Ex-Officer Is First From C.I.A. to Face Prison for a Leak
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: January 5, 2013
WASHINGTON
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/us/former-cia-officer-is-the-first-to-face-prison-for-a-classified-leak.html?hp_r=0pagewanted=all
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http://mondediplo.com/2013/01/02arab
Le Monde diplomatique
Arab spring, act two
Are the Arab monarchies next?
As the chaotic transition towards democracy continues in North Africa
and Yemen, the fighting in Syria is intensifying. And, less noticed,
opposition to the Arab monarchies is
Komeito as countervailing power
EDITORIAL
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/ed20130107a1.html
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As plutonium hoard grows, so do Japan's headaches
By MARI YAMAGUCHI
AP
ROKKASHO, Aomori Pref. - How is an atomic-powered island nation
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/eo20130107rt.html
Can a woman's death spur a nation to end its violence against a gender?
By RAMESH THAKUR
CANBERRA - Never have I felt so ashamed to be from India nor so
despairing of its future.
The poor young woman, brutally assaulted by a pack of thugs,
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/new-shade-of-green-stark-shift-for-onetime-foe-of-genetic-engineering-in-crops/?src=recg
January 4, 2013
New Shade of Green: Stark Shift for Onetime Foe of Genetic Engineering in Crops
By ANDREW C. REVKIN
In case you missed the coverage and
http://www.nationofchange.org/monsanto-ad-claiming-roundup-safety-misleading-dutch-commission-1357003021
Monsanto Ad Claiming Roundup Safety is Misleading - Dutch Commission
Earth Open Source / News Report
Published: Monday 31 December 2012
Monsanto placed its advertisement to defend Roundup
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-truth-have-a-future-in-america/5318066
Does Truth Have A Future In America?
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, January 07, 2013
As a writer I have found that one problem in communicating with
readers is that many have political, social, economic, or
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13724-meet-anthony-ingraffea-from-industry-insider-to-implacable-fracking-opponent
Meet Anthony Ingraffea - From Industry Insider to Implacable Fracking Opponent
Saturday, 05 January 2013 10:04
By Ellen Cantarow, EcoWatch | Interview
Why, exactly, is high-volume
The West has Brought Terrorists to Syria: President Bashar Al Assad's
Historic Speech. Full Transcript
By Bashar al-Assad
Global Research, January 07, 2013
SANA
President al-Assad : Out of Womb of Pain, Hope Should Be Begotten,
from Suffering Important Solutions Rise
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33534.htm
War Addiction Default: America's Political Dysfunction at Root is an
Unwillingness to Cut War Spending
The US spends $1.3 trillion a year on a military it does not need.
Politicians won't talk about cutting it down to size.
By Dave
Iran Unveils Copycat Arsenal
BY DAVID AXE
01.04.13
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/01/irans-copycat-arsenal/
Diskin: Netanyahu unreliable, 'possessed' by Iran
By JPOST.COM STAFF
01/04/2013
http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=298437
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Obama's New Year's Resolution: More Extrajudicial Murder
By Spencer Ackerman
January 06, 2012 Wired
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33537.htm
By Any Measure, the U.S. Is the Largest Sponsor of Terror
By Washington's Blog
Global Research, January 06, 2013
Six Years Ago, Chuck Hagel Told the Truth About Iraq
By Michael Moore
January 05, 2013
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33530.htm
Major Test for Israel Lobby As Obama Leans to Hagel for Pentagon
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 2013 (IPS)
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nb20130105n2.html
Uranium rebound seen as Japan considers reactor restarts
By BEN SHARPLES
Bloomberg
MELBOURNE - Uranium is poised to rebound from a second annual decline
as Japan considers restarting its atomic plants almost two years
after the start of
Shell's 2013 Arctic Drilling Programme 'On the Brink' After Grounded
Drilling Rig Incident
January 4, 2013
Greenpeace
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/04-4
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Friday, 04
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/04-6
Published on Friday, January 4, 2013 by The Guardian
The 'War on Terror' - by Design - Can Never End
As the Pentagon's former top lawyer urges that the war be viewed as
finite, the US moves in the opposite direction
by Glenn Greenwald
Last
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/04-1
January 4, 2013
Americans for Safe Access
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/
Obama Administration Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal
Prison at Unprecedented Rate
This month will see a number of patients sentenced, sent to prison
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13700-noam-chomsky-the-gravest-threat-to-world-peace
Noam Chomsky: The Gravest Threat to World Peace
Friday, 04 January 2013 09:05
By Noam Chomsky, Truthout | Op-Ed
Reporting on the final U.S. presidential campaign debate, on foreign
policy, The Wall Street
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33528.htm
A Model for Europe and the US?
