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Today’s News Links: 11-06-12

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Al-Jazeera’s Election Night Coverage

Discovering an Exciting Obama and 5 Other Items to Note on Election Day

What Would Romney Do: National Security

US Soldier Accused of Kandahar Massacre Goes to Court

Greece Grinds to Halt Amid Mass Austerity Strike

Human Rights Watch to Bahrain: Free Human Rights Defender, Lift Ban on Protests

Hacking Voting Machines: Easier Than Ever Imagined

Turkey Prosecutes Israeli Commanders for Gaza Flotilla Deaths

False Flag? Coordinated Bomb Blasts Kill 2 in Bahraini Capital

Israel Pushing Ahead with 1,200 New Settler Homes

Naomi Klein on Hurricane Sandy: Beware America’s Disaster Capitalists

Opinion: Whoever Wins the White House, the Culture War on Women’s Choice Goes On

Baltimore Bus Passengers Now Subject to Secretive Eavesdropping

Today’s News Links: 11-05-12

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Looking Beyond Election Day: The issues That Threaten to Derail Our Nation 

Chris Hedges: The S&M Election

Florida Republicans Impinging on Right to Vote, Say Democrats

Voting for Drones

Checking Big Brother

The Dogs of War are Barking: Mitt Romney’s Team Wants to Let ‘Em Loose in Iran

What Would Romney Do to Civil Liberties?

Turkish Police Fire Tear Gas at Hunger Strike Supporters

US Muslim Placed on No-Fly List, Unable to See His Ailing Mother

US National Archives Blocks Searches Containing ‘WikiLeaks’

Kuwaitis Protest After Activist Held for Insulting Emir

Kuwait May Deploy Troops Against Opposition

Protest Ban Raises Concerns About Bahrain’s Commitment to Freedom of Expression

NYC Hospitals Lose Power Once; In Gaza, it is a Constant Crisis

Danny Glover: Why Chavez Won Again

Today’s News Links: 11-03-12

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Who is the Worst Civil Liberties President in US History? 

Climate and Clarity: Against the Destruction of the World by Greed

Who Lost the World? How Libya Became an Election Issue

How Fear of Cyber Attack Could Take Down Your Liberties and the Constitution

Breaking the 2-Party Stranglehold that is Killing American Democracy

Joseph Stiglitz: Romney’s Plan is ‘Based on Magic’

The Progressive Case Against Obama

Report: Bahrain Center for Human Rights Holds the King Responsible for the Spread of the Culture of Impunity which Continues to Claim Lives

Bahrain: 3 Days After Release of BCHR Report on Impunity, Arrest of Acting VP Sayed Yousif AlMuhafdhah

7 Years After the Riots, the Suburbs of Paris Still Simmer with Resentment

Amnesty International to Nigeria: Independent Investigation into Maiduguri Killings Vital

Amnesty International: Israeli Authorities Must Release Palestinian Prisoner of Conscience in West Bank

At Least 130 Burmese Refugees Die in Shipwreck

Opinion: Barack Obama and the Paradox Behind his African American Support Base

Opinion: Obama’s Detention Policies are Worse Than Guantanamo

Judge Orders FBI to Explain Their Internet Spy Plans

Supreme Court Spurns Justice: Holy Land 5 Stay in Jail

Soldiers Win $85 Million Settlement from Iraq War Contractor

Daryl Hannah: The Battle Against Big Energy’s Rush to Ruin Our Planet

Today’s News Links: 11-01-12

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The Matrix Reloaded, or the Miseducation of Barack Obama

Video Clip: Obama – Under Surveillance

Glenn Greenwald on Various Matters

Crowd Control: Bahrain Bans All Public Gatherings

Impressive Integrity from 2 New York Times Writers Over BBC Scandal

As Microsoft Shifts its Privacy Rules, an Uproar is Absent

Infographic: The NSA Unchained

Greek Journalists Go on Strike, Alleging State Censorship

America’s Nuclear Safety Under Scrutiny After Oyster Creek’s Sandy Alert

Today’s News Links: 10-29-12

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Documentary – Woody Harrelson Presents: Ethos

In Hurricane Sandy’s Fury, the Fingerprint of Climate Change

Chris Hedges: Why I’m Voting Green

US Detention of Imran Khan Part of Trend to Harass Anti-Drone Activists

Report on the CodePink Anti-Drone Delegation to Pakistan

Opinion: Israel is an Apartheid State [No Poll Required]

Human Rights Watch to Saudi Arabia: Stop Prosecuting Peaceful Protestors

Video Clip: As Senator McGovern is Mourned, We Remember How the Antiwar Candidate Challenged Vietnam and Inspired a Generation

