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what's left - Steve Gowans
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exval | Exchange Value – "There was great disillusionment in everything- in all the formal institutions, whether parties or unions, really everything that represented the system in those ten or twelve years. What provoked this was savage liberalism."
Wide Asleep in America
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OpenSecrets.org: Money in Politics -- See Who's Giving & Who's Getting
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WhoRunsGov.com from The Washington Post - Profiles of Government Decision-Makers
CIA - The World Factbook
Ballotpedia
OpenCongress - 112th Congress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress
Public Access to Court Electronic Records
CorpWatch : Index
Wrong Kind of Green | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future

Investigative Sources

Crocodyl - Latest Corporate Research
UniversityProbe.org – a critical forum on Research Universities, their finances, their governance, …, their future
In the Public Interest | A Comprehensive Resource Center on Privatization and Responsible Contracting
iWatch News | Investigation. Impact. Integrity.
ProPublica
Latest corporate research | Crocodyl
Republic Report - Investigating how money corrupts democracy

Liberal Sources

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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
THE EXILED
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St Paul Legal Ledger Capitol Report / Politics in Minnesota
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Monthly Review
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GlobalResearch.ca - Centre for Research on Globalization
Kasama
Frontline: India's National Magazine
Workers World
www.interventionism.info
PSL - Party for Socialism and Liberation
china study group
LF Effort Posts | Rutting in the carcass
The Electronic Intifada

Miscellaneous Sources

Secrecy News
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Beyond Whiteness — A Resource for Dismantling White Privilege and Racism

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Alienation

Dale Farm

Document - United Kingdom: Dale Farm Travellers face forced eviction | Amnesty International
dale farm - YouTube

OccupyWallStreet

curling into a ball is active resistance- CBS News
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
Occupy Wall Street has already accomplished an important objective - The Washington Post
At Occupy Camps, Veterans Bring the Wars Home - Politics - The Atlantic
Neocon orgs seek to paint Wall St protests as anti-semitic
Who will take the OWS Critics Challenge? - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com
Anti-Semite gets called out at Occupy Wall St. - Salon.com
Chemical bomb tossed into Occupy Maine encampment | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Top five reasons why you can’t protest (according to the right) | Left Foot Forward
Occupy Oakland police brutality gets serious: Scott Olsen now sedated; "skull fracture and swelling of the brain" // Current TV
Evan Coyne Maloney OWS | Marijuana OWS | Video | Mediaite
Raleigh Latham, "Footage of Scott Olsen Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland"
police definitely broke the law when they attacked
Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism - thephrygiancap: Police State Brutality Made...
Marine Says Oakland Used Crowd Control Methods That Are Prohibited In War Zones
Report: NYPD steers drunks to Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com
PROOF that Oakland PD infiltrated #OWS :: News From Underground
Occupy Phoenix: Fliers Titled "When Should You Shoot a Cop" Found at Demonstration - Phoenix News - Valley Fever
NYPD mum on cops allegedly hurt in OWS - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com
Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes | World news | guardian.co.uk
VIDEO: Oakland Police Strike Army Ranger With Nightsticks On His Back, Ribs, Shoulders and Hands, Lacerating His Spleen and Causing Internal Bleeding - Washington's Blog
American Friends Service Committee/Atlanta: Bloods and Crips Find Common Cause in Occupy Atlanta
Occupy Demands: Let's Radicalize Our Analysis Of Empire, Economics, Ecology By Robert Jensen
Dangerous Minds | Occupy Oakland General Strike much larger than they told us
Agitators attack fellow Occupy protesters - Occupy Wall Street - Salon.com
9/11 memorial: No link between Occupy, vandalism - Salon.com
nlgnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Order-re-Liberty-Park.pdf
Inside Police Lines at the Occupy Wall Street Eviction | Mother Jones
NYC councilman to give details of his OWS arrest - WSJ.com
Yesterday’s Occupy Wall Street Evacuation: Protecting Public Health or Endangering It? » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Crackdown on Journalists at Occupy Wall Street
ALA alarmed at seizure of Occupy Wall Street library, loss of irreplaceable material | American Libraries Magazine
Reporters For Right-Wing Publication Daily Caller Beaten By NYPD, Helped By Protesters | ThinkProgress
Girl manhandled - CNN iReport
Fox Falsely Dubs Alleged White House Attacker As "'Occupy' Shooter" | Media Matters for America
The NYPD Press Credentialing Process Doesn’t Make Any Sense | Public Intelligence
Girl manhandled pulling by her hair- nypd cop police brutality #N17 #OWS - YouTube
The Fox/NYT nexus on OWS - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/CLGF-msnbc.pdf
Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis - YouTube
Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi | UCDavis Bicycle Barricade
Logical Disintegration - violations of bill of rights and universal bill of human rights
Sung a Lot of Songs: Oakland Chamber of Commerce Executive Board Member Charged with Committing $19.75 Million Corporate Fraud
Breitbart Editors Won't Stop Digging | Media Matters for America
How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street | The Ticket - Yahoo! News
“Stop Beating Students!”; “Not Nonviolence” - Dollars & Sense Blog
U.N. Envoy: U.S. Isn't Protecting Occupy Protesters' Rights
Search for: Dan Siegel
Excessive force used against peaceful IU student protesters at JP Morgan-Chase event - YouTube
see holocaust museum: How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S. Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests - By Max Blumenthal - The eXiled
My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan: My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan
Richard D. Wolff, "Harvard Students Join the Movement"
#D12 Occupy Houston - Protester's laying in street are trapped in big red tent by police - YouTube
Desmond Tutu Backs Occupy Wall Street Push for Duarte Square - DNAinfo.com
OPD Used Violent Cops Against Occupy | News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California | East Bay Express
Occupy LA Arrestees Told They Can Avoid Trial by Paying a Private Company for Free-Speech Lessons | AlterNet
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund - CIA won’t disclose involvement in OWS crackdowns
In Sign of Global Influence, China Cracking Down on Occupy Wall Street Coverage | Truthout
Judge Henderson Considers Sanctions Against Oakland Police | Politics and Breaking News | Oakland, Berkeley, Bay Area & California | 92510
Twitter / @Ernst_Bloach: reminder that a cop punche ...
Rising Share of Americans See Conflict Between Rich and Poor | Pew Social & Demographic Trends
The Public-Private Partnership Behind Zuccotti Park - Eyes on the Ties
#OO #OPD slams woman and her bike to the ground, beat her and chase her down the street! - YouTube
Daily Kos: No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to Discredit Occupy Oakland.
Slavoj Žižek · The Revolt of the Salaried Bourgeoisie · LRB 11 January 2012
At Occupy Camps, Veterans Bring the Wars Home - Politics - The Atlantic
n+1: Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism
reminder that a cop punched a slow woman in the face and then threatened an iraq war vet w/ arrest for recording it
On @chrislhayes right now AG Schneiderman credits the people "uprising" for renewed vigor in pursuit of banksters
Occupy’s amazing Volcker Rule letter | Felix Salmon
Idaho OKs Seizure of Protesters' Property without warrant, probable cause, or whatever
Politicized ‘Hate Crimes’, the OPD and District Attorney O’Malley | Hyphenated-Republic
screen shots to show how the New York Times edited the OccupyWallStreet story after it went live to make it less protestor friendly:
You Can't "Grow the Movement" by Dissing the Kids: On Chris Hedges and Occupy | MyFDL
Partnership for Civil Justice Fund - New Occupy Crackdown Documents Just Obtained by the PCJF
Fox Host Leaps to Link Occupy to White Powder Mailings | FAIR Blog
David Graeber: New Police Strategy in New York – Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protestors « naked capitalism
MK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program at Peavey Plaza - YouTube
In Second Occupy Wall Street Protest Trial, Police Claims Again Rejected - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Setting the Record Straight on NYPD Journalist Arrests (with tweets) · jcstearns · Storify
FBI was secretly monitoring Bay Area Occupy movement | abc7news.com
Jury Finds Occupy Wall Street Protester Innocent After Video Contradicts Police Testimony [Updated: VIDEO] - New York - News - Runnin' Scared
Press Suppression at Occupy Wall Street Raid (with images, tweets) · bendoernberg · Storify

Eurozone Crisis

Mess in eurozone
Richard D. Wolff, "Europe's Debt Crisis Deepens"
Richard Parker - Wall Streetʼs Role in the European Financial Crisis - YouTube
As Europe’s Crisis Grows, Over There Is Over Here - NYTimes.com
Here's Why Germany Has No Desire To Fix The Eurozone - Business Insider
eurozone c banks & ECB made a cool €14bn last year from Greek, Italian, Spanish, Irish and Portuguese debt
Greek Bond Buyback May Have Been Cheaper Under Collective Action Clause - NYTimes.com

Greensboro Massacre

The District Attorney responsible for prosecuting the shooters denied publically any difference between killing communists in Vietnam and killing them in the U.S

London Riots

Britain’s Riots: A Society In Denial Of The Burning Issues
There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
‪SHOCKING Footage: BBC Presenter Attacks Black Veteran Over London Riots - Aug 09 2011‬‏ - YouTube
Nothing 'mindless' about rioters - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
London rioters resent media image of hooded teen thug | Reuters
A rebellion against racism and poverty | SocialistWorker.org
London riots: no single event for riots with a single meaning | Crikey
London's Poverty Profile
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Blog Archive » Feral Capitalism Hits The Streets
Alexander Cockburn: Riots and the Underclass
Socialism and/or barbarism: An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part one)
Socialism and/or barbarism: An open letter to those who condemn looting (Part two)
Britain’s Riots: Thuggery, Looting, Lawlessness… By the Ruling Class
England riots: pair jailed for four years for using Facebook to incite disorder | UK news | guardian.co.uk
London Burning: One Week After the Riots « Notes & Commentaries
Ballerina, Olympic ambassador arrested in London sweep | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
The U.K. Riots And The Coming Global Class War - Forbes
Tory councillor suspended after calling rioters 'jungle bunnies' - Telegraph
Myth of the rioters without a cause | SocialistWorker.org
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » After London Police Killing, Media Focus on Problem of Police Restraint
Inciting Violence - Irony And The English Riots
Revealed: Mark Duggan was not armed when shot by police | UK news | The Guardian
English rioters warn of more to come | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Court order prevents BBC from broadcasting film about riots | UK news | guardian.co.uk

This Day in Resistance History – The Chicago Eviction Riots « Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy

Aaron Swartz

The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” « Unhandled Exception
Susie Bright's Journal : I Have Something to Say about Aaron Swartz's Suicide and the Special Way the US Justice Dept Hounds People to Death
Lessig Blog, v2
Legal Case Strained Troubled Web Activist - WSJ.com
Two Days Before MIT and Cambridge Cops Arrested Aaron Swartz, Secret Service Took Over the Investigation | emptywheel

Christopher Dorner vs. the LAPD

American Blowback » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
the chickens come home to roost | The World Breaks Everyone
Exterminating Angels « LRB blog
What really happened to Chris Dorner? « occupy blogosphere
The Christopher Dorner Complex | Jacobin
How Law Enforcement and Media Covered Up the Plan to Burn Christopher Dorner Alive | Alternet
Owner of stolen truck says Dorner didn't want to hurt him - latimes.com
Retired LAPD Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey: The Stress on Officers isn’t the Public, it’s the Department | EURweb

Hurricane Katrina

Katrina's Hidden Race War | The Nation
New Evidence Surfaces in Post-Katrina Crimes | The Nation
Trial Begins: Did New Orleans Media Contribute to Police Violence After Hurricane Katrina? | Truthout
New Orleans: Systemic Police Brutality Exposed - YouTube
Law and Disorder – After Katrina, New Orleans Cops Were Told They Could Shoot Looters - ProPublica
Five New Orleans police officers sentenced in hurricane Katrina killings | World news | guardian.co.uk
Katrina: Military Snipers (including Chris Kyle?) Engaging U.S. Citizens? | SOFREP

MOVE '86

INSUBORDINATION Photo-Journalism: Attention, MOVE! This is America!
MOVE 25 years later | Philadelphia Inquirer
The Bombing Of Osage Avenue (1986) - YouTube

The Olympics

The Olympics and Social Cleansing
The London Olympics are the most Right-wing major event in Britain’s modern history – Telegraph Blogs
The UK private school that produced seven Olympians (instead of "olympic camps", we just have a class war) | guardian.co.uk
New Statesman - John Pilger: How the Chosen Ones ended Australia’s sporting prowess and revealed its secret past
The Olympics and its discontents — Anthropology News

Ferguson

AP Exclusive: Ferguson no-fly zone aimed at media

Rodney King Riots

Roots of LA's 1992 Uprising | LA Progressive
A Marxist Defense of LA Rebellion

Anti-Racist Action Group Claims Credit for Attack Inside Chicagoland Restaurant | Observer
This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894, the Pullman Strike - Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Tulsa Race Riot

America

American Gulags

Chris Buttars and the Mormon Gulag : Dispatches from the Creation Wars
CEDU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mormongulag.com
Reagan loves the gulags for children
Students Recall Special Schools Run Like Jails - NYTimes.com

Chemtrails are.........real?

Breaking News: Secret US military testing of radiological materials on poor and minority communities (chemtrails......real?) | Climate Connections
Secret Cold War tests in St. Louis raise concerns (chemtrails.....real?) - Yahoo! News
American nuclear guinea pigs: three decades of radiation experiments on U.S. citizens (same sort of idea)
U.S. Troops Tested By Race In Secret World War II Chemical Experiments : NPR

Conspiracy Theorists

Slave Revolt: REAGAN AIDES AND THE 'SECRET' GOVERNMENT; FEMA camps are for LEFT-WING americans
The 9/11 Conspiracists: Vindicated After All These Years? Answer: NO » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Alex Jones Says Gay People are Created by the Government - YouTube
Who's who in the Tumult of the Far Right - TIME article on the John Birch Society
Conspiracy Theories Continued « The Red Phoenix
If FEMA camps were to be used, it'd be on leftists and black people, not libertarians

For the Wynn

Steve Wynn Annihilates Barack Obama: "This Administration Is The Greatest Wet Blanket To Business And Job Creation In My Lifetime" | zero hedge
Rembrandt Buyer Is Said to Be Stephen Wynn - NYTimes.com
Revenue Up, Jobs Down at U.S. Casinos in 2010
Nevada gambling revenue soars; LV Strip up 29% - MarketWatch
“Hopenchange” Plunging for Las Vegas: Gaming Revenues Down Fourth Month in a Row, 45,000 People in Nevada Have Stopped Looking for Work (video) « Frugal Café Blog Zone
Strip leads state gaming revenue increase - Business - ReviewJournal.com

Gun Control

Cops in schools...no, please

Girl's arrest for doodling raises concerns about zero tolerance - CNN.com
Op-Ed Columnist - Cops vs. Kids in New York City Schools - NYTimes.com
Take Police Officers Off the School Discipline Beat - NYTimes.com

"Dictators" "Take the Guns"

The Myth Of Hitler’s Gun Ban « The Propaganda Professor
Castro Didn’t “Take The Guns”, Alex Jones: Guns & Socialism « Return to the Source
Was Hitler Really a Fan of Gun Control? | Mother Jones
The Hitler gun control lie - Salon.com
Ronald Reagan Supported Gun Control Laws | BobCesca.com | Liberal Politics Blog and Podcast
Bush backs renewal of assault weapons ban Apr 13, 2003

The NRA

The History of the NRA Is *Really* Interesting | The Raw Story
Not Safe For Work Corporation | From "Operation Wetback" To Newtown: Tracing The Hick Fascism Of The NRA
NRA board member recruited mercenaries for Ian Smith's Rhodesia & personally fought with Salvadoran death squads
NRA was pro-gun control when it came to Black Panthers | theGrio
The NRA and Koch-Backed ALEC Have Fought [VOLUNTARY] Gun Buyback Programs Across Country | PR Watch
JAMA Network | JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association | Silencing the Science on Gun ResearchSilencing the Science on Gun Research
Gun Makers Shun Responsibility for Sales, Suits Show - NYTimes.com
What Doesn't Get You Fired From Guns & Ammo? Defending Slavery | Blog | Media Matters for America
Legislative Handcuffs Limit A.T.F.’s Ability to Fight Gun Crime - NYTimes.com
Larry Pratt hates the ATF, but aids the FBI in deporting asylum seeking El Salvadorians | Politics News | Rolling Stone
OKLAHOMA CITY: AFTER THE BOMB : Lobbyists Stymie Effort to Trace Explosives : Bombs: Technology, such as use of tiny chips in material, to find blast origin has been around for years. But NRA, others have blocked its usage. - latimes

Holding a gun makes you think others are too, new research shows
Proof that Concealed Carry permit holders live in a dream world, Part One - YouTube
‘Stand Your Ground’ laws coincide with jump in justifiable-homicide cases - The Washington Post
Stand your ground laws study finds jump in justifiable homicides
Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09 - YouTube
Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
The Relative Frequency of Offensive and Defensive Gun Uses: Results from a National Survey : Article Summary : Articles : Firearms Research
Gun utopias? Firearm access and owner... [J Public Health Policy. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI
More Guns, More Mass Shootings—Coincidence? | Mother Jones
Congress keeps records on gun stores secret, protects them from gaining notoriety as source of "crime guns"
American Public Health Association - Investigating the Link Between Gun Possession and Gun Assault
PolitiFact Texas | Louie Gohmert says George Washington said a free people should be armed to guard against government tyranny
Gun control in the Old West
Archie Bunker on Gun Control - YouTube
Editorial: Beyond Banning “Bad Guns” and “Arming Good Guys” | Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
The ugly history and repressive role of Neighborhood Watch
Harvard School of Public Health » Harvard Injury Control Research Center » Homicide
PLOS ONE: Racism, Gun Ownership and Gun Control: Biased Attitudes in US Whites May Influence Policy Decisions

Honest Abe

NewsHour Responds on Inequality
Reading Karl Marx with Abraham Lincoln -- International Socialist Review

Steve Jobs

Memphis: Where Steve Jobs Goes To Eat His Fellow Americans - By Tal Sutsa - The eXiled
Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Neo-Confederates

The Burning of Chambersburg | Pennsylvania Civil War Trails

Firm gives $1 million to pro-Romney group, dissolves - politics - Decision 2012 - msnbc.com
When Alan Met Ayn: "Atlas Shrugged" And Our Tanked Economy | The Awl
Ben Bernanke's Greatest Challenge - 60 Minutes - CBS News
msnbc video: Rev. Graham on Trump
Democrats Start Two Campaign Fundraising Groups for 2012 to Counter Rove - Bloomberg
Tucson Firefighter Refused To Respond To Giffords Shooting; Memo Questions "Political Bantering" And Delay - Firefighter Nation - Firefighter Social Network, Training & News
Drought Has Georgia Revisiting Border Dispute
Monetary Policy Hearing Today, or: Ron Paul Versus the Kochtopus. | Rortybomb
Half of US social program recipients believe they "have not used a government social program" - Boing Boing
Arizona Border Fence Causes Flood and Self-Destructs—as Predicted - COLORLINES
OpEdNews - Article: Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $400,000 Debt
On the Future of Democracy, Noam Chomsky interviewed by John P. Titlow
eXiled eXclusive! Read The Orignal Letter Charles Koch Sent To Friedrich von Hayek Telling Him To Sign Up For Social Security - By Yasha Levine and Mark Ames - The eXiled
Friedrich Hayek Joins Ayn Rand as a Hypocritical User of Medicare « naked capitalism
20 Stories That Made a Difference
Jimmy Carter And Human Rights: Behind The Media Myth
Harder for Americans to Rise From Lower Rungs - NYTimes.com
Steve Vaillancourt, New Hampshire Republican, Ejected From House After Nazi Salute. One Democratic member said that Vaillancourt's statement was only a German phrase. "All he said was victory in German," the lawmaker said.
20 Stories That Made a Difference
Mansion servant enslaved by uber-rich New York family for nearly six years | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News
Mussolini Loves America
Remember "Rathergate"? A Key Instigator Admits the Killian Memos Can't be Debunked via the "Fonts" Argument | MyFDL
Activist jailed for calling a racist judge a racist
Brain thickness determines political leaning: study
Found In The Archives: America's Unsettling Early Eugenics Movement : The Picture Show : NPR
New Duke study on bullying: Childhood victims, bullies, and bully-victims all at greater risk for adult psychological disorders.
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition. - Slate Magazine
US judge fines website editor $300 a day over refusal to reveal sources | Media | theguardian.com
America's 'litigious society' is a myth | Sadhbh Walshe | Comment is free | theguardian.com

Capitalism

Arcane Wizardry

HFT

HFT: The High Frequency Trading Scam - Seeking Alpha
What is “High-Frequency Trading”, and How Does It Distort the Markets? - Washington's Blog
Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week - CNBC.com - US Business News - CNBC

MERS

Harpers: Stop payment! A homeowners’ revolt against the banks - Seth's posterous
MERS, the Mortgage Holder You Might Not Know - NYTimes.com
Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Bank of America's Death Rattle - YouTube
Devastating Analysis of MERS « naked capitalism
The $18 Trillion Threat Of The Unregulated Shadow Banking System - Forbes
Putting the “robo” in “robo-signing”: Debt collectors accused of “cutting and pasting” signatures onto fraudulent affidavits | Current Events Inquiry

The Stock Market

Christian Parenti: What is the purpose of the stock market?
What Good Are Shareholders? - Harvard Business Review
Henwood's Study replicated again
Instead of serving the textbook role of raising capital for productive investment, the stock market has become a conduit for shoveling money out of the “real” sector and into the pockets of shareholders
“Profitless” Stocks, Underinvestment, the Cannibalization of Labor, and Levitating Stock Prices « naked capitalism
Stock buybacks: From retain-and reinvest to downsize-and-distribute | Brookings Institution

Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products
Bank of America's Death Rattle - YouTube
Have Financial Markets Become More Informative? NO. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Where banks really make money on IPOs | Felix Salmon
A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold - NYTimes.com

Detroit

The banks and the attack on the UAW
The North American Auto Industry in Crisis :: Monthly Review
ZCommunications | Auto Companies Recover, But Jobs Are Harder by Jane Slaughter | ZNet Article
Indianapolis autoworkers resist GM’s illegal union-busting schemes
GM workers fight 50-percent wage cut
Changing the Auto Industry from the Wheels Up: Introduction | Dollars & Sense
The Return of Phony Numbers on Auto Workers' Wages | Beat the Press
Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler | Op-Eds & Columns
GM Bailout Makes Most Out of Bad Situation | Op-Eds & Columns
Wall Street Sharks Circle the UAW | Common Dreams
Slums of Detroit: A Look At The Heart of America’s 2nd Most Deserted City - By Matt Harvey - The eXiled
ABC's Overpaid Autoworkers
Michigan's homeless students: Foreclosure crisis takes toll on 31,000 kids | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
Carlos Borrero, "Municipal Bankruptcies, Pensions, and New Dimensions of Class Struggle in the United States"
Detroit’s emergency manager plans early payoff of top banks - World Socialist Web Site

Emergency Banking Act of 1933

Hammering Hoover, re-inventing Roosevelt | Crosscut.com
"Some Curious Parallels with the 1930s" « naked capitalism

Exploitation

Debt

FAIR Blog » Grading George Will on Student Loan Debt
For the Families of Some Debtors, Death Offers No Respite - WSJ.com
Debt-hit students urged to sell their kidneys - The Scotsman
Seeking Arrangement: College Students Using 'Sugar Daddies' To Pay Off Loan Debt
House Is Gone but the Debt Lives On - WSJ.com

Debt Collectors

Local DAs Allowing Debt Collectors to Use Their Letterhead, Split Fees from Shakedown « naked capitalism
Minnesota AG sues Florida debt buyer over fake affidavits | Star Tribune
“We Try to Keep You in Debt as Long as Possible”: Confessions of a Collections Agent

Debt Forgiveness

Iceland forgives mortgage debt of its population - YouTube
IMF says targeted debt reduction policies can work - RTÉ News
The Allies wrote off 93% of the Nazi-era debt and postponed collection of other debts for nearly half a century

No Candy For You
Come out, come out wherever you are! | Student Labor Action Project
Colleges Withhold Transcripts From Grads in Loan Default | The Nation
The South Has Already Repaid its External Debt to the North: But the North Denies its Debt to the South :: Monthly Review
Recession Has Lit the Fuse on Explosive Student Debt » New Deal 2.0
Happy Graduation! Here’s The Best, Most Depressing Journalism on Student Debt - ProPublica
"Victims of Complacency": Trafficking and Abuse of Migrant Workers on U.S. Military Bases
Moe Tkacik: Student Debt – The Unconstitutional 40 Year War on Students « naked capitalism
For Mortgage Servicers, an Incentive Not to Help Homeowners - NYTimes.com
Indentured Servitude in Hong Kong Abetted by Loan Firms - Bloomberg
Subprime Students: How Wall Street Profits from the College Loan Mess - The Demos Blog - PolicyShop

Marx was right, reducing wages and industrial reserve army
Nobody will work if they are guaranteed necessities - JSTOR: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. S263-S296
The Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not - NYTimes.com
Workers Assail Night Lock-Ins By Wal-Mart - New York Times
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
A Day’s Work for a Slaves Wage. Capitalism: Now Cheaper than Slavery
Marx was right, reducing wages and industrial reserve army
Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits | Society | The Guardian
Workers Report Pressure on Ethics Rules as Retaliation Rises - Businessweek
Foxconn Is Still a Hard Place to Work - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

Wage Theft

Wage Theft: A Crime Without Punishment? | The Nation
This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires | The Nation

Thousands of sugar cane workers die as wealthy nations stall on solutions | iWatch News
“increasing farm wages by 40 percent would increase the average American’s family produce bill by about sixteen dollars a year”
Fair Trade Proving Anything But in $6B Market - Bloomberg
Pogue Misses on Cheap Gadgets and Foreign Labor : CJR
New ILO Global Estimate of Forced Labour: 20.9 million victims

Faith-Based Economy

Crime, Economy and Shopping: Shoplifting Is ... a Good Sign for the Economy? - CNBC
'Moloch!' clip from "Metropolis" 1927 - YouTube
Euro Will Continue To Fall: US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Gold Best Hedging Options - Forbes
Stand or Fall Together - NYTimes.com
Bill Black: Why do Banking Regulators bother to Conduct Faux Stress Tests? « naked capitalism
Dow Posts Biggest Two-Day Slump Since 2008 on Policy Concern - Businessweek
Deus ex machina: Faith in the free market | The Economist
Memoirs of a Markets Reporter : CJR
Talismanic IMF ponders future role - FT.com

Federal Reserve

Quantitative Easing

Quantitative Easing (QE) and the Debasement of the US Dollar
This Is How QE Really Works « naked capitalism
FRB: Z.1 Release--F.108--Monetary Authority--June 9, 2011
FT Alphaville » On misunderstanding QE
Why is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds? | Dollars & Sense
Fix income inequality with $10 million loans for everyone! - The Washington Post
FRB: Z.1 Release--L.108--Monetary Authority--June 9, 2011
The Fed’s Stuck - The Source - WSJ
Philip Pilkington: Pension Provider to British Government – “QE Actually Does Kill Demand!” « naked capitalism
Dean Baker, "Federal Reserve Board Policy and the Price of Oil"
Britain's richest 5% gained most from quantitative easing – Bank of England | Business | The Guardian
Ron Paul’s Surprisingly Lucid Solution to the Debt Ceiling Impasse | Op-Eds & Columns
Why not drop money out of a helicopter? – USATODAY.com
Republicans and conservatives insist this will cause disastrous inflation, but there's no evidence that this is happening
The Treasury continues to make money on TARP - 30% return on investment in Citi
Who Really Owns the U.S. National Debt? - Political Calculations - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary
Bank's stimulus plan 'has lined pockets of the rich' - Business News - Business - The Independent
Number of the Week: Even Offbeat Measures Show No Inflation - Real Time Economics - WSJ

Secret Bailouts

Too Big to Bail part I
Too Big to Bail Part II
The Fed Audit - Newsroom: U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2T in Loans - Bloomberg
Quelle Surprise! Banks Lied About Bailout Funds and Got $13 Billion in Profit from Them « naked capitalism
29 Trillion Dollars in Bailouts - Levy Institute
Big Banks to Reap Profits from Harp 2.0 -- Analysts - American Banker Article

PERI: : The Federal Reserve-Treasury Accord and the Construction of the Post-War Monetary Regime in the United States
Robert Samuelson Does Some Serious Fed Apologetics | Beat the Press
Guest Post: “The Fed has never believed in sunshine as a disinfectant” « naked capitalism
‘End the Fed’ a misleading slogan
Quelle Surprise! GAO Finds the Fed is a Club of Backscratching, Well Connected, White Bankers « naked capitalism
Sado-Monetarism: The Role of the Federal Reserve System in Keeping Wages Low :: Monthly Review
Not yet dead at the fed: Unions, worker bargaining, and economy-wide wage determination
Simon Johnson: Restoring the Legitimacy of the Federal Reserve - NYTimes.com
Runaway Inflation Is Here, And It's Showing Up In Travel Rewards Programs - Business Insider

Intellectual Property

Thomas Jefferson on Patents and Freedom of Ideas ~ Moving to Freedom
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property :: Monthly Review
Should library.nu be closed down? « Stalin's Moustache
Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop - YouTube
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | India wins landmark patent battle
Big Pharma's ransom note | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Bayh–Dole Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oxfam reports show adverse health impact of drug patents on developing countries
Patent law is getting tax crazy - Business - International Herald Tribune - The New York Times
Piracy Advert Used Stolen Music - Entertainment - Geek - News - Atomic MPC
Intellectual property is about all the West has left on which to base its future prosperity
spending by Apple and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases exceeded spending on research and development
Harvard University says it can't afford journal publishers' prices | Science | The Guardian
Sharing science is a crime - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Korporate Kultur

Going Rogue: Share Traders More Reckless Than Psychopaths, Study Shows - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
One in 25 business leaders may be a psychopath, study finds | Science | guardian.co.uk
Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma: Want to Wreck Things and Rake In Millions? Become a Pfizer CEO
Let’s Stop Rewarding Failed C.E.O.’s - Common Sense - NYTimes.com
The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian
Rich People Lack Empathy, Study Finds
Money Can Buy Happiness: Scientific American Podcast
Can Money Buy Self-Esteem? | Streams of Consciousness, Scientific American Blog Network
Capitalism and Insanity | Jacobin
Upper class people are more likely to behave selfishly, studies suggest | Science | guardian.co.uk
Upper class people more likely to cheat: study
One Out Of Every Ten Wall Street Employees Is A Psychopath, Say Researchers
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs - NYTimes.com
How Wealth Reduces Compassion: Scientific American
The rich are different — and not in a good way, studies suggest - Health - Behavior | NBC News
Fired Yahoo exec gets $58M for 15 months of work

Lies of the Bourgeoisie

"Austerity Works"

The faith-based economics of deficit reduction | Dean Baker | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1% - Real Time Economics - WSJ
CHART: States That Cut The Most Spending Have Lost The Most Jobs | ThinkProgress

"Can't Find Workers"

The "Can't Find Workers" Meme : CJR
It's So Hard to Get Good Help | CEPR Blog
From the Dept. of Poor Bucketization: It’s Business Majors, Not Humanities | DataWonk.Net
Those Bio-Chemists Would Have Jobs If Only They Got the Skills Needed in a Modern Economy | Beat the Press
No, America Does NOT Need More Scientists and Engineers : The Crux
Does the U.S. Produce Too Many Scientists?: Scientific American
Skills Gap a Convenient Myth | Labor Notes

Community Reinvestment Act

Wallison and Pinto

Faulty Conclusions Based on Shoddy Foundations
Attempts to Submarine FCIC Report Backfiring | The Big Picture
The FCIC Investigation, Wallison on the GSEs and the Conservative Echo Chamber | Rortybomb
Three Additional Points on the GSEs, AEI and FCIC Report. | Rortybomb

Scapegoating Minorities for Failures of Banking - Class War Kill Whitey
Private sector loans, not Fannie or Freddie, triggered crisis | McClatchy
New Economic Perspectives: Fannie and Freddie Fantasies by Bill Black
The Blame for Fannie and Freddie | CEPR Blog
Mayor 1% Joins the Limbaugh Chorus
Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Misunderstanding Credit and Housing Crises: Blaming the CRA, GSEs | The Big Picture
Examining the big lie: How the facts of the economic crisis stack up - The Washington Post
What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral - The Washington Post
Republicans blame Fannie, Freddie, and CRA
A Community Reinvestment Act Reader : CJR
Most subprime lenders weren't subject to federal lending law | loans, subprime, banks - Business - The Orange County Register
CRA requirements can be met by using low-income housing tax credits
The Blame the Community Reinvestment Act Industry | Beat the Press

Corporate Taxes

Sorkin’s disingenuousness on corporate taxes | Felix Salmon
Leonhardt's Good Look at the Corporate Tax Landscape : CJR
Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Gains Bipartisan Support | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
The dual-taxation meme | Felix Salmon
Who Pays the Corporate Income Tax - NYTimes.com
U.S. Companies Pay Just One-Third Of The Legal Tax Rate: GAO Study

Dodd Frank

As Zuccotti Park Is Cleared, Congress Moves to Gut Financial Reform | Truthout
Dodd-Frank Brings Transparency to Financial Industry | Op-Eds & Columns
Wall Street's Big Win | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Part I: The Full Economic Costs and Benefits of Transparency in Extractive Industries « Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development

Laffer Curve

PolitiFact | Mike Pence says raising taxes lowers tax revenues
Economist's View: The New Laffer Curve Logic and the Lack of Evidence for It
EconoFAQs: Do Lower Tax Rates Really Increase Government Revenue? | Dollars & Sense
Satyajit Das: Voodoo Economics Redux « naked capitalism
FAIR Blog » Laffer and Shithead Pundits » Bill O'Reilly and the Imaginary Bush Tax Cut Windfall
Hannity's Years of Lies Hurt Middle Class Taxpayers | MyFDL
65 Years of Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Created Record 'Inequality' Not 'Prosperity,' says Report | Common Dreams
Middle Class Political Economist: The Laffer Curve Refuted
The Earth Orbits the Sun and Gingrich's Supply Side Economics Doesn't Work | Beat the Press
Millionaire’s surtax would hit the top 1 percent of small businesses - The Washington Post

Minimum Wage

San Francisco Becomes First in Nation with Minimum Wage (and the Sky Isn't Going to Fall) | Op-Eds & Columns
Along the Minimum-Wage Battle Front - NYTimes.com
Do minimum wages really reduce teen employment?
Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders: Estimates Using Contiguous Counties
Measuring the employment impacts of theliving wage ordinance in santa fe, new mexico
Increasing Minimum Wage Does Not Increase Unemployment
Betsey Stevenson: Five myths about the minimum wage | Wichita Eagle
Nobody will work if they are guaranteed necessities NOT - JSTOR: Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. S263-S296

Poor People Don't Pay Taxes

Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer. - NYTimes.com
It’s a Lie That Working Poor Don’t Pay Taxes | Common Dreams
Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer. - NYTimes.com
It’s a Lie That Working Poor Don’t Pay Taxes | Common Dreams

Regulations Kill Jobs

Are Government Regulations Destroying Jobs? | CEPR Blog
The EPA: A Phantom Menace
Martin Hart-Landsberg, "Another World Is Indeed Possible"
Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs Overall? Not So Much - ProPublica
The EPA: A Phantom Menace
Regulations, taxes aren't killing small business, owners say | McClatchy
The Economist Botches the Economics of Regulation By Recycling Discredited Proposals | Media Matters for America
NPR Tries to Track Down Those Millionaire Job Creators | FAIR Blog
CRS - Analysis of an Estimate of the Total Costs of Federal Regulations by Crain and Crain
EPA Backs Off Dust Standard | Cato @ Liberty
Hard Labor | iWatch News by The Center for Public Integrity

"Rich People Give More to Charity"

The Charitable-Giving Divide - NYTimes.com
poor people give more to charity than rich people
America’s Generosity Divide - How America Gives
Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity - Ken Stern - The Atlantic

Sarbanes-Oxley

A desperate Obama kicks Sarbanes-Oxley halfway to the curb - The Globe and Mail
Not Their Job - NYTimes.com
Maturity of SOX Strategies Show Increased Efficiency and Lower Costs | Business Finance
Washington Has a Very Short Memory - NYTimes.com
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Costs and Implementation Issues: Spring 2006 Survey Update

Shareholder Socialism

The Secret to Shareholder Socialism
Richard B. Du Boff, "Who Controls Capital? What Does Capital Control?"
Is Berle and Means Really a Myth?
Who Rules America: Pension Fund Capitalism
Search for Prof W.Z. Ripley
A Surprise at the Ballot This Proxy Season? - NYTimes.com
Vanguard's William McNabb sees pain and hope for retirees - Jun. 8, 2010
TRENDS IN CAPITAL OWNERSHIP AND INCOME PENSION FUNDS IN THE NEOLIBERAL COMPROMISE - Dumenil and Levy
ProxyDemocracy

ZCommunications | Can You Pass The US Inequality Quiz? by Jeffrey Rudolph | ZNet Article
Bruce Bartlett: Newt Gingrich and the Destruction of Congressional Expertise - NYTimes.com
A Columnist Recants, but the WSJ Edit Page Won't Hear it : CJR
‪Global financial crisis-On the Edge with Max Keiser-05-20-2011-(Part1)‬‏ - YouTube
The Rich, the Poor, and the Economists :: Monthly Review
The dual-taxation meme | Felix Salmon
Why Is President Obama So Anxious to Cut Social Security? (and not raise taxes)| Op-Eds & Columns
Big Deficit Bob Rubin and the Strong Dollar | Op-Eds & Columns
The Decline of Manufacturing in America: A Case Study « naked capitalism
Free, Free at Last | Dollars & Sense
Does rent control hurt tenants? | Dollars & Sense
Alfred Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
5,000 Years of Debt by David Graeber | ZNet Article
From the Dept. of Poor Bucketization: It’s Business Majors, Not Humanities | DataWonk.Net
Flat Taxes are Big in the Former USSR. Have They Worked? - ProPublica
"What Was Really Great About The Great Society" by Joseph A. Califano Jr.
Mr. Davidson's Planet: NPR/NYT Guru Adam Davidson's Discredited Economic Principles | Economy | AlterNet
Making 9 Million Jobless Vanish: How The Government Manipulates Unemployment Statistics
Five Preposterous, Persistent Conservative Myths | Common Dreams
Economist's View: "The Migration Myth"
America is the easiest country in the world to fire workers, according to the OECD.
Economic Clichés: Is There a ‘Knowledge Economy’? « Notes & Commentaries
On the Living Costs in the Third World | Notes & Commentaries
don't take those libertarian items about "WaCkY Taxpayer Funded Studies" seriously

Looting

Bank of America Backstopping

Bank of America's Death Rattle: Not with a Bang, but a Whimper | Credit Writedowns
Bank of America Deathwatch: Moves Risky Derivatives from Holding Company to Taxpayer-Backstopped Depository « naked capitalism

The Bailouts

Media Continue Bank Bailout Advocacy
The Terrible Tale of the TARP Two Years Later | Op-Eds & Columns
Where the Bank Bailout Went Wrong - NYTimes.com
Banks Repay Tarp With Funds Meant to Spur Small Business Loans - WSJ.com
interfluidity » Yes, Virginia. The banks really were bailed out.
Iceland: From Crisis to Constitution « naked capitalism
GAO Goes After Administration “TARP Made Money” Claim « naked capitalism
U.S. Gave Tens of Billions to Libor-Manipulating Banks ... Even AFTER Learning about the Manipulation | ZeroHedge
IMF Says Bailouts Iceland-Style Hold Lessons in Crisis Times - Businessweek
"If banks have to pay for loans they issued under dubious circumstances, it would be a home run for investors, who could receive full payment for a mortgage in a security they bought at a discount. But if borrowers whose houses are worth less than their mortgages are able to reduce their principals on a large scale, bond investors could suffer because the securities would be worth even less than they paid."

Robo-Signing and Foreclosure Fraud

Loan Forgery and Impropriety

Woman Deceased in 1995 Continued to Robo Sign Till at Least 2008 « naked capitalism
92% of Foreclosures in New York Lack Proper Documents -- Banks Booting People Without Proof? | | AlterNet
Robo-Signing Redux: Servicers Still Fabricating Foreclosure Documents - American Banker Article
The More You Look, The More Bank Criminality You Find in Mortgage Land « naked capitalism
Wells Fargo accused of forging loan documents - Business - ReviewJournal.com
US lenders review military foreclosures - FT.com
Woman, 70, faces losing her home for paying the mortgage too early | Mail Online
Woman says GE-owned subprime lender deceived, defrauded her | iWatch News
Is signing foreclosure documents for others forgery?
Foreclosure process is ‘utterly broken’ - Lansner on Real Estate : The Orange County Register
The Banker Finds Possible "Trouble" at Chase : CJR
Florida Protects Banking Giant Lender Processing Services, Ignores Hurting Homeowners - Page 1 - News - Miami - Miami New Times
Judge: 90% of Credit Card Lawsuits Can’t Prove Borrower Owes Money « naked capitalism
Special Report: The latest foreclosure horror: the zombie title | Reuters
Mortgage Company Completely Trashes Man's Home, Steals All His Belongings - Cops Decline To Investigate - Home - The Daily Bail
Only Off By A Million, WSJ's Kissel Says Zero Homeowners Were Wrongfully Foreclosed | Blog | Media Matters for America
Nation's Largest Mortgage Servicer Allegedly Had Formal Process To Fake Documents | ThinkProgress

The Mortgage Settlement

Why the AGs Must Not Settle: Robo-signing Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg | Common Dreams
Neil Barofsky on Taxpayer Subsidies to the Mortgage Settlement « naked capitalism
The Mortgage Settlement Lets Banks Systematically Overcharge You And Wrongly Take Your Home « Reality Check
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Docs (I): Ally’s Side Deal | FDL News Desk
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Docs (II): Giving Homes to Charity as a Penalty | FDL News Desk
More Details on Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Fund Raid | FDL News Desk

Robo-Signing: The Revenge

Robo-Signing Is Back, Now in Even More Robo-Form | FDL News Desk

U.S. News - Foreclosure fraud whistleblower found dead
Peter M. Casey, "Moral Hazards, Moral Buzzards"
Invasion of the Home Snatchers | Rolling Stone Politics
MSNBC Piece on Foreclosures
Foreclosures Are More Profitable Than Loan Modifications, According To New Report
Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies, 1: The Chains and the Stakes | Rortybomb
Housing market: Foreclosures plunge in first half of 2011 (contemporaneous with court injunction) - Jul. 14, 2011
Fannie and Freddie's Foreclosure Barons | Mother Jones
FHFA lawsuits shows that disputed Fannie and Freddie mortgage deals had robo-signers - The Curious Capitalist - TIME.com
Ninth Circuit throws out case against MERS « HousingWire
Ignoring Massive Industry Fraud, Bank Of America CEO Hypes Benefits Of Faster Foreclosures | ThinkProgress
Rule of Law: Banker Criminality Demands Prosecution | The Big Picture
Nevada Attorney General Robo-Signing Indictments | The Big Picture
Short Sales of Homes Increasing | FDL News Desk
Secret Docs Show Foreclosure Watchdog Doesn’t Bark or Bite - ProPublica
The Restatement of Property and the Road to Mortgagocracy - Credit Slips
Foreclosure Crisis Goes Global » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Banks Colluding with Insurers to Rip Off Homeowners, Lawsuit Alleges - ProPublica
North Carolina County Sues Banks And MERS Over Robo-Signing - WSJ.com
Take Back the Land: ROCHESTER SWAT TEAM EVICTS LENNON-GRIFFIN FAMILY
U.S. Says One Thing, Does Another on Mortgage Fraud, Watchdog Says - NYTimes.com

Bat, Bean, Beam: The Field of Miracles
$500m of US food aid lost to waste and company profit, says Oxfam | Global development | guardian.co.uk
Why Some Skypers Are Seeing Red - BusinessWeek
Caterpillar CEO’s Business Strategy: “Bluster While You Plunder” - By Anathapindika Bhikkhu - The eXiled
How JP Morgan Took Over All Kentucky's Financial Services, And Why You Should Be Scared | | AlterNet
Looting Main Street | Rolling Stone Politics
Rich Take From Poor as U.S. Subsidy Law Funds Luxury Hotels - Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs TANKS After CEO Lloyd Blankfein Hires Famous Defense Lawyer
The 2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
MRZine - Gregg Shotwell, "Labor Has a Legitimate Lien on Capital"
When it comes to the bailouts, the hard Left is dead right – Telegraph Blogs
America’s Financial Leviathan - J. Bradford DeLong - Project Syndicate
NPR Does Fluff Piece for Private Equity | Beat the Press
Apple's Foreign Suppliers Demonstrate Widespread Scamming and Horrific Abuse of Employees | | AlterNet
Preet Bharara's toothless bite of Wall Street - Wall Street - Salon.com
Even Harsh Frontline Program on Retirement Investments Understates How Bad They Are « naked capitalism

Marxotheory

Class Society

Role of the State

Woodrow Wilson 1912 vs. Hillary Clinton 2012
Under Capitalism, Welfare State’s Main Function is Corporate Welfare
Legitimacy is the Main Objective - US Army COIN Handbook
Fast Five Joaquim de Almeida Speech - YouTube

Rule of the Bourgeoisie

Robber Barons

Billionaire Romney donor uses threats to silence critics - Salon.com
Why GOP Mega-Donor Sheldon Adelson Is Mad, Bad and a Danger to the Republic | Rick Perlstein | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Tomgram: Steve Fraser, The Two Gilded Ages | TomDispatch

The Virtual Senate

Stock Exchange - the new york times is the funniest paper there is
New Statesman - The high cost of neoliberalism
Michael Hudson: The Case Against the Credit Ratings Agencies « naked capitalism
Moody's threat to downgrade US debt is political, not fiscal | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Large Corporate Firms on Investment Strike, Playing with Cash | rupeindia
Vivek Chibber - Capitalism and the State - YouTube
As Companies Seek Tax Deals, Governments Pay High Price - NYTimes.com | Companies are able to bribe municipalities into tax deals by threatening to leave

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
Cities need public transit and affordable housing. But outdated laws make it easy for the wealthy to block progress
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality - Jim Tankersley - NationalJournal.com
The subtlety of liberal censorship / Features / Home - Morning Star
Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1968; see how much has changed as required by the needs of bourgeois moulding
Rich people write the laws of this country
The Official James Petras website » The Western Welfare State: Its Rise and Demise and the Soviet Bloc
BUSINESSES HOLDING CAPITAL HOSTAGE - Bloomberg.com
Idle corporate cash piles up | Corporations holding 5.1 TRILLION hostage | David Cay Johnston
How Taxpayers Are Footing The Bill For The Site Of This Year's Super Bowl | ThinkProgress
RAND corp produces a study with the countries the US must invade to support US companies
JP Morgan to eurozone periphery: “Get rid of your pinko, anti-fascist constitutions” « Austerityland
The bourgeoisie cannot enact too much austerity too fast because it "might render Europe’s social contract unsustainable.” and risk revolutionary action
contractor BAH created a computer model for simulating class society
UK tax policy dictated by companies not ministers says leading treasury expert | Global | The Guardian

Materialist Analysis

A Materialist Analysis of Human Rights « Malheureux Marxist
Don’t Worry About A Romney Appointed Court » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The imperatives of political pressure - Salon.com
Walmart, the Most Powerful Company in the World, Admits that Protests and Strikes Lead to Wage Increases « naked capitalism
A Basic Introduction to Dialectical and Historical Materialism | 4strugglemag
The Myth of “Totalitarianism” | The Red Phoenix
Dialectics for Kids
Why Dialectics? Why Now? or How to Study the Communist Future Inside the Capitalist Present < DIALECTICAL MARXISM: The Writings of Bertell Ollman

The Labor Aristrocracy

Meet the 20 Percent: Wealthy Social Liberals Standing Against Efforts to Fight Income Inequality | Alternet

Capitalism and Other Kids Stuff | The Socialist Party of Great Britain
Pro-Obama leftists are still thinking like liberals « Malheureux Marxist
The Labour Aristocracy Exists | M-L-M Mayhem!
Ditch the middle class. | We

Crises of Capitalism

Recession is a good time to exploit cheap labour, says Cameron aide | Business | The Observer
Reading Marx’s Capital with David Harvey » Blog Archive » The Vote to End Capitalism
Give Karl Marx a Chance to Save the World Economy: George Magnus - Bloomberg
Bourgeois pundits ponder Marx « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
David Harvey- The Crises of Capitalism - YouTube
From Marx to Goldman Sachs: The Fictions of Fictitious Capital | Michael Hudson
Financial bust bequeathes a crisis of capitalism - FT.com
Notes from the Editors, October 2011 :: Monthly Review
The End of Capitalism?
The Vote to End Capitalism
The Explosion of Debt and Speculation :: Monthly Review

The Industrial Reserve Army

An Economist Explains How Fear Drives Productivity - Businessweek
“There are people lined up out there for jobs...If they start dropping like flies, or something in that order, we can replace them today.”
Allentown: Inside Amazon.com warehouse workers complain of brutal conditions (rent one, get another)- mcall.com
Marx was right, reducing wages and industrial reserve army
Pa. to put clamp on food stamp recipients - Effect of this expands the Industrial Reserve Army
Ex-Cons Make the Best Workers! « Corey Robin
A Part-Time Life, as Hours Shrink and Shift for American Workers - NYTimes.com
Path to US Practice Is Long Slog to Foreign Doctors [who control supply like a guild] - NYTimes.com
Report Suggests Nearly Half of U.S. Jobs Are Vulnerable to Computerization | MIT Technology Review
Bill Gates interview: Robots will take people’s jobs | BGR

Use Value and Exchange Value

American Paradox: 18.5 Million Vacant Homes and 3.5 Million Homeless
US has 5,000 janitors with Ph.D.s
Vacant Houses Outnumber Homeless People in U.S. - Truthdig
Officers respond to Augusta grocery store eviction | Online Athens
Robert J. Coelho Middle School | Crooks and Liars
Home burns while firefighters watch, again | WPSD Local 6 - News, Sports, Weather - Paducah KY | Local
Experts: 30 to 50 percent of world's food thrown away
Stigma is BIG Business | Psychology Today
Hungry Kids Were Forced To Throw Away School Lunches | Crooks and Liars
Middle-School Worker Forces Kids to Throw Away Meals They Can’t Pay for But Should Have Received -- Grub Street New York
School District Seizes Lunches From 40 Elementary Students in Debt

The Falling Rate of Profit

Robots and Liberalism | Jacobin
MARXIAN CRISIS THEORY AND THE POSTWAR U. S. ECONOMY by Fred Moseley
Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis - YouTube
The Real Contest Between America and China | "Chinese factories reverse this process by taking capital out of the production process and reintroducing a greater role for labor...lower wages and less capital typically raises the return on capital above the US factory levels." | - WSJ
International Socialism: Could Keynes end the slump? Introducing the Marxist multiplier
Paul krugman graduates from sismondi to ricardo
In the 1960s, for every additional dollar of debt taken on in America there was 59c of new GDP produced. By 2000-10, this figure had fallen to 18c. Even in America, that’s about a fifth of what you’ll need to buy a McDonald’s burger.
Ezra Klein thinks constructively about Walmart | LBO News from Doug Henwood
Goldman Sachs Says It May Be Forced to Fundamentally Question How Capitalism Is Working - Bloomberg Business
This Theory Explains Why the U.S. Economy Might Never Get Better | TIME
CNBC dolt observes the falling rate of profit with apple products

Overproduction

Election ‘dust’ can’t disguise deep economic crisis
But the surge in production -- without any way to export it -- has caused a collapse in natural gas prices in the U.S. The gas industry sees exports as crucial to keep the boom going, along with the thousands of jobs the boom has created.

Primitive Accumulation

Accumulation by Dispossession

JP Morgan Profits From Food Stamp Processing Business - Seeking Alpha
Big Banks Turn Unemployment Benefits Into a Profit Center | FDL News Desk
JPMorgan's Paton Interview on Food Stamps - Video - Bloomberg
Taxation: a Secret Of Colonial Capitalist (So-Called) Primitive Accumulation

Recovered Economic History: “Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious” - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
Taxation: a Secret Of Colonial Capitalist (So-Called) Primitive Accumulation
How Slavery Led to Modern Capitalism: Echoes - Bloomberg
King Cotton's Long Shadow - NYTimes.com
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners And Modern Management - Forbes
How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing - ProPublica

The Working Day

"Mr. Flickinger, the retail consultant, said companies benefited from using many part-timers..."- NYTimes.com
Neoliberalism and the End of Shorter Work Hours
Workers with Paid Sick Days are 30% less likely to get injured at work
Child Labor: Small Hands Picking Our Food | If you want to take the most of a worker's time, start early and end late! | NBC Bay Area
Study Offers a Look at New York’s Retail Workers - NYTimes.com
As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers - latimes.com
"There may be other cost and efficiency pressures for employers to shift more of their workers into part-time jobs, independent of either public policy or the business cycle", also it is legal to pay part-timers less than full-time workers

Participatory Economics: a viable model for communism? – statickinetics – April 11 « LF Effort Posts
We need to read Karl Marx | Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Exchange Value - Co-opting Marx
An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy by James Steuart
Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis - YouTube
New data on global corporate control confirms Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’
Demand Nothing | Marxism and Distributionism in the Current Crisis
LENIN'S TOMB: Gramsci on Americanism and Fordism
The Great Money Trick « American Political Reader
Steve Keen’s Critique of Marx’s Theory of Value: A Rejoinder « Notes & Commentaries
The Working Poor - A Booming Demographic - PERI
On Communism and Markets: A Reply to Seth Ackerman « Notes & Commentaries
Video: “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?” | Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Trends in Value Theory since 1881
The Labor Theory of Value - A FAQ

The Men Who Crashed the World

DERIVATIVES

Derivatives: A $700+ Trillion Bubble Waiting to Burst - Seeking Alpha
Credit Default Swaps: Evolving Financial Meltdown and Derivative Disaster Du Jour
Another Crisis ‘Around The Corner’: Mobius - Bloomberg
Derivatives Market Bubble: $700 Trillion
Why Congress Won’t Touch Jamie Dimon: JPM Derivatives Prop Up US Debt | Common Dreams

The Next Depression

IMF warning on global downturn
Foreclosures expected to soar | The Tennessean | tennessean.com
Financial Armageddon: Anybody Left to Buy?
Financial Armageddon: Americans Agree: There Is No Recovery
Why is the US recovery so weak? – look at profitability « Michael Roberts Blog
China cools, Europe stalls as global slowdown worsens | Economy | News | Financial Post

Plundering People of Color

New NCRC Study Shows Racial Disparities In High-Cost Lending Remain Entrenched
Foreclosures are Destroying the Black Middle Class | The Brecht Forum
Confessions Of An Economic Hate Crime | DASKRAPITAL
Blacks Face Bias in Bankruptcy, Study Suggests - NYTimes.com
Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest - NYTimes.com

A Memo Found in the Street - Barrons.com
Prosecuting Wall Street - CBS News
FBI warns of mortgage fraud ‘epidemic’: Seeks to head off ‘next S&L crisis’ « naked capitalism
What is actually going on in Iceland | Studio Tendra
New NCRC Study Shows Racial Disparities In High-Cost Lending Remain Entrenched
How the US economic output recession of 2007-2009 led to the great recession in labor markets: the role of corporate job downsizing, work hour reductions, labor productivity gains, and rising coporate profits
Countrywide protected fraudsters by silencing whistleblowers, say former employees | iWatch News
The men who crashed the world - Meltdown - Al Jazeera English
Fannie Mae Ignored Foreclosure Misdeeds, Report Says - NYTimes.com
BofA, JPMorgan, Wells Accused of Charging Veterans Illegal Fees - BusinessWeek
BofA’s Countrywide May Face Fraud Suit After U.S. Housing Audit - Bloomberg
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world - physics-math - 19 October 2011 - New Scientist
The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep the Bubble Going - ProPublica
Hank Paulson’s Secret: Of Course the System Is Rigged | FDL Action
A Banker Speaks, With Regret - NYTimes.com
Raters Ignored Proof of Unsafe Loans, Panel Is Told - NYTimes.com
Too Big to Stop: Why Big Banks Keep Getting Away With Breaking the Law - James Kwak - Business - The Atlantic
How to Indefinitely Detain Jamie Dimon | emptywheel
In Fed Officials’ 2006 Meetings, No Deep Worry on Housing - NYTimes.com
Bush drive for home ownership fueled housing bubble - The New York Times
The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is it Real or Is it Another Bubble? | Reports
Setting the Record Straight: The Housing Bubble Lie | FDL News Desk
FRB: Testimony, Greenspan -- Regulatory reform of the government-sponsored enterprises -- April 6, 2005
Emails Give Glimpse Into Deals That Fueled Financial Meltdown - ProPublica
The economic situation in a nutshell | Current Events Inquiry
Net Wealth Shock in US, by Net Worth Percentile

Monetary Theory

Goldbuggery

Asset Bubbles and the Gold Standard | Beat the Press
From the vault: the gold fetish « LBO News from Doug Henwood

W(h)ither the Dollar? | Dollars & Sense
David Graeber: On the Invention of Money – Notes on Sex, Adventure, Monomaniacal Sociopathy and the True Function of Economics « naked capitalism
To Have Is to Owe - Triple Canopy
America’s China Bashing » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Keeping Fear Alive: The Deficit Hawks Push Their Agenda | Op-Eds & Columns
Defaulting on the Debt Is Not the End of the World | Beat the Press
What is money? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
5,000 Years of Debt by David Graeber | ZNet Article
The State Theory of Money - GF Knapp
Nobody Understands Debt - NYTimes.com
Keynes and value | re-think america
We have been sacrificed as payment to those swindling moneylenders - Analysis, Opinion - Independent.ie
Positive Money » IMF Paper Backs Full Reserve Banking!

