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Chelsea Manning and Hillary Clinton: A Case of Double Standards By Justin Raimondo Chelsea is being left to rot in jail, subjected to the harassment and cruelty of her jailers, while Hillary routinely flies around in a private jet, lying to the American people and refusing to answer questions from reporters. That's "justice," American-style, circa 2015. Read More >>

Progressives Should Be Applauding Trump By David William Pear Donald Trump has added real excitement to the race for the White House in 2016. He has also raised many progressive issues in common with Bernie Sanders, such as reindustrialization and rebuilding the middle class. Progressives should be applauding that people are agreeing on real issues that can benefit the American people instead of dividing them. Read More >>

Recent NY Times Glorifies Violence Against Women and Girls By Veena Trehan The New York Times of Sunday, August 2, contained shocking depictions of gender violence and harassment. Rather than examining cultural entertainment it glorified violence against women and girls. Read More >>

By Never Calling For Prosecution 'Left' Journalism Protects Investments In Continuous Genocide By Jay Janson Western society's progressive writers leave their readers with the impression that citizens of the US and allied nations will never be prosecuted for their mega massive crimes against humanity. Legal and moral implications and future ramifications are discussed and contrasted with ongoing litigation and warnings Martin Luther King gave. Read More >>

Is There Anything Progressive About Hillary's Economic Plan? By Dean Baker It is still early in the campaign and we need many more specifics, but Secretary Clinton's proposals to date do not appear to be an effective way to advance her stated agenda. Most of the candidates from both parties are pledging to help the middle class. Presumably the winner will be the person who does the best sales job in this area. Hopefully, the sales pitch will be grounded in economic reality. Read More >>

Pipelineistan -- the Iran-Pak-China connection By Pepe Escobar Even after sanctions are lifted, Iran will need to find an ocean of investment--at least $180 billion--to upgrade its energy infrastructure and be able to start exporting natural gas to Europe, in competition with Gazprom. So Iran's privileged Pipelineistan play for the near future will be Asia--with China ready to instantly capitalize on every surge of Iran's natural gas production. Read More >>

Hillary Clinton on the Sanctity of Protecting Classified Information By Glenn Greenwald When it comes to low-level government employees with no power, the Obama administration has purposely prosecuted them as harshly as possible to the point of vindictiveness: It has notoriously prosecuted more individuals under the Espionage Act of 1917 for improperly handling classified information than all previous administrations combined. Read More >>

No Apologies: Meet the Guy Who Got Bernie Sanders' Interrupters on the Stage By Yes Magazine n his first interview since last weekend's action in Seattle, activist Amir Islam talks about why every presidential candidate should be ready to talk black issues. Read More >>

Donald Trump's America By Lawrence Davidson What this means is that Trump, in his narcissistic pursuit of recognition, has tapped into a subgroup of the population that includes the permanently dissatisfied. Trump is playing with fire and at some point he will have to wake up to just what sort of monster he has by the tail. Then he will have a decide: is he just out for fun or does he want to go the route of the demagogue? Read More >>

San Diego's Facial Recognition Program Shows Why We Need Records on Police Use of Mobile Biometric Technology By Electronic Frontier Foundation The New York Times has a story out on how San Diego police use mobile facial recognition devices in the field, including potentially on non-consenting residents who aren't suspected of a crime. One account from a retired firefighter is especially alarming: Read More >>

Holy-grail of Mars Missions Found? Mars Orbiter Unfurled Signs of Alien Life On its 10th Birthday One of the youngest lakes -- but still quite ancient -- to be found on Mars also might hold the best possible chance of finding life on the Red Planet, a group of scientists say. Scientists were able to study the Mars terrain in an area that is now roughly 100 miles from the NASA Opportunity rover. They found evidence that along with the Martian oceans that were prevalent billions of years ago, a lake formed in this particular region, then s ... Read More >>

Alzheimer's-An Altered State of Mind By Burl Hall Read More >>

Cultivating Seeds of Peace, Global Day of Action to Support Iran Deal Rallies took place in cities across the globe on Saturday in support of the historic nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers. Organized by volunteer Iranian expats and unaffiliated with any political groups or campaigns, the #SupportIranDeal mobilization spanned continents as participants called for peace and denounced well-funded efforts to derail the deal. "The alternative to this deal," the organizers warned, "is another billion-dollar ... Read More >>

AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic The National Security Agency’s ability to spy on vast quantities of Internet traffic passing through the United States has relied on its extraordinary, decades-long partnership with a single company: the telecom giant AT&T. While it has been long known that American telecommunications companies worked closely with the spy agency, newly disclosed N.S.A. documents show that the relationship with AT&T has been considered unique and esp ... Read More >>

