Another Truth-Teller Steps Forward
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/10-7 Edward Snowden, the person who disclosed top-secret documents on the U.S. government’s massive surveillance programs, is reportedly in...
View ArticleIt’s High Time We Abolished the Department of Homeland Security
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/thom-hartmann-abolish-homeland-security It’s the path to national sanity. By Thom Hartmann June 11, 2013 The surveillance state is even bigger,...
View ArticleDefend Edward Snowden!
From World Socialist Web Site: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/06/13/pers-j13.html Barry Grey and David North 13 June 2013 The World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party call on all...
View ArticleMacs No More: After Edward Snowden, Time to Come to the Penguin
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-schneider/macs-no-more-after-edward_b_3417422.html Nathan Schneider 06/11/2013 This can’t go on much longer. You know the scene: a laptop-y...
View ArticleTyranny is BiPartisan
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View ArticleResponse to Dr. Jack Drescher and the NY Times About Childhood Transition:...
From GID Reform Weblog by Kelley Winters: http://gidreform.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/response-to-dr-jack-drescher-and-the-new-york-times-about-trans-youth/ Kelley Winters, Ph.D. GID Reform Advocates...
View ArticlePesticide Use Spikes as GMO Failure Cripples Corn Belt
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/09-6 Midwest farmers douse their fields in chemicals as insects grow resistant to Bt Corn Sarah Lazare Published on Tuesday, July 9,...
View ArticleI love nature. For this I am called bourgeois, romantic – even fascist
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/08/philistinism-nature-scientific-ignorance-money Those of us who defend the planet are increasingly subject to abuse. It is the...
View ArticlePrivatization’s the Name of the Game for Accident-Prone Train Company Behind...
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/10-10 ‘No more killer train’ say residents of disaster-hit town Andrea Germanos Published on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Common Dreams...
View ArticleHurricanes And Climate Change: Storms Likely To Get Stronger And More...
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/hurricanes-climate-change_n_3567007.html 07/09/2013 From Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman: Hurricanes are Mother Nature’s largest and...
View ArticleDoes gender matter when it comes to sexual consent?
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/07/06/does_gender_matter_when_it_comes_to_sexual_consent/ A teen is jailed and registered as a sex offender for having sex with a female peer while “pretending”...
View ArticleHISTORIC: Senate panel advances trans-inclusive ENDA
From The Washington Blade: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/07/10/historic-senate-panel-advances-trans-inclusive-enda/ By Chris Johnson on July 10, 2013 A Senate committee made history on Wednesday...
View ArticleWalmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/10/2276091/walmart-dc-living-wage-bill/ By Aviva Shen on Jul 10, 2013 Walmart fought hard to persuade DC residents to let it open stores...
View ArticleEuropean capacity to grow food is plateauing, scientist warns
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jul/08/european-capacity-grow-food-scientist Countries may not be able to increase food production because many staple crops are close...
View ArticleStopping the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Global Revolt Against Corporate...
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17472-stopping-the-tpp-a-victory-in-the-global-revolt-against-corporate-domination By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese Wednesday, 10 July 2013 We are...
View ArticleBillionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor
It this guy just begging for the masses to rise up and hang him from a lamp pole on Wall Street or what? From Think Progress:...
View ArticleThe HBS Holes are Amazingly Persistent in Pushing Their BS
Yesterday I was mildly critical of a piece Monica Roberts put up. Insisting people have to be out or act in a certain way because they are trans*, or for that matter embrace the “Transgender Identity”...
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