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The Nerds Weigh In On the DNC 'Data Breach' By Daily Kos This whole thing stinks, it stinks because the co-owner of NGP VAN was Clinton's chief technology officer for her 2008 campaign. Read More >>

The Democratic National Committee Treads on Perilous Ground with Sanders By earl ofari hutchinson The third Democratic presidential candidate's debate got a distant second ranking in headline news to the very public warfare between Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders and the Democratic National Committee. The charges and countercharges between Sanders and the DNC over access to voter data were bad enough. Read More >>

It's Crunch Time for America By Timothy Gatto For years I have been writing about how our government has been hijacked from the people and how special interests have been manipulating the media to fulfill the agenda of the Military Industrial Complex. You can call it the Military Industrial Corporate Complex or any new-age nuance, but it is still the thing that Dwight President David Eisenhower described in his last addresses to the nationm Read More >>

Yemen Crisis: One More Reason to Re-evaluate the Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance By Medea Benjamin Saudi Arabia's involvement in Yemen has only destroyed lives and created a state of total chaos, and the U.S. government is complicit in the carnage. Both nations should, as part of the peace process, be forced to pay reparations for the tremendous damage their bombs have inflicted. The Yemen crisis should also serve as a prime moment for the U.S. to reconsider its alliance the Saudi regime. Read More >>

Documentary on Railroading of Don Siegelman In the Works! By Joan Brunwasser Steve Wimberly, the director, is filming interviews and B-roll right now. He's an Alabaman and knows the territory. The cumulative arc of specifics in Don's case will make very apparent that political persecution can happen and has happened in the United States, and it will happen again if we empower the bullies even further with civic laziness and a Pollyanna press that doesn't tell us the condition we're in. Read More >>

Neocons Object to Syrian Democracy By Robert Parry President Obama has infuriated Official Washington's neocons by accepting the Russian stance that the Syrian people should select their own future leaders through free elections, rather than the neocon insistence on a foreign-imposed "regime change," reports Robert Parry. Read More >>

The Real Obstacle to Syrian Peace By Gareth Porter Despite Russia and the U.S. coming together on Friday to back a U.N.-approved peace plan for Syria, major obstacles remain, including the on-the-ground reality that U.S. "allies," such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have armed and financed powerful jihadist forces that won't compromise, as Gareth Porter explains. Read More >>

Republicans are so bullish on war that 30% would bomb a fictional country By Trevor Timm Republican voters, urged on by the Republican candidates, are now eager to bomb anywhere that has a Muslim-sounding name regardless of whether it comes from a cartoon. While the poll itself may be amusing, it's not exactly surprising given the cartoonish levels of tough-guy militarism that spews from the mouth of every Republican candidate. Read More >>

Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits By Bill Moyers The problem is money. Tons of it. Trump brings ratings and ratings raise advertising revenue. What's more, in an insane election cycle like this one, cash already is pouring in from the production, sale and placement of political TV advertising, cash that also makes television executives and political strategists wealthy. Read More >>

Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) Is HILARIOUS in Network Interview By you tube Carrie Fisher is so funny, she has her host in stitches. Really, really funny, full of gems. Read More >>

War and peace: Congress must exercise its Constitutional role By Robert Weiner As Congress now considers the pros and cons of new military action against ISIS in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, both the House and Senate are reluctant to pass any war authorization despite the Constitution's requirement to do so. Not adhering to this process set forth by the Constitution can result in colossal failure. History does repeat itself. Read More >>

The Learning Curve of the LAUSD Shutdown By Carl Petersen Thankfully, the threat against the Los Angeles Unified School District proved to be a hoax. What can be learned from the experience? Read More >>

Big Pharma forces delay of CDC efforts to regulate painkiller prescriptions A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was on track to finalize new prescribing guidelines for opioid painkillers in January. The guidelines — though not binding — would be the strongest government effort yet to reverse the rise in de... Read More >>

Sanders wins small donors, Trump wins endorsement from Putin By Brent Budowsky While Sanders is clearly an underdog in the campaign for the Democratic nomination and has been subject to a virtual media blackout in television coverage of the campaign -- compared to the media's almost complete obsession to the daily doings of Trump -- it would be a huge mistake to count Sanders out in the campaign. Read More >>

US Stalling Release Of Thousands Of Torture Photos Worse Than Abu Ghraib Next month, the U.S. government will return to court again to prevent the release of thousands of photos of military personnel torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib and other sites in Iraq and Afghanistan that have been described as more horrific than the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos. It’s the latest round in a protracted legal battle that began in 2004 when the American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit demanding the release of some 2,... Read More >>

Former drug executive Martin Shkreli calls fraud allegations "baseless" Martin Shkreli, who is charged with securities fraud and conspiracy, having been arrested on Thursday, used Twitter on Saturday to say: “I am confident I will prevail. The allegations against me are baseless and without merit.” The 32-year-old former hedge fund manager pleaded not guilty on Thursday in Brooklyn federal court and was released on $5m bail. After he was released, he tweeted: “Glad to be home. Thanks for the suppor... Read More >>

A Healthy Planet Awaits Us, If We Open Our Eyes By Burl Hall According to many biologists and earth scientists, we are witnessing the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We are the root cause of this mess due to our technology and life styles! Is this a doom and gloom prediction? What do we do as individuals, families and communities to turn this around? Hope lies in the reader herself. Are you up to the challenge? Personally, I have faith in you! Read More >>

Judge rejects state's arguments to toss case: Mumia Gets Fed Court Hearing Seeking Order to Treat His Hep-C Infection By Dave Lindorff Federal judge knocks down PA Dept. of Corrections effort to block injunction hearing by Mumia Abu-Jamal to force state to treat his raging Hep-C infection in hearing to continue next week, Read More >>

