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Who is Right in Syria? By Lawrence Davidson In all of the bloodshed, population displacement and terror that has accompanied the Syrian civil war, the least-considered party has been the Syrian people and their future.Right now that vital ingredient can only be supplied by the reimposition of order by Damascus. The folks in Washington, Paris and Ankara might not like that, but they are not the ones facing a future of anarchy. Read More >>

Wake Up Zombie, Kick Up a Big Stink! By Patrick Walker If climate catastrophe leaves a civilization for historians to write in, they may someday lament how the world's biggest news story was irresponsibly flubbed by mainstream's willed failure to connect the dots: Hillary's Clinton's political machine is foisting on us a candidate provably unqualified, by policies and character, to address our planet's climate emergency. Fearing that, I try to "be the media" in this 3-part series. Read More >>

Finally..... At long last, without further ado: Feds will track police shootings. By Daily Kos Pull the wagons in a circle, boys, they're gonna start collectin' data! Read More >>

Chicago: Would Rahm Emanuel Have Been Re-Elected if Video of Teen Shooting Had Been Released Earlier? By Diane Ravitch yep. Rahm would have been out. The state prosecutor says she was waiting for the Feds to issue a joint announcement. Funny. The Obama DOJ didn't issue a report that could have hurt Obama's former chief of staff. Read More >>

Freedom Rider: 1961 Paris Massacre By Margaret Kimberley The French will tell you that this month's ISIS attack inflicted the biggest death toll on Paris since World War Two. They would be lying. Fifty-four years ago, French police massacred hundreds of Algerians right in the heart of the city -- and then pretended it never happened. France has enslaved much of the world, and clings to its remaining semi-colonies. The government in Paris "has millions of deaths on its ledger." Read More >>

Black Lives Matter: The Citizenship Ideal By Eric Lucas "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,"Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. "Strangely enough I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be"." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read More >>

"Keep It in the Ground" Keeps Up the Pressure By Marcia G. Yerman Stats from the last ten years show that almost 25 percent of American emissions have resulted from the fossil fuels that were burned as a result of federal leases. That number translates to a contribution of 4 percent of global emissions. Read More >>

ISIS survives largely because Turkey allows it to: the evidence By Undercover Info The real frontline confronting ISIS is not US or French bombers (the latter currently targeting Raqqa, a city with 140,000 civilians, who are virtual prisoners of ISIS) but the Kurds of Iraq and northern Syria. Just over a week ago the combined Kurd forces, under the command of the Yezidis, liberated Sinjar from ISIS. For" Read More >>

Edward Snowden meets Arundhati Roy and John Cusack: "He was small and lithe, like a house cat" By Arundhati Roy When I think back on the meeting in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton, the memory that flashes up first in my mind is an image of Daniel Ellsberg. Dan, after all those hours of talking, lying back on the bed, Christlike, with his arms flung open, weeping for what the United States has turned into -- a country whose "best people" must either go to prison or into exile. Read More >>

Pentagon Must Be Thankful for the Turkey Washington Post Gave Its Readers -- FAIR By Jim Naureckas Pentagon Must Be Thankful for the Turkey Washington Post Gave Its Readers -- FAIR Read More >>

Storing solar energy underground for a cloudy day: US electrical grid can't affordably store enough standby electricity  The proposed system relies on the ability to store and retrieve heat, cold and electricity in order to meet demand at all times. Summer heat gathered in rooftop solar collectors could be stored in soil or rocks and used for heating homes in winter. Excess or low-cost electricity could be used to make ice, which would be used for later cooling when the price of electricity is high.  Read More >>

Global warming will be faster than expected -- ScienceDaily Global warming will progress faster than what was previously believed. The reason is that greenhouse gas emissions that arise naturally are also affected by increased temperatures. This has been confirmed in a new study from Linköping University that measures natural methane emissions.  Read More >>

The Story Behind 'Alice's Restaurant': the 50-Year-Old Song that Is Forever Young Its smirkily subversive message finds new adherents every year, while in its familiar glow longtime acquaintances grow young again. Somehow, the song originally titled "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," but known for almost all of its life simply as "Alice's Restaurant," never grows old. Its smirkily subversive message finds new adherents every year, while in its familiar glow longtime acquaintances grow young again. It all started 50 yea ... Read More >>

An Exasperated Chuck Todd Grills Trump: 'You're Running for President! Your Words Matter!' Chuck Todd once again confronted Donald Trump on Meet the Press and appeared to get more and more exasperated with Trump’s false claim that thousands of New Jersey Muslims cheered on 9/11. Todd pointed out that Trump has demanded “pinpoint accuracy” from the media––and at pretty much every rally Trump has called the press “dishonest”––and asked, “Why shouldn’t we demand the same p ... Read More >>

California researcher accidentally discovered solution for color blindness California researcher accidentally discovered solution for color blindness.For Drucker, the glasses have opened up a world where trees are green, flowers come in limitless colors, and a sunset can take your breath away. “I get how amazing they are now, and I’d never really was able to tell that difference before,” he said.  Read More >>

The Serial Swatter The New York Times: Internet trolls have learned to exploit our over-militarized police. It's a crime that's hard to stop — and hard to prosecute.  One victim was Janet, a junior studying elementary education who had gone home for the weekend in a state of nervous collapse. For months, someone going by the name ‘‘Obnoxious’’ had been harassing her online. He had called her cellphone repeatedly and sent her thre ... Read More >>