National Debt, Federal Deficit

The merchant bankers of fifteenth-century Genoa...
Is the Whole World Going Bankrupt?
National Debt by Presidential Term - per Capita and as Percentage of GDP

Neoliberalism

Austerity

Hungry in Turin | Souciant
EUobserver / 'New system of European governance' demands deeper austerity
A Smoking Gun at the last paragraph - Protesters hold biggest anti-Wall Street demonstration - Mackenzie Weinger - POLITICO.com
New Yorkers Rage Against the Cuts
Health effects of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy : The Lancet
Effects of the 2008 recession on health: a first look at European data : The Lancet
UPDATE: Sarkozy: Widespread Austerity Plans Could Derail Global Recovery - WSJ.com
Greek economic crisis turns tragic for children abandoned by their families | World news | The Guardian
The Spectre Haunting Europe | Michael Hudson
Child Abuse Rose During Recession, Research Says - ABC News
Faces, pain behind poverty figures: Millions of poorest Americans trapped, living in despair « The prison gates are open…
Illinois teacher commits suicide citing working conditions
BBC News - The Greek parents too poor to care for their children
After Downgrades, European Leaders Argue for Both Austerity and Stimulus - NYTimes.com
Mom denied food stamps shoots kids, kills self - CBS News
Tying Health Problems to Rise in Home Foreclosures - WSJ.com
Why mental health is a political issue | Mark Fisher | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Free Trade and Globalization

Free Market Fantasies: Capitalism in the Real World, by Noam Chomsky (talk delivered at Harvard University)
Free trade and the bipartisan consensus for global corporate oligarchy | Current Events Inquiry
Impact of the FTA with Colombia on Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Communities - YouTube
Leading anti-immigrant activist admitted that NAFTA increased illegal crossings from Mexico but supports free trade anyway | Current Events Inquiry
Local labor market effects of import competition in the united states
The ABCs of Free Trade Agreements | Dollars & Sense
Should developing countries embrace protectionism? | Dollars & Sense
It’s NAFTA x3 as Free Trade Deals Sweep Through Congress - COLORLINES
Free Trade = Freedom
When offshoring backfires | vox - Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists
Extraction of natural resources a key cause of abuse of indigenous peoples’ rights – UN expert
Goldman Sachs Is Firing Employees In The US So It Can Hire 1,000 In Singapore
Politics of Poverty: More trade, more mining company lawsuits
Why Do "Free Traders" Never Talk About Free Trade When the Losers Are Likely to Be People Like Them? | Beat the Press
NAFTA Is Starving Mexico – CIP Americas
George Monbiot – Enslaved by Free Trade
WTO Place Likely For Samoa After Turkey Tail Backdown... | Stuff.co.nz
Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Labor - Bloomberg
WTO Not So COOL: Rules Against Popular U.S. Meat Labeling Law | Common Dreams
We Don’t Know, Exactly, What the Trans-Pacific Partnership Is, But I’m Against It | Common Dreams
World Trade Organization Attacks Successful Canadian Clean Energy Program | MyFDL
Ottawa sued over Quebec fracking ban - Montreal - CBC News
29 Years of Failure: U.S. Free Trade Debacle in Central America - Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights

Privatization

Sandy Springs

Sandy Springs/Roswell Rd. Full Service Restaurant – Big Kitchen and 2-Patio’s!
Privatised cities - Inside USA - Al Jazeera English

Privatization Myths Debunked | In the Public Interest
The Biggest Company You've Never Heard Of - YouTube
Myth Sold as Truth: Privatization - Ed Wallace
None Dare Call It Privatization | Common Dreams
Bad Business: Billions of Taxpayer Dollars Wasted on Hiring Contractors
Report: Government spends billions more hiring contractors over public workers - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Amazon Chief's Spaceship Misfires - WSJ.com
In Washington, Contractors Take On Biggest Role Ever - New York Times
Ohio Gov. John Kasich counts on liquor consumption to bring jobs | cleveland.com
Wall Street Math: Jobs Ohio funding “resolved” | Ohio Budget Watch
Morgan Stanley Group’s $11 Billion Makes Chicago Taxpayers Cry - Bloomberg
Billionaire Farmers Scheming to Privatize California's Water Are Under Attack | Water | AlterNet
How Privatization Sterilizes Culture | Michael Hudson
Sell, sell, sell: everything must go in great fire sale | Business | The Guardian
That $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan | Michael Hudson
A Privately Owned Nuclear Weapons Plant in…Kansas City? | Mother Jones
Water Wars: Gov. Jerry Brown’s Pet Public-to-Private Wealth Transfer Project Is A Go - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
BBC News - The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water
After Fukushima Disaster, a Confused Effort at Cleanup - NYTimes.com
Privatisation Derailed Argentina’s Rail System - IPS ipsnews.net
Skye Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Privatisation is a catastrophe, warns godfather of forensics - Crime - UK - The Independent
BBC NEWS | Health | Privatisation 'raised death rate'
5 Ways Privatization Is Ruining America | Alternet
When Privatization Works, and Why It Doesn’t Always - NYTimes.com
Cities Weigh Taking Over From Private Utilities - NYTimes.com
Profiting from the Poor: Outsourcing Social Services Puts Most Vulnerable at Risk | PR Watch
Food Stamp Outage Highlights Problems With Privatization of Public Services
JP Morgan Profits From Food Stamp Processing Business - Seeking Alpha
Big Banks Turn Unemployment Benefits Into a Profit Center | FDL News Desk
Chicago’s ‘Smart Card’ Debacle and Privatisation | The Nation
Chicago schools filthy with rodents, roaches, garbage — principals say - The Washington Post
Revealed: How the world gets rich – from privatising British public services - Business News - Business - The Independent

CorpWatch : What is Neoliberalism?
All part of the plan | Current Events Inquiry
Sasha Lilley, "On Neoliberalism: An Interview with David Harvey"
Conservatives these days: Right for the wrong reasons | Current Events Inquiry
Rolling Back the Progressive Era | Michael Hudson
ZCommunications | Neoliberalism and Bottom-Line Morality by Edward Herman | ZMagazine Article
The Pillaging of Latvia » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Harvey D - Neo-Liberalism as Creative Destruction
When a country is wrecked by neo-liberalism | Bill Mitchell – billy blog
New World Order (conspiracy theory) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trans-Pacific Trade Pact Reveals U.S.’s Unbridled Corporate Agenda - IPS ipsnews.net
On Neoliberalism by Sherry Ortner « Anthropology of this Century

Oligopoly and Oligopsony

Firm Entry and Wages: Impact of Wal-Mart Growth on Earnings Throughout the Retail Sector by Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, Barry Eidlin :: SSRN
BlackRock's Surprising Reach into the US Economy | CEPR Blog
Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism :: Monthly Review

On "Social Democracy"

Ernest Mandel: Why Keynes Isn't the Answer (1992)
New Left Project | Articles | Post-Work: Zombie Social Democracy with a Human Face?
Norway has a cool new privatised "grave-rent" system. Don't pay up? Your grave gets black bagged. Then removed. Then jackhammered to dust

Potemkin Science

Faith-Based Economy

'Moloch!' clip from "Metropolis" 1927 - YouTube
Crime, Economy and Shopping: Shoplifting Is ... a Good Sign for the Economy? - CNBC
Talismanic IMF ponders future role - FT.com
Euro Will Continue To Fall: US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Gold Best Hedging Options - Forbes
Stand or Fall Together - NYTimes.com
Bill Black: Why do Banking Regulators bother to Conduct Faux Stress Tests? « naked capitalism
Dow Posts Biggest Two-Day Slump Since 2008 on Policy Concern - Businessweek
Deus ex machina: Faith in the free market | The Economist
Memoirs of a Markets Reporter : CJR

Libertarianism

RIGHT-WING POPULISM by Murray Rothbard | Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error
libertarians are shit: Is American Democracy More Like Plutocracy? If So, That Might Be the Best Thing About It - Hit &amp; Run : Reason.com
The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
The Libertarian Case for Slavery*
Critiques Of Libertarianism: A Non-Libertarian FAQ.
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chicago school of economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It - Yumi Kim - Mises Daily
Praxeology: "Like other members of the Austrian School, von Mises rejected the standard scientific approach of relying upon empirical observation in the study of economics, and instead, favored the use of logical analysis, a logic which is influenced by Immanuel Kant's analytic–synthetic distinction. Von Mises writes that the empirical methods used in the natural sciences cannot be applied to the social sciences" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ludwig Von Mises and the "I hate kids" theory of child labor | DASKRAPITAL
Into the Mainstream | Southern Poverty Law Center
PayPal Founder Peter Thiel Continues to Tout Anti-Government Manifesto | Southern Poverty Law Center
WATCH: At 6:45 Mark Cato Institute Climate Change-Denier Says Cato Gets 40% Funds From Oil, “Not Largely” - By - The eXiled
Cato Institute Policy Report: "Most of the America haters flushed out by September 11 are huddled on the left wing"
Rochester Economics Professor Wonders Why Rapists Shouldn't Be Allowed to 'Reap the Benefits' of Passed Out Girls
Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Post Keynesian Perspective: Debunking Austrian Economics 101
@AEI: One of the most overlooked stories of the day. Supreme Court sides with property owner. http://ow.ly/1Wa20q
Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Libertarian Extraordinaire | Demos
Nozick: Libertarians are “filled…with resentment at other freer ways of being” | Corey Robin
| Charles Koch, Gary North, Libertarianism & Holocaust Denial
Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery - Robert Higgs - Mises Daily
Some libertarians consider that blackmail ought not be considered a crime
reason magazine <3's apartheid south africa

Thatcher adviser - mass unemployment is policy? - YouTube
Paul Davidson: What Makes Economists So Sure of Themselves, Anyway? « naked capitalism
"Wall Street looks on Hayek as the richest goldmine yet discovered and are peddling his views everywhere."
Alfred Marshall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Critique of the Marginal Productivity Theory of the Price of Capital by Fred Moseley
Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?
In History of Economic Errors, Martin Feldstein Deserves Mention | Beat the Press
A Most Peculiar Failure — Yanis Varoufakis on neoclassical models
Economic research: sixy published papers say "usually not" replicable

Speculation

How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis - By Frederick Kaufman | Foreign Policy
High food prices to make 64 million Asians, 30 million Indians extremely poor: ADB - Economic Times
Coca-Cola Accuses Goldman Sachs Of Manipulating Metal Prices: WSJ
Wikileaks: Speculators Helped Cause Oil Bubble | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
JPMorgan Hires Supertanker for Storage, Brokers Say (Update3) - Bloomberg
ZCommunications | Creationists, Flat-Earthers, and Deficit Hawks by Dean Baker | ZNet Article
Land and People: For those who still doubt the role of corporations in raising food prices through speculations
Leaked Oil Documents Confirm: America Is Being Skullfucked By Oil Speculators… - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
Randy Wray: The Biggest Bubble of All Time – Commodities Market Speculation « naked capitalism
Morgan Bet Farm in Ukraine Before Bailout - Bloomberg
The Food Bubble, by Frederick Kaufman - Harper's
Leaked Documents Reveal Major Speculators Behind 2008 Oil Price Shock: Hedge Funds, Koch, Big Banks, Oil Companies | ThinkProgress
billy blog » Blog Archive » We should ban financial speculation on food prices
Barclays makes £500m betting on food crisis - Business News - Business - The Independent
Corporations profiting out of food crisis | Green Left Weekly
Goldman bankers get rich betting on food prices as millions starve - Business News - Business - The Independent
Speculation explains more about oil prices than anything else | McClatchy
Rising Gas Prices: Not Demand Driven - Businessweek
Gouged at the Pump » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Oil Prices Spike Exacerbated By Wall Street Speculation, Federal Reserve Study Finds
Speculation in the Oil Market | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Research Division
We'll make a killing out of food crisis, Glencore trading boss Chris Mahoney boasts - World Politics - World - The Independent

Stealth Industrial Policy

Fred Block: America’s Stealth Industrial Policy — Longview Institute
THE US ECONOMIC MODEL OF STATE CAPITALISM | re-think america
A much-maligned engine of innovation - FT.com
Fred Block: America’s Stealth Industrial Policy — Longview Institute

"Regulatory Capture"

Elizabeth Warren

Nominee for Consumer Chief Says He Will Streamline Regulations - NYTimes.com
Warren Reportedly Ready to Drink From Poisoned Chalice of a Senate Bid « naked capitalism
How the Banks Take Down Politicians (Elizabeth Warren Edition) « naked capitalism
Elizabeth Warren’s Jobs Plan: War with Iran « naked capitalism
Progressive Democratic hero Elizabeth Warren enlists to serve AIPAC's pro-war agenda | Al Akhbar English

Eric Schneiderman

Daily Kos: Why is The Obama Administration Pressuring NY Atty General to Cover Up Financial Crimes?
Schneiderman Is Said to Face Pressure to Back Bank Deal - NYTimes.com
A New Wall Street Investigation: Is the Hammer Finally Coming Down? | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
Corrupt Obama Administration Pressuring New York Attorney General to Support Mortgage Whitewash « naked capitalism
Schneiderman Removed From Mortgage Inquiry Panel - NYTimes.com

Ratings Agencies

Shocker: The More You Pay a Rating Agency, the More They Do Your Bidding! | FDL News Desk
S.E.C. Still Isn’t Enforcing a Ratings-Agency Rule - NYTimes.com
Why Listen to S&P on US Debt? | The Big Picture
The Ratings Agencies Who Rated Subprime MBS Investment Grade are Trying to Dictate Budget Policy | Beat the Press
“Is Too Much Significance Given to U.S. Credit Rating?” « naked capitalism
Did the SEC Open an Escape Hatch for Ratings Agencies? - CNBC
Matt Stoller: Standard & Poor’s Predatory Policy Agenda « naked capitalism
Are Rating Agencies Now Trying to Mug Rich Municipalities? « naked capitalism
NSW councils sue Standard and Poor's over losses - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Moody's California | Moody's drops California's credit grade to 'B,' may cut more - Los Angeles Times

Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Change — The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
We Are All Boned If We Trust The System To Fix Anything « American Political Reader
Did Treasury Fire Jim Freis for Showing that Banksters Are a Bigger Problem than Terrorists? | emptywheel
In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures - NYTimes.com
Investors May Lose as Congress Saves Money on Adviser Oversight - Bloomberg
In The Spine Journal, Specialists Repudiate Medtronic Research - NYTimes.com
JPMorgan Scores Victory for Repeat Offenders: Jonathan Weil - Bloomberg
Kill Bill: The sabotage of US finance reform - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Justice Department, SEC investigations often rely on companies’ internal probes - The Washington Post
Financial Crisis Was Avoidable, Inquiry Concludes - NYTimes.com
Translating the WaPo’s Bank-Talking-Point Editorial « Reality Check
Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes? | Rolling Stone Politics
The Global Sociology Blog - The (Other) Visual Du Jour – Don’t Get Too Hard on Them!
Leading Banks and Wall Street Firms Repeatedly Break SEC Anti-Fraud Agreements | Public Intelligence
SEC Staff Ends Probe of Lehman Without Finding Fraud - Bloomberg
Part of Dodd-Frank required the govt to build a database of defaults and foreclosures but there's no funding. oh well
Slump in FBI White Collar Crime Prosecutions

The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis | VICE United Kingdom
Why Ayn Rand and Her Legion of Followers Are Hopelessly Wrong | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
CFEPS - The Employer of Last Resort Approach to Full Employment
THE OUTSIDER: High Debt and History
One Dimensional Man, chapter 3
Hiding Out In Prison Bonds - Forbes.com
The Fed’s Stuck - The Source - WSJ
Daily Kos: Iceland's On-going Revolution
Political Irony › A rising middle class tide raises all boats
Grading Free Market Capitalism and “The Invisible Hand” « naked capitalism
What's Hurting the Middle Class
Confronting Savage Growth at Reports from the Economic Front
U.S. Internet Users Pay More for Slower Service - Bloomberg
On the True Meaning of Say's Law
Steve Keen - Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink, Say No More.pdf

Class War

Class Bigotry

Woman fired for being homeless | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.com
You’ll Never Live Like Common People

Detroit

The Deal That Saved Detroit (and Banned Strikes) | The Nation
ABC's Overpaid Autoworkers
The Return of Phony Numbers on Auto Workers' Wages | Beat the Press
The banks and the attack on the UAW
The North American Auto Industry in Crisis :: Monthly Review
ZCommunications | Auto Companies Recover, But Jobs Are Harder by Jane Slaughter | ZNet Article
Indianapolis autoworkers resist GM’s illegal union-busting schemes
GM workers fight 50-percent wage cut
Changing the Auto Industry from the Wheels Up: Introduction | Dollars & Sense
Outsourcing Top Management: The Lesson of Fiat-Chrysler | Op-Eds & Columns
GM Bailout Makes Most Out of Bad Situation | Op-Eds & Columns
Wall Street Sharks Circle the UAW | Common Dreams
Slums of Detroit: A Look At The Heart of America’s 2nd Most Deserted City - By Matt Harvey - The eXiled
Michigan's homeless students: Foreclosure crisis takes toll on 31,000 kids | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
PolitiFact | Mitt Romney says Obama gave away car companies to union
Fox Overlooks The Facts In Rush To Pin Auto Industry Job Losses On Obama | Media Matters for America
Brad DeLong: Mitt Romney Rises to Amazing Heights of Incoherence in Michigan
Only Wall Street Wins in Detroit Crisis Reaping $474 Million Fee - Bloomberg

Inchoate Socialism

(Chart) U.S. Wealth Distribution: Perception vs.... | Socialism Art Nature
Pew: Public Believes Tax Increase On High Earners Would Help The Economy, Improve Fairness | TPM Livewire

Inequality

Who Rules America: Wealth, Income, and Power
Yes, the Rich Are Different | Pew Social & Demographic Trends
How Poverty Taxes the Brain - Emily Badger - The Atlantic Cities
Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over | Oxfam International
Affluent Children Are More Physically Fit Than Poor Ones - NYTimes.com
Babies born into poverty are damaged forever before birth - Scotland - Scotsman.com
The super-rich 1 percent | SocialistWorker.org
A more progressive tax system makes people happier, 54-nation study finds
50 Amazing Numbers About the Economy
World's wealthiest people now richer than before the credit crunch, says study | Business | The Guardian
Most Americans can't afford a $1,000 emergency expense - Aug. 10, 2011
America, land of the free to go hungry | Eric Augenbraun | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
A Land of Haves and Have-Nots | Consortiumnews
America Builds an Aristocracy - NYTimes.com
Of the 1%, By the 1%, For the 1% by Joseph Stiglitz | ZNet Article
It's the Inequality, Stupid | Mother Jones
The new "Let them eat cake!" | Slide Show - Salon.com
Deeply Unequal World | FPIF
Median Net Worth of Single Black Women in Prime Working Years: $5 « naked capitalism
Some Economics of Class :: Monthly Review
ZCommunications | America’s Rampant Inequality Impossible to Deny by Roger Bybee | ZNet Article
American Exceptionalism | Truthout
Workers’ Wages Chasing Corporate Profits - Off the Charts - NYTimes.com
Understanding Class Warfare Hysteria -- Daily Intel
The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains - Yahoo! News
Revealed: huge increase in executive pay for America's top bosses | Business | guardian.co.uk
What You Need When You’re Poor
The Ever-Present Yet Nonexistent Poor
Heritage Can't Spin Away Growing Concern About Wealth Distribution | Political Correction
Expropriating the expropriated (1983-2009), or, Why It’s the Top 20 not Top 1% That Matter « thecurrentmoment
Huey Long: Share the Wealth - YouTube
Sales of Luxury Goods Are Recovering Strongly - NYTimes.com
Greed, Excess and America's Gaping Class Divide | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
Should We Celebrate a Decline in Global Poverty? (only if it's real) | Common Dreams
FYML - U.S. WORKERS' WAGES HAVE PLUMMETED SO LOW THAT A TWO-INCOME FAMILY IS NOW (ON AVERAGE) 15% POORER THAN A ONE-INCOME FAMILY OF 40 YEARS AGO
In poor health: London’s shocking disparity in men’s life expectancy : TBIJ
If the superrich outweighed us like they out0wn us, typical members of Forbes 400 would be nearly 4000 tons.
Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth - NYTimes.com
Poverty myths, busted: how the vicious backlash against an essay that went viral illuminates how little most Americans know about being poor | ≠ Inequality Matters

'Welfare Queens'

More People Eschew Jobless Benefits Than Scam System - Real Time Economics - WSJ
The 'undeserving poor' are always with us | Daniel Denvir | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Nieman Reports | The ‘Welfare Queen’ Experiment
ppl who read welfare article w/ photo of black woman & child "more harsh in their evaluations of welfare recipients"
Five Media Myths About Welfare
Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich -- Why welfare reform has failed
Drug Testing of Public Assistance Recipients as a Condition of Eligibility | American Civil Liberties Union
The Smell of Success
PolitiFact | Newt Gingrich says you can use food stamps to get to Hawaii
Who gets welfare? Despite prevailing stereotype, whites, not blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars | Ebony | Find Articles
Remind me again why respectable people read Zero Hedge | Current Events Inquiry
public housing is shitty, late, on polluted land - WSJ.com
The Smell of Success
Three Thoughts on Mitt Romney's 'Very Poor' Day : CJR
Welfare Limits Left Poor Adrift as Recession Hit - NYTimes.com
Half of US social program recipients believe they "have not used a government social program" - Boing Boing
Guest post: U.S. has 18th best unemployment benefits in OECD | Angry Bear
Fox News Botches Basic Facts About Food Stamp Program | Media Matters for America
Nancy Folbre: Measuring Mooching - NYTimes.com
Obama Channels Reagan on Welfare
On the false dichotomy between “makers” vs. “takers,” “producers” vs. “parasites” | Current Events Inquiry
Benefits stigma: how newspapers report on welfare | News | guardian.co.uk
UK's Welfare-to-work don't work: Only 3.5% of people referred to Work Programme find long-term jobs | Politics | guardian.co.uk
Ten Things You Should Know About #TheRealTANF | The Nation
Truth and Lies about Poverty | Joint Public Issues Team
Filmmaker Who Immersed Himself in Homeless Life as Part of Journalism Job Application Apparently Froze to Death
'People think everyone who is poor gets welfare, and it's just not true'; How the myth of the welfare queen died - In Plain Sight
CATO Institute Report Says Poor Americans Have It Too Good | The Poverty Line, What Matters Today | BillMoyers.com
This Chart Blows Up the Myth of the Welfare Queen - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
Section 8 voucher recipients don't 'cause' crime, shows 10-city study. Rather, voucher holders tend to settle in neighborhoods where crime is already high
Just How Wrong Is Conventional Wisdom About Government Fraud? - Eric Schnurer - The Atlantic
10 Poverty Myths, Busted | Mother Jones

Social Insecurity

The Debt 'Crisis'

FRINGE

Statement on Deficit Commission Proposals | Press Releases
Erskine Bowles, Morgan Stanley, and the Deficit Commission | Beat the Press
The Real Problem With Alan Simpson's Social Security Statements: They Are False - Newsweek
Obama Packs Debt Commission With Social Security Privatization & Benefit Cut Supporters | FDL Action
The Caucus - Spending $1 Billion to Restore Fiscal Sanity - NYTimes.com

Giving away the hostages

Did President Obama Want to Give the Kidnappers Hostages? | Beat the Press
Waxman Gives Obama Lessons in Negotiation, Again | Emptywheel
Reid confronts Obama budget director on possible debt deal - TheHill.com
Debt talks bring tensions between Democrats, Obama to surface - The Washington Post
Senate Rejects House Budget Plan - Obama Calls for Deal - NYTimes.com
Obama Budget Proposal: Cuts To Target Working Poor, Middle Class & Students (LIVE UPDATES)
Obama, Van Hollen Back Bowles-Simpson As Counterpoint To Right-Wing GOP Budget | TPMDC
Obama Prepared to Sell Out Rank and File Democrats on Medicare to Enhance Personal Brand | Elections
Obama to Seek Biggest Deficit Cut Possible, Geithner Says - NYTimes.com
Even Larry Tribe Now Agrees: Fourteenth Amendment is a Viable Option. So Why Won't Obama Use It? | MyFDL
Kucinich Says Obama Got the Deal He Wanted - Truthdig Radio - Truthdig
The Hidden History of the Debt Limit Hijack: Democrats Started It | FDL News Desk
New Economic Perspectives: Pinch-Hitting for Peterson. Part 1: How Progressives Helped Put Social Security on the Chopping Block
New Economic Perspectives: Pinch-Hitting for Peterson. Part 2: How Progressives Helped Stoke Deficit Hysteria; A Case Study
New Economic Perspectives: Pinch-Hitting For Peterson, Responses
Obama Rebirthed as TR » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
C.A. Rotwang: Mr. President: Tweak This!
White House Grand Bargain offer to Speaker Boehner Obtained by Bob Woodward - Press Pass
Will Obama Agree to Entitlement Cuts? He Already Has - NYTimes.com
Can We Please Stop Pretending Obama is “Capitulating” on Social Security? | FDL Action

YouTube - U.S. retirement benefits to be cut?
Campaign to cut entitlements in the U.S. - YouTube
Deficit commission report, Part 1 | re-think america
Deficit commission report, Part 2 | re-think america
PERRY V. UNITED STATES, 294 U. S. 330 :: Volume 294 :: 1935 :: Full Text :: US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
Understanding the Federal Debt Limit | The Concord Coalition
7 Things You Need to Know About the National Debt, Deficits, and the Dollar | Reports
The NYT is Wrong: Officials Do Not Say That Medicare Is Not Sustainable In Its Current Form | Beat the Press
Statement on Using the Chained CPI for Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments | Press Releases
We Don't Have A Long-Term Deficit Problem | The New Republic
ZCommunications | Debt Showdown is "Political Theater" Burdening Society’s Most Vulnerable by Richard D. Wolff | ZNet Article
Michael Hudson: Obama's Ambush on Entitlements
Pete Peterson’s Media Empire
The budget deals of Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Obama, in one chart - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Federal Budget Ax Hits Homeless Veterans, Spares NASCAR? - TIME
Matías Vernengo, "The Debt Ceiling: A Guide for the Bewildered"
Sacrificing the poor to make a deal | SocialistWorker.org
Poll: 71% shun GOP handling of debt crisis - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/US110410/McClatchy/McClatchy-Marist Poll Complete April 18th, 2011 USA Poll Tables.pdf
Poll: Americans see debt deal as bad for nation | McClatchy
Who owns America? Hint: It's not China : Information Clearing House: ICH
Debt and Delusion - Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate
Not Following Professional Ethics Matters Also | CEPR Blog
The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic
Daily Kos: Medicare at 67: Where Are the Savings?
Messing With Medicare - NYTimes.com
Debt ceiling: What's wrong with the final deal - Aug. 2, 2011
What’s missing from the debt ceiling debate? Jobs
ZCommunications | On the Debt Ceiling Deal by Dean Baker | ZNet Article
Randy Wray: The Budget Compromise – Congress Creates a Rube Goldberg Doomsday Machine « naked capitalism
Deficit won't budge without raising taxes on the rich - CSMonitor.com
Rule of the minority | SocialistWorker.org
Source: Debt Commission Fights Over Freezing Military Pay, Slashing Benefits | TPMDC
What Everyone Should Know About the “Debt Crisis” in the U.S. | Op-Eds & Columns
This disastrous 'debt crisis' myth | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The Social Security Non-Crisis, by Noam Chomsky
Social Insecurity | Dollars & Sense
Bashing the Piñata - Social Security Myths (1997)
‘Saving’ Social Security From Its Previous Rescue
Deficit-Obsessed Media Misinform on Causes
Situation Room Scaremongering
Social Security, the Stock Market, and the Elections :: Monthly Review
The Economic Illiterates Step Up the Attack on Social Security and Medicare | Op-Eds & Columns
Social Security: The Phony Crisis, Introduction -- Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot
Ronald Reagan: "Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit." - YouTube
How the Media Has Shaped the Social Security Debate : CJR
TaxVox » Blog Archive » Congress Figures Out How to Finance a Payroll Tax Cut: Borrow the Money
Bashing the Piñata - Social Security Myths (1997)
How to measure the worth of Social Security : CJR
Fed Budgetary Experts Demolish CBO Health Cost Model, the Lynchpin of Budget Hysteria « naked capitalism
New Report: The CEO Campaign to 'Fix' the Debt: A Trojan Horse for Massive Corporate Tax Breaks
this is why Republicans cannot be blamed for Obama offering to cut Social Security

Tax Evasion

G.E.’s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether - NYTimes.com
Just How Progressive Is the Tax System? - NYTimes.com
Biggest Tax Avoiders Would Win on Tax Break - Bloomberg
EUROPE: Developing Nations Lose Billions to Multinational Tax Dodging - IPS ipsnews.net
Here's a debt reduction plan: Collect billions from tax cheats | McClatchy
Reference Room - Key Tax Data
Property Taxes Are For Parasites: Billionaires Use The “Fake Farm Loophole” To Not Pay Any… - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
The 400 Richest Americans Pay An 18% Tax Rate - Robert Lenzner - StreetTalk - Forbes
Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Gains Bipartisan Support | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
IRS: 1,470 millionaires paid no income tax in '09 - On Deadline - USATODAY.com
Rich get more in Tax Breaks than the Poor get from Welfare
Buffett May Be Right, but the Top Tax Rate is Wrong
Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging - IPS
CTJ REPORT PREVIEW IDENTIFIES 12 MAJOR CORPORATE TAX DODGERS
The Fallacy Behind Tax Holidays - NYTimes.com
Google Joins Apple in Push for Tax Holiday - Bloomberg
Many Top U.S. Corporations Pay Little or No Taxes | Public Intelligence
30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Income Taxes, 2008-2010 - International Business Times
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes
visar.csustan.edu/aaba/JimStewart2006.pdf
GE CEO: Repatriation Tax Holiday Could Help Fund Infrastructure Bank - Real Time Economics - WSJ
Leonhardt's Good Look at the Corporate Tax Landscape : CJR
"Academic analysis of a previous repatriation tax holiday in 2004 showed that companies then used the profits more for share buybacks and dividends than for creating new jobs." - Real Time Economics - WSJ
Can't make this stuff up: all 3 corp execs testifying at House hearing on tax reform represent one of our tax dodgers.
Soaking the Poor, State by State | Mother Jones
Big No-Tax Corps Just Keep on Dodging
Big Paychecks, Tiny Tax Burdens: How 21,000 Wealthy Americans Avoided Paying Income Tax - Yahoo! News
Trillions hidden in offshore accounts | TribLIVE
The Financial Crimes That Are Destroying The Economy Of The Developing World | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Wealth doesn't trickle down – it just floods offshore, new research reveals | Business | The Observer
U.S. Trade Deficit Largely Due to "Intra-Firm" Trade (UPDATED)
London is the ‘global capital of money-laundering’: TBIJ
Finally, A Way We Can Just Pay Our Taxes Directly to the Job Creators and Cut Out the Middle Man
Shell companies: Launderers Anonymous | The Economist
The New Robber Barons: How Taxpayers Subsidise CEOs' Multimillion Salaries | Common Dreams
Watch We're Not Broke online | Free | Hulu
Tax Havens Make US and Europe Look Poorer than They Are, Exaggerate Size of "Global Imbalances" | naked capitalism
Fortune 500 Companies Hold a Record $2.4 Trillion Offshore | CTJReports

Unions

Boeing's Hijinx

How Boeing got away with breaking the law - Salon.com
Boeing’s Multi-Billion Outsourcing Fiasco « naked capitalism
Boeing news | Boeing 2Q profit beats Street; raises guidance | Seattle Times Newspaper
Boeing looks to nonunion Southern plant | SocialistWorker.org
Local News | SC attorney general wants Boeing complaint dropped | Seattle Times Newspaper
Corporate America in a Tizzy over Labor Board’s Boeing Order | Labor Notes
Business & Technology | Boeing scrambles to avoid losing American Airlines deal to Airbus | Seattle Times Newspaper
ZCommunications | Boeing Corporation by Site Administrator | ZMagazine Article
Business & Technology | Big 737 order still leaves Boeing with egg on face | Seattle Times Newspaper
The Fall of Boeing and Japan's Airline Industry :: JapanFocus
Conflicting Dreams at Boeing | Dollars & Sense
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » David Gregory's Factcheck Fail on Show's Sponsor
Cargolux will not take 747-8F delivery over contract wrangle
Labour relations trumped 787 profitability on line selection: Documents
New Documents Show Charleston was Boeing’s riskiest option « Talking Union
Boeing “Project Gemini” South Carolina 787 Factory Anti-Union Presentation | Public Intelligence
Sarah Palin endorses the Third Worldization of America | Current Events Inquiry
China Eastern abandons 787 order for 737s
NLRB Finds Boeing Broke Law—and Upsets Anti-Union Southerners - Working In These Times

Hyatt

Civil Disobedience: Sit Down at Park Hyatt Chicago - Sept. 24, 2009 - YouTube
AMERICAblog News: Chicago Hyatt hotel allegedly turns heat lamps on striking workers; Hyatt heiress runs Obama campaign finance committee
BREAKING NEWS: Buses pump exhaust on striking Hyatt workers!
Vote Hyatt the Worst Employer in America

Ikea

Furniture Workers Win Ikea Union Drive, With Help from Abroad | Labor Notes
Ikea's Third World outsourcing adventure -- in the U.S. - The Labor Movement - Salon.com

The NFL

NFL player bankruptcy — Marginal Revolution
On Lockout, NFL and Media Play on Same Team

Wisconsin Unions

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker Admits It - YouTube
Wisconsin Gov. Walker Ginned Up Budget Shortfall To Undercut Worker Rights | TPMDC
Seven deadly lies about public-sector workers | SocialistWorker.org
Wisconsin Dispute Could Mobilize Democratic Base - NYTimes.com
Taking on Texas-sized austerity | SocialistWorker.org
A Blueprint for a Takeover: Wisconsin Republicans Lied While the Kochs Schemed | The Awl
Koch brothers now at heart of GOP power - Los Angeles Times
Are public unions our convenient economic scapegoats? - Fortune Management
Wisconsin public unions: Don't join the government to get rich | The Economist
Indiana prosecutor resigns over Walker email | WisconsinWatch.org
States Seek Laws to Curb Power of Unions - NYTimes.com
ZCommunications | A Brief History of Opposition to Public-Sector Unionism by Steve Fraser | ZNet Article
Z Blogs | Walker's wrecking crew takes Wisconsin back to 19th century
12 Things You Need to Know About the Uprising in Wisconsin | AlterNet
Top DOT official tells staff not to mention free voter ID cards to the public — unless they ask
State employee fired after telling co-workers about photo ID policy - JSOnline
In Madison, a Numbers Game
No degree, little experience pay off big - JSOnline
Wisconsin posts biggest US job loss, as Gov. Scott Walker fights for his job - CSM
Daily Kos: Scott Walker gives 218 state workers $765,000 in bonuses and raises after public workers took cuts
Can We Recall Bad Reporting on Wisconsin Budget Deficit? | FAIR Blog
What Might Have Been: One Report from Madison, Wisconsin « Corey Robin

Living in public-sector pension luxury | SocialistWorker.org
Is the Federal Pay Freeze Obama’s PATCO? - Working In These Times
Here’s why Longshore workers in Longview are so angry | The Stand
Detroit Sets Its Future on a Foundation of Two-Tier Wages | TuscaloosaNews.com
Who will deliver the US postal service from destruction? | Philip Rubio | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
How Germany Builds Twice as Many Cars as the U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice as Much - Forbes
The Strike and Its Enemies
Union-busting associated with Massey's coal mine disaster
Former Daily Show Writer Accuses Jon Stewart of Punishing His Writers For Forming A Union | Camels With Hammers
PolitiFact | The RNC said unions raised $400 million for Obama in 2008
Workers of the World Divide | Foreign Affairs
Wisconsin Recap: Thanks to Obama, American Left Lies in Smoldering Wreckage « naked capitalism
Walker’s victory, un-sugar-coated « LBO News from Doug Henwood

Union Bustin'

Union-Busting Tactics More Pervasive Than Previously Thought: Study
Lou Dobbs Peddles Anti-Union Propaganda
Surprised by Solidarity in Wisconsin
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » GE Workers Don't Know One 'Successful Unionized Co.'
Union Organizers Still Fired With Impunity | Truthout
U.S. Lags Far Behind in Worker Protection » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
in 2002 the Supreme Court decided that undocumented workers fired for unionizing are not entitled to back pay
Anti-union bill would ban protesting at CEOs' homes, slap picketers with $1,000 fine | Atlanta News & Opinion Blog | Fresh Loaf | Creative Loafing Atlanta
The Shock and Slow Bleed of Lockouts - Working In These Times
Union Busting Playbook
Warehouse Workers United: wal-mart has a mole
The War On Workers Comes to California, in Disguise | FDL News Desk
Not Safe For Work Corporation | You Hate "Right To Work" Laws More Than You Know. Here's Why
The Pre-funding Mandate. Bringing Down The American Postal Workers Union. | MyFDL
Right to Work Laws are Good for Unions, but not for the Chamber of Commerce | Corey Robin
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » GE Workers Don't Know One 'Successful Unionized Co.'
ThinkProgress » Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes
OECD Indicators of Employment Protection
Surprised by Solidarity in Wisconsin
How a Good Employer (Costco) Supports Union Busting | The Nation

Yellow Unions

SEIU Campaign Spending Pays Political Dividends - They fire union leaders, give money to democrats! - WSJ.com
LENIN'S TOMB: Just Taking Care of Business
BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News » The SEIU Takeover of UHW: Three Years Later
SEIU Launches Takeover of United Healthcare Workers-West | Labor Notes
Wrong Union For the Job - In These Times
AFL-CIO Head Trumka Ducks Questions on Accountability for Obama and Himself - Sam Husseini
Unions Contract Out to PR Firms That Work for Anti-Worker Groups - Working In These Times
Kim Scipes: It’s Time to Come Clean
Replacement workers (from AFL-CIO union) greeted by taunts of ‘Scab!’ by striking bus drivers in Staten Island - NY Daily News

Is Union Busting to Blame for Power Outages in D.C.? | Common Dreams
Why unions are not super PACs - Salon.com
Twenty Myths About Unions - YouTube
Universities Benefit From Their Faculties' Unionization, Study Finds - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Everything you think you know about low-wage workers is wrong | I Can't Believe We Still Have to Protest This Shit
Unionization Important to Closing Racial Wage Gap, Study Says - The New York Times

Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism - From Kasama Project
Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? | Rolling Stone Politics
Alleged hit-and-run driver may not face felony | VailDaily.com
Martin Erzinger: Morgan Stanley Manager's Hit-and-Run Controversy - ABC News
REPORT: Morgan Stanley Managing Director Arrested And Charged With Hate Crime For Allegedly Stabbing A Cab Driver
Ex-Morgan Stanley Executive’s Stabbing Charges Dropped - Bloomberg
Death by a thousand cuts: the fight ... - Google Books
Michael Hudson: Debt Deflation in America « naked capitalism
Wall Street’s Euthanasia of Industry | Michael Hudson
Asia Times Online :: PAY, PROFIT AND GROWTH : Low wages and revolutions
Walmart's midnight baby formula bread line - How the World Works - Salon.com
Wall Street's Naked Swindle | Rolling Stone Politics
A Huge Housing Bargain -- but Not for You - TheStreet
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » We Are A Profit-Driven Industry
Michael Parenti, "Class Warfare Indeed"
Billionaires to be given free carbon allowances to offset green tax on private jets - Telegraph
What are those OWS people so angry about? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
On a wing and a prayer - People & Power - Al Jazeera English
The Greatest Recovery, Part II | Dissident Voice
Taken for Granted: Stormy Weather - Science Careers - Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Faculty, Postdoc jobs on Science Careers
The billionaires are coming: Obama's richest enemies to hold summit | World news | The Guardian
Debts Should be Honored, Except When the Money is Owed to Working People | MyFDL
Joseph Stiglitz Interview Transcript, Oct. 20, 2010 - DailyFinance
Congressional Members' Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets
DoD panel calls for radical retirement overhaul - Air Force News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Air Force Times
Recession Has Lit the Fuse on Explosive Student Debt » New Deal 2.0
Dean Baker, "The Morality of the Other Side in the Class War"
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs | World news | The Observer
One Last Note on Mike Bloomberg | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Congressional Budget Office: Top 1% Income Rose 275% From 1979-2007 | Public Intelligence
Congressional perks: Lawmakers’ most surprising benefits | iWatch News
US 'Threatened Spain Over Piracy Law' - The Next Web
Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment | The Economic Populist
Rising Share of Americans See Conflict Between Rich and Poor | Pew Social & Demographic Trends
Pew Study "shows very clearly that middle class losses are directly linked to upper class gains"
The Two Track Class System, in a picture
The Official James Petras website » Twenty-Two Reasons Why American Working People Hate the State
A slap in the face: CUNY wants to raise exec salaries on the heels of a tuition increase « Occupy CUNY – News
The Daily Banter » Exclusive: The Quiet Extermination Of Labor Rights From Human Rights
Veterans Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Army Base - Working In These Times
Fracking Democracy: Why Pennsylvania's Act 13 May Be the Nation's Worst Corporate Giveaway | Environment | AlterNet
EXCLUSIVE: Long Island mom fired after donating her kidney for her boss, lawsuit charges - NYPOST.com
David Morris: Corporate Crime Does Pay - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
HSBC, too big to jail, is the new poster child for US two-tiered justice system | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Welcome to the City of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Philadelphia magazine
NYC hit with huge wave of homelessness – CNN Radio News - CNN.com Blogs
A Tiny Revolution: The Rich: Should We Kill and Eat Them?
Low-Wage Workers Are Robbed More Than Banks, Gas Stations And Convenience Stores Combined
Daily Kos: Teen Kills 4; Judge LITERALLY Lets Him Off Because He is Rich!
"I'm Alice Walton, Bitch!" - PolicyMic
American workers so anxious & beaten down, they don't take half their meager vacation days—out of servile fear

Decadence

American Empire and the Good Life: Hypocrisy and Fantasy at Home and Abroad
A Times Snapshot of the Gilded Age Economy : CJR
BBC News - German insurer Munich Re held orgy for salesmen
Oasis | Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
Obama Invites Boehner for Golfing Summit as Talks on U.S. Spending Drag On - Bloomberg
Son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator plans one of world's most expensive yachts | Global Witness
Rich in Oil, Poor in Human Rights: Torture and Poverty in Equatorial Guinea - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Teodorin's World - By Ken Silverstein | Foreign Policy
uprisingradio.org » Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz, and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World – Part 1
Indian village named for a god now honors SnapDeal.com - CNN.com
Ex-Banker Wants You to Trade Wall Street ‘Misery’ for Mongolia - Bloomberg
Scenes From a Recession | This American Life
CEO pay exceeds pre-recession level - Yahoo! News
Down and Out on $250,000 a Year
Why the 'rich' aren't feeling so rich - May. 3, 2010
Squeaking by on $300,000
Study Finds Benefits in Health Insurance for the Poor - NYTimes.com
Why the Rich Fear Violence in the Streets - The Wealth Report - WSJ
For the Executive With Everything, a $230,000 Dog to Protect It - NYTimes.com
Wealthy arm their yachts with military-level security - CNN.com
Dell and the high cost of CEO security… | footnoted.com
SEC workers investigated for porn-surfing - Washington Times
Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can’t Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family | ThinkProgress
Diamond-Crusted Vertu Phone Defies Slump - Bloomberg
Lion's AppleWatch
Protests Are a Payday for Security Firms - NYTimes.com
Africa's growing middle class: Pleased to be bourgeois | The Economist
Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It - Yumi Kim - Mises Daily
Former "Seasteaders" Come Ashore To Start Libertarian Utopias In Honduran Jungle | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices « CBS Seattle
Big Time Banker Leaves 1% Tip for Waitress & "Tip" She Should "GET A REAL JOB" [UPDATED]: LAist
Your Very Own Floating Bond-Villain Lair for $680 Million - Businessweek
As Occupy Wall Street Comes Out of Hibernation, Are Tasers, Mace or Weapon Detection Systems Good Investments? TASER International (TASR), Mace Security International (MACE) & View Systems (VSYM) : Small Stock Gems
Jenkins: The Inequality Obsession - WSJ.com
What Isn’t for Sale? - Magazine - The Atlantic
rich dude: “There’s always been rich and poor, the 1 percent and the 99 percent.” And then he adds, “It’s like a prison. If you only have prisoners and no guards, you’d have chaos.”
Billionaire Palm Beach Democrat Jeff Greene Fears Revolt of the Poor | Sunshine State News
Hanging dummies shock Las Vegas motorists - Las Vegas Ethnic Culture | Examiner.com
World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder - latimes.com
"Colonial"-Themed Wedding Included Authentic All-Black Servant Staff
rich guy complains that government should have made a hurricane barrier to keep his dumb cars from getting wrecked | www.palmbeachpost.com
Looting after Hurricane Sandy: Disaster myths and disaster utopias explained. - Slate Magazine
Billionaires' basements: the luxury bunkers making holes in London streets | Art and design | The Guardian
You Think You're Getting Social Security But You're Not, Says Multimillionaire Banker | FAIR Blog
The new "Let them eat cake!" | Slide Show - Salon.com
Twenty money-saving tips from bankers and their wives | Job news & advice | eFinancialCareers
rich people are petty: if you upset them they might fund a think tank to call you a nerd
Republican congressman tells constituent asking about food stamp cuts: ‘Let him not eat’ | The Raw Story
This California Town Is Filthy Rich. You Will Die Laughing When You See Their Version Of “Crime.” | Distractify

Education

Catherine Ferguson Academy

www.nassp.org/portals/0/content/52218.pdf
Detroit’s Financial Martial Law Hits School for Teen Moms - COLORLINES
School for teen moms saved from closure | Michigan Radio
Catherine Ferguson Academy Closing: Another Casualty in the War on Women | Care2 Causes
Amazing urban farm school for teen moms will be shut down | Grist
The Maddow Blog - Principal: Detroit's shutting down Catherine Ferguson Academy
Students fight to save innovative garden-based public school in Detroit | Grist
Detroit farm school for teen moms has been saved | Grist
Will closing a school for teen moms save money? | Michigan Messenger

Charter Schools

Teach For America

Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Why Teach For America Is Not Welcome in My Classroom | LA Progressive
Teach for America: The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
Media's Favorite School 'Reformer', Michelle Rhee
Teach for America Is Great Because It's Great | FAIR Blog
Bad News for TFA « Diane Ravitch's blog
TFA Indoctrination - You Mean a Cult
Teach for America’s new partnership with largest for-profit charter network - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Teach for America Is a Glorified Temp Agency - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com
TFA alum to recruits: "you will most likely have a neutral or negative impact on the students you teach"

Ruthless Reviews » WAITING FOR SUPERMAN: THE WORST FILM OF 2010
credo.stanford.edu/reports/MULTIPLE_CHOICE_CREDO.pdf
Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say? | Common Dreams
Stacking the Odds in Favor of Charter Schools | Politics | Chicago Reader
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Washington Post Cheers for Charter Schools
Schools Matter: New Charter Study by Mathematica With More Bad News for Corporate Ed Reform
A school is not a business | SocialistWorker.org
The charter school charade | SocialistWorker.org
Cashing in on the charters | SocialistWorker.org
The ugly truth about "school choice" - AlterNet - Salon.com

Michelle Rhee

More bogosity from Michelle Rhee « LBO News from Doug Henwood
Paranoid Michelle Rhee blames her "enemies" for cheating report - Education - Salon.com
Rhee bragged about taping students’ mouths shut while she was a Teach for America ‘teacher’
Joanna A. Bujes, "Learning from Rhee"
Michelle Rhee charges as much for one speech as a Louisiana teacher makes in a year
Michelle Rhee’s group stands by anti-gay honoree - Salon.com

Despite state law, Bronx charter school tests students for entry | GothamSchools
NYT Grades Charter Schools on the Curve, and Arne Duncan sucks
Lois Weiner, "A Witch Hunt Against Teachers"
A Very Pricey Pineapple - NYTimes.com
Schools Matter: National Association of Charter School Authorizers Outed as ALEC Funder
Scholarship Funds, Meant for Needy, Benefit Private Schools - NYTimes.com
Charter School or Scientology Center? Education In Rick Scott's Florida | Crooks and Liars
How American fundamentalist schools are using Nessie to disprove evolution | Herald Scotland
Daily Kos: Taxpayers footing bill for millionaires' kids
Charter Operator Fines Students For Infractions - Chicago News Cooperative
14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools | Mother Jones
Pregnant? No School for You in This Louisiana Public Charter | Mother Jones
Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools | Ben Joravsky on Politics | Chicago Reader
Is Thomas Friedman a Low-Performing Columnist? Also, Arne Duncan just makes shit up.| EduShyster
Charter Schools Still Outperformed by Public Schools
News from the NEPC **Charter Schools DO Under-Enroll Special Needs Students
Charter Schools Association Is Using Taxpayer Money To Support ALEC's Radical Agenda | Republic Report
Why judges say charters are NOT public schools— students and parents should be nervous | Cloaking Inequity
Lion of Judah charter school leader indicted, accused of illegally spending $1.2 million in public money | cleveland.com
Report: Unfair Funding – How Charter Schools Win & Traditional Schools Lose
Voucher school history book: Hippies didn't bathe, worshipped Satan
Four decades later, Alabama poised to subsidize private schools built to resist desegregation (photo gallery) | al.com
Good Grief! Teachers Get High Marks on New Evaluations | Diane Ravitch's blog
Study: School reform in 3 major cities brings few benefits, some harm
Hedge Ur Bets | EduShyster
Noelle Roni, ex-Peak to Peak principal, says she was fired over hand-stamping flap - Boulder Daily Camera
Daily Kos: Taxpayer-funded schools teaching creationism in a dozen states
Local school principals' pay reaches new heights | NOLA.com
Legislative task force: CPS closings cost taxpayers, hurt kids | Early & Often
ALEC Admits School Vouchers Are for Kids in Suburbia | PR Watch
Ohio Charter Schools Weren't Reporting Failing Grades | The Progressive

Higher Education

For-Profit College Rules Scaled Back After Lobbying - NYTimes.com
Renewal | Bob Samuels | How universities became hedge funds
Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities
Student Loan Debt - oerbital: I owe 13,650 :(
Study: Many college students not learning to think critically | McClatchy
How far to free? - Strike Debt!
Just Released by the Federal Reserve of New York: Lifting the Veil—For-Profits in the Higher Education Landscape - Liberty Street Economics
Americans Think We Have the World’s Best Colleges. We Don’t. - NYTimes.com
Why Government Spends More Per Pupil at Elite Private Universities Than at Public Universities | BillMoyers.com

Segregation

Poverty Is Rooted In US Education System, Research Finds
New Data from the U.S. Department of Education 2009-10 Civil Rights Data Collection Show Continuing Disparities in Educational Opportunities and Resources | U.S. Department of Education
The Culture of Poverty Reloaded :: Monthly Review
Rhee's budget surplus revelation angers teachers unions
Pan-African News Wire: Public Education Struggles Rooted in Anti-Racist Legacy
Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge — The Civil Rights Project at UCLA
2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s | Project Censored
New study: LAUSD's poor, Black and Latino students get the worst teachers | 89.3 KPCC
Segregation Prominent in Schools, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
E Pluribus...Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students — The Civil Rights Project at UCLA
if you think inner-city schools are overfunded you are out of your mind

Teaching to the Test

Atlanta Schools Created Culture Of Cheating, Fear, Intimidation
D.C. officials to review high rates of erasures on school tests - USATODAY.com
Only 7 Percent of Teachers Believe in Standardized Tests - Education - GOOD
What parents say testing is doing to their kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Test Scorer :: Monthly Review
Pop quiz on standardized testing
New standardized tests feature plugs for commercial products
Common Core Is Crony Capitalism for Computer Companies - Hit & Run : Reason.com

More schools targeted to close in Boston - The Boston Globe
Criticism Grows Louder as Broad Superintendent Academy Expands Influence | PND | Foundation Center
NEA Expels Secretary of Education’s Actions | The Buckingham Post
Standing for union-bashing | SocialistWorker.org
President Obama’s unusual education roundtable - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Arne Duncan to Override ‘No Child Left Behind’ Requirement - NYTimes.com
Media's Favorite School 'Reformer', Michelle Rhee
Reflections on the Racial Web of Discipline :: Monthly Review
The New Welfare Moms? | Dollars & Sense
Daily Kos: Taxpayers footing bill for millionaires' kids
Education Votes - A Special Education Worker Talks About Empty Paychecks, Organizing
Did Abstinence-Only Ideology Create a Bully Generation? | RH Reality Check

College, Inc.

FRONTLINE: college, inc. | PBS
For-Profit College Rules Scaled Back After Lobbying - NYTimes.com
Renewal | Bob Samuels | How universities became hedge funds
Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities
Study: Many college students not learning to think critically | McClatchy
How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps | The Homeless Adjunct
An Academic Ghostwriter Comes Clean - Faculty - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Truthout | Fearless, Independent News and Opinion
College Students Are Going Homeless and Hungry -- And Corporate America Is Trying to Exploit Them | Alternet
Higher education: Not what it used to be | The Economist
Former Army Captain Says If Hospitals Behaved Like For-Profit Colleges, Execs Would Be In Jail | Republic Report
A Damning Portrait of For-Profit Higher Education - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Student debt: What's been driving college costs so high, anyway? - Yahoo! News
How Washington Could Make College Tuition Free (Without Spending a Penny More on Education) - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data

Super-Economy: The amazing truth about PISA scores: USA beats Western Europe, ties with Asia.
The Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma
Diane Ravitch: Why I Changed My Mind About School Reform - WSJ.com
"Reducing Class size in grades K-3...research's 'gold standard'" - government report
If you pay peanuts, do you get monkeys? Paying teachers 10 per cent more results in 5-10 per cent higher pupil performance. | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students - latimes.com
The Secret To Fixing Bad Schools - NYTimes.com

Empire in Decline

BBC News - African migrants abandon the American dream
Productivity and Costs, Second Quarter 2011, Preliminary
Unemployment and Food Stamps Stats
Opinion: Once Upon a Time in the West - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Living | Hallmark adds sympathy cards for job loss | Seattle Times Newspaper
ZCommunications | Double Dip Recession on the Horizon by Jack Rasmus | ZMagazine Article
AMERICA TODAY: Heartbreaking Pictures From New Jersey's Homeless 'Tent City'
McDonald’s Hires 62,000 During National Event, 24% More Than Planned - Bloomberg
America’s Poor: A Regional Look at Poverty In America | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice
New York City Welfare Lines Overflow - WSJ
AICPA: 40% of working Americans will never be able to retire - Apr. 13, 2011
The Urgent Need for Job Creation | Reports
10-Year Real Wage Gains Worse Than During Depression - Investors.com
U.S. newborn death rate tied with Qatar - Health - Children's health - msnbc.com
More Americans seeking food at soup kitchens
Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest - NYTimes.com
Program uses decorative boards to try to blend vacant homes into Cleveland neighborhoods | cleveland.com
State of the Dream 2011 | United for a Fair Economy
17 Facts That Prove That The Average American Family Is Getting Absolutely Pulverized By This Economy
More Americans seeking food at soup kitchens
Hunger in America: 2011 United States Hunger and Poverty Facts
Hungry Muppet to appear on Sesame Street | Reuters
Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income - CBS News
When the free market gives you free money, take it | slacktivist
BBC News - Panorama - Poor America: 'Some kids are making ketchup soup'
One Third of Americans One Paycheck Away From Homelessness « naked capitalism
Economic Recovery for Whom? | Truthout
Nearly 17 million Americans repeatedly short of food (STARVING): report | Reuters
Majority of New Jobs Pay Low Wages, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
US Homelessness: 1.6 Million Children Are Homeless, Up by 38 Percent Since 2007 | NEWS JUNKIE POST
Who's the Least Socialist of Them All? - The Daily Beast
Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars - CBS News
Report: Unexpected rise in number of extremely poor elderly women — MSNBC

Florida

Superhero capes jobless: State launches probe of superhero capes for jobless - OrlandoSentinel.com
South Florida Times: Miami , Broward, Palm Beach, Breaking News & Weather at SFLTimes.com - Florida ends automatic felon rights restoration
Your Tax Money Will Bulldoze State Parks, Pay For The Creation of Golf Courses - Broward/Palm Beach News - The Daily Pulp
Golf courses in state parks? Worst. Idea. Ever. - Orlando Sentinel
Mortgage Company Completely Trashes Man's Home, Steals All His Belongings - Cops Decline To Investigate - Home - The Daily Bail
Who’s Policing Miami Cops After 63 Unsolved Civilian Shootings? - COLORLINES
Orlando Activists Arrested For Feeding Homeless In Defiance Of City Ordinance
Welfare drug-testing yields 2% positive results | TBO.com
Judge Halts Enforcement of Unconstitutional Law Mandating Drug Tests for Temporary Assistance Applicants
Justice Dept. investigating Miami police in deaths of seven black men | McClatchy
Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars - CBS News
Gov. Scott Doesn't Want More Tax Revenue To Plug Florida's Budget Hole | Political Correction
Nick Christie: Mentally ill prisoner strapped to 'Devil's Chair' and 'pepper-sprayed to death' | Mail Online

Health Care

Capitalist Health Care Sucks

Death by Poverty? | Epidemiology | Epidemiology | Mailman School
OECD: Why is health spending in the US so high?
Welcome to Your America: Elderly Man Robs Bank to Get Back Into Jail | FDL News Desk
IPS – U.S. Health Worse than Nearly All Other Industrialised Countries | Inter Press Service
Arizona Budget Cuts Put Organ Transplants At Risk : NPR
What Does It Cost Physician Practices To Interact With Health Insurance Plans? at least $23 billion to $31 billion each year.
Austerity and the Unraveling of European Universal Health Care | Dissent Magazine
France best, U.S. worst in preventable death ranking | Reuters
Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes of as much as 59% for individuals - Los Angeles Times
Without Insurance, 24-year-old Dies of Toothache - ABC News
Health Insurers Ask to Keep Rate-Increase Data Secret - NYTimes.com
Medical Debt Cited More Often in Bankruptcies - NYTimes.com
Health Insurers Seek Higher Premiums - NYTimes.com
Our Health Care System, Compared « The Baseline Scenario
ANALYSIS: Despite GOP claims, U.S. health care nowhere near 'best' in the world | iWatch News
“Skin in the Game” Fails As a Health Care Cost Control Idea | FDL Action
Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism - pantslessprogressive: Our health care crisis,...
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com
Health care increasingly out of reach for millions of Americans | ajc.com
The Medicare Eligibility Age: Impacts on Health Behavior and Outcomes | owenzidar
Millions can't afford to go to the doctor - Apr. 26, 2013
Disturbing report finds U.S. hospitals profit more when surgery goes wrong | The Raw Story
Commonwealth Fund - NEW 11-COUNTRY HEALTH CARE SURVEY: U.S. ADULTS SPEND MOST; FORGO CARE DUE TO COSTS, STRUGGLE TO PAY MEDICAL BILLS, AND CONTEND WITH INSURANCE COMPLEXITY AT HIGHEST RATES
A Galveston Med Student Describes Life and Death in the "Safety Net"
Workplace stressors & health outcomes: Health policy for the workplace – Behavioral Science & Policy Association

Medicare Fraud

Medicare Scandal: Who Audits the Auditor? - ProPublica
Medicare Scams | Op-Eds & Columns
Medicare Fraud Cases Have Uncertain Future
GAO Investigating Medicare Auditors - ProPublica
Detecting Medicare Abuse - Journal of Health Economics
Dean Baker: US health insurance companies have a free hand to deny patients' claims | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The Bogus $100 Billion Medicare / Medicaid Fraud Claim » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Drug Industry Fraud » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Florida Sanctions Top Medicaid Prescribers — But Only After A Shove - ProPublica
Health Care Renewal: Medicare's Lax Approach to Fraud by Suppliers of Medical Equipment
Health Care Renewal: "There is a lot of crime, and relative to the amount of crime, not a lot of people to do the investigations."
Health insurance lobby keeps Medicare Advantage overpayments flowing | Center for Public Integrity

Obamacare

Sick and Wrong | Rolling Stone Politics
FRONTLINE: obama's deal: watch the full program | PBS
Daschle: Public Option ‘Taken Off The Table’ In July Due To ‘Understanding People Had With Hospitals’ | ThinkProgress
Birth Control Free for All: New Insurance Rules Affect Millions of Women - ABC News
Appeals court says key parts of health-care reform unconstitutional - CNN.com
FAIR, "NYT Slams Single-Payer"
Donna Smith, "Doctors, Single Payer Activists Arrested, Make History at Senate Finance Roundtable"
Health insurance premiums skyrocket - CSMonitor.com
Dana Milbank Does What the Media Is Supposed to Do to Politicians Who Just Make Things Up | Beat the Press
ANALYSIS: Losing the public relations war | iWatch News
Poll: Public Still Doesn't Like Health Care Bill -- And Still Like Public Option, Medicare Buy-In | TPMDC
The Individual Mandate Is Still Very Unpopular | FDL Action
Health Care Law to Allow States to Pick Benefits - NYTimes.com
Annals of Family Medicine - "cost of a family health insurance premium ...exceeds household income by 2030."
Should Obama’s Health Care Be Opposed?: An Exchange by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books
The Health Care Trap and "Cadillac" Plans » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Walmart Ends Insurance For New Hires, Blames Obamacare
The Health Insurers Have Already Won - BusinessWeek
Drugmakers Vowed to Campaign for Health Law, Memos Show - Businessweek
E-Mails Reveal Extent of Obama’s Deal With Industry on Health Care - NYTimes.com
Miles Mogulescu: NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill Public Option
Marcia Angell, M.D.: Did John Roberts Give Mitt Romney A Gift?
Americans have developed two responses to this unjust system –- avoiding care and filing for bankruptcy
As a result [of Obamacare "glitch"], some families that can't afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the job will not be able to get financial assistance from the government to buy private health insurance on their own.
Yeah, lots of employers are going to drop health coverage « LBO News from Doug Henwood
Union Health Plans Will Suffer under Obamacare | Labor Notes
High Bills Faced By Patients With Pre-Existing Conditions Show Obamacare Weakness
Trader Joe's: Part-Timers Will Get Better Deals With Obamacare…"workers' responses to the company's decision were uniformly angry"
Obamacare: The Biggest Insurance Scam in History
CNN: No Obamacare subsidy for some low-income Americans - CNN.com
TROUBLE ON THE HORIZON: Top five things nurses must know about where healthcare is heading | National Nurses United
People With Disabilities Who Opt Out of ‘Voluntary’ Wellness Programs Will Pay the Price, and the EEOC’s Okay With That. | American Civil Liberties Union
overall cost increases moderate, but deductibles skyrocketing | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Pharmageddon

although reported research and development costs rose substantially between 1995 and 2010, by $34.2bn, revenues increased six times faster, by $200.4bn | The Incidental Economist
Health Freedom Alliance » Obscene Drug Mark Ups
Incentives for Drug Development — The Curious Case of Colchicine | Health Policy and Reform
Pharmageddon: how America got hooked on killer prescription drugs | World news | The Guardian
Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies! by Helen Epstein | The New York Review of Books
The New York Times' Defense of Antidepressants | Psychology Today
Mass psychosis in the US - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
FDA: JOHNSON & JOHNSON WRONGLY MARKETED RISPERDAL TO KIDS | VOICE OF DETROIT: The city's independent newspaper, unbossed and unbought
J&J To Settle Criminal Charge Over Risperdal Marketing, While 40 States Plan Lawsuits // Pharmalot
Merck Pays a Pittance for Mass Murder » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Pharma overtakes arms industry to top the league of misbehaviour | Business | The Observer
Should Patents Control What Your Doctor Can Think? » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
Health Care Renewal: Retreat Back to Regulatory Capture: US FDA, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services All Back Off
Paxil Birth Defects Lawsuit - Paxil and Pregnancy - ELLE
A Drug Recall That Should Frighten Us All About The FDA - Forbes
Questcor Finds Profit for Acthar Drug, at $28,000 a Vial - NYTimes.com
Are generics really the same as branded drugs? | "The approval came after a seven-year investigation in which the Justice Department concluded that, among other misbehavior, Ranbaxy had fabricated drug-approval data"- Fortune Management
As drug industry’s influence over research grows, so does the potential for bias - The Washington Post
Lawmakers’ report: FDA monitoring of staff e-mails may have violated whistleblowing law - The Washington Post

Legalize it!

