Archives for General News
January 2016
Sunday, January 31:
No more punishment for disgraced Gen. Petraeus, CIA chief who leaked state secrets (2 comments)
FBI negotiates with defiant Oregon refuge holdouts
Donald Trump Promises He'll "Work Something Out" On Health Care (1 comments)
How Big Pharma Fosters 17,000 Opioid Deaths a Year (4 comments)
U.S. warship sails near island claimed by China in South China Sea (1 comments)
Ammon Bundy issues new call for last occupiers to leave Oregon refuge
Saturday, January 30:
Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over (1 comments)
AG's office investigating complaints against Annette Smith, anti-wind advocate (3 comments)
Nation Magazine Backing For Sanders Timely
Susan Lee Schwartz: Controversial plan to allow for-profit charter school takeovers of low-performing NC schools re-emerges (1 comments)
Announcing the Bank Whistleblowers' Group's Initial Proposals (3 comments)
Friday, January 29:
One of Three Escaped California Jail Inmates Surrenders (1 comments)
The State Department: Hillary Clinton's email correspondence contained "top secret" material
Kids' lead levels high in many Michigan cities (1 comments)
Syrian opposition to go to Geneva as peace talks open
"My Putin, What Big Teeth You Have!" -- Night Wolves Video (5 comments)
Thursday, January 28:
What Putin Thinks, in His Own Words, About Communism, Lenin and the Role of the State (9 comments)
The Washington Post Just Published Probably the Most Inaccurate Op-Ed on Bernie's Campaign So Far (1 comments)
Washington's Softening Stance on Assad Worries Hardline Syrian Opposition
Bernie Sanders' Health Report-- the actual letter (2 comments)
McCain and Top Dem Warn Pentagon: Petraeus Demotion May Be Illegal
Social Democracy for Dummies (3 comments)
Wednesday, January 27:
After Bundy Arrest, Remaining Militia Says They Will Continue Occupation And Are Prepared To Die
Who Says These Drugs Are Safe? Big Pharma (5 comments)
US electricity could be powered mostly by the sun and wind by 2030: Rapid, affordable energy transformation possible (2 comments)
Tuesday, January 26:
Oregon Occupation Leaders Ammon and Ryan Bundy Arrested, One Dead
Democratic Voters Rejoice As Party Adds Another Presidential Debate
How David Petraeus avoided felony charges and possible prison time
Obama bans solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons
Man arrested after saying he wanted to join Oregon militia to kill federal agents
Obama to propose expanding retirement plans
China threatens sanctions against U.S. companies: Is this the future?
Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, How to Avert Real Change in Election 2016 (1 comments)
Monday, January 25:
Elizabeth Warren Sinks Clinton's Hopes for Endorsement (3 comments)
Militia Says It Will Take Up Arms To Defend Flint If Necessary (1 comments)
East Coast Blizzard: Ice Danger on Roads as Cities Dig Out From Snow
Grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood indicts anti-abortion activists instead
Ben & Jerry's co-founder creates Bernie Sanders ice cream
AP Investigation: Feds' Failures Imperil Migrant Children
Even with treatment for Hepatitis C, Abu-Jamal's health not guaranteed (1 comments)
Oregon standoff: Grant County sheriff urges release of Hammonds
Who is a Terrorist in Syria? (7 comments)
The Empire Files: Examining the Syrian War Chessboard (10 comments)
A Meaningful Roadmap for Syria
Sunday, January 24:
Syrian official: State will make no concessions during talks
Clinton allies try to discredit Sanders on women's issues. Will it stick?
UK doctors call for removal of Israel from World Medical Association
NV Politician Endorses Sanders, Just Weeks Before Feb 20 Caucus
Susan Lee Schwartz: A Canadian Threat to Alaskan Fishing - (1 comments)
Haiti's Political and Electoral Crisis Worsens (16 comments)
Saturday, January 23:
Media Shrugs as National 'March for Bernie' Draws Thousands (23 comments)
Monster Snowstorm Leaves At Least 17 Dead, Paralyzes East Coast (2 comments)
Iowa's Des Moines Register endorses Clinton, Rubio
Assange To Be Quizzed Over Sex Assault Claims (1 comments)
Evo Morales celebrates 10 years as Bolivia's 'indigenous socialist' president (3 comments)
Our Syria Contact Dots the Madaya I's
The Tide Is Turning in 2016. Profound Geopolitical and Economic Changes are Occurring
Art Garfunkel: Why I Approved Bernie Sanders' Use of 'America' (7 comments)
Bank Debt Worries Overhang Markets: FDIC's Hoenig Speaks Out
Linn Washington, jr.: Lunacy trumps logic: Brash Trump Bashed for Bigotry in UK Parliament (1 comments)
Obama's First Drone Kill....Oops
Friday, January 22:
Human Rights in Ukraine after the Euromaidan (1 comments)
Cartoon Humor--Does The Market Have a Mind of Its Own?
