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www.huffingtonpost.com Want to make money on the drug war? Start a company that builds military equipment, then sell that gear to local police departments.
www.theatlanticwire.com Sesame Street — home of Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Elmo — rarely incites controversy. But then the website of the popular children's education show uploaded a curious feature called "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarce...
earthfirstnews.wordpress.com The United States Military, the Pentagon. Most fossil fuel burned, most greenhouse gases released, biggest source of Mercury released into the environment, biggest source of radiological (Uranium, ...
www.popularresistance.org A jury Monday acquitted a 40-year-old man of all charges connected with writing protest messages in chalk on the sidewalk outside branches of the Bank of America. Deliberating for only a few hours,...
www.cbsnews.com Gen. Carter Ham was leading U.S. military operations in Africa during the Benghazi embassy attack; hearing will be behind closed doors
pleasekillme.com Miss Harvey, 43, said: “I'm very happy that my name has been put forward by the Prime Minister to the Queen.”
www.propublica.org There are a lot of ways to talk to people securely on the internet, some are purpose-built to enhance your privacy and security. Here’s a guide to getting started.
www.guardian.co.uk The treatment of dissidents is the true measure of how free a society is: consider today's examples from the US
www.ted.com Tech communities are booming all over Africa, says Nairobi-based Juliana Rotich, co-founder of the open-source software Ushahidi. Rotich and friends developed BRCK, offering resilient connectivity for the developing world.
www.huffingtonpost.com The Crime of Alleviating Poverty -- A Local Community Currency Battles the Central Bank of Kenya - The Huffington Post
www.democracynow.org A new book on last year’s Benghazi attack in Libya concludes the killing of U.S. ambassador Christoper Stevens and three others was in part blowback for a secret assassination operation run in North Africa by the Joint Special Operations...
news.yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — You must be a lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court.
www.guardian.co.uk Military admits to filtering reports and content relating to government surveillance programs for thousands of personnel
rt.com San Francisco’s public transportation came to a stop on Monday as Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) unions went on strike, affecting about 400,000 commuters and marking the first halt of the train service in 16 years.
www.guardian.co.uk Review of more than 900 cables reveals campaign to break down resistance to GM products in Europe and other countries
billmoyers.com Lawrence Lessig and Bill Moyers explore how we can protect our privacy when Big Government and Big Business morph into Big Brother.
www.juancole.com Juan Cole | UAE
www.aljazeera.com Exclusive documents recommend use of Reglan, a drug known to cause neurological disorders, to hunger striking detainees.
arstechnica.com How to to encrypt e-mail, and why most don't bother.
www.aljazeera.com Army gives President Mohamed Morsi 48 hours to calm protests against his rule, or face intervention.
www.economist.com A RARE flicker of political protest graced the streets of Ethiopia’s otherwise regimented capital, Addis Ababa, on June 2nd. Demonstrators marched peacefully...
www.boilingfrogspost.com Bush Era’s Good-Ol’ Familiar Faces Resurface again on Operation Syria With the approaching Finale for Syria’s Assad the Uber-Neocon architects of US foreign policy have been hard at work. Assuming ...
www.dailymail.co.uk Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee found that minnows exhibited worrying behaviour after living in water contaminated with Zoloft and Prozac.
spectrevision.net Elite panic manifests in the “command-and-control” measures a government often takes after a natural disaster, including shoot-to-kill orders and the deployment of heavily-armed “relief” forces.
www.rawstory.com The company that engineered an herbicide-resistant strain of wheat which was never cleared for commercial use is baffled as to how the genetically modified organism (GMO) came to be growing in an Oregon wheat field. According to New Scientist,...
