Category: News Updates

News Digest July 13, 2015

The “Euro Family” Has It is Capable of Real Cruelty by Suzanne Moore Israel Could Lose $40 Billion a Year if Subject to BDS Boycott by Michael Whitton Iran, 6 World Powers Agree to Partially Lift Arms Embargo Russia Today Alternative Right Podcast: The Greek Crisis and the […]

News Digest July 12, 2015

Iran Nuclear Deal Expected on Sunday by Kelly Cohen and Barbara Boland The U.S.-Russia Economic War Heats Up by Eric Draitser This Week in Police Brutality and Corruption by Randa Morris Man Dies After Getting Pepper-Sprayed by the Police by Holly Yan U.S. State Department Denies Visas for […]

News Digest July 11, 2015

Obama to Be to the First President to Visit a Federal Prison by Chancellor Agard Tennessee Legalizes Breaking Into Cars to Save Pets Russian Today Civil Disobedience in the Disunited States by Patrick Buchanan Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial on its 90th Anniversary Nashville Scene Former Virginia Governor […]

News Digest July 10, 2015

Hows Donald Trump’s Immigration Stance Became a Liability by Peter Beinart South Carolina’s Confederate Flag Comes Down by Jeffery Collins and Meg Kinnard Remembering the U.S. Government’s Secret Human Experiments by Kevin Loria Cops Pulls Rifle on Protestors for Their “Constitutional Bullshit” Countercurrents News Teenage Girl Sentenced to […]

News Digest July 9, 2015

Jill Stein: The Green Party is an Alternative to the “Lesser” Evil Mint Press ISIS Threatens Pyramids, Sphinx as It Begins Attack on Egypt by Jamie Seidel Time Warner Forced to Pay Woman $229, 500 for 153 Mistaken Robocalls by  Janet Allon House Votes to Ban Confederate Flags […]

News Digest July 8, 2015

A New Era of Extremist Politics in Greece by Daphne Halikiopoulou YPG/YPJ Fighters Detained in Spain by Angry Tumblr Person FBI, DOJ, IRS Plot Against Political Opponents? by Michael Schaus U.S. Muslim Groups Launch Fundraiser to Help Rebuild Burned Black Churches by Renee Lewis Man Released from Jail […]

News Digest July 7, 2015

New Book: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado The Necessity of Greece’s Separation by Noah Millman Gay Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness by Noah Millman Arizona Cops Publicize All Phone Contacts of Suspected Sex Businesses by Elizabeth Nolan Brown Why Hardly Anyone Dies […]

News Digest July 6, 2015

Greece-What You Are Not Being Told by the Media by Chris Kanthan Greece Just Taught Capitalists a Lesson About What Capitalism Really Means by Jim Edwards Trump and the Myth of Immigrant Crime by Steve Chapman Police Report Says Natasha McKenna Was Killed While Handcuffed and Shackled Countercurrents […]

News Digest July 5, 2015

His Benefits Were Cut, So He Robbed a Bank South Wales Evening Post Marijuana for Veterans with PTSD is Finally Going to Be Legal Countercurrents News While Americans Enjoy 4th, Government Wants to Regulate Fireworks, BBQ, Sparklers by Mike Miller The Forgotten Story of Iran Air Flight 655 […]

News Digest July 4, 2015

U.S. Public Opinion is Gradually Turning Against the Death Penalty by Christina Sturbenz Owners of Oregon Bakery That Refused to Bake Gay Wedding Cake Fined $135,000 by Oliver Darcy 200 Years of U.S. Military Interventions by Jennifer Baker Islamic State Posts Photos of Militants Taking a Sledgehammer to […]

News Digest July 3, 2015

Bernie Sanders: Populist or Opportunist? by Stephen Lendman U.S. Police Killings Headed for 1100 This Year, Blacks Twice as Likely to Die The Guardian Julian Assange Seeks Asylum in France Russia Today How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Run America by Sara Robinson Is […]

News Digest July 2, 2015

Many Applies for Marriage License to Have Two Wives by Jon Street German Ethics Council Calls for Incest Between Siblings to be Legalized Zurmat.Com For Anarchist, Details of Life as an FBI Target by Colin Moynihan and Scott Shane This Professor Was Fired for Saying “Fuck No” in […]

