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Hallelujah! New York's insurance exchange, long kept under wraps by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has finally brought forth some information about the rates that health insurers will charge New Yorkers next year via an apparent leak to the New York Times which ran the news with a dramatic headline: "Health Plan Cost for New Yorkers Set to Fall 50%."
The only "enemy" Bradley Manning was aiding by leaking what he did was the American people -- that is, in the logic of the court martial judge.
By Anthony Barnes
"God's Plan": George Zimmerman and the Trials and Tribulations of America's Legal System 
What the Dickens! Clearly, the mind-boggling outcome of the George Zimmerman murder case, an outcome that enabled Zimmerman to escape any legal repercussions for the shooting of an unarmed boy in an event initiated by Zimmerman, provides sufficient reason to presume that Dickens was on to something when he wrote that "the law is an ass."
U.S. whistleblower and international hero Bradley Manning has just been awarded the 2013 Sean MacBride Peace Award by the International Peace Bureau, itself a former recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Manning is a nominee this year.
Former President Jimmy Carter announced support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden this week, saying that his uncovering of the agency's massive surveillance programs had proven "beneficial."
a fascinating, fun discussion of what we can learn from horses and herds-- about power, conncetion, dominance, leadership, psychopaths, and courage.
President Barack Obama is considering using military force in Syria, and the Pentagon has prepared various scenarios for possible United States intervention. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Obama administration is deliberating whether or not it should use the brute of the US military in Syria during a Thursday morning Senate hearing.
Detroit on Thursday became the largest city in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy, as the state-appointed emergency manager filed for Chapter 9 protection. Detroit lost a quarter-million residents between 2000 and 2010. A population that in the 1950s reached 1.8 million is struggling to stay above 700,000. Much of the middle-class and scores of businesses also have fled Detroit, taking their tax dollars with them.
By Andrew Schmookler
The Spirit That Drove Us to Civil War Is Back: Looking Closer at that National Nightmare Americans have a strong on-going relationship with the Civil War, after a century and a half. Unfortunately, much of that relationship is unhealthy and based on a romanticizing distortion of an ugly reality. In as much as we're now contending with the same destructive spirit that gave us that nightmare --the thesis of this series-- it's important that we gain a more clear-eyed understanding of that earlier catastrophe.
The mainstream U.S. news media has been chuckling over the "irony" of NSA leaker Edward Snowden asking asylum from Latin American countries purported to suppress press freedom. But the smugness misses both the complex realities abroad and the U.S. government's own assaults on information, says a group of scholars.
The US Energy Information Administration reports shows how much carbon dioxide is being released in each of the states and DC. Over a ten year period one state, Texas, has been responsible for 12% of all US CO2 admissions. Targeting Texas, California and a few other states in the effort to reduce emissions might be a good strategy for more rapid results.
"Rain Room" is the latest in a string of interactive, crowd-pleasing art exhibitions in New York. Waits are hours long for "Rain Room," an installation at the Museum of Modern Art that has rain falling all around, but miraculously, not on you.
Silda Wall Spitzer impressed herself into our collective memory when she stood, chalk-gray, beside her husband as he resigned from the New York governorship in 2008. It was a wrenching image of devotion or delusion, depending on your take--one that got fictionalized in The Good Wife and has been (sadly) replicated IRL in previous and future political scandals. But now that Eliot Spitzer has stepped back into the spotlight with his announcement that he is running for NYC comptroller, Silda has not followed.
The Senate, on a party- line, 54-46 vote Thursday, confirmed Thomas Perez as secretary of labor. Perez, who had been assistant attorney general for civil rights, replaces former secretary Hilda Solis, who left in January. The Senate also voted 59-40 to confirm Gina McCarthy as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
After taking almost the entire month of August off, House leadership has penciled in just nine workdays for September. The official calendar has been out since January, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called attention to the House's sparsely populated schedule in a press conference Thursday.
By Mary Lynn Ritch
I asked some of my Facebook friends about their opinion to the Trayvon Martin verdict 
After George Zimmerman was acquitted of all counts for the death of Trayvon Martin, my Facebook Newsfeed blew up with opinions that I had to unsubscribe to a few just so I could see all the pregnancies and updated marathon times. But I decided to ask a few of the most intelligently rabid a few questions to understand their side of the story.
