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Turkey: Already preparing for the playoffs By Jacques Couvas Analysis of the general elections of June 7 2015 in Turkey and outlook for further developments, in light of lack of majority by any party. Read More >>

Slave or Rebel? Ten Principles for Escaping the Matrix and Standing Up to Tyranny By John Whitehead The more things change, the more they stay the same. It's a shell game intended to keep us focused on and distracted by all of the politically expedient things that are being said--about militarized police, surveillance, and government corruption--while the government continues to frogmarch us down the road toward outright tyranny. Read More >>

10 Reasons the TPP Is Not a 'Progressive' Trade Agreement By Ralph Nader History shows the very opposite of progress when it comes to these democratic sovereignty-shredding and job-exporting corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is referring to fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global corporations. Read More >>

Please Take Our Bone Drugs Begs Big Pharma! By Martha Rosenberg Why are bone drugs that cause fractures still marketed and sold? Why has no one gone to jail? Read More >>

Fear and Learning in Kabul By Kathy Kelly Essentially, when Voices members go to Kabul, our "work" is to listen to and learn from our hosts and take back their stories of war to the relatively peaceful lands whose actions had brought that war down upon them. Read More >>

The FIFA Conundrum By Michael Roberts After Decades Of Endemic And Systemic Corruption, Kickbacks And Nepotism Read More >>

The Skirmish in the Spratlys: Beating Uncle Sam at His Own Game By Mike Whitney The United States does not want a war with China. What Washington wants is to be the dominant player in this century's most promising and prosperous market, Asia. But China's meteoric growth has put Washington's plan at risk, which is why Obama is wheeling out the heavy artillery. Read More >>

Hail Mary By Kathy Malloy There is a last-ditch effort being made by those good Christian Republicans to prevent gay folk from having equal rights. The Supreme Court will soon announce its ruling on marriage equality, and the GOP wants to make sure they decide in favor of the haters, not the lovers. Read More >>

Tomgram: Alfred McCoy. Washington's Great Game and Why It's Failing By Tom Engelhardt For even the greatest of empires, geography is often destiny. You wouldn't know it in Washington, though. America's political, national security, and foreign policy elites continue to ignore the basics of geopolitics that have shaped the fate of world empires for the past 500 years. Read More >>

Wisconsin Straw Poll: Clinton 49 Percent, Sanders 41 Percent By John Nichols Since Sanders formally launched his campaign late last month with a Burlington, Vermont, event that drew an estimated 5,000 enthusiasts, the senator has attracted large crowds in New Hampshire, Iowa, and Minnesota. Most polls now have him running second to Clinton. Read More >>

World Oceans Day 2015: Tackling Marine Debris -- Success Stories Celebrating World Oceans Day. Read More >>

Scientists See Ripples of a Particle-Separating Wave In Primordial Plasma Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physics and the building blocks of matter at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, have new evidence for what's called a "chiral magnetic wave" rippling through the soup of quark-gluon plasma created in RHIC's energetic particle smashups. "This 'chiral separation' acts like a seed that, in turn, causes particles with different charges to separate," Gang said. "That triggers even more chiral separation, and more charge separation, and so on--with the two effects building on one another like a wave, hence the name 'chiral magnetic wave.' In the end, what you see is that these two effects together will push more negative particles into the equator and the positive particles to the poles." Read More >>

Vincent Bugliosi, Prosecutor in Manson Trial, Dies at 80 Vincent Bugliosi, a prosecutor who parlayed his handling of the Charles Manson trial into a career as a bestselling author, has died, his son said Monday night. He was 80 years old. Bugliosi Jr. said his father had "an unflagging dedication to justice" in everything he did. As an author, Bugliosi Sr. was best known for "Helter Skelter," which was his account of the Manson Family and the killings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others by followers of the cult leader, Charles Manson. Read More >>

