Archives for General News
September 2016
Friday, September 30:
Sioux Activists and Backers Prepare for Cold Winter of Resistance at Standing Rock ND (4 comments)
UN Condemns US Drone Strike in Afghanistan That Killed 15 Civilians (2 comments)
How Many Worldviews Are There? Is Only One Sustainable? (2 comments)
India Claims 'Surgical Strikes' Across Line of Control in Kashmir
Thursday, September 29:
Listen To Donald Trump And Howard Stern Talk About How "Vagina Is Expensive"
US prepares to cede key role for internet (2 comments)
Train crashes into N.J. station, killing one person and injuring 108
Georgia Fraud: Money Behind the Vote to Create a Phony Opportunity School District; by Diane Ravitch w Jack Hansard (1 comments)
Point of No Return: Earth Reaches 400ppm Threshold Permanently (2 comments)
North Dakota Sheriff Uses Militia Tactics Against Unarmed Women And Children Near Standing Rock (15 comments)
Wednesday, September 28:
Congress acts to avert government shutdown after striking deal on Flint aid
Optical fiber transmits one terabit per second (4 comments)
92% of the world's population exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution
FBI director rejects idea of reopening Clinton probe
Three Hurt in South Carolina School Shooting, Official Says
Congress overrides Obama's veto of 9/11 bill
Government shutdown looms due to partisan clash over Flint aid
Massage Therapists and Manicurists Need Training--But Not Gun Carriers? (17 comments)
Air Pollution: The Billion Dollar Industry (2 comments)
ISRAEL: Computer election fraud in the only digital banana republic in the middle-east?
Expanding the Debate: Jill Stein "Debates" Clinton & Trump in Democracy Now! Special - Part 1 (4 comments)
Tuesday, September 27:
Shimon Peres, Israeli statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 93
Whistleblower Kiriakou: POTUS Race--The Criminal vs. The Lunatic (7 comments)
Native Youth Demand A Senate Hearing On Dakota Pipeline Impact
Several Prisons Now Involved in Largest Strike in U.S. History
Hobbies add something to your life; the journey of one person's hobby with colors (11 comments)
Tomgram: Nick Turse, Killing People, Breaking Things, and America's Winless Wars (3 comments)
Donald Trump Fell For Hillary Clinton's Trap At Monday's Presidential Debate (1 comments)
Houston Strip Mall Shooting Leaves 9 Injured, Suspect Dead
Monday, September 26:
Corporate Profits Are Way Up, Corporate Taxes Are Way Down (2 comments)
Why Bother Watching? 49% of Americans Say Presidential Debate Will NOT Influence Their Final Decision (1 comments)
Trump campaign says media should not be "fact-checkers" (1 comments)
Interview with Independent Presidential Candidate Rocky De La Fuente, "Kennedy Democrat"
Clinton, Trump meet with Netanyahu on Israeli relations (1 comments)
Tomgram: Rebecca Gordon, Arresting Our Way to "Justice"
Your Congressperson's Opposition: TPP isn't Enough or Too Much of a Corporate Power Grab Motivated by Greed!! (1 comments)
Trump Campaign Manager Has A Meltdown And Admits Trump Makes Up His Own Facts (2 comments)
That Clinton Scandal the Press Desperately Wants Exists, But it's Actually About Trump.
