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| If you have a problem reading this email, please click here to see the web page version You received this email because you signed up for it at OpEdNews. Unsubscribe instructions are at the bottom of this email. I'm spending my second day, today, at the Socialism 2013 Conference. Yesterday, hearing from Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald and Egyptian Revolutionaries, was amazing. My rushed article, with photos and the video of Glenn Greenwald is below.
Also, check out my interview with a sociopath-- the first radio interview ever with an out of the closet sociopath.
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Glenn
Greenwald, in a skyped in talk to the Socialism 2013 Conference, told
the audience, for the first time, about his experience going through the
process of encountering and working with Ed Snowden. told the audience
that a bombshell he would soon be releasing was that "NSA can redirect
to its storage one billion cell phone calls every thing day. They are
storing every call and have the capability to listen to them...
M.
E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath, is a pseudonym for a
woman who reports that she is in her early thirties, a law professor and
former law firm attorney. The publisher claims this is the first book
written as a memoir, by a sociopath. The book reports that she was
tested by a psychologist who determined she meets the criteria for being
a psychopath.
By Richard Clark
Why we're headed for a double dip As wages stagnate & shrink for most consumers, and interest rates rise, consumer spending will shrink. When interest rates increase, consumer spending declines because it costs the consumer more to borrow, so they step back from buying. Problem is, consumer spending is the backbone of any growth in the US economy. If it decreases, our economic growth prospects shrink, and this will eventually hurt corporate earnings & stocks.
An
American citizen and at least three other people died Friday in
demonstrations in Egypt that ushered in what was expected to be days of
civil conflict over the rule of President Mohammed Morsi.
At
the moment, poor Kerry is trying to put something together that would
satisfy the wolf while keeping the lamb alive. Give Abbas American
assurances without Israeli assurances, for example. IN ALL this
bickering, one basic fact is ignored.
It's
unclear whether Qatar's influence in Syria will continue to be
prominent. The proxy war is bound to become even more horrific. And
there's no guarantee Assad will go. The "young and modern" emir of the
Muslim Brotherhood Spring may soon reach the conclusion he is caught in a
trap of his, and his father's making.
For
too long, Congress has been a bystander as successive administrations
have involved the United States in conflicts that should be carefully
considered. Democratic Congressman Peter Welch, who came to Congress as
an outspoken critic of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has for a
number of years argued that "it is time for the United States to return
to a responsible foreign policy."
The
2A backlash against Yewman was so retaliatory, it included publication
of her home address and led to MS magazine's decision to scrap the
rest of the series
The
US government only rewards bad behavior. The US government consistently
rewards those who conspire against the elected governments of their own
countries, setting them up as dictators when Washington overthrows the
elected governments. Washington has proven conclusively that it has no
respect for anyone's human rights, and that it relies on coercion and
violence alone.
By Dave Lefcourt
Retired General James Cartwright Named by Justice Department as "Person of Interest" 
Obama's
Justice Dep't just named retired General James Cartwright the former
Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman & former part of Obama's inner circle as a
person of interest for allegedly leaking info about Stuxnet the secret
cyberwarfare virus that attacked Iran's computers controlling the
enrichment of uranium. Look @ Stuxnet for what it truly was; an act of
war on another country. Cartwright knew it & why he may have leaked
it.
Taiwanese animators use their imagination to explain Wendy Davis' filibuster.
Helen Keller was infinitely more than I ever realized. You may say the same after reading this...
Can
we afford not to educate our young people in a world of competitive
countries with growing middle classes who want the same things we want.
Nicco Mele says that Radical Connectivity is changing everyting-- ending the power of big, giving power to small.
By
creating a small electrical field that removes salts from seawater,
chemists have introduced a new method for the desalination of seawater
that consumes less energy and is dramatically simpler than conventional
techniques. The new method requires so little energy that it can run on a
store-bought battery.
A team of engineers has devised a new fiber optic technology that promises to increase bandwidth dramatically.
The
U.S. Army is blocking all internet access to the Guardian's coverage of
the NSA spying scandal to prevent service members and military
employees from leaking information themselves, the Monterey Herald
revealed Thursday.
