- Inside the Controversy Over Man Charged with Murder for Slipping an Abortion Pill to Pregnant Girlfriend18 May 2013, 3:36 pm
Florida man told her it was an antibiotic. John Andrew Welden is charged with the murder of a person who was never born.As Tampa’s WFTS-TV news reports, Welden is facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly giving his pregnant girlfriend Remee Lee an abortion pill and telling her it was an antibiotic. Welden worked in his father’s Florida clinic, a “specialty infertility practice.” When Lee began bleeding and experiencing cramps, she went to her local hospital, where doctors info...
- Bill Moyers: Our Media Is Polluted by Toxic Lies About the Risks Posed by Lead17 May 2013, 5:43 pm
There’s no safe level of exposure to this dangerous toxin still lurking in millions of homes, but that truth is consistently under attack from industry-funded public relations excecutives. From BillMoyers.com: INTRO:Science can be a battleground — witness the politics of climate change, the teaching of evolution, the uncharted terrain of genetic modification and stem cell research, among other contentious issues. But when industries release untested chemicals into our environment — ... - Keep the Arctic Cold: Why the Rush to Drill Alaska Must Be Stopped17 May 2013, 5:23 pm
A leading international voice on arctic conservation addresses President Obama’s strategy for tapping America’s northern frontier. I wrote a letter to the editor as a follow up to the generous review In the Beautiful,Threatened North” by Ian Frazier in The New York Review of Books of the anthology, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point that I edited. My letter, “Can Shell Be Stopped?” has just been published in the New York Review. After the June 6 issue (with ... - Being a Democracy Hating, Corporate Power-Defending Newspaper Owner Runs Deep in the Koch Family17 May 2013, 5:16 pm
The Koch bros are rumored to be possible bidders for the Tribune company and its large regional papers including the LA Times ... their grandfather Harry Koch would be proud. This article first appeared at Not Safe for Work Corporation.There’s a rumor going around that the Koch brothers are interested in buying up the Tribune Company, which includes the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun… And there’s a lot of speculation about what would happen if they did.Some worry... - Can America Come to Terms with Boston Bombing Suspect's Stated Motives?17 May 2013, 5:15 pm
We must take grievances about America’s Mideast oppression seriously. Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding before Boston-area police riddled it and him with bullets. Tell Brennan that Tsarnaev’s note is in plain English and that it needs neither translation nor interpretation in solving the mystery: “why do they hate us?”And, if Brennan will listen, remind him of when his high school t... - Four Examples from the Last Week Prove Obama Is Full of Hot Air on Climate Protection17 May 2013, 5:05 pm
You can't hit 400 ppm CO2 and still think "all of the above" is a rationale energy strategy. A lot has happened in the last week. The Earth hit the 400 parts per million CO2 threshold for the first time in human history. Scientists tell us this is bad news if we want to prevent runaway climate change. "If we continue to burn fossil fuels at accelerating rates, if we continue with business as usual, we will cross the 450 parts per million limit in a matter of maybe a couple deca... - Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores17 May 2013, 4:44 pm
The fight against plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing. Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing.One growing series of protests has been the “Moral Monday” demonstrations in North Carolina. The... - Fuel on a Mideast Fire: U.S. Intervention in Syria Would Make Catastrophic Situation Even Worse17 May 2013, 12:22 pm
Proponents of military involvement have it all wrong: The United States should de-escalate hostilities. Politically-driven demands for direct US intervention in Syria – more arms to the rebels, establishing a 'no-fly' zone, creating a safe area somewhere – have been flying around for months. So far, President Obama and the Pentagon leadership have resisted the political pressure. But Obama’s resistance has been weak and cautious; we don’t have enough evidence yet, it’s not clear the... - 6 Key Takeaways From the Stupidity and Reality of IRS 'Scandal'16 May 2013, 6:20 pm
The maddening episode reveals how Washington works. There’s so much that’s upside-down and ill-informed about the "IRS scandal" unfolding in Washington, starting with the fact that no one has pointed a finger at the people who created these abuses in the first place: senior political consultants and lawyers. And doesn’t anyone see the hypocrisy of the GOP for calling out the IRS for targeting groups (that lied about being charities) when that party has been targeting black and brown vot... - Why You Can't Sleep: The Science of Insomnia16 May 2013, 2:35 pm
Is your anxiety about falling asleep keeping you awake? Or are your neurons to blame? We've all experienced a sleepless night or two, and for some people that's actually the norm. But why do we experience insomnia at all? What is going on in our minds and bodies, to cause this awful condition? Here's what scientists know so far.The prevalence of insomnia in adults varies widely, depending on how the condition is defined. Most broadly, someone has insomnia if he or she simply suffers from di...