John Brennan goes to Israel: CIA director reportedly gave secret briefing to Israeli intelligence officials on Iran deal CIA director John Brennan traveled to Israel in secret last week to brief Mossad intelligence officials on "the agreement developing between Iran and the world powers on Tehran's nuclear program and Iran's involvement in terror and subversive activities throughout the Middle East," according to a report Tuesday in Haaretz. The Haaretz story on Brennan's secret briefing comes in the middle of a public visit to Israel by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, who arrived Monday in Tel Aviv for meetings that, in addition to addressing concerns about Iran's nuclear capabilities, will reportedly include "discussions of an increase in American military aid to Israel." Read More >>

Massive Fire at Fuel Storage Center New Kiev Rt is reporting a humouongous fire among fuel tanks near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. No indication as yet as to how the fire started, but whether an accident or sabotage, time will tell. Will Russia br blamed, as it was over the downing of MH17? Read More >>

How Congress Double-Crossed Taxpayers and Created a Corrupt Private Prison Empire The Mount Everest revenue growth in the private-prison industry unequivocally represents everything that's wrong with our pay-to-play government. These prison firms, with the help of political ties forged through campaign donations and armies of lobbyists, can regularly snag windfalls in government contracts and unduly expand their businesses by incarcerating more people for a greater amount of time. Read More >>

Putin in Lengthy Interview with Center-right Italian Daily In a wide-ranging interview prior to the opening of a big trade fair in Milan, Vladimir Putin answers questions for one of Iatly's oldest and most respected daily newspapers that cannot be accused of a pro-Russian bias. Some answers will surprise the most skeptical. Read More >>

Middle East Plots By Conn Hallinan Why is the Israeli military talking about a war with Lebanon? The border is quiet. There have been a few incidents, but nothing major. Hezbollah has made it clear that it has no intention of starting a war, though it warns Tel Aviv that it's quite capable of fighting one. The most likely answer is that the Israelis are coordinating their actions with Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Read More >>

Netanyahu accuses world of hypocrisy for silence regarding rocket fire from Gaza Israel's prime minister on Sunday slammed the international community's silence over recent rocket attacks from Gaza and warned that a strong reprisal could be forthcoming. Benjamin Netanyahu said he hasn't heard a word of condemnation from the world about three rocket attacks from Gaza over the past two weeks. The rockets did not cause any injury or harm but disrupted the quiet in southern Israel that has mostly prevailed since last summer's war between Hamas and Israel. "It will be interesting to see if this silence continues when we use all our strength in exercising our right to defend ourselves," Netanyahu said at his weekly Cabinet meeting. "It should be clear: the hypocrisy that is sweeping the world will not chain our hands from defending the citizens of Israel." The Israeli leader has condemned recently what he describes as "international campaign to blacken (Israel's) name." Read More >>

The Israeli-Saudi Alliance -- Does it go deeper than a mutual antipathy to Iran? By Justin Raimondo One wonders about the history of the Israeli-Saudi alliance. Its provenance, we are told, is of relatively recent vintage. But how far back does it really go? The alleged menace of Iran is said to bring these two theocracies into strategic alignment, but there is some evidence that is not the whole of it. Read More >>

Tomgram: Gottesdiener and Garcia, How to Dismantle This Country By Tom Engelhardt Something is rotten in the state of Michigan. Read More >>

Hillary Doesn't Have to Apologize for Bill's Alleged Racial Sins By earl ofari hutchinson Just what exactly did Bill Clinton say and do that was so racially terrible in the run-up to the infamous pivotal 2008 Democratic presidential contest in South Carolina? It's worth revisiting only because Bill's action has dogged Hillary Clinton for virtually every waking moment in the days after she flamed out to her then rival Barack Obama. And it still does. That's so much the case that she still seems required to flagellat Read More >>

A View From the Other 96% By David Swanson Exposing Lies of Empire by Andre Vltchek is an 800-page tour of the world between 2012 and 2015 without a Western tour guide. It ought to make you spitting-mad furious, then grateful for the enlightenment, and then ready to get to work. Read More >>