Over the past few years a new crop of writers, talking heads and commentators have take up the banner of atheism. People such as Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher and Sam Harris are not lefty fringe personalities, they reach a wide audience with their atheist message. But their atheism represents a reverse in political direction from the anti-establishment, progressive atheism those of my generation embraced in the 50s and 60s.
The energy of change is in full swing. The old order is fighting back hard--which was expected--but now people are realizing how much work we have to do to change the world. And we will do it--never doubt it. By next year, America will rise up. We'll discuss this in future Cosmic Story newsletters. For now, personal change and healing are the goals. Shake off the patriarchy within so we can bring down the patriarchy outside
President Obama's choice for ambassador to the United Nations strived to put to rest lingering concerns about her support for Israel during her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Samantha Power testified that her first priority if confirmed would be to defend Israel against "one-sided" attacks at the UN.
The signs are now unmistakable: China is in big trouble. We're not talking about some minor setback along the way, but something more fundamental. The country's whole way of doing business, the economic system that has driven three decades of incredible growth, has reached its limits. You could say that the Chinese model is about to hit its Great Wall, and the only question now is just how bad the crash will be.
Anthony Alvarez kills daughter with 3 grandkids in Orosi, CA home | Las Vegas Guardian Express
What concludes this sad affair are the facts concerning nationwide deaths from gunfire and how they compare.
This VERY practical article follows up my earlier OEN piece proposing a "Democracy Unchained" successor to Occupy--expressly targeting the corporate-corrupted Democrat-Republican duopoly. This article reveals how that movement would enforce a "guilty till proven innocent" strategy: namely, by having participants pledge NEVER to vote for a mainstream pol--Republican or Democrat--unless that pol gets explicit movement approval.
The former crime partner of James 'Whitey' Bulger testified Thursday that the two were FBI informants -- and that Bulger took the lead in managing the relationship with the bureau. Meanwhile, in a bizarre twist, a potential witness turns up dead.
Drones in FATA Area of Pakistan, mechanisms & how decieded who to drone.
By John Greenewald
The Racial Divide of America: How some Trayvon Martin supporters are dishonoring the dead teenager The Racial Divide of America: How some Trayvon Martin supporters are dishonoring the dead teenager by focusing on the wrong thing.
By Dave Lindorff
Just for Sissies: US Flaunts the Rule of Law while Demanding that other Countries Honor It 
When it comes to the international rule of law, the US government thinks that's for other, weaker countries. Not for the US. Now we're seeing that hypocrisy in action as Italy seeks a fugitive CIA agent in Panama says TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
By Bob Burnett
Racism in America: The Killing of Trayvon Martin When Barack Obama was elected President, many of us were hopeful that it signaled an end to widespread racism. We were naïve. George Zimmerman's not-guilty verdict indicates how much work remains.
The odds are strong that Liz Cheney won't even make it past the primary. The Republican leadership is already lining up behind incumbent GOP Senator Mike Enzi. Wyoming voters traditionally don't oust incumbents and Cheney, who was born in Wisconsin, lived in Virginia until she and her husband bought a big bucks home in trendy Jackson Hole last year.
I don't know anything about being oppressed. I might have a shred of a glimmer of an idea about it though. But I have to use my imagination ... y'know ... make stuff up. I have to take those two isolated instances and extrapolate them, stretch them out over a lifetime, and imagine decades of that kind of treatment. And y'know what? I can't imagine what my life would be like.
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Manning has already pleaded guilty to illegal use of information that he had the right to access. The chilling issue here is that with no contact with the enemy, Manning could serve life in prison without the possibility for parole. Bradley Manning did not give the information to an enemy of the United States, he gave it to the media.
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The Arms Race at Home - NYTimes.com
Statehouse politicians make it ever easier for constituents to carry guns at alarming rates.Florida granted more than 173,000 new concealed-carry gun permits in the past year, a 17 percent increase that is double the rate of five years ago... 20 other states loosened their concealed-carry laws... Illinois enacted a law that sets no limit on the number of guns or ammunition anyone with a permit can carry. It also allows patrons to tote their weapons to restaurants where liquor sales make up no more than 50 percent of the establishment's gross revenue ...The number of Americans with concealed-carry permits is now around eight million,...Mississippi went even further in this year's laissez-faire gun derby by enacting a law allowing adults to flaunt their weapons unconcealed in public without the need for a permit.
Scientists have built the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record, a nanosize structure that could lead to less-costly, more efficient, solar cells.
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