Is European Court of Human Rights Caving to Political Pressure on MH17 Case? (1 comments)
Media Silent as U.S.-backed Saudi Forces Starve Half Million Yemeni Children (3 comments)
Don't Worry People--Our Nuclear Arsenal is Perfectly Safe (2 comments)
National Review Slams GOP Front-Runner in New Issue Titled "Against Trump" (7 comments)
North Korea: Virginia student arrested for "hostile acts" while on tour (1 comments)
Why Hillary Clinton's Speaking Fees are a Highly Relevant 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue! (1 comments)
Stance on Migrants Leaves Merkel Isolated at Home and in Europe (2 comments)
No One Said It Was Going To Be Easy (14 comments)
Thursday, January 21:
Former Oklahoma officer sentenced to 263 years in prison for sexual assaults
Protester calls for Rahm Emanuel's resignation at mayors conference
Vets To Palin: How Dare You Blame Obama For Your Son's Criminal Acts?
Clinton now red-baiting Sanders: Desperation in Hillary Camp as Bernie Gains in Iowa and New Hampshire (1 comments)
Blizzard Warning: High winds, about two feet of snow forecast for D.C. area
North Dakota Landowner Still Fighting Enbridge and Winning (1 comments)
Israel says will seize West Bank land; demolishes EU structures (1 comments)
Jonathan Pollard Wins Meeting With Jewish Leaders -- Gets Shabbat-Friendly Monitoring Bracelet
How Monsanto Mobilized Academics to Pen Articles Supporting GMOs - California Turkish Times
Litvinenko 'probably murdered on personal orders of Putin' (14 comments)
Bernie Sanders Campaign Use Simon And Garfunkel Song-- No Words (5 comments)
Steve Wynn's take on Bernie Sanders (2 comments)
Wednesday, January 20:
Inside the Documentary on Donald Trump That He Desperately Tried to Suppress (3 comments)
Rising carbon dioxide emissions pose 'intoxication' threat to world's ocean fish -- ScienceDaily (4 comments)
New evidence suggests a ninth planet lurking at the edge of the solar system (1 comments)
Are We Close to a Resolution? Prof. Stephen Cohen Discusses Flurry of Diplomacy re Ukraine
Ayatollah Khamenei Warns Iran's Government Against U.S. "Deceptions"
Class-action lawsuits filed over Flint water crisis
Gunmen storm university in Pakistan, killing at least 20 people
Robert Levinson: Whom Iran prisoner swap didn't include
Michael Moore: President Obama, Please Come to Flint
Former Netanyahu aide calls US ambassador "Little Jew Boy"
Tuesday, January 19:
Sarah Palin Backs Donald Trump In Republican Primary (3 comments)
Economist Gerald Friedman calculates savings from Sanders "Medicare for All" (4 comments)
Navy Schedules War Games in Washington State With No Public Disclosure
Exclusive: Pentagon May Demote David Petraeus (1 comments)
Deep Ocean Warming Happening at 'Alarming' and Increasingly Rapid Rate (1 comments)
Thousands Turn Out for 'Political Revolution' Rally in Conservative Stronghold Alabama
For Sander's Advocates in Utah (1 comments)
Supreme Court to Consider Obama Immigration Rules
Waging Art in a War Zone: How Gaza Copes
Tomgram: Bill McKibben, The Real Zombie Apocalypse (3 comments)
Martin Luther King: The Saint Honored by the Government that Shot Him in the Face
Monday, January 18:
Cruz super PAC prepares for millions of dollars in TV ads
Netanyahu Asserts Israel Will Be Iran's Watchdog (1 comments)
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, How to Resolve the ISIS Crisis (1 comments)
Transcript: The Military's Culture of Lying -- A Top-Down Problem? Intvw with Army War College Expert (1 comments)
The Reurbanization of Los Angeles (1 comments)
Sunday, January 17:
Book Review: "Los Alamos: Secret Colony, Hidden Truths"
Like the Oregon Ranchers, The NRA is All Hat and No Horse (8 comments)
Air Force Ad for Martin Luther King Jr. Day "Fun Shoot" Target Practice is Yanked with Apologies (2 comments)
Chicken For Dinner: It's Enough to Make You Sick (16 comments)
Planned Parenthood Endorses Hillary Clinton (2 comments)
Saturday, January 16:
This is What Hope Looks Like: 600+ #FeelThebern Bernie Sanders Volunteers in Philly. Bernie is Rocketing!! (6 comments)
Chaia Ross-Booker: Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sanctions lifted after Iran found in compliance
Iran Releases Four Americans in a Prisoner Swap
Furious Oregon Rancher Warns Mormon Rebel Bundy To Keep Off His Land (2 comments)