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal - Forbes
Decriminalise drug use, say experts after six-year study | Politics | The Guardian
Research backs up claims of medical marijuana's benefits | McClatchy
David Nutt: alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed | Science | guardian.co.uk
Modified Ectsasy holds promise as potent blood cancer treatment
Single dose of hallucinogen may create lasting personality change
Cannabidiol, a Cannabis sativa constitue... [Braz J Med Biol Res. 2006] - PubMed - NCBI
Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All: Scientific American

Medical Imperialism

Johnson & Johnson Turns Its Back on AIDS Patients | Doctors Without Borders
EUROPE-INDIA: Trade Deal Threatens 'Pharmacy of the Developing World' - IPS ipsnews.net
I can no longer work for a system that puts profit over access to research | Winston Hide | Science | guardian.co.uk
Government tested AIDS drugs on foster kids - Health - AIDS | NBC News
AP IMPACT: Past medical testing on humans revealed

Single-Payer

Is it Necessary to Ration Health Care? Penelope M. Mullen
'Socialized' or Not, We Can Learn from the VA | RAND
Single Payer is Good For Business
Congress Passes Socialized Medicine and Mandates Health Insurance -In 1798 - Rick Ungar - The Policy Page - Forbes
Somewhere to turn for the uninsured | SocialistWorker.org
Japan's life expectancy 'down to equality and public health measures' | World news | The Guardian
Health Care Budget Deficit Calculator
Quebec’s child-care scheme pays for itself, economist - Parentcentral.ca
Financing Drug Research: What Are the Issues? | Reports
All Parties Ignore the One Way to Reduce Health Care Costs: Single-Payer
A Dose Of Socialism Could Save Our States - State Sponsored, Single Payer Healthcare Would Bring In Business & Jobs - Forbes
Statement on Healthcare « Econ4

The Shortage

Is the FDA to blame for drug shortages? - CNN.com
Drug Makers Stalled in a Cycle of Quality Lapses and Shortages - NYTimes.com
Patients Say FDA Lets Big Pharma Create Artificial Drug Shortages
A health crisis the companies caused | SocialistWorker.org
Pay Attention: How Big Pharma Contrived the Great American Adderall Drought | Drugs | AlterNet
democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Leonhart.DEA_.ADDDrug.2012.1.17_0.pdf
How a Cabal Keeps Generics Scarce - NYTimes.com

The Cuban Revolutionary Doctor: The Ultimate Weapon of Solidarity :: Monthly Review
Wealthy Families Skip Waiting Rooms With Concierge Medical Plans - Bloomberg
Guanaguanare: the laughing gull: "Daring To Learn From A Good Example" - Cuban Health Care
The power of Cuba's free healthcare - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Don Fitz, "Why Is Cuba's Health Care System the Best Model for Poor Countries?"
Evidence Based Talking Points | Physicians for a National Health Program
When Doctors Discriminate - NYTimes.com

Imperialism

CIA

Psyops

Wikileaks cable: US sought to intentionally stoke Chavez’ “paranoia” with aircraft carrier deployment | Current Events Inquiry
PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS IN GUERRILLA WARFARE
Facebook's Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest | SCG News
Syrian government didn't cut off the internet, instead the NSA bricked the router while trying to hack it

John Stockwell: The Third World War - YouTube
Operation Gladio : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
IPS – The Globalisation of U.S. Special Operations Forces | There are US SOCOM forces operating in a majority of countries in the world | Inter Press Service
The Secret Government PBS 1987 Bill Moyers
Special Ops Forces Create “Visible and Dramatic Effects” | Secrecy News
Most horrific act of terrorism in Caribbean | Trinidad Express Newspaper | News
A Short History of Psychological Terror - YouTube
Guanaguanare: the laughing gull: "Did U.S. Give Latin American Leaders Cancer?" (Answer: prob not, but still a fun read)
Why American 'democracy promotion' rings hollow in the Middle East | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The CIA and Crack Cocaine - YouTube
RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp | "forced a 73-year old woman..." | The Guardian
The 'Special Collective Service' Is The US Spy Agency Nobody Has Ever Heard Of - Business Insider
Bin Laden Raid Fallout - Aid Groups in Pakistan Are Suspect - NYTimes.com
TURKEY: TRAPPED IN A WEB OF COVERT KILLERS
How to Get Away with Murder in America (Excerpt) by Evan Wright | Byliner
Russia Demands U.S. End Support of Democracy Groups - NYTimes.com
Magazine publishes CIA-trained burglar’s fascinating story « intelNews.org
The CIA's fake vaccination drive has damaged the battle against polio | Heidi Larson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
CIA 'tortured and sodomised' terror suspect, European court rules | Law | guardian.co.uk
C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's - New York Times
Liberation Theology, the CIA, and the Vatican: A New Direction for Latin America? | North American Congress on Latin America
Cold War spy was Nazi henchman
CIA Role in Mandela’s Capture? — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold History’: The Birth of the Secret State, and "Operation Nightengale" | The Dissenter
Illegal Army of Nazi Veterans Remained Hidden, Influential for Decades
US troops refused requests to protect explosives store | The Independent

Companies in History Doing Evil Shit

Corporate Pinkwashing

2011 - 09/26/2011 - US Department of Labor's OSHA cites Kraft Foods at Madison, Wis., facility for exposing workers to hazardous chemicals, other violations
Kraft may or may not hire death squads to kill union leaders
Workers Tell OSHA They Were Locked Inside Target Stores Overnight | The Nation
Environmental Resource Center - Hazardous Waste Training, DOT Hazardous Materials Training, OSHA Training, Environmental Consulting
TARGET CORP. TO PAY $775,000 FOR RACIAL HARASSMENT
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO: Worse Than We Thought | Diane Ravitch's blog

Worst Companies In The World
Report of the Investigation of I. G. Farbenindustrie
America's Deep, Dark Secret - CBS News
BBC NEWS | Business | Siemens retreats over Nazi name
General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
15 of the Deadliest U.S. Corporations
Colonialism in Africa helped launch the HIV epidemic a century ago - The Washington Post
How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs | World news | The Observer
Bangladeshi Labor Organizer Tortured and Killed | Hillman Foundation
Petroleum Broadcasting Service?
Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Campaign to Stop Killer Coke | Tell Coca-Cola to STOP the VIOLENCE!
Boycott Bacardi!
J.P. Morgan – Civil War Corruption Leads to Big Business
Burp! Pepsi Versus Coke by John Pilger Full feature.mp4 - YouTube
Amazon 'used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under control' in Germany - Europe - World - The Independent
Chiquita Sues to Block Release of Files on Colombia Terrorist Payments
Bayer and US Government Knowingly Gave HIV to Thousands of Children | REALfarmacy.com | Healthy News and Information
BBC NEWS | Business | JP Morgan admits US slavery links
Reuters Special Report: Documents suggest foreign automakers aided Brazil’s dictators

"Democracy Promoting" NGOs

Colin Powell described NGOs as “force multipliers for us...such an important part of our combat team.”
State Dept. report details how the International Republican Institute paid Blackwater tens of millions in taxpayer money
Chamber of Commerce affiliate received $100 mil. in US tax dollars to promote free market policies abroad | Current Events Inquiry
Diana Barahona, "The Freedom House Files"
Peace Corps and Afghanistan « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
The “Bridge” in the Coup: the IRI in Venezuela | venezuelanalysis.com
LA Times wonders why foreign countries resent US-funded “democracy promotion” programs | Current Events Inquiry
Oslo Freedom Forum founder’s ties to Islamophobes who inspired mass killer Anders Breivik | The Electronic Intifada
Pressing Issues: 'Expert' on Syria Cited by Kerry Paid by Rebels
US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest
Uruguay, 1964 to 1970: Torture—as American as apple pie – William Blum
U.S. has a 45-year history of torture - Los Angeles Times
USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba | The Americas Blog
The murderous history of USAID, the US Government agency behind Cuba’s fake Twitter clone | PandoDaily
RUPE: How NGOs attenuate popular struggles around the world
US army manual details plan to co-opt NGOs | Al Akhbar English
U.S. sent Latin youth undercover in anti-Cuba ploy
Freedom’s Just Another Word For Fascism - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
Protestant sects find fertile soil in troubled Central America - CSMonitor.com
"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,"
Agency Suspends Grant To Right-Wing Student Group
INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE NEW WORLD OF SPYLESS COUPS - The Washington Post

"Humane" Warfare

Assassination

The Terrifying Background of the Man Who Ran a CIA Assassination Unit - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
Anwar al-Awlaki Death: US Reticent on Details as It Tries to Manage Yemen Fallout | Common Dreams
The due-process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality - Yemen - Salon.com
Execution by secret WH committee - Salon.com
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen - NYTimes.com
Washington Praises Killing Of Al-Awlaki | Fox News
GOP and TP on Obama’s foreign policy “successes” - Salon.com
Two British terror suspects killed in US drone strikes in Pakistan | World news | The Guardian

Biological Warfare

Depleted Uranium Weapon Use Persists, Despite Deadly Side Effects | Truthout
State security forces admit to using chemical weapons, but deny reports they were used against civilians
Fascinating Declassified Top Secret National Security… « TwileShare
CIA Document Suggests U.S. Lied About Biological, Chemical Weapon Use in the Korean War | The Dissenter
Apartheid-Era Doctor Who Made Germs To Kill Africans Found Guilty
Serbia Marks 13th Anniversary of NATO Agression, DU Bombs Still Claim Lives (Video)
A Lost Document from the Cold War: The International Scientific Commission Report on Bacterial Warfare during the Korean War | The Dissenter
U.S. Military Used Nerve Gas to Kill Vietnam War Defectors, Report Says - latimes
Arocena-trial- testimony of Cuban exile on germ warfare.pdf

Drones

'Every Person Is Afraid of the Drones': The Strikes' Effect on Life in Pakistan - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]
U.S. drones targeting rescuers and mourners - Salon.com
U.S. Drone Kills 16-Year-Old Pakistani Boy Days After He Attends Anti-Drone Organizing Meeting
Letter to President Obama: Targeted Killings by the US Government | Human Rights Watch
"Senior Democrats barely blink at the idea that a president from their party has assembled such a highly efficient machine for the targeted killing of suspected terrorists"
Civilian contractors playing key roles in U.S. drone operations - latimes.com
Former Intel Chief: Call Off The Drone War (And Maybe the Whole War on Terror) | Danger Room | Wired.com
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Time Cheers the Drone War
U.S. building secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula, officials say - The Washington Post
Army Foresees Expanded Use of Drones in U.S. Airspace | Secrecy News
Boredom, terror, deadly mistakes: Secrets of the new drone war - War - Salon.com
NYT: Drone Strikes 'Combat Militancy' by Increasing Militants | FAIR Blog
"DEAR OBAMA, when a U.S. drone missile kills a child in Yemen, the father will go to war with you, guaranteed. Nothing to do with Al Qaeda”
Flawed Analysis of Drone Strike Data Is Misleading Americans - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
How Drones Can Reinforce Failure | U.S. | TIME.com
BBC News - Inside Pakistan's drone country
Drone targets resurrected? - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Pain Continues after War for American Drone Pilot - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Doctor: Children 'Traumatized and Re-Traumatized by Drones' in Yemen | Common Dreams
Jacob Levich, "'Collectivized Torture': Drone Warfare and the Dark Side of Counterinsurgency"
Study: US drone strikes more likely (10x more) to kill civilians than US jet fire - Investigations
‘Anti-drone’ militant group claims Parachinar twin blasts - DAWN.COM

Foreign Aid

IPS – Less Than Half of International Foreign Aid Is Transparent | Inter Press Service
#USAID promoted anti-labor changes in the role of the state in the name of #decentralization as well as #privatization

Responsibility 2 Protect

Those Humanitarian Interventions the US Didn't Support

The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot
U.S. Supports Khmer Rouge
Humanitarian Imperialism: The New Doctrine of Imperial Right, by Noam Chomsky

Why One of the World's Leading Peace Advocates Threatened to Punch Me in the Face - Salem-News.Com
Maximilian C. Forte, "Libya -- Lather, Rinse, Repeat -- Syria: Liberal Imperialism and the Refusal to Learn"
IRIN Global | SECURITY: New report on R2P challenges humanitarians | Myanmar | Sudan | South Sudan | Zimbabwe | Conflict | Food Security | Security
Stuff White People Like n.135 Humanitarian Intervention
Study: intervention causes more problems than it solves
Is the 'Atrocity Prevention Board' a good idea? | Stephen M. Walt
[PODCAST] R2P or: How the Left Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Wars of Imperial Aggression | Wrong Kind of Green | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future
The systematic killing, torture and abuse of children by the US, NATO and their allies
Hypocrisy: US blocks Russia's draft statement in UN on peaceful resolution of Bani Walid violence — RT
Academia.edu | Civilising Interventions? Race, War and International Law | Robert Knox

Sanctions

Sanctions against Iran and the logic of collective punishment | Current Events Inquiry
Sanctions Aiding Limitation of Independent Publications in Iran « LobeLog.com
Portland charity founder sentenced for sending aid money to Iran | OregonLive.com
Syria Comment » Sanctions Stop Food Getting to Syria but Not Arms
Why Is Apple Discriminating Against Iranian-Americans? - NYTimes.com
Before the anti-Assad revolt began, Syria produced 90 percent of its own medicines and drugs. But production has been hit by the fighting, a lack of raw materials, and by the impact of sanctions and higher fuel costs.
Iran Sanctions Take Toll on Medical Imports - NYTimes.com
Sen. Mark Kirk: 'It's Okay To Take Food From The Mouths Of' Innocent Iranians | ThinkProgress

Spreading Freedom 'Round the World

BBC News - Afghan president agrees men and women should not mix
Afghan president backs strict guidelines for women - CBS News
In liberated Afghanistan, left-wing political party banned for pointing out government is full of war criminals
Afghanistan: Hundreds of Women, Girls Jailed for ‘Moral Crimes’ | Human Rights Watch
Kabul Bank, promoted by US as success of Westernization, exposed as total fraud ponzi scheme stealing 100s of millions
New Libyan rulers tell United Nations: 'Gays threaten continuation of human race' | Mail Online
Salafists tell women to cover up | Libya Herald
BBC News - Libya rebel flees to UK as revolution sours for women
Libya: Hijab Fiasco at Power Handover Ceremony · Global Voices
Libyan Women Slam Draft Election Law Giving Them Only 10% Share in Parliament
Libya women face Islamist rise since Gadhafi fall - Yahoo! News
Militias have been targeting Christians, women, journalists, refugees and those considered former loyalists of Moammar Gadhafi
Iraq political blocs accuse PM of dictatorship - Yahoo! News
Iraqi Women's Activist Rebuffs U.S. Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"
Police unable to prevent rising violence against gays, Emo youths in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Torture

The Osama bin Laden Trail Shows Waterboarding Didn’t Work | Emptywheel
BBC News - 'Vomiting and screaming' in destroyed waterboarding tapes
US firms profited from CIA flights
Senate confirmation hearing: General David Petraeus suggests policy for emergency interrogations - Los Angeles Times
America's 'detainee 001' – the persecution of John Walker Lindh | World news | The Observer
The Holmesburg Prison Experiments and ‘Pharmacologic Waterboarding’ at GITMO | re-think america
UK's secret policy on torture revealed | Politics | The Guardian
Red Cross Study Finds 60 Percent of Young People Support Torture - The Daily Beast
N.Y. billing dispute reveals details of secret CIA rendition flights - The Washington Post
CSRTs Come Back From The Dead | Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog
Operation Torture » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Do Private Military Contractors Have Impunity to Torture? | Common Dreams
Pro-Pain Pundits
US Pentagon Releases Training Manual Used As Basis For Bush’s Torture Program - OpEd
EXCLUSIVE: DoD Report Reveals Some Detainees Interrogated While Drugged, Others "Chemically Restrained"
Reporters watch Gitmo trials on 40 sec delay. When detainees describe CIA torture, officials hit a white noise button
the US seeks to keep testimony of 9/11 defendants about being tortured from press
Torture Creep - By Amy Zegart | Foreign Policy
Sean Baker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is not hot stabbing pain that Omar Deghayes remembers from the day a Guantánamo guard blinded him, but the cool sen­sation of fingers being stabbed deep into his eyeballs.
CIA misled on interrogation program (torture doesn't work) (we already knew that), Senate report says - The Washington Post
Exclusive: Doctor who trained U.S. troops suspended for macabre techniques | Reuters

"It Was Worth It"
The myth of “humane” American warfare | Current Events Inquiry
Gen. Petraeus suggested Sunday that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties
New Study Says U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians - IPS ipsnews.net
The U.S. Military’s “Third-Country Nationals” : The New Yorker
March Forward! - U.S. helicopters massacre nine Afghan children
Gen. McChrystal: We’ve Shot ‘An Amazing Number Of People’ Who Were Not Threats | TPMMuckraker
Afghan Officials: 64 Innocent Afghans Killed in US Military Operation « RAWA News
Yoo: 'Sure,' The President Could Order A Village Of Civilians Massacred | TPMMuckraker
U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids - IPS ipsnews.net
US Afghan Kill/Capture Campaign Targeted Civilians
Religion News Service | Blogs | Omid Safi - What Would Muhammad Do? | Navy SEALS taking target practice at hijabi Muslim women
Bye-Bye Miss American Pie | Common Dreams
Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal
Creator of Neutron Bomb Leaves an Explosive Legacy – Forward.com
25 Tons of Bombs Wipe Afghan Town Off Map [Updated] | Danger Room | Wired.com
Westmoreland: ''The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient."
Some Afghan kids aren’t bystanders - Military News | “In addition to looking for military-age males, it’s looking for children with potential hostile intent.”
'Kill Anything That Moves': The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014 | Common Dreams
Freedom Rider: Sniper Gets Sniped | Black Agenda Report
Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries | VICE United States
De-civilianizing Civilian Victims of Violence | Levantine Viper
Taylor & Francis Online :: LIMITED WAR, UNLIMITED TARGETS - Critical Asian Studies - Volume 44, Issue 3
The U.S. military's stats on deadly airstrikes are wrong. Thousands have gone unreported

Monsanto and GM Crops

OpEdNews - Article: The secret history of Monsanto, Agent Orange and the mutilation of innocent Vietnamese
Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’ | Grist
US Trade Wars with Nations Against Monsanto, GMO Crops | Natural Society
Poison Seeds, Herbicides, Pushed Again on Haitian Farmers in Spring 2012 | Haiti Chery
We'll make a killing out of food crisis, trading boss boasts - Business News - Business - The Independent
WikiLeaks: US targets EU over GM crops | Monsanto in bed with all US diplomats | The Guardian
'We Paid $3 Billion for These Stations. We'll Decide What the News Is'
Monsanto to face biopiracy charges in India : Nature Biotechnology : Nature Publishing Group
Processed food and coronary capitalism - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France | Reuters
Why are honeybees dying off in massive numbers?
The Paraguayan Coup: How agribusiness, landowning and media elite, and the U.S. are paving a way for regional destabilization
Exposing Monsanto's Financial Interest in Government
Federal contract site reveals US reliance on Monsanto and Israeli firm for White Phosphorus supply | Current Events Inquiry
Monsanto sued small famers to protect seed patents, report says | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Our Brave Hired Killers

Military Rape Culture

Lawmakers propose new protections for military sexual assault victims - News - Stripes
The Military's Secret Shame - Newsweek
17 Victims Sue Pentagon Over 'Plague' of Sexual Violence
Military sexual assault and rape 'epidemic' - Features - Al Jazeera English
Pentagon report: Sexual assault in the military up dramatically - CSMonitor.com
women raped in the military don't get the right to an abortion - Chicago Sun-Times
Military Accused of Nursing Culture of Rape & Retaliation

Support Those Troops

Facing Ninth Deployment, Army Ranger Kills Himself. 'No Way' That God Would Forgive Him For What He'd Seen, Done, He Told Wife | Crooks and Liars
Beyond PTSD: Soldiers Have Injured Souls | Truthout
Alcohol abuse by GIs soars since '03 - USATODAY.com
Denial in the Corps | Iraq & Afghanistan | The Investigative Fund
Concern grows over ‘epidemic’ veteran suicide rate | Government / Politics - The News Tribune
March Forward! - Meet an officer who has been killing soldiers at Ft. Lewis
Military Families Hit Pentagon On Response To PTSD And Suicide
Dumping of partial remains of war dead in Va. landfill spurs wider probe - The Washington Post
Afghanistan Veterans With Genital Wounds Receive Little Help From Pentagon
Study: Feelings of guilt may be factor in PTSD – USATODAY.com

White Man's Burden

U.S. Army battling racists within its own ranks | Reuters
Neo-Nazis are in the Army now - Iraq war - Salon.com
Seymour Hersh unleashed | FP Passport
'A Defector In Place' | Southern Poverty Law Center
Extremist Army Group at War With U.S. Policy - New York Times
Racism in the Ranks
COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN 1
COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN 2
COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN 3
COVERT ACTION INFORMATION BULLETIN 4
White Supremacist Recruitment of Military Personnel since 9/11
Marines won't be punished for posing with Nazi flag in Afghanistan - Afghanistan - Stripes
U.S. News - Group blasts Marine Corps for reviving 'Crusaders' name and symbols
skinhead groups can openly recruit people on army training bases
Glen Doherty, Security Officer Killed In Libya Attack, Fought Religious Proselytizing In Military « Shabab Libya
Christianity of the Inquisition in the US Army
Veterans and White Supremacy - NYTimes.com

tHE rHizzonE - The Moral and Legal Case for Sabotage
The Kill Team | Rolling Stone Politics
YouTube - ‪ALIVE DAY MEMORIES part 4‬‏
'The Army is full of a bunch of scumbags'
US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies' | World news | The Guardian
US generals use their revered status in a country that worships the military to milk taxpayers and live like kings
McChrystal Quashes ‘Restraint’ Medal Rumor
Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons | Truthout
Cables Reveal 2006 Summary Execution of Civilian Family in Iraq -- News from Antiwar.com
"The Death Dealers took my life!" - Coming home: The Army's fatal neglect - Salon.com
WikiLeaks reveals Atrocities by US forces | Front Page
That's Militainment!
US soldier jailed for seven years over murders of Afghan civilians | World news | guardian.co.uk
U.S. Army Has a Problem With “Toxic Leadership” | Public Intelligence
Afghans Allegedly Forced Onto Mined Roads : NPR
Marines’ Haditha Interviews Found in Iraqi Junkyard - NYTimes.com
Video of Marines urinating on bodies no surprise, Afghans say | McClatchy
Urination video: Outcry aside, history suggests minimal punishment for Marines (+video) - CSMonitor.com
How to Deal With the Dead - Pastebin.com
“The Warrior Class”: The Blackwater Videos—By Harper's Magazine (Harper's Magazine)
Marine convicted of killing unarmed Iraqi civilians honoured in Conn. | CTVNews
Marine Corps investigates grisly photos of troops burning corpses in Fallujah | The Raw Story

Self-Inflicted Wounds

Devil's Game

MEK Boyz

Iranian group's big-money push to get off US terrorist list - CSMonitor.com
How the West de-democratised the Middle East - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
US Continues to Train Terrorists on its Own Terror List: Report | Common Dreams
Iran Exile Group Nears U.S. Rebirth - WSJ.com
Bush was against the MEK
Likely victory for MeK shills - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
U.S. told to decide Iranian group's fate in four months | Top News | Reuters
Ros-Lehtinen defends MEK as State Dept anger grows | The Cable
Watergate Journalist Carl Bernstein Spoke at Event Supporting Iranian ‘Terrorist’ Group - ProPublica
Israel teams with terror group [MEK] to kill Iran's nuclear scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News - Rock Center with Brian Williams
Iranian Opposition Group M.E.K Wins Removal From U.S. Terrorist List - NYTimes.com
Iranian Diplomat Harassed in New York [by MEK, shortly after their de-listing]- NYTimes.com
#Syrians joined #MeK supporters in the rally against #Ahmadinejad this is a great beginning for middle Eat #4NewIran http://twitter.yfrog.com/e9bwgmdxjbupdlmrionklhptz
IPS – Indictment of Iran for ’94 Terror Bombing Relied on MEK | Inter Press Service
Canada took in 11 members of MEK, while still officially listed as "terrorist" group

Muslim Brotherhood

Cold War alliances and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt | Current Events Inquiry
How the US Engendered Islamic Extremism
Washington’s Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood by Ian Johnson | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Muslim Brotherhood (subtitled) - YouTube
Muslim Brotherhood Interview (English Subtitles) - YouTube
Islamists for the free market | Current Events Inquiry
DIA analysis foreshadows Brotherhood tactics in Syria in present revolt, 30 years later
Egypt: Brotherhood Targets Trade Unions | Al Akhbar English
How the Muslim Brotherhood Hijacked Syria's Revolution - By Hassan Hassan | Foreign Policy
Out of the Ashes | The Majalla Magazine

Daesh = USA

Casual reminder that Israeli establishment views ISIS as bulwark against Iran and Shia influence | Current Events Inquiry

Secularists and Islamists in the Maghreb: The Dangers of Polarization : Tunisia Live
Political Islam in the Service of Imperialism :: Monthly Review
From Arab Spring to Sunni Spring? » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The Political Economy of Islamist Social Movements in Egypt and Turke
How Israel Empowers Islamist Movements » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas - WSJ.com
Annals of National Security: The Redirection : The New Yorker
Al-Qaeda’s Air Force « what's left
Author of “sharia” report served as a spokesman for Bosnian Muslim war effort | Current Events Inquiry
Salafis 101: 5 key facts - Saud spends money spreading it in other countries- CSMonitor.com
The struggle for hegemony in the Muslim world « what's left
Political Islam's Fellow Travelers - WSJ
Weapons Sent to Libyan Rebels With U.S. Approval Fell Into Islamist Hands - NYTimes.com
How Saudi petrodollars fuel rise of Salafism - MUSLIM WORLD - FRANCE 24
‘Recruiter’ of UK jihadis: I regret opening the way to Isis | World news | The Guardian

Killing insurgents works 32% of the time. Addressing their motives works 73%
See Bottom of Page 39 -Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Strategic Communication
Why he (Osama Bin Laden) hated us | Current Events Inquiry
World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
Myth and Denial in the War Against Terrorism: Just why do terrorists terrorize?
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Document Friday: State Department Poll in Pakistan Showed “Strong and Growing Public Support for Taliban”… IN NOVEMBER 2001. « UNREDACTED
The Crime of Making Americans Aware of Their Own History » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Over 1000 students apply to change major to nuclear physics, engineering - Tehran Times
US Wikileaks cable recommends using sectarianism to topple governments
In valley where SEALs died, U.S. raids boost Taliban support | McClatchy
Ex-Senators Graham and Kerrey See Possible Saudi 9/11 Link - NYTimes.com
Understanding Muslim Anger at America
How US Hubris Baited Afghan Trap | Consortiumnews
Drone strikes in Yemen: US expert from the CIA warns of anti-western sentiment | guardian.co.uk
Iraq 101: The Iraq Effect - The War in Iraq and Its Impact on the War on Terrorism - Pg. 1 | Mother Jones
In Yemen, U.S. airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaeda - The Washington Post
America's Bad Press in Yemen | PRI's The World
NYT: Bush administration ignored more terror warnings before 9/11 than previously thought - Lean Forward
US drones "terrorize" communities: Report | Al Akhbar English
Decade of US 'War on Terror' Yields More 'Terrorism' | Common Dreams
Taliban popular where U.S. waged biggest battle - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
Civilian Casualties Create New Enemies, Study Confirms | Danger Room | Wired.com
Sheik Salem, a muslim cleric in Yemen who preached against al-qaeda, blown up by drone strike

The IMF

THE IMF RAVAGES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ETHIOPIA IS THE PROOF
Political Forecasting? The IMF’s Flawed Growth Projections for Argentina and Venezuela | Reports
The IMF and the WORLD BANK: Puppets of the Neoliberal Onslaught
Defaulting rescued Argentina. It could work for Athens too | Business | The Observer
Jamaica Remains Buried Under a Mountain of Debt, Despite Restructuring | Op-Eds & Columns
South America Unites Against "Irresponsible Debtors" in the North - IPS ipsnews.net
Sowing the Seeds of Famine in Ethiopia
New York Times Op-Ed Page Shuts Out IMF/World Bank Critics
Budhoo/IMF - Resignation from the IMF
BBC News - IMF's Peter Doyle scorns its 'tainted' leadership
Profiting From Genocide: The World Bank's Bloody History in Guatemala
Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: An Interview with John Perkins :: Monthly Review
Life and Debt | SnagFilms
Reasons to doubt official economic forecasts | Ben Chu | Independent Chunomics Blogs
New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia

The Narcosphere

Cocaine Importation Agency?

the drug war is still a front for letting CIA-favored dealers control the market
Anti-Drug Unit of C.I.A. Sent Ton of Cocaine to U.S. in 1990 - New York Times
IPS – Mexican Official: CIA ‘Manages’ Drug Trade | Inter Press Service
Son of top DHS border cop busted for running cocaine | The Raw Story
Mass Murders Are On The Rise | Psychology Today
US intelligence assets in Mexico reportedly tied to murdered DEA agent | Fox News
DEA Case Threatens to Expose US Government-Sanctioned Drug-Running | the narcosphere
Exclusive: U.S. Navy SEAL Smuggled 10 Kilos Of Cocaine Into Miami
History 101: The CIA & Drugs | Mother Jones

Fast and Furious

Not So Fast on Fast & Furious
Lawmakers Doth Protest Too Much over ATF’s Fast and Furious Scandal | the narcosphere
Fast and Furious Is One Among Many Similar Drug-War Warts | the narcosphere
ATF’s Fast and Furious Seems Colored With Shades of Iran/Contra Scandal | the narcosphere
White House received emails about Fast and Furious gun operation - latimes.com
U.S.-Backed Programs Supplying the Firepower for Mexico’s Soaring Murder Rate | the narcosphere
White House ATF Fast and Furious Emails and Documents | Public Intelligence
Was Former DEA Agent Jailed for Exposing ATF Arms Trafficking? | the narcosphere

Pot Boiler

Exclusive: Police Unions, Rehab Owners Tainted With Sex Abuse Scandal Mount Effort To Stop Colorado From Legalizing Marijuana
Pot Boiler
Three Good Reasons Why People of Color Should Question the Drug Legalization Movement | People Of Color Organize!
GOP Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Is Bankrolling Opposition to Pot Legalization in Colorado | The Nation
The West goes to pot - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Bolivia Reduces Coca Plantings by Licensing Growers - NYTimes.com

Do the United States and Mexico Really Want the Drug War To Succeed? :: Monthly Review
Opium, Cocaine and Marijuana in American History
The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11
AFP: Mexico drug plane used for US 'rendition' flights: report
CIA, US Military Operating Inside Mexico’s “Drug War”
US-Trained Assassin Teams Now Deployed in Drug War | the narcosphere
US Government Accused of Seeking to Conceal Deal Cut With Sinaloa “Cartel” | the narcosphere
U.S. Drug Agents Launder Profits of Mexican Cartels - NYTimes.com
Zambada Niebla Case Exposes US Drug War Quid Pro Quo | the narcosphere
Afghanistan's Kandahar Airfield an alleged heroin hotbed | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
Mexico government sought to withhold drug war death statistics - latimes.com
Drugs and Business: Central America Faces Another Round of Violence | North American Congress on Latin America
Central America murder rate near crisis point: U.N. | Reuters
Narco News: US, Mexican Officials Brokering Deals with Drug “Cartels,” WikiLeaks Documents Show
Mexican Special Forces Employed as Death Squads in Drug War, Email Records Released by WikiLeaks Reveal | the narcosphere
David Henry Sterry: Mexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers For Keeping Drugs Illegal
State Dept. confirms Honduras’ key role in the Latin American drug trade | Current Events Inquiry
Mexican drug cartels increasingly hire US military servicemen as assassins — RT USA
Mexican drug cartel activity in U.S. said to be exaggerated in widely cited federal report - The Washington Post
U.S. Drug Agents Launder Profits of Mexican Cartels - The New York Times

The United Nations

US on UN Veto: "Disgusting," "Shameful," "Deplorable," "a Travesty" . . . . Really?
The United Nations Security Council: An Organization for Injustice
How the U.S. Manipulates Key U.N. Appointments - IPS ipsnews.net
U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel
Rebels say holding 52 peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur | Reuters
Threats Against Iran are Criminal Under International Law: Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Reprimands Ban Ki-moon | News Beacon Ireland
Articles 21-27 are usually ignored for some strange reason
New Left Review - Justin Podur: Kofi Annan's Haiti, actively aiding the US-backed coup
Boutros Boutros-Ghali - not nominated for second term as UN Secretary General because of his "reluctance on approving NATO bombing in Bosnia (something that Kofi Annan supported) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IPS – U.N. Increasingly Reliant on Private Security Contractors | Inter Press Service
Southern Times-A court for the savages
The ICC: The Empire's Court | Black Agenda Report
WikiLeaked U.S. Cables Paint Portrait of Brutal, Ineffectual and Polluting UN Force
Massacres Under the Looking Glass » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
KryssTal : USA Vetos in the UN
US Position on International Treaties
‘Survival sex’: How NGOs and peacekeepers exploit women in war | Women Under Siege Project
Every single person indicted by the “International Criminal Court” is an African
Peacekeepers gone wild: How much more abuse will the UN ignore in Congo? - The Globe and Mail

AFRICOM

Neo-Colonialism

Colonizers Don't Pay Taxes

Global Financial Integrity - Reports - Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries Over the Decade Ending 2009 - Overview
PERI: : Capital Flight from Sub-Saharan African Countries: Updated Estimates, 1970 - 2010
Tax Justice Network: New estimates: Sub Saharan African countries lost $814bn in capital flight
New report: Staggering Levels of Capital Flight from North African Countries Uncovered
Africa Lost 1.6 Trillion in Capital Flight and Odious Debt Over Forty Years
illicit capital flight composes ten times the amount of aid that african countries get and two times their debt service payments each year

Special Investigation: Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa | oaklandinstitute.org
BBC News - Hedge funds 'grabbing land' in Africa
US universities in Africa 'land grab' | World news | The Guardian
Meet The Millionaires And Billionaires Suddenly Buying Tons Of Land In Africa
A political history of Africa since 1900 - interactive | Global development | guardian.co.uk
The toxic residue of colonialism - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Stop Firestone | International Labor Rights Forum
Farmers' Networks Urge Government Action Against Land Grabbing - IPS ipsnews.net
Landgrabbing in Ethiopia: Legal Lease or Stolen Soil? - IPS ipsnews.net
The Rush for Oil in West Africa – The New Wild West? - IPS ipsnews.net
Dead Aid: More Kool Aid | Black Agenda Report
Pentagon expands U.S. role in Africa
Global land grab could trigger conflict, report says | Global development | guardian.co.uk
Rigged? The Scramble for Africa's Oil, Gas and Minerals.
How African governments allow farmers to be pushed off their land | Liz Alden Wily | Global development | guardian.co.uk
SEC wrestling with conflict minerals disclosure | Reuters
Hot global real estate: 416 land-grab deals - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch
Land Deal Brief: SOCFIN Land Investment in Sierra Leone | oaklandinstitute.org
Farmers Make Their Voices Heard on Large Land Investments in Sierra Leone | oaklandinstitute.org
World Bank Overseeing Global Land Grab - IPS ipsnews.net
ILC Launches Framing the Debate Series on Land Governance | International Land Coalition
IPS – Iowa Firm Accused of Displacing Tanzanians for Profit | Inter Press Service
Liberian forests to be flattened by secret logging contracts | Global Witness
GRAIN — Land grabbing and food sovereignty in West and Central Africa
Protest at the great African land grab - Telegraph
Land deals in Africa have led to a wild west – bring on the sheriff, says FAO | Global development | guardian.co.uk
Gertler Earns Billions as Mine Deals Fail to Enrich Congo - Businessweek
Conflict diamonds, Israeli settlements and the Lieberman-Gertler connection | Current Events Inquiry
Coca-Cola accused of propping up notorious Swaziland dictator | World news | The Guardian
Twenty-First-Century Land Grabs: Accumulation by Agricultural Dispossession :: Monthly Review
Global Financial Integrity - Illicit Financial Flows from Africa: Hidden Resource for Development

Congo

Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth
Second Rwanda genocide is revealed in Congo - World news - Africa - msnbc.com
Official UN Mapping Exercise Report
Judgment Day for Rwanda - By James Traub | Foreign Policy
KILLING THEM SOFTLY: HAS FOREIGN AID TO RWANDA AND UGANDA CONTRIBUTED TO THE HUMANITARIAN TRAGEDY IN THE DRC?
U.S. Supporting Rwanda as it Destabilizes the Congo — Again (note that Monbiot makes no mention of this) | Accuracy.Org
U.S. Military and Corporate Recolonization of Congo - Pastebin.com
U.S. African and Mideast Policies: War As Foreign Aid and Regime Change As Democratic Transition | Davey D's Hip Hop Corner
U.S. a factor in six million Congo deaths » peoplesworld

Eritrea

Eritrean leader says U.S. behind Ethiopia raids | Reuters
To understand Eritrea's SOVEREIGN RIGHT to levy taxes for development - avoiding dependency on aid - read prg. 35

Libya

Lockerbie

The Bombing of PanAm Flight 103 -- Case Not Closed
William Blum :: Anti-Empire Report, Number 73
Lockerbie relatives urge inquiry into 'suppressed evidence' | UK news | The Guardian
Lockerbie Doubts | Common Dreams
UN Claims Lockerbie Trial Was Rigged
gulfnews : Was Libya framed for Lockerbie bombing?
Lockerbie exclusive: we publish the report that could have cleared Megrahi | Herald Scotland
NTC sell outs violate their own promises, and bow to serve US and UK on Lockerbie - case closed already

Post-Gaddafi

Consulate Attack

Amb. Christopher Stevens

Amb. Chris Stevens, lynched by Benghazi mob, played active role in regime change and assistance to TNC
Allies Clash on Libya Stalemate - WSJ.com
Rebels divided over what would replace Gadhafi | Seattle Times Newspaper
Glossy State Dep't pub reveals"diplomat" Chris Stevens as leader of covert regime change mission in #Libya. Same State Dep't pub has photo of "diplomatic security agent" training NTC fighters in use of automatic weapons.
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria - Business Insider

Sam Bacile

The Coptic Christian in California behind the anti-Islamic film - CSMonitor.com
the actors in the "film" were not union
Meet The Right-Wing Extremist Behind Anti-Muslim Film That Sparked Deadly Riots
‘Innocence of Muslims’ filmmaker was a federal informant — RT

WHAT THE FUCK

R.I.P. VILE RAT - YouTube
11:30 HILARY CLINTON SAYS SEAN SMITH IMPORTANT TO GAMERS WHAT THE FUCKKKK
Glenn Beck Thinks EVE Online is a Front for the CIA

Revealed: inside story of US envoy's assassination - World Politics - World - The Independent
Benghazi Attack. Libya’s Green Resistance Did It… And NATO Powers Are Covering Up | Global Research (possible?)
U.S. officials: Attack on consulate in Libya may have been planned - The Washington Post
Glen Doherty, Security Officer Killed In Libya Attack, Fought Religious Proselytizing In Military
al-Qaeda: US ambassador is vengeance for al-Libi | euronews, world news
no protest, no slogans, just out of the blue
Hardcore Islamist militia suspected in US Consulate attack in Libya but too powerful to touch
Ambassador Murder Preceded By Monthly Attacks On Diplomatic Targets
Libya officials, past attacks contradict U.S. Benghazi narrative - Jersey City Civil Rights | Examiner.com
Libya - Doomed from Day One
NY Times: The US embassy in Benghazi housed a dozen CIA operatives training Libya's new intelligence services etc
Security concerns keep FBI from scene of ambassador's murder: Official - Yahoo! News
David Ignatius: Benghazi intelligence revealed - The Washington Post
White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack: emails | Reuters
News Outlets Held Back Detail Of Benghazi Attack At CIA's Request
Petraeus mistress reveals real motive behind Benghazi attack (VIDEO) — RT

LIBYA: NTC'S JALIL SAYS COLONIALISM BETTER THAN GADDAFI :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [reg.de]
IPS – Human Rights Worse After Gaddafi | Inter Press Service
Libyan Central Bank ready to accept IMF „aid money“ to rebuild what NATO destroyed « Huey3man
Wiping Tawerghans off the face of the planet | Current Events Inquiry
LIBYA: Dreaming of a Future After Gaddafi - IPS ipsnews.net
Leaked UN report reveals torture, lynchings and abuse in post-Gaddafi Libya - Africa - World - The Independent
Destroying Libya’s Welfare State » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Tension at Libyan Embassy, 6 December 2011 Tuesday 15:1
Meet the architect of the new Libya - The Washington Post
New Libyan government shows true colours; mercenaries welcome — Antony Loewenstein
Libyan scramble for £100bn in assets fractures the peace at Tripoli airport | World news | The Observer
Libya Tripoli Holocaust The Rise Of Natioism – What Al Jazeera and CNN did not tell you « LIBYA AGAINST SUPER POWER MEDIA
Muslim Brotherhood Strongest Contender in Libya’s Coming Elections » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
State Dept. refuses to take position on lynching of Gaddafi: “It’s really up to the Libyan people to decide” | Current Events Inquiry
AFP: Libya number two flees protest in Benghazi
When #Assad says he will "strike with an iron fist", outrage; when Libya NTC says it? SILENCE
#Libya: The 1% Taking Back Properties #Gaddafi Confiscated & Redistributed to Poor Libyans
Libyan militias accused of torturing detainees | World news | guardian.co.uk
Libya: Blacks treated like Apes in the Zoo by rebels - YouTube
Libya Plans Law to Return Qaddafi Land, Buildings to Owners - Bloomberg
Al Qaeda parade in Sirte
Waiting for al-Qaeda | VICE News | VICE
Protest in Benghazi at public property grabs | Libya Herald
Gaddafi’s bodyguard reveals rape, torture and murder by NTC | The London Evening Post
Libya bans 'glorification' of Moamer Kadhafi regime - Yahoo! News
Libya drops ban on religion-based parties | Top News | Reuters
IRIN Middle East | LIBYA: In #Libya, some of the detained #migrants are now exploited as laborers, farmed out to employers by detention centers
Amnesty International Condemns Libyan Law Restricting Freedom of Speech as “Eerie Reminder” of Gaddafi Era | Amnesty International USA
AFP: Libya grants immunity to 'revolutionaries'
Insight: In muddle of Libya's finances, billions go missing | Top News | Reuters
‘I am a modern-day slave’: Sub-Saharan Africans in Libya at Livewire – Amnesty International blogging for human rights
Libya detains International Criminal Court lawyer over documents - CNN.com
SONS OF MALCOLM: (this is literal) GADAFI HELD BACK THE LOCUSTS WHICH ARE DEVASTATING AFRICA
"The militias have entered the suburbs [of Bani Walid] with bulldozers and have begun to demolish homes without reason,"
"I was in opposition to Gaddafi and was imprisoned in Abu Salim prison for a long time, but I regret every moment I opposed Gaddafi after what I have seen here."
IRIN Africa | Chadian migrants [still] rue Libyan detention, ill-treatment, deportation | Chad | Conflict | Human Rights | Migration
Christians in Libya being rounded up and beaten - Telegraph
Libya's militarized youth feed into economic woes
A woman's world in post-revolution Libya? | Middle East | DW.DE | 17.02.2014

Pre-Fake Revolution

The Standard of Living in Libya – compilation of data, studies, articles and videos | Global Civilians For Peace In Libya
Boots Riley, "NATO Has Assassinated Gaddafi -- Now the Puppets Can Dance"
Gadhafi’s crime: Making Libya’s economy work for Libyans « what's left
Libya : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
Free housing: Gaddafi "called on poor Libyans to claim their rights to public housing"
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review* Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
The lives of Women in Col. Gaddafi’s Libya « The prison gates are open…
Gaddafi’s Oppressions « what's left
Destroying a Country's Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed
Tuaregs left #Libya before fall of Gaddafi, and refused to fight the rebels = a final end to another myth
Memoir: Life in Gaddafi's Libya by Nazar Abbas
profs who support change and are bold enough to speak or write about it are generally tolerated
Mandela <3 Gaddafi (with tweets) · KFRIGGINMONEY · Storify
Gaddafi's Libya Was Africa 's Most Prosperous Democracy By Garikai Chengu

Those NATO Proletarians

Mounting evidence of CIA ties to Libyan rebels
Luis Rumbaut, "NATO's Rebel Forces"
Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia | McClatchy
Canadian pilots "joked" they were "Al Qaeda's Air Force"
Libya: al-Qaeda among Libya rebels, Nato chief fears - Telegraph
Libyan “Rebel Commander” Gives Interview Describing His Connections With Al-Qaeda | Public Intelligence
Ironically, the U.S. turned around and helped the Libyan opposition overthrow Gaddafi in 2011. Now several of the 14 former detainees hold positions in the new Libyan government.

The Top Ten Myths in the War Against Libya » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
An acceptable distortion: The lies that lead to war in Libya | Current Events Inquiry
Defense.gov - DoD admits there's no evidence of Gaddafi bombing protestors
Gaddafi vs Africom and the recolonisation of Africa - YouTube
Human rights groups: charges against Gaddafi unsupported by evidence
"Libya, Africa, and the New World Order: An Open Letter to the Peoples of Africa and the World from Concerned Africans"
Wikileaks - Re: INSIGHT - US/UK/French view on Libya operation | UK motivation driven by "energy interests"
William Blum :: Anti-Empire Report, Number 97
Is Libya about to get the Serbia treatment? | Current Events Inquiry
Yeah… | Current Events Inquiry
Libya all about oil, or central banking?
The James Petras website » Libya and Obama’s Defense of the “Rebel Uprising”
Free Libya
Oh and by the way, the #Libya militias really DID use anti-aircraft guns against unarmed civilian children
NATO Airstrikes in Libya - Video Library - The New York Times
Collective punishment against the people of Libya | Current Events Inquiry
The James Petras website » The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics
Libya, 2011 and Nicaragua, 1984: Everything old is new again | Current Events Inquiry
Many People in Tripoli still want Gaddafi and fear the Armed Rebels (September 15, 2011) - YouTube
BBC News - Libyan rebels 'sign oil export deal with Qatar'
Leaked UN and NATO Plans for Libya: Lessons for Iranians - Tehran Bureau | FRONTLINE | PBS
The Gaddafi Mercenaries and the Division of Africa - YouTube
Too many powers wanted Gaddafi dead - NTC head — RT
Cash for access: The Tory donor who profited from links with Libyan rebels - Telegraph
Africa for the Africans: U.S.-Euro forces out of Libya and Cote d’Ivoire | San Francisco Bay View
ZCommunications | Western Multinationals Enabled Qaddafi's Suppression of Libyans by Paul Mutter | ZNet Article
Rape, Mercenaries, And Bloodbaths On The Scale Of Yemen? The Media Blank Amnesty's Failure To Find Evidence In Libya
LIBYA: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency on Vimeo
ZCommunications | Gilbert Achcar's Defense of Humanitarian Intervention by Edward s. Herman | ZNet Article
The shock doctrine: The unwritten Libya chapter | GulfNews.com
Libya: SAS veterans helping Nato identify Gaddafi targets in Misrata | World news | The Guardian
Lessons from Libya: How Not to Intervene - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"the proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians ...was not supported by the available evidence."

Mali

Leader of Mali military coup received US training - KansasCity.com
EUobserver.com / Foreign Affairs / Mali coup is 'spill-over' from EU-led war in Libya
Militarized by the West, Mali suffers a coup d'etat | rabble.ca
Why are Mali's Rural Peasants Supporting the Coup? | Think Africa Press
U.S. -- Hands Off Mali! | War Is A Crime .org
Mysterious fatal crash provides rare glimpse of U.S. commandos in Mali - The Washington Post
W/out defining any objective, WP wants US-backed intervention in Mali "as soon as possible."
IRIN Africa | MALI: Islamists lure back northerners | Mali | Children | Conflict | Economy | Food Security | Refugees/IDPs | Sahel Crisis | Security
IRIN Africa | Analysis: Sahel crisis - lessons to be learnt | Burkina Faso | Mali | Mauritania | Niger | Nigeria | Chad | Aid Policy | Early Warning | Environment | Food Security | Governance | Health & Nutrition | Water & Sanitation
How Washington helped foster the Islamist uprising in Mali -- New Internationalist
PressTV - France displays unhinged hypocrisy as bombs fall on Mali
Mali: Ansar al Dine leader in Mali used to be "our man", says German intel - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Mali Intervention Called a Success...Corpses of Civilians Poisoning Wells.

Nigeria

General strike rocks Nigeria | SocialistWorker.org
Developing Story 2:Militants Surround Oil Platforms, Articles | THISDAY LIVE
Embassy cables reveal Western complicity in Nigerian oil conflicts: TBIJ

Rwanda

Tony Black: Imperialism, a coup d'etat, and the Rwandan 'genocide' | rabble.ca
Edward S. Herman: "Adam Jones on Rwanda and Genocide: A Reply"
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System :: Monthly Review
The Taylor Report - Rwanda 1994: Colonialism dies hard
DRC: More Evidence of Rwanda's Rebel Support (THANKS TO SUSAN RICE) | Think Africa Press
ZCommunications | Paul Kagame: “Our Kind of Guy” by Edward Herman | ZNet Article
Hotel Rwanda Revisited: an Interview with Paul Rusesabagina » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
French Government Exposed in Rwanda’s Genocide | The Espresso Stalinist
Is Rwanda the Israel of Africa? | Mondoweiss
Canadian lawyer wins legal battle over Rwanda charges | Toronto Star
THE RWANDAN CRISIS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF FRANCE
Assassination in Africa: Inside the plots to kill Rwanda’s dissidents - The Globe and Mail
BBC: Rwanda's Untold Story

Somalia

U.S. Company Trains African Troops in Somalia - NYTimes.com
A U.S.-Made Catastrophe: Most of the Blame for the Crisis in Somalia Goes to the U.S. | Black Agenda Report
Ignoring Non-Islamic Culprits in Somalia Famine
Somalia promises west oil riches as diplomats vow to defeat al-Shabaab | World news | The Observer
Somalia’s Prisons: The War on Terror’s Latest Front - The Daily Beast
U.S. is the driving force behind the fighting in Somalia - latimes.com
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: "Somalia’s Election Farce"
The truth about Somali Pirates
U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords in Somalia

South Africa

Here’s some pieces on #neoliberalism in post-apartheid South Africa
Press Releases related to the #Lonmin shooting incident
Daily Maverick - The murder fields of Marikana. The cold murder fields of Marikana.
Elite South African Police Officers Attend Special Forces Training in the United States | Embassy of the United States
BBC News - South African Marikana miners charged with murder
Apartheid never died in South Africa. It inspired a world order upheld by force and illusion

Sudan and South Sudan

Darfur

Yoshie Furuhashi, "Who Wants Peace in Darfur?"

IRIN Africa | SUDAN: Feeling the pinch | Sudan | Economy | Governance
IRIN Africa | SOUTH SUDAN: Briefing – life without oil | Sudan | South Sudan | Conflict | Economy | Food Security | Governance | Refugees/IDPs | Security
South Sudan's dreams slipping away already - latimes.com
The Sudan and South Sudan
The Failed State Lobby - By Alan Boswell | Foreign Policy

Tunisia

TUNISIA: Neo-Liberalism the Issue, Not Islam - IPS ipsnews.net
Report: Mossad bolsters activity in Tunisia - Israel News, Ynetnews
Tunisia. Makthar welcomes President Marzouki with "Long live Ben Ali!"
Tunisia's Islamists attack union activists | Al Akhbar English

Uganda

Dog and Kony Show

African voices respond to hyper-popular Kony 2012 viral campaign - Boing Boing
Taking ‘Kony 2012′ Down A Notch | Justice in Conflict
Invisible Children and Joseph Kony « Wanderings
Resist, Seriously please don't support Invisible Children INC. Anymore....
Serious aid workers see Invisible Children as self-promoters; Ugandans find them "ridiculous."
We got trouble. - Visible Children - KONY 2012 Criticism
Obama takes on the LRA | Foreign Affairs
Demand Nothing | KONY 2012 – Making Invisible Visible Part 2
NGO behind “Stop Kony” campaign helped Ugandan government foil alleged “treason” plot | Current Events Inquiry
How Invisible Children Falsely Marketed The LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act
Worst Idea Ever? see comment| Wronging Rights
Jason Russell and Alex Harris - "We view ourselves as a company"
Unmuted | You Don't Have My Vote
How a Ugandan warlord went viral in 24 hours - The Globe and Mail
Jason Russell | PMC Magazine
Acholi Street. Stop #Kony2012. Invisible Children’s campaign of infamy « Angelo Opi-aiya Izama
Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) - By Michael Wilkerson | FP Passport
KONY 2012, Invisible Children’s Pro-AFRICOM and Museveni Propaganda « Huey3man
LRA has only 250 soldiers
Joseph Kony 2012: It's fine to 'Stop Kony' and the LRA. But Learn to Respect Africans. - CSMonitor.com
Demand Nothing | KONY 2012: Making The Invisible Visible
Think Twice Before Donating to Kony 2012, the Charitable Meme du Jour
Invisible Children "Kony 2012" Leader Suggests It's About Jesus and Evangelizing | Media | AlterNet
Open letter to Jason Russell CEO of Invisible Children Inc on KONY2012
Dangerous ignorance: The hysteria of Kony 2012 - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
| Tax Forms Show Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right
Kony screening provokes anger in Uganda - Africa - Al Jazeera English
I Just Traced Invisible Children Back To Watergate. « Media Darlings
David Vine: Yes, Let's #STOPKONY, But What Happens If the Bad Guy Is Us?
Truth Wins Out - TWO EXCLUSIVE: Invisible Children Promoted By Jason Russell As God’s “Trojan Horse”
Invisible Children, Makers of KONY2012, Spied For Ugandan Regime ---WikiLeaks

Oil in Uganda
War Nerd Classic: Altar Boy Vs. Altar Boy In Uganda: The Lord’s Resistance Army & Joseph Kony - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled
Behind the Mask | The Voice of Africa's LGBTI Community – UGANDA: ARMY OFFICER PAVES WAY FOR RETURN OF ANTI-GAY BILL TO PARLIAMENT
U.S. Advisers to Aid in Fight Against Lord’s Resistance Army - NYTimes.com
UGANDA: Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony’s War - IPS ipsnews.net
allAfrica.com: Uganda Is the Cheapest Place to Find Oil in the World

Zimbabwe

PSLweb.org: U.S., EU officials castigate Zimbabweans for Mugabe's victory
In Zimbabwe Land Takeover, a Golden Lining - NYTimes.com
Lydia Polgreen Is Taking Questions on Race Relations and Farming in Zimbabwe - NYTimes.com
Support for Zimbabwe’s Opposition Party Has Declined, Study Says - NYTimes.com
allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: President Mugabe Deserves More Credit
Britain's Mugabe-phobia has obscured the good news from Zimbabwe | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
IRIN Africa | A new take on land reform in Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | Economy | Food Security | Governance | Security
Why Mugabe is our hero
Wikileaks cable revealed NGO now attacking Zimbabwe election results is funded and controlled by USAID and NDI
Mugabe party vows to boost black ownership of Zimbabwe economy "…adding to investors' concerns" - Yahoo! News

RESIST AFRICOM - YouTube
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Walter Rodney 1973
State Impunity in Central Africa -The USA Is Opposed to the African Spring
Google teams up with AFRICOM
Let Them Eat Cake
Why so much bad reporting on Africa?
The imperial agenda of the US's 'Africa Command' marches on | Dan Glazebrook | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Why African LGBTI communities should say NO! to US imperialism.
Tomgram: Nick Turse, America's Shadow Wars in Africa | TomDispatch
US General: American Military Spies 'Across Africa' — abcnews.go.com — Readability
Kenyans take Britain to court over colonial-era torture - latimes.com
Africa's wealth is being devoured by tyrants and vultures | World news | The Observer
Exposing U.S. Agents of Low Intensity Warfare in Africa | Dissident Voice
The Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa | Mother Jones
allAfrica.com: Africa: Dismantle AFRICOM! - General Carter Ham Makes the Case?