Latvia's Economic Disaster as a Neoliberal Success Story
By Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson
January 04, 2013 Information Clearing House - A generation ago the
Chicago Boys and their financial
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Common Dreams
Time Warner Cable Dumps Current TV Faster Than You Can Say 'Al-Jazeera America'
Cable giant pulls channel just hours after announcement of acquisition
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Following
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03-4
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Common Dreams
'Alarmingly High Methane Emissions' from Natural Gas Extraction
New findings suggest higher than previously noted levels of potent
greenhouse gas leaked
- Andrea Germanos, staff writer
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03-7
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Common Dreams
'An Accident Waiting to Happen': As Rail Increasingly Transports
Crude, Opponents Sound Environmental Alarm
Rails see 'game-changing opportunity for their business'
- Andrea Germanos,
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03-1
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Common Dreams
Corporate-Friendly Fiscal Deal Maintains Tens of Billions in Fossil
Fuel Industry Giveaways
Deal manages to raise taxes on millions of working class taxpayers
while preserving friendly
Waiting for Our Veterans to Die
Newspaper Articles Reveal VBA's Delay and Error Scandal Spreading Nationwide
On January 3, 2013, in VA Disability Benefits, by Charles Sheehan Miles
http://vetlawyers.com/vetblog/index.php/2013/01/waiting-for-our-veterans-to-die/
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/03-8
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Our Future Blog
'Shared Sacrifice' Is for Suckers: 7 Common Sense Thoughts on
Washington's Budget Bedlam
The richest 1% have waged war against the rest of us; Now is time to
fight back and fight back
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/03-4
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by David Suzuki
It's Time to Stop Spinning Our Wheels on Climate Change
by David Suzuki
In 1988, hundreds of scientists and policy-makers met in Toronto for
a major international conference on climate
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/04/burm-j04.html
Burmese military escalates war in Kachin state
By John Roberts
4 January 2013
Fighting has intensified in Burma (Myanmar) between the Burmese army
and the separatist Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the north of the
country close to
Obama's Lawless, Secretive Drone War Continues Over Pakistan
Taliban leader reportedly killed in latest clandestine strike in
South Waziristan
Published on Thursday, January 3, 2013 by Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/03-0
New US drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen
By
Vatican Envoy Praises Iran Plan for Syria
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?fromval=2cid=14frid=23seccatid=14eid=78736
So-called Free Syrian Army is a group of terrorists: IHCR
Thu Jan 3, 2013
http://presstv.com/detail/2013/01/03/281555/fsa-is-a-group-of-terrorists-ihrc/
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http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130103f2.html
A cautious return to nuclear power
Though public is wary, new LDP-led government backs resumption of
reactors, plant construction
By MIYA TANAKA
Kyodo
Japan appears to be heading toward a gradual revival of nuclear power
generation under
LNG gains political value as Japan's needs soar
Alaska looks to be key source if pipeline plan goes through
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130103f1.html
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EDITORIAL
New fossil fuel resources
While there have been heated
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33506.htm
Let's Give Up on the Constitution
By LOUIS MICHAEL SEIDMAN
January 02, 2012 NY Times -- AS the nation teeters at the edge of
fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American
system of government is broken. But
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02-1
Published on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 by ProPublica
World Bank 'Fights Poverty' by Investing in Five-Star Hotel
by Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
Accra is a city of choking red dust where almost no rain falls for
three months at a time and clothes
Fiscal Cliff Over, Now the Attack on the People Begins
By Kevin Zeese
January 02, 2013
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33504.htm
Politicians Who Cut Social Programs Will Pay Price