The Anniversary of Lehman and Men Who Don't Work (3 comments)
Gary Johnson: I Would Pardon Edward Snowden (7 comments)
Sunday, September 25:
Key Thing about the Latest Police Killing in Charlotte, NC is that It Was Totally Gratuitous (17 comments)
Legendary golfer Arnold Palmer dies at 87
How Much Faith Do You Have In The Vote Counting Process? (2 comments)
Massachusetts - Question 2 Gains Another $1.5 Million, Mostly from NY, by Mercedes Schneider
China Clamps Down on Chinese Jews of Ancient Lineage (1 comments)
The Governmental Revolving Door of Private-Sector Crony Capitalist: A Morale Buster for Civil Servants (1 comments)
Saturday, September 24:
Yielding to Pressure, Charlotte Will Release Videos of Keith Scott Shooting
Police continue search for gunman who killed 5 at a Washington state mall
Archeologists: Dakota Access Pipeline Will Destroy Ancient Artifacts
12 Ways Gary Johnson Is a Hardcore Right-Wing Radical (3 comments)
CIA Torture Whistleblower: 'Quest for Peace Must Be Part of Election'
Stop Using The Facebook. (19 comments)
China's debt problem is currently estimated at $2 trillion
Friday, September 23:
Obama Vetoes Bill to Let 9/11 Families Sue Saudi Arabia (11 comments)
Earth Could Reach Critical Climate Threshold in Decade, Scientists Warn (9 comments)
After Clinton's Suspicious California Win, Watchdog Seeks to Unrig Primaries
No racism before Obama? Top Trump volunteer resigns after that comment
RealClearPolitics Now Has Trump With 266 Electoral Votes
Assad Speaks (3 comments)
The Good the Clinton Foundation Does Will Not Be Interred With Its Bones (7 comments)
The USDA Killed 820 Egrets and 115 Ibises In One Year With Your Tax Dollars (7 comments)
The Lying Game - by Paul Krugman (11 comments)
Why Are There Any Liberals Supporting Gary Johnson? (12 comments)
Sacred Burial Grounds Sold to Dakota Access Pipeline (15 comments)
Thursday, September 22:
Israeli and Palestinian leaders clash at UN general assembly (1 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, War, Peace, and Absurdity (1 comments)
The New, New Climate Math: 17 Years to Get Off Fossil Fuels, Or Else (1 comments)
Shameless DNC Election Rigging - Approximately 15% Of Bernie's Votes Were Flipped To Clinton In California (4 comments)
Trump's puzzling pitch to black voters (1 comments)
Political Polarization and Growing Ideological Consistency (1 comments)
No War 2016 Conference: Attend or Watch the LiveStream
Wells Fargo's Business Model is Fraud;by Bernie Sanders (1 comments)
The Conservation Crisis No One Is Talking About (6 comments)
Wednesday, September 21:
Poor Families Evicted From Silicon Valley Apartments so Building Can Rebrand for Facebook Workers
A User's Guide To FiveThirtyEight's 2016 General Election Forecast: by Nate Silver (3 comments)
Sheldon Adelson Focuses on Congressional Races, Despite Donald Trump's Pleas - The New York Times (1 comments)
Inside the Corporate Utopias Where Capitalism Rules and Labor Laws Don't Apply (1 comments)
Why a President Trump Could Start a Trade War With Surprising Ease (1 comments)
We Gave Four Good Pollsters the Same Raw Data. They Had Four Different Results. (2 comments)
Student Privacy Advocates to Congress: DO NOT PASS the Phony "Safe Kids Act" (2 comments)
The 4 Ways to Leverage Business Intelligence to Gain a Competitive Advantage over the Rest of the Pack On eBay (3 comments)
Tuesday, September 20:
Angry Republicans Push Big Changes in $38B Israel Aid Package (4 comments)
Disabled Black Man Shot Dead by NC Police While Reading in Car (4 comments)
Ivanka Trump meets with Paul Ryan in New York
Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems (1 comments)
Is Bush 41 Apparently Voting for Hillary the Beginning or the End of the Bushes' Involvement? (8 comments)
George H.W. Bush to vote for Hillary Clinton
Tomgram: Chip Ward, Peace Pipes, Not Oil Pipes
How Jehovah's Witnesses Won Colin Kaepernick's Right to NOT Honor the Flag (11 comments)
Free Speech at Standing Rock on Federal/Treaty Lands (2 comments)
Monday, September 19:
Unarmed Black Man, Hands Up, Shot Dead by Tulsa Police (2 comments)
Suspect in N.Y., N.J. bombings arrested after shootout; FBI says "no indication" of terror cell
Charles Blow: Trump, Grand Wizard of Birtherism
Trump Deems Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates a "Clown"
Gary Johnson Wants to Be President Because Fighting Terrorism is "Interesting and Challenging"
Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say (2 comments)
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Class of 2017 -- So Sorry!
Washington Post accuses itself of TREASON.
The class struggle is real: India is making labor history with the world's largest general strike
Sunday, September 18:
EXCLUSIVE: High-level Turkish whistleblower reveals state sponsorship of ISIS (1 comments)
US congress report: Snowden not a "whistle-blower" (2 comments)
John Kasich Won't Say If Trump Should Apologize For Birtherism (UPDATED)
Obama Gets Fiery at CBC Dinner: "I Will Consider It a Personal Insult" If You Don't Vote!