Pets Weigh in on Animas River Spill and the Price of Eggs By Martha Rosenberg Spin from the EPA and the egg industry does not get past these "bottom readers" Read More >>

Despite Working More Hours than their Peers in Other High-Income Countries, Single Mothers in the US Have Higher Poverty Using data from government agencies, social scientists and researchers worldwide, the report shows that single mothers in the United States—most of whom are either separated or were previously married—are employed more hours and yet have much higher poverty rates than their peers in other high-income countries. Let me run that by you again—because it’s generally not what you’ve been reading of late in the news: the m ... Read More >>

Milley becomes Army's top officer as Odierno retires As the Army’s new chief of staff took responsibility for the service Friday morning, he was called “a leader, a warrior and a statesman.” Gen. Mark Milley will need those skills as the Army’s top officer for the next four years at a time when budgets and forces are shrinking and global threats are growing. Milley was sworn in as the Army’s 39th chief by Army Secretary John McHugh during a traditional ceremony at Fort ... Read More >>

Liberalism Rocks The Iowa State Fair As Bernie Sanders Rips Republican Fake Family Values Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders fired up the crowd at the Iowa State Fair by tearing apart the hypocrisy behind Republican "family values." Republican family values undermine families. There is nothing real about denying some families basic rights, or discriminating against some families. Opposing paid family leave, is not a family value. Trying to legislatively control the health care decisions of women is not a family value.  Read More >>

Is Putin Planning to Sell-Out Assad? By Mike Whitney Washington doesn't want a deal. Washington wants war. Washington cannot achieve its goal of breaking up Syria and redrawing the map of the Middle East if peacemaker Putin prevails. If Putin wants to prevent Washington from splitting up Syria and transforming it into a terrorist breeding ground, he's going to have to move fast. Read More >>

The Truth About US in Syria A fascinating detailed report on the extent and nature of US involvement in the Syrian conflict, starting with the admission by US Secretary of Defense to a congressional committee, that we have only trained 60 fighters, at a cost of $500 million.[tag]  Read More >>

In latest thrust at Obama, Netanyahu names UN ambassador who trashed him and said Palestinians can have "Facebook state" By Philip Weiss In the midst of his battle with President Obama over the Iran Deal, Israel's prime minister announced today that he will appoint as the country's next ambassador to the U.N. a far-right politician who has been outspoken against Obama and who wants to annex the West Bank. Read More >>

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No more bs I posted an article not long ago offering free Bernie Sanders' bumper stickers. I see this as one of the more effective ways to get word about Bernie around, when you consider how many other drivers will see it in the normal course of most folks' day. I know bumper stickers are not in great demand anymore, but my view is that if you're seriously behind Sanders, here is a simple, free, effective way to do it. Read More >>

Slogan 'Black Lives Matter!' Not Intended to Include 'Black' Lives Taken by GI's Overseas 'Black Lives Matter' movement operates in blatant disbelief of Martin Luther King's moral and entirely logical warning; 'will be no progress on social justice issues at home while we go on killing the poor overseas at a such an enormous expenditure of social and financial resources that makes such progress at home impossible.' Another example of American exceptionalism is Occupy Wall St. diverting attention from US wars. Read More >>

Over Forty Percent of U.S. Children are Living in Poverty Current research indicates over 40% of U.S. children are economically deprived. Read More >>

"We want to live in a genuine democracy that puts people, not foreign investors and multinational corporations, first. Democracy Trade Agreements Read More >>

#BlackLivesMatter and the Democrats: How Disruption Can Lead to Collaboration The Democratic Party, like its Republican duopoly cousin, is a criminal enterprise, polluting the politics of Black America. Any sustained Black movement must, of necessity, be in opposition to the Democratic Party and its civic society annexes. Read More >>

Obama's Stupid Blame-Iran Game President Obama always bows to Official Washington's conventional wisdom no matter how wrongheaded it is -- and then either falls in line behind some reckless neocon policy prescription or turns away just before falling off some geopolitical cliff. His continued Iran-bashing is a case in point, says Gareth Porter at Middle East Eye. Read More >>

Public Law 86-90| Why the Vietnam War was the Litmus Test for Donbas What do North Vietnam and Cossackia have in common? Neither country ever existed outside of US Public Law 86-90 and tens of thousands of Americans may die for both. Read More >>

