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Democracy Now! interviews Sharif Abdel Kouddous on the decision of the Egyptian judges to go on strike against the decrees of fundamentalist president Muhammad Morsi. Plus: BREAKING NEWS: The most senior Egyptian justices of the Supreme Judicial Council have overruled their colleagues and will assign personnel to oversee the December 15 referendum on the constitution. […]

Update We’re coming into the final stretch of the annual fundraiser. I am *so* grateful to all the fans who have donated. We’re having a great year and are coming down the home stretch. Just to underline that readers here are getting a different, and I would argue more accurate view of the world than […]

Human beings are hurtling toward an average temperature increase on earth by 2100, just 88 years from now, of 9 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit (5-6 degrees C.), according to a new study by the Global Carbon Project. The United States accounts for 16 percent of global emissions, and Americans are the world’s biggest carbon polluters […]

National Security Agency whistle-blower William Binney explains how the NSA puts all the electronic communications of all Americans under constant surveillance and then stores zetabytes of data permanently. RT reports: Binney says that social networks analysis is being carried out on all Americans, and that if for any reason the clique in charge of the […]

The real scandal of the Kim Kardashian visit to Bahrain is that it is what it took for Western media to mention the word “Bahrain” on the evening news. I did a search at Lexis Nexis Broadcast Transcripts under “CBS and Bahrain” for the past 3 months and got … 10 hits. Now, this methodology […]

The draft constitution was handed over in a ceremony on Saturday to President Muhammad Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, and he in turn immediately scheduled it for a national referendum on December 15. These high-handed moves provoked outrage among liberals, leftists and many centrists , while hundreds of thousands of rural fundamentalists were bused in […]

1. In response to the sting of defeat at the UN, Israel announced it is building a further 3,000 Israel squatter housing units on Palestinian land around Jerusalem. The Israelis had said that the Palestinians should come to the negotiating table instead of going to the UN, but they would be negotiating over this land […]

The Young Turks cover a new report on carbon emissions and climate change.: