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How the US Government Betrayed the Constitution and invented an Imaginary Fascist One
The idea of having a strong Federal government was controversial in the early United States, and one of the ways Federalists reassured Americans that it […]
No, NSA snooping didn’t foil 50 Terrorist Attacks (Elliot & Meyer)
Claim on “Attacks Thwarted” by NSA Spreads Despite Lack of Evidence Justin Elliot and Theodoric Meyer write at ProPublica Two weeks after Edward Snowden’s first […]
Why the US needs Electric Cars: Saudi Arabia threatens Pivot away from US
The royal family of Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy with no constitution and no elected legislature, is in a snit about US foreign policy. King […]
Rights Groups: Some US Drone Strikes are War Crimes (Oldroyd)
Rachel Oldroyd writes at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Leading human rights groups Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have raised serious concerns about the […]
Egypt’s Coptic Christians Protest Killing by Fundamentalists of 4 at Church
Coptic Christians in Egypt staged a big demonstration on Monday to protest the shooting deaths of four church-goers at the Church of the Virgin in […]
America may Shutter the Gov’t, but not the Gov’t’s Wars (Astore)
William J. Astore writes at Tomdispatch: There is a new normal in America: our government may shut down, but our wars continue. Congress may not […]
Israeli Settlers Chop down more Palestinian Olive Trees (having destroyed 800,000 since 1967)
Israeli settlers over the weekend used chain saws to destroy some 100 Palestinian olive trees in Qaryut village near the West Bank city of Nablus. […]
Sanders: Climate Change more Menacing than Terrorism (Germanos)
Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams.org: In a newly published interview, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) blasts the "unfettered capitalism" that has collapsed the middle class, and […]
Top Ten Climate Change Threats being ignored by your Television News
Since many mainstream media outlets in the US are burying the dramatic climate change stories from all around the world, either by not reporting them […]
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