CENTCOM

Afghanistan

Operation Cyclone and Before

Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
How The CIA Helped Create Osama Bin Laden | News One
The debunked myths (on the Taliban) — RT
Afghanistan: The Gallant Struggle - YouTube
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog on Afghanistan
CRG -- The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Ideology and Electricity: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan | The Nation
The Helmand Valley Project
1960s Afghanistan - Imgur
Afghanistan during 1960s - YouTube
Afghan Communist song - YouTube
hillary clinton speaks rather candidly about operation cyclone and blowback (with some distortions)
Forgotten Coverage of Afghan ‘Freedom Fighters’ — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

Sgt. Bales and the Coverup

AP: US Soldiers Promised Massacre, Including Children, Days Before Bales' Alleged Rampage :: www.uruknet.info :: informazione dal medio oriente :: information from middle east :: [vs-1]
Western forces kill 16 civilians in Afghanistan: Kabul government | Reuters
Afghan massacre: 'no single soldier would have been allowed outside the compound, heavily armed with a vehicle'
TALIBAN DOUBTS 'BLOOD-SOAKED' CRIME WORK OF ONE SOLDIER
Afghans Skeptical Over Shooting Account - TIME
Nearly 20 Soldiers May Have Been Involved in Afghan Massacre | Public Intelligence
World News - Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone
Afghan witness says more than one US soldier participated in massacre | World news | guardian.co.uk

OBL

Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Author of “No Easy Day” Admits to Committing a War Crime
Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace: The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig - World - News - The Independent
OBL puff piece from 1993
Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden: "Is this the best thing I’ve ever done, or the worst thing I’ve ever done?” — RT

Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender (read: extradite) bin Laden - Asia, World - The Independent
Taliban 'offered bin Laden trial before 9/11' - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
Massacres are the Inevitable Result of Foreign Occupation | Common Dreams
March Forward! - Afghanistan war myths
King David's War | Rolling Stone Politics
General Stanley McTerror: The Shocking Admissions the Media Treated as Unremarkable « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read | Michael Hastings | Rolling Stone
Tomgram: Alfred McCoy, Afghanistan as a Drug War | TomDispatch
Ninety Percent of Petraeus's Captured "Taliban" Were Civilians - IPS ipsnews.net
U.N. Reported Only a Fraction of Civilian Deaths from U.S. Raids - IPS ipsnews.net
Andropov Was Right by Tariq Ali | ZNet Article
U.S. gives Viagra to Afghan warlords in return for vital Taliban intelligence | Mail Online
AFP: Afghan war violence up nearly 40 percent: UN
BBC News - UN publishes Afghanistan prisoner 'torture' report
The ‘Dirty Secrets’ that Purify a Dirty War: A Colonial Tale of Dancing Boys, a Journalist, and the Human Terrain System in Afghanistan « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
Heroin production in Afghanistan has RISEN 61% | Mail Online
400 people displaced every day in Afghanistan - Telegraph
Stress and gripes, not Taliban, drive Afghan insider attacks: NATO - Yahoo! News
Opposition Parties Claim Karzai is Strengthening the Taliban to Consolidate Political Power | Public Intelligence
Marine Corps manual offers a blunt, revealing portrait of Afghan war - The Washington Post
“These criminal groups were created and trained by the occupying American forces in an attempt to lower the number of American casualties and to improve security,”
US suspends training of Afghan local police force (makes you wonder if they really intend for troops to leave?) – The Express Tribune
Gen. David Petraeus: We Can't Leave Afghanistan Now, They Have Trillions of Dollars of Minerals - YouTube
IPS – Broadwell Defended Petraeus’ Village Destruction Policy | Inter Press Service
No US peace dividend after Afghanistan - FT.com
Afghanistan’s Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis (funny, I thought people could only starve under communism?)
Afghanistan Corruption Fostered by U.S., Pentagon Finds - Bloomberg

Bahrain

Al-Qaeda flags raised in pro-government protest
British cop heads oppressions in Bahrain - YouTube
Meet Bahrain’s Best Friend in Congress - ProPublica
How Bahrain Spends Millions To Spin The Press
Forgotten Bahrain | Al Akhbar English
As Obama OKs Weapons to Bahrain, Neurosurgeon Tortured by Regime Faces Trial for Treating Protesters
Amazing: Hundreds of Thousands refusing Bahraini Saudi Union - YouTube
Secret Clinics Tend to Bahrain’s Wounded (Because Obama's buddies put doctors in jail) - NYTimes.com
PressTV - Bahraini court to try 11-year-old boy
Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression? | Glenn Greenwald | World news | guardian.co.uk
US supported Saudi tanks in Bahrain in exchange for UAE backing against Libya
#Bahrain: The Clouds of Death - YouTube
Why didn't CNN's international arm air its own documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring repression? | Glenn Greenwald | World news | theguardian.com

Egypt

Statement by the Revolutionary Socialists 171211
Report shows that Salafists, Mubaraks, not April 6 Youth Movement, receive millions in foreign funding - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online
The GOP Brotherhood of Egypt - Egypt - Salon.com
U.S. Restores Aid to Egypt in Move Favoring American Industry - NYTimes.com
Khairat Shater is revising #MB's "internal teaching materials to reflect a more tolerant stance toward #Israel"
Egypt's Looming Economic Shock Doctrine | The Nation
EGYPT: 'Invisible Hand’ Playing With Sectarian Fire - IPS ipsnews.net
Egypt's government: designed for dictatorship - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
An Arab Citizen - مواطن عربي: One By One: Why Were These 10 Egyptian Presidential Candidates Disqualified
The Delicate Tightrope of Supporting a Dictator
The Field: Tahrir and Beyond: Ten Days That Shook My World
Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Hosni Mubarak - by Elizabeth Dickinson | Foreign Policy
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Newsweek's Nostalgia for Arab Dictatorships
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Defining a Dictatorship: The U.S. Role in Egypt
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » We're (Anonymously) With You! WaPo Touts U.S. Support for Arab Democracy
Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated - Alexis Madrigal - International - The Atlantic
Egypt's youth unites against the old guard - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Inside Story: Egypt's clash of religions - YouTube
Cairo on edge after deadly violence - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
In Egypt, corruption cases had an American root - The Washington Post
Egypt: Activist Detained for Inciting Violence | Pulitzer Center
Tearful Egyptian prime minister says economy ‘worse than anyone imagines’ - The Washington Post
‫ December: four days of the murder Four Days of Death in December ‬ - YouTube
Power of development - J. S. Crush - Google Books
Behind Jeers for Clinton in Egypt, a Conspiracy Theory With U.S. Roots - NYTimes.com
Why the Anti-Mursi Protesters Are Right | Middle East Research and Information Project

Iran

Iran Elections 2009

Iran: Why Workers Aren't Joining Green Protest Movement - TIME
Mir-Hossein Mousavi 'involved in massacre', says report | In an interview given to Austrian television in December 1988, Mr Mousavi tried to defend the mass executions of the prisoners, many of whom were members of the Marxist "Mojahedin Khalq" organisation, which opposed the Islamic regime established by Khomeini following the 1979 Iranian revolution (???)|- Telegraph
The Weird Hawkish Fixation on the Green Movement Protests | The American Conservative

Tehran '53

Wide Asleep in America: Argo's Asinine Auteur and his American Audience:Are We Hostages to Hollywood History?
CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup

American Enterprise Institute Admits The Problem With Iran Is Not That It Would Use Nukes | Political Correction
A Tiny Revolution: The Neoconservative Perspective on Iran
U.S. Rejected 2005 Iranian Offer Ensuring No Nuclear Weapons - IPS ipsnews.net
UN Inspector Scott Ritter: Fools would Bomb Iran - YouTube
U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb - NYTimes.com
Iran's nuclear program: 4 things you probably didn't know - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never said that Israel should be "wiped off the map." - CSMonitor.com
Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979. - Earliest warnings: 1979-84 - CSMonitor.com
Israelis critical of Netanyahu Iran-Holocaust comparison - CSMonitor.com
Mossad chief: Nuclear Iran not necessarily existential threat to Israel - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
IDF chief to Haaretz: I do not believe Iran will decide to develop nuclear weapons - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israel bombs Iran because 'Amid rising tensions, "the Iranians will crack at some point."' | The Envoy - Yahoo! News
IAEA's "Soviet Nuclear Scientist" Never Worked on Weapons - IPS ipsnews.net
The IAEA report: what does it really mean and will it lead to war with Iran? | World news | guardian.co.uk
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Reading the Iran Nuke Leaks
Olmert's Atomic Faux Pas: EU Demands Answers on Israeli Nukes - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
U.S. Plans Bomb Sales in Gulf to Counter Iran - WSJ.com
Another Iranian nuclear scientist murdered in Tehran - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Ex-Inspector Rejects IAEA Iran Bomb Test Chamber Claim - IPS ipsnews.net
The media and Iran: familiar mindlessness - Salon.com
‘They Found Nothing. Nothing.’
FAIR Blog » How Iran Assertions Turn Into 'Facts'
America, Israel and Iran - no way out - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
PolitiFact | Michele Bachmann says Iran has threatened to launch nuclear attack against Israel, United States
Sanctions on Iran: What’s Missing from Obama’s New Dialogue :: Monthly Review
Opinio Juris » Blog Archive » Is Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists Terrorism?
FAIR Blog » Iran and the Threat of Not Having Future Wars
When Iran and Israel were friendly - Salon.com
Iranians Overwhelmingly Reject Bin Laden - World Public Opinion
How to Help Iran Build a Bomb - NYTimes.com
Under the Tehran sky | Cover Story | Jewish Journal
ZCommunications | The Iran "Threat" In A Kafkaesque World: Addendum by David Peterson | ZNet Article
apparently someone at the Army's most senior military educational institution is telling his students the truth
Netanyahu: The Bibi Who Cried Wolf? | LibertyMcG
ADL Survey Shows Iran Least Anti-Semitic Middle East Country | IPS Writers in the Blogosphere

Iraq

Bush Lied

Newly declassified Pentagon doc on talking points in favor of invading Iraq
MI6 and CIA heard Iraq had no active WMD capability ahead of invasion | World news | guardian.co.uk
NYT's Iraq War History, Still Misleading
Wikileaks Shows Rumsfeld and Casey Lied about the Iraq War - The Daily Beast
Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war | World news | The Guardian
GOP Congressman Still Thinks Saddam Hussein Bought Uranium From Niger | ThinkProgress
War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal | UK news | The Guardian

Oh Saddam...

Arundhati Roy - Search for "genocidal"
The Washington Post's Gas Attack
Hopes and Prospects - Noam Chomsky - Page 128
The Military-Industrial-Media Complex
OFFICERS SAY U.S. AIDED IRAQ IN WAR DESPITE USE OF GAS - New York Times
Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran

The Horrors of Fallujah

U.S. Won't Let Men Flee Fallujah | Fox News
Fallujah: The Hidden Massacre | Watch Free Documentary Online
"The barbarians of Fallujah" by Matt Carr
Remember Falluja - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Four Polygamous Families with Congenital Birth Defects from Fallujah, Iraq
NEWS: Scientific study shows soaring cancer rates in Fallujah; DU suspected
The Babies Will Haunt Us by Kelley B. Vlahos -- Antiwar.com
Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' - Middle East - World - The Independent
``People are afraid of even looking out the window because of snipers...The Americans are shooting anything that moves.''
"the Marines can shoot whatever they see — it’s all considered hostile"
Evidence emerges that US military conducted mass executions in Fallujah | Current Events Inquiry
Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians

Iraq Casualty Count

A Million Iraqi Dead?

Second Soldier Alleges Former Tillman Commander Ordered "360 Rotational Fire" in Iraq
After Iraq's Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals
The myth of sectarianism (in Iraq)
Stop the presses, literally in Iraq
Torture Orders Were Part of U.S. Sectarian War Strategy - IPS ipsnews.net
U.S. silent as Iraqi regime cracks down - War Room - Salon.com
Will US Stay in Iraq To Protect Oil Interest?
Iraq and Public Opinion: The Troops Come Home - Pew Research Center
Education: Universities in Iraq and the U.S. | Costs of War
Scientist Who Destroyed Iraq’s Chemical Weapons the Last To Be Freed | emptywheel
Iraq turns to U.S. drones to protect oil platforms - chicagotribune.com
M of A - Policy Change: "Terrorists" Are Now "Insurgents"
‘Corrupt’ oil-rich Iraq unable to provide much-needed infrastructure
The hawks were wrong: Iraq is worse off now
Guardian Lays Out Details of How Petraeus Organized Death Squads in Iraq | emptywheel
Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil - CNN.com
From the Editors | Middle East Research and Information Project
U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies - New York Times
"citizens in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have quietly funneled vast sums of money to and joined the ranks of ISIS"
Iraq Sectarianism Spawned by U.S. War and Maliki’s Crushing of Peaceful Protests | Accuracy.Org
Baghdad Year Zero — Pillagine Iraq in Pursuit of a Neocon Utoptia
Why Al Gore would have invaded Iraq (and what it tells us about Syria) - The Globe and Mail

Saudi Arabia

The Growing Rebellion in Saudi Arabia | The Global Mail
The Gulf State Despots: Ten Facts about Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women | The Raw Story
WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists | World news | The Guardian

Syria

Chem Weapons Scares

Some U.S. military officials believe extremist rebel groups in Syria, possibly including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, may have used the chemical weapons in a bid to prod more direct action by the West against the Syrian government.
Jihadists, not Assad, apparently behind reported chemical attack in Syria - Middle East - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Threatwatch: Did Syria use chemical weapons or not? - Important lesson: Sarin does not cause foaming at the mouth - New Scientist
Turkey arrests 12 in raids on 'terrorist' organization | Reuters
BERLIN: New analysis of rocket used in Syria chemical attack undercuts U.S. claims | Syria | McClatchy DC

Asia Times Online :: A mistaken case for Syrian regime change
Spook's view: the wikileaks file on Syria
Adapting Authoritarianism: Thesis for Syria - Joshua Stacher
Assad Supporters - Syria - YouTube
Syrian activists to rebels: Give us our revolution back - CSMonitor.com
BRZEZINSKI spills the beans
The Plot Thickens: Ghalyoun's “Ill-Conceived” Statements in the WSJ Interview
Where is Your Strategy SNC? (no progress made) | Al-Ayyam – English Edition
Next, Syria
M of A - UN's Navi Pillay Makes Up Syrian Casualties Numbers
Syria's FM al-Muallem: Arab League is trying to Internationalize Syria crisis | See "Article 8" | NEWS | DayPress
Zuhayr Salim, Speaker of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria: »To hell with Syrian [identity]! We do not recognize Syria.«
'Human Rights' and the Road to Hell: Libya and Now Syria?
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Inventing Hizbullah sources who speak "candidly" and inciminatingly to Western reporters
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Mitch Prothero and his Hizbullah source
What Syria Deserves | they have "spoken in sectarian terms" KABOBfest
How CNN helped spread a hoax about Syrian babies dying in incubators | The Electronic Intifada
AGENT OF CHANGE • Response to Tariq Ali's incorrect statements about Syria
U.S. officials: Al Qaida behind Syria bombings | McClatchy
Iraq officials: Violence drops as al Qaida group moves to Syria
Iraq insurgents reject sending arms, fighters to Syria - AlertNet
Our foreign policy on Syria is the same as al-Qaeda's – something isn't right here – Telegraph Blogs
Why Are We Fighting On the Same Side with Al Qaeda?
AFP: In Syria, Al-Qaeda hopes to exploit continuing violence to gain a foothold
Libya ‘cannot stop’ fighters joining Syria rebels - FT.com
Syria: Armed Opposition Groups Committing Abuses | Human Rights Watch
Syria Tribune - What exactly is SFA?
In Syria, Lebanon’s Most Wanted Sunni Terrorist Blows Himself Up | Global Spin | TIME.com
Islamists Nearly Wipe Out Christians in Syrian City, Christian News
Tough times for Turks on border with Syria | World news | guardian.co.uk
U.N. gets reports of child soldiers with Syria rebels | Reuters
Syrian Citizens Set the Record Straight with BBC Journalist - YouTube
A huge Pro Assad rally from the heart of #Homs to show the observers what the terrorists don't want them to see
Mossad, Blackwater, CIA Led Operations in Homs
Turns out many quotable Syrian "opposition" reps are well-paid cogs in the Anglo-American opposition-creation business
Thirteen French officers 'captured by Syrian Army' - Telegraph
Wag The Dog - Media Caught Faking Syria News Reports - YouTube
Surprise Video Changes Syria "Timeline" MYTH BUSTED | Al Akhbar English
Official Arab League Observer Mission report
The observer Ahmed Manaï “The Arab League has buried the observers report on Syria” | "those who followed the TV that day..."
Twitter: Deir Ezzor LCC calls on FSA to STOP protecting demonstrators
Draft Constitution for the Syrian Arab Republic- SANA, Syria
Most Syrians back President Assad – but you'd never know from western media | Jonathan Steele | Comment is free | The Guardian
Deadlock over Syria: A changing opposition - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
Anti-Imperialist Syrians Speak Out | Veterans Today
Lebanon stops ship with Syria-bound weapons - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Inspiring chant in Syria: "Caliphate is what we want and martyrdom is what we seek" | 13 March
A member of the rebel Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the bombing, telling Reuters in Beirut that the car wash was used by members of a pro-Assad militia.
Homs Opposition: Al Farouq Battalion is Killing Us « Mideast Shuffle
Tunisian Islamists join jihad against Syria's Assad | Reuters
Syria reverses liberalization from before their upriing
Mines have "limited the work of smugglers noticeably."
thevoiceofsyria: OK this time I cannot help...
High-Tech Trickery in Homs? | Al Akhbar English
Joshua Landis, "Disinformation about Syria in Western Media"
Videos show CNN, Al Jazeera Faking Syria 'News' | MyFDL
Going Rogue: America's Unconventional Warfare in the Mideast | Al Akhbar English
BBC Illegally Uses Image of Iraqi Victims: The US/NATO, UN Demonization Propaganda Against Syrian Government Further Intensify
Syrian rebels tried to get me killed, says Channel 4 correspondent | Media | The Guardian
M of A - Prime German Paper: Syrian Rebels Committed Houla Massacre
souriabaladi.com says that Syrian pilot was paid one million dollars to defect
C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Rebels - NYTimes.com
Doubts Cast on Turkish Account of Jet Incident - WSJ.com
Iraq says al-Qaida fighters flowing into Syria
CIA is having a hard time establishing presence in Syria, unlike in Egypt and Libya
Asia Times Online :: German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria
Justifications for genocide against all `Alawites: this time in the Economist
The fighters identified themselves as coming from a number of countries: Algeria, France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates -- and the Russian republic of Chechnya
Syria Exclusive: Islamist Militants Fight Alongside Rebels | World | TIME.com
NY Times on Syria: "Salafist groups, or Muslim puritans, now receive most foreign financing."
Al-Qaida turns tide for rebels in battle for eastern Syria | World news | The Guardian
Al Qaeda Insinuating Its Way Into Syria’s Conflict - NYTimes.com
BBC News - Syria conflict: Jihadists' role growing
Accounts of Syria rebels executing prisoners raise new human rights concerns | McClatchy
Syria’s Crumbling Pluralism (and increasing sectarianism, thanks to the rebels) - NYTimes.com
Council on Foreign Relations hearts Al-Qa`idah now
Syrian atrocity: Bodies of postal workers thrown from roof (GRAPHIC VIDEO) — RT
120813 Al Jazeera English - Interview with Ammar Waqqaf about killed postal workers- YouTube
"They were from anywhere but Syria," he told the BBC. "They were from Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UK and Chechnya. A real mix." He said there were "between 10 and 15 young jihadists from the UK" who he described as being "a mixed bunch".
The money from KSA & Qatar goes "disproportionately to Salafist and jihadist groups."
Syria Rebels 'Aided By British Intelligence'
Reality of Mercenaries in Syria - What's so Syrian about the FSA?
syrian rebels invite press to their torture prison where they torture people (wtf)
Patrick Cockburn: As the violence intensifies in Syria, there can be only one winner - the Kurds - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent
Civilians Massacred in Daraya A Town Overrun By NATO's FSA - YouTube
French doctor in Aleppo reports that half of rebels are non syrian jihadists
BBC News - Today - Syrian Christians 'targeted' by rebels
Rebels accused of massacre of 20 Syrian soldiers in their worst atrocity so far - Telegraph
UN observer chief warns against supporting Syrian rebels - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
UN panel: Foreigners making Syrian rebels radical
UN panel says 'foreign elements' in Syria | SBS World News
FSA leader admits 70% of Aleppo is pro-Assad & they want FSA out. FSA says it will leave once Assad leaves. Seriously?
Jihadists Receiving Most Arms Sent to Syrian Rebels - NYTimes.com
Fides Service - ASIA/SYRIA - Ultimatum to Christians: "Leave Qusayr"
Syrian rebels 'killed Palestinian leader' | Maan News Agency
Syrian rebels warily accept foreign fighters' [read: jihadists] help - Yahoo! News
Twitter / syrian4peace: #Syria-n revo sign: "We are all bin laden"
FSA Syrian REBELS Caught FORCING a PRISONER to become a SUICIDE BOMBER (a War Crimes!) - YouTube
Syria rebels tolerate extremists despite West's fears - Region - World - Ahram Online
Libyan Government Bankrolling Syrian Rebels -- News from Antiwar.com
Syrian rebel films himself shooting 10 prisoners | Reuters
Al Qaida-linked group Syria rebels once denied now key to anti-Assad victories | McClatchy
Syria’s chemical weapons: Safer in whose hands? | One western intelligence official suggests that the number of fighters al-Nusra now has in the Syrian conflict “runs into four figures, we’re talking thousands.” | The World
REPORT: The US Is Openly Sending Heavy Weapons From Libya To Syrian Rebels - Business Insider
Qatar favors support for all Syrian oppo groups + Al Nusra Front
Head of new U.S.-backed Syrian coalition endorses al Qaida-linked rebel faction | McClatchy
Syrian rebels use a child to behead a prisoner « Human rights investigations
Was there a massacre in the Syrian town of Aqrab? | Alex Thomson's View
Free Syrian Army is removing videos from Youtube that show their massacres and crimes
Syria: The descent into Holy War - Comment - Voices - The Independent
Friends of Syria Guy: "This isn't mainly about getting the rebels more weapons; those are already flowing in. It's not about them; it's about us — and the amount of influence we'll have in Syria once the insurgents win."
Tunisian Ex Jihadist Tells Tunisian TV Why he Stopped Fighting Alongside the FSA in Syria - YouTube
Turkish TV Interviews Syrian Refugees inside Turkey: Why is Erdogan Sending Terrorists to Kill Us? - YouTube
FSA Field Commander Tells Israeli TV in Syria that Sharon is his Friend if he's against Bashar - YouTube
FSA's own video shows them faking bombing of a FSA HQ, intend to have it look like a bakery, even show them taking a photo - YouTube
FSA Sectarian Terrorists Expel Christians from their Town in the Hauran Region of Syria - YouTube
UN: Syria’s Rebels Come From 29 Countries -- News from Antiwar.com
.:Middle East Online::Revolution betrayed: Corrupt rebel leaders confiscate Syria dream of freedom :.
"Rebel commander in Aleppo puts city’s support of Assad at 70 percent."
M of A - U.S. Diplomat: Majority of Syrians Stand Behind Bashar Assad
Syrian girls 'sold' into forced marriages - Telegraph
EA WorldView - Home - Syria Exclusive: The Western-Armed Insurgents Who Executed POWs and Captured UN Peacekeepers
Syria Comment » Archives » The Free Syrian Army Doesn’t Exist
disgruntled SNC member: “The SNC is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Qatar government"
Islamic law comes to rebel-held areas of Syria - The Washington Post
Shiite Muslims who fled Syria for Lebanon tell of an 'ethnic cleansing' campaign by rebels intent on creating a Sunni-run Islamic state.
Arms Airlift to Syrian Rebels Expands, With C.I.A. Aid - NYTimes.com
WINEP functionary admits that many operations attributed to the FSA/JAN are actually western covert troops, see 1:27:43
Despite U.S. concerns, little prevents Islamists from joining Syria fight | McClatchy
BBC News - Syria crisis: Al-Nusra pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda
SONS OF MALCOLM: HILARIOUS SLOGANS OF THE PRO-nATO SYRIAN DEATH-SQUAD REVOLUTION
Assad still has backers among Syrian refugees - The Washington Post
FSA's "armed groups" in yarmouk not letting civilians leave because they make good human shields
Assad backers reportedly make up 43 percent of dead in Syria | McClatchy
Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda
Kerry's assertions that moderate Syrian opposition groups are growing in influence appear to be at odds with estimates by govt intelligence
Former Israeli official on Syrian civil war sides: "Let them both hemorrhage, bleed to death"
German Report: How Turkey Arms and Sends Wahhabi Jihadists into Syria - YouTube
Syria: disillusioned rebels drift back to take Assad amnesty - Telegraph
U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show - Washington Post
Syria's pro-government militias a major boost for Assad's army | "More than 70% of the people in this area are against us," says rebel - latimes.com
NAHARIYA, Israel: Israelis earn good will by treating Syrians wounded in civil war | World | MyrtleBeachOnline.com
Lest we forget: Western-backed "SMC" leader Salim Idriss congratulates "rebels" on massacres committed in Latakia
Syrian Civilians Bore Brunt of Rebels’ Fury, Report Says - NYTimes.com
Foreign extremists dominate Syria fight - The Washington Post
Training of Syrian insurgents steps up in Saudi Arabia - IHS Jane's 360
Syrian fighter reveals how merc operations are organized: meet with "emirati", the west - Features - Al Jazeera English
"Saddam al-Jamal, a top commander for the Free Syrian Army's eastern front, pledged allegiance to Isis in November."
Report: Syrian opposition willing to trade Golan claims for Israeli military support - Diplomacy and Defense Israel News | Haaretz
M of A - Media Neglect Turkish False Flag Attack Leak And Its Implications
Syria: As the bombs fall, the people of Damascus rally round Bashar al-Assad - Telegraph
​Syria: The hidden massacre. The protests were never peaceful — RT Op-Edge
Obama Requests Money to Train ‘Appropriately Vetted’ Syrian Rebels (he's doing this again) - NYTimes.com
FSA Leader Defects to ISIL and Exposes FSA as a Saudi-Israeli Run Project - YouTube
'Israel wanted Assad gone since start of Syria civil war' | JPost | Israel News
'American intelligence agents have helped funnel arms to rebel groups' diff viewer (3/4) - News Sniffer
'Thank God for the Saudis': ISIS, Iraq, and the Lessons of Blowback - Steve Clemons - The Atlantic
It's not just Turkey who is trying to blackmail Kobane — it's Europe and America too
Bodyguard of Syrian rebel who defected to Isil reveals secrets of the jihadist leadership - Telegraph
M of A - Israel's Continuing War On Syria
U.S. concern grows over Islamic State fighters training in Libya - LA Times
US Key Man in Syria Worked Closely with ISIL and Jabhat al-Nusra - YouTube
Al Qaeda a lesser evil? Syria War Pulls U.S., Israel Apart - WSJ
Syrian Rebels Caught in ‘False-Flag’ Kidnapping | Consortiumnews
2012 Defense Intelligence Agency document: West will facilitate rise of Islamic State “in order to isolate the Syrian regime” – Levant Report
Secret CIA effort in Syria faces large funding cut - The Washington Post
Report: Leaked documents show Israel tried to sell weapons to Syrian rebels | Middle East Eye
Senior Western official: Links between Turkey and ISIS are now 'undeniable' - Yahoo Finance
so that we never forget: FSA's commander Al Aqidi praising & defending ISIS back when they were allies
Turns out the Syrian Opposition Coalition Twitter account was run by a Washington PR firm hired by Saudi Arabia
Washington's Sunni Myth and the Civil Wars in Syria and Iraq
Only when Syria's army re-captured Maaloula from "rebels" did refugees return
Syria: Rebels losing support among civilians in Aleppo | Public Radio International
Along Calmer Frontlines, an example of how a ceasefire could work and has worked - Newsweek Middle East

Yemen

The Angry Arab News Service » Exploitation of the Syria case: what about Yemen?
Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? | The Nation
Yemen on the Edge by Stephen Zunes | ZNet Article
No plans to suspend military aid to Yemen: US | The Raw Story
U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes - NYTimes.com
Wikileaks cable corroborates evidence of US airstrikes in Yemen | Amnesty International
BBC News - Yemen women burn veils in Sanaa in anti-Saleh protest
Obama agrees to help Yemen’s murderous president — RT
Granted immunity, Yemeni butcher Saleh heads to New York
Washington's War in Yemen Backfires | The Nation
The civilian massacre the US neither confirms nor denies: TBIJ
Yemen: Covert War on Terror investigation explained: TBIJ
Yemen’s ‘barely functional’ air force points to US involvement in strikes: TBIJ
Arab spring brings steep rise in US attacks in Yemen: TBIJ
Details emerge on US counterterrorism support for Yemen - The Hill's DEFCON Hill
Thousands rally for South Yemen independence | Al Akhbar English

Samir Amin Interviewed by Aijaz Ahmad, "An Imperialist Springtime? Libya, Syria, and Beyond"
WHICH PATH TO PERSIA? - Brookings Institution | Search for "plausible deniability"
Going Rogue: America's Unconventional Warfare in the Mideast | Al Akhbar English
Edward Said: No to war in Iraq
U.S. Arms Bahrain While Decrying Russian Weapons in Syria - IPS ipsnews.net
Saudi Arabia Seeks Union of Monarchies in Region - NYTimes.com
OP-ED: Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism
The Unclear Truth - documentary Iran War Bahrain Palestine Israel Syria News - YouTube
The Pentagon plan to ‘divide and rule’ the Muslim world | Middle East Eye

EUCOM

Belarus

Belarus Under Siege: Joint Onslaught by US and Russian Oligarchs « The prison gates are open…
Belarus Under Siege » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Ploshcha Beating Glass with Iron 1/4 Belarus - YouTube
Belarus – A Paradigm for Sustainable Development | OnEarth Magazine

Chechnya

Chechnya: the causes of a Protracted Post-Soviet Conflict
Roots of Chechnya Wars: Russia’s Sovereignty - Covertaction.org
Chechnya: More Blood for Oil - Covertaction.org
Chechen Terrorists and the Neocons | Consortiumnews
Chechen rebels phoned Gulf during siege | World news | The Guardian

España

27% of Spaniards are out of work. Yet in one town everyone has a job - Europe - World - The Independent

Greece

Dailymotion - Debtocracy International Version - a Film & TV video
The New York Times’s neoliberal crap on Greece and Italy « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
New Statesman - Exploding the myth of the feckless, lazy Greeks
Austerity & Fascism In Greece: The Real 1% Doctrine - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
Generations of Pork: How Greece's Political Elite Ruined the Country - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Angela Merkel ... replied that the aid program had to hurt - WSJ.com
New Left Review - Stathis Kouvelakis: The Greek Cauldron
Greek money running out amid opposition to tax hike | Reuters
Violence spikes in Greek rebel town - Europe, World - The Independent
Alternative Ways Out of the Debt Crisis » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The U.S. approved to grant 400 M1A1 Abrams to Greece | Defence news from Greece and Cyprus
2011-10-21 Greece -- Debt Sustainability Analysis
Deutsche Bank Vegas Exposure Equals Eurozone - YouTube
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » ABC Exclusive: Greek Fatcat Retirees Stealing From American Workers!
The real Greek tragedy – its rapacious oligarchs - FT.com
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE GHOST OF THE COLONELS
Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europe’s Crisis - NYTimes.com
Chart of the Day: Greek workers work 48% more hours than Germans | Credit Writedowns
Greek police union wants to arrest EU/IMF officials | Reuters
It’s All Greek To Them
Kenneth Rogoff: The Emerging Economic and Political Order - What Lies Ahead? (3/5) - YouTube
Pensioner shoots himself at Greek Parliament, refuses to 'search for food in garbage' (PHOTOS) — RT
German 'hypocrisy' over Greek military spending has critics up in arms | World news | guardian.co.uk
What would happen if Greece exited the eurozone? - What are the mechanics of a country leaving the euro? - CSMonitor.com
Global Financial Integrity - Greece Lost US$160 Billion to Illicit Financial Outflows over Past Decade
Greeks Hide Tens of Billions From Tax Man - Real Time Economics - WSJ
The Nightmare on Padlocks Street - 68K Small Businesses Closed Down in First 6 Months of 2012 - Keep Talking Greece
Greek Wealth Is Everywhere but Tax Forms - NYTimes.com
Greek Economy Suffers Record Collapse In February | ZeroHedge
EU and NATO Look on at Greece's Pampered Armed Forces - Carnegie Europe
Eurozone demands six-day week for Greece | Business | The Guardian
Troika Out of Control: Suggests Greeks Living on Small Islands Be ...Relocated - Keep Talking Greece
Greek journalists targeted from all sides - Blog - Committee to Protect Journalists
European Authorities Still Punishing Greece – Can They Be Stopped? | Op-Eds & Columns
Greece: "A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising"
Establishing a framework for understanding the rise of fascism | Institute of Race Relations

"Israel"

literally nazi germany

Bigots' Spawning Ground

New poll: 52% of Israelis think the refugees from Africa are a "cancer in the nation's body
Jewish radicals get off hook in Israel
AFP: Israeli extremists blamed for 228 attacks in 2011
Gaza: Israeli Military Arming, Training Vigilantes | Scoop News
Netanyahu: Israel could be overrun by African infiltrators - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Residents, right-wing activists protest Tel Aviv presence of migrant workers - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Video: As soldiers guard them, Israeli settlers attack Palestinian village, shooting one | The Electronic Intifada
Group leaks EU report on Israeli settler violence suppressed by Dutch government | The Electronic Intifada
Hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem fans beat up Arab workers in mall; no arrests - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israel frees Jewish man who burned African kindergarten, deports the non-Jewish man who ran the kindergarten
When Settlers Attack - ~35% of settler violence was throwing stones, which palestinians are jailed for
WATCH: Israeli soldiers stand by, escort settlers as they attack Palestinian villages | +972 Magazine
Settler sprays 'slaughter Jews' on own car - Israel News, Ynetnews
Settler violence: It comes with the territory | +972 Magazine
I Traveled to Palestine-Israel And Discovered There is no ‘Palestinian-Israeli Conflict’ - Stop Being Famous
When Yitzhar settlers attack - Twilight Zone Israel News | Haaretz
Ex-Mossad Chief: Israel could stop settler attacks on palestinians if it wanted to
90% of investigations of Israeli attacks against Palestinians are closed without indictments | Yesh Din - Volunteers for Human Rights
Viral Israeli air rage video casts light on ingrained anti-Arab racism | The Electronic Intifada

Israel's War on Christians

Obama urged a pastor not to burn a Koran, but Netanyahu won't condemn a lawmaker who ripped & trashed a Bible. Why not?
WEST BANK: Palestinian Christians denied access to holy places in Jerusalem during Easter - latimes.com
Vandals attack Jerusalem monastery, school
Israeli Jewish Zionist terrorist Vandals scrawl anti-Christian graffiti on Palestinian Baptist church in occupied Jerusalem
Palestinian Christians attacked for challenging Christian Zionism | The Electronic Intifada
Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Israeli settlers increase their attacks on Palestinian Christian sites | The Electronic Intifada
Forbidden to celebrate: Israel's war on Christmas continues despite Netanyahu's claim of tolerance | The Electronic Intifada
Israel denies thousands of Palestinian Christians entry to Holy sites on Palm Sunday
Cars torched in Arab village; 'don't touch our girls' - Israel News, Ynetnews
Rabbi Shteinman: 'Non-Jews are brainless thieves', Ynet
US opposes 'world heritage status' for Jesus's birthplace. Guess why
Israeli forces violently disperse peaceful Christmas march in Bethlehem | Al Akhbar English
Vandals attack Christian graveyard in northern Israel - Yahoo News

Pogroms

African residents in south Tel Aviv targeted by second firebomb attack in two weeks - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Anti-African Racism in Israel
IRIN Middle East | ISRAEL: Growing tensions between locals and migrants | Israel | Conflict | Health & Nutrition | Human Rights | Refugees/IDPs
WATCH: 18 arrested in protest of Ethiopian Jews against racism
Africans attacked in Tel Aviv protest; MKs: ‘infiltrators’ are cancer
Israeli lawmaker Miri Regev: "Heaven forbid" we compare Africans to human beings | The Electronic Intifada
Israel to put thousands of Africans in detention camp - Yahoo! News
Racism Report: Africans in Israel - YouTube
Upheaval at Saharonim prison: 500 Eritreans refuse to enter cells - Israel News, Ynetnews
African migrants 'denied entry' to Israel - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
Israelis vs. Africans (Goldstein Dawn) - YouTube
Israeli suspect in attack on African migrants' property gets off with light plea bargain Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Israel’s Anti-Black Pogrom by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
In with the New Year, Out with the Africans - YouTube
Israel's other silent war - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

The Origin Myth

Nakba

Permission to Narrate: Top 10 Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the #Nakba
THE 1948 ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE ILAN PAPP´E

Jay Moore, "Deconstructing the Foundational Myths of Israel"
Feel Good Zionism | Jacobin
New documents reveal early Palestinian attitudes toward Zionist settlements - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Tony Cliff: Roots of Israel's violence (1982)
Miko Peled Seattle. Oct. 1, 2012 - YouTube
Zionism, anti-Semitism and colonialism - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Video - A Short History Of Palestine
The Question of Palestine at Brooklyn College, Then and Now « Corey Robin
israel has a long history of eugenics
Permission to Narrate: Zionism = Colonialism, According to The NY Times
Zionism's Colonial Roots | The National Interest
Einstein: Letter to New York Times [Scanned Original]
Decree 54/33 The Transfer agreement (between Germany and Zionism) - YouTube
How a Nazi planner shaped early Israel | The Times of Israel
Permission to Narrate: Understanding the 1947 UN Partition Plan
The blind alley of J Street and liberal American Zionism | Mondoweiss
Albert Einstein Letter to The New York Times. December 4, 1948 New Palestine Party. Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed : Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, et.al. : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
The last of the Semites - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
The Secret Contacts - Zionism and Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1941 : Polkehn, Klaus : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Newly released documents show a darker side of Ben-Gurion - Features - - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
The Israeli Right’s historic ties to European fascism | +972 Magazine
Jabotinsky's embarrassing offer - Haaretz - Israel News | Haaretz.com
Israeli spy admits: we encouraged anti-Semitic conspiracy theories – Middle East Monitor
Ralph Schoenman: The Hidden History of Zionism (6. Zionism and the Jews)

US State Dept. Human Rights 2011 report on Israel: "institutional and societal discrimination against Arab citizens"
Police distort crime data, inciting violence against refugees
Nearly 100% of all military court cases in West Bank end in conviction, Haaretz learns - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israeli officials admitted that Gaza is “a huge concentration camp” and that “the occupation will continue” after disengagement | Current Events Inquiry
YouTube - Israel harasses and arrests American Jewish man
Holy Land Foundation appeal exposes deceptive and unconstitutional practices by prosecution | Current Events Inquiry
Zygmunt Bauman: Palestinian persecution echoes the Shoah, which began with discrimination, ghettoes and pogroms
Ben-Ari: Israel Caused "Slaughter" in Africa for Money - YouTube
Israeli soldiers brutally attack palestinians and ISM activists - YouTube
Israel says too many Africans is a "strategic" problem
Students cheer Nazis at Holocaust Remembrance Day play | The Times of Israel
Israel/West Bank: Separate and Unequal | Human Rights Watch
weekly average of settler attacks resulting in Palestinian casualties and damage to property increased by 40 percent in 2011
Detaining Africans latest step in making Israel an ethnocracy | The Electronic Intifada
Zionist racist group ADL_National "sympathizes" with Israelis who feel threatened by African migrants
Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal - NYTimes.com
mob setting garbage on fire and singing "The people wants the Africans to be burned" after a protest against African refugees
Israel spends millions on PR to convince West it's not fascist, will now spend millions more to convince Africa it IS
IMEU: Discrimination Against Palestinian Citizens of Israel
ZCommunications | Palestinian Ghettos Were Always The Plan by Amira Hass | ZNet Article
Israel admits forcing birth control shots on Ethiopian women
Ex-director of Israeli intelligence service who was beaten by Nazis as child says Israel treats Palestinians similarly
"About 400 children were medically sterilized -- many times without their parents’ knowledge." a little like israel 8(
Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
Israeli Settler explains Zionism to Palestinian farmers - YouTube
“The idea that views non-Jews as having equal rights in the state goes against the opinion of the Torah, and no representative of the state is authorized to act against the will of the Torah.”
The Holocaust survivor whose life is in danger again - Middle East - World - The Independent
US State Department: Israel practices "institutional discrimination" | The Electronic Intifada
Israeli Interior Minister: "This Country Belongs to Us - The White Man!" | MyFDL
Wide Asleep in America: Some Notes on Ahmadinejad's "Insult to Humanity" Comment
ALRAY-Palestinian Media Agency - DCIP releases documentary on settler - ALRAY
Israeli MP Ayelet Shaked: arab mothers and the "little snakes" they raised should be sent to hell
Israel's Iron Dome doesn't cover Bedouins | The Electronic Intifada
Max Blumenthal on Twitter: "Swedish neo-fascist party leader says religious Jews can't be Swedes http://t.co/fFDexDwBOv His party is pro-Israel http://t.co/oAOy5C7b82"
The Nazi Who Became a Mossad Hitman - News – Forward.com
Citizenship Law Makes Israel an Apartheid State - Haaretz - Israel News Haaretz.com

Israel's Chemical Weapons

Israel and Chem/Bio Weapons: History, Deterrence, and Arms Control
Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | Traces of poison
Flight 1862 and Israel's chemical secrets | Green Left Weekly
Patrick Pexton: What about Israel’s nuclear weapons? - The Washington Post
Walter Pincus: US built facilites for Israeli nuclear weapons. Violates Symington and Glenn.
Israel Wages Chemical Warfare With American Tear Gas - Covertaction.org
Israel's Chemical Weapons - by James Brooks
What gas is Israel using? | The Electronic Intifada
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weapons | World news | The Guardian
Kissenger back in the 70's: Israel's secret possession of nuclear weapons would endanger the middle east, should sign NPT
Why are so many israelis arrested over illegal arms deals worldwide? - haaretz
US Confirmed Existence of Israeli H-Bomb Program in 1987 by Grant Smith -- Antiwar.com

Gaza

Misremembering Gaza, Again | FAIR Blog
Understanding the Crisis in Gaza: Important Facts and Context about the Recent Violence
The kidnapping of Gilad Shalit was in retaliation for Israel kidnapping two Palestinians from Gaza
In one 18mth period alone, Israel fired 15,000 heavy artillery shells into the occupied Gaza Strip according to HRW
French TV crew filming with ‪#Gaza‬ Medics capture footage of Israel attacking them as they help civilians
The ridiculous burdens borne by Gaza medical patients | The Electronic Intifada
Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza: The Lie of Who Started It « Antiwar.com Blog
Dissecting IDF propaganda: The numbers behind the rocket attacks | Mondoweiss
Israeli officials use fake graphic to justify bombing Gaza hospitals | The Electronic Intifada
Gaza not liveable by 2020 barring urgent action: U.N | Reuters
No rockets from UNRWA schools in Gaza during the Gaza war of 2008-2009-UNRWA
It's Palestinians who have the right to defend themselves | Seumas Milne | Comment is free | The Guardian
“Most” killed in Gaza “deserved it” even though they were children and civilians, says Israel’s Danny Ayalon | The Electronic Intifada
Retired IDF Major-General Giora Eiland writes op-ed calling for the targeting of Gaza's civilian infrastructure, cites Dahiya (same person who called Gaza "a huge concentration camp")
Permission to Narrate: Israeli Ceasefire Violations in Gaza and World Silence
Israeli Army can’t provide me evidence of flotilla’s violent plans, story unravels
Netanyahu's "telegenically dead" comment is grotesque but not original - The Intercept

Hasbara

ADL Spying

The ADL once described Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress as “totalitarian, anti- humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel and anti-American.”
Abdeen Jabara: The Anti-Defamation League: Civil Rights and Wrongs
ADL Espionage - Case Study in Israel Lobby Criminal Immunity
Ex-Spy Threatens CIA Scandal : Intelligence: From Philippine island where he fled, Thomas J. Gerard says he will expose the agency's work with Latin American death squads if he is indicted for selling information to a Jewish group. - Los Angeles Times
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - San Francisco Spy Ring "The Tip of the Iceberg"
The Anti-Defamation League's (ADL) FBI File
http://www.israellobby.org/ADL-CA/ExhibitA.pdf
ADL Spy ring file 1 of 2
ADL spy ring file 2 of 2

Our AIPAC-owned Congress | Current Events Inquiry
ICC decision not to pursue justice for victims of Israel war crimes "dangerous" and "political" says Amnesty | The Electronic Intifada
Israeli newspaper owner says 'Jewish lobby' in U.S. prevents Obama from acting against settlers' 'apartheid regime'
APN's Top 10 Wackiest Congressional Actions on the Middle East of 2011 - Americans for Peace Now
An ambassador smeared - Salon.com
The bitter truth about the US-Israel relationship | Current Events Inquiry

Israel's Pinkwashing

Israeli city bans gay pride parade, will hold 'modest' parking lot event instead Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Knesset defeats anti-bias bill for gender, sexual orientation Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Marzel declares 'holy war' against gay parade - Israel News, Ynetnews
Op-ed: What’s So Gay About Apartheid? | Commentary | The Advocate
Israel lobby group Iran180 “sodomizes” Ahmadinejad effigy with nuke at San Francisco Pride | The Electronic Intifada
Anti Feminism&Men Rights Israel: An Anti Feminist Speech by a brave Women: Israeli Lawyer, Dafna Netanyahu, in a conference of the Israeli Likud Party
Israeli Police Falsely Report Murdered Palestinian Boy Was Gay, Flooding Social Media with Disinformation Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם
Israeli academic: raping Palestinian women would deter attacks
Pinkwatching Kit
Israel routinely blackmails Palestinian gays to make them informants

Military Custody

Children in Military Custody
Discipline and punish: Blueprint for migrant incarceration - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Israeli high court decision enables widespread torture of Palestinian detainees | The Electronic Intifada
Former Israeli soldiers disclose routine mistreatment of Palestinian children | World news | guardian.co.uk
Israel still holds 1000s of political prisoners, including 27 Palestinian members of Parliament | Mondoweiss
UNICEF - Children in Israeli Military Detention
Palestinian children routinely tortured, some threatened with rape: Israel rights group | The Electronic Intifada

The Only Fascist State on Earth

haha free speech in israel
Israeli companies win UN bids to reconstruct Gaza, angering Palestinians | The Times of Israel
Zionist police investigating who committed "crime" of hoisting an Iranian flag in Nazareth
Despite 750 abuse claims against the Shin Bet, state has yet to launch a criminal probe in over a decade | The Times of Israel
Israel's immigration police granted power to deport foreign activists from West Bank - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
State Dept Threatens Prison for US Participants in Gaza Aid Flotilla -- News from Antiwar.com
16 leftists arrested at protest against right-wing march in Jaffa - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israel’s fascist turn speeds up « Notes & Commentaries
Tourists venture to West Bank to 'shoot terrorists' - Israel News, Ynetnews
IPS – Israeli Academics Fight for Freedom | Inter Press Service
Israeli poll finds majority in favour of 'apartheid' policies | World news | guardian.co.uk
The oracle speaks -- Avigdor Lieberman: "When it comes down to the choice between Jewish or Democratic Israel it has to be Jewish"
Report: Three-quarters of Israelis see socioeconomic collapse as bigger existential threat than Iran Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Israel's Greatest Hits

Human Shields blah blah blah

Video: Israeli soldiers use handcuffed Palestinian teen as human shield as they fire at protestors | The Electronic Intifada
Israel used Palestinian minors as human shields, detain and torture - UN — RT News
BBC NEWS | Middle East | IDF to appeal human shield ban
Jenin: IDF Military Operations and the Use (by the IDF) of Palestinian Citizens as Human

Israel's Terror is A-OKAY

Perpetrator of and apologist for terrorism dies | Current Events Inquiry
Israeli Terrorism | Dissident Voice
bio of Jewish poet assassinated by Zionists in 1924 for seeking peace between Arabs and Jews in Palestine
Settler car bomb near Ramallah redoubles 'price tag' attacks
Israeli officials "honor" settler who tortured Palestinian child, leaving him naked and bound | The Electronic Intifada
Israel to kill in U.S., allied nations - UPI.com
Village Voice: FBI Probe Of JDL Bombing Suspects Hampered By Israel | Harboring terrorists, refusing to comply with requests
Tri City Herald - Google News Archive Search
Israel and the American National Interest: A Critical Examination - Cheryl A. Rubenberg - Google Books
ISRAELIS, STARTLED BY U.S. ANGER AT BEIRUT RAID killing 300 civilians - NYTimes.com

"Sometimes I am Reminded of This Atrocity" | World news | guardian.co.uk
Israel threatens to demolish German-funded solar energy systems in West Bank | The Electronic Intifada
Palestinians prepare to lose the solar panels - provided by charities - that provide a lifeline | israel loves suffering | guardian.co.uk
brave idf soldiers kill animals in gaza zoo who were coporating with hamas - YouTube
UN Report on Israel for Feb 2012: demolitions displacing palestinians, making children homeless
after they murdered rachel corrie they harvested her organs JESUS F'IN CHRIST
Video emerges of Israeli mob shouting "Death to the Arabs" that attacked Palestinians at Jerusalem mall | The Electronic Intifada
Boy, Five, Begs Soldiers Not To Take His Dad - YouTube
Video shows Border Police abusing Palest... JPost - National News
Israel government tortures Palestinian children by keeping them in cages, human rights group says - Middle East - World - The Independent
Bibi in 1989 Supported Palestinian Mass Expulsions Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם
Relations Between Israel and South Africa: Report of the Special Committee Against Apartheid (United Nations, 1976)

not even good allies

Former U.S. officials say CIA considers Israel to be Mideast's biggest spy threat - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
this is a p. good run down of illegal Israeli activities on US soil
USS Liberty incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities
Samson Option - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Israeli “art student” mystery - Salon.com
ADL Espionage - Case Study in Israel Lobby Criminal Immunity
Israel Apologizes for treatment of NYT journalist

The Palestine Papers

www.ajtransparency.com/files/2427.pdf
www.ajtransparency.com/files/2648.pdf
PA: Al-Jazeera has declared war on Palesti... JPost - Middle East
Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process | World news | The Guardian
What the Palestine Papers show | SocialistWorker.org
"The biggest Yerushalayim" - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

Neoliberalism in Israel

Study Shows Palestinian Businessmen Invested $2.5 B In Israeli Settlements In 2010 - International Middle East Media Center
Plunder of Palestinian natural resources is "corporate war crime," manual explains | The Electronic Intifada
The profitable occupation, and why it is never discussed
IRIN Middle East | Analysis: Between security reform and occupation in the West Bank | OPT | Conflict | Early Warning | Governance | Human Rights
Israel's Man In Ramallah
The Miami News, 1988 - Palestinian Unions Feel Israeli Repression
New book shows how the PA enriched an elite and normalized occupation | The Electronic Intifada
Adam Hanieh, "Palestine in the Middle East: Opposing Neoliberalism and US Power: Part 1"
Adam Hanieh, "Palestine in the Middle East: Opposing Neoliberalism and US Power: Part 2"
IPS – Palestinian Bubble Set to Burst | Inter Press Service
Rethinking Aid to Palestine - By Nadia Hijab | The Middle East Channel
Palestinians Take to the Streets to Protest Cash-Strapped Government | World | TIME.com
Palestine in protest: echoes of the past
Economic exploitation of Palestinians flourishes under occupation - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Leaked documents show PA outsourced Palestinian land and rights to Turkish firm | The Electronic Intifada
Aid Dependency, Unemployment Remain High in Gaza But Some Get Rich
Persistent Failure: World Bank Policies for the Occupied Palestinian Territories | Al-Shabaka
PA president: As long as I am in power, there will be no third intifada - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Ramallah pours on the fuel as Gaza burns | KABOBfest
The dark side of Israel’s economy | +972 Magazine

Israel: Whose Country Is It Anyway? (2 of 2)
The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian terror | Israel Reconsidered
Palestine 1896 - YouTube
Finding Moral Light through a Tangle | TPMCafe
PhotoBlog - Palestinian house inside cage in Jewish settlement
Michael Totten » The Palestinians of 1967
BBC News - Two Israeli soldiers guilty of using human shield in Gaza
During War there are no civilians « Mazin’s Blog
The Romance of Birthright Israel | The Nation
Israeli police will not face trial over death of Palestinian girl - Middle East, World - The Independent
ISRAEL: High Costs Force New Settlements of Sorts
West Bank: demolitions and attacks against Palestinians must stop – UN experts
ZCommunications | Why the US Recognised Israel by Irene Gendzier | ZNet Article
Israel’s Grand Hypocrisy » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
CHANNELS TELEVISION | Released Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit hopes for Peace
Israeli reactions to Freedom Riders
Report of Audit - Sherman Funk
To Avoid Excessive Penalty, Family Members Start Demolishing Their Own Homes - International Middle East Media Center
Dov Weisglass: Gaza Pullout to Freeze Peace Process and Prevent Palestinian State With U.S. Blessing « Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place
MUST WATCH: Rare peek at nightly raids of West Bank village (Nabi Saleh) with English subs
'Undercover Israeli combatants threw stones at IDF soldiers in West Bank' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Israel Bars Rabin From Relating '48 Eviction of Arabs - Sympathy for Palestinians 'I Can't Violate the Law' Survivors' Reports Confirmed - Article - NYTimes.com
Beit El (settlement) land deal was based on forged documents, probe finds - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
"Except for a few civilian enterprises, almost all Israeli activity in Africa is related to weapons exports."
Donors help keep Palestinians in cages | The Electronic Intifada
Israeli right-wing groups use 'right of return' to evict Arabs from East Jerusalem - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
Study Belies Israeli Claim of ‘Hate’ in Palestinian Texts - NYTimes.com

Russian Federation

Is Russia Imperialist? | A Critique of Crisis Theory

Turkey

Turkey Feels Sway of Fethullah Gulen, a Reclusive Cleric - NYTimes.com
Dani Rodrik's weblog: Gülenists will get you, one way or another
TURKEY - Turkey's religious Gülen community subject of latest WikiLeaks
Turkey's Biggest Export | The Majalla Magazine
A Bad Sign For What Kurds Can Expect In The New Turkish Constitution « Ottomans and Zionists
Why do we accuse the Gülen movement? | Balyoz Davası ve Gerçekler
Gülen Movement Accused of Being a Sect - SPIEGEL ONLINE
POLITICS - Some 500 PKK militants killed in one month: Turkish PM

Ukraine

Ukraine to ban Greek as official minority language / The TOC In English
Victoria Nuland Admits: US Has Invested $5 Billion In The Development of Ukrainian, "Democratic Institutions"
Ukraine crisis: bugged call reveals conspiracy theory about Kiev snipers | World news | The Guardian
The ex-Israeli soldier who led a Kiev fighting unit - World Israel News | Haaretz
Is the U.S. Backing Neo-Nazis in Ukraine? | Alternet
Poll Finds Ukrainians Doubt Effectiveness of Interim Government, 80% consider Kiev gov't illegitimate
Read closely: protesters admit to stealing armory full of weapons and intentionally provoking violence
Ukraine Crisis Today: Democracy caught on camera (this will never be shown on mainstream media) - YouTube
Euromaidan "activists" behind fire that killed dozens in Odessa integrated into police force (read: brownshirts) from Kiev to secure city
German paper challenges allegation that pro-yanukovych forces did the shooting on protestors | tagesschau.de
Ukraine crisis: 400 U.S. mercenaries of Academi fight against separatists - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Fresh evidence of how the West lured Ukraine into its orbit: paying protestors 200 quid/month to join the Maidan- Telegraph
Ukraine crisis: the neo-Nazi brigade fighting pro-Russian separatists - Telegraph
Special Report: Flaws found in Ukraine's probe of Maidan massacre | Reuters
The Snipers Massacre on the Maidan in Ukraine | Johnson's Russia List
How the Israel Lobby Protected Ukrainian Neo-Nazis | Portside
Ukraine — bonanza for upgraded Holocaust denial | Dovid Katz | The Blogs | The Times of Israel
Ukrainian nationalists storm Hasidic encampment - Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews

Yugoslavia

Neil Clark: The spoils of another war | World news | The Guardian
CRISIS IN THE BALKANS: BELGRADE; Reduced to a 'Caveman' Life, Serbs Don't Blame Milosevic - New York Times
Michael Parenti: The Media and their Atrocities
The Demonization of Slobodan Milosevic
The Dismantling of Yugoslavia: A Study in In humanitarian Intervention (and a Western Liberal-Left Intellectual and Moral Collapse) :: Monthly Review
ZCommunications | George Monbiot and the Guardian on "Genocide Denial" and "Revisionism" by Edward S. Herman | ZNet Article
BALKANS-ECONOMY: One-Dollar Steel Mill Exposes Cracks in Privatisation - IPS ipsnews.net
Milenko Srečković, "Deindustrialization and Workers' Struggle in Serbia"
KOSOVO'S "MAFIA STATE": From Madeleine to Hillary: The US Secretary of State's "Love Affair" with the KLA
How Capitalism Caused the Balkan Wars « Kasama
Members of Greece’s Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Took Part in Srebrenica Genocide | loonwatch.com
Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladic saw himself as a defender of Europe against Muslims and multiculturalism | Current Events Inquiry
AFP: Serbia says it has witness to Kosovo organ harvesting
Balkan Express
Americans Who Helped Free Kosovo Return as Entrepreneurs - NYTimes.com
The Srebrenica Massacre - Edward Herman
Kosovo, "liberated" by NATO bombs, marks 5 years of sham independence amid widespread poverty, 45% unemployment rate
Exposed: Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated With Intelligence Firm Stratfor | Occupy.com

Sweden in Saudi Arms Deal controversy - IPS ipsnews.net
America's Presidential Candidate for Russia
What State Do Palestinians Want?

