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The Obama administration wants a rubber stamp on its unwise, unlimited, and unauthorized new war in the Middle East. It shouldn't get it.
The seven-million strong American Muslim community was shocked and terrified by the execution-style murder of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill on Tuesday.
By Electronic Frontier Foundation
Hundreds of South Carolina Inmates Sent to Solitary Confinement Over Facebook 
In the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking.
It's up to Germany to clean up its act on Greece. The choice is stark. The EU may embark on a quadruple-dip recession as the ECB further destroys what is left of the European middle class. Or Germany, reflecting the thinking among its captains of industry, may tell the EU -- Troika included -- that the way to go is to shift the strategic, trade and political focus from West to the East.
In December, two Republican senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, pushed Congress and the President into giving away what could amount to over $130 billion in public property. That's enough to provide every single unemployed American a minimum-wage job for an entire year. And yet the GOP big-shots call themselves "fiscal conservatives"! "Fiscal conservatives," my you-know-what.
Several independent studies in recent years have predicted that the American Southwest and central Great Plains will experience extensive droughts in the second half of this century, and that advancing climate change will exacerbate those droughts. But a new analysis released today says the drying will be even more extreme than previously predicted--the worst in nearly 1,000 years. Some time between 2050 and 2100, extended drought conditions in both regions will become more severe than the megadroughts of the 12th and 13th centuries. Tree rings and other evidence indicate that those medieval dry periods exceeded anything seen since, across the land we know today as the continental U.S. The analysis "shows how exceptional future droughts will be," says Benjamin Cook, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and lead author of the study.
Alabama GOP chairman says the United States will incur the wrath of God for allowing Gay Marriage.
Jon Stewart has been revered as a comedic barer of the Emperor's new clothes. Some of what he shows, however, is more of the same from a different angle.
Many parts of the South, including Arlington, Virginia, just outside the U.S. capital, still honor Confederate President Jefferson Davis by attaching his name to important roadways. But a recent study on lynching puts the motive for honoring that white supremacist in a sickening new light, writes Robert Parry.
When likely Democratic voters are presented with information about Warren and her populist positions on the issues ranging from trade policy to banking regulation to student loan debt, they become more enthusiastic about her running -- and about backing her in a race that also includes Clinton.
The New York Times columnist on all things media, who died Thursday night at the absurdly young age of 58, waded into the greatest debates of our time with a warmth, humor and humility that belied his amazing ability to get to the heart of the matter -- as he did in his final interview, just hours before his death, with Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Edward Snowden.
"On 2/11/10, NASA launched its Solar Dynamics Observatory -- a spacecraft equipped with sensors, cameras and telescopes all with one mission: an in-depth examination of the star at the centre of our solar system -- the sun. Solar flares, coronal mass ejections, sunspots, eruptions; the imaging equipment on the observatory has allowed researchers to see how these evolve and what causes them. Photographs in different wavelengths have allowed researchers to study the sun's plasma, temperatures, magnetic fields and activity, and atmosphere and corona. 'This mission has touched us on many levels; it evokes a sense of wonder when we see these beautiful images. It stokes our curiosity and it connects us personally to the deepest mysteries--from the warmth we feel on our skin when we walk outside on a sunny day to the distant reaches of the cosmos.' Happy birthday, Solar Dynamics Observatory!"
Scientists have used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to get the first glimpse of the transition state where two atoms begin to form a weak bond on the way to becoming a molecule. This fundamental advance, reported Feb. 12 in Science Express and long thought impossible, will have a profound impact on the understanding of how chemical reactions take place and on efforts to design reactions that generate energy, create new products and fertilize crops more efficiently. "This is the very core of all chemistry. It's what we consider a Holy Grail, because it controls chemical reactivity," said Anders Nilsson, a professor at the SLAC/Stanford SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis and at Stockholm University. "But because so few molecules inhabit this transition state at any given moment, no one thought we'd ever be able to see it."
In a first for the Army, Chelsea Manning, the convicted national-security secrets leaker, has been approved for hormone therapy for transition to a woman at the Army's Fort Leavenworth prison. Manning remains a soldier as well as an inmate. Formerly named Bradley Manning, the soldier was convicted of sending classified documents to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence and is eligible for parole in about seven years.
For the first time, astronomers have caught a multiple-star system in the beginning stages of its formation, and their direct observations of this process give strong support to one of several suggested pathways to producing such systems. The scientists looked at a cloud of gas some 800 light-years from Earth, homing in on a core of gas that contains one young protostar and three dense condensations that they say will collapse into stars in the astronomically-short period of 40,000 years. Of the eventual four stars, the astronomers predict that three may become a stable triple-star system. When the research team led by Pineda used the VLA to map radio emission from methane molecules, they discovered that filaments of gas in B5 are fragmenting, and the fragments are beginning to form into additional stars that will become a multiple-star system.
