NATIONAL SECURITY
Journalist Risen: ‘Mercenary Class’ Now Permanent Fixture in National Security State
James Risen Prepared to “Pay Any Price” to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers
Prepare Your Children for “a Lifetime of Surveillance”
FAIR: Official Sources May Be the Only Sources
Reality of National Security State Trumps ‘Delusions’ of U.S. Democracy
MEDIA
FAIR: A Most Interesting Man: Did Maddow Really ‘Tar’ Rand Paul on Civil Rights? by
Interview with Michael Arria, author of “Medium Blue: the Politics of MSNBC”
CLIMATE CHANGE
2014 Set to be Hottest Year in Recorded Human History: NOAA
POLITICS
No Republican Wave: Senate Polls Show More Good News For Democrats
How The Republican Party Began Their War Against Women By Defeating The Equal Rights Amendment
Corrupt Corporate Dems And Corrupt Corporate Republicans Team Up To Save The Export-Import Bank
Meet The Republican Wing Of The Democratic Party– Still Undermining The Affordable Care Act
FOREIGN POLICY
Dark Clouds Loom By Noam Chomsky
Bill Maher and Sam Harris’ proof is wrong: Their argument is based on an untrustworthy poll
Reza Aslan on What the New Atheists Get Wrong About Islam
A Secular History of Islam by TARIQ ALI
George W. Bush: The Gift That Keeps on Giving By William Rivers Pitt
Who’s winning the war against ISIS? No contest: it’s American arms manufacturers by Robert Fisk
US-Backed Ukraine Army Used Cluster Bombs Against Its Own People: Reports
EBOLA