News Digest July 1, 2015

Marriage Equality: Don’t Let the Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good by Cory Massimo Inequality, the State, and the Left by Chris Dillow Can You Be a Waitress and a Feminist? by Brittany Bronson Private Prisons to Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates Free Labor Countercurrents […]

News Digest June 30, 2105

SWAT Raids Wrong Home, Breaks Windows, Then Issues Citation for Broken Windows Free Thought Project Rand Paul Becomes the First Major Party Presidential Candidate to Court Pot Donors Rare.Us Hillary Clinton is a Gift to the Global Elite by W. James Antle III How Campus Feminism Infantilizes Women […]

News Digest June 29, 2015

Should We Lower the Age of Consent to Protect Teenagers? by Amanda Hess Congress Hopes to Tackle Criminal Justice Reform This Year Liberty Unyielding Almost 90 Percent of US Wiretaps Listen for Suspected Drug Deals by Brian Anderson The ACLU Now Opposes Religious Freedom Because Christians Need It […]

News Digest June 28, 2015

Here’s How Much Corporations Paid U.S. Senators to Fast Track the TPP Bill by Nick Sorrentino After Same-Sex Marriage, What’s Next? by Robert P. Jones Should Religious Schools Worry About Losing Their Tax-Exempt Status Over Gay Marriage? by Jason Russell What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs by Sophie […]

News Digest June 27, 2015

Are Leftist, Feminist Kurds About to Deliver the Coup de Grace to ISIL in Syria? by Juan Cole Topple the Cult of the Presidency by Lucy Steigerwald It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy by Fredrik DeBoer Rand Paul Takes a Stand by Justin Raimondo Keynes, the Great Depression, and […]

“Angry Pirate” and other GCHQ BS Wheezes

Picture:  Banksy’s recent artwork in Cheltenham; home of GCHQ GCHQ (Government Communications Head Quarters) is the British state’s electronic spy organisation. In theory these guys are supposed to be providing intelligence for the security services in relation to people who might be considering blowing stuff up. In practice, […]

No Cake? No Peace!

Some Gay Cake Nazis earlier today Several times I’ve seen what I assume was a hypothetical suggestion that PC elites might one day persecute a Xian bakery for refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding .  Well, that day has now arrived (more or less).  The […]

Paradox Polemics

A new blog established by some friends of ATS. Check it out. The Week in Bullshit March 27, 2014: Nickelodeon, Normandy and Empirical Evidence Edition By The Digger Nickelodeon Taken Seriously Nick Cannon is a former Nickelodeon star. As far as I can decipher, this is his claim […]

Dissident News Update August 7, 2012

WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERS EXECUTIVE ORDER, LEAVES INTERNET TAKEOVER A POSSIBILITY The White House has left open the possibility of enacting its Internet agenda via executive order after the failed effort to bring the Democrat-supported cybersecurity bill to a full vote in the Senate last week. In response to […]

Dissident News Update July 29, 2012

DOJ: SPEECH MIGHT NOT BE SO ‘FREE’ IF IT’S AGAINST ISLAM Thought your free speech rights, those given by God and protected by the U.S. Constitution, were assured in the United States? Well, maybe. A representative of Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has refused – over and over […]

Dissident News Update July 14, 2012

Fidel in Haiku Mode NELSON P. VALDES Recently a number of journalists and commentators have wandered whether Fidel Castro has lost his marbles [or as… Obamacare Wins, We Lose JOHN STAUBER It was a brilliant move by far Right (but oh so likable) Chief Justice Roberts to side with… Why […]

Dissident News Update July 7, 2012

A Groundswell of Activism Against Drones Activist opposition to Washington’s new affinity with unmanned aerial vehicles for use in surveillance and war is growing by the day. Anti-drone campaigns are now established in New York, Nevada, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, as well as a growing movement […]

Dissident News Update June 22, 2012

The Continuing Economic Crisis by Tim Kelly Twelve Victims of the Drug War by Laurence M. Vance The Jacob Hornberger Show: June 17, 2011 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Natural Right to Be Free by Laurence M. Vance The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners by Andy Worthington Slow, Predictable Hearing on Fast […]