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NATO Defending Turkey -- ISIS Oil Trade By Michael Collins Russia attacks ISIS. Turkey trades oil with ISIS. NATO announces plans to defend Turkey's southern border against ... Russia. Do our rulers think we're idiots? Read More >>

Chicago Has Been Witholding Secret Dash-Cam Video of Another Police Murder By Rob Kall A week before Laquan McDonald was murdered by Chicago police officer who fired 16 rounds into him on a video hidden for over a year, another Chicago police officer appears to have killed another victim, Ronald Johnson, in very similar style. And there's a dash-cam video which captured that shooting, which the Chicago police department, and assumingly, mayor Rahm Emanuel kept secret for that murder as well. Read More >>

Cover-up of a Police Murder Requires Resignation of Chicago Mayor Emanuel By Linn Washington Evidence surrounding the fatal October 2014 shooting of a black teen by a white policeman in Chicago indicates that authorities in Chicago from police officers to top city officials engaged in a cover-up. That cover-up -- rather bungling or calculated -- demands the resignations of Chicago's mayor and top prosecutor. Read More >>

Bottom-up Tracking the San Bernardino Shooting Using Twitter Instead of TV By Rob Kall This morning, I woke up wanting to know about what the story was with the San Bernardino shooting. My CNN app had floated a message that they had an article about the shooters. It wasn't very helpful. So I did as I usually do and went to Twitter. Read More >>

Bernie Sanders' Biggest Enemy By Michael Blecher This article discusses how political apathy is the biggest problem facing the Bernie Sanders campaign. It urges more people to do more than just talking about Bernie Sanders on Facebook. Read More >>

How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence Over the course of the last four or so weeks, the media has paid quite a Read More >>

Obama Ignores Russian Terror Victims By Robert Parry President Obama has displayed a stunning lack of sympathy for the Russian civilians killed in an ISIS plane bombing in Egypt and for two Russian military men slain as victims of U.S. weapons systems in Syria, putting insults toward President Putin ahead of human decency, writes Robert Parry. Read More >>

EU Rewards Turkish State Terrorism By Finian Cunningham This crass move by Brussels will serve to embolden the Ankara regime in its criminal policy of fuelling regime change in Syria. It will also deepen the EU's complicity in a criminal war of aggression on Syria. While European citizens are suffering economic austerity, soaring poverty and unemployment their governments see fit to indulge the Ankara regime with 3 billion ($3.4 billion). Read More >>

An Accountability Moment for Chicago By John Nichols No matter how things play out for Mayor Emanuel in the current crisis, Illinois officials should recognize the inadequacy of existing election laws and provide Illinoisans with a clearly defined power (similar to that which is afforded citizens in states across the country) to recall state, county, and local elected officials--including the mayor of Chicago. Read More >>

The Media and the Right on the Planned Parenthood Attack: White Terrorism Falsehoods? It's bleak out there for the right By Veena Trehan The media and right have swung into White Terrorism Falsehoods (puzzlement and sadness response)-- WTF (posr) for short -- with the killing of three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic. They've spent days saying how his motive could not be determined and well ... just being sad ... because this is, after all, a right wing terrorist. It's time for some serious discussion on the use of terrorism and how we solve it at home. Read More >>

Donald Trump doesn't know how capital flows By Mark Hazlitt Donald Trump tells us that China - not the government in Washington - is the biggest "abuser" of the United States. Pursuant to Trump, the most devastating weapon China has in its arsenal is currency manipulation. In other words, pursuant to Trump, renminbi devaluation is tantamount to an attack on the United States. But is Donald Trump right? Is the Sinophobia justified? Read More >>

When the Man on Death Row is Also a Victim By C. Hwang This week, Mother Jones published a must-read story on Terry Williams, a Pennsylvania prisoner sentenced to death for killing a man who sexually abused him when Mr. Williams was a young teen. Mr. Williams was sent to death row after prosecutors withheld information, which prevented the jury from knowing about the relationship. Read More >>

China to build "Higgs factory" twice the size of Cern's Large Hadron Collider China is planning to enter the experimental physics super leagues  Read More >>

Camp Manitowa Offers Retreats for Ferguson Kids By Joan Brunwasser Camp Manitowa started #CampFerguson fall, 2014 as a response to the unrest and school closings following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. We felt camp would be an ideal place for kids to come for a respite at the time, as well as a place where they could gain new skills and strengthen relationships with their peers. We've hosted five different retreats and served over 150 kids.We would love to expand these. Read More >>

Yeb Sano and the Fast for the Climate Movement at COP21 By EcoWatch  Last night's event was the culmination of a one-day fast where thousands of people from more than 90 countries fasted in solidarity with vulnerable people and to call for a just transition toward a safe climate future. The purpose of the evening event was to break the fast and join together to celebrate unity across faiths, cultures and continents as well as civil society's global leadership toward climate action. Read More >>

Exxon Targets Journalists Who Exposed Massive Climate Cover Up By Common Dreams ExxonMobil has launched a full-throttled "bully" campaign against the graduate students who recently unmasked its scandalous climate change cover-up threatening to pull funds from the university that helped bring to light its dangerous and "most consequential" lies. Read More >>

Turning the Page On Hatred and Commercial Christmas "CaCa" By Dr. Cheryl Pappas Listen carefully and you will hear more and more people turning away from hatred, and specifically Republican rhetorical insanity. This political and commercial holiday season is turning out to be a surprising one. Read More >>

