An Impertinent Question
From Robert Reich: http://robertreich.org/post/55191562750 Robert Reich Thursday, July 11, 2013 Permit me an impertinent question (or three). Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought...
View ArticleThe Choice That Isn’t
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/the-choice-that-isnt_b_3574277.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices Brynn Tannehill 07/15/2013 When I first blogged on The Huffington Post six...
View ArticleIceland to cut ties with Russia over ‘gay propaganda’ law
From Gay Star News: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/iceland-cut-ties-russia-over-%E2%80%98gay-propaganda%E2%80%99-law150713 Reykjavik mayor says he does not want to share political and cultural...
View ArticleSurveillance Blowback
From Tom Dispatch: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175724/tomgram%3A_alfred_w._mccoy,_obama%27s_expanding_surveillance_universe/ The Making of the U.S. Surveillance State, 1898-2020 By Alfred W. McCoy...
View ArticleLocking Out the Voices of Dissent
From Truth Dig: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/locking_out_the_voices_of_dissent_20130714/ By Chris Hedges Jul 14, 2013 NEW YORK—The security and surveillance state, after crushing the Occupy...
View ArticleThe crux of the NSA story in one phrase: ‘collect it all’
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all The actual story that matters is not hard to see: the NSA is attempting to collect, monitor and store...
View ArticleMission Creep: When Everything Is Terrorism
From The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/mission-creep-when-everything-is-terrorism/277844/ NSA apologists say spying is only used for menaces like “weapons of mass...
View ArticleTrans Women Win Employment Discrimination Suits Using Civil Rights Act
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2013/07/15/trans-woman-wins-employment-discrimination-suit-using-civil-rights For the first time in history, the federal government is...
View ArticleFederal Government Decisions Mark A Changed Landscape For Transgender Workers
From Buzzfeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-goverment-decisions-mark-a-changed-landscape-for-tra In cases against both government and private employers, transgender workers — with the...
View ArticleThe Many Shades of ‘Out’
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lynn-conway/the-many-shades-of-out_b_3591764.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender Lynn Conway 07/14/2013 On a sultry June afternoon, as my husband and I...
View ArticleAn Observation on the Martin/Zimmerman Case
I was living in Los Angeles during the O.J. Murder Trial, another dubious acquittal. There is a commonality between the two cases. One that would argue for the banning of trying cases in the media....
View ArticleThis land is your land, this land is gas land
From Waging Non-Violence: http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/this-land-is-your-land-this-land-is-fracking-land/ Peter Rugh July 17, 2013 The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for...
View ArticleMining Company Deploys More Masked Militiamen Against “Eco-Terrorists”
From Mother Jones: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/07/walker-backed-mine-hires-militiamen-intimidate-protesters Welcome to the scary new world of mining in Scott Walker’s Wisconsin. By...
View ArticleObama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
From Russia Today: http://rt.com/usa/obama-ndaa-appeal-suit-229/ July 17, 2013 The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners...
View ArticleMillions of US license plates tracked and stored, new ACLU report finds
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/jul/17/million-american-license-plate-privacy-tracking Alarming number of databases across US are storing details of Americans’ locations – not...
View ArticleAttention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/15/business/attention-shopper-stores-are-tracking-your-cell.html?hp&_r=0 By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD and QUENTIN HARDY Published: July 14, 2013...
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