By Orson Aguilar
January 02, 2013
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33500.htm
The
Pope calls for new economic model, more ethical markets
Fri Dec 14, 2012
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/14/pope-economy-idUSL5E8NE3OV20121214
Net worth of world's richest rose by $241B in 2012
Bloomberg index ranks wealthiest 100 individuals
Bloomberg News
11:53 a.m. CST, January 2, 2013
Mysterious Court Appearance Proves Rendition Alive and Well Under Obama
Three men were detained for months before appearing in Brooklyn court
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Published on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 by Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02-7
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January 2, 2013
Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
New Year's Day Farm Bill Extension a Giant Step Backward
Prior Senate Gains for Healthy Food and Farms Lost Out to Big Ag Subsidies
WASHINGTON - January 2 - Having failed throughout 2012 to
Greenpeace Statement on Shell's Arctic Drill Rig Kulluk
Greenpeace
January 2, 2013
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/01/02
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/02
Published on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 by Common Dreams
Thirty Foot Waves, Arctic Storm Batter Shell's
New UN Report on Syria
By Stephen Lendman
January 02, 2013
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33510.htm
Al Qaeda in Yemen offers bounty for U.S. ambassador
DUBAI | Mon Dec 31, 2012
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13667-a-tale-of-two-diplomatic-asylums-julian-assange-and-chen-guangcheng
A Tale of Two Diplomatic Asylums: Julian Assange and Chen Guangcheng
Wednesday, 02 January 2013 11:37
By Danny Weil, Truthout | Op-Ed
Two dissidents, two appeals for asylum, two very
The Coming Drone Attack On America
Drones on domestic surveillance duties are already deployed by police
and corporations. In time, they will likely be weaponised
By Naomi Wolf
By 2020, it is estimated that as many as 30,000 drones will be in use
in US domestic airspace.
January 02, 2012
... when the economy recovers. ??
Uninformed Politicians Pushing US Toward Austerity
Tuesday, 01 January 2013 09:30
By Paul Krugman, Krugman Co. | Op-Ed
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13640-uninformed-politicians-pushing-us-toward-austerity
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/13645-how-bicycling-is-transforming-business
How Bicycling Is Transforming Business
Tuesday, 01 January 2013 10:45
By Jay Walljasper, Yes! Magazine | Report
Cities across the US discover that good biking attracts great jobs
and top talent to their communities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/will-syria-become-another-failed-state-the-role-of-the-united-nations/5317358
Will Syria Become Another Failed State? The Role of the United Nations
By Carla Stea
Global Research, December 30, 2012
According to Robert Baer, a former CIA covert operations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/31/year-abandon-natural-world
2012: the year we did our best to abandon the natural world
Emissions are rising, ice is melting and yet the response of
governments is simply to pretend that none of it is happening
George Monbiot
The Guardian,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33492.htm
Compare the 1912 Elections with the 2012 Elections
By Ralph Nader
January 01, 2013 Information Clearing House - Before the electoral
year of 2012 slinks into history, it is worth a comparative glance
back to the electoral year of 1912
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-impact-al-qaida-carves-own-country-mali-091304997.html
Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali
By By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Associated Press - Mon, Dec 31, 2012
MOPTI, Mali (AP) - Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the
escarpments and cliff faces of northern
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Goal of no new reactors in jeopardy
Kyodo
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130101a4.html
NRA has final reactor say-so: Motegi
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130101a9.html
U.S. nuke crisis team's Fukushima findings wasted
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20130101a3.html
Summer
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13631-we-call-this-progress
We Call This Progress
Monday, 31 December 2012 10:48
By Arundhati Roy, ZCommunications | Op-Ed
From a speech at the Earth at Risk conference on the misuses of
democracy and the revolutionary power of exclusion.