Instead of ISIS, US-Led Bombing Kills Nearly 100 Syrian Soldiers Fighting Them
U.S. Says That Helping ISIS is No Big Deal (1 comments)
Saturday, September 17:
At least 25 people injured after explosion in New York City, officials say
"NATO" Airstrikes Helping ISIS (Daesh)
Media Silent as Two States Declare State of Emergency Due to Pipeline Spill
Tens of Thousands of Files from Clinton, Blumenthal Computers Available on Deep Web
Russia Wants Emergency UN Security Council Session on US Bombing of Syrian Army
Trump: Clinton's Guards Should "Disarm"
Whistleblower exposes Turkey arming and funding ISIS (1 comments)
When Pork Flies: The F-35, the Pentagon's $1.1 Trillion Flying Money Pit, Is (Sort of) Ready for Duty (1 comments)
Oliver Stone on Snowden relevance: "The US government lies all the time" (3 comments)
With TPP on Ropes, It's Corporate Power vs. People Power on Capitol Hill (1 comments)
Discouraging Protest Vote, Sanders Says: Elect Clinton--Then Mobilize (29 comments)
Trump is trying to rewrite his history of birtherism. This is what really happened. (3 comments)
A Russian-Iranian Axis (5 comments)
Friday, September 16:
'A Political Rick-Roll' -- Trump Tricked Media Into Broadcasting an Entourage of Endorsements (2 comments)
Nation's largest police union endorses Trump (2 comments)
Berkeley suspends Palestine class midway through semester (2 comments)
Hillary Clinton Takes Aim at Voters Drifting Toward Third Party (1 comments)
Largest Prison Strike in U.S. History Enters Its Second Week
EU Parliament President: Trump a Problem for the Whole World
Hillary Stole Nevada Says Former Dem Congressional Candidate
Concern Over Colin Powell's Hacked Emails Becomes a Fear of Being Next (4 comments)
Thursday, September 15:
Assange to Accept Time in US Prison If Manning Granted Clemency (4 comments)
Humans Are Overfishing the Oceans Into 'Unprecedented' Mass Extinction (3 comments)
What Amy Goodman's Arrest Warrant Means for the Dakota Access Pipeline and Free Speech
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Rise of the Right and Climate Catastrophe
Trump's self-serving Foundation actions come to light.
Hactivist who exposed Steubenville rape could get 16 years (3 comments)
Wednesday, September 14:
Donald Trump Literally Denigrated Half of All Americans (1 comments)
How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security
Russia Accuses Obama of "Russophobia" Over Donald Trump Critique
Colin Powell Calls Trump a "National Disgrace" in Hacked Emails (5 comments)
U.S. and Israel reach agreement on unprecedented amount of military aid
Helping to 'Sustain Occupation,' US and Israel to Sign Biggest Military Aid Pact Ever (1 comments)
"It's Time We Were Heard": Another Day in Court for Climate Kids
What really resolves economic problems?
