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All News Articles for 2013-10-16

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
	Obama Admin Tries to Block Supreme Court Review of NSA Spying The Obama Administration is asking the Supreme Court not to hear a challenge to the National Security Agency's telephone records collection program. Read more
	The Tea Party and the Suppression of the Left Richard Wolff explains the history behind the Tea Party Read more
	Clintons' Pet Project for Privatized 'Aid' to Haiti Stealing Workers' Wages: Report 'This calls into question the sustainability and effectiveness of relying on the garment industry to lead Haiti's reconstruction' Read more
	Amid 'Plummeting Morale' Experts Concerned Fukushima Workers 'Will Collapse First' 'Mistakes are often linked to morale,' warns Japan nuclear regulator Read more
	Doctors Without Borders: Where's the Urgency Over Humanitarian Aid to Syria? While world mobilized rapid response to chemical weapons, little political will to help those caught in path of war Read more
	Nearly $7 Billion a Year: The Public Cost of Low-Wage Fast-Food Jobs 52% of the workers, including those who work full-time, forced to rely on safety net programs Read more
	Outsourced Cities, Brought to You by CH2M Hill When the town of Sandy Springs, Georgia, spun-off from Fulton County and established a brand new government, it didn't sign a Declaration of Independence; it signed a contract. Read more
	House in Chaos as Default Nears Hours before the U.S. will hit its debt ceiling, chaos reigns in the House and an uncertain future for how to prevent a first-of-its-kind default. Read more
	No Safe Havens in Increasingly Acid Oceans Oil, gas and coal are contaminating the world’s oceans from top to bottom, threatening the lives of more than 800 million people, a new study warns Tuesday. “It took a year to analyse and synthesise all of the studies on the impacts of climate change on ocean species,” Camilo Mora, an ecologist at University of Hawai‘i in Honolulu and lead author, told IPS. Mora is also lead author of ground-breaking climate study published in Nature last week. Read more