Archives for General News
July 2015
Friday, July 31:
Congress takes off for the summer, setting up an autumn showdown
Catholic Nun Explains Pro-Life In A Way That Will Stun Many (Especially Republican Lawmakers) (3 comments)
Palestinian Child Killed, Several Others Injured In Fiery West Bank Attack
Jewish Valentine's in Jerusalem (7 comments)
Thursday, July 30:
Man shoots down drone hovering over house (14 comments)
Shell Icebreaker Retreats After Showdown With Protesters
Hillary in Action! (1 comments)
Bernie Sanders' Great Response on Racism and Inequality
Subhankar Banerjee, Fire at World's End
Bernie Sanders Shows Bottom-up Mojo With Biggest Campaign Event of 2016 Elections (79 comments)
Wednesday, July 29:
Afghanistan Says Mullah Omar, Taliban Leader, Died in 2013
Department of Justice indicts U.S. Congressman on corruption charges
Bernie Sanders: GOP Efforts To Defund Planned Parenthood "An Attack On Women's Health" (1 comments)
Daniel Geery reposting public domain from Sander's campaign: Why I Am Running for President by Bernie Sanders
University of Cincinnati police officer who shot man during traffic stop charged with murder (1 comments)
House conservative seeks John Boehner's ouster
Navy probes complaint of cancer "cluster" among Guantanamo workers (1 comments)
Thomas Farrell: *Do Rob Kall and other OEN readers want to support Pope Francis' critique of capitalism and social Darwinism? (2 comments)
The video of police killing of Sam Dubose is apparently so bad, Cincinnati is preparing for riots
After Medicare Celebrations End, Let's Push Harder for Single Payer (1 comments)
Tuesday, July 28:
House GOP Panel Grills John Kerry on Iran Nuclear Deal
Killing of Lions Goes All The Way to the White House (8 comments)
A 1774 Book On Ancient Athens Thomas Jefferson Recommended (6 comments)
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Washington and Tehran Come in From the Cold
Greece Moves Forward In Bailout Talks As Government Comes Under Fire
Pets Weigh In On Trump Hypocrisy (1 comments)
Israel Chides Mike Huckabee for "Gas Chamber" Remark
Varoufakis reveals cloak and dagger 'Plan B' for Greece, awaits treason charges (2 comments)
Monday, July 27:
Boy Scouts End Ban On Gay Adults (1 comments)
Joe Lieberman Presses Chuck Schumer To Oppose Iran Deal (1 comments)
Interview with a Sociopath Part 2: tips on identifying and dealing with Sociopaths, on Evil, Villains and politics (6 comments)
Pollard's Ex-Wife Wants Israel To Hire Top Lawyer for Parole Hearing (1 comments)
Obama on Mike Huckabee's "oven door" comment
As Cuba Escalates Call for Guantanamo, Obama Battles Congress
How Big Corporations Cheat Public Education
Pope Francis' Own Words in Laudato Si' -- Introduction and Linked Chapters (5 comments)
Bernie Sanders is the only 2016 Presidential with Net Favorable Poll Results in both Iowa and New Hampshire (2 comments)
Sunday, July 26:
Trump tops CNN poll of 2016 Republicans, says he leads "movement" (4 comments)
Police disturbed by Oklahoma teen accused of killing family members (1 comments)
Mike Huckabee: Obama Marching Israelis "To The Door Of The Oven" (2 comments)
Pollard To Be Released Nov. 21 Unless Parole Board Objects (1 comments)
Fmr NY Times Sr. Reporter Reams Paper over Hillary Email Story
West hypocritical in fighting terror: Assad (1 comments)
Doctors Protest Big Pharma's Out of Control Greed Which is Bankrupting Ill Patients
Hardly even the minimum (1 comments)
Saturday, July 25:
Story to Watch: The Brits Eye the BRICS (9 comments)
Clinton may testify to Benghazi committee in October
Iran hits out at John Kerry's "empty threats" over nuclear deal
Rick Perry Loses As Court Rules That He Must Face Felony Abuse Of Power Charge (3 comments)
Campus SaVE Act Responds to College Campus Sexual Violence
Mammoths Vanished with Climate Change (2 comments)
Bad Week for NRA (9 comments)
Friday, July 24:
Ted Cruz to GOP leader: You lied (1 comments)
Clinton In Trouble In Colorado, Iowa, Virginia, Quinnipiac University Swing State Poll Finds
Meet the New Development Bank (NDB) -- The new World Bank.