A headline in the New York Times yesterday stated as fact that "With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas". The lead paragraph asserted that "Syria's top leaders amassed one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical weapons with help from the Soviet Union and Iran, as well as Western European suppliers and even a handful of American companies, according to American diplomatic cables and declassified intelligence records."
An international team led by Uppsala University scientists has succeeded, for the first time, in depicting intact live bacteria with an X-ray laser. This technique, now described in the journal Nature Communications, can give researchers a clearer understanding of the complex world of cells. 'If you really want to understand a cell's functions, it has to be alive,' says Professor Janos Hajdu of Uppsala University, one of the leading researchers responsible for the experiment. The method the researchers used in this experiment allows better resolution, in both time and space, than that obtained from the best optical microscope techniques. The new technique involves shooting a fine aerosol of cells with light pulses from an X-ray laser. The research team's new method can show the structure of living cells, virtually instantaneously. 'Few people thought this was feasible.'
The history of government-sponsored vaccines is iffy. Do anti-vaxxers deserve the rap they're getting?
This is more than a review of a superb made-for-TV-series movie, based on true events of enormous significance. NBC began showing but found it necessary to cancel. They cancelled it for a 'reality show' no less; you can't make this stuff up. We are participants in the Great Game up to our elbows, whether we choose to be or not, and most have no clue.
By Mark Taliano
Truth Beneath The Lies Canada's government uses false pretexts to impose counter-roductive Police State Legislation on Canadians
Nearly every Senate Republican signed a resolution welcoming the Israeli prime minister to America. As one of the chamber's final acts before members recess for a week, Sen. Cornyn on Thursday introduced a resolution welcoming Netanyahu to the United States. The resolution was signed by 51 of the chamber's Republican members and, initially, not a single Democrat. Cornyn said he would circulate a Dear Colleague letter later Thursday urging all 100 senators to sign onto the resolution. Graham is expected to sign. The Republican has spoken at length of his support for Netanyahu's visit, and during a visit to Jerusalem in December he promised the prime minister that the Republican Congress would "have his back." When asked about members boycotting the speech, Graham said, "I want to hear from Bibi. You may not agree with me, but you should want to hear from him too. I think it's a mistake."
By earl ofari hutchinson
Fifty Years Later Questions Still Dangle about Malcolm X's Assassination Five years ago Thomas Hagan was paroled. He served 44 years for his part in the murder of black nationalist leader Malcolm X. Hagan who at the time of the murder went by the name of Talmadge Hayer is the only one of a trio of convicted assassins who ever publicly admitted to killing Malcolm. He bluntly said that he joined the assassination team because of Malcolm's public attacks on the Nation of Islam.
While Greece will certainly not go back to the failed formula of selling off state-owned enterprises, huge budget cuts, layoffs and onerous taxes, neither is it eager to exit the Eurozone. The latter is composed of 18 out of the 28 EU members that use a common currency, the euro.
Sometime this year, President Obama will ask Congress to approve a new trade agreement, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. We should understand that the TPP has been negotiated in secrecy. More than 600 corporate lobbyists have had direct access to the negotiating texts. They serve as formal advisers in the negotiations and have constant communication with U.S. negotiators. Meanwhile, Congress and the public are unable to get or discuss copies of the deal.
By Seymour Patterson
"Catch-22" in Government Poliicies The government wants to cut education funding and privatize traditional government functions on assumption business is more efficient. Also, people lacking insurance who get sick and can't pay their medical bill so their credit score suffers. In 2008, 401(k)s lost 22 percent of their value and interest rates dropped to less than one percent after this date.
By Bob Burnett
Obama Grows Coattails 21 months before the 2016 presidential election, Republicans are struggling to find a candidate who will be conservative enough to win their nomination and moderate enough to appeal to sensible voters. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton appears to have nailed down the Democratic nomination. Surprisingly, President Obama's approval ratings have improved to the point where he may be able to boost her campaign.
The gasbags talk about The Culture War. There is no culture war. There isn't even a war. The evolutionarily familiar human beings are driven on a cellular level to acquire and consume everything. They don't have on "off" switch. There's no such thing as ... Enough. There is only ... More.
By David Swanson
Cuba Through the Looking Glass In other unusual Cuban phenomena, the U.S. government is allowing tourists to bring home $100 worth of rum and cigars. And the U.S. State Department is working on a forthcoming list of products that Cubans can export to the United States. The list will not include numerous life-saving medicines currently unavailable in the United States.
Philadelphia labor activist win passage of paid sick leave, becoming the second largest of 17 cities to pass such a law, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff
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