Anticipatory Bribery By Robert Reich Former government officials, including members of Congress, shouldn't be able to lobby or take jobs in industries over which they had some oversight, for at least three years after leaving office. Once they declare, even their spouses should desist from collecting big bucks that could look like anticipatory bribes. Read More >>

Cold War II to McCarthyism II By Robert Parry With Cold War II in full swing, the New York Times is dusting off what might be called McCarthyism II, the suggestion that anyone who doesn't get in line with U.S. propaganda must be working for Moscow, reports Robert Parry. Read More >>

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Third American Constitution - Direct Democracy - Installment 18 - Article 2 - Section 2,3,4- Items 1 thru State Of The Union. Assignments of official positions. More Democratic over control of The True American Citizen. The role of the "Seven Presidential Seats" in solving disagreements between the Three Governance Houses. More "impeachment" considerations. Read More >>

Will Surging 'Sharing Economy' Drive Bottom-up Disruptions? Whatever the imprint, dramatic breakthroughs in peer-to-peer exchanges are booming, posing large-scale challenges to topdown, over-determined corporatism. Not so much to private property, as every shareable "asset" has an owner. Overall, we're talking new livelihoods and looming horizons, especially with compelling pathways towards sharing general productivity across a far more equitable commons. Read More >>

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Dear America: Please Get Your Head Out of Your Ass About Bernie Sanders There's only one candidate who so far has been either ignored or ridiculed by the majority of the American media during his entire campaign. He is a candidate with firm values and authentic determination. That candidate's name is Bernie Sanders -- and he could, and should, be the 45th President of the United States of America. Read More >>

At Summit, Obama Calls For Tough Stance Against Russia As President Barack Obama went into a summit of world leaders in the Alps on Sunday, he made a promise over beer and wurst with Bavarian villagers to take a tough stance against Russian intervention in neighboring territories. One of his top priorities at the summit, he told hundreds of people in a town square in Germany, is "standing up to Russian aggression in Ukraine." In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Putin seemed to thumb his nose at the concerns of the U.S. and European allies, saying that "only an insane person ... an imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO." Read More >>

Supreme Court says president's powers prevail on foreign borders The Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional Monday a congressional attempt to allow Americans born in the contested city of Jerusalem to list Israel as their birthplace on passports, affirming the principle that the president alone has the power to recognize foreign nations. The divided court treaded carefully in dealing with the "delicate subject" that is Jerusalem's sovereignty, as well as previously unsettled disputes between presidents and Congress about the conduct of foreign policy. But a majority of the court came down decisively on the side of the executive branch when the question is the recognition of foreign countries and their territorial boundaries. Read More >>

RANKED: The 16 Republicans who think they can be president Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) became the latest notable GOP candidate to throw his hat into the presidential contest on Thursday. He is far from alone. The GOP's 2016 field for the White House appears likely to be one of the most robust in modern history. There could be as many as 15 current and former senators, governors, and major business leaders in the race by this summer. However, there's not enough room for all of them. Read More >>

World Cup for Russia and Qatar Could Be Cancelled Russia and Qatar could lose their World Cup hosting rights if proof of bribery emerges, a leading FFIFA official said Sunday. the FBI confirmed last week it will extend its investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA to include how Russia and Qatar gained their hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, respectively. Russia and Qatar have denied any wrongdoing in their bidding processes. Read More >>

Federal Court Offers Ray Of Hope To Obama's Immigration Programs A string of bad luck for immigrants -- and for the Obama Administration -- might be coming to an end. On Thursday, a federal appeals court indicated that it is not bound by a previous decision that would make it very difficult for the administration to prevail in litigation challenging its immigration policies were this decision actually binding upon the court. Last November, President Obama announced several changes to federal immigration policy that could enable approximately 4.9 million undocumented immigrants to temporarily remain in the country. Read More >>