- Tunisia and Libya take on Ansar al-Sharia Militants19 May 2013, 9:06 am
Clashes broke out on Sunday in a western suburb of Tunis and in the city of Kairouan at the Mosque of the Martyrs between Tunisian police and militants of the proscribed Ansar al-Sharia cell. Although the movement makes exaggerated claims for its adherents, I shouldn’t imagine they amount to more than a couple thousand core [...]... - Massive Meteoroid Impact on Moon shines like Small Star (NASA Video)19 May 2013, 7:18 am
That boulder-sized meteoroid that hit the moon on the 17th, causing a star-bright conflagration? NASA reports that it likely was part of a whole pack of meteoroids, a smaller set of which hit the earth’s atmosphere around the same time. Meteoroids are space rocks up to 10 yards / meter wide. From 10 meters wide [...]... - Climate Change Denial is Costing us Trillions, Threatening Farming, Fishing, Animals (Video)18 May 2013, 11:06 am
Michael Mann: Climate change is already costing us $1 trillion a year. Aljazeera asks Professor Mann why there is still confusion among Americans about the perils of climate change, at a time when the scientific consensus is virtually complete. Some recent links on the impact: Much of Australia’s farmland could turn to desert or be [...]... - The Lotto Symbolizes the False Promises of Barracuda Capitalism, and it Won’t make you Happy to Win18 May 2013, 8:33 am
Late capitalism in the United States is a process whereby more and more of the national income is going every month to a smaller number of people at the top, while the average wage of the average worker has been virtually static in real terms since 1970. All the extra money the US has made [...]... - “I will Survive” the Muslim Brotherhood: Leftist Egyptian Youth Music Video17 May 2013, 1:06 pm
Not an endorsement, but this cover by secular leftists of Gloria Gaynor’s 1978 “I will Survive,” with satirical Arabic lyrics (translated in subtitles) about the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood and Salafis in Egypt since the fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak gives a window into the grievances and disappointments of the youth who made the [...]... - The Great Benghazi Conspiracy and Republican Forgeries17 May 2013, 11:26 am
John Aravosis at AmericaBlog has been all over the Republican congressmen who forged versions of alleged White House emails on Benghazi and falsified them to the news networks, trying to make it look like there had been a cover-up. Extraordinarily, Bob Schieffer of CBS News called them out, naming the party but not the individuals [...]... - Moapa Band of Paiutes Celebrates switch from Coal to Solar Energy in Nevada17 May 2013, 1:50 am
The Moapa Paiutes are celebrating the advent of solar power and the beginning of the end of coal power in southern Nevada. They are having a solar plant built on tribal lands, which will allow them meet their own needs and to sell electricity to Los Angeles. Best of all, they can envision the closing [...]... - The Great American Descent into Plutocracy (Kroll)17 May 2013, 12:23 am
Andy Kroll writes at Tomdispatch.com Billionaires with an axe to grind, now is your time. Not since the days before a bumbling crew of would-be break-in artists set into motion the fabled Watergate scandal, leading to the first far-reaching restrictions on money in American politics, have you been so free to meddle. There is no [...]...
- How the Catonsville Nine Survived on Film17 May 2013, 6:19 pm
Jake Olzen, Waging Nonviolence “It is arguably the single most powerful antiwar act in American history,” Martin Sheen once recounted about the May 17, 1968 burning of draft files in Catonsville, Md., by nine unusual suspects to protest the Vietnam War. The Catonsville Nine, as they came to be called, marked the beginning of dramatic [...]... - Borderless Cities: Sanctuary Cities for Migrants Taking Roots Across Canada17 May 2013, 5:57 pm
Aaron Lakoff, Media Co-op MONTREAL—Undocumented migrants face significant barriers when it comes to accessing education, healthcare, food aid and other essential services in Canada. A new campaign to build “sanctuary cities” across the country, however, is making urban services more accessible to those without papers. Being without papers impacts the day-to-day lives of migrants in [...]... - Helping Vernon Bowman, the Farmer Who Owes Over $80K after Losing Monsanto Patent Case17 May 2013, 4:58 pm
Heather Callaghan, Activist Post You may have heard of 76-year-old Vernon Hugh Bowman from Indiana who tenaciously took on Monsanto all the way to the Supreme Court over a patent infringement claim. Since the Supreme Court upheld Monsanto’s end the other day, Bowman now owes $84,456 to the multi-billion GMO giant Monsanto. It was a [...]... - Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ‘Boat Note’: America Reaps What it Sows16 May 2013, 9:26 pm
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly left a note claiming responsibility for the deadly terror attack in the boat he was hiding in as police closed in on him last month. According to CBS News, the note, which was scrawled on a wall with a marker, is “part manifesto, part suicide note and part justification [...]... - Florida Boy Jarvan Jackson, 11, Dies after Accidental Shooting by 4-Year-Old Relative15 May 2013, 6:18 pm