To Understand Modern Russia, Univ of Virginia Students Review 1,000 Years of History
Zionists Entitled to Palestine? Why Not Other Aggrieved Peoples? (2 comments)
Sean Penn has "a terrible regret" about "El Chapo" meeting
Undisputed: Best Reason Yet to Vote for Sanders! (2 comments)
Friday, January 15:
Oil Prices Drive Stocks Rout: Dow Sheds Nearly 400 Points
Marines were conducting "routine" training when helicopters crashed off Hawaii coast
What Bernie Sanders' Vote to Audit the Fed Says About His Devotion to Bipartisanship
John Kasich Predicts What Will Happen If Bernie Sanders Is The Democratic Nominee (2 comments)
Thursday, January 14:
12-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shot During Family's Eviction From Pennsylvania Home (1 comments)
Major Progressive Publication Endorses Bernie Sanders For President (2 comments)
Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill
Former MSNBC Host Ed Schultz Moving to New Show at RT
Tomgram: David Vine, Enduring Bases, Enduring War in the Middle East
Poll: How Russians See Themselves and Russia's Role in the World (13 comments)
Three American Columbia University Students Killed in Honduras Bus Crash
Wednesday, January 13:
NY Times Puts the Enthusiasm Bernie is Generating on Their Front Page (1 comments)
In a jittery sell-off, U.S. stocks sink lower (1 comments)
Al Jazeera to close struggling US news channel (2 comments)
Iran Releases 10 US Sailors in international waters after brief detention (1 comments)
The Guardian's "New East Network" and its Shady Partners (4 comments)
Tuesday, January 12:
Immigration Reform 2016: Amid Obama's Deportation Raids, Maryland County Refuses To Comply
Lawyer: Bergdahl should be awarded POW Medal, Purple Heart (1 comments)
Pentagon: 2 U.S. Navy Boats With 10 American Sailors Held (2 comments)
The Myths of 'Democracy Assistance': U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe (3 comments)
Pressure Rising for DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Resign (3 comments)
Oregon standoff: Bundy, militants destroy fence at federal refuge (2 comments)
Sanders campaign endorsed by MoveOn (1 comments)
In U.S. court, Israel faces civil suit by Americans injured in Gaza flotilla raid
'Heartbreaking scenes' witnessed in starving Syrian town (4 comments)
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Look of a Badly Oiled Planet (1 comments)
Robert Whitaker: Drugging Kids to Disability; Interview Transcript (3 comments)
Monday, January 11:
Tomgram: Rick Shenkman, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About People and Love the Bombing (1 comments)
Close Call for Earth, March 5, 2016, With Asteroid 2013 TX68 (2 comments)
Sunday, January 10:
Obama, in State of Union speech, to draw contrast with Republican "gloom" (1 comments)
State Police to deliver water door-to-door in Flint
Oregon refuge occupiers dismiss armed supporters, start negotiating with FBI (1 comments)
Obama to close Guantanamo: White House (1 comments)
Why Are Americans So Pathetically Ignorant About Politics? (7 comments)
The Arctic Is Melting at a Record Pace -- and It's Having a Scary Impact on Global Weather (4 comments)
German Carpenter Makes Most Important Invention Since Fire [imho] (1 comments)
Poll: Sanders Performs Far Better Than Clinton Against Leading Republicans in Iowa and NH
For Republicans, Mounting Fears of Lasting Split
Susan Lee Schwartz: How to Fix the Country's Failing Schools. And How Not To. - NY Times (5 comments)
Saturday, January 9:
Actor Sean Penn secretly interviewed Mexico's "El Chapo" in hideout
If You Try To Leave Me I'll Kill You--Armed and Dangerous Partners (4 comments)
Woman Removed From Donald Trump Rally Wanted To Show "Muslims Are Not That Scary"
Tim Canova: A Progressive Alternative to the Debbie Wasserman Shultz "Machine" Candidate (1 comments)
Friday, January 8:
How Debt Conquered America (5 comments)
New Poll: Sanders Does MUCH Better Than Clinton Against ALL GOP Candidates (7 comments)
Virginia judge names both spouses parents in same-sex couple's court battle
White House Isn't Backing Down On Deportation Raids Targeting Families (3 comments)
Notorious Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' recaptured months after brazen escape