Can Mass Extinction Lead to Something Better? We're headed for a mass extinction event if we continue to pump fossil fuel resources out of the ground and burn them into the atmosphere -- and if we continue to let our oceans acidify and life in the oceans die. Why don't we just avoid the whole debacle and cut fossil fuel subsidies and invest in a clean and renewable future? Read More >>

80 Years Later, Republicans Are Still Fighting Social Security Polls have consistently shown that Americans are extremely pleased with Social Security, which provides benefits are costs far below those in the private sector. To campaign against Social Security is to court political suicide. It therefore becomes imperative to convince voters instead that the program is unreliable. That's the Republican strategy. Read More >>

Jewish Terrorists The Kahanists and the other fascist groups in today's Israel are far more dangerous than most people believe. This is not a handful of wild weeds as we are led to believe. This is a national cancer that can spread quickly in our national body. Jews and Arabs must receive the same treatment. Read More >>

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'Young Jupiter' Exoplanet Discovered 100 Light-Years Away A newly discovered planet in a young star system located 100 light-years away could give astronomers an idea what Jupiter looked like early in its development.The planet, 51 Eridani b, is relatively young -- only 20 million years old. That might sound ancient to most people, but, as the researchers behind the discovery noted, it formed "40 million years after the dinosaurs died out."Dubbed "young Jupiter" by researchers, 51 Eridani b showed the strongest methane signature ever detected on an exoplanet, making it much like the gas giants in our own solar system.All of those factors make for an exoplanet very similar to Jupiter, which could provide clues about how our own solar system and its gas giants formed nearly 5 billion years ago.  Read More >>

George W. Bush Has the Most Controversial Wikipedia Page of All Time ...the most contentious... is former president George W. Bush, who ranks as the most-edited Wikipedia page of all time. The more than 45,000 edits on his page tell a story of a former president whose legacy is divisive, and who can still inspire expletive-filled ire, even while he is in retirement working on his painting skills.  Read More >>

Jeb Bush Won't Rule Out Torture At a forum in Iowa, Bush declined to make a “definitive blanket kind of statement” on whether he would authorize the harsh interrogation techniques OK’d by George W.’s administration. Bush declined to say which techniques he considered torture but asked specifically about waterboarding at a later event, he said “I’m not ruling anything in or out,” and used the Orwellian formulation, "There’s a difference between enhanced interrogation techniques and torture. Torture’s—America doesn’t do torture.”  Read More >>

"Off the Table": Kerry Rules Out US Return of Guantanamo Bay to Cuba Since 1903, the United States has had a lease on Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay, where the US naval base is located. Since the severing of US-Cuba relations in 1959, Cuba has demanded the return of Guantanamo Bay, calling the US control of the territory illegal. Kerry told the press that while he cannot tell what issues will be addressed by the US and Cuban governments in the future, the issue of US possession of the Guantanamo Bay is "not on the table."  Read More >>

It is not about the election anymore: News media will not cover revolution. The situation is more than obvious: ( Concentration of media ownership)  and has been for a long long time.  Bernie Sanders is saying things that are resonating among growing numbers of people.  The things Bernie is saying are revolutionary in their very nature.  He is pointing out the nature of a totally corrupt system that uses the media and the electoral process to deflect people's attention from the system they need to change.In the midst of the swelling numbers of people who are being enabled to say openly that they want the system changed there are plenty of tactics being used to try to marginalize Bernie.   Read More >>

Sarah Palin Endorses Donald Trump After He Promises To Give Her Power, Relevancy Depending on one’s political perspective, Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are either two of the Republican Party’s most outspoken mavericks or outrageous political jokes. Now the divisive pair are teaming up to revive Palin’s career while boosting Trump’s campaign for president. Until recently, many considered Palin’s political career to be waning in popularity, especially after Fox News ended her contract earlier this year. This campaign season isn’t the first time they’ve allied with each other — in 2011, Sarah Palin supported Trump’s advocacy of the “birther” conspiracy theory, which claims Barack Obama is unfit for the presidency because he was born in a foreign country.  Read More >>

Can Jeb Bush ever escape his brother's shadow? Jeb Bush has firmly established himself as the Republican to vote for if you wish his brother were still president. Best of luck with that. In what was billed as a major foreign policy speech Tuesday, Bush proposed inching back into Iraq, wading into the Syrian civil war and engaging in much the same kind of geopolitical engineering and nation-building that George W. Bush attempted. So much for the whole “I am my own man” routine. Bush blames President Obama and likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for basically all that is wrong with the world. Voters may have short memories, but I think they’ll remember it was Bush’s brother who shattered the Iraqi state and created the vacuum that the Islamic State came to fill.   Read More >>