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www.guardian.co.uk Leaked document shines light on crimes including forced disappearances during uprising against Hosni Mubarak
www.commondreams.org Hundreds of Chicago students are taking up the mantle in the fight against the roll of standardized tests in public school closures as they walked out of state exam Wednesday. Their message: "We are over-tested, under-resourced and...
www.democracynow.org Former President George W. Bush has been forced to cancel a planned trip to Switzerland after human rights attorneys threatened to take legal action against him for sanctioning the use of torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights...
www.technologyreview.com Data that shows where people live, work, and play is being sold to businesses and city planners, as mobile operators seek new sources of revenue.
narcosphere.narconews.com Mexico-based Private Security Firm’s Intelligence Shows Big Jump in Murders, Political Assassinations Since December2012 The administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has made it a priority to divert the media’s...
news.yahoo.com (Reuters) - Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, the New York Times says, citing...
www.npr.org The House and Senate acted quietly without a vote. Instead, they sent the measure to the president's desk by unanimous consent.
www.citizenhearing.org Citizen Hearing on Disclosure – April 29 to May 3, 2013 – Washington, DC"The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure will attempt to accomplish what the U. S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years." - Stephen Bassett, Political...
www.vice.com In the last two years, as the Eurozone crisis worsens, Slovakia seems to be scapegoating its precarious minority of Roma—the ethnic group better known as Gypsies. Racist violence, evictions, threats,…
www.rollingstone.com The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix
www.cnbc.com Gold prices continued to plummet Monday on Cyprus selling concerns, Dennis Gartman, editor of The Gartman Letter, told CNBC.
www.upi.com A gang known as Black Guerrilla Family and corrupt corrections officers had total control over Baltimore jail, according to a Federal indictment.
www.washingtonpost.com Institutional investors are scooping up home bargains, leaving little guys in the dust.
rt.com A hacker compromised the main Twitter account for the Associated Press on Tuesday, creating momentary chaos across the world by inaccurately posting that US President Barack Obama was injured by an explosion in the White House.
www.foreignpolicy.com Demand and supply certainly matter. But there's another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed.
www.newyorker.com PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report)—North Korea’s official news agency announced today that the military’s planned missile test had been put on hold because of “problems with Windows 8.” Intelligence analysts said that the announcement gave...
www.bloomberg.com Hedge-fund manager John Paulson’s wager on gold wiped out almost $1 billion of his personal wealth in the past two trading days as the precious metal plummeted 13 percent.
www.washingtonpost.com The site best known for restaurant reviews has also become a place to report serious abuse.
www.ranker.com The U.S. Government has been caught conducting an insane amount of vile, inhumane and grisly experiments on humans without their consent and often without their knowledge. So in light of recent news of the U.S. infecting Guatemalans with...
www.theatlanticwire.com The Boston Marathon bombing is easily the most crowd-sourced terror investigation on American soil, with the FBI soliciting videos, cell phone pictures, and anything that could lead to the capture of whoever set off those pressure...
www.guardian.co.uk Craig Monteilh describes how he prenteded to be a radical Muslim in order to root out potential threats, shining a light on some of the bureau's more ethically murky practices
www.nytimes.com A nonpartisan review concluded that the use of torture had “damaged the standing” of the United States and “potentially increased the danger to U.S. military personnel.”
www.spiegel.de Twelve years ago, Portugal eliminated criminal penalties for drug users. Since then, those caught with small amounts of marijuana, cocaine or heroin go unindicted and possession is a misdemeanor on par with illegal parking. Experts are...
changethis.com “Living in the digital media environment changes a whole lot more than the technologies through which we do business. It has changed our relationship to time—and this is having profound effects on our businesses, our economy, and our c...
blogs.smithsonianmag.com In 1950, journalist Vincent Sheean argued that renouncing national sovereignty was the only way to prevent nuclear war
