Proposals Live up to Rhetoric on Wages and Climate Change?

Will Feb 17th Protest Stop the XL Pipeline and Shift Climate Debate?

Obama's Kill List and White Paper Memo 

Blacklisting: we identify companies named and those NOT named in Parliamentary inquiry

Obama Sets Proudly Progressive Agenda in State of the Union

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

As Obama Touts Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in Fear

Obama’s SOTU Address Calls for Middle-Class Revival, But Poverty and Inequality Still Get Short Shrift

Beyond Gun Control, Obama Urged to Tackle Joblessness, Incarceration and U.S. "Culture of Violence"

Despite Planned Troop Withdrawal, Special Ops and Private Forces Prepare to Continue Afghan War

An Intentional Fire? Police Use of Incendiary Tear Gas Criticized in Killing of Christopher Dorner

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From Dorner to Waco to MOVE Bombing, A Look at Growing Militarization of Domestic Policing

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NAACP: New Election Commission Needed to Address Voter Suppression, Attacks on Voting Rights

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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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13.Nov.2012, Part 2 - Our Tattered Safety Net, Bailout Exposes Bankers' Greed, Progressive Economists Warn Obama, Israel Escalation in Gaza, New US Supreme Court Docket, Stop Spies from your Personal Information, Angry White Conservatives, Vatican Hates Gays, Are US Wars Lawful?

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Five Misconceptions about our Tattered Safety Net

Mitt Romney said he wasn't concerned about the very poor, because they have a safety net. This is typical of the widespread ignorance about inequality in our country. Struggling Americans want jobs, not handouts, and for the most part they've paid for their "safety net." The real problem is at the other end of the wealth gap.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/12

Bailout 'Of the People, By the People' Exposes Bankers' Greed

A coalition of activists looking to build popular resistance to predatory lending kicked off a new initiative, The Rolling Jubilee, to challenge the status quo of debt collection by purchasing distressed debts and then—rather than collecting on it—wiping the slate clean.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-6

Progressive Economists Warn Obama Against Austerity Path

As the public dialogue leaves the 2012 election behind and the domestic policy conversation in the US converges towards a singular focus on the so-called "fiscal cliff,"New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman says that those proposing tax cuts for the wealthiest and steep cuts to key social programs like Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid shouldn't just be ignored, they shouldn't even be allowed a seat at the table.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-0

Israel Threatens Ground Troops, Escalation in Gaza after Weekend Strikes

Tensions between Israel and Gaza have intensified once again, as Israeli officials opened up the possibility of a ground troop invasion in the occupied territory.

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/12-3

Student concerns and civil liberties in new U.S. Supreme Court docket
After a whirlwind year with decisions on health care, immigration and campaign finance, the October term for the U.S. Supreme Court is underway. New cases that particularly affect college students and civil liberties face oral argument on both sides following this election cycle. Below are several cases that fall into this category, which have either already been argued or will soon see their day in the highest court in the land. Other civil liberties cases are soon to appear, such as Hollingsworth v. Perry on the subject of same-sex marriage, but are awaiting petition approval. Information was found from both the Oyez Project at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and the SCOTUSblog.
http://www.redandblack.com/news/student-concerns-and-civil-liberties-in-new-u-s-supreme/article_264dec20-2c60-11e2-9bd9-001a4bcf6878.html

How to Stop Spies from Digging Up Your Personal Information

The goal of spying is to gain information and anyone can find plenty of personal information about you—or anyone, really—by knowing where to look. I spoke with security and investigations expert Brandon Gregg to find out the most common sources:

http://lifehacker.com/5959080/how-to-stop-spies-from-digging-up-your-personal-information

Dear Angry White Conservatives Mourning Romney's Loss: Chill Out

Dear conservatives: The right-wing media machine betrayed you.

http://www.alternet.org/media/dear-angry-white-conservatives-mourning-romneys-loss-chill-out

The Vatican Hates Gays

Its latest claim, that gay marriage causes polygamy, is as absurd as it is offensive. Where does it stop?

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/vatican-hates-gays

Danger Ahead: The Oligarchs Don't Understand That Economic Collapse Happens When They Get All the Money

The corporate masters seem to have forgotten they depend on working people for their own survival.

http://www.alternet.org/economy/danger-ahead-oligarchs-dont-understand-economic-collapse-happens-when-they-get-all-money

US Supreme Court to consider challenge to 1965 Voting Rights Act

The 1965 Voting Rights Act ranks among the most significant reforms that emerged from the upheavals of the civil rights period. The act overruled and abolished the myriad state laws designed to disenfranchise black voters in many Southern states, and established a strict regime of federal oversight for those areas of the country that had a history of discriminatory voting practices.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/nov2012/vote-n12.shtml

U.S. Wars: Are They Lawful?
First, there are clear laws on the books that make U.S. wars unlawful, along with U.S. threats of war and U.S. propaganda for war. The laws are either forgotten, ignored, evaded, or cleverly reinterpreted to reverse their meaning. But they could be enforced someday.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S-Wars-Are-They-Lawful-by-David-Swanson-121112-877.html

NOW IS THE TIME! To Form an Independent Progressive Political Party
Numerous progressive authors and spokespersons have continually voiced their opinions about our "broken" and dysfunctional political system. And a few brave souls like Jill Stein (Green Party) and Rocky Anderson (Justice Party) recently entered the fray and stuck their necks out to provide alternatives to our two party political system to represent elements of the progressive forces. Prior to this, Ralph Nader had been a hero to many of us with his challenges to the corporate duopoly. Yet, as I tried to describe in my recent blog, the two party duopoly system--Democrat and Republican--maintained total control and places the nation in imminent danger. Jill Dalton also describes the corrupt electoral voting system very well in her recent blog entitled "Does Voting Really Matter?" Ironically, our national antitrust laws are intended to prevent monopolies or duopolies in the corporate sector but our government does not demand it of themselves.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/NOW-IS-THE-TIME-To-Form-a-by-Dr-Tom-Baldwin-121111-628.html

Veterans Day and a Caution Against a Cult of the Military

A soldier in uniform can scarcely navigate an airport terminal without being accosted every 30ft with spontaneous expressions of appreciation. Because, as we are reminded again and again and again, by play-by-play announcers and presidents, men and women in the uniform are heroes defending our freedom.

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14503-veterans-day-and-a-caution-against-a-cult-of-the-military

The Israeli Documentary Putting Military Rule in Palestine on Trial

Juan Cole: Real Petraeus Failure Was Counterinsurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan

Hastings: From Iraq War to Covert Drone Attacks: Examining Petraeus for Affair is Ironic

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