An 11-year-old North Florida boy has died two days after being accidentally shot by a four-year-old identified as a relative. WTEV reports that 11-year-old Jarvan Jackson of Lake City died on Tuesday at UF & Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Jarvan had been accidentally shot by a four-year-old relative in a home at the Cedar Park apartment complex in Lake [...]... - US Funds Still Supporting Honduras Death Squads15 May 2013, 5:12 pm
Lauren Carasik, JURIST Honduras is plagued by the world’s highest homicide rate. This has been widely reported for the past two years, yet the number of deaths has continued to climb. The UN put the number of homicides in 2011 at 91 per 100,000. The rate has spiked since the illegalcoup d’état that ousted the country’s democratically [...]... - Stop the Justice Department’s Attack on Press Freedom15 May 2013, 4:19 pm
Josh Stearns, Free Press It was just revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained a huge cache of phone records from reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The AP has called this a “massive and unprecedented” violation of journalists’ constitutional right to gather and report the news. But this is not just a journalists’ issue. It’s [...]... - Report: Pentagon Quietly Grants Itself Domestic Policing Powers15 May 2013, 4:05 pm
The Pentagon has quietly granted itself the power to police the streets of US towns and cities without obtaining state or local consent. The Long Island Press reports that the military has altered a regulation in the US Code titled “Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies,” adding vague language allowing military intervention in “civil disturbances”: Federal military commanders have [...]... - Pam and Mark Crawford Suing South Carolina, Doctors, for Removing Hermaphrodite Son’s Male Genitals15 May 2013, 1:43 pm
Dan McCue, Courthouse News Service South Carolina’s Department of Social Services ordered doctors to do irreversible, medically unnecessary sex-assignment surgery on a year-old child in state custody, her adoptive parents claim in court. Pamela and John Mark Crawford sued three doctors and four Social Services workers on behalf of their child, M.C., in Federal Court. [...]... - Minnesota Legalizes Gay Marriage15 May 2013, 5:33 am
Minnesota has become the 12th US state to achieve marriage equality for LGBT residents after the governor signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Tuesday. The Associated Press reports that Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, signed a bill that will allow same-sex couples to begin marrying on August 1. A crowd of thousands gathered on the lawn [...]...
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- After $200 Million, Darpa Gives Up on Formation-Flying Satellites17 May 2013, 5:00 pm
Darpa is ending its experiment with small, close-flying spacecraft, but that doesn't mean the concept is dead.... - Slowly, Military Opens the Door to Outside Prosecutions for Sexual Assault17 May 2013, 4:18 pm
The military doesn't want to take sexual assault cases out of the chain of command. But as scandals compile and Congress prepares to act, it may have to.... - In Tomorrow’s Wars, Battles Will Be Fought With a 3-D Printer17 May 2013, 6:30 am
Printable drones, limbs and ammunition. It's a far-out vision, but more and more military officers are starting to think that future troops will rely on 3-D printers to manufacture the tools of war.... - Terrorist Entered Witness Protection, Then Fled the United States16 May 2013, 6:13 pm
The Justice Department's internal watchdog found "significant problems" in how the feds handle terrorists who snitch and get new identities. They can evade no-fly lists. Some actually have.... - New Documents Reveal How a 1980s Nuclear War Scare Became a Full-Blown Crisis16 May 2013, 3:43 pm
Over 10 days in November 1983, the U.S. and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Now newly declassified documents reveal just how close we reached a mutual destruction -- because of an exercise.... - Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees ’10 to 20′ More Years of War Against al-Qaida16 May 2013, 11:49 am
The war against al-Qaida is far from winding down, according to top Pentagon officials. The Pentagon's chief of irregular warfare sees it lasting for 10 to 20 more years.... - Photos: Is This the Future of Special Operations?16 May 2013, 6:30 am
The elite hunters and killers of the U.S. military are getting new missions. And that means all sorts of new gear.... - Will the Navy’s New Killer Drones Hunt Terrorists or Fight China?15 May 2013, 8:15 am
The Navy is about to place a major bet on the future of U.S. air power.... - Here’s How the Next Deep Throat Can Leak to the Press14 May 2013, 6:20 pm
With the recent revelation that the Department of Justice under the Obama administration secretly obtained phone records for Associated Press journalists -- and previous subpoenas by the Bush administration targeting the Washington Post and New York Times -- it is ...... - What Torture Charges? Special Ops Chief Says Afghan Relations Are ‘Great’14 May 2013, 5:33 pm
From torture allegations to dead U.S. soldiers, it's been a brutal few days in Afghanistan. But to the admiral in charge of America's special operation forces, things are going rather well there....
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