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www.guardian.co.uk Elliot Ross: The concept of the failed state is meaningless. It was invented as a rationale to impose US interests on less powerful nations
www.guardian.co.uk Files show vast scale of current NSA metadata programs, with one stream alone celebrating 'one trillion records processed'
www.commondreams.org CIA director John Brennan The Associated Pressreported Wednesday evening that it had "obtained" a memo written by CIA director John Brennan—a man tied to leaks of his own—describing a new campaign to keep CIA officials from leaking...
www.wired.com Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange for $5,000.
www.nature.com Study confirms principle’s limits on measurement accuracy.
www.mnn.com Sure, 'bee funeral' may scream Portland but a memorial service being held this Sunday to remember the 50,000 pollinators killed by pesticides at an Oregon Target store is more crucial than quirky in nature.
io9.com Back in 1970, a Viet Cong sniper began shooting at a U.S. Army camp. Unsure of his location, the troops unleashed a barrage of fire that turned the hillside into a veritable hellstorm. Now, four decades later, Vietnam War veteran and photographer...
www.ft.com The Emir of Qatar’s decision to abdicate voluntarily in favour of his 33-year-old son may well be a first in Arab dynastic politics. Although unlikely to presage a bicycling monarchy for the fabulously gas-rich Gulf emirate, Sheikh Hamad bin...
www.motherjones.com Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rails against the "demolition" of a landmark law to combat racial descrimination in voting.
www.raymazza.com Summarized from Buckminster Fuller’s book Critical Path. Our flag originated from that of The East India Company, a powerful trading enterprise
www.guernicamag.com We’re not moving toward a surveillance state; we live in the heart of one.
www.nation.com.pk Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday submitted a challan before an anti-terrorism court of Rawalpindi in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, declaring former president Pervez Musharraf main accused in the case.Sources said the FIA...
www.cbsnews.com The punk rock band "Pussy Riot" remains a voice of dissent in Russia, even though some of its members are in prison or in hiding. Lesley Stahl reports.
rt.com President Barack Obama announced Friday afternoon that he’s selected James Comey to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
www.psychologytoday.com One of life's sharpest paradoxes is that the key to satisfaction is doing things that feel risky, uncomfortable, and occasionally bad.
www.blogtalkradio.com Your public library may be where the promise and the reality of TV white space wireless broadband meet, thanks to the Gigabit Libraries Network (GLN). Don Means, GLN Coordinator, joins us to invite your community libraries to participate...
video.pbs.org Slavery by Another Name explores the new forms of slavery after the Civil War.
arstechnica.com When it comes to surveillance rules, some US people are more equal than others.
www.bloomberg.com Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four...
lifehac.kr How would your work change if you got paid $300 (or $500 or more) an hour? Pretend for a bit that you are getting paid that much. It could transform how productive and happy you are at work.
www.salon.com A smoking gun shows Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is a big liar -- and it's not the first time
www.smithsonianmag.com Fifty years ago, still spooked by the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. and Soviet Union built a hotline. But it wasn’t a phone
truth-out.org Worldwatch Institute says that the GMO regime has initiated a 'new era of feudalism.'
www.economist.com WITH stunning speed, protests that started on June 6th in São Paulo over a 20-centavo (nine-cent) hike in bus fares have morphed into the biggest street...
www.bbc.co.uk The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for new measures, including criminal sanctions, to make bankers responsible for their own failings.