Dakota Access Construction Will Continue, Pipeline Corp CEO Vows
Bayer to Buy Monsanto Creating World's Largest Seed and Pesticide Company (29 comments)
California Charter School Scandals Shows the Movement Is a Vehicle for Fraud & Corruption (1 comments)
News Orgs + Social Media Now Filtering "Misinformation" From the Internet (44 comments)
How Bolivia Fights the Drug Scourge (1 comments)
New Tab (2 comments)
Tuesday, September 13:
Edward Snowden makes "moral" case for presidential pardon (1 comments)
Hawaiian Ohana Travels to Support Sioux Nation (5 comments)
Political unease around cashless economy, war on cash may turn sour (9 comments)
Obama expected to veto 9/11 victims' bill, White House says (3 comments)
Tomgram: Aviva Chomsky, Deportations "R" Us
Former DNC chair Don Fowler says Democrats must find Hillary Clinton's successor now in case pneumonia forces her out of (18 comments)
Monday, September 12:
Former DNC chairman calls for Clinton contingency plan
Hillary Clinton cancels California trip after pneumonia admission in potential turning point in US election (7 comments)
Alabama Pastor Allen Joyner Says People Who Don't Stand For The National Anthem Should Be Shot (3 comments)
Syria's Bashar Assad Celebrates Eid Al Adha In A Place His Regime Starved And Bombed For Years (2 comments)
Donald Trump Wants No Moderators at Debates
Leonardo DiCaprio's New Film 'Before the Flood' Puts the Threats to Our Planet on Center Stage (4 comments)
Arkansas Residents Jim and Alice Walton Pony Up $1,835,000 to Raise Charter Cap in Massachusetts (2 comments)
Tomgram: Bill Moyers, Money and Power in America
North Dakota's Bloody Saturday, Prayer and Judicial Relief for the Sioux Nation (10 comments)
Sunday, September 11:
Earthquake-Proof in the Himalayas (2 comments)
Dozens of birds fall from sky in Boston, dead from unknown cause (2 comments)
U.S. condemns Netanyahu's charge that Palestinians want to "ethnically cleanse" Jews from West Bank
Hillary Clinton Is Being Treated for Pneumonia, Leaves 9/11 Ceremony Feeling 'Overheated' - The New York Times (4 comments)
These 9/11 Heroes Fought Against Terrorism a Century Before 2001 (1 comments)
Jill Stein Pledges 9-11 Investigation If Elected (11 comments)
Hillary Cinton collapses leaving the 911 Memorial ceremony (30 comments)
People Demanding Action Webinar -- September 11th -- 7:30 pm ET -- TPP is Bad for Small Business
US ramping up F35 acquisitions despite F35 testing which shows the planes are still garbage and have too few weapons (1 comments)
Saturday, September 10:
WikiLeaks Source Chelsea Manning Starts Hunger Strike
Breaking: Arrest Warrant Issued For Amy Goodman in North Dakota After Covering Pipeline Protest (8 comments)
US, Russia reach deal to reduce Syria violence (1 comments)
Obama administration orders ND pipeline construction to stop (2 comments)
Did Hillary Clinton just make her own "47 percent" gaffe? (1 comments)
Arrest Warrants Issued for Green Party's Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka (Multimedia)
Fall of the Wild: Study Documents 'Catastrophic Decline' in World's Untouched Places
Joelle Ben Simon affair continues - organized crime in the Jerusalem Family Court (3 comments)
Syria - Will The New Cessation of Hostilities Hold?
Friday, September 9:
Iowa Landowners Sue to Stop Dakota Access Construction, Say Pipeline Provides No Public Service (1 comments)
U.N. nuclear agency says Iran sticking to nuclear deal (1 comments)
NEWSFLASH: Feds Support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Joint Statement Just Issued (22 comments)
Making Case for Clean Air, World Bank Says Pollution Cost Global Economy $5 Trillion (1 comments)
Facebook Under Fire for Censoring One of the Most Iconic War Photos
North Korea says it's tested a nuclear warhead (videos) (7 comments)
U.S. appeals court to hear challenge to proof-of-citizenship voting requirement (1 comments)
North Korea conducts "biggest ever" N-test
Thursday, September 8:
Newsflash: Sacred Stones Camp at Standing Rock - Photos & Update (15 comments)
Cost of incarceration in the U.S. more than $1 trillion -- ScienceDaily
A tenth of the world's wilderness lost since the 1990s -- ScienceDaily
One Out of Every 200 Children in the World Is Now a Refugee: UNICEF (2 comments)
US Ex-Drone Operators Join Yemeni Drone Victim in Court Challenge
Èzili Dantò: While Haiti Suffered Clinton and Pals Cashed In Says Donald Trump (7 comments)
Arrest Warrant Issued for Jill Stein (9 comments)
Tomgram: Engelhardt, A 9/11 Retrospective: Washington's 15-Year Air War (1 comments)