In Political Press, Hillary Clinton Gets Subjected to the Thomas Drake and Jeffrey Sterling Standard
NASA Says Data Reveals an Earth-Like Planet, Kepler 452b
New York Times alters Clinton email story
Towards a Bottom Up World: Something Big and Positive is Happening-The Inevitablility of Peaceful Revoluion (2 comments)
Thursday, July 23:
Bernie Sanders Blasts MSNBC and Comcast For Canceling Ed Schultz
Shooting At Louisiana Theater Leaves 2 Dead, Including Gunman
Thom Hartmann: Bernie Sanders Could Be the Next FDR (video) (1 comments)
Poll Of Three Crucial Swing States Shows Sanders May Be More Electable Than Clinton
Trump threatens third-party run
Mystery Man Found Decomposing In Car Had More Than 1,200 Guns, Cash, Underwater Car
Tomgram: Pepe Escobar, The Pivot to Eurasia (4 comments)
New York Plans $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers (8 comments)
Wednesday, July 22:
Free: Bernie Sanders Bumper Stickers! (2 comments)
Kids Light a Much Needed, Major Legal Fuse [that just may save the human race] (1 comments)
Cruz threatens to tie Iran deal to highway bill (1 comments)
Court Overturns Some Blagojevich Senate-Seat Convictions
Facebook must hand over New York users' info to prosecutors, court rules
Noticed Today: Advantages of Parliamentary Government (5 comments)
"Got Sanctions?" French Dairy Farmers in a Depression (1 comments)
New Yorker Mag: "An Earthquake Will Destroy a Sizable Portion of the Coastal Northwest." (1 comments)
Tuesday, July 21:
Citi ordered to pay $770 million over credit card practices
The "Playboy Philosophy" Is Alive and Well and Spouted by Bill Cosby (38 comments)
Binyamin Netanyahu's household spending under criminal investigation
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Message in a Bottle from My Mother
Guglielmo Tell: Cuba Insists US Drop Blockade Ahead of Embassy Reopening (5 comments)
Natylie Baldwin: It's Time for a New Pan-European Security Treaty
Sanders to push $15 minimum wage bill
World's Ocean Could Rise Higher, Sooner, Faster Than Most Thought Possible (1 comments)
Lobbyists for Monsanto, ExxonMobil Raise Money for Hillary Clinton (6 comments)
Che Guevara in Gaza: Palestine Becomes a Global Cause - Palestine Chronicle
Monday, July 20:
Former senator Saxby Chambliss: US should hang NSA leaker Edward Snowden (10 comments)
Israel, Greece sign status of forces agreement
Menendez lawyers accuse Justice Department of misconduct (1 comments)
Oh frack, now there's radiation in Pennsylvania's water (2 comments)
Poverty's most insidious damage is to a child's brain -- ScienceDaily
Polar bears threatened: Experience limited energy savings in summer -- ScienceDaily
Interstate 10 closed "completely & indefinitely" due to California bridge collapse
Greek banks reopen after three-week shutdown
Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It (6 comments)
Cuban flag flies at embassy in Washington (5 comments)
Murder at Sea: Captured on Video, but Killers Go Free
Syria Update (4 comments)
Sunday, July 19:
Former President George H.W. Bush released from hospital
Obama sends Iran deal to wary Congress, Israel urges rejection
Kerry to Netanyahu: Better nuclear conclusion with Iran "fantasy"
Bernie Sanders Holds Biggest Rally of His Campaign
Saturday, July 18:
Sources: Joe Biden Still Considering A Presidential Campaign
Iranian nuclear deal won't change policy toward US, says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Drones Delay Efforts to Fight North Fire in Southern California
KKK, African-American group plan rallies at South Carolina Capitol
Friday, July 17:
John Kerry: "Not One Meeting" Took Place Where We Didn't Discuss American Captives In Iran
Samantha Powers seeks justice at UN for MH17 victims (4 comments)
Look at the Weapons the Aurora and Chattanooga Killers Used (16 comments)
Thursday, July 16:
Russian-backed rebels ransacking MH17 luggage is sickening
Nancy Pelosi Vows To Push for Iran Deal
Four Marines and gunman killed in Tennessee shooting that officials call "domestic terrorism" (5 comments)
After Obergefell - direction of the arc of history (1 comments)
Sandra Bland death, Texas: Black driver pulled over for lane change dies in custody.
