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No-Confidence Vote in Ukraine Fails
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Ukraine's opposition has failed in its attempt to force out the government with a no-confidence vote in parliament.The failure leaves Ukraine's...
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Iran Doesn't Want Afghanistan to Sign US Deal
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Iran's foreign ministry on Tuesday asked Afghanistan not to sign a security deal with the U.S. that could keep thousands of American and allied...
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Kurds' Oil Deals With Turkey Raise Fears of Fissures in Iraq
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]The sharp, dry mountains that run between Turkey and Iraq have long marked a front line in the battle between the Turkish government and Kurdish...
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Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Warning: This looks like reliable info because it's mostly sourced from Google's own disclosure, however the media source "Truthout" has not always...
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Get Your Fake Conscience Objections Off My Lawn -A Quaker's View of Hobby...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Excellent insight!The Green Family, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, has asked the US Supreme Court to grant them 'conscience...
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At a Catholic Hospital, a Dispute Over What a Doctor Can Do - and Say -...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]A dispute between a Colorado cardiologist and the hospital he works for has highlighted a growing area of concern among patient advocates and civil...
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Researchers Say They've Successfully Tested Male Contraceptive Pill for Mice
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]WOOT!A contraceptive pill for men has moved one step closer after Australian researchers successfully made male mice infertile, according to a study...
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Former Alabama Klansman and Mother Arrested in 2009 Cross Burning
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]A former Ku Klux Klan leader in Alabama and his mother, who also was a Klan member, face federal charges related to a 2009 cross burning in a...
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Forward Progressives -- Georgia Republican Brags About Sabotaging Obamacare...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]It comes as no surprise to liberals when we hear about efforts by conservatives to do whatever they can to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (aka...
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Abortion Services Restored at Whole Woman's Health in Fort Worth, Texas
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]A reproductive health-care clinic that was recently forced to close due to stringent restrictions passed by the Texas legislature has once again...
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Medicaid Expansion's Tale of Two States: Kentucky 'Haves' vs. Indiana...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Lorinda Fox of New Albany, Ind., hasn't been to a doctor since her last child was born 21 years ago. Poor and uninsured, she treats her illnesses...
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Roe at Risk: Fighting for Reproductive Justice - VIDEO
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]YouTubeAFJ's 2013 First Monday documentary on the threats to reproductive justice - and how to fight back. More at www.roeatrisk.org
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How the Pentagon Spends $11 Billion Weekly
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]YouTube$6.2 Billion are being spent by the Pentagon weekly on defense projects that are outsourced to contractors, plus an additional $5 Billion...
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The Supreme Court Should Adhere to Scientific Definitions When Hearing...
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]There are a number of important issues at play in these cases, but a central one should be this: must the law accommodate those whose religious...
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Six of the Top Ten US Billionaires Are Kochs and Waltons
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]For the first time ever, according to Forbes magazine, the 400 richest Americans have more than $2 trillion in combined wealth. And, a fifth of that...
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Clear Channel Burning Cash to Delay Reckoning
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Clear Channel Communications Inc. is offering to double interest to push out maturities on some of the $4.3 billion it owes, just as the...
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Postscript: Saul Leiter (1923-2013)
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]"Taxi" (1957) by Saul LeiterThe first commercially available color photographic process, Autochrome, was introduced in the United States in 1907....
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Power Struggle: Green Energy Versus a Grid That's Not Ready
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]US Power grid image - Courtesy FEMAFew of us realize the engineering and design implications of our power grid. The paragraphs quoted below are just...
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Of #FastTailedGirls and Freedom
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]When Hood Feminism started the #FastTailedGirls tag on Twitter Saturday, thousands of women came together in an outpouring of emotion. Like a lot of...
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How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme--Again
Direct link to article... [littlegreenfootballs.com]Mother Jones reports: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme--AgainYou can hardly turn on the television or open a...
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