Here's why the Alleged Planned Parenthood Killer Isn't called a Domestic Terrorist By earl ofari hutchinson The two words that were glaringly missing in the reams of news clips, press reports, and news features on alleged Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Clinic killer, Robert Lewis Dear were "domestic" and "terrorist." His target, the clinic, and his victims were deliberately and calculatedly chosen. Attorney General Loretta Lynch promptly labeled the shooting a "crime against women receiving healthcare services at Planned Parent Read More >>

'We'll go back when war ends' -- refugee who feeds Berlin's homeless A Syrian refugee who caught public attention by virtue of his altruistic help to Berlin’s poorest has urged people not to fear asylum seekers coming from war zones. He told RT’s Ruptly that people just want to live in peace until war in Syria ends.  Alex Assali, lives life ‘paying it forward’, and continues to cook meals for the homeless in Berlin. Spending a large share of his tiny government stipend is how he says ... Read More >>

Capitalism At Work By Paul Craig Roberts In Greece the hardship is imposed from outside the country by the European Union, which Greece foolishly joined, giving away its sovereignty in exchange for austerity. The banksters and their agents in the EU and German governments claim that the Greek people benefitted from the loans and, therefore, are responsible for paying back the loans. But the loans were not made to the Greek people. Read More >>

This Is World War III By Timothy Gatto I first realized that World War III was about to take place just before the Olympic Games in Sochi. The coverage of the games hardly mentioned the sports and competitions, instead, it was a non-stop demonetization of Russia and Vladimir Putin. I heard diatribes about how unprepared the Russians were to host the games, how much money they spent on them and how the games were bound to fail. Read More >>

Putin and Hollande go after Erdogan's racket By Pepe Escobar The main priority -- as reiterated by the declaration of war inbuilt in UNSC resolution 2249 -- is to smash ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. And then the clincher, as Putin and Hollande reached a consensus: there will be a barrage of air strikes against the fuel tanker truck convoys transporting stolen Syrian oil across Daesh-controlled territory on the way to Turkey. Read More >>

Bernie Sanders' Refreshingly Sane Foreign Policy Bernie’s refreshing sanity on foreign policy gets overlooked far too often. This is especially problematic given the most recent Paris attacks and the renewed emphasis on national security. His remarks were what we’ve come to expect from Sanders: honest. Sanders makes clear that he understands both the crisis and the complicated political realities on the ground. “The United States must pursue policies to destroy the brutal and ... Read More >>

Obama Administration Rejects New Settlement Recognition In a press conference this week, the Obama administration rejected Israel’s government request to recognize the construction of new [illegal] settlements in the occupied West Bank. During Kerry’s visit to Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly demanded US recognition of major Israeli illegal settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank in exchange for steps to ease tensions with the Palestinians. The US State D ... Read More >>

"Things" heating up over Turkey's downing Russian jet fighter in Syria By Dave Lefcourt "Things" are heating up over Turkey's downing a Russian jet fighter last Tuesday in Syria. One "thing" seems clear, the attack was a pre-planned attack carried out by Turkey. Another "thing" it's hard to imagine Turkey acted w/out US foreknowledge. One other "thing" seems certain; Russia will take direct action against Turkey. Pres. Putin won't announce his action beforehand but Turkey's provocation won't go unpunished. Read More >>

Planned Parenthood Shooting Suspect Robert Lewis Dear Has Unsettling Past The man who police say killed three people and wounded nine others during a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic has a checkered past that includes allegations of domestic violence and animal cruelty. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, was arrested Friday after an hours-long standoff with police in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is scheduled to appear in court Monday. James Russell, Dear’s former neighbor in a rural area near Black Mountain, North ... Read More >>

'With Us or with the Terrorists': It's Clear Which Side Turkey Is On By James Jatras With this week's shootdown of the Su-24 by Turkey, resulting in the deaths of two Russian personnel, it's clear that Ankara is a de-facto ally of the jihad terror forces in Syria. Also at issue is the degree of American complicity. Read More >>

We're Aren't Paying No Stinking Taxes--Pfizer By Martha Rosenberg You would think the drug company that made the best selling drug in the world--Lipitor--and the blockbuster Viagra would appreciate the country and patients who have been so good to it. You'd be wrong Read More >>

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American Direct Democracy - Bill Of Rights - Article 3 - Civic and Social Rights and Responsibilities Narrowing it down from Natural Rights to Civic and Social Rights. Read More >>

Modi pulls plug on US agenda India has refused visas to LGBT and anti-terrorism heads of the US administration. It wouldn't mind a collective scrutiny but is loathe to submit to a judgment "unilaterally" by one single country. Read More >>

Trump spews racism and anti-Muslim bigotry Billionaire Donald Trump has increased his lead in the polls among likely voters in Republican caucuses and primaries by making appeals to fears of terrorism and advocating a police-state crackdown on Muslim immigrants in the United States. The word that most accurately describes the politics peddled by the billionaire demagogue: fascist. Read More >>

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During Planned Parenthood Shooting, a Scene of Fear and Chaos at Nearby Shopping Center When a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic here on Friday just before noon, he turned a snow-covered shopping center bustling with post-Thanksgiving traffic into a scene of chaos and fear. By the end of the day, three people were dead, nine were injured, and the police had taken the gunman, whom law enforcement officials identified as Robert Lewis Dear, into custody. Mr. Dear, 57, was being held without bond on Saturday at the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center. Jail records said he was scheduled to appear in court on Monday. Mr. Dear, whom the authorities described as 6 feet 4 inches tall and 250 pounds, appeared to have ties to the Carolinas. Police said they have no motive for the shooting.  Read More >>