NORTHCOM

Cuba

allAfrica.com: Gambia: U.S. Embargo Caused Over U.S. $104 Billion Direct Economic Damages On Cuba -Says Ambassador Fernandez
CIA’s Bay of Pigs foreign policy laid bare - Bay of Pigs - MiamiHerald.com
CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS REVELATIONS: KENNEDY'S SECRET APPROACH TO CASTRO
Cuban missile crisis: how the US played Russian roulette with nuclear war | Noam Chomsky | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The ‘Eyeball to Eyeball’ Myth and the Cuban Missile Crisis’s Legacy - NYTimes.com
Along the Malecón: USAID in Cuba: Discreetly secret

Guatemala

Guatemalan Genocide on Trial « UNREDACTED

Haiti

Haiti: The Effortpost, Part I (1492-1991) : Laissez's Faire
Where the Cure is the Disease and the Doctor Sickens the Patient: The Pathology of Occupation in Haiti « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
Duvalier = Aristide?
Enemy Ally
International Community Fails Haiti Yet Again – This Time With A Cholera Epidemic | Op-Eds & Columns
The Death of Gérard Jean-Gilles:How the UN Stonewalled Haitian Justice
Document details Martelly plan for new Haiti army - Yahoo! News
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti » Blog Archive » Harvard Group Releases Report Reviewing MINUSTAH Human Rights Abuses Calling For Withdrawal From Haiti: English, French, and Spanish (Harvard School of Public Health)
Haiti, Occupied Country
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti » Blog Archive » MINUSTAH: Keeping the peace, or conspiring against it? (Other Worlds)
International Tribunal on Haiti: Preliminary Report of the Commission of Inquiry
On One-Year Anniversary of Cholera’s Return to Haiti, CEPR Co-Director Calls for Restitution from United Nations Troops | Press Releases
OAS Overturned Haitian Presidential Election in a "Political Intervention," New CEPR Paper Suggests | Press Releases
In Haiti’s Cholera Fight, Cuba Takes Lead Role - NYTimes.com
As Epidemic Rages: Haitians File Suit Against UN for Introducing Cholera into Haiti
The “Enforcers”: MINUSTAH and the Culture of Violence in Port-au-Prince | Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Is this Minustah's 'Abu Ghraib moment' in Haiti? | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Do It Yourself: International Aid and the Neoliberal Ethos in the Tent Camps of Port-au-Prince | North American Congress on Latin America
Haiti: US is spending $100m+ on massive sweatshop complex to be run by Korean firm with a horrid labor rights record
GOP Is Accused in Haiti of Plot
Haiti’s Gold Rush by Jacob Kushner - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Reviving Haiti’s army would harm democracy - Other Views - MiamiHerald.com
Paramilitaries in Haiti :: Monthly Review
here's an article about repression of political opponents by the US-backed neo-Duvalierist regime in Haiti
Haiti's New Dictatorship
The U.S. Government Stopped a Minimum Wage Increase in Haiti | Kulture Kritic
Obama admin sending Haitians (but not Cubans) back without screening their asylum claims | Current Events Inquiry
US Plans to Build 2 Prisons in Haiti's Provinces - ABC News
Study finds Haiti aid largely went to US groups - Yahoo! News
Haiti and the UN: Occupation in the Time of Cholera - News & Views - EBONY
Stan Goff, The racist underbelly of the U.S. occupation of Haiti

Honduras

USA Today, AP Mislead on Honduran Coup
Honduras Down the Memory Hole
Top Ten Ways You Can Tell Which Side The United States Government is On With Regard to the Military Coup in Honduras | Op-Eds & Columns
What Manuel Zelaya's return means for Honduras | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Millennium Challenge Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miguel Facussé, Druglord. Courtesy of Wikileaks | Quotha
Honduras Culture and Politics: A (Millennium) Challenge for Honduras
HONDURAS: Governed by Vested Interests - IPS ipsnews.net
Honduras Culture and Politics: Miguel Facussé
Revista Envío - Miguel Facussé: Fencing off Paradise
The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent?
State Dept. requests for aid to Honduras have dramatically increased since Zelaya’s overthrow | Current Events Inquiry
ontd_political: Honduras' very own war on terror
Lanny Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Dana Rohrabacher's Honduran Adventure
Honduras: Wealthy Landowners Attempt to Quash Farming Collectives | Truthout
Honduras: Investigate Killings of Peasants | Human Rights Watch
U.S. hopes Honduras will come around on human rights - UPI.com
HONDURAS: Dying for Land - IPS ipsnews.net
EU carbon credits scheme tarnished by alleged murders in Honduras | Environment | guardian.co.uk
WikiLeaks Honduras: US Linked to Brutal Businessman | The Nation
Honduras gives military new policing powers - CNN
In Honduras, a Mess Helped by the U.S. - NYTimes.com
Honduras prison fire kills more than 350 inmates: officials | Reuters
Hondurans that died in prison fire never even had a trial or charge
Honduras in Flames | The Nation
Honduras: When Engagement Becomes Complicity | FPIF
Belén Fernández: Honduras’ Illegitimate President and His Cheering Squad | Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Dan Kovalik: US DEA Kills Innocent Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent
Canada and Chile Meddling in Honduras's Economic and Security Policies
Honduran Drug Raid Deaths Won’t Alter U.S. Policy - NYTimes.com
Ismael Moreno Coto, "Interview with Eduardo Galeano: 'Two Centuries of Workers' Conquests, Cast Into a Dustbin'"
Honduras' far-right, US-backed government sells off indigenous peoples' land to private investors
Honduras Sets Stage for 3 Privately Run Cities - ABC News
Honduras human rights lawyer for agrarian groups murdered at wedding - The Washington Post
Libertarianism in Honduras « Corey Robin
Partitioning Honduras: The advent of charter cities - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Legacy of Honduran Coup Still Threatens Democracy In Latin America | Op-Eds & Columns
Released State Dept. cable from Honduras fawns over Lobo government, shows disdain for its opposition | Current Events Inquiry
Hillary Clinton Suggested Lanny Davis Back-Channel to Honduras

Mexico

Mexico: Another Activist Murdered for Resisting a Canadian Mine

Puerto Rico

8 Atrocities Committed Against Puerto Rico by the US - Listverse

And just how did a US corporation come to own more than half of Honduras & Guatemala? This piece doesn't say - Reason.com
NLG Files Petition Against U.S. For Human Rights Violations in Vieques | National Lawyers Guild

PACOM

India

Woman Naxal with rifle held off 250 commandos for six hours: Police - Indian Express
Naxalites – statickinetics – Jan 12 « LF Effort Posts
BBC News - Pentagon commander says US special forces in India
Walking With The Comrades | Arundhati Roy

Indonesia

Al-Ahram Weekly | Real capitalism, real blood
CIA Stalling State Department Histories on Indonesia
SHADOW PLAY . Living Dangerously | Thirteen/WNET
CIA Compiled Indonesian Death Lists in 1965
Report: U.S. Arms Transfers to Indonesia 1975-1997 - World Policy Institute - Research Project | World Policy Institute
Indonesian academics fight burning of books on 1965 coup - World - smh.com.au
Book burning in history: a tool of tyrants (Indonesia omitted)
New Statesman - East Timor – a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful
Indonesia's killing fields - 101 East - Al Jazeera English

The Maldives, of all places

US Recognizes Maldives Government That Ousted Democratically Elected Nasheed | Common Dreams
President of Maldives, Climate Crusader, Ousted in Coup | Common Dreams
Democracy Imperiled in the Maldives | Common Dreams

Myanmar/Burma

IPS – U.S. Opens Investment in Burmese Oil and Gas, Over Suu Kyi’s Advice | Inter Press Service
Final Frontier: Firms Flock to Newly Opened Myanmar - WSJ.com
Human rights group cites 'atrocities' in Myanmar | ajc.com
Aung San Suu Kyi facing backlash for refusing to condemn latest Burma abuses - NY Daily News
Here's an amnesty statement on violence the fraudulent Aung San Suu Kyi claims is done by "both sides"
PSLweb.org: Washington exploits Myanmar's cyclone tragedy
“Pro-Democracy” Groups Behind Myanmar Refugee Attacks | Global Research
Whose Agenda? US Strategic Interests, India, and Sri Lankan War Crimes | rupeindia
Land Destroyer: Aung San Suu Kyi's "Saffron Monks" Stalk Streets With Machetes - Mass Slaughtering Refugees
Muslims vanish as Buddhist attacks approach Myanmar's biggest city | Reuters
Anti-Muslim violence in central Burma leaves thousands of people homeless - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
The dirty fossil fuel secret behind Burma's democratic fairytale | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Suu Kyi spokesman: “There is no Rohingya” | GlobalPost
The Angry Arab News Service: When Aung San Suu Kyi was recently here in London, feted on every hand, she was asked about the persecution of the Rohingya, the Burmese Muslims. She replied, "I'm not sure they're Burmese."
When Buddhists Turn Nasty | The Diplomat
Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi, a human rights icon, is criticized on anti-Muslim violence - The Washington Post

North Korea

US Special Ops commander: We've sent troops into North Korea | The Daily Caller
US commandos parachuted into N. Korea: report | The Raw Story
SPECIAL REPORT: Mind the Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality, DPRK can not directly annihilate Seoul
U.S. General in South Korea Replaced After Spy Report - NYTimes.com
U.S. General in South Korea Replaced After Spy Report - The New York Times

Vietnam War

‘A Chapter From Tomorrow’s History Books’ or, Colin Powell ran PR for Mai Lai Massacre — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Watch the US Drop 2.5 Million Tons of Bombs on Laos | Mother Jones

Decades after war, millions of unexploded U.S. bombs haunt Laos | iWatch News
South Korean Man Faces Jail for Retweets
U.S. asks Japan to cover tab to move marines | The Japan Times Online
Bombs Over Cambodia New information reveals that Cambodia was bombed far more heavily during the Vietnam War than previously believed—and that the bombing began not under Richard Nixon, but under Lyndon Johnson
Black July '83 - Events of Black July

SOUTHCOM

Argentina

New Declassified Details on Repression and U.S. Support for Military Dictatorship in Argentina
Did Reagan Know about Baby Thefts? | Consortiumnews

Bolivia

The West, the Rest and the Exploited (Bolivia, TIPNIS, USAID, CIDOB, NED, The Democracy Center) | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
The Ambiguous Avaaz | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
The Grotesque and Disturbing Ideology at the Helm of Avaaz | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
SPEAKING TRUTH: A Profound Message to Avaaz from Poet Gabriel Impaglione of Argentina | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
U.S. Funded Democracy Centre Reveals It’s Real Reason for Supporting the TIPNIS Protest in Bolivia: REDD $$$ | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
Who Really Leads on the Environment? The “Movement” Verses Evo Morales | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Avaaz to STOP the Destabilization of Bolivia Campaign | NGOWatch | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future.
Bolivia has transformed itself by ignoring the Washington Consensus | Luis Hernández Navarro | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Brasil

US Role in 1964 Brazilian Military Coup Revealed: National Security Archive | The Dominion
President Rousseff’s Decades-Old Torture Detailed - NYTimes.com

Chile

A Cacophony of Meaningless Far-Left Horseshit • Okay So I Think I Might Aswell Be Clear On My Own Ideological Beliefs For Once
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/Box 22, File 3, Telcon, 9-16-73 11,50 Mr. Kissinger-The Pres 2.pdf
U.S. Dept. of State FOIA Electronic Reading Room - Hinchey Report (CIA Activities in Chile)
U.S. Department of State FOIA Electronic Reading Room
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/701106.pdf
www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch05-01.htm
WikiLeaks cable: Chile suspected that the US exported biological agents to Pinochet regime | Current Events Inquiry
Selling Social Insecurity
Milton Friedman's "Chilean Miracle" | Dollars & Sense
Is Chile a Neoliberal Success? | Dollars & Sense
Media And Memory: The Arrest Of A Dictator
Chilean girls stage 'occupation' of their own school in education rights protest | World news | The Guardian
Hurricane Milton » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
The Road from Serfdom » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Augusto Pinochet: The passing of a tyrant | The Economist
New Statesman - Tory MP has "huge admiration" for Augusto Pinochet
Hayek von Pinochet - He sure loved freedom! « Corey Robin
Kissinger: Allende More Dangerous Than Castro « Corey Robin
Chile, the country Pinochet terrorised, is no longer afraid | Richard Seymour | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Chilean President Accused of Cooking Poverty Data - NYTimes.com
The Other September 11 - Forbes
Torture Under Pinochet | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
The Chicago Boys in Chile: Economic Freedom's Awfull Toll

Colombia

The AFL-CIO and Colombia » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Private security and 'the Israelites of Latin America' - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
The Shifting Contours of Colombia’s Armed Conflict | North American Congress on Latin America
Colombia plans to bleed FARC dry: Reuters - Colombia news | Colombia Reports
Slaughter in Colombia » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Illegal Wiretapping Continues in Colombia, U.N. Says - IPS ipsnews.net
The Official James Petras website » Columbia’s Quest for Peace and Justice: The International and National Context
Paramilitary to testify Drummond paid to kill unionists: Victims' lawyer - Colombia news | Colombia Reports
Colombia-US FTA will halt labor rights progress: WOLA - Colombia news | Colombia Reports
W. T. Whitney Jr., "Colombia: Struggle for Peace, Struggle over Land"
COLOMBIA-U.S. : Trade Deal "Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals," Critics Say - IPS ipsnews.net
Western banks 'reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade' | World news | The Observer
IPS – Colombian Informant Exposes Destabilisation Plot | Inter Press Service
Plan Colombia, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Rogue States), the FARC
Mary O'Grady Incites Violence in Colombian Peace Community
Plan Colombia: The Harmful Impacts of Aerial Spraying | AIDA
Covert action in Colombia | The Washington Post

Paraguay

Cable Viewer - PARAGUAYAN POLS PLOT PARLIAMENTARY PUTSCH
IPS – Paraguay Opens Doors to Unregulated Foreign Investment | Inter Press Service

Venezuela

Mezerhane

Bullshit: Obama’s policy on Venezuela leaves Chavez’s victims paying price - The Washington Post
Murder of Danilo Anderson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
VENEZUELA: Nelson Mezerhane attempted a banking coup using shares in Globovision

The Field: Chávez Derangement Syndrome
Syria: coup engineers used the same sniper tactic to incite Venezuelans in 2002 - YouTube
Coup Co-Conspirators as Free-Speech Martyrs — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
War on Venezuela: Washington’s False Accusations against the Chavez Government | venezuelanalysis.com
Extra! November/December 2006 — FAIR -- lots of good articles about Hugo Chavez
Hugo Chavez, the Press and the "Rule By Decree" Meme in Venezuela | venezuelanalysis.com
Good Things Happening in Venezuela
U.S. Papers Hail Venezuelan Coup as Pro-Democracy Move
Venezuela Establishes National Offices for the Defense of Women | venezuelanalysis.com
Imperial Projection
US: $20 Million for the Venezuelan Opposition in 2012 | venezuelanalysis.com
Editing Chavez to Manufacture a Slur
The Sham that was the Opposition Primaries | venezuelanalysis.com
Venezuela Solidarity Campaign (formerly the Venezuela Information Centre) - VSC welcomes Independent’s decision to retract story claiming 'homophobic rant' by President Chavez
Venezuela leads the world in supporting workers with its new Labor Law | Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |Axisoflogic.com
Venezuelan Opposition Promises “Renewal” for Venezuela-Israel Relations | venezuelanalysis.com
Our Man in Caracas: The U.S. Media and Henrique Capriles | North American Congress on Latin America
In Between Hill Stints, Connie Mack Chief Of Staff Was Paid By Foreign Lobbying Interests, Anti-Chavez Groups | Republic Report
Top US general: Venezuela not a threat - Salon.com
Venezuela Finds No Sign of Reported Massacre - NYTimes.com
Venezuela's Capriles Ousts Ally for Alleged Bribe - ABC News
UK Academics Call for End to Media Misrepresentation about Polls in Venezuela’s Election | venezuelanalysis.com
The Achievements of Hugo Chavez » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Chávez Haters Not “Limited by Truth, Reality or Common Sense” | The Americas Blog
Latest Human Rights Watch Report: 30 Lies about Venezuela | venezuelanalysis.com
Television in Venezuela: Who Dominates the Media?
Oops! Embarrassing Quote in NYT Article Says a Lot About NYT Reporting on Venezuela | The Americas Blog
Venezuelan Opposition Student's Leader Lorent Saleh linked with Colombian Nazi Party
Goods Shortages: The Media Is Covering Up What's Really Happening in Venezuela - PolicyMic

The West Aims to Turn the Entire Global South into a Failed State | Libyan Free Press
The Second Cold War and South America: New Strategic Directions on the Part of the United States
Colombia trained more than 13,000 foreign soldiers, looks to export security know-how - Colombia news | Colombia Reports

Dalek - Blessed Are They Who Bash Your Childrens Heads Against A Rock - YouTube
Marxism and Bourgeois Nationalism « The prison gates are open…
Manufacturing Failed States | Dissident Voice
United States and the International Criminal Court - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
U.S. continues Bush policy of opposing ICC prosecutions - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Who are the victims of civil liberties assaults and Endless War? - Salon.com
Michael Parenti : Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy: Information Clearing House: ICH
Journalists as Targets
The future of the Arab uprisings - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
American Service-Members' Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SteveLendmanBlog: The Business of America Is War
Kosovo terror training camps re-open for Syrian rebels - YouTube
Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798-2012
Steven Pinker on the Alleged Decline of Violence by Edward s. herman and david Peterson | ZNet Article
Walter Lippmann on why countries like Cuba (and Communism) must be stopped
U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP - The New York Times

Justice

Antonin Scalia

Scalia Mocks Sotomayor’s Compassion For ‘People Sitting in Their Feces for Days in a Dazed State’ | ThinkProgress
Let The Corporate Tea Bagging Begin! See comments- By - The eXiled
Ann Schneider, "Do the Innocent Have a Right Not to Be Executed?"
DISSENTING JUSTICE: Justice Scalia Finally Admits That He Believes Sex Discrimination Is Constitutional
The Pathological Dissents of Antonin Scalia » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
“he loves killing unarmed animals,” observes Clarence Thomas
Antonin Scalia Defends Legal Writings Some View As Offensive, Anti-Gay

Arbitration

Supreme Court Class Ruling Is Win for Business - NYTimes.com
Consumer advocates slam credit-card arbitration / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
Corporate America Wins Again With Supreme Court Ruling Against Class Action Small Claims | FDL News Desk
Supreme Court’s Arbitration Ruling Draws Liberals’ Ire - Law Blog - WSJ

Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas' dangerous conceit - Los Angeles Times
Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group - Los Angeles Times
Will Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself on Health Care Reform? | Mother Jones
Clarence Thomas "Outraged" by Treatment of His Nephew | Mother Jones
Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says - Los Angeles Times
Clarence Thomas and His Wife’s $680,000 of Unreported Income « Above the Law: A Legal Tabloid - News and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession
Clarence Thomas' Wife Cashes In as Tea Party Lobbyist | Mother Jones
Calif. video game ban struck down by Supreme Court | Full Page
Clarence Thomas once described federal habeas corpus review as "an affront to a state."

International Corporate Immunity

Valerie Brender: Supreme Court: Are Corporations Liable for Aiding and Abetting Crimes Against Humanity?
The Supreme Court considers whether Royal Dutch Shell is immune from liability for human rights abuses because it is a corporation. - Slate Magazine
Lawfare › Kiobel: Obama Administration Supports Shell, Argues ATS Should Not Apply to Aiding-and-Abetting Suits Against Foreign Corporations, Leaves Open Possibility of Suits Against U.S. Corporations

Wal-Mart Class Action Suit

Victory for Walmart as huge sex bias case is thrown out | Business | The Guardian
Can A Business Be Too Big For A Class Action Suit? : NPR
Consumer lawsuits: Supreme Court ruling may limit class-action consumer lawsuits - latimes.com
ZCommunications | Walmart: Too Big to Sue? by Laura Flanders | ZNet Article
Supreme court: Judges already citing Wal-Mart ruling in environmental cases -- 02/06/2012 -- www.eenews.net
The Impact and Echoes of the Wal-Mart Discrimination Case - ProPublica

TRIAS POLITICA: On Corporate law and rights | re-think america
The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
Supreme Court becoming a tool for corporate interests: study | The Raw Story
Supreme Court Inc. - New York Times
The Supreme Court’s continuing defense of the powerful - The Washington Post
Justices Limit Use of Corruption Law - NYTimes.com
The Supreme Court shows corporate America how to screw over its customers and employees without breaking the law. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine
Supreme Court weakens law used to convict corporate criminals | McClatchy
Justices Dismiss $14 Million Jury Award to Freed Death Row Inmate - NYTimes.com
Summer Rerun: Bankruptcy Cramdown Defeated: Banksters Again Prevail Over Real Economy « naked capitalism
Ruling Implies That Espionage Act Could Cover Unclassified Info | Secrecy News
Activist Supreme Court Makes Government Bigger | Beat the Press
DOJ Defies Court Ruling on GPS Tracking - Democracy Now!
Federal judges are more subservient to executive branch wishes than even DOJ lawyers are

"Good" Justice Appointees

In a first test for court watchers, Sotomayor upholds death sentence
These Are Your Rights on Drugs
Sonia Sotomayor: Abortion Rights Groups Wary of Obama's Supreme Court Justice Nominee - ABC News
So glad the Dems eliminated the filibuster so Obama can now get this anti-union judge confirmed.

Kill Whitey

Affirmative Action

UnderstandingPrejudice.org: Ten Myths About Affirmative Action
Playing the Violence Card | "When Affirmative Action Was White" | NYTimes.com
College clout: Some admissions officials report outside pressure - chicagotribune.com
Affirmative Action Coverage Ignores Women—and Discrimination
The Right Has a Dream
The Blair Witch Trial
FYML - Reflections on the 'Rise of Asian Americans' or, Don't Believe the Hype
At the elite colleges - dim white kids - The Boston Globe
When Affirmative Action Was White

The Earth Shall Weep

South Dakota Profits When Native Kids Get Thrown Into Foster Care - COLORLINES
US should return stolen land to Indian tribes, says United Nations | World news | guardian.co.uk
Brief History of American Indian Education - Expanding the Circle
Hitler’s Inspiration and Guide: The Native American Holocaust | Jewish Journal

Gentrification

Militarized Policing, Gentrifying City: Doubting NYPD Reforms - City Conversations - CityLimits.org
Bakery owner fatally shoots herself inside shop | New York Post

Redlining

Housing Segregation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Redlining in Philadelphia
The Color of Money
Insuring Inequality: The Role of the Federal Housing Administration in the Urban Ghettoization of African Americans | reminder that white suburbs were built with heavy federal subsidies
Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law - ProPublica
Kiran Herbert: Portland and Portlandia, Two Worlds of Whiteness - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Reminder for all South-bashers today, racial segregation is worse in the northeast than in the South.
The Ghetto Is Public Policy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic

Trayvon Martin

What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012) | ThinkProgress
Trayvon Martin 911 Calls [Audio] | Axiom Amnesia
Trayvon Martin Case: Exclusive Surveillance Video of George Zimmerman - ABC News
Trayvon Martin: The 5 Key Unanswered Questions | ThinkProgress
The 'Color-Blind' Delusions of the Trayvon Backlash - Esquire
George Zimmerman has a prior arrest record, hence why he'd be loathe to face charges or indictment
George Zimmerman, Son of a Retired Judge, Has 3 Closed Arrests | Rolling Out - Black News, Celebrity Videos, Entertainment, Business & Politics
Re-Nigging on the Promises: #Justice4Trayvon « The Crunk Feminist Collective
In 2010, the son of a Sanford Police Department lieutenant assaulted a homeless black man outside a bar. He was also released without charges, Parker said.
46 Calls - The Daily Beast
Zimmerman's 911 call log
Trayvon Martin George Zimmerman: New details in George Zimmerman domestic violence petitions - Orlando Sentinel
Fugitive Slave Mentality - NYTimes.com
Funeral director: No injuries on Trayvon’s hands | HLNtv.com
The Gated Community Mentality - NYTimes.com
George Zimmerman lost job as party security guard for being too aggressive, ex-co-worker says - NY Daily News
Trayvon Martin News Shooting 911 Call - Listen to Trayvon Martin Getting Shot - YouTube
Robert Zimmerman | News One
Armed Neo-Nazis Now Patrolling Sanford, Say They Are "Prepared" For Post-Trayvon Martin Violence - Miami News - Riptide 2.0
Racist past haunts town where Trayvon died - World - Canoe.ca
BREAKING: George Zimmerman Launches Website, Features Vandalized Black Cultural Center | ThinkProgress
SPLC Demands Reinstatement of Michigan Teacher Fired over Trayvon Martin Fundraiser | Southern Poverty Law Center
Super Not Racist Zimmerman Family: AG Eric Holder Protecting New Black Panthers Because He Is Black
When “stand your ground” fails - Salon.com
Young, Black, Male, and Stalked by Bias - NYTimes.com
Ms. Blaspheming Bitch - George Zimmerman forgot to tell his lawyer about his PayPal donations
Trayvon Martin Case Shadowed by Police Missteps - NYTimes.com
AUDIO: Witness Says George Zimmerman Repeatedly Bullied Him At Work, Targeted Him With Racist Jokes | ThinkProgress
George Zimmerman Witnesses Change Accounts to more Damaging Story of Trayvon's Murder
Race has complex role in Stand Your Ground cases - Trayvon Martin - MiamiHerald.com
Zimmerman Accused of Molesting Family Member in Court Testimony - COLORLINES
Fla. mom gets 20 years for firing warning shots - CBS News
Zimmerman Prosecutor Angela Corey's Smile Is Under Fire
George Zimmerman stopped for speeding - practically gets royal treatment from cops despite possibly pulling a gun out of his glove compartment
George Zimmerman's De Facto Spokesman Launches a White-Power Podcast | Mother Jones

White Privilege

Researcher correlates awareness of racism to knowledge of U.S. history | The University of Kansas | The University of Kansas
28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors
Color-blind racial ideology linked to racism, both online and offline | News Bureau | University of Illinois
Video: Racism? What Would You Do? Man Stealing Bike In Park! (Different Reactions When They Changed Race From White TO Black)
Touré: Inside the Racist Mind | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
Having a Black Friend Doesn't Change Racial Bias | See section on "a 2011 study" | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Why Can't Blacks Get Over Racism??? Because It's Still Happening That's Why!!! Pt. 2 - YouTube
The Rewards Of Being White, Male And A Rule Breaker
Idea of a fair society taken for a ride
How To Talk To Someone About Privilege Who Doesn't Know What That Is — Everyday Feminism
Not Yet Human: Calling Bush an Ape is not the same as calling Obama an ape

Media Myth Making
The Black Laws of Oregon, 1844-1857 | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed
A layer cake of racist lies - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Lynching in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Racism killed his family | SocialistWorker.org
ZCommunications | What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Jobs by Andy Kroll | ZNet Article
Blacks' economic gains wiped out in downturn - Business - Eye on the Economy - msnbc.com
Torturing Detroit's Kids for Racist Fun and Profit | Common Dreams
Farm Subsidies Overwhelmingly Support White Farmers - COLORLINES
Transportation For America » Prosecuting the victim, absolving the perpetrators
Economics focus: Don’t look down | The Economist
Clothes make the man and his race, study shows | UCI School of Social Sciences
A History of Georgia’s 1%: Why You Must Face Race to Occupy Atlanta - COLORLINES
Black Mother Jailed For Sending Kids to White School District : Black Economic Development
Bridgeport woman arrested for registering son in Norwalk school - StamfordAdvocate
FYML - thefuckingloudestazns: Spread widely: The Murder of Vincent Chin
White grandfather detained, cuffed in Austin while walking home with his black granddaughter - Boing Boing
Black Students Face More Harsh Discipline, Data Shows - NYTimes.com
Torn From The Land Part III
In Chicago, even wealthy black families live in poor neighborhoods | Chicago Muckrakers
Richer minorities seen living in poorer neighborhoods - USATODAY.com
Using Black children as guinea pigs | SocialistWorker.org
Study finds TV can decrease self-esteem in children, except white boys | Science Codex
U.S. accuses New Berlin of racial bias in housing decision - JSOnline
Murder of Stephen Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guess what? Non-white people don't oppose gay marriage.
Study Finds Blacks Blocked From Southern Juries - NYTimes.com
So Far This Year, L.A. County Sheriff's Dogs Have Only Bitten People of Color - Mike Riggs - The Atlantic Cities
RACE - The Power of an Illusion | White Advantage

Liberalism

On "Liberty"

Let It Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace — Crooked Timber
"Lenin on Freedom"
US diplomat in El Salvador: Calls for “participatory democracy” are threatening to democracy | Current Events Inquiry

Federalism

Fed Up With Federalism | News & Politics | AlterNet
HOUSE APPROVES Kansas Law Legalize Discrimination | Advocate.com
Lincoln on the Nightmare of Federalism | Jacobin

Kabuki

Democrats are Dogshit

"Clinton" is a dirty word

Clinton Legacy: "Restoring Slavery" at $300m Haitian Industrial Complex | Common Dreams
CLINTON SAYS U.S. WILL CONTINUE BAN ON HAITIAN EXODUS - New York Times
Bill Clinton: Haiti’s Neo-Colonial Overlord | Black Agenda Report
Bill Clinton Loves Haiti | Black Agenda Report
Bill Clinton on Keystone XL pipeline: 'Embrace' it - POLITICO.com
Quote For The Day - Billy Clinton on Iraq, 2002« The Dish
A Legacy of Lies
BBC News | AMERICAS | Gore: Saddam must go
Layla Al-Attar, famed Iraqi artist killed by clinton to make his poll numbers go up through pure jingoism
Ricky Ray Rector, mentally retarded inmate, executed by bill clinton so that he'd look like a big man ahead of the NH primary
Bill Clinton warns Israel of the danger of too many Palestinian babies.
State Department reveals Hillary Clinton received $500K worth of jewelry from Saudi king - Daily News
Hillary Clinton Iraq War Vote Speech - YouTube
Secret Rahm memo to Clinton: Step up attack on immigrants. Be Nixon on crime. | Fred Klonsky
Empire Slayer: Hillary Clinton Pro-War and Imperialism Record in Bullet Points
Carl Beijer: Why is Clinton using Trump to promote Republicans?

Can the Left take over the Democratic Party?
‘Lesser-evil’ politics demoralize and demobilize progressives
Why we don't spend as much time denouncing republicans as we do democrats - Black Agenda Report
Democrats Use Planned Parenthood Debate to Raise Funds - ABC News
CREDO Calls Out DCCC for Funding Anti-Woman Candidates | FDL News Desk
Dennis Kucinich and “wackiness” - Salon.com
When Democrats call in the cops | SocialistWorker.org
Democrats Offer Significant Concessions — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil? | Black Agenda Report
What's In A Name? Dems Support Social Security Benefit Cut -- By Calling It Something Else | TPMDC
State Senate limits collective bargaining rights; approves $30.5b budget - Boston.com
Massachusetts Dems vote to strip public unions of bargaining rights | The Raw Story
Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats by David Swanson | ZNet Article
Planned Parenthood v. Casey - Democrats Sell Out Women
Would Democrats have supported extrajudicial killings under Attorney General John Ashcroft? - The Washington Post
House Poised to Gut Derivative Reforms | The Nation
Why Campaigning for Democrats Cripples Labor Unions | Common Dreams
Lee Fang: Howard Dean Advises Corporate Health Care Clients To Fund ‘Both Sides,’ Run Attack Ads « naked capitalism
Democrats talk about cutting entitlements. Republicans don’t talk about raising taxes. - The Washington Post
Runaway train on entitlement cuts? by digby
Digby - "when I look at what’s more important, the myth or millions of people suffering needlessly, I know where I come down."
Cory Booker's Political Career Guided By Top Wall St Donors To Romney's Super PAC
While you were distracted by NATO ... Rahm was being a fucker | Ben Joravsky on Politics | Chicago Reader
Sources: Cuomo tried to keep New York public labor heads off DNC delegate list (Updated) - POLITICO.com
Bain actually loves Dems « LBO News from Doug Henwood
If the Democratic Party was even centrist almost all of its members in Congress would cosponsor this. Only 17 have
John Kerry wonders if "public had to know" US engages in cyberterror & calls any adult male it kills a "militant."
Democratic mayors (including Michelle Rhee's husband) undermine teachers unions w/help from shady PR firm Walden Media
Even though Norman Solomon might be his opponent, DCCC (as usual) endorses more conservative Democrat for Congress
Dems: Individual Mandate Is About Punishing ‘Freeloaders’
County Democratic official Garcia resigns after emails telling the truth about Israel
Scranton, Pa., slashes workers' pay to minimum wage - Lean Forward
Dems Nominate Anti-Gay Conspiracy Theorist for Senate | Mother Jones
The "Christiecrats" attack labor | SocialistWorker.org
Obama Summons G.O.P. and Democratic Leaders for Deficit Reduction Talks - NYTimes.com
Elected as a Democrat, Now Governing the City Like a Republican
Democrats won’t disclose [zillionaire] donors to convention until after the event - The Washington Post
Muslim Jumah ends with disappointing attendance | CharlotteObserver.com
Chicago Teachers Find Emanuel’s Prominent DNC Speaking Slot ‘Ironic’ - Working In These Times
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Rahm sends millions in TIF money to Penny -- not to schools
Emanuel and a legion of financiers and philanthropists believe that failing schools should be closed and reopened with new staff and principals to give the students the best chance of improving academically. Read more on Newsmax.com: Chicago Teachers to Decide Whether to End Week-Long Strike Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!
Devaluing care work — and women - Salon.com
The Indefinite Detention of the Progressive Voter | War Is A Crime .org
Don’t Worry, California’s New Democratic Supermajority Promises It Will Do ‘Nothing’
Secretary of State Candidate Has a Major Financial Stake in Canadian Tar Sands | OnEarth Magazine
Why does Obama keep raiding the Senate for his cabinet? - The Week
democrats cave on filibuster reform - it's almost like they don't have a problem with it
California Democrats lose supermajority in state Senate - Chicago Tribune
Democrats hide when asked about ending high-income loophole to assure Social Security’s future | Remapping Debate
U.S. Senate (including Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin) Votes Down State GMO Labeling | PR Watch
Dems Al Franken & Sheldon Whitehouse back Graham measure mandating special profiling of Muslims
Franken and Klobuchar (any a bunch of others) vote down increase to food stamp funding
Sen. Dick Durbin: It’s time to say who’s a real reporter - Chicago Sun-Times
Sen. Schumer: ‘Stop and frisk’ Ray Kelly should be new Homeland secretary | The Raw Story
Tikkun Daily Blog » Here Are The 76 Senators (including Elizabeth Warren) Who Told Obama To Give AIPAC The Iran War It Wants
Weakening California's environmental regulations is "the Lord's work," said Gov. Jerry Brown
State Rep. Uses Sledgehammer To Destroy Homeless People's Possessions | ThinkProgress
Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor says the Bible, not partisanship, should guide politics | The Raw Story
That time Democrats opposed a minimum wage hike
The Myth of Swing Voters — dems lose midterms because their voting base doesn't turn out for another backstabbing
Son of U.S. Vice President Biden Joins Ukraine Gas Company | Business | The Moscow Times
Democrats Are Killing a $15 Minimum Wage in Providence - Businessweek
Surprise-- courageous Elizabeth Warren is craven on Israel lobby
Fat on Restaurant Cash, Democratic Lawmakers Float Minimum Wage Preemption in IL | PR Watch
Minnesota's only women's substance abuse treatment center to close | Northland's NewsCenter: News, Weather, Sports | NBC, CBS, MyNetworkTV, and The CW for Duluth MN / Superior WI | Local News
Prominent Democratic Consultants Sign Up to Defeat Single Payer in Colorado
Democrats do not want to listen to voters, they want bernie to get them to shut up

Media "Choosing" Candidates

Fox Business comes out with a bizzarely accurate analysis of liberal democracy
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Why WaPo Won't Cover Ron Paul: He Looks Funny, Sounds Funny
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » The Fading Bachmann 'Momentum'
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » It's GOOD That Romney Has No Principles
Weeding the Field
A reporter asked pres. candidate Barry Commoner: "Are you a serious candidate, or are you just running on the issues?”

Money in Politics

FORTUNE: Make 150,000% Today! - Jan. 27, 2006
Two Political Parties For The Prices Of $1,188,644,055 | ZeroHedge
The Third-Party Lock Out | FAIR Blog
Congressional Members' Personal Wealth Expands Despite Sour National Economy - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets
Firm gives $1 million to pro-Romney group, dissolves - politics - Decision 2012 - msnbc.com

Clinton Encourages Ryan Backstage
Congressional polarization is plainly driven first of all by money flows, and not by public opinion
"Why I Won't Vote" by W.E.B. DuBois | breakingbrown.com
US Congress expands authoritarian anti-protest law
CHART OF THE DAY: If Congress Does Nothing, The Deficit Will Disappear | TPMDC
PACs Contribute $83K to Super Committee Members - ABC News
Obama seeks broad deal on entitlements, tax code in debt talks - latimes.com
The Secret Austerity Society: Bipartisan Group Works on Grand Bargain | FDL News Desk
The moral imperative for deficit cutting - War Room - Salon.com
IRS Buckled To GOP Pressure On Secret Donations, Lawyer Says
Huntsman vs Perry - YouTube
Congress Quietly Clearing the Decks, Avoiding Hostage Situations | FDL News Desk
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Media Malpractice on the Debt Debate
Symptoms of the Bush-Obama presidency - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
The Public-Private Partnership Behind Zuccotti Park - Eyes on the Ties
Bill Clinton, the Person Who Set the Economy on Its Bubble Driven Path, Has Economic Advice for the Country | Beat the Press
Senate approves $662 billion defense bill - Yahoo! News
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » A Fox News Blacklist?
Cuomo's Koch Problem
Bain gives more campaign money to Democrats than it does to Republicans - TheHill.com
Universal health care proposal stalls in California Senate | McClatchy
Does the 2012 Presidential Election Matter? « naked capitalism
We’re Going To Tax Their Ass Off! « Corey Robin
Frank Rich: Why We Can't Forget That Gay Marriage's Liberal Champions Spent Decades on the Wrong Side of the Issue -- New York Magazine
Kenzo Shibata: The Battle of Chicago Teachers Union Vs. Out-of-Town Billionaires
Ann M. Schneider, "The Audacity of an Imperial President"
Bill Blum on the potential of a Romney-Ryan presidency
Presidential Debates Are Duopoly by Design
Democrats gave to repulsive Todd Akin's campaign because a crazier guy makes it easier to elect a democrat
the finance industry could yet trim some parts of the law because changes now are politically less risky for the administration and Democrats in Congress

Voter Suppression

shut up republicans

Texas warns it could prosecute OSCE poll monitors - Yahoo! News UK
Suspicious voter registration forms found in 10 Florida counties - latimes.com
GOP Voter Fraud Accusations Suddenly Blowing Up In Their Faces
No One in America Should Have to Wait 7 Hours to Vote | "There is no hidden agenda here" | - Andrew Cohen - The Atlantic
Conservative Groups Focus on Registration in Swing States - NYTimes.com
True The Vote Barred From Ohio Polling Stations
Republican Operative Paul Weyrich - I do not want everybody to vote.mp4 - YouTube
Republican woman arrested in Nevada by FBI for voter fraud - Detroit liberal | Examiner.com
Mitt Romney Tried to Rig NAACP Crowd by Flying in His Own African Americans
GOP REDMAP Memo Admits Gerrymandering To Thank For Congressional Election Success
Roxanne Rubin, Nevada Republican, Accepts Plea Deal After Committing Voter Fraud
Woman Pleads Guilty to Felony Election Fraud in Augusta - NBC29 WVIR Charlottesville, VA News, Sports and Weather
BOR: Some Texas Republicans Very Open About Disliking Non-White Voting
GOP chairman Charlie Webster to investigate ‘black people’ voting as potential fraud — Politics — Bangor Daily News — BDN Maine
Even The Daily Show Was Shocked by This Racist GOP Leader's Responses
Georgia State Senator Complains That Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People (Updated) | ThinkProgress

FAIR Blog » For False Balance, WaPo Cites Phony Report on Vote Fraud
Voter Identification Fact Sheet | Demos
RNLA's New Voter Fraud Map Provides Little Evidence Of Voter Fraud | Political Correction
NAACP warns black and Hispanic Americans could lose right to vote | World news | guardian.co.uk
NAACP to provide voter suppression evidence to UN - Chicago Feminism | Examiner.com
Election Law Experts Say James O’Keefe Allies Could Face Charges Over Voter Fraud Stunt | TPMMuckraker
O'Keefe's Video On "Eric Holder's Ballot": Still Not Voter Fraud | Media Matters for America
Fox Downplayed Voter ID Concerns, But Republican Now Admits Voter ID Laws Could Help GOP | Media Matters for America
Texas Voter ID Law, Which Accepts Gun Licenses But Not Student IDs, Challenged In Court | ThinkProgress
Two New Reports (Further) Debunk Right-Wing Media Claims That Voter ID is "Colorblind" | Blog | Media Matters for America
Ohio Republican Party: GOP Chairman Made Racist Remarks Because He Thought He Was Speaking Off the Record
Boehner Says Out Loud He Hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Won't Show Up' This Election - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
Demos Bullies at the Box Report - An Ominous Warning for the Mess at the Polls in November - Esquire
States Deny Millions Of Ex-Felons Voting Rights
3.2 million shut out in NYC: Listen to Board of Elections tell resident “You cannot vote today being an independent” - Salon.com

Stolen Elections

Another Reminder: The 2000 Election Was Not Peaceful | The Raw Story
New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked
The Stolen Presidential Elections
ZCommunications | The Stolen Election of 2004 by Michael Parenti | ZNet Article
Allegations of Voting Rights Violations Need Investigation
A Silent Coup d’État: Only in America :: Monthly Review
OnPolitics (washingtonpost.com)

The Glories of Social Democracy

Dear Jamie Oliver, poverty isn't picturesque by the Mediterranean either
Mind the maternity gap: 50,000 women a year don’t get jobs back after taking leave - Home News - UK - The Independent
Dutch pension giant ditches Israeli banks over involvement with settlements | Mondoweiss
Velina Tchakarova on Twitter: "#Greece: Germany Gained 100bn From The #GreekCrisis according to a study http://t.co/UNBBtOCeB2 cc @yanisvaroufakis http://t.co/8pdnBGtty8"

Is reforming capitalism enough? | SocialistWorker.org
Forget Orwell
Weaponized debate « An und für sich
The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained - YouTube
Elections Under Capitalism - Peta Lindsay - YouTube
Sure, both parties steal your vote, but now the Ds are talking about suspending elections | Corrente
Matt Stoller: Why Ron Paul Challenges Liberals « naked capitalism
GGDrafts: Jay Rosen on political possibility
Ron Paul has two problems: one is his, the other is ours. « Corey Robin
“Democracy in Peril: The American Turnout Problem and the Path to Plutocracy”: Walter Dean Burnham Reveals Disturbing Changes in Voting Patterns | Roosevelt Institute
Libyans ‘would prefer one-man-rule over democracy’ - University of Oxford
Catholic Fund Heightens Scrutiny of Recipients’ Ties - NYTimes.com
If you’re a customer, you get to make noise; if you’re a worker, you don’t. « Corey Robin
Democracy is not necessarily good for the poor - research | World news | guardian.co.uk
Hannah Arendt, white supremacist - Opinion - Jerusalem Post

Military-Industrial Complex

Blackwater

Exclusive: U.S. Blocks Oversight of Its Mercenary Army in Iraq | Danger Room | Wired.com
Blackwater’s New Ethics Chief: John Ashcroft | Danger Room | Wired.com
Blackwater Founder Forms Secret Army for Arab State - NYTimes.com
New Blackwater revelations in recently published hearing | Current Events Inquiry
Blackwater/Xe Front Companies Chart | Public Intelligence
Blackwater's Black Ops
'Gentlemen, We Shot a Judge' and Other Tales of Blackwater, DynCorp, and Triple Canopy's Rampage Through Iraq
“The Warrior Class”: The Blackwater Videos—By Harper's Magazine (Harper's Magazine)
Blackwater’s Slap on the Wrist for Gun Smuggling and Arms Trafficking | emptywheel
BBC News - Firm formerly called Blackwater settles US arms case
Exclusive: Erik Prince on Blackwater’s Secret CIA Past - The Daily Beast
Erik Prince: Blackwater Founder, Free Market Condottiero | PandoDaily
Before Shooting in Iraq, Warning on Blackwater - NYTimes.com
Blackwater merc gets drunk and kills guard to iraqi vice-president
Blackwater merc wanted to kill iraqis for "payback for 9/11"
LiveLeak.com - Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls

Embezzlement

Leaked Audit: Boeing Overcharged Army Up to 177,000 Percent on Helicopter Spare Parts
Deficit-reduction defense cuts worry contractors: Defense companies wrestle with proposed military spending cuts - OrlandoSentinel.com
Priorities of the 112th Congress | Current Events Inquiry
LTV XC-142 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
US defence contractors ‘waste’ $12m a day - FT.com
The Decade's Biggest Scam | Common Dreams
America’s Secret Libya War: U.S. Spent $1 Billion on Covert Ops Helping NATO - The Daily Beast
How KBR Killed My Career » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
One Salient Oversight: US Defense Cost Overruns: F-35 vs F4
"Should Cost" vs. "Did Cost": How the Military-Industrial Complex Swindles Billions of Our Dollars | Truthout
Erik Prince, Former Blackwater CEO, Threatens Jan Schakowsky Over Her 'Defamatory Statements'
Director of federal drone program targeted in ethics investigation - latimes.com
Blacklisted Contractor Continues Receiving Government Money Through Haiti Contracts | Op-Eds & Columns
The Heritage Foundation Then and Now » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Pentagon misreports or ignores long-term weapons costs | iWatch News by The Center for Public Integrity
Why the Pentagon’s New Fighter Jet Will Now Cost More Than $1 Trillion - ProPublica
How the Government Pays Defense Contractors Tens of Billions for Nothing - NationalJournal.com
U.S. Air Force probed for scrapping costly planes bought for Afghans | Reuters
Pentagon Report Cast Futher Doubts on F-35's Combat Readiness
The Navy's $864 Million Underwater Drones Still Don't Work - Bloomberg

Incompetence

U.S. trucking contracts funded Taliban, source says - CNN.com
Home - Federal Contractor Misconduct Database - POGO
AllGov - News - KBR Tries to Convince Judge to Use Iraqi Law in Shower Death of Green Beret
High-Priced F-22 Fighter Has Major Shortcomings
B-2 Bomber crashes because of rain
AFP: US grounds fleet of F-22 fighter jets, indefinitely
The War Nerd: This Is How the Carriers Will Die (Updated Version) - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled
Counterfeit chips continue to plague Pentagon weapons systems | iWatch News
US Drones Keep Falling Out of the Sky | FDL News Desk
Report: UAV can’t fly in Afghanistan heat - Marine Corps News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Marine Corps Times
Air Force grounds F-22 fleet yet again — RT
F-35 failure forces countries to reconsider contracts — RT
US fighter pilots have asked not to fly the military's 200 F-22 Raptors because of oxygen-deficit problems | Mail Online
F-22 Raptor's oxygen systems may be altered, Air Force says - KansasCity.com
Exclusive: Video Shows Drunk, Stoned US Defense Contractors - Yahoo! News
Another Day, Another $678 Million Stealth Jet Wrecked | Danger Room | Wired.com
Navy's £5bn Harrier jet replacement 'unable to land on aircraft carriers' - Telegraph
official DoD report: the f-35 is a hunk of shit
US air force strips 17 officers of power to launch nuclear missiles | World news | guardian.co.uk
Exclusive: U.S. waived laws to keep F-35 on track with China-made parts | Reuters
F’d: How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane — War is Boring — Medium
Some Embarrassing Details From the Pentagon’s Latest Stealth Fighter Report — War is Boring — Medium
A Russian 1950s Mig-21 CAN KILL F-35 in a dog fight Top US Aircraft designer claims FUNNY STUFF - YouTube

Rigged Tests

THE EXILE - U Sank My Carrier! - By Gary Brecher - The War Nerd
Myth Of US Invincibility Floats In The Persian Gulf
War game was fixed to ensure American victory, claims general | World news | The Guardian
Pentagon Rigs the Dice
The Pentagon Wars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Millennium Challenge 2002 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

War Is A Racket, by Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
The true cost of national security : Columbia Journalism Review
The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending :: Monthly Review
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
Military weapons, arms, defense: Foreign demand for weapons keeps U.S. defense firms going - latimes.com
Air Conditioning the Military Costs More Than NASA's Entire Budget - Gizmodo
Bear Left!: In the Grip of a Permanent War Economy
'War on terror' set to surpass cost of Second World War - Americas, World - The Independent
Report: $3.7 Trillion For U.S. Wars, $12,000 Per Person
ZCommunications | What Almost $8 Trillion in National Security Spending Bought You by Christopher Hellman | ZNet Article
ZCommunications | Pentagon Budget Cuts Said To Be “Illusory” by Sherwood Ross | ZNet Article
The Dead, the Dollars, the Drones: 9/11 Era by the Numbers | Danger Room | Wired.com
The Pentagon Labyrinth: 10 Short Essays to Help You Through It | Defense and the National Interest
PERI: : The U.S. Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending Priorities: 2011 Update
false dichotomy by charles davis: A walking tour of the military-industrial complex
America's $1 Trillion National Security Budget

Neo-Fascism

Arizona

Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors | the narcosphere
Arizona official targets Mexican-American Studies department | Inside Higher Ed
Arizona Border Fence Causes Flood and Self-Destructs—as Predicted - COLORLINES

La Migra!

How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration | The Nation
Georgia puts probationers to work in fields after farmers complain about immigration crackdown | StarTribune.com
Mexican workers sue Newport farm » Knoxville News Sentinel
Proposed Texas immigration law contains convenient loophole for ‘the help’ - Yahoo! News
Immigrant exodus could hurt Tuscaloosa rebuilding effort | al.com
Mexican Citizen Executed in Texas as Justices Refuse to Intervene - NYTimes.com
Mexican Nationals & Texas Death Penalty - J.S. Medina - Foreign Nationals - the International Justice Project
Fredericksburg.com - Feeding the frenzy
Secure Communities' documents show immigration officials misled public, judge says - latimes.com
Daily Kos: How neoliberalism ruined Mexico
Democracy Now! | Headlines for September 28, 2011
U.S. citizenship no defense against deportation threat | StarTribune.com
Measures to Capture Illegal Aliens Nab Citizens - NYTimes.com
Dobbs' Choice
Unauthorized Immigrants Pay Taxes, Too | Immigration Policy Center
Massachusetts Republican: Undocumented Immigrant Rape Victims ‘Should Be Afraid To Come Forward’ | ThinkProgress
David L. Wilson, "Occupying the Immigration Debate"
Do Children Harvest Your Food? - Helene York - Health - The Atlantic
Death on the Border: Shocking Video Shows Mexican Immigrant Beaten and Tased by Border Patrol Agents
Five myths and facts about immigration
haha republicans - Mark Krikorian on CAFTA on National Review Online
Cloaked Brutality: The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty - Page 1 - News - Phoenix - Phoenix New Times
Hate Speech, Media Activism and the First Amendment
New Report Uncovers Depths of Humanitarian Crisis Caused by Alabama's Draconian Anti-Immigrant Law - National Immigration Law Center
US dropping deportees in violent Mexican city where they are often preyed upon
the National Academy of Sciences found that immigrants benefit the U.S. economy overall, have little negative effect on the income and job opportunities of most native-born Americans, and may add as much as $10 billion to the economy each year
US: Sexual Violence, Harassment of Immigrant Farmworkers | Human Rights Watch
On the heels of Obama’s CIR plan to expand border enforcement, a new report uncovers nearly 300 wrongful arrests by Border Patrol | Families for Freedom
During polygraphs, border agency applicants admit to rape, kidnapping | Center for Investigative Reporting
official US policy is to "funnel" border crossers into harsh deserts where they die agonizing deaths
THE “FUNNEL EFFECT” & RECOVERED BODIES OF UNAUTHORIZED MIGRANTS PROCESSED BY THE PIMA COUNTY OFFICE OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, 1990-2005
Few ICE Detainers Target Serious Criminals
REPORT: U.S. Officials Systemically Abused Immigrants And Took Their Possessions | ThinkProgress
Little-Known Immigration Mandate Keeps Detention Beds Full : NPR
Murrieta's Anger Toward Immigrants Comes From The Top | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Orientalism

All American Muslim

Companies pull ads from Muslim reality TV show - The Washington Post
I’ve Already Warned You About “All American Muslim”
Suehaila Amen: TLC “All-American Muslim” Star is Hezbollah/HAMAS Supporter, CAIR Activist
Bush says "the teachings of islam are the teachings of peace"
The Florida Family Association's One-Man Outrage Machine | Right Wing Watch
Anti-Muslim Hate Site Removed After CAIR's Intervention -- WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
CAIR Asks FBI to Probe Internet Threats to Mosques -- WASHINGTON, Nov. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

Islamophobia is Real

FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
Eight attacks, 11 days - Salon.com
This guy died horrifically for being brown, and being in front of a September 11-citing bigot on the subway platform
What Would You Do ? ... Muslims In America - YouTube
What Would You Do Show - Stuck on the Road - YouTube
Tampa police: Marine reservist attacked Greek priest he mistook for terrorist | Tampa Bay Times

Islamophobic Hoaxes

Debunked: the Zionist and Islamophobic libel of a "rape epidemic" by Muslims in Norway | The Electronic Intifada
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Newsweek and the 'War on Christians'
The Oklahoma City Bombing
Will AP correct damaging false report about "forced conversions" of Christians in Gaza? | The Electronic Intifada
snopes.com: Hamas Mass Wedding for 450 Little Girls
The Man Too Handsome for Saudi Arabia Who Wasn’t | islawmix
Wedding night death of girl, 8, denied in Yemen | GulfNews.com
snopes.com: Iranian Law Requires Badges for Jews and Christians
The man whose job was fanning communal fire | The Indian Express

NYPD vs Die Ewige Arab

In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims - NYTimes.com
NYPD sought to spy on thousands of Shiites, based solely on religion, as a way to trawl for terrorists. NYPD document:
The Associated Press: Document shows NYPD eyed Shiites based on religion
The Associated Press: NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
NYPD spying program aimed at Muslims - Salon.com
Ethnic Spying Scandal Swells As Ray Kelly’s NYPD Oversteps Its Bounds - The Daily Beast
If Radical Muslims Aren’t Found at Kosher Delis, Then Why Did NYPD Look for Them at Kosher Butchers? | emptywheel
White House helps pay for NYPD Muslim surveillance - BostonHerald.com
Twitter / @ggreenwald: That's what a Surveillance ...
Three in elite NYPD anti-gun unit accused of treating black suspects like 'animals' - NY Daily News
NYPD informant: "I honestly thought i was fighting terrorism, but let's be real, it's all a f...king scheme" | Reuters
Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims - Yahoo! News
NYPD designates mosques as terrorism organizations
Police Unit That Spied on Muslims (and didn't get a single lead, that is, zero leads) Is Disbanded - NYTimes.com
FBI FISA request template names suspect as "Mohammed Raghead"
N.Y. police regularly violated rules on probing Muslim groups: watchdog | Reuters

Right Wing Terrorism

Anders Behring Breivik

A vile logic to Anders Breivik's choice of target | Slavoj Žižek | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Right-Wing Media Outraged Norway Attacker Accurately Labeled A Christian | Media Matters for America
Norway Terror Reveals Disturbing Assumptions About Muslims | FDL News Desk
Seeing 'Islamic Terror' in Norway
Norwegian terrorist stirs multiculturalism opponents - CSMonitor.com
Fear, Inc.: The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America
Norway could have prevented Breivik massacre, says commission | Reuters
German police caught Anders Breivik with weapons prior to Norway massacre | intelNews.org

Homeland Security Department curtails home-grown terror analysis - The Washington Post
A federal judge reminds us: hateful anti-US rhetoric & advocacy of violence is *not a crime, but protected free speech
Far right domestic terrorism on par with foreign threat, experts say - CNN.com
Militia group accused of plotting ricin attack said to be inspired by Mike Vanderboegh | Current Events Inquiry
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » A Whole Lot of Lone Nuts
Terrorism directed at 'liberal' and 'government' targets since July 2008: An interactive map UPDATED | Crooks and Liars
Terror From the Right | Southern Poverty Law Center
Insurrectionism Timeline - Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
Terror in Arizona: Just another 'isolated incident'? Funny how that list keeps mounting | Crooks and Liars
Z Blogs | Terror in Texas
Rap responds to the riots: 'They have to take us seriously' | Music | guardian.co.uk
Exploding ABC's Unabomber Hoax
Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » New York Post Style Guide for White American Political Violence
FBI Investigating Abortion Clinic Violence In Atlanta As Domestic Terrorism | Care2 Causes
The truth about far-right violence | Institute of Race Relations
DHS Video Characterizes Terrorists as White Americans - Terrorism - Fox Nation
Terrorism Stories: Three Cases, Two Standards
All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 94% that Aren’t | loonwatch.com
Texas state senator's office firebombed - UPI.com
West Point study on ‘violent far right’ shows ‘dramatic rise’ in attacks | The Raw Story
Man with high-powered rifles and ‘tank buster’ bullets arrested for posting liberal ‘hit list’ | The Raw Story
FBI: Neo-Nazi amassed 40,000 rounds, 18 weapons in plot to kill black and Jewish leaders | The Raw Story
Daniel Pipes openly yearns for millions of dead Americans so people won’t call him a sociopath bigot anymore | Current Events Inquiry
Prosecutors Turned Down Cases Against Arizona Neo-Nazi JT Ready Prior To Massacre
Domestic Terror Story Gets Media Cold Shoulder–Guess Why
Nevada skinheads on the hunt for Native Americans — RT
Former 3rd District Congressional Candidate Admits Plotting Armed Militia Attack, Firebombing Of Muslim Community In New York - Chattanoogan.com

Atheists

Let’s play ‘Atheist or Fascist?’ « Automatic Writing
NonProphet Status » Blog Archive » American seculars are more okay with killing civilians than the global Muslim population is.
Islamophobia Watch - Documenting anti Muslim bigotry - Richard Dawkins claims Muslim schools are teaching 'alien rubbish' ... but says CofE schools are OK
Obligatory Richard Dawkins Post | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture
Scientific racism, militarism, and the new atheists - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Rationally Speaking: Is cultural evolution a Darwinian process?
Richard Dawkins and the "New Atheists" Represent the Dark Side of Atheism - PolicyMic

The Islamophobia Industry

Smearcasters
David Yerushalmi, the Man Behind the Anti-Shariah Movement
Reel Bad Arabs
Islamophobic neocon Gatestone Institute denies Saudi war crimes in Yemen

Radical Muslim Americans Pose Little Threat, Study Says - NYTimes.com
It's official. There is a Muslim exemption to the First Amendment. - On Liberty blog - Boston.com
an Islam Primer » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Islam: Fundamental Misunderstandings About a Growing Faith
Jihad - Sherman Jackson - YouTube
Anti-Loons of 2011: Profiles in Courage | loonwatch.com
The chill effect: Law enforcement activities, Muslim-American political views and free speech rights | Current Events Inquiry
The 'Hero' of the War on Terror | The Nation
44 - Rep. Peter King defends hearings on radical Islam: 'Let people watch the hearing and decide then'
Tomgram: Stephan Salisbury, How Muslim-Bashing Loses Elections | TomDispatch
THE “BIN LADEN” EFFECT: HOW AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION ABOUT MUSLIM AMERICANS SHIFTED IN THE WAKE OF OSAMA BIN LADEN'S DEATH
Matt Drudge's disgusting race war awareness campaign - War Room - Salon.com
University staff asked to inform on 'vulnerable' Muslim students | Education | The Guardian
The DOJ's escalating criminalization of speech - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Harper says 'Islamicism' biggest threat to Canada - Canada - CBC News
FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
New Evidence of Anti-Islam Bias Underscores Deep Challenges for FBI’s Reform Pledge | Danger Room | Wired.com
Al Jazeera exposes 2nd anti-Islam class taught to US military officers | Mondoweiss
Lots of good articles on islamophobia in this issue of the nation
Jennifer Rubin's boss sees no problem with anti-Arab bigotry - Washington Post - Salon.com
CNN's pentagon correspondent annoyed that "In the Arab world, war is always about the victims. They are always showing you the dead babies."