I don't know how
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13629-age-of-cheap-oil-abundance-a-myth
Rosy Forecast of Cheap Oil Abundance, Economic Boom a Myth
Monday, 31 December 2012 00:00
By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed , Truthout | Op-Ed
Headlines about this year's World Energy Outlook (WEO) from the
International
Longer version:
America's Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff
How today's fiscal austerity is reminiscent of World War I's economic
misunderstandings
By Michael Hudson
December 29, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33471.htm
The Top 12 Political Fallacies of 2012
by Richard Eskow
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31-1
Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by Common Dreams
Obama Quietly Signs Abusive Spy Bill He Once Vowed to Eliminate
After Senate rejects oversight amendments, bill sails into law
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Under the cover of holiday
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/31-9
Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by EcoWatch
Story of the Year: It's Global Warming, Stupid
by Stefanie Penn Spear
My favorite headline of 2012 was It's Global Warming, Stupid, which
appeared on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek on Nov.
Hagel, the Lobby and the Limits of Power
The former Republican senator is guilty of a cardinal sin which has
cut short many promising careers in Washington.
By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
December 31, 2012 Al Jazeera
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33486.htm
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India Marks Somber New Year's Eve After Rape Victim's Death
VOA News
December 31, 2012
http://www.voanews.com/content/india_marks_somber_new_years_eve_after_rape_victims_death/1575287.html
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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/31-6
Published on Monday, December 31, 2012 by Common
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fraud-money-laundering-and-narcotics-impunity-of-the-banking-giants-no-prosecution-of-hsbc/5317406
Fraud, Money Laundering and Narcotics. Impunity of the Banking
Giants. No Prosecution of HSBC
By Tom Burghardt
Global Research, December 31, 2012
Antifascist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/30/afghanistan-us-military-rent-land-dispute
Afghans angry at US soldiers who drove away in the night leaving rent unpaid
Only sign of huge US base is pile of rubbish and broken vehicles -
and a festering land dispute in a volatile province
Emma
Missed at the time...
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32270.htm
Investor Wars: Korea Thru Syria
By Jay Janson
August 23, 2012 Information Clearing House For almost sixty
years, during the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson,
Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush,
Last month, a former Labour Party defence minister proposed a
discussion on the feasibility of dropping a neutron bomb on the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Speaking in the House of Lords on
November 22, Lord Gilbert said the bomb's full title was the
ERRB-enhanced radiation reduced blast
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13624-descent-into-holy-war-whats-really-happening-in-syria
Descent Into Holy War: What's Really Happening in Syria
Sunday, 30 December 2012 12:23
By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch | News Analysis
Damascus.
It is one of the most horrifying videos of the war in
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13623-four-more-years-the-asia-pivot
Four More Years: The Asia Pivot
Sunday, 30 December 2012 12:07
By Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus | News Analysis
In March 1990, Time magazine ran an article titled Ripples in The
American Lake. It was not about small
Mexico City launches trash-for-food program
By Samantha Kimmey
Sunday, December 30, 2012
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/30/mexico-city-launches-trash-for-food-program/
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/13616-community-action-propels-the-tiawanese-government-toward-zero-waste
Community
Russia blames Syrian opposition for failure to halt conflict
By Kathy Lally and Will Englund, Published: December 29
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/russia-blames-opposition-for-failure-to-halt-syrian-conflict/2012/12/29/180d8100-51dd-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html
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Mali: The 'gentle' face of al-Qaeda
An exclusive report from inside northern Mali.
