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There are many who will say that Rouhani's victory in Iran is a surprise, that he is a moderate, and that this means there is finally someone the west can negotiate with on the nuclear program. I do not fall in this camp. Instead, I think the regime will...
www.businessinsider.com A modest proposal.
www.nytimes.com The Agriculture Department approved a label to show that meat certified by the Non-GMO Project came from animals that never ate feed containing genetically engineered ingredients.
www.icij.org Readers can search information about the ownership of more than 100,000 offshore entities in tax havens and discover the networks around them.
thelede.blogs.nytimes.com Before a dinner of pizza and fried chicken Sunday, Edward Snowden insisted that everyone put his cellphone in the refrigerator, but its ability to block surveillance has nothing to do with temperature.
www.www.alternet.org It's perverse: the top 10 hedge funds managers make as much as 196,000 registered nurses. Here's how we change that.
rt.com Kim Dotcom has accused the US government and Leaseweb, one of the hosting providers of former file-sharing site Megaupload, of deleting millions of personal files "without warning."
www.washingtonpost.com Worried about the NSA snooping on you? Here are five NSA-proof ways to protect your privacy.
money.msn.com An advocacy group wants to raise $660 million from lots of little guys to keep Tribune's newspapers away from the billionaire Koch brothers.
www.spiegel.de The American intelligence director and the White House have finally confirmed what insiders have long known: The Obama administration is spying on the entire world. Politicians in Germany are demanding answers.
thechart.blogs.cnn.com The "Just Say No" generation was often told by parents and teachers that intelligent people didn't use drugs. Turns out, the adults may have been wrong.
www.motherjones.com A new report finds debt bondage, nonexistant bathrooms, and children working for a pittance at a "model" shrimp operation in Thailand.
grist.org An estimated 25,000 bumblebees were killed in a Target parking lot after landscapers sprayed blooming trees with insecticide. Happy pollinator week!
www.nytimes.com In 2008, a ruling by the FISA court — said to be against Yahoo — discouraged technology firms in fighting data requests from the government.
rt.com Sir Tim Berners-Lee has lashed out at Western governments, calling them hypocritical for spying on the internet while reproaching other oppressive nations for doing the same; adding that the revelations may change the way people use computers.
www.motherjones.com A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan.
rt.com The United States government hasn’t revealed just yet how it will handle the case of Edward Snowden, but former congressman Ron Paul says he fears the Obama administration will resort to taking down the NSA leaker with a drone strike.
rt.com China has introduced “harsher punishments” for breaking the nation’s environmental protection laws: reckless violators of pollution standards in the world’s biggest and fastest-growing economy now face execution.
www.natureworldnews.com Scientists in Uruguay have genetically modified sheep to glow in the dark. The phosphorescent sheep are a world first, the scientists report.
www.latimes.com Bob Fletcher, who quit his job as a state agricultural inspector during World War II to save the Sacramento farms of interned Japanese American families, died May 23 in Sacramento, his family announced. He was 101.
journalstar.com Conrad Farnsworth is the first person in Wyoming to build a nuclear fusion reactor.
on.io9.com The existence of our solar system's innermost planet has been common knowledge since ancient times, but that doesn't actually mean we've always know much about it. Mercury's proximity to the Sun has allowed it to jealously guard its secrets,...
transhumanity.net In 1979, sociologist Prof. Albert J. Szymanski once said:“The energy for change comes from the emotions. It comes from feelings of frustration that arise when people’s needs are not met. If people were computers that could be programmed...
www.cnbc.com As homes gain more value nationwide, banks are acting faster on delinquent loans and repossessing more homes.
laughingsquid.com In September 1983, Atari dumped 14 truckloads of game cartridges and other computer equipment at a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico and crushed the discarded merchandise beneath a layer of concrete