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War On Terror Has Created More Terrorism Has the U.S.'s anti-terrorism program worked? Nope. In fact, terrorism has dramatically increased since the war began. Read More >>

The High Cost of Ignoring Bernie Sanders' Policies: Racial Divisiveness and Worse The media has given Bernie Sanders a fraction of the time they've devoted to Donald Trump, during months of hate-filled speech by the latter. They've contributed to an environment where the political climate is focused on targeting minorities vs. the restoring justice and peace as powerfully advocated by Bernie Sanders. Read More >>

New American Bill of Rights - Article 6 - The Rights and Responsibilties Of Capitalism This Right is our call to capitalism to become more and better and then lead the way to our best destiny. Read More >>

Today's Media: Often Pandering to Bias and Ignorance Texas holds a tremendous power over the publishing industry-- do what the state school board wishes, and you have a best-seller; publish the truth, and you are closed out. Read More >>

Who's Spoiling Now? The Obama Factor in Undermining Sanders' Superior Electability (Series, PART 2) Obama is a factor in the 2016 election both because of the disputed reason for disappointing his former supporters, and because he is responsible for the anti-Sanders DNC leadership who he should immediately replace.The good news is that if Independents will hold their nose and participate in the Democratic primary process Sanders will be the next president. Read More >>

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Theatre of the absurd in Af-Pak region (Part --II) In this second and concluding part, the author points out that the Af-Pak region is home to an enterprise that has the potential of creating a Caliphate, which is the clamour of the Daesh, Taliban, Hizb-ut-Tahrir, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and a host of other Islamist groups that have strong support base in Pakistan. Read More >>

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Bernie Sanders Says What Republican Cowards Won't: Trump Is A Pathological Liar During an interview on ABC’s This Week, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had the guts to do what Republicans are too afraid to do. Sanders called Donald Trump a pathological liar. Trump is winning the Republican primary because his opponents are too afraid alienating his voters to call him out. The fact that Sanders called him out so easily demonstrates that Donald Trump will be in for a very rude awakening if he wins the Republican nomination. Democrats aren’t afraid of Trump, and they will rip him to shreds if he is at the top of the Republican ticket.  Read More >>

Democratic National Committee Restores Bernie Sanders' Access To Voter Data The Democratic National Committee agreed Friday night to reinstate Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) presidential campaign's access to its voter database, which had been suspended following a data breach. The DNC blocked Sanders' access to the data Friday morning, after Sanders campaign staffers wrongly accessed voter information from rival Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday. Sanders' campaign claimed that the DNC "capitulated" as a deadline neared for a court hearing on a request for an emergency injunction that the Sanders campaign sought after suing the DNC in federal court Friday afternoon. Sanders' lawsuit sought the "immediate restoration" of the campaign's access to the database, arguing that the campaign would lose roughly $600,000 a day in donations without it. The campaign said in a statement that its access to the database should be restored by Saturday morning.  Read More >>

New York Times public editor admits "Faulty Times Article" Systemic Change Needed After Faulty Times Article, says New York Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan. "Ms. Malik had made little effort to hide it, that she talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad.  She said she supported it. And she said she wanted to be a part of it."...NYT December 12, 2015[The false story was then picked up by other main stream media]...the story set fire to the news system. All sorts of follow-up reports surfaced. And straight into the political arena it went.” It wasn’t long before Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz was using it to bash Democrats.....  Read More >>

30% of GOP Voters Support Bombing Agrabah, the Fictional Country in 'Aladdin' A Public Policy Poll released Dec. 18 asked GOP primary voters, among other things, if they would support bombing Agrabah, the fictional country from the 1993 Disney film, "Aladdin." Thirty percent said "yes" while only 13 percent of Republicans oppose bombing a nation that doesn't exist, and therefore could not be a threat to anyone in this dimension, let alone the U.S. To be fair, 19 percent of Democrats said they would favor bombing Agrabah, Buzzfeed reports.  Read More >>

China, Russia Sign Over 30 Deals During Medvedev Visit China and Russia signed more than 30 cooperation documents in energy, investment, finance, high technology and other areas during the 20th China-Russia Prime Ministers' Regular Meeting on Thursday.  Energy giants Sinopec and Rosneft signed an MOU on oil and gas projects in eastern Siberia while CNPC and Gazprom inked an agreement on the design and construction of the cross-border section of China-Russia east-route natural gas pipeline. China Development Bank and Russia's state corporation Vnesheconombank (VEB) also signed an agreement on a 10 billion yuan (1.56 billion U.S. dollars) loan.  Read More >>

Iraq urges U.N. council to demand immediate Turkish troop withdrawal Iraq appealed to the United Nations Security Council on Friday to demand an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Turkish troops from northern Iraq, calling Turkey's military incursion a "flagrant violation" of international law."We call on the U.N. Security Council to demand that Turkey withdraw its forces immediately"..............  Read More >>

DNC to Restore Voter Database to Sanders Campaign Bernie Sanders’ grassroots base has just won a major victory in the battle with the Democratic National Committee. The DNC has bowed to demands to give access to the national voter database back to the Sanders campaign. According to a tweet from New York Times reporter Nick Corasaniti, the DNC will restore the Sanders campaign’s database access on Saturday morning: "The progressive outrage over the DNC’s decision dominated national news coverage from Friday morning to late evening. A MoveOn petition launched early Friday morning gained over 250,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. A similar petition by Robert Reich — former Secretary of Labor for the Bill Clinton White House — also went viral. Bernie Sanders’ campaign also launched a petition demanding the DNC restore access to the voter file, in addition to taking the DNC to court over the matter."  Read More >>