By Franklin Lamb
White House threatens aid cut-off if Palestine joins the ICC "Gone are the days when those who commit international crimes
New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Friday vetoed a bill that attempted
to make the state's expansion of Medicaid eligibility permanent under
the healthcare law known as Obamacare, his office said. Christie's
office announced he vetoed eight bills that "would add potentially
hundreds of millions of dollars to state and local budgets." He also
signed a $32.9 billion budget and three other bills.
Ahmed
Abu Ali was born to Palestinian parents in Houston, Texas, in 1981 and
was the valedictorian of his high school class in Alexandria, Virginia.
In 2000, he received a scholarship to study at the Islamic University of
Medina in Saudi Arabia, so he left the University of Maryland to pursue
a degree in Islamic Studies. He was one year away from graduating
before his life would change forever.
Senator
Ron Wyden (D-OR) is leading a group of 26 senators -- 22 Democrats,
three Republicans and one Independent -- in demanding answers from
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Senator Wyden has only
said that Clapper didn't give a "straight answer." In the wake of
revelations of massive data collection leaked by former NSA contractor
Edward Snowden, the senator is obviously interested in giving the
director another opportunity to answer in a forthright manner.
By Elayne Clift
Finding Balance in a Dangerous, High Tech World Fnding a balance between an abundance of caution in matters of security and our fundamental right to privacy challenges all of us.
U.S.
leaders have never acknowledged their responsibility for ruining so
many lives, let alone apologized or made proper amends to the survivors.
Those responsible have not been punished, but rewarded. The memory of
it has been erased from national consciousness, as U.S. leaders
endlessly declare their nation's, and their own, goodness.
The
modern Republican Party and its chic libertarians have dallied with
white supremacists as a political necessity, because blacks and other
minorities have rallied to the Democrats due to their better civil
rights record. But the Right's dancing with the racist devil is not new.
It's as old as the Founding.
The
economy doesn't contain a fixed number of jobs to be divided up among
people who need them. As an economy grows, it creates more jobs. And
what we've seen over the last 200 years is that new immigrants to
America fuel that growth, and thereby create more jobs for everyone.
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Signs of Cracks Within?
An oncoming crisis that is about to hit Pakistan: three extremist religious parties on a collision course.
An overview of Obama's June 25th Climate Change speech at Georgetown University.
Has
the story arc for Journalism in America gone from Edward R. Murrow's
"This is London calling" to a comic book hero with weird glasses in less
that 75 years?
Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking still at large in Burma
The total opium-poppy cultivation area in Myanmar in 2012 was estimated at 51,000 ha, a 17% increase from the 43,600 ha cultivation area in 2011. In 2012, potential opium production increased by 13% to 690 mt. During the year, an estimated 300,000 households were involved in opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar.
At the core of Wendy Davis's fight for a woman's rights is the filibuster, used by Republicans to block the will of the people.
Agents Provacateurs and Informants are Everywhere
From personal experience, Todd Gitlin and Tom Engelhardt describe a few of the tentacles of the Federal agencies that sow seeds of violence and hatred in our movements for peace and justice, just to justify prosecution and police brutality against peaceful protests.  Best News Links from the Web
The
Army admitted Thursday to not only restricting access to The Guardian
news website at the Presidio of Monterey, as reported in Thursday's
Herald, but Armywide. Presidio employees said the site had been blocked
since The Guardian broke stories on data collection by the National
Security Agency.
America
is the richest country on Earth. We have the most millionaires, the
most billionaires and our wealthiest citizens have garnered more of the
planet's riches than any other group in the world. We even have hedge
fund managers who make in one hour as much as the average family makes
in 21 years! This opulence is supposed to trickle down to the rest of
us, improving the lives of everyday Americans. At least that's what
free-market cheerleaders repeatedly promise us. Unfortunately, it's a
lie, one of the biggest ever perpetrated on the American people. Our
middle class is falling further and further behind in comparison to the
rest of the world. We keep hearing that America is number one. Well,
when it comes to middle-class wealth, we're number 27.
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