Michigan

Politics-State | Gov. Snyder signs 'milestone' budget for Michigan | The Detroit News
Benton Harbor emergency manager strips power from all elected officials | Michigan Messenger
Democracy 'On the Chopping Block' Under Michigan's 'Emergency Management' | Common Dreams
Detroit News: 4 Tax Liens On Kevyn Orr's Home Include 2 Still Outstanding – Deadline Detroit

Global Capitalism and 21st Century Fascism - WILLIAM I. ROBINSON and MARIO BARRERA
Eschaton: Sometimes The Twitter Stream Makes A Funny
House GOP wants to ban “moral equivalence” from UN definition of terrorism | Current Events Inquiry
A remaining realm of American excellence - Salon.com
In Germany, a court ruling that cops could use skin colour as a criteria for spot-checks
The real criminals in the Tarek Mehanna case - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Only 43% of Dems & 41% GOP believe "anti-American speech" should be protected under free speech laws
Muslims suffer 82% to 97% of all terrorist-related deaths in past 5 yrs

obama just plain sux

DOMA, DADT, and GLBT

Obama Dodges On Personal View Of Gay Marriage: 'Not Going To Make News On That Today' | TPMDC
Daily Kos: Don't Ask Don't Tell: The Discharges Continue
Government Opposes Full Severance Pay For Gays Dismissed From Military Under Don't Ask Don't Tell | wusa9.com
Gov't opposes full severance pay for military gays | World news | The Guardian
Gay Rights Groups Irate After Obama Administration Lauds Defense Of Marriage Act - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Obama administration expected to appeal ruling on gays in military - CNN.com
Axelrod: President remains opposed to same-sex marriage - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
Obama Will Not Sign Executive Order Banning LGBT Workplace Discrimination in Near Future |Gay News|Gay Blog Towleroad
He-Men, Virginity Pledges and Bridal Dreams: Obama Administration Quietly Endorses Dangerous Ab-Only Curriculum | RH Reality Check
Surveillance State democracy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Obama's 'Evolving' Position on Gay Marriage—Oh, Puhleeze! | The Nation
Vice President Biden’s gay-marriage gaffe is mess for White House - The Washington Post
Why Obama's in bed with abstinence-only education - Sex Education - Salon.com
Obama changed views on gay marriage - 5458 - Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News - Windy City Times
The pressure continuously applied on Obama by some gay groups, most gay activists, and (especially) rich gay funders undoubtedly played a significant role in all of these successes - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Despite Marriage Equality Shift, Obama Still Won’t Sign LGBT Anti-Discrimination Executive Order | FDL News Desk
Barack Obama unilaterally decided to continue allowing federal contractors to discriminate against gays
Obama delays ban on discrimination by U.S. contractors, disappointing gay rights advocates - 44 - The Washington Post
Honduran LGBTQ leader describes repression, resistance - Workers World » Around the world » Top » Workers World

Eco-Villain

How Corporations Corrupt Science at the Public's Expense - Union of Concerned Scientists
White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obama halts tighter smog standards - US news - Environment - msnbc.com
Obama halts tighter smog rule, citing 'regulatory burdens'
EPA Again Delays Greenhouse-Gas Rule - WSJ.com
Obama | Scientists expected Obama administration to be friendlier - Los Angeles Times
Obama Stance on Climate Suit Stuns Allies - Washington Wire - WSJ
The stupid politics behind Obama’s ozone cave | Grist
Obama Continues Bush's Blocking of the EPA
Emails Show White House Promotes Genetically Engineered Crops in Wildlife Refuges | Truthout
Big polluters freed from environmental oversight by stimulus | iWatch News
Donna Goodman, "Obama Ignores Worsening Climate Crisis"
Budget cuts as back-door deregulation - The Washington Post
What Foreign Corporations Will Obama Empower to Undermine Environmental Laws Near You? | FDL Action
New Fracking Rule Is Issued by Obama Administration - NYTimes.com
Obama's 'Poverty-Relieving' Plan for Africa a Profit Boon for Giant Agribusiness | Common Dreams
Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate - New York Times
Islam Siddiqui, Obama Nominee, Under Fire From Environmentalists
How President Obama is moving us toward oil independence (see last paragraph) — Barack Obama
Obama Gives Shell Green Light to Start Risky Arctic Drilling | Common Dreams
FACT CHECK: Oil stats belie tough enforcement talk
CorpWatch : How Obama Helped Authorize Shell’s Drilling the Arctic
obama ad lambasts romney for hating coal and being more of an environmentalist than obama
Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended | Environment | The Guardian
DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation | Mother Jones
Obama’s EPA Shuts Down Fracking Study « Earth First! Newswire

Hoover Jr.

U.S.: Obama's 2013 Budget Slashes Aid for Working Families - IPS ipsnews.net
The Secret of Our Non-success: Obama Loves Austerity - NYTimes.com
Among Obama's tough budget cuts: money to help needy pay for heat - CSMonitor.com
President Obama Still Likes Big Government: When it Helps the Banks | CEPR Blog
Daily Kos: One thing is clear, the African American Community is not monolithic
Loss of energy bill help hits seniors hard - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com
Obama Develops His Own View of the Jobless Recovery
Homeowners Need Help - NYTimes.com
Obama’s Work for Almost Free, Maybe You Get Hired Program « naked capitalism
APNewsBreak: Obama Seeks Debt Collector Proposal - ABC News
Barack Obama Says the Government Cannot Create Jobs, but Tax Breaks Can.
Treasury Department Faulted in Effort to Relieve Homeowners - NYTimes.com
The Associated Press: Obama's top counterterrorism adviser praises NYPD
CPRBlog: The Pander Games: Obama Administration Sells Out Kids Doing Dangerous Agricultural Work, Breaks Pledge to Ensure Welfare of Youngest Workers
Where is Obama’s promised minimum-wage hike? | The Great Debate
Obama says deficit reduction panel right on revenues, wrong on defense cuts | Reuters
In Leaked Docs, Honeywell Cites Obama Ties As Key to Anti-Union Strategy - Working In These Times

Man of the [rich] People

Frank Rich Blasts Obama For Letting Wall Street Off the Hook | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy
What Obama's Richest Donors Tell Us About His Campaign - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
Financial Sector Helps Barack Obama Score Big Money for Re-election Fight - OpenSecrets Blog | OpenSecrets
Penny Pritzker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is what plutocracy looks like | SocialistWorker.org
Geithner meets with Obama campaign fundraiser - Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group
Goldman Sachs VP Changed Name, Now a Top Congressional Staffer | Truthout
William Daley's JP Morgan Stock: Obama's Next Chief Of Staff Has Millions Invested
President Clears Wall Street Of Crimes | Firedoglake
U.S. Copyright Czar Cozied Up to Content Industry, E-Mails Show | Threat Level | Wired.com
White House Hands GOP Victory In Jobs Bill Shadow Boxing Match | TPMDC
Wall Street Traders Have Profited More Under Obama than in Eight Years Under Bush | NationofChange
Federal Prosecution Of Financial Fraud Falls To 20-Year Low, New Report Shows
Obama to unions: See you later - The Labor Movement - Salon.com
Will the 'JOBS Act' actually create jobs? - Bill Black says HELL NO
Growth of Income Inequality Is Worse Under Obama than Bush « naked capitalism
Yet Another Obama Big Lie: Mortgage Fraud Investigation Not Even Staffed « naked capitalism
DOL WHD: Obama caves to republicans, lets children work the fields
Eternal Friend of the Working Class Obama turns May Day into "Loyalty Day"
Exclusive: How Obama’s Early Career Success Was Built on Fronting for Chicago Real Estate and Finance « naked capitalism
In the 4th Year of the Obama Administration, the Health and Safety of American Workers Remains “Open” « Corey Robin
BlackRock CEO Fink Says He Supports Obama’s Re-Election - Bloomberg
Emails reveal secret Obamacare deal with drug cos | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner
What Military Austerity? A Shift in Spending, Not Reduction | Common Dreams
James Love: In Other News, Obama Admin to Block Access to Affordable Cancer Drugs in Developing Countries
Obama Jobs Council Packed With Outsourcing Companies
Sunlight and Allies to Obama's Department of Labor: No Website Scrubbing - Sunlight Foundation
Barney Frank: Obama Rejected Bush Administration Concession to Write Down Mortgages « naked capitalism
Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap - Business Insider
Diane Ravitch: Obama and No Child Left Behind - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
Obama doubled pell grants, but the benefits are the same because he got rid of interest payment subsidies and removed the suspension of interest accrual during the grace period and during deferment
A Tiny Revolution: A Massive Bluggy Failure. Obama: "I'm protecting you"
Obama: Imagine if a Worker Could Shut Down a Plant Because They Didn’t Get What They Want (Video)

National Security State

NDAA

President Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law | American Civil Liberties Union
Obama Administration Appeals NDAA Ruling - Business Insider
Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA — RT

SOPA/ACTA/CISPA

GoDaddy gets SOPA waiver
US already able to shut websites - Business - The Boston Globe
CISPA, aka SOPA 2.0, Pushed Forward By For-Profit Spying Lobby

TRAPWIRE

WIKILEAKS: Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network - Business Insider
Unravelling TrapWire: The CIA-Connected Global Suspicious Activity Surveillance System | Public Intelligence
Stratfor analyst says activists in SF pose a "threat" greater than terrorists and should be monitored.
Trapwire: It's Not the Surveillance, It's the Sleaze | Danger Room | Wired.com

Wikileaks

What We Learn From WikiLeaks
First Read - Protesters at Obama fundraiser: "Free Bradley Manning"
Wikileaks reveal how Hicks and Habib were abused in our name « Antony Loewenstein
Fox News editorial: WikiLeaks employees should be declared ‘enemy combatants’ | The Raw Story
Bradley Manning, Political Imprisonment and the Myopia of the Left | Black Agenda Report
ZCommunications | Bradley Manning, American Hero by Chase Madar | ZNet Article
Bradley Manning's forced nudity to occur daily - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Torturing Bradley Manning | SocialistWorker.org
Barack Obama gets a singing rebuke - Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com
Obama in the line of choir | POLITICO 44
On Bradley Manning's Guilt, Who Will Be Barack Obama's John Mitchell? | MyFDL
About 35 Arrested At Virginia Rally for Wikileaks Suspect | WDAZ | Grand Forks, ND
Why I'm supporting Bradley Manning | SocialistWorker.org
Hacker Who Turned in Bradley Manning Is a Bigger Scumbag Than We Imagined
Orwell, 9/11, Emmanuel Goldstein and WikiLeaks - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Bradley Manning treatment in custody concerns MEPs | World news | The Guardian
Cablegate One Year Later: How WikiLeaks Has Influenced Foreign Policy, Journalism, and the First Amendment | Electronic Frontier Foundation
US diplomats spied on UN leadership | World news | The Guardian
Did WikiLeaks lead to the end of the Iraq War?
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Michael Moore's Not-at-All Banned Movie
Chuck Colson: Watergate Conspirator and God's Own Ratfucker
Fox News' ("liberal") Bob Beckel Calls For 'Ilegally' Killing Assange: 'A Dead Man Can't Leak Stuff' (VIDEO)
WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says | McClatchy
Assange really did rape two girls FYI- Blog - The F-Word
Defense Motion Details Horrific Conditions Bradley Manning Was Subjected to at Quantico | The Dissenter
Craig Murray » Blog Archive » America’s Vassal Acts Decisively and Illegally
White House directly pressured media organizations to stop calling WikiLeaks a “whistleblowing web site” says New York Times.
Manning’s torturous confinement controlled by top military Lt. General at the Pentagon | Come Home America
DynCorp — a powerful defense contracting firm that claims almost $2 billion per year in revenue from U.S. tax dollars — threw a party for Afghan security recruits featuring boys purchased from child traffickers for entertainment

NSA Panopticon

NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst | PBS NewsHour | Aug. 1, 2013 | PBS
NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls - The Washington Post
The NSA's Secret Campaign to Crack, Undermine Internet Encryption - ProPublica
NSA can spy on offline computers wirelessly, says security expert - CBS News
Interactive Graphic: The NSA's Spy Catalog (the NSA can turn your device's camera and mic on without you knowing it) - SPIEGEL ONLINE
NSA Allegedly Intercepts Shipments of Servers To Install Spying Backdoors | TechCrunch
GCHQ can inflate website pageviews, send spoofed emails, change outcomes of online polls
Search for Anne Roth
The Department of Justice Has Been Listening to Your Phone Calls From Above - Mic

Ralph Nader at HLS: The constitutional crimes of Bush and Obama (video)
Twenty Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties | Dissident Voice
Civil liberties under Obama | SocialistWorker.org
Terrorism suspect: Terrorism suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame held in secret detention - latimes.com
Coalition of Human Rights, Criminal Justice Organizations Announces Opposition to Obama Nominee
Federal Policy Resulting in Wave of Deportations Draws Protests - NYTimes.com
Obama won't weigh in on Georgia execution - CBS News
No Country for Second Chances - NYTimes.com
Nickel-and-dime crime one of nine to get presidential pardon - CNN.com
Government Transparency Isn't About 200-Year-Old Books: View
Constitutional Expert: "President Obama ... Says That He Can Kill [Any American Citizen Without Any Charge and] On His Own Discretion. He Can Jail You Indefinitely On His Own Discretion”
The Racist Roots of Obama’s Preventive Detention | Black Agenda Report
Slow Dance: Obama's Romance With the CIA - Michael Hirsh - Politics - The Atlantic
Obama's DOJ Targets Whistleblowers
President Obama's muddy transparency record - Josh Gerstein - POLITICO.com
Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness | See Section 308 | The White House
Obama cheered, jeered in Oakland - SFGate
Technology to clear FOIA backlog underused, GAO finds -- Federal Computer Week
Obama admin doesn't prosecute anyone for torture, then jails a man who tried to stop it
Obama Is Not a Very Forgiving President - Yahoo! News
obama reverses the crack:coke disparity fix for currently sentenced prisoners, preventing them from appealing, it was one of the few good things that came out of his first term

Obama's Drug War

Obama dodges medical marijuana question in Minnesota | Raw Replay
Is Obama Denying Science? The White House Responds to NORML's 'We the People' Petition | | AlterNet
Obama's Drug War | The Nation
Obama Administration Overrides 2009 Ogden Memo, Declares Open Season on Pot Shops in States Where Medical Marijuana Is Legal - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
U.S. wants 5-year term for medical pot seller
Big Government Breaks Bad in Drug War » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Obama's New Marijuana Policies Also Target Alt-Weeklies and the Bill of Rights - San Francisco News - The Snitch
A President Alone Can End the Federal Drug War | FDL Action
Obama Justice and medical marijuana - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Holder Admits Obama Misled Rolling Stone About Marijuana Law | Just Say Now
Definitive Proof That Eric Holder Lied to Congress About Obama's Medical Marijuana Crackdown - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Solyndra

Solyndra vs. Military Boondoggles | Mother Jones
Solyndra's industrial policy power failure - How the World Works - Salon.com
Obama-backed solar firm collapses after big federal loan guarantee | iWatch News
What Solyndra's Bankruptcy Means For Silicon Valley Solar Startups - Forbes
FBI Raids Solar Energy Firm Solyndra - ABC News
Partisan Politicking Obscures Growth of Solar Power - The Bay Citizen
Loan Was Solyndra's Undoing - Democratic Underground
Obama fundraiser linked to loan program that aided Solyndra - latimes.com
Solyndra's Whorehouse Lender | ZeroHedge
Bruce Krasting: A Solyndra Insider's Words
Bush admin pushed Solyndra loan guarantee for two years | Grist
VIDEO- Jon Stewart: “That Custom-Tailored Obama Scandal” followed by the 5 biggest right-wing lies about Solyndra | The Political Carnival
Solyndra excutives stonewall Congress | iWatch News
New Economic Perspectives: The Solyndra Loans as Liar’s Loans
Fundraiser for Obama urged Solyndra deal from the inside | iWatch News
Treasury official hasn't seen loan like Solyndra | Campaign 2012
The Solyndra Story No One Knows: Top Investor Served In Kochs’ Cato Institute, Runs Americans Elect - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
Fred Upton, GOP critic of Solyndra loan, sought funds for Mich. solar firm - The Washington Post

War Criminal

Obama’s war record….. in one place « Kasama
The secret militarism of Obama's defense spending cuts - War Room - Salon.com
FAIR Blog » Why Is It Hard to Believe President Obama Would Want a Journalist in Prison?
Barack Obama tells Africa to stop blaming colonialism for problems - Telegraph
Guest Post: Obama Is Implementing Plans For War Throughout the Middle East Created 10 Years Ago by the Neocons « naked capitalism
Obama dismisses ‘fuss’ about Libya battle |
US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024 - Telegraph
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » White House Threatens to Blacklist Paper for Covering Protest
President Obama Secretly Approved Transfer of Bunker-Buster Bombs to Israel - The Daily Beast
Human Rights Watch: U.S.: Don't Finance Child Soldiers
Obama Advisors Feared a Coup If the Administration Prosecuted War Crimes | MyFDL
Obama to Aid Uzbek Dictatorship | FPIF
U.S. takes the lead on behalf of cluster bombs - Salon.com
Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe | Mother Jones
U.S. not "standing idly by" in Bahrain - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Defense.gov News Article: President Proclaims Iraq War Anniversary ‘National Day of Honor’
American Muslim Alleges FBI Had a Hand in His Torture | "Obama ended torture" |Mother Jones
"Obama Ended Torture"? Nope
What a great kidder Obama is: He's still making jokes about killing people! | Corrente
President Obama and the Secret Kill List
First the 'targeted killing' campaign, then the targeted propaganda campaign | Jameel Jaffer and Nathan Wessler | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Interactive: How Obama Drone Death Claims Stack Up - ProPublica
TERRIFYING HOSPITAL JESUS CHRIST
The pathetic Obama re-election vehicle know as J Street creates a petition in favor of sanctioning Iran
Reality Check President Obama 1-on-1: How does he justify having - FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather & Sports
Dead Gitmo Prisoner's Tragic Letter; any supporters who hoped Obama would close Guantanamo Bay should understand that fact | Alternet
Obama nominates mega-donor Haim Saban's wife to U.N. post - POLITICO.com
Obama Top Adviser Robert Gibbs says awlaki's son "should have [had] a far more responsible father"...awlaki's son died two weeks after his father with his cousins
Florida Student Asks Obama about Israel's Human Rights Violations at Tampa Townhall - YouTube
FCNL: 25 Groups Call on Obama Not to Block Food, Medicine to Iran (which he can do with the stroke of a pen)
GITMO: "Suicide is another effective way of getting media attention."
The buried lede: President Obama exempts CIA black sites and prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq from UN torture treaty
Obama seeks human rights waiver on war funds

he's sexist too

Beyond Clinton & Palin
Misogyny’s Greatest Hits
Administration's Plan For Morning-After Pill Pleases No One : Shots - Health News : NPR
false dichotomy by charles davis: Barack Obama, enemy of equality
Obama Administration Will Ban Abortion Coverage In High Risk Insurance Pools | American Civil Liberties Union

500+ Reasons to not vote for Obama in 2012
What in the fuck has Obama done so far?
I’m not voting Obama in 2012 (and neither should you) « boys in barrettes
Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger - YouTube
Barack Obama And The Winds Of War By Glen Ford
In Obama’s State of the Union, Troublesome Passages for Progressives | The Progressive
false dichotomy by charles davis: I'll take the reactionary over the murderer, thanks
Chris Hedges: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig
Obama: Year One - Fault Lines
Rahm Emanuel: Liberals Are “F–king Retarded” | FDL Action
Obama says he'd stop adding to debt, but that's not true | McClatchy
Daily Kos: The president and Lilly Ledbetter
Lilly Ledbetter Did Not Alter Pay Equity Gap Whatsoever | FDL News Desk
Undernews: Why people are talking about running Bernie Sanders for president
President Obama's big drags - Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com
GGDrafts: Email re: debt ceiling
Campaign 2012: Obama supporters already on the attack - latimes.com
Matt Stoller: What Presidency? « naked capitalism
OFA Director Attacks “Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere,” says “Paul Krugman is a Political Rookie” | FDL Action
POLITICO Playbook - POLITICO.com
DOE Zeroes Out Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Program
In feisty CBC speech, Obama tells blacks to ‘stop cryin’ and ‘put on your marching shoes’ - The Washington Post
Obama: Kids Stuck in Foster Care Due to Deportation a ‘Real Problem’ - COLORLINES
Why Do Liberals Keep Sanitizing the Obama Story? - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
Obama administration refuses to relax Plan B restrictions - The Washington Post
Why The Fox News Primary Is Such A Debacle - Obama is too likable
Obama signs prison cell-phone prohibition law -- Urgent Communications article
interfluidity » An echo
Legacy of "what works"
obama got rid of sherrod because he was scared of freakin' bill o'reilly
Mitt Romney versus Reality - YouTube
U.S. Patriot Act Kept Somalia Starving | search "waiver" | IPS ipsnews.net
Timeline: How Obama Compares to Bush on Torture, Surveillance and Detention - ProPublica
Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes
obama's deputy campaign manager brags about busting teachers' unions
right wing pundit admits: President Obama...has been fabulous for the conservative movement
Obama reveals his philosophy of government - downsizing, tax cuts, dereg - and calls it a sharp contrast to Romney's
Hope or Hype? Behind the Washing(ton) Spin Cycle of an Alleged Immigration Policy Victory | VivirLatino
Fact-Checking the Democratic Party Platform
Who Are Those “Gangbangers” Obama’s So Proud of Deporting? - COLORLINES
Obama vs. History: obama uses the same false tropes conservatives have used for decades - COLORLINES
Obama scoffs at people who call him a 'socialist': 'You gotta meet real socialists' - POLITICO.com
Obama asks Congress for power to undo protections offered to illegal child immigrants under Bush administration | National Post

Patriarchy

Abortions

Bubba And His Poor, Pitiful Women
Abortion rights and the ballot box | SocialistWorker.org
What happens to women denied abortions? This is the first scientific study to find out.
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal
In malpractice case, Catholic hospital argues fetuses aren’t people (hypocrites) | The Colorado Independent
Over Two Decades, Abortion Rate Dropped For Women In Their 20s Because Of Contraception Access | ThinkProgress
Outcry in America as pregnant women who lose babies face murder charges | World news | The Guardian
Illinois agricultural committee takes on . . . abortion rights?
Pregnant Women Who Lose Babies Face Criminal Charges In Mississippi, Alabama | ThinkProgress
Ohio House approves abortion ban after heartbeat | Reuters
Federal judge blocks new abortion Kansas licensing rules - KansasCity.com
www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/local-press-releases/planned-parenthood-seeks-injunction-against-family-planning-defunding-north-carolina-budget-37190.htm
Emergency Abortion Fund 2010 Report | Third Wave Foundation
How HR 358, the Let Women Die Act 2011, Violates International Human Rights Standards | Common Dreams
Was Planned Parenthood's founder racist? - New Deal 2.0 - Salon.com
Mississippi May Make Fertilized Eggs People, Setting Up Abortion Showdown
Virginia ultrasound law: women who want an abortion will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason - Slate Magazine
The War on Women by the Ridiculous Numbers
Fifteen Things Old Boys Like Rick Santorum Don’t Want You to Know About Your Body and Your Contraception | Truthout
This is What a Double Standard Looks Like
Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States
Five myths about abortion rights - The Washington Post
Indiana Abortion Law Called 'Utterly Irrational' - Courthouse News Service
Scariest Anti-Abortion Tactic Ever: Kidnap Women Who Seek Procedure - Yahoo News
Scarlet Letters: Getting the History of Abortion and Contraception Right | Center for American Progress

Ableism

We're not here for your inspiration - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Biotruth and EvoPsych

Dog Whistle EvoPsych - pandagon.net
The Other Threat to Evolutionary Biology: Evolutionary Psychology : Mike the Mad Biologist
Get Over It: Men and Women Are from the Same Planet | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
Richard Lewontin - Biology as Ideology Lecture 1 - YouTube
Cross-check: Defending Stephen Jay Gould's Crusade against Biological Determinism
Oops! Evolutionary psychology bedrock turns out to be made of manure « Another angry woman
Do Animals Commit Suicide? - Softpedia
Yo, dudes: Alpha males are a myth, according to actual experts on wolves « man boobz
The Patriarchal Science of the Corporate Media by Peter Gelderloos
The rise of the evolutionary psychology douchebag
New Study of Foragers Undermines Claim That War Has Deep Evolutionary Roots | Cross-Check, Scientific American Blog Network
PLOS Biology: A Pacific Culture among Wild Baboons: Its Emergence and Transmission

Colonial Feminism

Open Challenge to Femen and Western Feminist Critics of Islam – Hakeem Muhammad
Tunisia's Amina quits Femen, citing Islamophobia - FRANCE 24
Boob job: FEMEN activist reveals topless protesters’ $1,000 salaries — RT Art &amp; culture
The Angry Arab News Service: Israeli dirty hands and FEMEN
The man who made Femen: New film outs Victor Svyatski as the mastermind behind the protest group and its breast-baring stunts - News - Films - The Independent
Colonial Feminism, Liberal “Progress,” and the Weakness of the Left | ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
El libro de cabecera de Inna Shevchenko, líder de Femen: ‘Mi lucha’, de Adolf Hitler
CIA memo about using the image of suffering women to restore public support for war in afghanistain
Fake “Feminists” of Femen Participated in the Odessa Massacre : Indybay

Pussy Riot

The west's hypocrisy over Pussy Riot is breathtaking | Simon Jenkins | Comment is free | The Guardian
Pussy Riot: Khodorkovsky should replace Putin as president - Telegraph
Pussy Riot admires tsarist fastist sympathizer Alexsander Solzhenitsyn | Music News | Rolling Stone
What Do Russians Think About 'Pussy Riot?' The Answer Might Surprise You
Pussy Riot: Somos trotskistas y anarquistas | Comunicacion Popular

Harry's Place » FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko’s bedtime reading: Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf

Equal Pay, Equal Work

Getting a Job: Is there a motherhood penalty?
The Motherhood Penalty: Working Moms Face Pay Gap Vs. Childless Peers - BusinessWeek
Chart of the Day: The Most Depressing Pay Gap Statistic You’ve Seen Today « Kay Steiger
"The Gender Pay Gap" by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn
Washington Lobbyist Mobilized Against Paycheck Fairness Act, Celebrated When It Went Down
FAIR Blog » George Will » Media Blitz Against the Paycheck Fairness Act
Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters. | Unofficial Prognosis, Scientific American Blog Network

Gender Trouble

Talking about gender « Trouble and Strife
A feminist critique of “cisgender” « Liberation Collective
Is breast best for dolls too? | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
Should Trans People Have to Disclose Their Birth Gender Before Sex? | VICE United States

GLBT Issues

APA Policy Statement: Transgender, Gender Identity & Gender Expression Non-Discrimination
Obama Gay Marriage Support More Popular Among Blacks, Hispanics Than Whites | The New Civil Rights Movement
Beyond Marriage: Democracy, Equality, and Kinship for a New Century
Homophobia linked to lack of awareness of one's sexual orientation and authoritarian parenting, study shows
Homophobic? Maybe You’re Gay - NYTimes.com
When A Medieval Knight Could Marry Another Medieval Knight | The Awl
Gay and Transgender Youth Homelessness by the Numbers
el sueño de la razón produce monstruos • Gay marriage is not simply about “love” and...
Neuroskeptic: The Transexual Brain
There’s nothing revolutionary about marriage – Ish repsonds to Curtis Cole’s article « Kasama
bird of paradox » A selection of published statistics of violence against trans people
How I Learned to Hate Transgender People — www.good.is — Readability

Marxist Feminism

I Am a Woman and a Human: A Marxist-Feminist Critique of Intersectionality Theory | Unity and Struggle
Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism - My Marxist-feminist dialectic brings all the boys to yard
Marxism and Feminism: The Synthesis for Radical Social Change « Malheureux Marxist
Without women there is no food sovereignty « esther vivas

MRAs

Reddit Cofounder Says Site Was Built By a Horde of Fake Accounts reddit founder admits site is as terrible as it is because they originally set the tone with fake accounts - Slashdot
Leader’s Suicide Brings Attention to Men’s Rights Movement | Southern Poverty Law Center
Men’s Rights Movement Spreads False Claims about Women | Southern Poverty Law Center

Rape Culture

DSK

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Diallo Speaks: Are There Holes in the 'DSK Case Crumbles' Narrative?
Pam Martens: Conspirators Unmasked in the DSK Drama
Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as in Jeopardy - NYTimes.com
Coercion and Consent: No Perfect Rape Victim
Mother of Alleged French DSK Victim Had Sex With Him Years Earlier [Updated] -- Daily Intel
A Union Maid Reported Dominque Strauss-Kahn's Sexual Assault | Beat the Press
Another law for the rich and powerful | SocialistWorker.org
What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn? by Edward Jay Epstein | The New York Review of Books
The two hours that sank Strauss-Kahn - FT.com

Porn and Prostitution

Pornography is a left issue
Health - Hans Villarica - Study: The Objectification of Women Is a Real, Measurable Phenomenon - The Atlantic
The Myths of Bedford v. Canada: Why decriminalizing prostitution won’t help | The F Word
Myths of Porn
Selling sex in Nevada is like selling burgers in McDonalds | Women's Views on News
Evidence shows that ending demand works: A response to Noy Thrupkaew and the attack on the Swedish approach to prostitution | Feminist Current
Younger and younger girls forced into prostitution because of economic crisis: Report - thestar.com
The Nordic model is the only model that actually works. ‘Duh,’ says Sweden | rabble.ca
Real men, real choices
No, new research does NOT show that violence decreases under the Nordic model | Feminist Ire
Native Canadian women sold on U.S. ships, researcher says - Thunder Bay - CBC News
Can a feminist ever support the sex industry?
Should prostitution be legal? Let's try listening to the real experts - Comment - Voices - The Independent
Men Who Buy Sex report
Germany a paradise for pimps | News24

False Rape Allegations Are Rare «
Feminists don’t think all men are rapists. Rapists do. | A Division by Zer0
An earnest letter to guys about the problem with rape jokes; It’s not about being PC « Talkin' Reckless
Are sex offenders and lads’ mags using the same language? - University of Surrey - Guildford
#322 & #323 “My friend group has a case of the Creepy Dude. How do we clear that up?” « CaptainAwkward.com
A woman walks into a rape, uh, bar « Fugitivus
Blaming an 11-year-old victim | SocialistWorker.org
Raped policeman: 'I never thought I would be a victim' | UK news | The Guardian
Cheerleader must compensate school that told her to clap 'rapist' - Americas, World - The Independent
MinnPost - Senate passes Franken amendment aimed at defense contractors
Judge awards KBR lawyers court costs in rape trial - Houston Chronicle
College shuts down fraternity for survey that asked who members wanted to rape
City Accused of Conspiring Against Rape Victims
The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture” « The Red Phoenix
7NEWS - Few rape kits tested in Colorado; Police say it's not necessary, victims think otherwise - Call7 Investigators Story
Why the 'nice guys commit rape too' conversation is not helpful | Jill Filipovic | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
List of Rape Myths
Most sexual assault victims have little faith in justice system: survey - The Globe and Mail
College Men: Stop Getting Drunk
Alcohol and Sexual Assault

Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog
Why "Choice Feminism" is an Illusion (With Bonus "Lost" Analogy) | xoJane
Largest Global Study on Violence Against Women Finds Feminist Movements Hold the Key to Change - SFGate
Medical Daily: Researchers Believe Government Should Ban Skinny Models to Curb Anorexia
Wal-Mart Class Action Suit Court Document
News: Equal Time for 'Traditional Values' - Inside Higher Ed
Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at Schools | AAUW
ACLU Lens: Using Religion as an Excuse for Discrimination » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
Children Age Faster When Exposed To Violence And Bullying - Health News - redOrbit
ign's hunt for the most embarassing amateur game designer - YouTube
Domestic violence law repealed in Topeka, Ks., to save money | McClatchy
Lavender & Red
Makeup Makes Women Appear More Competent - Study - NYTimes.com
Pretty Cool: Seeing Body Diversity Makes Us More Comfortable With Diverse Bodies
Sexist Humor No Laughing Matter, Psychologist Says
The Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project | As many as 90% of the women in prison today for killing men had been battered by those men.
Mother is 'more essential' to orphans than breadwinner father, research suggests
Violence against Women at Epidemic Proportions: Scientific American
Gender and the Body Language of Power » Sociological Images

Police State

Brutality and Getting Away With It

Film the Police

Nebraska Police Chase Down Man Video Recording Their Abuse While Second Man Video Records It All | PINAC
Blair Shooting.m4v - YouTube
Michael Allison Faces 75 Years In Illinois Prison for recording police WTWO! - YouTube
Here's a Cop Tasing a 14-Year-Old Girl While She Puts Her Hands Up
Cop caught planting drugs (VIDEO) — RT
POLICE SHOOTING AT BART STATION - OSCAR GRANT - YouTube
FHP Trooper on Tasing handcuffed woman Danielle Maudsley: ''I needed to stop her'' | wtsp.com
Houston Cop goes CRAZY - YouTube
A Black Kid, A Lying Cop | Common Dreams
NYPD Cop hits Supreme Court Judge in the throat - YouTube
VIDEO: 26 Cops Violently Arrest Nonthreatening Black Man In Harlem Subway Station | Dispatches from the Underclass
Police Brutality in Anaheim Sparks Outrage After 2 Latinos Shot Dead and Demonstrators Attacked | Democracy Now!
Footage of racist Philly cops goes viral - Salon.com
Exclusive: Grosse Pointe cops film, humiliate black people - Motor City Muckraker
In Miami Gardens, store video catches cops in the act - Miami Gardens / Opa-locka - MiamiHerald.com
The Investigators: Dashcam video clears NJ man; Cops now indicted | abc13.com
BUSTED: St. Louis Man Records Cops Blackmailing Him Into Framing Someone For Murder! - Prince Vega | Prince Vega
VIDEO: Cops Raid Family Party, Pepper Spray Children, Taser Grandma | The Free Thought Project

Deadly Secrets | Rights & Liberties | The Investigative Fund
NYPD Cop Argues with Crime Stats, is Committed to Mental Hospital by Coworkers
Post Mortem - Death Investigation In America | Video | FRONTLINE | PBS
Explosive Report from MXGM Reveals; Every 40 hours Police in the US Kill a Black Person « Davey D's Hip Hop Corner-(The Blog)
2010 NPMSRP Police Misconduct Statistical Report -Draft- « Injustice Everywhere
Deputy is target of 22 internal investigations | KING5.com Seattle
Police brutality charges sweep across the US | World news | The Observer
Illegally Park-ed - Page 1 - News - Orange County - OC Weekly
Police Raid Berwyn Heights Mayor's Home, Kill His 2 Dogs
Todd Blair is killed during a drug raid in Utah - YouTube
Dekalb County Police: it's within policy for our officers to kick pregnant women in the stomach - Boing Boing
Howard Morgan, Black Off-Duty Cop Shot 28 Times By White Chicago Officers, Faces Sentencing
Police cleared in fatal shooting
Off-duty city officer who shot South Side man acquitted
Two New York City Police Officers Acquitted of Rape (they admitted they did it anyway though) - NYTimes.com
YouTube - Esther J. Cepeda on CNN Headline News re: Chicago police brutality July 2007
Boy smells dog poop, police respond with violence — RT
Dead over a $2 train fare | SocialistWorker.org
Trooper who killed Uniontown boy also involved in South Side shooting - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
BART Protests: Protesters Demonstrate Against Transit Agency's Recent Actions, Multiple Stations Closed
LulzSec leaks Arizona law enforcement papers (Updated with excerpts) - Boing Boing
Mom Says Prickly School Cop Killed Her Son
Police recordings key part of Calif. beating case - Yahoo! Finance
Windy City Times - Transgender Taser victim fighting potential charges - 320
Denver monitor, manager of safety clash, leading to call for federal investigation of cops - The Denver Post
Editorial: City's culture of police brutality - The Denver Post
Activists rally behind couple's HPD brutality allegations - Houston Chronicle
That's not the Help He Wanted
Cops Just Love Those Tasers
Update: Gentilly raid details show focus on marijuana | NOLA.com
NYPD Cop Caught on Video Threatening to Ram Penis in Suspect's Mouth | Pixiq
Auditor: 100,000 dashcam videos disappear from SPD database - seattlepi.com
Sheriff: Canine charged officers - The Decatur Daily - Decatur, Alabama
Police union plans party for cop fired after punching woman - Philly.com
Cherokee County teen shot by police sniper, parents speak out - CBS Atlanta 46
the real police motto: protect your brothers/sisters in blue NO MATTER WHAT
Emanuel wants police beating verdict erased to "close chapter" - chicagotribune.com
Probation for D.C. cop in trans shooting case | Gay News | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source
LAPD officer stomps on a woman's genitals until she dies
Dad who died during arrest 'begged for his life'; witness videos ... - BakersfieldCalifornian.com
Tarnished Badges: They break the rules, commit crimes — but remain Chicago cops - Chicago Sun-Times
Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD Has Been Charged With Assault Because Bullets Hit Bystanders | Dispatches from the Underclass
Teen Dead After Alabama Police 'Shoved Sharp Object Into Throat' to Retrieve Drugs : Appalachian Area News
EMT's Intervene To Stop NYPD Officers Beating Restrained Man
Nearly Half of Police Union's Statements on Shootings Are False: Report - Archer Heights - DNAinfo.com Chicago

Dirty Work

German secret service destroys files on neo-Nazi terrorist gang the National Socialist Underground - Europe - World - The Independent
Hiding in plain sight: Germany's Neo-Nazis ditch skinhead look - Europe, World - The Independent
German spy chief resigns following criticism in neo-Nazi probe - latimes.com
Portland police captain who put up memorial plaques to Nazi soldiers now providing bureau leadership training | OregonLive.com
PressTV - FBI closely coordinates with far-right and fascist organizations: Caleb Maupin
Yes, Neo-Nazi Turner Was an FBI Informant, His Lawyer Confirms | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
DHS says FBI "possibly funded" Terrorist Group | MyFDL
Norwegian governments strange connections to extreeme organisations, page 1
The Deep State: Germany uses nazis "The strat­egy was to build up fas­cist struc­tures and to blame the rad­i­cal left for their exis­tence in the pub­lic dis­course, employ­ing the extrem­ism doc­trine"
Preventing far right extremism? Schools in EDL and BNP heartland only monitoring ethnic minority pupils | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
The Un-Americans, by Paul Wolf, 5/6/03
tankie nerd on Twitter: "See: https://t.co/AC99u6acOc https://t.co/Pz6wxUdkuY https://t.co/3rLgOnMSZs https://t.co/4p00gW76Uj http://t.co/uePGjTduoP"

Entrapment

How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook | Rick Perlstein | Politics News | Rolling Stone
The Informants | Mother Jones
The new witch trials? Damned if you do, damned if you don't | Privacy SOS
FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US — RT
The FBI Goes Rogue » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
‘Better This World’ on ‘POV’ Examines Use of Informants - NYTimes.com
The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Former Narcotics Detective Admits Drug Planting Common | Truthout
In Jose Pimentel Terror Case, F.B.I. Worries Over Informer - NYTimes.com
Newburgh Four: poor, black, and jailed under FBI 'entrapment' tactics | World news | guardian.co.uk
91% Fewer Terrorist Sympathizers with Twice the Cash and 48% More Surveillance | emptywheel
FBI accused of entrapping the 'foolhardy' - The National
The ex-FBI informant with a change of heart: 'There is no real hunt. It's fixed' | World news | guardian.co.uk
Documents provide rare insight into FBI’s terrorism stings - The Washington Post
Fact-Check: How the NYPD Overstated Its Counterterrorism Record - ProPublica
F.B.I. Had Greater Role in Jose Pimentel Terrorism Case, Documents Show - NYTimes.com
Autistic teen befriended by undercover cop, begs kid repeatedly 2 buy him weed, then arrests him
Exclusive: FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes
NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots - Salon.com
Watchdog Report - ATF uses rogue tactics in storefront stings across nation
Federal judge blasts ATF stings that he said unfairly enlist people in a "made-up crime"
This American Refused to Become an FBI Informant. Then the Government Made His Family's Life Hell. | Mother Jones
FBI pushed Muslims to plot terrorist attacks: rights report - Yahoo News
Cleveland Scandal : Did Cocaine Sting Fuel Drug Sales? - Los Angeles Times
Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast - NYTimes.com
Judge in Another Narco-terror Case Questions Proof - ProPublica

Militarization

Local police forces are now little armies. Why?
A look inside the Police Militarization Agency | Current Events Inquiry
FY2011 sets record for military surplus transfers to police departments | Current Events Inquiry
Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street | The Nation
Radley Balko: SWAT Raids, Stun Guns, And Pepper Spray: Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of Force
Occupy Oakland and the Militarization of America's Police - Esquire
Florida police buy drone like those used in Afghanistan - thestar.com
Ex police chief Joseph McNamara addressed this dynamic in this op-ed
Paragould Daily Press: "They may not be doing anything but walking their dog," he said. "But they're going to have to prove it."

Pigs Protect Property

Criminalizing Dissidents

Hillary Clinton interrupted by protester 15.02.2011 - YouTube
ZCommunications | Over 2,600 Activists Arrested in US Protests by Bill Quigley | ZNet Article
Criminalising Palestinian solidarity - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
ZCommunications | Details Emerge of FBI Spy Campaign Targeting Activists by Amy Goodman | ZNet Article
FBI documents on criminal investigation of anti-war activists released | Current Events Inquiry
BART spokesman in hot water for staging support
Muslim college students convicted of disrupting speech | Reuters
FBI Attacks: Who's Next? | Committee to Stop FBI Repression
NYPD Unconcerned With Actually Convicting Occupy Wall Street Protesters -- Daily Intel
Who killed Ian Tomlinson? A rogue cop? Or Britain and her culture of policing dissent? | openDemocracy
FinSpy Software Is Tracking Political Dissidents - NYTimes.com
JURIST - Sidebar: New York City Criminalizes Protests in the Context of Occupy Wall Street
Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books « Sound and Noise
America's Pussy Riot - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) denounces the September 24 FBI raids | Fight Back!
Norway has an FBI that does dirty work too | SocialistWorker.org
The Real Purpose of Oakland's Surveillance Center | Feature | Oakland, Berkeley & Bay Area News & Arts Coverage

The Ghetto's Stormtroopers

LENIN'S TOMB: Police racism and brutality: it's the job
Ex-Officer's Account of a Brutal Police Fraternity - New York Times
Philly Cop Stops Black Man, Tells Him ‘All You Do Is Weaken the F---ing Country’ | The Nation
NYPD 2011 Data Reveals Highest Number of Stop-and-Frisks Ever - COLORLINES
NYC Renters Fight Police Sweeps
Mike Bloomberg's New York: Cops in Your Hallways | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
City May Be Liable for Igniting Street Justice
Woman unhappy with care at St. Mary's hospital is arrested for trespassing, dies in jail
Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime
10 Unbelievably Sh**ty Things America Does to Homeless People | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
'Help me,' homeless man begs as cops fatally beat him in videotaped incident - CNN.com
Daily Kos: Living On Top Of A Police-Fueled Powder Keg. Updates w/ New Video.
In Subway, Activist Records Stop-and-Frisk He Says Proves Its Dark Side - NYTimes.com
In Police Pat-Downs, Many Women See Sexual Overtones - NYTimes.com
Leaked Anaheim police document exposes ruling-class fear of mass revolt
NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Caught on Tape -- Daily Intel
Rassistische Misshandlung im Berliner Polizeigewahrsam | Racist abuse in Berlin police custody - YouTube
Chicago cops ran over and shot a man twice in the back, told his grieving mother it was "just another n***er dead"
false dichotomy by charles davis: Cop / Killer
NYPD Defends Commander Who Ordered Officer To Target "Male Blacks": Gothamist
Ray Kelly Wants Stop And Frisk To "Instill Fear" In Minorities, State Senator Testifies: Gothamist
white people should stay inside and "be safe" while minorities are degraded and shown to be a danger
Skullcap Crew - Pastebin.com
Black Man in Jasper, Texas Found With Cut Throat And Missing Ear - Ruled ‘Accidental Overdose`.
Officer who fatally shot Kimani Gray earns ‘Cop of the Year’ award | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view
in "affluent" suburb of St. Louis, cops can be fired for not being racist enough
“In police work there are times we have to become soldiers and control through force and fear,” - LAPD deputy chief
"I want [black people] to be afraid every time they see the police that they might get arrested."
Baltimore Police Used Force 2,818 Times In Six Years. They Found One Violation.

Red Squads

NYCLU: Police Surveillance of Political Activity -- The History and Current State of the Handschu Decree.Testimony of Arthur N. Eisenberg presented to the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
Protectors of Privilege: Red Squads ... - Google Books
American Spectator Editor Admits to Being Agent Provocateur at D.C. Museum | MyFDL
Police Infiltrate Protests, Videotapes Show - New York Times
Metro - Thomas Ryan: Self-appointed spy of Occupy Wall Street
ACLU wants probe into police-staged DNC protest - The Denver Post
RNC '08 Report: Text: Moles Wanted
Oakland - Nov 10, 2011 - 00:13 | Al Jazeera Blogs
Red squad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Police Provocateurs stopped by union leader at anti SPP protest - YouTube
Documents show NYPD infiltrated liberal groups - Yahoo! News
[UPDATE: VIDEO PROOF] Was There a Police Plant at the Anaheim Protests Who Threw Bottles at Officers to Incite a Riot? - Orange County News - Navel Gazing
Police 'smear' campaign targeted Stephen Lawrence's friends and family | UK news | The Guardian
in a completely predictable fashion, tsarnaev's boston bombing happened because cops were too focused on monitoring leftists
Police 'spied on activists for blacklisting agency' | UK news | The Guardian
Convicted Sex Offender and Police Informant Attempts to Infiltrate Seattle's Activist Community | Slog
Undercover cops were among the unruly at DNC - The Denver Post
Chicago 1968 DNC, Summary: "the officers indiscriminately started beating everyone on the street who was not a policeman"
The use of agents provocateurs to undermine protest movements | Current Events Inquiry
Daily Kos: Wall Street's Private Armies Owned by Private Equity Firms
A.C.L.U. Says F.B.I. Funded 'Army' To Terrorize Antiwar Protesters (1975)
New documents prove U.S. Army actively targeted leftist protesters, group says | The Raw Story
Keeping Tabs, Just in Case - NYTimes.com

Police and the 99% Kristian Williams, author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America - YouTube
Objects of Derision – The New Inquiry
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Wall Street’s Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Wall Street Firms Spy on Protestors In Tax-Funded Center » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Corporate Police State: Cisco Enlists Prosecutors to Impede Whistleblower Law Suit « naked capitalism
Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia? « naked capitalism
Apple security personnel search house, allegedly for missing iPhone prototype - SiliconValley.com
Quelle Surprise! "J.P. Morgan Chase "donates" $4.6 Million to NYPD" #OccupyWallStreet
Cops for Labor? | Dollars & Sense
Richmond Cops Mistakenly Hand Over Anti-Protest Guides to Anarchist
the National Guard has riot control drills with protesters holding signs that say "Food Now"
No prank: On Halloween, US military forces train for zombie apocalypse - Yahoo! News
Cops Mock Poor People, Calls Prosecutors "Pieces Of S--t," Claim Ticket-Fixing Is Just The Way It Is: Gothamist

Search, Seizure, and Surveillance

Vast New Spying Program Was Started in Secret on a Bogus Pretext
the subcommittee investigation “could identify no reporting which uncovered a terrorist threat, nor could it identify a contribution such fusion center reporting made to disrupt an active terrorist plot.” - public intelligence
Wyden and Udall Want Obama to Admit to Secret Collection Program | Emptywheel
Justices Allow Search if Police Hear Evidence Being Destroyed - NYTimes.com
Pulling plug on privacy - WWW.THEDAILY.COM
Federal Appeals Court: Driving With Money is a Crime
With CIA help, NYPD moves covertly in Muslim areas - Yahoo! News
Docs: NYPD eyed 250-plus mosques, student groups - Yahoo! News
AP IMPACT: NYPD Ethnic Tracking Included Citizens - ABC News
Palantir Technologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newly Released Documents Reveal Defense Department Intelligence Violations | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fuck Yeah Marxism-Leninism - NYPD’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau: The Long Arm of Repression
How Long Does Your Wireless Carrier Retain Texts, Call Logs? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens - Bloomberg
NYPD Infiltration Of Colleges Raises Privacy Fears : NPR
What's the CIA doing at NYPD? Depends whom you ask - Yahoo! News
Racial profiling on an “industrial scale” - Salon.com
Some info on David Cohen - the Deputy Director for Operations appointed by DCI Deutch
The Department of Justice’s Principles for Conducting Online Undercover Operations | Public Intelligence
Police Tracking of Cellphones Raises Privacy Fears - NYTimes.com
Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense - NYTimes.com
US spy agency accused of illegally collecting personal data - KansasCity.com
Binney: NSA is assembling dossiers on US citizens | Privacy SOS
Drone company rep: "If you're concerned about it, maybe there's a reason we should be flying over you, right?"
New Results From Our Nationwide Cell Phone Tracking Records Requests
WSJ reporter: US surveillance regime has more data on average American than the Stasi did on East Germans. Thanks to the unregulated surveillance offered by private firms.
U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens - WSJ.com
Nice job, drug war: traffic stop nightmare | KOB.com
Since 9/11, Police Have Seized More Than $2.6 Billion From People Who Were Never Charged With a Crime - attn:

Tasers and Sprays

Open Left:: This Is Why We Torture
Pepper Spray Gets in Their Eyes
Excited delirium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Judge rules for Taser in cause-of-death decisions
Mom of boy Tasered in high school cafeteria files lawsuit (documents) - The Middletown Press : Serving Middletown, CT
Professor Sues Pittsburgh for Zapping Her With Weapon Developed to Fight Terrorists
Philadelphia Man Dies After Being Pepper-Sprayed | Public Intelligence
About Pepper Spray | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network
Fire in the Eyes, Part 3 - YouTube
Pepper Spray Developer: It Has Become Fashionable to Use Chemicals on People with Opinions | The Dissenter
Amnesty International Urges Stricter Limits on Police Taser Use as U.S. Death Toll Reaches 500 | Amnesty International USA
Rubber-coated steel bullets - "rubber bullets" | B'Tselem
Students hospitalized after pepper spray incident at a Pine Bluff junior high school - CW Arkansas
Taser Shot to the Chest Can Kill, a Study Warns - NYTimes.com
Police Taser Use on Pregnant Woman Goes Before Court - NYTimes.com
Post-Taser Brain Damage of Kahlif Snowden Could be Officer's Fault
Cop shoots 10-year-old boy with Taser for refusing to clean patrol car — RT
Death of teen on bike shows risks of expanded use of Tasers - St. Petersburg Times
Montreal Police Flashbang Style « subMedia
Attorney: Student tased by police exits coma, enters rehabilitation - CNN.com
during 1st Intifada Israel killed at least 50 Palestinians with tear gas
tear gas kills in high concentrations in enclosed areas
Hotter Than Lava - ProPublica

Rudy G and his Ilk

Officers Unleash Anger at Ticket-Fixing Arraignments in the Bronx - NYTimes.com
Strong Words for a Police Riot - New York Times
Officers Rally And Dinkins Is Their Target - New York Times

Cop Unions

COPS VS. CITIZEN REVIEW
COPS VS. CITIZEN REVIEW
COPS VS. CITIZEN REVIEW
How Police Unions and Arbitrators Keep Abusive Cops on the Street - The Atlantic

Kafka Surrenders - A Reminder That We Live In a Literal Police State
Dont Talk to Police - YouTube
Protect Yourself from FBI Manipulation (w/attorney Harvey Silverglate) - YouTube
What Use The Law? | Notes & Commentaries
Why We Need To Stop Exaggerating The Threat To Cops
Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities
City Drops Appeal, Agrees to Release NYPD Shooting Data
Citing Race Angle in a Float, Parade Bars a Police Entry - New York Times
Twin Rivers Police Association stops selling t-shirt - Boing Boing
The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns | San Francisco Bay Guardian
A dirty little war | Crime News - The News Tribune
Jurors Can Say No - NYTimes.com
Afghanistan's war on 'agriterror' - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
The Scars of Stop-and-Frisk - NYTimes.com
Little evidence links mob violence to social media - CNN.com
Cops who beat their wives are about thirty times more likely to keep their jobs than cops who fail a drug test
A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing | Police Studies Online| Eastern Kentucky University

Prisons

Another Way

Reducing solitary confinement - News Features
Time to end the war on drugs - Richard's Blog - Virgin.com
Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies | Glenn Greenwald | Cato Institute: White Paper
What happens when you decriminalize drugs: Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals

Carnival Mirror

White-on-White Crime: It Goes Against the False Media Narrative
Ooga Booga: Rightbloggers Warn America of a Non-Existent Black Crime Wave - New York News - Runnin' Scared
Five Myths About Crime in Black America—and the Statistical Truths - COLORLINES
DEA Agent Says He Was Told Not To Enforce Drug Laws In White Areas - COLORLINES
Study: Whites More Likely to Abuse Drugs Than Blacks – TIME Healthland
LENIN'S TOMB: Crime and punishment in the neoliberal twilight
Race, Crime and Statistical Malpractice: How the Right Manipulates White Fear With Bogus Data
Telling white people the criminal justice system is racist makes them like it more - Vox

Cruel and Unusual

Death Penalty

Troy Davis given execution date. « Emily L. Hauser – In My Head
RACE: Research Experts Say Racial Bias Still Exists in Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center
Michigan State University College of Law: Death Row Statistics | The Law Insider - Preston J. Clark, Esq.