May Ying Welsh
Wakeup call for Japan's politicians
By CHRISTOPHER HOBSON
Special to The Japan Times
The Japan Times: Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/eo20121230a1.html
As the new year approaches, Japan still reels from 2011
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/fd20121230bj.html
2012: a
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy
Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy:
totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
Naomi Wolf
guardian.co.uk,
We Are Being Nuked With False Information on Atomic Energy
Friday, 21 December 2012 00:00
By Gar Smith, Chelsea Green Publishing | Book Excerpt
http://www.mail-archive.com/sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org/msg78117.html
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New Poll Shows Surge in Support for Gun Control
Saturday, 29 December 2012 10:27
By Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times | Report
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13608-new-poll-shows-surge-in-support-for-gun-control
UN's Last Stand on Arms Trade Treaty
Saturday, 29 December 2012 10:36
By Thalif Deen,
Villagers Join al-Qaeda After Deadly US Strike
Keith Addison Thu, 27 Dec 2012 18:41:44 -0800
When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen's government tries to conceal it
By Sudarsan Raghavan, Published: December 25, 2012
Dhamar, Yemen
Villagers Join al-Qaeda After Deadly US Strike
By Sudarsan
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13607-presenting-americas-top-ten-greediest-of-2012
Presenting America's Top Ten Greediest of 2012
Saturday, 29 December 2012 09:54
By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much | News Analysis
Some of today's greediest are running giant multinational
corporations. Some are just
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/28-3
Published on Friday, December 28, 2012 by The Oregonian
Why Claiming US Has 'Best Health System' Is a Sick Joke
The 'best' health care depends on your perspective
by Samuel Metz
Is the American health care system the best in the world? If so,
San Onofre: Edison's Experimental Restart Scheme May Violate Terms of
Plant's Operating License
Controversial plan to run reactor at reduced power could require
formal legal hearings
December 28, 2012
Friends of the Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/12/28
US sailors sue Japan's
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13599-the-larger-question-of-chuck-hagel
The Larger Question of Chuck Hagel
Friday, 28 December 2012 12:34
By Ray McGovern, Consortium News | News Analysis
The up-in-the-air nomination of Chuck Hagel to be Defense Secretary
has become a test of whether the
Also:
Ready to eat: the first GM fish for the dinner table
Keith Addison Wed, 26 Dec 2012
http://www.mail-archive.com/sustainablelorgbiofuel@lists.sustainablelists.org/msg78153.html
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http://truth-out.org/news/item/13594-obama-administration-gives-tentative-approval-to-frankenfish
Obama
Senate Votes to Extend Sweeping Bush Era Surveillance Powers
Even modest attempts to reign in domestic spying law fail as Senators
defend sweeping powers for NSA
Published on Friday, December 28, 2012 by Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/28
Senate Reauthorizes
Syria faces humanitarian catastrophe
By Bill Van Auken
29 December 2012
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/29/syri-d29.html
US-NATO-Israeli Agenda: Syria to be Subdivided into Three Weaker States
Global Research, December 28, 2012
http://fair.org/take-action/media-advisories/the-p-u-litzer-prizes-for-2012/
12/28/12
The P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2012
Recalling some of the stinkiest media moments of the year
They're back: The P.U.-litzers, FAIR's annual rundown of some of the
stinkiest moments in American journalism.
As
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/top-obama-environmental-official-departs-frustrat
Top Obama Environmental Official Departs Frustrated Over Pipeline,
Inaction On Climate
She had too much principle to work on Keystone, says Tittel.
Ruby Cramer
BuzzFeed Staff
Posted Dec 27, 2012 10:10pm EST
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/27-5
Published on Thursday, December 27, 2012 by Common Dreams
Winter Storm Euclid Punctuates Year of Extreme Weather
Record breaking tornadoes, 'thundersnow' and cross-country snow fall:
a sign of things to come
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/27-6
Published on Thursday, December 27, 2012 by OtherWords
How Big Business Poisons Academic Research
The energy industry and Big Agribusiness are distorting academic
research by wielding corporate influence.
by Wenonah Hauter
In 1862, the federal
Republicans Now 100 Percent AWOL From Fiscal Cliff Talks
-By Kevin Drum
Thu Dec. 27, 2012
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/12/republicans-now-100-awol-fiscal-cliff-talks?utm_medium=twitterutm_source=twitterfeed
Washington Post Pushes Mayan End of the World Story on Fiscal Cliff
by Dean
EPA Chief to Step Down, With Climate Still Low Priority
Thursday, 27 December 2012 13:33
By John M Broder, The New York Times News Service | Report
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13578-epa-chief-to-step-down-with-climate-still-low-priority
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Good and Bad Terrorists in Syria
By Ismail Salami
December 26, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33442.htm
Russia Warns of 'Bloody Chaos' in Syria
Russia has warned that Syria would descend into bloody chaos should
a proposal from Lakhdar Brahimi, the international envoy, to
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/13567-there-is-no-american-left
There Is No American Left
Thursday, 27 December 2012 09:49
By Salvatore Babones, Truthout | Op-Ed
In September 2012 Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel attempted to break the
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) with a bid to privatize
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/12/27-0
Published on Thursday, December 27, 2012 by Common Dreams
TEPCO Can't Keep Up with Costs of Its Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima
Corporate utility looks for increased public funding yet again
- Jon Queally, staff writer
Tokyo Electric Power Co.