Indians Staged One of the Largest Strikes in History, But No One on U.S. Cable News Covered It
Wednesday, September 7:
Now That Courts Have Destroyed "Voter ID" Laws, the GOP Is in a Panic to Suppress the Vote
Costa Rica Has Been Running on 100 Percent Renewable Energy for Months
Hey Judge! How About Protecting the Chief Buried in the Big Dipper? (3 comments)
Obama tries to sell the Pacific trade pact to nations concerned about its fate (1 comments)
Whistleblowers Condemn US For Denying Entry To Former UK Diplomat (4 comments)
Tuesday, September 6:
Critics Ignoring Wrongs About Police Abuse Prove Kaepernick Right (4 comments)
Philippines scrambles to soothe tensions after Obama slur (2 comments)
Fox settles with Gretchen Carlson over Roger Ailes sexual harassment claims
Humans Have Pushed Oceans to Their Absolute Limit, Warns Report (3 comments)
Sri Lanka declared free of malaria - must remain vigilant (1 comments)
Tomgram: Nick Turse, What the U.S. Military Doesn't Know (and Neither Do You) (1 comments)
Air Force, Running Low on Drone Pilots, Turns to Contractors in Terror Fight
Emergency Federal Hearing After Destruction of Sacred Native Sites (11 comments)
Monday, September 5:
Phyllis Schlafly, a conservative activist, has died at age 92 (2 comments)
'Is That Not Genocide?' Pipeline Co. Bulldozing Burial Sites Prompts Emergency Motion (1 comments)
DAPL Destroys Sioux Nation Sacred Artifacts: Women and Children Attacked By Dogs (10 comments)
Travesty at Standing Rock: Destruction of Sacred Sites (4 comments)
North Korea fires 3 missiles as G-20 continues in China
Standing Rock Tribe Files Restraining Order Against Dakota Access
After FBI Document Dump, Trump Launches Petition to Disqualify Clinton
"Clearly He's a Colorful Guy:" Obama Responds to Philippine President Who Called Him "Son of a prostitute" (2 comments)
Brazil Elite Codifies Budget Practice Used to Impeach Rousseff (1 comments)
The "Shocking" Truth About Election Rigging in the United States (19 comments)
Are charter schools the new mortgage crisis - Business Insider (1 comments)
Scientific Study Released: Twin Towers Collapsed Due To Controlled Demolition (1 comments)
Sunday, September 4:
Bernie Stabs Hillary in the Back, Demands Third Party Nominees be Able to Debate (5 comments)
US taxpayers funded Clinton's private email servers through "Former Presidents Act" (1 comments)
Meet the mastermind behind Clinton's massive email coverup
Donald Trump wanted to "see who the moderators are." Now that he has, will he debate?
Armed protesters surround Brock Turner's home in anticipation of his arrival
Don't Wait A Year To Stop Using These Dangerous Products (16 comments)
Homeland eyes special declaration to take charge of elections
Peaceful Pipeline Protesters Attacked with Mace and Dogs: Dem NOW Video (28 comments)
Why Are China and India Growing So Fast? State Investment (1 comments)
Saturday, September 3:
Polls Shows Bernie Sanders Would Win Election (4 comments)
Trump claims "Party of Lincoln" mantle in speech at black church
One secret of Trump's low-cost campaign: free labor
Strong Oklahoma Earthquake Felt From Nebraska to Texas
Friday, September 2:
Jill Stein Has Schedule Mixup...Makes International Main Stream Media (4 comments)
It's About Time for the Human Race To Grow Up (19 comments)
John McCain wins his primary, promptly gives up on Donald Trump (3 comments)
Megyn Kelly Warned Fox News Exec About Ailes' Sexual Harassment Four Years Ago
German Report tells people to stockpile food and water in case of attacks (3 comments)
Judge who berated and jailed a domestic abuse victim gets day in court--and it's not pretty (1 comments)
Experts Raise Alarms as US War Hawks Push for Deeper Syria Intervention (2 comments)
US slaps sanctions on builders of Putin's $3bn bridge to Crimea
Thursday, September 1:
US Special Ops Training in Latin America Tripled, Docs Reveal (2 comments)
California: Meet the Billionaires Who Are Financing the Spread of School Privatization; by Diane Ravitch (1 comments)
The Political Turmoil That Led To The Ousting Of Brazil's President
Behind the Bolivia Miner Cooperatives Protests and the killing of the Bolivian Vice-Minister (1 comments)
Overcharged: The High Cost of High Finance (2 comments)
Mexican president contradicts Trump's account of border wall discussion (1 comments)
How Russia Often Benefits When Julian Assange Reveals the West's Secrets (13 comments)
Trump Recommits to Mass Deportation in Fiery Immigration Speech (1 comments)