Joe Arpaio

Ten Most Disturbing Anti-Latino Practices Described By DOJ's Lawsuit Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio | ThinkProgress
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marcia Powell's Death Unavenged: County Attorney Passes on Prosecuting Prison Staff - Phoenix News - Feathered Bastard
Arpaio’s Jail Staff Cost Ambrett Spencer Her Baby, and She’s Not the Only One - Page 2 - News - Phoenix - Phoenix New Times
Marcia Powell's Autopsy Report Rules Cage Death in ADC Custody an "Accident" - Phoenix News - Feathered Bastard
Woman Says Arpaio Locked Her Up With Men
Why Did the Arizona Department of Corrections Put a Mentally Ill Man in a Cell With a Convicted Killer? - Page 1 - News - Phoenix - Phoenix New Times
Joe Arpaio, Arizona sheriff, accused of botching sex crime investigations
Civil Rights Division Maricopa County Sheriffs Office Investigation
www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/documents/mcso_findletter_12-15-11.pdf
Getting Joe Arpaio in Sync with the Constitution and Away from Racial Profiling » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
Twitter / @SAHenryKrinkle: #Arpaio "intentionally des ...
In Maariv intvw infamous AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio praises Israel "tough" handling of African refugees
Sheriff Joe Arpaio Arrests a 6-Year-Old Undocumented Immigrant | Angry Black Lady Chronicles
Janet Napolitano's embarrassing history with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. - Slate Magazine
Arpaio’s Jail Staff Cost Ambrett Spencer Her Baby, and She’s Not the Only One - Page 1 - News - Phoenix - Phoenix New Times

Solitary

Screams from solitary - News Features - Portland Phoenix
Prison Hunger Strikes - Barbarous Confinement - NYTimes.com
Statements from Human Rights and Civil Rights Groups Support Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers « Solitary Watch
Supermax prisons: 21st century asylums - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons. | Mother Jones

Doing the jailhouse rodeo | Stuff.co.nz
ACLU demands Louisana prison stop locking suicidal prisoners in 'squirrel cages', humiliating them
Innocence Lost :: Texas Monthly
Troubled Over Bridgewater - News Features
Stopping Correctional Worker Suicide
No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons
ACLU Witnesses Brutal Beating Of Los Angeles County Jail Inmate By Sheriff’s Deputies | American Civil Liberties Union
California’s Fiscal Crisis Affects Jews in Jail – Forward.com
California Women Prisons: Inmates Face Sexual Abuse, Lack Of Medical Care And Unsanitary Conditions
Powerless in Prison: Sexual Abuse Against Incarcerated Women | RH Reality Check
Prison Shouldn't be a Bar to Motherhood
Suit names jail, infirmary in detainee’s 2009 death - The Boston Globe
Maine tortures women, too - News Features - Portland Phoenix
How I Survived Men's Prison as a Woman | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
Transgender People and the Prison System — The Curvature
Just Detention International – End Rape in Prison
DENISHA LAWSON et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO
ACLU of Colorado settles lawsuit asserting prisoner’s constitutional right to outdoor exercise | ACLU - Colorado
PressTV - Media denied access to California jails
Underwear Shortage In Illinois Prisons: Latest Sign Of State's Financial Woes
Locked Up and Left Behind: Hurricane Irene and the Prisoners on New York’s Rikers Island « Solitary Watch
US: Immigration Detainees at Risk of Sexual Abuse | Human Rights Watch
Disturbing Complaint Against Private Prison
New Orleans Prison Described as a Gulag
Guards regularly raped inmates in Alabama prison — RT
BOISE, Idaho: Workers at Nampa juvenile detention center expand lawsuit | Nampa, Caldwell | Idahostatesman.com
An inmate claims Department of Corrections Sgt. Christopher Jackson sexually assaulted her repeatedly at the Milwaukee women's jail, and "unleashed a brazen and fearless reign of sexual terror on the female inmates,"
GAO report on overcrowding in US federal prisons
Suit Alleges St. Louis Jail Inmates Forced into “Gladiator Fights” « CBS St. Louis
Guards May Be Responsible for Half of Prison Sexual Assaults - ProPublica
County jail deputies allegedly staged fights, FBI agent testifies - Los Angeles Times

Justice is Blind

Fabrication

Police Videotaped Planting Crack Cocaine in a Man’s Store so they Could Arrest Him | Techyville
Brothers charged with police assault say they're victims - Fox 2 News Headlines
We fabricated drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas, former detective testifies
The NYPD Tapes Confirmed - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice
NYPD Narcotics Detective Admits Cops Regularly Plant Drugs On Perps: Gothamist
The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct - Page 1 - News - New York - Village Voice
Seattle cop caught threatening to make up evidence | The Raw Story
Why Police Officers Lie Under Oath - NYTimes.com
Review Ordered of 50 Brooklyn Murder Cases - NYTimes.com
FBI hair analysis may have falsely convicted thousands, including some on death row | The Verge
Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans - Yahoo! News
'The House Is Clean ... We're Gonna Spike Him'
Former Deputies Arrested For Allegedly Planting Guns At Pot Shop: LAist
STL cop recorded threatening to jail teen if he didnt give names of ppl he could plant gun on
Lab Reports Show Hundreds "Convicted in Error" For Drug Offenses | Houston Press
Deputy at PBSO: Planting Evidence, Lying, Part of the Game
Brooklyn Detective Convicted of Planting Drugs on Innocent People - The New York Times
New videos, photos and documents provide fresh look at 2011 St. Louis police killing | Law and order | stltoday.com
Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester | American Civil Liberties Union
Racist police in Alabama planted drugs and guns on over 1,000 innocent Black men

The Machine « LF Effort Posts
Death By Fire | FRONTLINE | PBS
Dont Talk to Police - YouTube
Agents' Secrets | The News Observer
SBI needs more than just new leadership | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper
Study Shows How the Innocent Confess to Crimes - NYTimes.com
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty : The New Yorker
Being Black Is Not 'Probable Cause'
ProPublica review of pardons in past decade shows process heavily favored whites - The Washington Post
The Innocence Project - Understand the Causes: Eyewitness Misidentification
Convicted defendants left uninformed of forensic flaws found by Justice Dept. - The Washington Post
Bail is Busted: How Jail Really Works - - News - New York - Village Voice
Racial Bias and the Death Penalty: A Change Is Coming | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
How Many Innocent People Have We Sent To Prison? | The Nation
Black People Receive 60% Longer Sentences For Same Crimes | News One
Chicago: The false confession capital - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions
The Innocence Project - Understand the Causes: Forensic Science Misconduct
anywhere from 22,000 to 110,000 innocent prisoners are held in US prisons
US: Forced Guilty Pleas in Drug Cases | Human Rights Watch
Only 3-5 years for forensic chemist whose fabricated evidence sent hundreds to prison
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000 - The Washington Post

Pyrric Defeat

Incarceration city - Baltimore Sun
Rough justice in America: Too many laws, too many prisoners | The Economist
BROWN v. PLATA - Argued November 30, 2010.
U.S. physicians call for new approach to address national 'epidemic of mass incarceration'
Increasing number of jailed women fuels prison overcrowding, societal problems - News - Republican Herald
Former women prisoners face longer odds staying out after aid programs slashed | SF Public Press
A Tangle of Problems Links Prison, Foster Care (Gotham Gazette, Apr 2009)
Mothers among the fastest growing prison population « Prisonmovement's Weblog
Black men survive longer in prison than out: study | Reuters
National Reentry Resource Center - <i>65 Million "Need Not Apply," The Case for Reforming Criminal Background Checks for Employment</i>
Economic Mobility Project | Reports & Research | Other Reports
Report: Prison population reductions insufficient
Code of silence among jail guards hinders abuse probes, watchdog says - latimes.com
California's three-strikes law not successful as crime deterrent, study finds
How Mandatory Minimums Forced Me to Send More Than 1,000 Nonviolent Drug Offenders to Federal Prison | The Nation

Repaying Debt to Society

Hungry for Justice

Prison Legal News - Appalling Prison and Jail Food Leaves Prisoners hungry for Justice
Fred Monem, fugitive in Oregon prison scandal, talks for the first time | OregonLive.com

Ex-offenders face big debt challenges after prison
The myth of “paying your debt to society,” or the reality of piles of debt? | PSJ
Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry | Brennan Center for Justice
Student Records: Criminal checks in college admissions carry risks | syracuse.com
Why Ex-Con Job Seekers Shouldn't Be Discriminated Against - TIME
Gov. Quinn comes to Elgin to sign new law born here - Courier News
RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Pay for stays in jail, supervisors say | Luke Test Subsection - The Press-Enterprise
Riverside Charges Inmates for Stays In 'Prison Hotels' (POLL)
Paying for Your Time: How Charging Inmates Fees Behind Bars May Violate the Excessive Fines Clause | Brennan Center for Justice

The Rich Get Richer...

Debtor's Prison

In jail for being in debt | StarTribune.com
In For a Penny: The Rise of America's New Debtors' Prisons | American Civil Liberties Union
ACLU Challenges Debtors’ Prisons Across Michigan | ACLU of Michigan | Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself
NPR Reports that Debtors' Prisons Are Alive and Well - Credit Slips
The Return Of Debtor's Prisons: Thousands Of Americans Jailed For Not Paying Their Bills | ThinkProgress
Debtor’s prison 2.0: Jail for delinquent homeowners?
Matt Stoller: Towards a Creditor State – One in Seven Americans Pursued by Debt Collectors « naked capitalism
Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors' Prisons - Yahoo! Finance
Probation Fees Multiply as Companies Profit - NYTimes.com
Judge halts 'debtors prison' by Harpersville city court, calls it 'judicially sanctioned extortion' | al.com
Arkansas: Tenants Face Prosecution Over Rent Problems | Human Rights Watch
As economy flails, debtors' prisons thrive - CBS News

ICE Castles

The New Operation Wetback » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Proposed Immigrant Detention Centers Draw Criticism From Residents, Immigrant Groups
The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog: AZ enforces it's death penalty on Hawaiian prisoners even though HI abolished the death penalty
"We Can Make Him Disappear": Immigration Officials Are Holding People In Secret, Unmarked Jails | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
Rushed From Haiti, Then Jailed for Lacking Visas - NYTimes.com
Minor Drug Offenses Qualify Legal Residents for Deportation - NYTimes.com
The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog: Detention Watch: Profit Motive Influences Immigration Detention Policy, Says Report
Report: Criminalizing Undocumented Boosts For-profit Prisons - New America Media
The Rutherford Institute: American Police State: Secret Prisons in the U.S.
Tiger Beatdown › In the name of safety: the multi-national anti immigration industry and their billionaire profits
Secret Courts Exploit Immigrants | The Nation
Lost in Detention | FRONTLINE | PBS
Watchdogs Say DHS is Hiding Something - Courthouse News Service
David L. Wilson, "A Palestinian in Indefinite Detention -- 10 Years Ago in the United States"
Detention Is No Holiday - NYTimes.com
Immigrants prove big business for prison companies – USATODAY.com
"mandates from Congress call for at least 34,000 beds to be filled in immigration detention facilities at all times"
"Last year, at least 60,000 immigrants worked in the federal government’s nationwide patchwork of detention centers"

Slave Labor

Gov. Deal's farm labor plan recalls convict leasing | Opinion | Creative Loafing Atlanta
The Hidden History of ALEC and Prison Labor | The Nation
Their happy face on prison labor | SocialistWorker.org
Slave labor in our prisons today | SocialistWorker.org
Prison Inmates Help States Fill Budget Gaps - NYTimes.com
Defense Contractors Using Prison Labor to Build High-Tech Weapons Systems | | AlterNet
Al Norman: "I Ain't Gonna Work On Martori's Farm No More"
Prison Slave Labor | Common Dreams
Proposed bill would allow inmates to manufacture goods for market
Sam Cooke "Chain Gang" - YouTube
The Black Commentator - Slavery in the Third Millennium, Part II - Issue 142
FORCED LABOR IN THE 19 TH CENTURY SOUTH
New Expose Tracks ALEC Support of Replacing Union Workers With Prison Labor | Video Cafe
Alabama brings back slavery for Latinos | Axel Caballero | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Georgia Considers Replacing Firefighters With Free Prison Laborers | ThinkProgress
How US Prison Labor Pads Corporate Profits at Taxpayers' Expense | Common Dreams
The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - America’s Twentieth-Century Slavery
Prisoners Exposed to Toxic Dust at UNICOR Recycling Factories
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME (FULL-LENGTH) - PBS DOCUMENTARY 2012 - YouTube

BJS: Emerging Issues of Privatized Prisons
Audit: Private Prisons Cost Slightly More | In the Public Interest
New York Trying to Close Tryon Detention Center - NYTimes.com
Real Justice for Juveniles - NYTimes.com
Empty Bars - News - Pittsburgh City Paper
Private-prison consultant chosen to run ODRC | The Columbus Dispatch
Daily Kos: Report: Private prison companies boost incarceration rates for profit
In Prison Reform, Money Trumps Civil Rights - NYTimes.com
Inmates' hometowns, not prison site, key to election district: feds
Private Prisons’ Cost Benefits Debated - NYTimes.com
Joe Arpaio's staff misspent $99.5 million, budget officials say
Bidding begins to privatize prisons in South Florida - Florida - MiamiHerald.com
NH parents show support for state prison
Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives | Brennan Center for Justice
Video of Notorious Texas Private Prison Auction |
Security records mixed for private prison firms
High Crime - and Profit - in Jailing Kids: Monopoly Capitalism at Work | Rowan Wolf's Blog
Inmate Visits Now Carry Added Cost in Arizona - NYTimes.com
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Corporate Prison Employees Are Immune To The Constitution | ThinkProgress
Private Prison Corporation Offers Cash In Exchange For State Prisons
Wells Fargo’s prison cash cow - Salon.com
Hiding Out In Prison Bonds - Forbes.com
By the Numbers: The U.S.’s Growing For-Profit Detention Industry - ProPublica
Private Prisons Lobby for Harsher Sentences | Trial by Fire
Arizona private prisons slammed by report
IPS – More Countries Turn to Faltering U.S. Prison Privatisation Model | Inter Press Service
Higher Profits Explain Why There Are More People of Color in Private Prisons | Blog, Connecting the Dots | BillMoyers.com
Arizona GOP gives private prison company $1 million to house inmates who don’t exist | The Raw Story
Why Is Georgia About to Pass a Law That Will Make It Easier to Send Poor People to Prison? | The Nation
Inside the Private Prison Industry's Alarming Spread Across America | Alternet

Making Crime Pay: The Convict Lease and the Beginnings of For-Profit Incarceration | re-think america
Getty Images - Grant recipients and judges
Select A State | Think Before You Plea:
Paul's crime and justice Page: corporate crime and power: jeffrey reiman explains ideology and inequality
The rich get richer and the poor get prison (jeffrey reiman) - companion website at paul's crime and justice page (explore the carnival mirror any pyrrhic defeat theory)
EMPLOYMENT SCREENING RESOURCES (ESR) NEWS » EEOC Schedules Meeting on Use of Criminal Records for Employment Screening Background Checks on July 26
God's Own Warden | Mother Jones
Jeffrey Reiman
Austerity budgets, fiscal squeezes, and territorial obligations: the end of an era? « GlobalHigherEd
The Political Economy of Mass Incarceration « thecurrentmoment
The Queer Case Against Prisons

Run GOP

Allen West

Insane Florida Congressman Allen West Wildly Overreacts to Criticism -- Daily Intel
Allen West Calls Rep. Maxine Waters A ‘Plantation Overseer,’ Then Sends His Brother To Her For Help | ThinkProgress
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » ABC's Drivel About 'Partisan Rancor'
American right attempting to equate Islam with sedition | Current Events Inquiry
Allen West (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chris Christie

New forecast puts 2-year NJ revenues $1.3B below Christie estimates - NorthJersey.com
Chris Christie, the ‘Churchill’ of New Jersey
Audio: Chris Christie Lets Loose at Secret Koch Brothers Confab | Mother Jones
Chris Christie Comes Out Swinging as His Optimistic Budget Falters - NYTimes.com
NJ Gov. Chris Christie Vetoes Tax Cut For Working Poor, Wants Tax Cuts For 1% Or Nothing
Study: N.J. wealthy flourishing, gap between rich and poor is largest since Great Depression | NJ.com
N.J. unemployment hits 9.6 percent in June, its largest jump in 3 years | NJ.com
US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Numerous Chris Christie corruption scandals would re-emerge if he ran for president in 2012

Florida and Rick Scott

Superhero capes jobless: State launches probe of superhero capes for jobless - OrlandoSentinel.com
South Florida Times: Miami , Broward, Palm Beach, Breaking News & Weather at SFLTimes.com - Florida ends automatic felon rights restoration
Your Tax Money Will Bulldoze State Parks, Pay For The Creation of Golf Courses - Broward/Palm Beach News - The Daily Pulp
Golf courses in state parks? Worst. Idea. Ever. - Orlando Sentinel
Who’s Policing Miami Cops After 63 Unsolved Civilian Shootings? - COLORLINES
Orlando Activists Arrested For Feeding Homeless In Defiance Of City Ordinance
Welfare drug-testing yields 2% positive results | TBO.com
Judge Halts Enforcement of Unconstitutional Law Mandating Drug Tests for Temporary Assistance Applicants
Justice Dept. investigating Miami police in deaths of seven black men | McClatchy
Gov. Scott Doesn't Want More Tax Revenue To Plug Florida's Budget Hole | Political Correction
Nick Christie: Mentally ill prisoner strapped to 'Devil's Chair' and 'pepper-sprayed to death' | Mail Online
Florida Senate panel OKs slashing hourly pay for servers, bartenders, others - OrlandoSentinel.com
Miami judge decides fatal stabbing was self-defense - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com
Florida’s youth rights record | Current Events Inquiry
Florida GOP Rejects Money To Fight Child Abuse And Neglect | ThinkProgress
'Stand Your Ground': Ladies, You Have No Ground to Stand on
Health Care Renewal: How Did the CEO Who Presided Over the Company that Paid a $1.7 Billion Fraud Settlement [i.e. Rick Scott] Become a Credible Candidate for a State Governorship?
After 2010 campaign, Gov. Rick Scott gave back dog Reagan - Tampa Bay Times
Legislators act immediately on 10 News' short yellow light investigation | wtsp.com
Companies owned by Gov. Rick Scott's finance chairman won potentially billions in Medicaid contracts | members.jacksonville.com

Herman Cain

ataxingmatter: CTJ's Analysis of Cain's 9-9-9 Tax Plan
Cain Used Campaign Funds to Buy Autobiography From His Company - Bloomberg
FACT CHECK: Herman Cain’s pattern of evasion and misdirection | iWatch News
EXCLUSIVE: Herman Cain Tells ThinkProgress ‘I Will Not’ Appoint A Muslim In My Administration | ThinkProgress

Jesse Helms

Jesse Helms irritated the Reagan admin by expressing overtly enthusiastic support for Pinochet
Jesse Helms: Honoring a Fine, Christian Gentleman
Ted Cruz: "We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms" | Mother Jones

Michele Bachmann

The Time Michele Bachmann Thought She'd Been Kidnapped By Lesbians
10 Of The Craziest Things Michele Bachmann Has Ever Said | ThinkProgress
How Michele Bachmann Bought the Ames Straw Poll | Unelected.org
Bachmann calls to drill the Everglades ‘responsibly’ | Raw Replay
Minnesota professor offers $1,000 for Bachmann's HPV vaccine victim | StarTribune.com
Bachmann Hopes to Reshape the Judiciary According to her 'Biblical View of Law' | Right Wing Watch
Bachmann Offers Big Numbers, Little Proof - CBS News
Michele Bachmann doesn't want the TSA groping your junk - Minneapolis - News - The Blotter

Mitt Romney

Mitt Advocates Taking Healthcare from Retirees to Give Money to Bailed Out Banks | emptywheel
Mitt Romney denounces Operation Hilarity one month after endorsing it - YouTube
Iran Terror to the South! - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Romney exposed his ignorance in the land of the prophets - The Washington Post
Mitt Romney’s Search for Simple Answers - NYTimes.com
Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads
U.S.-Funded War in El Salvador Casts Shadow over Romney/Ryan Campaign
Romney Avoids Taxes via Loophole Cutting Mormon Donations - Bloomberg

Newt

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Newt Gingrich, Intellectual Powerhouse
Gingrich Said to Be Paid $1.6M by Freddie Mac - Bloomberg
From Gingrich, an Unconventional View of Education - NYTimes.com
Newt Gingrich Proposes Reviving "Poll Tests" Of The Sort Outlawed In The Civil Rights Era | ThinkProgress
Newt’s Right: Put the Kids To Work - By Kevin D. Williamson - Exchequer - National Review Online
Washingtonpost.com: The Gingrich Ethics Probe
1945 (1995 novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gingrich Says He Was Acting as a Citizen, Not a Lobbyist - NYTimes.com
The Iconoclast: A French Take On Newt Gingrich (Who Once Lived In France) - Worldcrunch - All News is Global
Newt Gingrich: Shining Knight of the Post-Reagan Right | Mother Jones
Newt’s War on Poor Children - NYTimes.com
Appalling Moments in Newtspeak - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
PolitiFact | Newt Gingrich blasts 1990s ethics investigation of him, calling it partisan
Gingrich Calls Palestinians 'Invented' People | Common Dreams
PolitiFact | Newt Gingrich says Freddie Mac, electric coo-ops and credit unions are similar organizations
Gingrich 'Inadvertently' Names Porn Company 'Entrepreneur of The Year' For Stimulating The Economy | ThinkProgress
Newly recovered court files cast doubt on Gingrich version of first divorce - CNN.com
Gingrich: The Left Doesn't 'Believe the Wright Brothers Invented Flying' | rightwingwatch.org

Paul Ryan

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Time Paints Paul Ryan as Deficit-Slashing Superhero
Paul Ryan: Mr. Serious
Experts: Ryan Roadmap Balloons Deficits While Taxing Middle Class, Slashing Entitlements | TPMDC
Statement of Robert Greenstein, President, on Chairman Ryan’s Budget Plan — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Paul Ryan Mocks Senior Citizen Handcuffed At His Town Hall: 'I Hope He's Taking His Blood Pressure Medication' | ThinkProgress
Paul Ryan Closely Tied To Corrupt Union Accused of Violently Threatening Dissidents - Working In These Times
Fact Check: Ryan budget plan doesn't actually slash the budget | Fox News
The Wall Street Journal Hides Ryan's Record On Deficits | Blog | Media Matters for America
Paul Ryan Slammed by Charity President Over Soup Kitchen Photo Op: 'He Did Nothing'

Rick Perry and Texas

"Texas on the Brink" by Eliot Shapleigh
Rick Perry's Campaign Strategy? Distorting His Abysmal Economic Record | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Texas and the government are chummier than you'd think - CSMonitor.com
The Texas climate change solution: God - How the World Works - Salon.com
Perry became a millionaire while serving in office | National politics | News from Fort ...
Texas plans to cut budget of agency battling fires | Reuters
Plain Talk: Who was Malcolm X? Texas students won’t know
GOP debate audience cheers Perry’s execution record | Raw Replay
Cheering for state-imposed death - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Rick Perry’s Execution Record Includes The Deaths Of Juveniles And The Mentally Disabled | ThinkProgress
Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him | ThinkProgress
Shake-up in Texas execution probe draws criticism, questions - CNN
The Execution of Cameron Willingham » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Perry's Death Penalty Defense - NYTimes.com
Rick Perry Struggles To Answer Question About Sex Ed: 'Abstinence Works'
Rick Perry and Sex Education: Abstinence works! - William Belle - Open Salon
Rick Perry’s made-up ‘facts’ about climate change - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » What Do You Call a Guy Like Rick Perry?
Rick Perry Suffers Lasting Damage On Vaccination Mandate During His Second GOP 2012 Debate
Rick Perry’s Juvie Record | Mother Jones
Allies of Rick Perry form group that accepts unlimited, undisclosed donations | iWatch News
Rick Perry family’s hunting camp still known to many by old racially charged name - The Washington Post
Perry Officials Censored Climate Change Report | Mother Jones
Texas Spends $25 Million on Mansion as Perry Seeks Cuts - Businessweek
Texas prohibits nearly 70 percent of its counties from having a fire code | Dallasnews.com - News for Dallas, Texas - The Dallas Morning News
The Texas Tribune: Hurting for Work
Men's Journal Magazine - Who Stole the Water (from Texas)?
Death on the job | Dallas Morning News

Rand Paul

Sen. Rand Paul Blocks $36 Million For Disabled And Elderly Refugees, Including Those Who Aided American Troops | ThinkProgress
Sen. Rand Paul: TSA Should Profile "Middle Eastern Students" | Political Correction
Rand Paul Detained By TSA On Way To Anti-Abortion March | Care2 Causes
the day after he had his filibuster spectacle, rand paul dropped his opposition to brennan
Rand Paul’s Remarks at Howard University and the Skeptical Audience’s Tweets - COLORLINES
Rand Paul wants US to keep foreign military bases open — RT USA
Rand Paul, M.D., America’s Most Fraudulent Alleged Champion Of Civil Liberties - Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
Now Rand Paul Thinks It’s OK To Kill U.S. Citizens With Drones On American Soil? | Mediaite
Rand Paul "Assures" Evangelicals That He Doesn't Want to End the Drug War - Hit & Run : Reason.com
Aide to Sen. Rand Paul Exposed for Neo-Confederate Views | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Some Libertarian: Rand Paul Calls for the Jailing of Edward Snowden
"States' Rights" my ass: Rand Paul backs bill that could lead to crack down on states where voters legalized weed | The Raw Story
Drone critic Rand Paul warns freed Taliban there’s a ‘drone with their name on it’
CAIR Urges Repudiation of ‘Reckless’ Anti-Muslim Proposals by Rand Paul, Wesley Clark, Franklin Graham - CAIR

Ron Paul

Ron Paul: Africa has famines because they aren’t capitalists | Raw Replay
Ron Paul exposes United Nations plan to destroy US (1990's? entertaining a john birch society fantasy) - YouTube
5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution | Common Dreams
Ron Paul And The Civil Rights Act | ThinkProgress
Ron Paul: Reactionary Racist Leprechaun | VICE
Paulbomb multiformat - Pastebin.com
Angry White Man | The New Republic
Bill Summary & Status - 98th Congress (1983 - 1984) - H.R.4982 - All Information - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
Why the Left Should Reject Ron Paul » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
PolitiFact Texas | Ron Paul says members of military have given him far more money than other GOP candidates and Barack Obama
Compensation - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
Anonymous Hacks Neo-Nazis and Finds Many Current Ron Paul Connections
Ron Paul Wants to Abolish the CIA; His Largest Donor Builds Toys for It | The Nation
My Kasual Kountry Weekend With the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Ron Paul Says He Would Recognize Jerusalem As Israel's Capital - Business Insider
"Ron Paul Wants The State Of Texas To Make It Illegal To Be Gay!" Mike Rogers Raw Story - YouTube
The Pauls' New Crusade: "Internet Freedom"
Why Is Ron Paul’s SuperPAC Headquartered In Mitt Romney’s Backyard? - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
Ron Paul One Of The Most Corrupt Members Of Congress, Report Finds - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)
OpEdNews - Article: Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $400,000 Debt
Ron Paul, Birch President to Speak at Anti-Semitic Conference | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Sarah Palin

Alaska Governor Proposes $500 Million in Subsidies for a Gas Pipeline - NYTimes.com
Palin's Phantom Pipeline Steals $500 Million from Taxpayers
Sarah Palin Uses PAC to Buy Her Own Book - ABC News

Stupid Christmas Tree Tax

Obama Administration to Delay New 15-Cent Christmas Tree Tax - ABC News
Obama team delays Christmas tree fee

Tea Party's Greatest Hits

Tea Party Leader Slams McCain For Defending Clinton Aide: Any Muslim 'Is A Threat' | ThinkProgress
WISER :: Multi-state survey of Race & Politics of the Tea Party
Sen. Jim DeMint: Gays And Unmarried, Pregnant Women Should Not Teach Public School
Tea Party Caucus overwhelmingly votes to preserve $125k+ farm subsidies | Current Events Inquiry
Tea Party Rep: Bank Should Have Known I Wouldn't Be Able To Repay $2.2 Million Loan | TPMMuckraker
Crashing the Tea Party - NYTimes.com
Minuteman Vigilante Shawna Forde Convicted for Brisenia Flores’ Murder - COLORLINES
Glenn Beck Suggests Tea Party Is Racist | ThinkProgress
Jules Manson, Failed Tea Party Candidate, Calls For Assassination Of Obama, First Daughters
Tennessee Tea Party 'Demands' That References To Slavery Be Removed From History Textbooks | ThinkProgress
Tea Party Nation: The left's killed "a billion people" - David Catanese - POLITICO.com
Tea Party Introduces 'Wacky' And 'Ludicrous' Conspiracy Bill To Shut Down Arizona Energy Efficiency Programs | ThinkProgress
Tea Party Congressmen Accept Cash From Bailed-Out Bankers - Bloomberg
Reported Neo-Nazi Spree Killer Called SB 1070 Sponsor Russell Pearce His 'Surrogate Father' | ThinkProgress
15 Tea Party Caucus freshmen rake in $3.5 million in first 9 months in Washington | iWatch News
Tea Party Aryan Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charge
How The Banks Bought The Tea Party
GOP Lawmaker Behind Abortion Ban: 'We’re Not Going To Allow Minorities To Run Roughshod' | ThinkProgress
Houston-Area Tea Party Leader Had Ties to Fascist Party | The Texas Tribune
Author of Texas pro-birther bill argued against prenatal care because “they’re not born yet” | FreakOutNation
Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder's Slave-Owning History | Check last paragraph
Tea party operative likely behind mysterious web blitz | Center for Public Integrity

Ted Nugent

VPC - NRA Family Values include Ted Nugent saying ""apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal."
ted nugent adopted an underage girl so he could legally have sex with her

Violent Anti-Union Thugs

Daily Kos: Anti-union, pro-nursing-home-owner thugs threaten students at rally for striking workers
"lets publicly debate why you and your buddies Andy Stern and the rest should be publicly executed"
Grocery Pickets Are Attacked - Los Angeles Times
Republicans Cheer That Labor Leaders Murdered In Colombia - Dave Johnson

Hell Yeah They're Racist/Bigots

Two people removed from RNC after taunting black camera operator – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs
CNN Camerawoman "Not Surprised" by Peanut-Throwing | The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
GOP Rep. (also inventor of freedom fries) Appears on White Nationalist Radio Show | Mother Jones
Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy | The Nation
Yet Another Arkansas Legislator Is Nuts: 'If Slavery Were So Godawful, Why Didn't Jesus Condemn It?'
Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones
Todd Kincannon, Former South Carolina GOP Executive Director, Defends Trayvon Martin Tweets (VIDEO)
The Definitive Guide to Bigotry in the 2012 Republican Primaries (So Far) - COLORLINES
White Supremacist With Ties To Neo-Nazi Groups Elected To Pennsylvania County GOP Committee | ThinkProgress
RNC Official: NM Governor ‘Dishonored’ Gen. Custer By Meeting With American Indians | TPMMuckraker
Gabriela Saucedo Mercer: We don’t want Middle Easterners in U.S. | TPMMuckraker
salina.com - Kansas R drops "nigger-rigging" in state congress
Rick Santorum: "I don't want to make black peoples lives better" - YouTube
Texas Republican Candidate Claims the ‘Right’ To Shoot ‘Wetbacks’ on Sight : Political Blind Spot
Steve King Worried Gays Could Trick Businesses Into Committing Hate Crimes
Todd Akin: Some of my staff ‘conceived in rape’ - Jonathan Topaz - POLITICO.com

Hypocrisy Grab Bag

Judicial Watch edorsed NSA wiretapping under bush, oppose it under obama

The War on Elizabeth Warren - GOP Hates Mortgage Regulation
Roger Pilon says public financing would create dystopia in which politicians run by trying to improve people's lives
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » The Post-Reality Party
Candidates Reagan & Bush-41 Discuss Illegal Immigration in 1980 Debate - YouTube
GOP also opposes the teaching of “critical thinking skills” because they “focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”
Texas GOP Platform Calls For Repealing Voting Rights Act Of 1965 | ThinkProgress
Fact checking the GOP debate at the Reagan library - The Fact Checker - The Washington Post
Dick Morris: Occupy Wall Street Is To Obama As A Large Ku Klux Klan Movement Would Be To GOP President | Media Matters for America
Controversial Industries Have Backed Boehner
ANALYSIS: Republican field shies away from history on insurance mandate | iWatch News
Supply-Side Hero Arthur Laffer Sued for Hyping Ponzi Scheme
Anti-Immigration Sheriff Paul Babeu's Gay Affair With Undocumented Immigrant |Gay News|Gay Blog Towleroad
Ray McGovern Confronts Rumsfeld - YouTube
Kentucky Gov. Cuts Education Funding While Preserving Tax Breaks For Biblically-Themed Amusement Park | ThinkProgress
GOP House cuts funds to UN agency that fights against female genital mutilation & reduces maternal death
Conservatives favor states rights...except when they don't.
Free speech and the American right | Current Events Inquiry
Bobby Jindal eliminates Louisiana's state library funding - latimes.com
Eric Cantor's Aide Departs For Bank CEO Lobbying Group | Republic Report
Freshman Rep. Mulvaney (R-SC) Won His Seat With Koch Industries Support, Now Offers Earmarks To His Benefactor | Republic Report
We’ve gone to the dogs | Iowa rep Steve King says that rape and kidnapping isn't illegal | Bors Blog
Solyndra Hypocrisy: David Vitter Sought Energy Loans He Now Seeks to Scrutinize | Swampland | TIME.com
AEI Hack Just Asking If We Should Cut Food Stamps and Give the Money to the Military
GOP Ponders Holding 'Debt Limit' Hostage Every Sixty Days, Not Just Once | Common Dreams
Republicans reject their own deficit-reduction report - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post
Michelangelo Signorile: An Open Letter to Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council: Let's Talk About Hate
Little Green Footballs - Maryland Republican Lawmaker Who Thinks Gays Are a Threat to Children Gets Drunk and Crashes His Boat Into Children
After Condemning Wall Street At Christian Conference, Tim Pawlenty Becomes Their Top Lobbyist | Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
Republicans Taking Cops Off Derivatives Beat | The Nation
As Punishment For Opposing Anti-Abortion Bill, Male Michigan House Leader Bans Two Female Reps From Speaking | ThinkProgress
D'Aubuisson Honored by Conservatives at Capitol Hill Dinner - Pastebin.com
Republicans not handling election results well - Public Policy Polling
State Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons tried to exempt husband from right-to-work law | MLive.com
Right Wing Group: Protections To Prevent Prison Rape Are Too 'Costly' And 'Heavy-Handed' | ThinkProgress
Days Without a GOP Rape Mention
After Voting To Protect Oil Subsidies, Rep. Joe Walsh Applauds Ending Oil Subsidies | ThinkProgress
Phil Gingrey Perpetuates the "Women Cry Rape" Myth | RH Reality Check
Wyoming state republican introduced bill to criminalize whistleblowers investigating agribusinesses
"The abortion bill also would require doctors to tell women that abortion causes breast cancer, even though the claim defies scientific fact."
North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill
And The Winner For The Most Iraq War Contracts Is . . . KBR, With $39.5 Billion In A Decade
Georgia lawmaker who supported drug testing for welfare gets second DUI | The Raw Story
Kentucky Gov. Cuts Education Funding While Preserving Tax Breaks For Biblically-Themed Amusement Park | ThinkProgress
Republicans bash U.S. law targeting offshore tax dodgers | Reuters
Louie Gohmert: Raise taxes on poor people because they can pay with welfare | The Raw Story
Latino Rebels | Epic Fail by Arizona GOP Politician: Thought Kids on YMCA Bus Were Migrant Children
GOP House candidate defends Facebook comment about poor, “No one has the guts to just let them wither and die.”
Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion | Star Tribune

The Environment

Capital's Last Frontier

As ice melts and technology improves, interest in Arctic grows -Clinton | McClatchy
Exxon CEO: Fossil fuels will warm planet, but humans can adapt | The Hook
DARPA begins arctic operations
BBC Newsnight: Wikileaks files reveal Arctic 'carve up' - YouTube
Oil exploration under Arctic ice could cause 'uncontrollable' natural disaster - Environment - The Independent
Climate Change: Hurricanes and Typhoons Kill Mainly the Poor | NEWS JUNKIE POST
U.S. Unveils Military Strategy for Arctic - Inter Press Service

Alternative Energy

Experimental wind-farm produces tenfold power increase
The case for clean energy | SocialistWorker.org
GOP Tries to Turn Solyndra into a Climategate, But It Can't Hide Clean Energy's Success | Common Dreams
FAIR Blog » Newsweek's Funny Numbers on Green Jobs
Findings From 30 Yr Study Organic Farming is Better than Conventional
Solar power: cheap electricity for world’s poor - CSMonitor.com
BBC News - Lab-grown meat is first step to artificial hamburger
Germany Sets Solar Power Record: 50% of Electricity Demand | InsideClimate News
Solar panels could destroy U.S. utilities, according to U.S. utilities | Grist

Consumer Protection

GO VEG

Some essential reading material on the US food industry | Current Events Inquiry
The FDA Thinks It's Totally Cool For Us To Eat Seafood 10,000 Times Over The Contamination Limit
Is There Pink Slime In Your Beef?
Judge Rules FDA Must Act to Protect Americans from Overuse of Antibiotics in Livestock | Union of Concerned Scientists
U.S.D.A. Poultry Inspection Plan Sets Off Dispute - NYTimes.com
In Small Sample, E. Coli Found in 48% of Chicken in Stores - NYTimes.com
Data Highlights - 25: Peak Meat: U.S. Meat Consumption Falling | EPI
In Defense of Organic
Scientific American fact-checkers on holiday | Pesticide Action Network
PCRM | Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces
Arch Intern Med -- Holy Cow! What's Good For You Is Good For Our Planet: Comment on "Red Meat Consumption and Mortality", March 12, 2012, Ornish 0 (2012): archinternmed.2012.174v1
stop eating meat, you fatty fat - The Something Awful Forums
The Way Things Aren't - meat isn't resource efficient
EAT BUGS - The Slate
Solutions for Deforestation-Free Meat (2012) | Union of Concerned Scientists
Farmer Feeds His Cows Candy When Corn Prices Skyrocket | Audubon Magazine Blog
Study: Sustainable Farming Proven to Increase Yield at Zero Cost | Common Dreams
Animal abuse persists at some meat plants - KansasCity.com

The Precautionary Principle

Dodgy Deals and Irresponsible Care with the precautionary principle
Nichols – Dezenhall Precautionary Principle Campaign Proposal

Are Chemicals Making Us Fat? | Truthout
Greenpeace finds toxic chemicals in top brand name clothes | The Raw Story
Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe To Eat? | Mother Jones
Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science - Bloomberg
15 Food Companies that Serve You ‘Wood’ | Food Freedom
The Very Real Danger of Genetically Modified Foods - Ari LeVaux - Health - The Atlantic
Feminist Wire Daily Newsbriefs: U.S. and Global News Coverage
3 Ways Scientific American Got the Organic Ag Story Wrong | Mother Jones
To be effective, scientists say junk food taxes must be very high | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog
Congress' Big Gift to Monsanto | Mother Jones
Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks Find It Safe - Bloomberg

Faux Environmentalism

EU drafts reveal biofuel's environmental damage | Reuters
Market-based “solution” to climate change dispossesses peasants in Honduras | Current Events Inquiry
The Dark Side of the “Green Economy” by Jeff Conant — YES! Magazine
A massive and illegal geoengineering project has been detected off Canada's west coast

Fracking

Shale Shocked: 'Remarkable Increase' In U.S. Earthquakes 'Almost Certainly Manmade,' USGS Scientists Report | ThinkProgress
The Best Watchdog Journalism On Fracking - ProPublica
Jon Rynn: A Fracking Mess – Natural Gas is Not the Fuel of the Future « naked capitalism
OpEdNews - Article: Did Fracking Cause the Virginia Earthquake?
Economic benefits of shale-gas extraction unclear - environment - 30 June 2011 - New Scientist
David Brooks Comes Out for the Middle Position on Fracking: Drill, Baby ,Drill | Beat the Press
Hot Air and the Fracking Jobs Boom | Beat the Press
Peter Custers, "Shale Gas and Climate Change -- A Burning Issue"
EPA blames fracking for Wyoming pollution - FT.com
Halliburton Set To Thrive On Fracking And Expanding Shale Play - Yahoo! News
Ohio Fracking Wells Closed After Earthquakes | Common Dreams
Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases: Scientific American
Natural Gas and the News
Fracking wastewater disposal induced a dozen earthquakes in Ohio - NY Daily News
For Pennsylvania's Doctors, a Gag Order on Fracking Chemicals | Mother Jones
Fracking Fatalities 7 times higher than normal: Organized Labor Implores Federal Agencies to Stop the Killings - Working In These Times
Myths And Facts About Natural Gas | Media Matters for America
Wastewater Injection Spurred Biggest Earthquake Yet, Says Study | Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Fracking Executive Says Rich Neighborhoods Safe from Drill Sites | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Global Warming

Climate Skeptics

Petroleum and Propaganda: The Anatomy of the Global Warming Denial Industry :: Monthly Review
Fox News Baffled By The Moon - YouTube
Fox Business host accuses Bill Nye of ‘confusing viewers’ with science | Raw Replay
Climate skeptics perform independent analysis, finally convinced Earth is getting warmer
Journalistic Balance as Global Warming Bias
Skeptical of Science : CJR
BBC News - Openness: A Heartland-warming tale
Heartland Institute launches a 'closed' climate change wiki | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.uk
30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on • The Register
North Carolina considers outlawing accurate predictions of sea level rise
3,500 Words On "Climategate" Sequel, But The Weekly Standard Still Comes Up Empty | Media Matters for America
Local Media Fail To Cover Climate Denial, ALEC Link | Media Matters for America
Exclusive: Billionaires secretly fund attacks on climate science - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent
CNBC caught soliciting essay that would call global warming a ‘hoax’

Even the army says global warming is a problem
Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse - Features - Al Jazeera English
Extreme weather: the new normal - Features - Al Jazeera English
200 Million Depend on Melting Glaciers for Water - IPS ipsnews.net
The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium | Common Dreams
Climate-Related Severe Weather Made 2011 Costliest Year on Record: Reports | Common Dreams
Climate Crisis: Social Science Crisis
The Right v. the EPA « naked capitalism
15 Military Leaders Who Say Climate Change Is A National Security Threat | Media Matters for America
Apocalypse Soon: Has Civilization Passed the Environmental Point of No Return?: Scientific American
Bombshell: Koch-Funded Study Finds 'Global Warming Is Real', 'On The High End' And 'Essentially All' Due To Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress
WHO | Atlas of health and climate
USGS Release: USGS-NOAA: Climate Change Impacts to U.S. Coasts Threaten Public Health, Safety and Economy (1/28/2013 1:00:00 PM)
100 million will die by 2030 if world fails to act on climate: report | Reuters
5 Terrifying Statements in the Leaked Climate Report | Mother Jones
Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says – but it funded deniers for 27 more years | Environment | The Guardian

Green is the New Red

Terrorism and dissent: police war metaphors spell danger for democracy | Privacy SOS
Drillers using counterinsurgency experts
Oil Executive: Military-Style 'Psy Ops' Experience Applied - US Business News - CNBC
I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me | Common Dreams
Breaking: Tim transferred out of “the hole”, but questions remain (at the request of unidentified congressman) | Peaceful Uprising
Jailed Climate Hero Tim DeChristopher Thrown in the Hole | Jeff Goodell | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Car-Bombed Activist Can View Evidence
Spying on First Amendment Activity - the FBI has undercover agents infiltrating vegan potlucks
ASIO eyes green groups
AETA Revisited: How the Green Scare Act Continues to Bind the First Amendment and What the NLG is Doing About It | National Lawyers Guild
NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism
The fossil fuel industry’s secret war on environmental activists - Salon.com
Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break Up Planned Protest » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Leaked Stratfor Powerpoint Shows Corporation’s Fear Of Activist Campaigns | PopularResistance.Org
Dying in Defense of Earth: Eco-Activist Murders Skyrocket | Common Dreams
Imagining a world where shale never happened | The National
Richard Berman Energy Industry Talk Secretly Taped - NYTimes.com
Car bomb, house explosion rock solar energy campaign in Louisiana -- Fusion
Revealed: FBI violated its own rules while spying on Keystone XL opponents | US news | The Guardian
Russia 'secretly working with environmentalists to oppose fracking' | Environment | The Guardian

Nuclear

Should greens support nuclear power? | SocialistWorker.org
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think - Features - Al Jazeera English
Is Nuclear Power Really a Trump Card Against Global Warming? » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Oil

Keystone XL

AP Fact Check: In 36 Years Of Data, Not A Shred Of Evidence That Drilling Reduces Gas Prices | ThinkProgress
The Canadian Oil Pipeline: Good for 2 Days Worth of Jobs | Beat the Press
Agency Struggles to Safeguard Pipeline System - NYTimes.com
State Department Environmental Impact Study of Keystone XL Pipeline Released, Skids Greased for Approval | FDL News Desk
Two Decades of Spills - Graphic - NYTimes.com
The Cronyism Behind a Pipeline for Crude - NYTimes.com
TransCanada Transforms Area Around Tar Sands Blockade into Police State | The Dissenter
Tar Sands in Canada are world's third-largest oil reserve with 173billion untouched barrels | Mail Online
Pipeline rupture report raises questions about TransCanada inspections - Canada - CBC News

To the Last Drop - Witness - Al Jazeera English
CLIMATE CHANGE: Welcome to Bizarro World - IPS ipsnews.net
Saudi Oil Minister Calls Global Warming "Humanity's Most Pressing Concern" | ThinkProgress
What Tar Sands Really Look Like
Petition - Support the End Polluter Welfare Act: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism :: Monthly Review
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Energy Landscape of 2041 | TomDispatch
In Kabul, air pollution a bigger killer than war
DuPont's Herbicide Goes Rogue | Truthout
Investor-Owned Utilities Profiting From Expansion of Shale Gas Development | Food & Water Watch
Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases - NYTimes.com
America's 18,000 Golf Courses Are Devastating the Environment
Irreversible Climate Change Looms Within Five Years | Common Dreams
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey » Blog Archive » Video: Christian Parenti in conversation with David Harvey
How organized crime groups are destroying the rain forests
Green lifestyle choices won’t solve the climate problem | Grist
Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S. | MIT Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment

Thought Control

Academia Interference

r H i z z o n E - CIA Involvement in Academia, or How the West Usurped the Cultural Revolution
David N. Gibbs: The CIA is Back on Campus
Horrible editorial - Around Town KSU s new colors black gold and red
News: The Would-Be Provost Who Quoted Marx - Inside Higher Ed
Schools Find Ayn Rand Can’t Be Shrugged as Donors Build Courses - Bloomberg
ZCommunications | The CIA Returns to Campus and Resistance Begins Again by Philip Zwerling | ZMagazine Article
Daily Kos: Peter Wallison's Bogus Research Found A Home At Berkeley and NYU
All Your Brain Are Belong To Us: Neuroscience Goes To War « The Disorder Of Things
Cheerleading for Monsanto? The Shocking Lack of Difference Between Oxford University Press and Fox News | | AlterNet

Al-Jazeera

Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be held accountable [Voltaire Network]
Sukant Chandan, "Al-Jazeera: An Island of Pro-Empire Intrigue"
Maximilian C. Forte, "Al Jazeera and U.S. Foreign Policy: What WikiLeaks' U.S. Embassy Cables Reveal about U.S. Pressure and Propaganda"
Qatar Presses Decisive Shift in Arab Politics - NYTimes.com
Al Jazeera slanders Kucinich in an effort to delegitimize his opposition to the unauthorized war in Libya
Libyan rebels supplied with anti-tank weapons by Qatar | World news | The Guardian
Al-Jazeera boss Wadah Khanfar steps down to be replaced by Qatari royal | Media | The Guardian
What Wikileaks Tells Us About Al Jazeera - By Omar Chatriwala | Foreign Policy
WikiLeaks cables claim al-Jazeera changed coverage to suit Qatari foreign policy | World news | The Guardian
Donald Rumsfeld Tells Al Jazeera 'I Am Delighted You Are Doing What You Are Doing'
Ahmed E. Souaiaia, "Qatar, Al Jazeera, and the Arab Spring"
Syria: Watch the weather forecast — RT
Syria’s Electronic Warriors Hit Al Jazeera | Al Akhbar English
In Syria, al Jazeera’s Credibility Implodes » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Al Jazeera reporter resigns over "biased" Syria coverage | Al Akhbar English
Former Al Jazeera Reporter on Libyan Coverage: Libya revolution started after storming barracks; "media warfare"; libya was an armed rebellion from the start
Al Jazeera journalists quit channel citing bias on Syria coverage - YouTube
As-Safir Newspaper - Aljazeera's correspondent in Moscow (who resigned): "They fabricated the news & I refused to go along"
Breaking the Arab News - By Sultan Al Qassemi | Foreign Policy
Al-Jazeera's political independence questioned amid Qatar intervention | Media | guardian.co.uk
Suliman: 'Al Jazeera plays the piper, but Qatar calls the tune' | World | DW.DE | 24.12.2012

Big Brother and Liberal Terror

Facebook, Twitter, and Google

Punishing Publication, Banishing Ideas: YouTube Censors Your World for the CIA « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY
JPMorgan Twitter Deal Is Said to Value Startup at $4.5 Billion - Businessweek
BBC News - David Cameron chats to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg
Activists claim purge of Facebook pages | UK news | guardian.co.uk
Facebook Censors Citizen Activism Website - Chris Peterson
Why Did Facebook Block UK Strike Site? | Mother Jones
Eli Pariser on "The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You”
Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated) | ThinkProgress
#TwitterCensorship Blocks #OccupyWallStreet from Top Trending Topic Twice | AmpedStatus
Spreading Freedom: Google, Microsoft And The War For The Web
Google Hands Wikileaks Volunteer's Gmail Data to U.S. Government
Facebook: Releasing your personal data reveals our trade secrets | ZDNet
Brownback Complaint About Student Tweet Lands Kansas Teenager In Principal’s Office | TPMMuckraker
Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything | Threat Level | Wired.com
From Abraxas to Ntrepid: Tracking the Pentagon’s “sock puppet” operation contractor | Current Events Inquiry
Welcome To The United Police States of America, Sponsored By Twitter
Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users' Political Sentiments - Liz Gannes - Social - AllThingsD
The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism :: Monthly Review
BBC News - Social apps 'harvest smartphone contacts'
The dark side of Facebook - Telegraph
MSDN Blogs - Why I Left Google
DOJ Asks Court To Keep Secret Any Partnership Between Google, NSA - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
This Creepy App Isn’t Just Stalking Women Without Their Knowledge, It’s A Wake-Up Call About Facebook Privacy [Update] | Cult of Mac
Google Street View Pursued Wardriving By Design - Security - Privacy - Informationweek
The Government, Privacy, and Companies (The Ones We Pay and the Ones We Don’t)
Facebook Confirms Face.com Acquisition
The Associated Press: AP Exclusive: CIA following Twitter, Facebook
London Olympics 2012: Twitter 'alerted NBC to British journalist's critical tweets' - Telegraph
Now Facebook wants YOU to grass-up friends not using their real name - Digital Policy
Facebook "likes," Skype used to build FBI case against California terrorism suspects.
Now an ISP, Google not so hot on net neutrality - Boing Boing
Bank of America employs 20 full-time social media spies, watches anarchists and occupy protesters | Privacy SOS
How the military uses Twitter sock puppets to control debate : March 2014 : Contributoria - community funded, collaborative journalism
Facebook is paying a cop $194,000 a year to use Facebook to spy on teens - WSJ
ACLU Reports That Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Helped Police Target and Monitor Black Activists - Black Main Street

False Flags

2001 Anthrax Scare

Scientists Dispute F.B.I. Closing of Anthrax Case - NYTimes.com
New Evidence Adds Doubt to FBI’s Case Against Anthrax Suspect - ProPublica
Anthrax Victim’s Family to Receive $2.5 Million in Settlement - NYTimes.com

Arbabisar

The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot - Salon.com
FBI Account of "Terror Plot" Suggests Sting Operation - IPS ipsnews.net
Ex-CIA officer says US may be ‘dangerously wrong’ on alleged Iran plot « intelNews.org
Why Did the Scary Iran Plotter Speak Directly from a Contested Treasury Department Script? | emptywheel
US Congressman Repeats Call to Designate Mexican Drug Gangs as 'Terrorists'
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, "Legal Flaws in US Complaint Against Iran"

NATO CHI-TOWN

Chicago terrorism charges part of NATO 'climate of fear' - World - CBC News

Israel Lobbyist suggests committing a False Flag attack to start war with Iran - YouTube
False Flag - By Mark Perry | Foreign Policy
Israeli Officials Blame Iran for Recent Bombings, Despite Lack of Evidence -- News from Antiwar.com
If “Anarchists” Threaten to Blow Up a Little-Used Bridge Over Federal Property, Is It a Plot? | emptywheel
The Frustrating Secrecy in the Latest Al-Qaeda Bomb-Plot Story - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
AP confirms LA Times report: would-be al-qaida bomber was working for CIA and Saudi intelligence all along
Did NYPD Manufacture a Murder Tie to Occupy Wall Street because Its Terror Myth Is Dying? | emptywheel
Category mistakes from the Stasi | Corrente
Flawed graph weakens case against Iran nuclear program (+video) - CSMonitor.com
False Flags In Syria: An Operation 50 Years In the Making? | Washington's Blog

the FBI is really fucking creepy

Mario Savio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Far Will the Government Go in Collecting and Storing All Our Personal Data? New FBI Documents Shed Light on the Answer | MyFDL
Judge Sanctions FBI for Hiding Info From Him
Clint Eastwood censored COINTELPRO in whitewash movie about J. Edgar Hoover - National Cointelpro | Examiner.com
Their own private COINTELPRO: the "Corporate Information Reconnaissance Cell" | Current Events Inquiry
FBI murders Puerto Rican independence figure
FBI Taught Agents They Could 'Bend or Suspend the Law' | Danger Room | Wired.com
FBI Considered "It's A Wonderful Life" Communist Propaganda | Wise Bread
Hypocrisy at Heritage: Advocates of burglary against leftist organizations aghast at IRS scrutiny of Tea Party | Current Events Inquiry
FBI documents on criminal investigation of anti-war activists released | Current Events Inquiry
CorpWatch : ACLU Reveals FBI Hacking Contractors
ORLANDO, Fla.: Group: FBI harassing friends of man shot by agent - Florida Wires - MiamiHerald.com
THE SILENT POWER OF THE N.S.A., 1983 (see last paragraph)- NYTimes.com
COINTELPRO Church Committee Archive
Tupac’s Panther Shadow: The Political Targeting of Tupac Shakur - Covertaction.org
Courthouse News Service

Leonie

Misinformation campaign targets USA TODAY reporter, editor – USATODAY.com
Propaganda firm owner ran smear campaign against USA TODAY journalists – USATODAY.com
Security firm spies on Reuters correspondent | Reuters
Leonie dodged 4 million dollars in taxes

Make Believe Media

In "perilous times," Brandon says, how government officials are depicted "educates and informs the public, reassures the public, entertains the public."
Paul Harvey’s Tribute to Slavery, Nukes, Genocide — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Hollywood a longtime friend of the CIA - chicagotribune.com
Collateral Brain Damage, The Hollywood Propaganda Ministry, 7/02
'Kill Gaddafi' Video Game Created by Company Linked to Defense Department
Why do we like mafia films? | Notes & Commentaries
"Throughout [making anti-DPRK 'The Interview'], we made relationships with certain people who work in the government as consultants, who I’m convinced are in the C.I.A"
Complete List of Commercial Films Produced with Assistance from the Pentagon | Stephen Underhill - Academia.edu
Body of Lies: The CIA's involvement with US film-making | CIA killed a guy because he wouldn't write propaganda

The 'shocked' treatment - Washington Times
COINTELPRO's fake Black Panther Coloring Book
Carl Bernstein: CIA Pays Journalists
New York Fed to Take Propagandizing to New Level With More Intense Social Media Monitoring « naked capitalism
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Pentagon Investigates Pentagon Pundits Scandal
McCarthyism: “The terror is right here in this room.” « Martin Wicks
Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban
The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies
Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World - News - The Independent
an old DHS fusion center alert on the threat posed by CAIR, ANSWER, Ramsey Clark and Cynthia McKinney
US supreme court finalizes gift of immunity to the telecom giants | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
scary burglars ransack anti-tobacco groups offices?
"Justice has fled the country": US Supreme Court won't hear Holy Land Five case | The Electronic Intifada
U.S. military behind Africa news websites
War Games: A Snapshot of Militainment in Action | Brookings Institution
BATRAVILLE AND LEW: DoD plans are shortsighted, unethical | Yale Daily News
How Harvard Rules
How the Norwegian Government Brought an End to My Iraq Research « Police Stalking, Police Criminality, and Human Rights
Death Squads: A Transcontinental Reach? - Pastebin.com
In 1920, the Black Chamber, a predecessor of the NSA, got Western Union to give it secret access to all telegrams.
The State as a Terrorist: France and the Red Hand | Riegler | Perspectives on Terrorism
Police colluded in secret plan to blacklist 3,200 building workers | Business | The Observer
Corporate Espionage and the Secret War Against Citizen Activism | Common Dreams
Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits
Break-in Reported at Project on Government Oversight
During Cold War, CIA used ‘Doctor Zhivago’ as a tool to undermine Soviet Union - The Washington Post
Operation Mockingbird - An Overview and History
Back in 1984 the LAPD shared & exchanged files on leftist dissidents w/ a Bircher group
WebCite query result
US military can learn from game marketing, says ex-Call Of Duty director | GamesIndustry.biz
Employers often reject those who strike or protest: 'I am willing to do whatever it takes to lead a better life' | Money | The Guardian
CIA Admits Using News To Manipulate the USA (1975) - YouTube
UK Home Office funding freelance writers, social media personalities to spread covert propaganda

Co-optation

Democratic Machinations

What Obama Knows About You - Salon and ProPublica
Message Machine: “You Probably Don’t Know Janet” - ProPublica

Non-Violent Sleeper Cells

The Real Nelson Mandela

How To Be A Good Communist by Nelson Mandela - or, NELSON MANDELA OWNED
President Botha Repeats Mandela Must Renounce Violence To Be Freed
Mandela Speaks to Palestinians: ``Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence.''
Mandela Honors Khomeni Stand for Iran's support in the struggle against apartheid - Google News Archive Search
Nelson Mandela Speech: 'I am prepared to die'
Mandela Explains Support for PLO, Gadhafi, Castro With PM-Mandela, Bjt
The ADL spied on Mandela's movement for South Africa's apartheid regime
Nelson Mandela’s support for Armed Struggle | Only a Northern Song

The Quiet American - The New York Times
i can’t decide if i’m more disgusted by the US intelligence officers who started the albert einstein institution or the liberal human rights worms who took over to legitimize it
Why the CIA Funds Nonviolence Training | Dissident Voice
Detained Colonel says Albert Einstein Institution founder Peter Ackerman helped plan #Venezuela protests

The Tea Party

Exposing The Rightwing PR Machine: Is CNBC’s Rick Santelli Sucking Koch? - By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine - The eXiled
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tea Party: Anti-Corporate Corruption Fighters?
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » On CNBC and Rick Santelli's 'Losers'
CNN Throws a Tea Party and the Racism of Mark Williams
National Equality vs. Tea Party
What if the Tea Party Occupied Wall Street?
ZCommunications | On Astroturf and Frankenstein: Reflections on “the Tea Party,” the People, and the Ruling Class by Paul Street | ZNet Article
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Up Is Down, Down Is Up: Bill O'Reilly Explains OWS
Tea Partiers: Selfish or Just Scared? | FrumForum
One Nation Fails to Impress Corporate Media