Congressional Democrats Warming Up to Iran Deal
George H.W. Bush Injures Neck In Fall (4 comments)
Tomgram: Max Blumenthal, The Next Gaza War (1 comments)
Texas Republicans Violate The Constitution By Denying Citizenship To US Born Hispanic Children (1 comments)
Poroshenko Submits Plan Granting Autonomy In Eastern Ukraine (5 comments)
Wednesday, July 15:
Greek MPs pass austerity bill as Athens police clash with protesters
Scott of Florida - Doesn't Need Free Speech (4 comments)
Tuesday, July 14:
Has IMF blown up Greece rescue? - BBC News (2 comments)
Yanis Varoufakis opens up about his five month battle to save Greece
Interview with Jill Stein -- Green Party Candidate for President (1 comments)
Oklahoma Republicans compare food-stamp recipients to animals
Republican presidential candidates denounce Iran deal
Obama: Would be irresponsible to walk away from Iran deal
Tomgram: Tim Weiner, The Nixon Legacy (1 comments)
New Book Tracks Myriad Ways Mental Health System Causes Harm, Human Costs (1 comments)
Monday, July 13:
Obama commutes sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders (1 comments)
The Ban On Transgender Individuals In The Military May Soon Be Lifted
Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, No Lone Rangers in Drone Warfare (1 comments)
Sunday, July 12:
NY Teachers Seek Answers From New Education Commissioner (1 comments)
Congress promises rough ride for any nuclear deal with Iran (1 comments)
U.S. Military Drills Stoke Politics Of Suspicion In Texas (3 comments)
Lindsey Graham Admits That Trump Is Telling Hispanics Exactly What Republicans Think Of Them (1 comments)
John Kerry "hopeful" of Iran deal as nuclear talks reach decisive phase (1 comments)
Neo-Nazis Demand Kiev Interior Minister Resign (15 comments)
Youth Jailed at Age 16 for Years with No Trial, Kills Self--Did D.A. Kill Kalief Browder? (1 comments)
Saturday, July 11:
Relishing polls, Trump rails against U.S. presidential race rivals (1 comments)
Israeli Knesset brings back bill to forcibly transfer Palestinian Bedouins
Bob McDonnell Inches Closer To His Prison Cell After Appeals Court Upholds His Conviction
Tunnel Vision (11 comments)
Can You Believe This Gun Carrier Myth? (17 comments)
Friday, July 10:
Psychologists Shielded U.S. Torture Program, Report Finds (2 comments)
Election 2016: Clinton email stumble fuels Dem critics (1 comments)
Phthalates: 'Safer' replacements for harmful chemical in plastics may be as risky to human health -- ScienceDaily (2 comments)
Global sea levels have risen six meters or more with just slight global warming -- ScienceDaily (3 comments)
Greece Submits Reform Proposals To European Creditors (1 comments)
Thursday, July 9:
Jenny Horne: How a descendant of the president of the Confederacy helped vanquish his flag
The Unspeakable German Hypocrisy on Greek Debt (1 comments)
Weekend With Bernie: Rolling Stone's profile of the senator from Vermont.
More of the same in Iran talks: Claims of progress, but no deal (1 comments)
A Judge Just Ruled Against the Most Racist Name in Football
Syria conflict: Number of refugees passes four million
Jeb Bush and his allies amass an unprecedented $114 million haul
Attorney General Loretta Lynch: Federal Benefits Now Available For Same-Sex Couples
Israeli MK recounts his time on Gaza flotilla
Clinton "alarmed" over call for Israel boycott, urges bi-partisan action
South Carolina House Votes to Remove Confederate Flag From Capitol (2 comments)
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, Paradise Lost -- or Found?
