Silencing Scientists
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/silencing-scientists.html?_r=1& By VERLYN KLINKENBORG Published: September 21, 2013 Over the last few years, the...
View ArticlePath to Autocracy: Could America Become a Police State?
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18802-path-to-autocracy-could-america-become-a-police-state By L Michael Hager Sunday, 22 September 2013 In his 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four,...
View ArticleFBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists
From Digital Journal: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/358624 By Ralph Lopez Sep 19, 2013 A Department of Justice memo instructs local police, under a program named “communities against...
View ArticleDestroying the Right to Be Left Alone
From Tom Dispatch: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175750/tomgram%3A_calabrese_and_harwood%2C_privacy_down_the_drain/ The NSA Isn’t the Only Government Agency Exploiting Technology to Make Privacy...
View ArticleVarious items: NSA stories around the world
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/23/various-items-nsa-india-belgium Revelations continue to produce outcomes on multiple levels in numerous countries around the...
View ArticleNational Organization for Marriage now goes after transgender kids
From Gay Star News: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/national-organization-marriage-now-goes-after-transgender-kids230913 The National Organization for Marriage has announced it willl campaign to...
View ArticleTrans couple make history as first to marry after both having gender...
Yet another FIRST that I’m fairly certain has happened before. Indeed there was a book about one such couple back in the 1970s. From Pink News UK:...
View ArticleBeing a Transgender Student in the United States: An Uneven Landscape
From RH Reality Check: http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/09/10/being-a-transgender-student-in-the-united-states-an-uneven-landscape/ by Annamarya Scaccia September 10, 2013 On August 12,...
View ArticleSen. Feinstein Wants to Strip Independent Journalists’ Rights
Senator Dianne Feinstein has just as much contempt for the First Amendment to the Constitution as she does for the Second. From Truth Out:...
View ArticleEdward Snowden has started a global debate. So why the silence in Britain?
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/19/gchq-we-monster-we-cant-control We’re subject to huge unwarranted surveillance – but Westminster’s useful idiots are more...
View ArticleThe Crazy Party
From The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/opinion/krugman-the-crazy-party.html By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 19, 2013 Early this year, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana,...
View ArticleHow America’s 401(k) Revolution Rewarded the Rich and Turned the Rest of Us...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/401k-revolution-and-inequality A failed public policy experiment is tearing the country apart. By Lynn Stuart Parramore September 23, 2013 It was a bad...
View ArticlePoliticians hardly ever mention America’s poor
From Japan Times: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2013/09/22/commentary/politicians-hardly-ever-mention-americas-poor/#.UkJWyBB1Epn by Cesar Chelala Sept 22, 2013 NEW YORK – U.S. Republican and...
View ArticleMeet the American Christo-Fascist Figures Thrilled by Russia’s Brutal...
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/belief/meet-american-religious-right-figures-thrilled-russias-brutal-anti-gay-laws Putin has achieved much of what the American right-wing dreams of, and...
View ArticlePussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/23/pussy-riot-hunger-strike-nadezhda-tolokonnikova In an open letter, the imprisoned Pussy Riot member explains why the brutal...
View ArticleTrans Lawyer Launches Russian Presidential Bid
From The Advocate: http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2013/09/23/trans-lawyer-launches-russian-presidential-bid Masha Bast, the Russian human rights lawyer who recently came out as a...
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