In Secret Documents, Anti-Gay Marriage Group Looked To Divide Gays, Blacks
Is It Movement-Building or Is It Marketing? Rebuilding the Dream, Rebranding Van Jones | Black Agenda Report
Did You Fall for It? America’s Outrage Over TSA “Porn Scanners” Was Right-Wing PR to Prevent Workers from Unionizing - By Mark Ames and Yasha Levine - The eXiled
Conservative Groups Support Protests
Can OWS be turned into a Democratic Party movement? - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » The New Anti-Corporate Populism Isn't So New
Pro-Israel handbook explains how to attack professors and ‘co-opt’ students of color | Mondoweiss
Pacifica hires notorious union-busting law firm of Jackson Lewis
Exchange Value - Co-opting Marx
Yes, the 99% Spring is a Fraud » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Yves Smith: The Hidden History Of The Independence Day Holiday - By Yves Smith - The eXiled
From Greenwashing to Workerwashing - In These Times
Secret, Big Funding of "Small Business" Group Exposed at New Website -- NFIBexposed.org | PR Watch
Chelsea Manning Is *Not* On Twitter | The Rancid Honeytrap
Radicals, Imbeciles & FBI Stooges: From Jerry Rubin To Rich Fink, We’ve Reached Rock-Bottom, Baby! - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
Meet The Trans Scholar Fighting Against The Campaign For Out Trans Military Service - BuzzFeed News

Gagging Journalists

Journalism Under Arrest
Arrested for Doing Their Jobs | American Journalism Review
America’s Press Freedom Ranking Drops Sharply | FDL Action
U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies Asked Google To Remove Police Brutality Videos From YouTube | WebProNews
The Ag Gag Laws: Hiding Factory Farm Abuses From Public Scrutiny - Cody Carlson - Health - The Atlantic
Recording police making arrests: The outrageous Illinois law that makes it a felony. - Slate Magazine
Journalists Participate In Democracy; Gannett Cowers | Center for Media and Democracy
News Organizations That Lobby Against Their Own Reporters’ Interests : CJR
BBC journalist killed during Taliban attack 'may have been shot by US forces' | World news | guardian.co.uk
US police smash camera for recording killing - Features - Al Jazeera English
Long Beach Post: Police Chief Confirms Detaining Photographers Within Departmental Policy
The NYPD Press Credentialing Process Doesn’t Make Any Sense | Public Intelligence
Students, media detained at BART protest | Golden Gate Xpress
BART officials propose designating area for reporters at protests - The Daily Californian
Journalist Kicked out of ALEC Conference, Threatened With Arrest | Common Dreams
Civil Rights Division Lawyer Under Fire for Threatening Reporter at Public Hearing | Main Justice
Surveillance of Journalists: A Look Back | Secrecy News
Get Garcia: Internal LAPD Email Raises Questions About Motivation Behind Arrests | Is it possible the LAPD is policing for the cameras to "avoid negative coverage?" | NBC Southern California

Kochtopus

The Koch Brothers & Their Amazing Climate Change Denial Machine - YouTube
Big Brothers: Thought Control at Koch | The Nation
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales - Bloomberg
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Are You Smarter Than a George Mason University Economics Professor?
Orwell Watch: More Reengineering of Values via Koch Funded “Deep Lobbying” « naked capitalism
6 Universities With Far-Right Academic Centers Funded by Koch Industries | AlterNet
Koch Family Foundations - SourceWatch
When It Comes To Koch Apologists, Slate’s David Weigel Is “Chairman Of The Bored” - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
Heritage Clones in the Heartland
The Bradley Foundation
The GOP War on Voting | Politics News | Rolling Stone
The Koch-Whore Archipelago: How The Billionaire Kochs Screwed My Scoop While Screwing America - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales - Bloomberg
Exxon Secrets
Brendan DeMelle | Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine
Exposed: The Corporations Behind The Law That May Let Trayvon Martin’s Killer Go Free - Republic Report
Big Media and State Lawmakers, Unite!
Independent and Principled? Behind the Cato Myth | The Nation
Koch Operative Steered $55 Million To Front Groups Airing Ads Against Democrats; Ads Assailed Candidates Over Abortion, 9/11, Medicare
WATCH: At 6:45 Mark Cato Institute Climate Change-Denier Says Cato Gets 40% Funds From Oil, "Not Largely"
DownWithTyranny!: Why Would The Koch Brothers Need "A Man In Washington" When They Have A Whole Party In Washington?
How A Right-Wing Group Is Infiltrating State News Coverage | Blog | Media Matters for America
The Lucy Burns Institute (Publishers of Ballotpedia, Judgepedia and WikiFOIA) and Her Right-Wing Bedfellows | PR Watch
Is Nova Catering to Its Anti-Science Sugar Daddy?
ALEC documents expose support of authoritarian, anti-competitive legislation | Current Events Inquiry

'Liberal' Media

Beating the Drums of War

The Myth of the Media's Role in Vietnam
The End of the Bill Keller Era
Pan-African News Wire: The "British Left" Spreads Misinformation About Libya - TRAP FOR LEFTISTS WHO FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS OF LEFT-LIBERALISM
Propagandized US Reporting on Recent Developments in Egypt? « naked capitalism
'The war you don't see' - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Now It Can Be Told: Libyan Civilian Deaths
Media March to War
Israel Has a 'Task', Iran Presents a 'Threat' - 27 February 2012 - Eye on the News - News Unspun
Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war with Iran - Salon.com
Gulf War Stories the Media Loved -- Except They Aren't True
Iran suspends accreditation for Reuters in Tehran | Reuters
To Hell with the Imperialist Maddow: Catching Rachel Maddow's Drift | MyFDL
Rachel Maddow and conservatism, the new liberalism - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Chris Matthews: Cable News Would Have Stopped Iraq War Lies | FAIR Blog
Syria war drumbeat builds, but where is it leading? - CSMonitor.com
BBC - The Editors: Reporting conflict in Syria
Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel New Show: 'War Isn't Entertainment' | Common Dreams
Ladies and Gentlemen: We got him!! (better quality) - YouTube
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » NYT Still Finding the Pro-Occupation Iraqi Public

"Flak" and Dog Training

The White House and the Fear of Fox | FAIR Blog
Dog-training the press corps - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
NBC Viewers Finally Learn About GE's Tax-Dodging–Sort Of | FAIR Blog

New York Times

The NYT Can't Find Anyone to Say Anything Good About Argentina | Beat the Press
Curious Omissions from a New York Times Story on a Foreclosure Auction Protest « naked capitalism
FreakOutNation » New York Times Edits Their Story on #OccupyWallStreet (Screenshot)
How Many Corrections Does It Take To Get Fired At 'The Times'?
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » The Kind of Journalist Authorities Don't Mind Not Suppressing
Correspondence and collusion between the New York Times and the CIA | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Editor vs. Editor:New York Times' Rosenthal Ignores Ombudsman's Advice on Responsible Journalism Regarding Iranian Nuclear Program

NPR

Gary Knell: New NPR Chief Faces a Problem With Diversity
Radio Show Distributed By NPR Fires Host After She Takes Part In Protests - (later reversed due to outcry) | ThinkProgress
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » NPR, Lisa Simeone and Biased Opera Reporting
New York Times, NPR Recount Anti-War Protests
Unable to Get Simeone Fired, NPR Drops "World of Opera" | War Is A Crime .org
NPR celebrates crazy forum troll's decision to practice unlicensed medicine in Libya - NPR - Salon.com
NPR’s domestic drone commercial - Salon.com
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » What Do NPR's Right-Wing Critics Have to Complain About?
Charles Murray evaluates NPR's racial diversity. ha
The Science of Racism: Radiolab's Treatment of Hmong Experience | Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics
This American Life Features Error-Riddled Story On Disability And Children | Research | Media Matters for America

O'Keefe and Breitbart

note the hypocrisy when left causes use undercover reporting
Andrew Breitbart: Big Deal, Big Coronary, Big Corpse
Falling for the ACORN Hoax
NYT Public Editor Admits ACORN Errors
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Sherrod Story Raises Question: How Many Breitbart Frauds Will Media Fall For?
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » O'Keefe's Bogus NPR Sting Lives On
UEPI - Manipulating the Public Agenda
The Media's Construction of the 'Ground Zero Mosque'
Breitbart Smear: Obama (And Thousands More) "Marched With" New Black Panthers | Media Matters for America
Gen Ads, LLC v. Breitbart: Complaint
Breitbart raises money for... something - The Term Sheet: Fortune's deals blog Term Sheet
Cartoon Regularly Featured On Big Journalism Connected To Nazi-Era Magazine | Media Matters for America
Harassment complaint against Westwood muckraker James O'Keefe dismissed : page all - NorthJersey.com
The Flaws In The O'Keefe "Voter Fraud" Scheme | Media Matters for America
ACORN 'gotcha' man arrested in attempt to tamper with Mary Landrieu's office phones | NOLA.com
James O’Keefe Tries To Get CNN Reporter Onto His Dildo Lube Boat
UPDATED: CNN Contributor On Marines Urinating On Dead Bodies: "Supposed To Be A Scandal"? "I'd Drop Trou And Do It Too" | Media Matters for America
Andrew Breitbart Loses It At Occupy Protesters - YouTube
Right Wing Blogger Must Face Sherrod Claim
BREITBART flips off protestors against child abduction in uganda
Part II: The Barn Incident » NADIA NAFFE
Charles Seife: James O'Keefe Attacked Me Because I Caught Him Breaking the Law
Are anti-abortion activists framing Planned Parenthood? - The Week
Breitbart.com just makes up a bunch of wacky shit
ACORN ‘Pimp’ James O’Keefe Can Be Sued In Infamous Video Case, Rules Judge | The New Civil Rights Movement
John Atlas: How ACORN Helped Save New Orleans for Katrina Survivors
Breitbart Folks Appear to Fake Violence in Lansing | emptywheel
UPDATED – Tentgate: What really happened? | Eclectablog
Little Green Footballs - Another Breitbart Fake Outrage Bites the Dust: Crowder Admits He Shoved Union Members
Not Safe For Work Corporation | All The Koch's Men: Anatomy of a right-wing media smear
"Friends of Hamas": The Scary-Sounding Pro-Hagel Group That Doesn't Actually Exist
'Friends of Hamas': My role in the birth of a rumor - NY Daily News
Wonket Sexclusive: Totally Blameless Crime-Stopper James O’Keefe To Pay $100,000 To ACORN Criminal
Paul Krugman Bankruptcy Story False, Spreads - Business Insider
Breitbart.com: "Human Rights Groups" Support Russia's Draconian Crackdown On Gays | Blog | Media Matters for America
Old Photos Surface Showing Breitbart, O’Keefe Hobnobbing with White Nationalists | Hatewatch
Conservatives freak out after mistaking soccer jersey for ‘Muslim prayer rug’ left at border
James O'Keefe caught trying to bribe protesters to riot at Trump inauguration / Boing Boing

PBS

Fear and Favor at the PBS NewsHour
FAIR Blog » Why Is PBS Telling Us That Profit Is Journalism's Friend?
PBS's Dishonest Iran Edit | FAIR Blog
Antiwar Public Unrepresented on Public TV | FAIR Blog

Shithead Pundits

Brooks, David

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Can They Pull David Brooks' Pundit License?
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » The BP Spill Is Not as Complicated as David Brooks Wants You to Think
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » David Brooks Thinks the Little Guy Isn't Sacrificing Enough
David Brooks Is Upset at Liberals Who INSIST on Applying Arithmetic to Economics | MyFDL
David Brooks: Bard of the 1 Percent | Beat the Press
David Brooks, Self-Doubt and Self-Confidence | Beat the Press

Douthat, Ross

This Week’s New York Times Sunday Sex Sermon | NYTimes eXaminer

Ferguson, Niall

Niall Ferguson: Hacktacular! - Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
Pankaj Mishra reviews ‘Civilisation’ by Niall Ferguson · LRB 3 November 2011
Niall Ferguson's History with John Maynard Keynes' Gayness - Connor Simpson - The Atlantic Wire

Friedman, Thomas

The sociopathy of Thomas L. Friedman: A compendium | Current Events Inquiry
Thomas Friedman plots a return to US glory - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman: Being a Columnist Means Never Having to Say You Researched
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman Admires His Writing in Egyptian Mirror
Thomas Friedman, Liberal Sadist?
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Tom Friedman, Wrong About Another Thing
FAIR Blog » Friedman's Dream: If Only We Had a President Like Obama
Matt Taibbi takes on New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's new book The World is Flat
Wonkbook: Is Europe finally at the endgame? - The Washington Post
The Fanatics of the Center
'Thomas Friedman: The imperial messenger' - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Thomas Friedman Obama Foregin Policy | Bush Policy | Video | Mediaite
Thomas Friedman... for her! - CSMonitor.com
How can you tell there is a Thomas Friedman in here? Note that it is surrounded by death and little life can find purchase in the cursed soil.
Cockburn on Tom Friedman

Gladwell, Malcolm

Malcolm Gladwell’s Rejection Letter | Writing Hacks
Malcolm Gladwell and Revisionist Civil Rights History | Mike the Mad Biologist

Horowitz, David

The Dirty Dozen
New York Times ad accuses BDS movement, college professors of inciting murder of Jewish children | The Electronic Intifada

Krauthammer, Charles

FAIR Blog » Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer Doesn't Understand How Bonds Work | Beat the Press
Happy Krauthammer Day — Crooked Timber

Kristof, Nicholas

The New Inquiry - Be Aware: Nick Kristof's Anti-Politics
Want a wealthy pundit to tell you that the minimum wage in Africa is too high? Easy. Read Kristof in the NY Times
nick kristof shilled for unbanning DDT
Nicholas Kristof Didn’t Join Colleagues To Back NYT Overseas Employees in Union Fight - Working In These Times
BREAKING: NICK KRISTOF JUDGES ALL WOMEN LEADERS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ONE; FINDS HE'S NOT THAT INTO THEM | Fuck You, Grey Lady
nick kristof is a fascist sympathizer and all-around dumbass idiot
More Bad Mommies in Poverty From Nick Kristof | CEPR Blog

Krugman, Paul

Krugman supported the bailout before he was against it
Paul Krugman is a Malthusian Shitbird
Why Was Paul Krugman So Wrong? | The Nation

Maddow, Rachel

Wide Asleep in America: Rachel Maddow and Chemical Weapons:Inaccurate Information & Telling Omissions
Shirin Sadeghi: Racial Maddow vs. the Islamic Republic of Iran

Maher, Bill

Wide Asleep in America: The Ridiculest:Bill Maher's Cultural Supremacy and Religious Hierarchy
Wide Asleep in America: Has-Maher-a!The Not-So-New Depths of Bill Maher's Delusion and Depravity
Bill Maher and “anti-science” – Respectful Insolence
Bill Maher Urges Vilification of Bill Maher

Murray, Charles

Racism Resurgent - FAIR
Jewish intellect could turn Israel into a 'Hong Kong squared,' says 'Bell Curve' author | The Times of Israel
Charles Murray, Trade Unionist | CEPR Blog
Charles Murray's White Male Problem | Beat the Press
David Frum joins the hippie chorus again
Charles Murray - S.H.A.M.E. Profile

Stossel, John

Stossel’s "Stupid" Schools

Sullivan, Andrew

IF ANDREW SULLIVAN IS THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM THEN JOURNALISM IS FUCKED
U.S. Can't Win Afghan War Because We Aren't a Colonial Power | FAIR Blog
Dear Andrew Sullivan: Why Focus on Obama's Dumbest Critics? - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics - The Atlantic
The End of Racism? "Andrew Sullivan dismissed affirmative action as an anachronism"
Eschaton: WANKER OF THE DECADE - 2nd Runner Up
Andrew Sullivan's butt rub - YouTube
Andrew Sullivan’s father figure - Salon.com
A Reader's Guide to Andrew Sullivan's Defense of Race Science

Will, George

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » George Will's Bogus Tax Math
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » George Will Thinks You Don't Know Any Latinos, Either
FAIR Blog » Israel » Noam Chomsky Excavates the George Will Memory Hole
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » More George Will Climate Nonsense
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » George Will and D.C. Vouchers
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » George Will: All Over the Map on the War Powers Act
TheGreenMiles.com: George Will Fails to Disclose Financial Ties to Polluter Front Groups
George Will applauding Circle K for dropping health coverage from employees w/ AIDS (policy was later rescinded)

Zakaria, Fareed

Fareed Zakaria’s Manifesto - Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - True/Slant
Fareed Zakaria, Spokesperson for the Global Elite
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Fareed Zakaria's Contra Solution in Libya
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Zakaria: All U.S. Presidents Support Democracy (Except When They Don't)
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Zakaria and Democracy 'Tension'
Fareed Zakaria's Pinata of Errors | Beat the Press
Millionaire Pundit Fareed Zakaria: Public Sector Pensions are the Real Threat | FAIR Blog
Fareed Zakaria's Take on Gun Control Strikingly Similar to The New Yorker's - Business - The Atlantic Wire
Secret Iraq Meeting Included Journalists - New York Times

If Frank Bruni Knew Arithmetic He Wouldn't Write Columns Like This One | social security | Beat the Press
A Tiny Revolution - Robert Samuelson: Completely Wrong Today, Completely Wrong Tomorrow, Completely Wrong Forever!
Jeffrey Sachs's lifepath
Pambazuka - A critique of the Stiglitz report
Tainted Wall Street Reporters: Then and Now
Meet Professor Juan Cole, Consultant to the CIA » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Paul Ryan: What Stupid People Think a Smart Guy Sounds Like | VICE
Soundbites: Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson on Greenpeace, Dow 36000 guy
THE RALLY TO RESTORE VANITY: GENERATION X CELEBRATES ITS HOMERIC STRUGGLE AGAINST LAMENESS - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
The Daily Pennsylvanian :: Max Blumenthal | Torture, violence advocate Alan Dershowitz to keynote anti-BDS event
Colbert and Stewart: Your Moment of Transphobia [TW]
Angry Papuan leaders demand Jared Diamond apologizes - Survival International
false dichotomy by charles davis: If Chris Matthews only had a brain
Daily Show explains why Middle East is so f***ed up: it's the maps [that british and french colonialists designed to secure their holdings]

Terri Schiavo Incident

When Politicians Go Bad, Must the Press Follow? : Columbia Journalism Review
Spinning Schiavo - War Room - Salon.com
A tale told by an idiot - Eric Boehlert - Salon.com

Examining the "Liberal Media" Claim
'Serious’ Republicans vs.‘Starry-Eyed’ Progressives
Jeremiah Wright in the Propaganda System :: Monthly Review
News Corp's Hack Shows a Double Standard
BBC employee e-mailed me this about its failure to report NHS... on Twitpic
Why Is It Relevant That EPI Gets Money from Teacher Unions, But It's Not Relevant That Erskine Bowles Gets 350,000 a Year from Morgan Stanley? | Beat the Press
ZCommunications | Reflections on the U.S. Counterrevolution by Edward Herman | ZMagazine Article
A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News
Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street | The Dissenter
CNN reporter [that derided OWS] Erin Burnett gets engaged to Citigroup executive David Rubulotta | Mail Online
Good and Bad Genocide
News Networks Regularly Promote Anti-Gay Family Research Council On Air | Media Matters for America
CBS Runs Error-Ridden Report On "New Solyndras" | Media Matters for America
Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic | | Notebook | The Baffler
Controversy, Not Credibility A study of 'gay change' with the results media were looking for
How Coverage of Obama’s Role in Drone Executions Provokes Liberal Outrage | The Dissenter
Only Hotheads Talk About the Effects of Budget Cuts | FAIR Blog
Popping the Media Bubble: On the Media and their Complicity with Putting Down OWS
The Public vs. the Media on Unions, Deficits | FAIR Blog
Corporate Pundits Waiting for a Palestinian Gandhi? Meet Khader Adnan | LIBERALS WON'T CARE IF YOUR PROTEST DOESN'T SUPPORT CAPITALISM
Newsweek Publishes Islamophobic 'Muslim Rage' Cover In Response To Embassy Attacks | ThinkProgress
Field Guide to TV's Lukewarm Liberals
Bradley Manning says NYT and WaPo ignored video of deadly Iraq killing, so went to @Wikileaks
The Bias of 'Both Sides Do It'
ABC paid actors to pose as antiwar activists and had them yell "baby killer" outside a recruitment office
NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children - The Intercept

Media Monopoly

SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock ~ - NaturalNews.tv
Michael Parenti: Monopoly Media Manipulation
Infographic: Media Consolidation – The Illusion of Choice » OWNI.eu, News, Augmented
Attacks on RT and Assange reveal much about the critics - Salon.com
Media Monopoly Revisited
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Clear Channel Tunes Out Bay Area Progressive Radio
STUDY: SOPA Coverage No Match For Kim Kardashian And Tim Tebow | Media Matters for America
Exclusive: Washington Post's Kaplan and Other For-Profit Colleges Joined ALEC, Controversial Special Interest Lobby

Murdoch and co.

George Soros Obsession

FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Is Glenn Beck Working for Reuters? UPDATED
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Is Glenn Beck Back at Fox News Channel?
Reuters's Dizzying Changes to Its Soros-Occupy Wall Street Story - Business - The Atlantic Wire
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Glenn Beck Shares a Tides Foundation Obsession With Alleged Mass Murder Plotter
Fox Pushes False Soros Vote-Rigging Conspiracy Theory | Media Matters for America

Fox Lies

The people we are up against | Current Events Inquiry
Misinformer of the Year: Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. | Media Matters for America
"Fox News Lies" While Covering Pro-Labor Protests In Wisconsin | Media Matters for America
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic
20 Reasons Not to Trust the Journal Editorial Page
Lies on the Bill O'Reilly Show-Palm Trees in Madison - YouTube
On Climate Change, Fox Reports Public Opinion -- Not Scientific Opinion | Media Matters for America
Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal - Forbes
The Real Problem with Fox News : CJR
Fox Still Struggling With Basic Chart Concepts: Gas Price Edition | Media Matters for America
Hannity and Nobel Nominated Doctor
Fox News Coverage of the Trayvon Martin Case Criticized - The Daily Beast
FOX News Refers To Neo-Nazis as "Civil Rights Group" | NewsOne
Ailes Whitewashes Fox's History Of Getting The Story Wrong | Media Matters for America
Horseman Of Apocalypse in Cairo Video | Fox Nation | FoxNation.com | Mediaite
Jewish Justice Organization Condemns Ailes Following Gawker Publication Of Emails On Soros | Media Matters for America
By Any Means Necessary
Fox Mangles Data To Claim "The Poor" Are Getting "Richer" | Media Matters for America
1983Merman's Blog | Talking Points Memo | Rupert Murdoch Predicts Price of Oil to Drop to $20 a Barrel
Does Fox Hire Uninformed Pundits—or Does Being on Fox Make You Uninformed? | FAIR Blog
Fox Hosts Hate Group FAIR To Debate Undocumented Immigrant Issue | Media Matters for America
Shockingly Petty: News Corp. Outlets Attack Obama Over Paper Clip | Media Matters for America
More Cancerous Light Bulb Fearmongering From The Conservative Media | Blog | Media Matters for America
The Wall Street Journal: Dismissing Environmental Threats Since 1976 | Research | Media Matters for America
FLASHBACK: Fox's Eric Bolling On Global Warming: "Do We Even Need Our Air Conditioners Next Year?" | Blog | Media Matters for America
Dick Morris' New Book Is Called Here Come The Black Helicopters! | Blog | Media Matters for America
Fox's Napolitano: Citizens United Is The "Perfect Antidote" To "Numerical Superiority Of Liberals" In The Media | Video | Media Matters for America
Looking Back At The Wall Street Journal's Coal Op-Ads | Blog | Media Matters for America
Fox News Has Mainstreamed Pam Geller's Islamophobic Hate Speech | Research | Media Matters for America
Fox News Distorts Climate Science; in Other News, the Pope Is Catholic | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
Fox's Roger Ailes Offered "Off The Record" Support To Bush Administration | Blog | Media Matters for America
Fox News Hosts Embrace Immigrants Now That The GOP Needs Them | Research | Media Matters for America
Rupert Murdoch’s Tweet About the ‘Jewish Owned’ Press is Dumb and Offensive - The Daily Beast
Mosque arsonist tells court: ‘I only know what I hear on Fox News’ | The Raw Story
Fox news coin ignorance.
Can Neo-cons Identify anti-Semites? Argentina as a Case Study « LobeLog.com
Fox News Gags Guest After He Calls Network a 'Wing of the Republican Party'
Fox's Todd Starnes: If They "Confiscate Our Weapons," I'll Be On The First Flight "Back South Of The Mason-Dixon Line" | Video | Media Matters for America

Nazional Review

National Review’s history of celebrating fascism and minimizing its crimes | Current Events Inquiry
Jan 28th 2013: the National Review literally defended the nazis. wat da fuck
Goldberg’s “Fascism” and the Real Thing « sans everything

Hannity, Sean

Primetime Racism on Fox — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting

O'Reilly, Bill

Ford's Theatre flunks O'Reilly's Lincoln book - Bill O’Reilly - Salon.com
Stop O'Reilly's Immigrant Crime Slurs
Bill O’Reilly: ‘White Establishment Is Now The Minority,’ People Support Obama Because ‘They Want Things’ | Mediaite
"[B]arbarian" O'Reilly: "[I]n a lot of places, women have formed cabals to terrorize the men" | and a lot of other wrong shit
O'Reilly: "Intelligent Design Does Not Contradict Science" | Media Matters for America
The 'Oh Really?' Factor
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Bill O'Reilly Explains the 'Muslim Problem'
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » O'Reilly's Comes to Romney's Aid on Taxes--Armed with Inaccuracies
Shut the F*** Up!: Is Bill O'Reilly a Crazy Narcissist? - Boston Magazine
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » Bill O'Reilly and the Invention of the Internet
Bill O'Reilly: Muffin but the Truth | FAIR Blog
O'Reilly Finds a New Way to Be Wrong About Immigration and Crime | FAIR Blog
Hilarious Bill O'Reilly Spoof Site…. Right? | FAIR Blog
Bill O'Reilly's Public Opinion Solution: Don't Poll Union Members | FAIR Blog
O'Reilly's Accidental Support For Planned Parenthood Funding | Blog | Media Matters for America
Bill O’Reilly’s Sheer O’Reillyness — FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Bill O'Reilly's Fact-Free War on Planned Parenthood
Being O'Reilly Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Further Decline in Credibility Ratings for Most News Organizations | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don't Watch Any News: Study
Chart of the Day: Republicans Don't Trust Anyone (Except Fox News) | Mother Jones
Glenn Beck’s syndicator runs a astroturf-on-demand call-in service for radio programs – Boing Boing
Welcome to Murdochia - By Joshua E. Keating | Foreign Policy
Murdoch's Other Moral Crimes
Fox News Studio In Manhattan Gets 24/7 Protection By NYPD
Fox apologizes to Jews for poll on who murdered Jesus – CNN Belief Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Rupert Murdoch's American Scandals | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans | Truthout
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » 'Capitalism Saved the Miners'? Only in Wonder Land
WSJ SafeHouse – Securely Share Confidential Documents – The Wall Street Journal
Limbaugh Revives Discredited Claim That Barney Frank Had "A Prostitution Ring Being Run Out Of [His] Basement" | Media Matters for America

Philanthropy

Animosity International

Amnesty International is US State Dept Propaganda, Manufacturer of Dissent | The Santos Republic
Amnesty International - SourceWatch
Death Squad Coordinator Robert Ford Keynotes Amnesty International Annual Meeting « Anti-Imperialism.com
M of A - Amnesty International Is Cheerleading For War
Mercenaries for Empire: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch | Black Agenda Report
Amnesty’s Shilling for US Wars | Consortiumnews
How many #CIA operatives work for @amnesty as its #Syria experts? Cf. #Libya's intel chief Salem al-Hasi: on.wsj.com/LYGl9B
Joe Emersberger, "Debating Amnesty About Syria and Double Standards"
Why I Had to Challenge Amnesty International-USA's Claim That NATO's Presence Benefits Afghan Women | World | AlterNet
Z Blogs | Amnesty International workers strike in offices round the world
Strike at Amnesty International’s headquarters
Why human rights workers at Amnesty’s International Secretariat are taking strike action… | Unite For Our Society
Amnesty International workers on strike for their own rights: TBIJ
Amnesty International's Track Record in Haiti since 2004
A Contender for Dumbest Statement Ever by Amnesty USA? | venezuelanalysis.com
Speaking truth to Amnesty: Document: when Amnesty International refused to support Nelson Mandela
amnesty-conspiracy-against-eritrea.pdf

Bill Gates

Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation - latimes.com
Opinion | Bill Gates' support of GM crops is wrong approach for Africa | Seattle Times Newspaper
Gates Foundation Raises Eyebrows with Grant to Right-Wing Lobbying Group | Right Wing Watch
K-12 student database jazzes tech startups, spooks parents | Reuters
Exit Exams Boost the School to Prison Pipeline - And Billy Boy's Gates Foundation invests in apartheid
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Invested Millions In Private Prisons - Healthy Debates | Healthy Debates
Bill Gates, business genius? | LBO News from Doug Henwood
Aspects of India's Economy No. 57 - Jacob Levich - The Real Agenda of the Gates Foundation
Gates Foundation : Spearheading the neoliberal plunder of African agriculture - TruePublica

Gay Inc.

Don't support Human Rights Campaign - Tommi Avicolli Mecca - Open Salon
TransGriot: Why The Transgender Community Hates HRC
An offensive advocate for LGBT rights: Lloyd Blankfein - Salon.com
HRC and the vulture fund: Making Third World poverty pay for LGBT rights | a paper bird
Facebook Real Names Policy Divides SF Pride Board, Money Wins | The Snitch | San Francisco | San Francisco News and Events | SF Weekly

Human Rights Watch

Z Blogs | Julian Assange ordeal is exposing major problems with Amnesty and Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch--yet again--covers up the crimes of the Free Syrian Army
"Under limited circumstances, there is a legitimate place" for renditions, said Tom Malinowski, the Washington advocacy director for Human Rights Watch

Kiva and Microfinance

Kiva.org is a sham charity. Debt obligation is not a gift.
Kiva Adds Student Loans To Microlending Marketplace | TechCrunch
Katic: Vancouver a perfect home for TED-style elitism | The Ubyssey, UBC's official student newspaper
BBC News - The Bangladesh poor selling organs to pay debts
AP IMPACT: Lender's own probe links it to suicides - Yahoo Finance

Komen

No Amount Of Pepto Pink Can Make Komen’s Dick Move To De-Fund Planned Parenthood Digestible » Feminist Peace Network
EXCLUSIVE: Ari Fleischer Secretly Helped Guide Komen Strategy On Planned Parenthood | ThinkProgress
Komen Statement on Planned Parenthood is a PR Move, Not A Policy Reversal « Student Activism
Insight: Komen charity under microscope for funding, science | Reuters
Komen’s Contortions: a Timeline of the Charity’s Shifting Story on Planned Parenthood - ProPublica
SATURDAY READ » 99GetSmart
How Susan G. Komen for the Cure affects other cancer non-profits
Twitter / @lhfang: Oh hey look, top Koch Indu ...
Susan G. Komen – A Bad Charity Long Before Their Planned Parenthood PR Nightmare | Addicting Info
Shopping for the Cure

Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett: Jamie Dimon Is Best Person For Treasury Secretary
Warren Buffett Says “Hormones” Will Fix the Housing Crisis « naked capitalism
Burger King buys Tim Hortons: The 'hypocrisy' of Warren Buffett - Business Analysis & Features - Business - The Independent
Warren Buffett's mobile home empire preys on the poor | Center for Public Integrity

RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce - YouTube
The Charitable-Industrial Complex by Peter Buffett- NYTimes.com
News Release: Big Agribusiness Influence Threatens to Override Public Interest in Greed Revolution | ETC Group
Philanthropy is the enemy of justice | Robert Newman | Comment is free | The Guardian
Is protecting the environment incompatible with social justice? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Freedom Forum CEO Tied to For-Profit Prisons
Labor-Funded Progressive Leaders Cross Huffington Post Picket Line - Working In These Times
Imperialist Pimps of Militarism, Protectors of the Oligarchy, Trusted Facilitators of War | Part II, Section I | Wrong Kind of Green | the NGOs & conservation groups that are bargaining away our future
Red Cross faces controversy over possible Haiti hotel :: Catholic News Agency (CNA)
Why philanthropy can't save Philly
US think tank, George Soros behind MDC-T poll announcement bid | The Herald
How Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country | Alternet
Darwin's MAW tweets from AlJavieera Promoted on Twitter
McDonald’s bogus charity image: Who’s really funding the Ronald McDonald Houses? - Salon.com
Owned By The World’s Largest 'Charity' Organization To Dodge Taxes, IKEA Thwarts Union Organizing | ThinkProgress
Defense contractors not only war profiteers in Iraq, Afghanistan. Nonprofit made hundreds of millions off USAID
more than twenty million dollars of Zuckerberg’s gift and matching donations went to consulting firms
Vultures over Iran: The Human Rights Campaign follows the money | a paper bird
George Soros: Imperial Wizard/Double Agent -- Funds the opposition in order to infiltrate it
Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by government subsidies - LA Times
Another SpaceX employee is suing for unpaid wages (elon Musk)| The Verge

Print is Dead

But You Didn’t Hear It From...Anyone
Most news stories in the WSJ are just verbatim press releases
How to Fix Fact-Checking - Forbes
PolitiFact and the scam of neutral expertise - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
The MSM Media's Love Affair with Politicians Who Spew Lies... - YouTube
National Debt has increased more under Obama than under Bush - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
Media Lens Message Board: Independent editor indicates that he just doesn't understand
Wait, Did CNN Just Lose HALF Of Its Viewers?
Study Finds Benefits in Health Insurance for the Poor - NYTimes.com
Why Barack Obama Is the Real Donald Trump | The Root
Don't be nosy about Fast and Furious | COMBAT LIBERALISM | - CNN.com
For Romney: no coffee, but coffee ice cream - CBS News
Africa's growing middle class: Pleased to be bourgeois | The Economist
A Tiny Revolution: Does Iranian Perfidy Know No Limits?
Why Barack Obama Is the Real Donald Trump | The Root

Western Lies

Capitalist Hagiographies

FDR

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service
FDR tried to CENSOR free SPEECH just like AN ASS (yes it was just trotsky but it still counts)

Gandhi

Pacifying Resistance - YouTube
A Different Gandhi by Anita Desai | The New York Review of Books
Gandhism.net : The Truth Shall Make You Free
Gandhi Was Wrong – Nonviolence Doesn’t Work | The Red Phoenix
Pacifism: How to Do The Enemy’s Job For Them | The Red Phoenix

Henry Ford

Ford Hunger March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Honest Abe

NewsHour Responds on Inequality
Reading Karl Marx with Abraham Lincoln -- International Socialist Review
Largest mass hanging in United States history
Steven Spielberg’s White Men of Democracy « Corey Robin
Lincoln Against the Radicals | Jacobin
Largest Mass Execution in US History: 150 Years Ago Today | The Nation

Maggie Thatcher

Duck, duck, GOSPLAN - Thatcher’s shitty legacy: Right to Buy policy...
How many people did Thatcher kill?

Presidential Potpourri

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Before we start feeling all warm and fuzzy about Teddy Roosevelt...

Ronnie Reagan

Libertarian Liars: Top Reagan Adviser, Cato Institute Chairman William Niskanen: “Deficits Don’t Matter” - By Mark Ames - The eXiled
GE: Celebrating the Ronald Reagan Centennial
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004): An obituary
Reagan: Media Myth and Reality
Reagan's embrace of apartheid South Africa - The Real Reagan - Salon.com
Ronald Reagan’s apology tour | Current Events Inquiry
PolitiFact | Mitt Romney says the Iranians released hostages in 1981 because they feared Ronald Reagan's approach to foreign policy
Reagan’s Personal Spying Machine - NYTimes.com
the Reagan administration could have stopped the massacre of Palestinian refugees. It chose not to, knowing full well what would result.
AIDS in the Age of Reagan « Corey Robin
Ronald Reagan: Statement on the Murder of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon
How Neocons Messed Up the Mideast | Consortiumnews
How Reagan Promoted Genocide | Consortiumnews
IRAN CONTRA AT 25: REAGAN AND BUSH 'CRIMINAL LIABILITY' EVALUATIONS
Reagan blamed MLK for his own assassination because he compromised "law & order" w/ his civil disobedience
Righting Reagan’s Wrongs? - New York Times
REMARK BY REAGAN ON LINCOLN BRIGADE PROMPTS IRE IN SPAIN - NYTimes.com
Reagan Defends Cemetery Visit : Says German Dead Are Also Victims of Nazis - Los Angeles Times

Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter And Human Rights: Behind The Media Myth
Earth to Jimmy Carter: You Were Responsible for Human Rights Violations, Too
Covert Action is Prominent in Carter Admin History | Secrecy News
Jimmy Carter (1976?): "I see nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained"

Steve Jobs

Memphis: Where Steve Jobs Goes To Eat His Fellow Americans - By Tal Sutsa - The eXiled
Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'
FAIR Blog » Blog Archive » What Would Steve Jobs Do?
iEmpire: Apple's Sordid Business Practices Are Even Worse Than You Think | | AlterNet
Steve Jobs FBI File Shows Background Check for Appointment by Bush in 1991 - Bloomberg
The Book of Jobs | The Great Debate
Foxconn suicide rate is lower than in the US, says Apple's Steve Jobs - Telegraph
America’s New Oligarchs—Fwd.us and Silicon Valley’s Shady 1 Percenters - The Daily Beast
Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired | PandoDaily

Winston Churchill

Book claims Churchill deliberately let millions of Indians starve to death | The Raw Story
Churchill loves the gas
Winston Churchill on Rosa Luxemburg, Jews and ‘The Worldwide Conspiracy for the Overthrow of Civilisation’ | rosaluxemburgblog
THE EXILE - Another British Genocide - By John Dolan - Book Review
U.S., Britain Plotted To Bomb Germany With Anthrax, Historian Says
The Costs of War: see footnote 12
Ireland's War of Independence: The chilling story of the Black and Tans - Europe - World - The Independent
3rd March 1941: Churchill ‘Don’t feed the French’
Tom Friedman, Churchill and Immigrants

The Allies in WWII

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Hiroshima: Last military act of World War II or first act of the Cold War?
Children of the Camps | INTERNMENT HISTORY
Phil Strongman: Hiroshima is a war crime that haunts my family, 67 years on - Commentators - Opinion - The Independent
Myth of Lives Saved by A-Bombs - Los Angeles Times
Was Hiroshima Necessary?
Six of America's seven five-star admirals and generals during WWII disagreed with bombing of Hiroshima
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb - Gar Alperovitz, Sanho Tree - Google Books
MILITARY VIEWS About Dropping the Atomic Bomb

Trading With The Enemy

Historian Claims U.S., Nazi Ties
US Behavior in Nazi Era Examined
BBC's "Banking With Hitler" shows how ppl who fought against banks financing war were later accused of Communism
Workers World March 4, 1999: The class character of German fascism
US used Japanese war criminals for intelligence purposes
El Deutsche Bank financió el campo de exterminio de Auschwitz | Edición impresa | EL PAÍS
How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II
In Cold War, U.S. Spy Agencies Used 1,000 Nazis - NYTimes.com
Canada admits letting in 2,000 Ukrainian SS troopers | j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California
The Marxist-Leninist Weekly

The Myth of Appeasement
Peace in Our Time: The Myth of Appeasement
Soviet Hints in '39 Ignored by British - the west refused to ally with the communists, in collaboration with the fascists
america treated nazi POWs better than african american GIs during WWII
Stalin 'planned to send a million troops to stop Hitler if Britain and France agreed pact' - Telegraph
How Germany became divided after WWII: Stalin didn’t do it « Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
Nazi collaborator invited to White House in 2006
Recruited by MI5: the name's Mussolini. Benito Mussolini | World news | The Guardian
Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp | UK news | The Guardian
Surviving the Nazis, Only to Be Jailed by America - NYTimes.com
Former King wanted England bombed and an Anglo-German alliance, archives reveal
Reminder that the former King (current Queen's uncle) & his wife were actual Nazi agents
Book Claims US Soldiers Raped 190,000 German Women Post-WWII - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Nazis ‘offered to leave western Europe in exchange for free hand to attack USSR’ - Telegraph

The Founding Fathers

Founding fathers and democracy - Democratic Underground
Thomas Jefferson, enthusiastic, brutal slaver - Boing Boing
John C. Calhoun and How American Boundaries Were Restricted by the National Commitment to White Supremacy - Lawyers, Guns & Money : Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Real Thomas Jefferson - NYTimes.com
Thomas Jefferson: American Fascist? « Corey Robin
Ben Franklin became Ben Franklin not through hard work but through fleeing hard work. At 48:00
"Half the Lives you save are not worth saving, as being useless; and almost the other Half ought not to be sav'd, as being mischievous. Does your Conscience never hint to you the Impiety of being in constant Warfare against the Plans of Providence?" - Benjamin Franklin
The New Founding Hagiography and Its Enemies | Jacobin
'Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution,' by Simon Schama - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times
The Tree of Peace - The Iroquois Had Democracy Before the "founding fathers", who stole their constitution and made it shittier
10 Things You Should Know About Slavery and Won’t Learn at ‘Django’ - COLORLINES
The Founding Fathers' dark legacy - US News and World Report

William F. Buckley, Rest in Praise
Lost and Found : The New Yorker on Stanley and Livingstone
On George Orwell: "The Fable of the Weasel," by Alexander Cockburn | MobyLives
The Capitalist Holocaust | by Peter Cohen

Cuba's Truths

Cuba’s truths
20 Reasons to Support Cuba | Systemic Capital.com
A Marxist analysis of Cuba's new economic reforms
Castro Wants the Kid Back
What Lies Across the Water » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
interesting explanation of how Cuban socialism and democracy is organized by Cuban philosopher
Castro’s Salad | Raj Patel
Simplifying History: the BBC's Coverage of US and Cuba Relations - News Unspun
Castro, Baseball and the Thought Police » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Latin American Herald Tribune - Number of Women in Cuban Government Posts Increasing
Rebelion. Siempre hay trabajo en la “industria porno” - America tries to entice cubans to abandon cuba for america because "there's always work in porn"
Misconceptions about Cuba
Back to the Motherland: Cuba in Africa :: Monthly Review
U.S. Bars Raúl Castro’s Daughter From a Forum | CSC
El Sistema Electoral Cubano
if you get hit by a hurricane you are 15 times more likely to die in the US than in cuba
Whereas in Cuba they have eradicated hunger, in Spain child malnutrition is at 25%
Elián González: My time in the U.S. “changed me for life” « The Red Phoenix
Fidel Castro y Nelson Mandela - YouTube
a $957 million dollar U.S. government refugee program (loans for small businesses, for example) helped along cuban exiles in america
The coddled “terrorists” of South Florida - Salon.com
People in Miami have been assassinated for criticizing the anti-Castro expats
A Lesson in Cuban Health Care | School of Nursing
Hyatt Bass: Lessons from Cuba’s Incarceration Model - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

DPRK

South (bad) Korea

S. Korean Government Interferes with Presidential Election and Now the Surrounding Protests - CNN iReport
Asesinan a manifestantes en Corea Del Sur Brutal represión anticomunista Killing protesters240pH.264 - YouTube
Illegal Labor Union Stike - Pohang, South Korea - YouTube
Bookseller loses livelihood for selling N. Korea-related literature : National : Home
Disposable Workers of Hyper-Capitalist Korea | KOREA EXPOSÉ
[Analysis] Hateful groups making a resurgence in South Korea : National : Home
STLtoday.com -- Associated Press -- News
Slaves freed from SKorean salt farms face misery in shelters
North Korean defector suicide rate is up, says report - UPI.com
Senior unionized worker tries to set himself on fire
South Korea covered up killings - Business Insider
AP: S. Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants'

The Korean War: The Taejon Massacre and the "Crime of Korea" - YouTube
Vilifying the victim: U.S. journalists Ling and Lee ignore the role of U.S. policy in impoverishing north Korea | what's left
How Failed is North Korea? | Flashpoints
"Having spent a good deal of time in the company of more than 400 North Korean teenagers, I dismiss the idea that everyone lives in fear and privation"
Why North Korean Defectors Keep Returning Home - seattlepi.com
'A Year in Pyongyang - North Korea' by Andrew Holloway
North Korea has plenty of doctors: WHO | Reuters
absent cause: People's Korea, Juche and the struggle against revisionism
What's Left: Understanding North Korea
Why People’s Korea should be defended
Kim Jong Il’s contributions to People’s Korea
Book review: The Cleanest Race (2010) by B. R. Myers | The Leading Light
Korea Resilient! Socialism in the DPRK | The Marxist-Leninist
Kim Jong-il's death sends North Korean media into overdrive | World news | guardian.co.uk
Workers World: The Hidden history of Korean War
PSLweb.org: Socialist construction in North Korea
Photos from North Korea - Giant Bomb
No, the North Korean government did not claim it found evidence of unicorns
Struggle Is The Enemy, Weed Is The Remedy: The Truth About Marijuana in North Korea | NK News – North Korea News
North Korean Kids love international fairy tales! - YouTube
In DPRK, friendship is won by trust and trust is won by time » Website of Kourosh Ziabari, Iranian journalist and writer
People’s Korea: Fact V. Myth | can't jail the revolution
North Korea: Not Crazy but Very Misunderstood - NYTimes.com
Korea International War Crimes Tribunal
In Pictures: Pyongyang preparing for holiday - In Pictures - Al Jazeera English
BBC News - Choco pies: The smuggled treats of North Korea
North Korea Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Victory » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Ordinary People of North Korea (165 photos)
▶ NK without a guide (unedited).mov - YouTube
The North Korean Purge That Didn’t Happen - Korea Real Time - WSJ
The Korean War: A History — Bruce Cumings
The Strange Tale of Yeonmi Park | The Diplomat
‘Escape From Camp 14,’ by Blaine Harden - NYTimes calls author a liar
Building the perfect leader: North Korean propaganda’s secret sauce
Juche in the United States: The Black Panther Party’s Relations with North Korea, 1969-1971 アメリカにおけるチュチェ(主体性)思想 ブラック・パンサー党と北朝鮮、1969-1971 | The Asia-Pacific Journal
South Korea bans North Korean defector from repatriation - UPI.com
U.S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage
Why do North Korean defector testimonies so often fall apart? | World news | The Guardian

East Germany

West (bad) Germany

With the help of West Germany, Iraq began to manufacture mustard gas and nerve agents in large amounts
From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Role Ex-Nazis Played in Early West Germany - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, US Intel, and the Cold War

The Wall Street Journal's thoughts on the DDR
The Fall of the Berlin Wall » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Another side of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall 50th Anniversary: Thank You
Margot Honecker defends East German dictatorship | World news | guardian.co.uk
Workers World Oct. 28, 2004: Denazification in socialist Germany opened door to gay rights
Democracy, East Germany and the Berlin Wall | what's left
Warmongers Unmasked: History of Cold War in Germany, Wilfred Burchett 1950
[In Spanish] Pueblo Soviético: La mujer en la República Democrática Alemana
East Germans lost much in 1989 | Bruni de la Motte | Comment is free | theguardian.com
Stasi vs. The NSA Back To Back: Who's Worse - A Visual Guide - Falkvinge on Infopolicy

MLK

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV
Martin Luther King was a Socialist! - YouTube
Martin Luther King, "Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam" - YouTube
Martin Luther King Jr., the radical
A Tiny Revolution: And Why Beholdest Thou the Mote That Is in Thy Brother's Eye, but Perceivest Not the 900-Foot Tall Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in Thine Own?
The Republican Field on Martin Luther King: It's Complicated | Mother Jones
MLK and Planned Parenthood
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF AMERICANS: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., CASE STUDY
MLK would NOT have opposed abortions, thank you - Salon.com
To Coretta Scott
Pacifica Radio/KPFA/UC Berkeley Library: Martin Luther King, "There's something wrong with that press! ," April 30, 1967, Riverside Church, New York
Letters of Note: Like all frauds your end is approaching
Court Decision: U.S. “Government Agencies” Found Guilty in Martin Luther King’s Assassination | Global Research
Martin Luther King assassinated by US government: MLK civil trial decision - National Nonpartisan | Examiner.com
Dr. King family’s civil trial verdict: US government assassinated Martin - Washington's Blog
But in condemning violence it would be an act of irresponsibility not to be as strong in condemning the conditions in our society that cause people to feel so angry that they have no alternative but to engage in riots. What we must see is that a riot is the language of the unheard.

The Real CCCP

"Holodomor"

In Search of a Soviet Holocaust
Tauger — Natural Disaster and Human Actions
The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933
Fraud, Famine, and Fascism - The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard
Arguing from Yet More Errors: Reply to Stephen Wheatcroft
International Commission of Inquiry Into the 1932–33 Famine in Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Top-10 Ukraine [neo-nazi regime]’s Promoters (lobbyists) in the World 2014 [including timothy snyder]

The GULAGs

Was the Gulag an Archipelago De-Convoyed Prisoners and Porous Borders in the Camps of Western Siberia — Wilson T. Bell
Victims of the Soviet Penal System in the Pre-war Years: A First Approach on the Basis of Archival Evidence
Natalya Reshetovskaya, 84, Is Dead; Solzhenitsyn's Wife Questioned 'Gulag' - The New York Times

The Russian Revolution

Anarchists in the Russian Revolution - The Makhno Myth
Kronstadt: The Maturation & Dispersal of a Revolutionary Core « Kasama

Socialism Betrayed

Socialism Seminar #2: On the collapse of the USSR « Malheureux Marxist
End of Communism Cheered but Now with More Reservations - Page 2 | Pew Global Attitudes Project
The Necessity of Gangster Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation in Russia and China :: Monthly Review
Uncritical Coverage of the '2nd Russian Revolution'
Over 25% of sex trafficked victims are trafficked from Southern and Eastern Europe
Death surge linked with mass privatisation - University of Oxford
A Full Court Press:The Destabilization of the Soviet Union - Covertaction.org
A Full Court Press:The Destabilization of the Soviet Union - Covertaction.org

STALIN

Another view of Stalin
Carnegie survey finds that dictator Josef Stalin is still widely admired in ex-Soviet nations - The Washington Post
FYML - The problem with your critique of Stalin
DuBois on Stalin
Compared to the other war leaders, Stalin probably had the best military mind
Anna Louise Strong Meets Stalin
Georgian Jews’ fondness for Stalin | JTA - Jewish & Israel News (tw: anti-communism)
Stalin Society
Domenico Losurdo: Lo storico statunitense Grover Furr a proposito del dibattito su Stalin tra Domenico Losurdo e Nicolas Werth
Stalin's Blue Pencil - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
In Georgia, a Reverence for Stalin - NYTimes.com
Soviet-era nostalgia still strong, 20 years on - YouTube
PBS Anti-Stalinism Is Based On Nazi Lies
The Soviet Occupation of Germany: Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for ... - Filip Slaveski - Google Books
Lalkar: 50 years after the death of Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin
the standard of living in the soviet union 1928-1940

Trotsky and the trots

Diego Rivera's dirty little secret: His murals are magnificent celebrationsof socialism; his friendship with Trotsky and his marriage to Frida Kahlo are leftist legend, but new evidence shows that he betrayed his comrades to his enemies. Phil Davison reports - Life & Style - The Independent
wherein trotsky explains stalin's personality through race essentialism, see "mongolian blood"
Lenin: On 'socialism in one country' (see 2nd-to-last graf)
Lenin: On a worldwide "simultaneous" revolution
Evidence of Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan
Lenin's "testament" according to Eastman is "pure slander against the central committee"
Pierre Broué: The "Bloc" of the Oppositions against Stalin (January 1980)
Trotsky's Day in Court by Harry Haywood
Trotsky Denies “Lenin’s Will” | The Espresso Stalinist
COINTELPRO: The FBI's used informants to foment discord in communist parties because of kruschev's secret report
Leon Trotsky: Why I Agreed to Appear Before the Dies Committee (excerpt) (1939)
Lenin on Socialism in one Country | The Espresso Stalinist
Lenin On Trotsky's errors and aiding of anti-bolsheviks
Soviet Policy and Its Critics : J.R. Campbell : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Lenin: Whoever expects a “pure” social revolution will never live to see it.

Kronstadt

Kronstadt - A Tragic Necessity
What Kronstadt Means for Leninism – Right To Rebel

A Single Story of Soviet Russia « The Squeaky Robot
sovietinfo.tripod.com
Soviet Women Remember Socialism - YouTube
▶ CIA Briefing on Cultural Life in the USSR - YouTube
On the recent repression of LGBT Russians | Notes & Commentaries
PSLweb.org: Why we continue to defend the Soviet Union
Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? « what's left
The Red Flag Still Flys: Workers Power in the USSR by Albert Szymanski
Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 - Consortiumnews.com
Study: Romanian teenagers believe life under communism was better than today | Daily news in English from Romania - Romania-Insider.com
Tajikistan pines for old Soviet Union strength - CSMonitor.com
Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period | Articles Archive
Communism favoured by half of Romanians | News | The Diplomat Bucharest
BODY COUNT IN ROMANIA, THE SHIFTING STORY | Lies Of Our Times
Oppressive and grey? No, growing up under communism was the happiest time of my life | Proletarian Center for Research, Education and Culture
Marxist update: "To live long enough to see the next socialist revolution.... to actively prepare it today"
The Soviet Jews, Zionism & Israel | The Red Phoenix
Five things we never thanked the Soviet Union for | Russia & India Report
La Medicina Socializada por Dr. Raúl Felipe Cálix (In Spanish)
anti-communist's reason why the USSR was bad: it made husbands pay child support
China and its Supporters Were Wrong About USSR
▶ Why Russians Hate Company of Heroes 2 - YouTube
washingtonpost.com: The Russian Intelligentsia
The Marxist-Leninist Weekly: Falsifications About Nazi Aims, Then and Now
The Communist League: The Soviet-Finnish War | The Espresso Stalinist
Soviet Russia Had a Better Record of Training Women in STEM Than America Does Today | Smart News
In Russia, early African American migrants found the good life - LA Times
The Role of Trade Unions in the Soviet Union | Malheureux Marxist
Red Channel
The Early Cold War in Soviet West Ukraine, 1944–1948 | Burds | The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies
JFK on the soviet educational system
Socialism, Popular Education, and the Fight Against Racism in the Soviet Union I The Hampton Institute

Red China

"Free Tibet"

Does the west care about what real Tibetans think? | Hidden Harmonies China Blog
Friendly Feudalism - The Tibet Myth
Asia Times Online :: Tibet, the 'great game', and the CIA
The Shadow of the Dalai Lama: Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism, by Victor and Victoria Trimondi
Cultural Genocide and Tibet
Tibetans mark emancipation of serfs - People's Daily Online
World News Briefs; Dalai Lama Group Says It Got Money From C.I.A. - New York Times

Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim - Telegraph
Tiananmen Square ‘massacre’ was a myth
MAO DID NOT WANT HALF OF CHINA TO STARVE TO DEATH: A KEY DOCUMENT IN DIKOTTER'S BOOK ON THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD
Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? :: Monthly Review
Utsa Patnaik, "Revisiting Alleged 30 Million Famine Deaths during China's Great Leap"
Two Articles by Mao Zedong on the African American National Question | The Marxist-Leninist
china study group » Blog Archive » Manufacturing History: Sex, Lies and Random House’s Memoirs of Mao’s Physician
A Question of State & Revolution: China & Market Socialism | The Marxist-Leninist
Black Like Mao: Red China & Black Revolution, Part 1 « Kasama
Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China: From the Great Leap Forward to the Present :: Monthly Review
Table 7: China accounts for the majority of poverty reduction from '81-'05
"They tried many methods to escape…" but the Chinese police sided with the strikers
The fascinating truth behind all those ‘great firewall of China’ headlines | Comment is free | The Guardian
Shanghai-Beijing Bullet Train Western Media Coverage, a case of Journalism vs. Propaganda | Hidden Harmonies China Blog
The real story behind China’s alleged conquest of African farmland — Quartz

Socialist Albania

“New Albania: A Small Nation, A Great Contribution!” Part I: Albania at the Crossroads: Annihilation or Liberation | The Espresso Stalinist
Panorama of the Economic-Social Development of Socialist Albania

fascism ≠ socialism

"The First Privatization" — in Mussolini's Italy
Hitler wasn't a socialist. Stop saying he was – Telegraph Blogs
hitler wasn't a leftist you dumbasses
Privatization — Pioneered by the NSDAP
Three Theses (not really: more like two graphs and a link) on Nazism and Capitalism | Corey Robin
Preussentum und Sozialismus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge

The Long Secret Alliance: Uncle Sam and Pol Pot
On the Side of Pol Pot: US Supports Khmer Rouge
Workers World Feb. 25, 1999: Cambodia and U.S. war crimes
Condescending saviours: What went wrong with the Pol Pot Regime « Kasama
michaelvickery.org/vickery1999cambodia.pdf

Where did America’s missing millions go? Holodomor Lessons — RT
The Wampanoag Side of the First Thanksgiving Story - ICTMN.com
Eight myths about socialism—and their answers
Socialism: Answering Common Questions | socialistworld.net
What Paul Robeson Said | Past Imperfect
Director's blog | Rosenberg Fund for Children
Socialist Party of Malaysia: Vietnam's dilemma | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
SONS OF MALCOLM: ON HO CHI MINH & AN EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY-FILM ON THE GREAT MAN
The Pope's Holy War Against Liberation Theology | North American Congress on Latin America
How 'Communism' Brought Racial Equality To The South : NPR
Dangerous Minds | Helen Keller was a militant anti-capitalist radical
Black Book of Communism errors
Red Channel

Correcting false information in memory: Manipulating the strength of misinformation encoding and its retraction
Brian Springer - Spin
The trouble with mainstream media - macrobusiness.com.au | macrobusiness.com.au
The Dog Whistle Has Sounded: How the Right Talks About 'Thugs' Like Trayvon Martin
Propaganda (book) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Creating the Illusion of Popular Demand
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: THE CURSE OF TINA
Wikileaks Expose: Kochs, Neocons and Covert Regime Change Ops - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
Information Diet | The Distractions of Online Petitions
Gallup Poll Finds Confidence In TV News Has Hit A New Low
How Campaign Strategists Turned Reporters Into Brain-Picking Zombies | FAIR Blog
The Joke’s on You | Steve Almond | The Baffler
A Single Exposure to the American Flag Shifts Support Toward Republicanism up to 8 Months Later
Violent Video Games: Myths, Facts, and Unanswered Questions
The Nobel Prize in Economics? There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics - By Yasha Levine - The eXiled
Lenin: How to Guarantee the Success of the Constituent Assembly - On the question of "Freedom of the Press"
18 U.S. Code § 1091 - Incitement to genocide is a federal crime that could theoretically result in five years in prison — REMEMBER THAT, NYT

Why Socialism? :: Monthly Review
The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science | Mother Jones
The Marxist-Leninist Movement and the World Crisis of Capitalism
Communist Corresponding Society - Again, Crisis
LF effort posts
One Dimensional Man, by Herbert Marcuse (contents)
Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers - Computerworld
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice - YouTube
Leon Trotsky: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (1911)
If America should go Communist - StumbleUpon