US Deploying Troops To 35 African Countries
By Russia Today
December 25, 2012
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33431.htm
Scrambling for Africa's Resources
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, December 26, 2012
It's more than about oil, stupid. It's for vast African riches.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/26/drones-yemen-fbi-occupy-terrorism
Obama's gift to al-Qaida, support for tyranny, and FBI monitoring of dissent
Numerous individual events from this week alone signify important
trends in US government policy
Glenn Greenwald
guardian.co.uk,
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/9233/why-chuck-hagel-is-irrelevant
Why Chuck Hagel Is Irrelevant
Dec 24 2012
by Max Ajl
The latest non-scandal scandalizing the American commentariat is
whether Barack Obama will be able to nominate former Republican
Senator Chuck Hagel as his new
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/opinion/bahrain-a-brutal-ally.html?_r=0
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Bahrain, a Brutal Ally
By ZAINAB al-KHAWAJA
Published: December 25, 2012
EARLIER this month, Aqeel Abdul Mohsen, 19, was shot in the face for
protesting against Bahrain's government. He was covered
F.B.I. Counterterrorism Agents Monitored Occupy Movement, Records Show
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: December 24, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/nyregion/occupy-movement-was-investigated-by-fbi-counterterrorism-agents-records-show.html
Occupy protests targeted by
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/12/27-0
Published on Thursday, December 27, 2012 by Common Dreams
New Year's Revolution: Connecting the Dots, Coming Together and
Fighting Like Hell
by Ronnie Cummins
As a longtime writer and activist campaigning for decades on food and
farming issues,
New Report Finds That West Antarctica Is Warming at an Alarming Rate
DEC 24 2012
Rebecca J. Rosen
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/new-report-finds-that-west-antarctica-is-warming-at-an-alarming-rate/266623/
Top Three Dirty Energy Battles to Watch in 2013
Wednesday, 26
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/12/27/elec-d27.html
Australian utility companies disconnect thousands of households
By Terry Cook
27 December 2012
Increasing numbers of Australian households are being disconnected
from electricity and gas supplies because of soaring energy bills,
When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemen's government tries to conceal it
By Sudarsan Raghavan, Published: December 25, 2012
Dhamar, Yemen
Formed in childhood, roots of Abe's conservatism go deep
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/nn20121226a7.html
Abe's ascent provides China with a chance to improve ties
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/print/eo20121226fc.html
LDP's vague nuclear energy policy
EDITORIAL
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/26/chinas-year-of-living-dangerously/
DECEMBER 26, 2012
Checking the US Pivot Line
China's Year of Living Dangerously
by PETER LEE
The passing year was the People's Republic of China's (PRC) first
opportunity to get up close and personal with the United
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/12/24/psychoanalyzing-obama/
DECEMBER 24, 2012
The Self-Aggrandizement of Barack Obama
Psychoanalyzing Obama
by WILLIAM MANSON
In the past decade or so, millions of people endured shockingly
brutal, lawless warmaking and state terror on the part of Bush and
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13524-chris-hedges-%7C-the-final-battle
Chris Hedges | The Final Battle
Tuesday, 25 December 2012 10:15
By Chris Hedges, Truthdig | News Analysis
Over the past year I and other plaintiffs including Noam Chomsky and
Daniel Ellsberg have pressed a lawsuit in the
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-transformation-of-urban-life-and-the-social-structure-free-and-accessible-transit-in-toronto/5316887
Transformation of Urban Life: Free and Accessible Transit in Toronto
By Global Research News
Global Research, December 26, 2012
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