MEDIA
FAIR: Watch The Mainstream Media’s Big 3 Blunders This Week Corporate media won’t tell you why we really don’t have a surgeon general By Peter Hart
FOREIGN POLICY
Compare How U.S. Responds to the Killing of American Kids Based on Identity of the Killers By Glenn Greenwald
The True History of Blowback in One Sentence by Will Rivers – Pitt
Treating Putin Like a Lunatic By Robert Parry
Why American Exceptionalism Is Inherently Immoral The country is not a child and we shouldn’t have unconditional love for it
CIVIL LIBERTIES
The Methodical Media Framing of Michael Brown so the Shooter Can Inevitably Go Free “Thug” is a contemporary and more polite version of the ugly N-word
Racism as Government Policy A Short History of “Black Paranoia”
9 Events Which Created the Environment for America’s Emerging Police State Authoritarianism creeps in slowly
Snowden Vindicated—’Citizenfour’ Documentary Untangles the NSA Leak Saga Laura Poitras unpacks a historic intel controversy
POLITICS
6 Reasons Elizabeth Warren Should Run for President By Ezra Klein
Neo-Liberals be Damned Let the Democrats Rot
As Bitter as Ever The ‘Medicine’ of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Did Elizabeth Warren Just Open the Door to a White House Run? After months of insisting that a 2016 bid is off the table, the Massachusetts senator sounds a different note
Ebola Panic Is Straight From the Twilight Zone By Frank Rich
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ENVIRONMENT
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