Official Promise Fails to Halt China Protests

Feigning Free Speech on Campus

Documents Found in Meth House Bare Inner Workings of Dark Money Group

Israel: Asylum Seekers Blocked at Border

Supreme Court to Hear Electronic Surveillance Case

Today’s News Links: 10-26-12

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A Failed Formula for Worldwide War: How the Empire Changes its Face But Not its Nature

The Victims of Fallujah’s Health Crisis are Stifled by Western Silence

Journalism in the Obama Age Shows the Real Media Bias

Britain Rejects US Request to Use UK Bases in Nuclear Standoff with Iran

Video Clip/Transcript: Matt Taibbi and Chrystiana Freeland on the One Percent’s Power and Privileges

California’s Prop 37 on GM Labeling Could Make Food Safer for Us All

Alberta Tar Sands Illegal Under Treaty 8, First Nations Charge

BP Could Reap Millions of Dollars in Tax Credits from Oil Spill Settlement

Globalism is Killing Us All

Opinion: Police State USA: In Amerika There Will Never Be a Real Debate

Today’s News Links: 10-24-12

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Obama Moves to Make the War on Terror Permanent

Native Americans in the US: Slaughtered, Sacrificed, and Fenced in Reservations 

Joe Klein’s Sociopathic Defense of Drone Killings of Children

How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American

Ex-CIA Officer John Kiriakou Jailed for 2 Years for Revealing Torture Chief’s Name

Bahrain Rights Defender Maryam Al-khawaja Pulls Out of UNESCO Ceremony Over Honor to Israel’s Peres

Copenhagen ‘Principles’ on Military Detainees Undermine Human Rights

On Mob Violence in Nigeria

Gaza Blockade: Still Operational, Still Violating Human Rights

UK: New Report Slams Secret ‘Justice’ Ahead of Debate on Controversial Bill

Mexico: Authorities Urged to End Torture Epidemic

Thousands in Madrid Protest 2012 Budget Crisis

Kuwait Police Clash with Marchers in Mass Protest

China: Rise in Forced Evictions Fueling Discontent 

Bahrain Teachers Face Further Jail Time After ‘Nightmare’ Verdicts

Informant: NYPD Paid Me to ‘Bait’ Muslims

Today’s News Links: 10-22-12

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Video Clip from Democracy Now!: Expanding the Debate with Third-Party Presidential Candidates

An Open Letter to President Obama

American Indian Activist Russell Means Dies at 72 

The Big Chill: How Obama is Operating in Unprecedented Secrecy – While Attacking the Secret-Tellers

Our Men in Honduras: Losing Control of the War on Drugs

Chris Hedges on McGovern: ‘He Never Sold his Soul’

ACLU Fights the Good Fight to Stop Government Surveillance of Our Citizens

The Remarkable, Unfathomable Ignorance of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Okinawa Legislators Protest Alleged US Rape

Yemen: Security Forces Raiding Aden Hospitals

NY Stop-and-Frisk Debate Gains Political Spotlight

Change.org Changing: Site to Work with Corporate, Anti-Abortion, GOP Campaigns

Nigeria: Boko Haram Attacks Likely Crimes Against Humanity

Threats of Cyber War, Realities of Cyber Censorship

Today’s News Links: 10-19-12

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When Freedom Ain’t Free: Muslim Protest and the Language of the Unheard

The End of the New World Order and the Search for a Way Forward

US ‘Justice’ Likely Coming Soon to Benghazi with Extra-judicial Executions

Dying for Lies: The Racket of War

The Attack-Syria Coalition: Brought to You by the Same People Who Gave Us the Iraq Debacle

Rewarding Impunity

Senate Report Slams DHS Terrorism Centers

Sexual Abuse, Embezzlement, and Shooting Homeless People with Paintballs: National Guard’s Culture of Criminality

Social Media Prosecutions Threaten Free Speech in the UK

Billboard Wars: The ‘Savage’ vs. ‘the Civilized’? 

Losing Their Grip in Afghanistan: Obama’s ‘Good War’ Turns Bad

Today’s News Links: 10-17-12

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The Real Blame for Deaths in Libya

Chris Hedges: Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline

South Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium: Citizens Alarmed by US Fracking Examples

For-Profit Folly in Haiti: Development-Industrial Complex Can’t Deliver Reconstruction After Earthquake

Libya: New Proof of Mass Killings at Gaddafi Death Site

Greece Needs Zero-Tolerance Approach to Police Violence

Video Clip: Report on the Extrajudicial Killing of 120 Black People – This Year

Torture Talk Banned at 9/11 Trial

Jordan: Arrest of 20 Pro-Reform Activists Heralds Crackdown on Freedom of Expression

Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?

Cutting Deep: Thousands of Angry Students Take to the Streets Across Spain

Prospects for Reform in Question as Bahrain Human Rights Defenders Face Judicial Harassment 

Forced ‘Confessions’ and Unfair Trials: 2 Bahraini Teachers are Facing Prison Sentences