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Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize as U.S. Opposes Calls for WMD-Free Middle East; Worse Than Nixon? Committee to Protect Journalists Warns About Obama Crackdown on Press Freedom; “500 People Will Control American Democracy” If Supreme Court Overturns Campaign Finance Law. HeadlinesOctober 11, 2013 Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize Alice Munro … Continued
3 Months After Morsi Coup & Hundreds of Deaths, U.S. Scales Back Military Aid to Egyp; Report Finds Police Worldwide Criminalize Dissent, Assert New Powers in Crackdown on Protests; “Edward Snowden Has Done This Country A Service”: ACLU Praises Leaker For Kickstarting NSA Debate; Rep. Raúl Grijalva on Gov’t Shutdown & Why the Impasse Won’t … Continued
Taking on Capitalism, U.S. Torture & Dictatorships, Costa-Gavras on Decades of Political Filmmaking. HeadlinesOctober 9, 2013 Obama Rejects GOP “Extortion” on Shutdown, Debt Ceiling Path to Short-Term Funding Deal Emerges; Dems Reject Supercommittee Debt Default Could Stall Social Security Benefits Obama Picks Yellen to Head Federal Reserve Supreme Court Weighs Limits on Individual Campaign … Continued
From Caspian Sea to Arctic to Middle East, How Oil Pipelines Threaten Democracy & Planet’s Survival. HeadlinesOctober 8, 2013 Parties Trade Blame as Government Shutdown Enters 8th Day Military Contractors Head to Work Despite Gov’t Furloughs DOJ Asks for Delay in NSA Case Due to Shutdown Brazilian President Demands Explanation from Canada over Spying … Continued
Computer Glitches Plague Obamacare Launch as New York Accidentally Says Site Won’t Be Up Until 3013; Is Obamacare Enough? Without Single-Payer, Patchwork U.S. Healthcare Leaves Millions Uninsured; Lavabit: How One Company Refused to Give FBI “Unrestricted” Access to Emails of 400,000 Customers. HeadlinesOctober 7, 2013 U.S. Forces Stage Military Raids in Libya, Somalia Al-Qaeda … Continued
“A Corporate Trojan Horse”: Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws; As Congress Stalls on Immigration Deal, Obama Poised to Deport Two Millionth Immigrant; “Undocumented and Unafraid”: 30 Immigrants Detained Crossing Into U.S. at Border Protest; Max Blumenthal on “Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel.” HeadlinesOctober 4, 2013 … Continued
“Dramatic, Painful” Government Shutdown Disproportionately Impacts Working Poor, People of Color; Has GOP Already Defeated Obamacare? State Opt-Outs Leave Millions of Poor Without Health Insurance; “Imperialism & Fundamentalism Have Joined Hands”: Malalai Joya on 12 Years of U.S.-Led Afghan War. HeadlinesOctober 3, 2013 Obama “Exasperated” With GOP Intransigence on Shutdown Medicaid Opt-Out Will Leave … Continued
After 4 Decades in Solitary, Dying Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Freed, Conviction Overturned;Canadian Filmmaker and Doctor Imprisoned in Egypt Without Charges, Abused After Witnessing Massacre. HeadlinesOctober 2, 2013 Dems Reject GOP Effort for Selective Gov’t Funding During Shutdown U.S. Government Shutdown Threatens Services for Low-Income Children, Cancer Patients Shutdown Leads to Closure of … Continued
Tea Party Forces Government Shutdown with Obamacare Revolt; How Will It Impact Ordinary Americans? “The Lawbreaking is Ongoing”: Louisiana Levee Board Sues BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron For Coast Damage; Holding BP Accountable: Environmental Justice Struggle Continues in Gulf Region After 2010 Spill. HeadlinesOctober 1, 2013 Partial Shutdown Begins After Obamacare Impasse Derails Funding Enrollment … Continued
Freed by DNA, Angola Prisoner Henry James on His 30 Years Behind Bars for Crime He Didn’t Commit; Cancer-Stricken Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Given Just Days to Live After 42 Years in Solitary. HeadlinesSeptember 30, 2013 U.S. Faces Government Shutdown in Obamacare Standoff Obama, Rouhani Speak in Phone Call U.N. Security Council Approves … Continued