Who Remembers Dick Cheney's Bout with the Confederate Flag? (7 comments)
Congressman Peter King Owes an Apology to Muslims (2 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Hillary Clinton Says Bankruptcy not Bailout for Puerto Rico (1 comments)
Wednesday, July 8:
International Court Judge: Dick Cheney Will Face Trial for War Crimes (1 comments)
Welcome to an Extreme, Warming World
Chinese Stock Market is Crashing (3 comments)
NYSE resumes trading after unprecedented shutdown
Jeb Bush Rules Out ''Leniency" for NSA Leaker Edward Snowden
JPMorgan to pay over $125 million to settle U.S. credit card debt probes
Jack Balkwill: We're #1...in the heroin business!: US Lost in Afghanistan, But Did Make Afghanistan World's Top Heroin Exporter
Tuesday, July 7:
Guglielmo Tell: Exxon Mobil Stirs Border Dispute Between Venezuela and Guyana (12 comments)
Bernie Sanders' Plan To Make Solar Power More Accessible
Europe gives Greece 5 days to avoid bankruptcy
Elizabeth Warren allies delay Obama's SEC pick (1 comments)
Hillary Clinton Chides Israel Boycott Effort in Letter to Supporters
Tomgram: Greg Grandin, How Endless War Helps Old Dixie Stay New (2 comments)
Monday, July 6:
In Kiev, "Right Sector" and "Aydar" require immediate offensive in the Donbass
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis resigns
What the Russians Crave: Cheese - The New York Times (1 comments)
Guglielmo Tell: Pope Francis in South America: Minute by Minute Update (2 comments)
Sunday, July 5:
Captured New York fugitive moved to prison from hospital
Early Returns Show Greeks Reject Terms of E.U. Bailout
Greece Just Says NO (21 comments)
Pres. hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz calls for US withdrawal from UN Human Rights Council (1 comments)
Vladimir Putin's Independence Day greeting calls for US-Russia dialogue
Chevron's Lobbyist Now Runs the Congressional Science Committee
An Evening With Arundhati Roy (5 comments)
Saturday, July 4:
U.S. stockpiles powerful bunker-buster bombs in case Iran nuclear talks fail
Draft accords of sanctions relief at Iran nuke talks in hand
Greenhouse gas emissions remain primary threat to polar bears
The oceans can't take any more: Fundamental change in oceans predicted -- ScienceDaily (1 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, What Happened to War?
Putin: We don't expect any change in hostile policies toward Russia
Are Men Falling for the Same Hormone Con as Women? (1 comments)
Bernie Sanders' $15 million fundraising haul is a really big deal (4 comments)
Liberals Are About To Outnumber Conservatives On Social Issues (Chart) (3 comments)
Friday, July 3:
The bin Laden death mythology -- INSURGE intelligence -- Medium (16 comments)
Franklin P. Lamb: "If Da'ish (ISIS) doesn't liberate Palestine who will?" (1 comments)
Follow the Historic Solar Powered Flight Around the World (1 comments)
Varoufakis: Vote NO on Sunday's Referendum AND Stay in the EU (7 comments)
Obama Admin's TPP Trade Officials Received Hefty Bonuses From Big Banks (10 comments)
Greek Bailout Money Went to Banks, Not Greece (2 comments)
Thursday, July 2:
Cruz Blasts Obama for Opening Embassy in Havana Before Jerusalem (2 comments)
Jim Webb announces 2016 presidential bid
'All clear' declared after reports of possible shooter at Navy Yard
Worries of ISIS-Inspired Attacks Cloud July 4 Holiday Weekend (1 comments)
Local government responses to Obergefell v. Hodges
Carl Icahn: A Bubble Is Brewing (3 comments)
The Rabin assassination and government corruption in Israel (1 comments)
Please Drink Milk-- Cry Desperate Milk Marketers (7 comments)
Leaked from TPP: Protecting Big Pharma's Right to Big Profits
Wednesday, July 1:
Natylie Baldwin: Russia, China Expand Win-Win Cooperation to Agriculture
Labor Leader Joins Bernie Sanders' Campaign, Citing Clinton's 'Silence' On Fast Track
Bernie Sanders Blasts Greece's Creditors (1 comments)
First Church of Cannabis Inaugural Service
Number of US homeowners reaches 20-year low (2 comments)
Elizabeth Warren: "I love what Bernie is talking about" (3 comments)
Seventh Church in South to Burn in wake of Charleston shooting
*Failure To Prosecute Bush For War Crimes Threatens World Peace (14 comments)
Tsipras Signals Greece May Accept Bailout Terms
Movement in Maine to Impeach Governor Paul LePage (4 comments)