It would be one of the old slave state representatives (1 comments)
He Killed His Own Mom for ISIS (3 comments)
Oklahoma hit with 70 quakes in a week (1 comments)
Cast Your Vote in MoveOn's Presidential Endorsement Vote Thursday, thru Sunday - MoveOn Members, Only (1 comments)
Trump "estimates" his 2000 Burlington VT crowd to be 25,000, Bernie Supporters Heckle at Rally
Thursday, January 7:
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, American War Crimes, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
U.S., world stock markets slide as panic in China spreads
Bernie Sanders vs. Clinton in Nevada
DoD identifies Special Forces soldier killed in Afghanistan
Donald Trump gloats after massive Macy's job cuts
What top researchers discovered when they re-ran the numbers on income inequality
'I believe in love:' Francis launches first video prayer message (1 comments)
Wednesday, January 6:
The Oregon 'Militia' Is About To Be Taken Down--By Birders (1 comments)
Texas Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland Is Indicted on Perjury Charge
White House: No evidence to support North Korean "hydrogen bomb" claim
Trump says Cruz's Canadian birth could be "very precarious" for GOP
Russia Will Be The World's First Exporter Of Non-GMO Foods, Says President Putin (1 comments)
A Message of Hope for the New Year
Bernie Sanders Unveiled his Plans for Wall Street and Financial Reform Today in NYC at The Town Hall
Top 25 Project Censored News Stories of 2014 - 2015
Tuesday, January 5:
North Korean Tremor Raises Suspicions of a New Nuclear Test
Iranian President: Saudi Arabia Cannot "Cover Up" Its Crime
Susan Lee Schwartz: Bread, Butter & Climate Change
Saudi Arabia Executions Threaten to Plunge Middle East into Greater Turmoil
After Executing Regime Critic, Saudi Arabia Fires Up American PR Machine
Dying for a tattoo?: Pennsylvania's Barbaric Protocol for Non-Treatment of Prisoners with Hep-C
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Fate of Our Earth
The Bundy "Militia" Versus 318 Million Owners of Federal Land (4 comments)
Showdown in the Malheur Marshes: the Origins of Rancher Terrorism in Burns, Oregon
President Obama shed tears in his 'action to reduce gun violence' speech (6 comments)
What does Khamenei think of Saudi Embassy attacks?
Obama's trade agenda gets big biz boost
Russia offers to act as Saudi Arabia, Iran 'intermediary' (3 comments)
Monday, January 4:
Britons petition government to ban Donald Trump from UK for hate speech (1 comments)
Donald Trump's first TV ad shows migrants "at the southern border," but they're actually in Morocco
The Nation That Executed 47 People In 1 Day Sits On The U.N. Human Rights Council
Oregon 'terrorists' don't plan siege very well, post plea for snacks & supplies
FBI takes lead on investigating armed takeover of federal building in Oregon
Douglas Rushkoff-- Present Shock and Presentism: Interview Transcript (2 comments)
Scott Baker: America is NOT Broke: Interview transcript (7 comments)
Sunday, January 3:
Saudi Arabia Cuts Ties With Iran Amid Fallout From Cleric's Execution (1 comments)
Iranian Protesters Ransack Saudi Embassy After Execution of Shiite Cleric
Bundy clan militia takes over federal building in Oregon (2 comments)
Saturday, January 2:
A Militia Has Taken Over A Federal Building In Oregon (1 comments)
5 Facts to Know about the California Methane Leak - Scientific American (1 comments)
Vladimir Putin Names US As Threat To Russia's National Security For First Time (1 comments)
Dale Bumpers, Arkansas politician and barbed wit of the Senate, dies at 90
PA Prison System Admits Secret 'Protocol' Denies Hep-C Treatment to All but Prisoners Near Death (1 comments)
Cruz Appeared on Fox on NYE to Deliver a Monologue About Obama
Skywriters Over Rose Parade Plead: "Anybody But Trump" (1 comments)
Selfishness: How Being Rich Increases Narcissism (10 comments)
Bernie Sanders supporters march at the end of the Rose Bowl Parade (2 comments)
Friday, January 1:
White House delays imposing new sanctions on Iran
Database of 191 million U.S. voters exposed on Internet: researcher
Natalie Cole, Grammy Award-Winning Singer, Dies at 65
Gun-Friendly Texas Is Getting Even Friendlier (8 comments)
Freakish weather around the world: It's warmer at the North Pole than Chicago (4 comments)