7 Reasons Why Trump Will Win By Nicco Mele I called it several weeks ago but here it is in writing: Donald Trump will win Iowa & New Hampshire. Here are the top seven reasons why: Read More >>

Please Sign White House Petition to LIST ERDOGAN'S TURKEY AS STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM; VOID U.S. ALLIANCE WITH TURKEY By James Jatras A petition has just been posted on the White House site urging President Obama to list President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey as a State Sponsor of Terrorism and to void America's alliance with Turkey via NATO. Read More >>

UK Airstrikes in Syria:a display of National Virility By Mark Maguire Mark John Maguire argues that the UK's decision to join airstrikes against Syria is counterproductive, without moral justification and represents an attempt to stem its loss of international status as a world power. Read More >>

Supporters of Syria Airstrikes need some education IS/Daesh thrives on sectarian division and conflict. The US and the UK need  Read More >>

Attackers slay 14 in Calif. in deadliest mass shooting since Sandy Hook As many as three gun-wielding ­assailants opened fire on a holiday party for county employees Wednesday, killing 14 people in the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre three years ago this month. Hours after the shooting, law enforcement officials said two attackers — a man and a woman, neither identified by name — had been killed in a police shootout several miles from the s ... Read More >>

"Have You Got Any News of the Iceberg?" By James Wall Enter the latest chapter of this false flag move: blaming social media for stirring the emotions of Palestine's children. Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely met with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and with Juniper Downes, Director of Public Policy at Google at the company's Silicon Valley offices. Richard Silverstein reminds us, "Google doesn't cause murder. Israel does." Read More >>

More troops in Iraq will sow the exact same chaos as America's Libya folly By Trevor Timm In Syria, we're fighting both sides of a civil war, not just one -- with no one even coming close to explaining what the end game looks like, and how we avoid making the situation even worse than it already is. Our military interventions have created the generation of terrorists that fight us now. As we gear up for the second or third generation of creating this same problem, when will the cycle stop? Read More >>

Sorry, Ted Cruz: Women Don't Want Your "Rubbers" Senator Ted Cruz seems a little overexcited about his latest surge in the surreal Republican primary campaign. He’s now running second in Iowa, just behind Donald Trump, and he’s tied with Ben Carson for third in the latest Quinnipiac poll. Asked a question about contraception at an Iowa town-hall meeting. “I have never met anybody, any conservative who wants to ban contraceptives,” he began, calling the notion a “m ... Read More >>

Why a poor Southern city's only hope was a Chinese company moving in How the arrival of a Chinese factory in rural Alabama raised hopes for economic renewal but ended up disappointing locals.   The state gave large tax breaks and other benefits to lure the Chinese company, which promised wages $15 to $17 dollars an hour. In fact, wages were significantly lower and many workers struggled to survive.  The area is impoverished and poorly educated.  Republican policies perpetuate that poverty by u ... Read More >>

John McCain Reluctantly Supports Obamacare Repeal Bill That Guts Medicaid In His State A Republican bill to repeal Obamacare is putting several senators who are up for re-election in a difficult bind. Forced to choose between backing legislation that satisfies the longstanding GOP goal of ending the law and maintaining health care coverage for their constituents, these senators are, so far, going with the former. Read More >>

Russia presents proof of Turkey's role in ISIS oil trade RT just broke the story of the year - proof that the Turkish government is knee deep in the illegal oil trade that supports ISIS activities to the tune of around $100 million a month.  Russian President Vladamir Putin said the unmentionable for NATO nations - the government of Turkish strong man Recep Tayyip Erdogan allows the import of ISIS oil from occupied Syria and Iraq.  Putin let this information out incrementally over the past t ... Read More >>

Canada's International Degeneracy By Mark Taliano Canada supports international lawlessness, disguised beneath NATO's banner of "respectability". Read More >>

War with Russia or with ISIS: What ever happened to peace? By David Swanson According to the Nation magazine and many others, there are two options available to the U.S. government. One is increased hostility perhaps leading to nuclear war with Russia. The other is a joint U.S.-Russia-and-others war on ISIS. Read More >>

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Direct Democracy - Bill Of Rights - Article 4 - Economic Rights and Responsibilities It is very important that We take a good look at Our Economic Rights too. Read More >>

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Pro-Democracy Group Warns of Secret Right-Wing Push to Rewrite Constitution Under the radar of corporate media and general public, a "dangerous proposal" is bubbling up in state legislatures throughout the country....The threat comes in the form of a constitutional convention, assembled under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, one of several mechanisms that enables future amendments. Article V requires Congress to call such a gathering once 34 state legislatures submit petitions to do so; new constitutional amendments agreed to at the confab would then be sent back to the states for ratification. Twenty-seven state legislatures have already passed resolutions calling for a convention under the guise of balancing the federal budget, according to Common Cause. Action in just seven more would force Congress to comply.  Read More >>

San Bernardino shooting: police confirm fatalities Police respond to active shooter situation in southern California involving ‘one to three possible suspects’ as fire department tweets report of as many as 20 victims; schools throughout the San Bernardino area, more than 70 in the district, have been locked down as a precaution......  Read More >>

Glenn Beck: Maybe Trump's a "Spoiler" to Help Hillary Win On his radio show Tuesday, Glenn Beck suggested Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a “spoiler” who will receive a “massive paycheck” if Hillary Clinton wins the White House in 2016. “What are the odds that he is a spoiler? What are the odds that he got into this because he’s friends with the Clintons and he’ll get massive payback?” Beck asked, suggesting Clinton could become president if Trump runs as a third party candidate. “Do you know the favor they’re going to owe him?” he added.  Read More >>