Stephen Hawking | What's Happening in Syria Is an Abomination

FOCUS: Steve Weissman | Obama's Global Gamble on Iran: What Do We All Stand to Win or Lose?

Steve Weissman, Reader Supported News
Weissman writes: "Like premature reports of Mark Twain's death, complaints that the Obama is pulling back from the Middle East are greatly exaggerated, and for reasons that are not what they seem."
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Stephen Hawking | What's Happening in Syria Is an Abomination

Steven Hawking, Guardian UK
Hawking writes: "What's happening in Syria is an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance. Where is our emotional intelligence, our sense of collective justice?"
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Peter Van Buren | Drone Killing the Fifth Amendment
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch
Van Buren writes: "Now, if you were plotting to kill an American over coffee, you could end up in jail on a whole range of charges including - depending on the situation - terrorism. However, if the president’s doing the killing, it's all nice and - let's put those quote marks around it - 'legal.'"
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Robert Parry | Does Nixon's 'Treason' Boost LBJ's Legacy
Robert Parry, Consortium News
Parry writes: "LBJ's ranking might change if the new evidence on Richard Nixon sabotaging LBJ's Vietnam peace talks were factored in."
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Journalists Who Broke NSA Story Receive George Polk Awards
Martin Pengelly, Guardian UK
Pengelly reports: "The three journalists who broke the National Security Agency revelations from Edward Snowden in the Guardian are among the recipients of the prestigious 2013 George Polk Awards in Journalism."
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UN Report Details North Korea's 'Crimes Against Humanity'
Mark Memmott, National Public Radio
'ccording to U.N. investigators, 'the gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.'' Mark Memmott, NPR
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The Sochi Games Are Being Held on the Land of Genocide
Dave Zirin, The Nation
Excerpt: "If you look at history, we've been there for thousands of years, up until 1864 when Russia and the Czar Nicholas I culminated a 101-year war by eradicating, erasing Circassians from history."
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Radiation Leak Detected at New Mexico Waste Facility
Laura Zuckerman, Reuters
Zuckerman reports: "Underground sensors have detected excessive radiation levels inside a nuclear waste storage site deep below New Mexico's desert."
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