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pBy Steven Hsieh - May 1, 2013/p pA Florida teen with an exemplary record is facing federal charges after conducting what a classmate calls “a science project gone bad”...16-year-old Kiera Wilmot is accused of mixing housing chemicals in a small water bottle at Bartow High School, causing the cap to fly off and produce a bit of smoke. The experiment was conducted outdoors, no property was damaged, and no one was injured. /p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/16yearold_girl_arrested_and_charged_felony_science_project_mistake target=_blankread more/a/p

pBig Brother no longer is fiction. It hasn't been for some time. It's official US policy./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/institutionalized_spying_americans_0 target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Alex Lantier - 1 May 2013/p pSenior Obama administration officials announced yesterday that the United States will directly arm the Islamist opposition fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. This came as another terror bombing hit the Syrian capital, Damascus, amid a wave of bombings carried out by the US-backed opposition./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/us_pledges_arm_syrian_opposition_new_terror_bombing_hits_damascus target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Yves Engler - Znet Commentary/p pCars kill...but do they also destroy our sense of community and solidarity that is the foundation of socialism and progressive politics?...In North America there is a strong correlation between automobile-dominated landscapes and right-wing voting patterns...Right-wing politics generally intensify as suburbs sprawl further outwards./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/killing_communities target=_blankread more/a/p

pThings appear heading closer toward full-scale US intervention. The fullness of time will have final say./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/syria_upping_stakes target=_blankread more/a/p

pBoth men represent the nation's ruling class. They want more wealth transferred from ordinary people to corporate America and privileged elites like themselves. They're back with plan B. /p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/simpsonbowles_20 target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Bill Van Auken - 30 April 2013/p pIn preparation for a US war against Syria, Washington’s political establishment and the corporate media are steadily escalating a campaign of lies and propaganda about the alleged use of chemical weapons...The cutthroats braying for war against Syria out of supposed concern over the use of chemical weapons have already killed a million Iraqis and hundreds of thousands of Afghans...and they are prepared to slaughter millions more people./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/braying_war_against_syria target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Jon Queally - April 30, 2013/p pRecessions hurt, but austerity kills...Despite assurances by financial elites that austerity economics is a prescription to improve the lives of the masses, research contained in a newly published book shows that the push for steep cuts in wages, social programs, and public health programs is literally killing people throughout Europe and the US./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/economic_austerity_us_and_europe_killing_people target=_blankread more/a/p

pIsrael wages war on humanity. It persecutes Palestinians many ways. It does so with impunity./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/israels_war_fishing_rights target=_blankread more/a/p

pObama abhors peace. He prioritizes war. His appetite exceeds his predecessors and then some. It's insatiable./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/us_false_flag_pretext_war_syria target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Dave Zirin - April 25, 2013/p pWhy did Newark’s only movie theater, co-owned by Shaquille O’Neal, just pull a scheduled showing of a documentary about Mumia Abu-Jamal? No one is talking, but this is a story that stinks worse than the Jersey swamps...When O’Neal purchased the theater, he held a press conference...and pointedly thanked “the Newark Police Department” which “helped raise” him. The future Hall of Famer has long held court about his dreams of becoming a police officer. He has been sworn in as a “reserve police officer” in both Miami and Los Angeles. /p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/did_shaquille_oneal_just_box_out_mumia target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Eric Walberg - Dissident Voice/p pThe world is taking note of the ruling Conservatives’ shameful betrayal of Canada’s once admirable reputation as a fair country, sincerely working on the world stage to improve the lot of the disadvantaged and suffering. In the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review, Canada was criticized to such an extent that the Council decided to send the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and representatives of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, to investigate./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/human_rights_canada_dock target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Derrick O'Keefe - April 22, 2013/p pB.C. is a province awash in wealth, much of it on ostentatious display. There is simply no excuse for anyone to be malnourished, homeless and otherwise severely indigent...The tepid promises of the B.C. [New Democratic Party] on welfare rates indicate that even with the B.C. Liberals out, neoliberalism will remain mostly in command – for now. Reversing this state of affairs is an ideological and political battle that must continue, one step at a time./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/bc_ndp_campaign_promises_disappoint_antipoverty_activists target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Gamini Karunasena and Evan Weerasinghe - 29 April 2013/p pEvidence is mounting that a mass grave found recently in Sri Lanka, containing hundreds of dead bodies, could be a burial site for some of the tens of thousands of rural youth massacred under the United National Party (UNP) government of President R. Premadasa between 1988 and 1990...Altogether, 154 skeletons and material were examined using forensic and archaeological techniques, which indicated that the deaths were caused by blunt instruments, as well as gunshots and decapitation./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/sri_lankan_mass_grave_recalls_rural_massacres target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy John Pilger - Znet Commentary/p pMore than any colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to a wilful ignorance or indifference. When I was at school in Sydney, standard texts often dismissed the most enduring human entity on earth: the indigenous first Australians. “It was quite useless to treat them fairly,” wrote the historian Stephen Roberts, “since they were completely amoral and incapable of sincere and prolonged gratitude.” His acclaimed colleague Russel Ward was succinct: “We are civilized today and they are not.” /p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/australia_inside_state_imprisonment target=_blankread more/a/p

pIt's unaffordable. It doesn't protect. It under-insures. It forces millions to choose between life or debt. It reflects irresponsible governance. Obama bears full responsibility./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/obamacare_unaffordable_coverage target=_blankread more/a/p

pAmerica's business is war. Permanent wars reflect official US policy. They're glorified in the name of peace./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/americas_addiction_waging_war_humanity target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Alejandro López - WSWS/p pSpanish people have come to dread governmental announcements made on Fridays after the Council of Ministers meeting. The weekly custom is for Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría of the ruling Popular Party (PP) to announce cuts in public spending, tax increases and new attacks on the living standards of workers./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/spanish_government_announces_more_austerity_unemployment_soars target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Gabriel Schivone - April 24 2013/p p...Israel “didn’t send down congressmen, human rights activists or priests” to strengthen Israel’s special relationship with Guatemala. Israel “taught the Guatemalans how to build an airbase. They set up their intelligence network, tried and tested on the [Israeli-occupied Palestinian] West Bank and Gaza, designed simply to beat the Guerilla.”/p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/israel%E2%80%99s_proxy_war_guatemala target=_blankread more/a/p

pBy Michael Harris - April 25, 2013/p pThere is more than a whiff of political opportunism in the air...When a prime minister’s favorite part of the justice system is the police, it is a proclivity that bears watching./p pa href=http://mostlywater.org/we_have_new_antiterror_bill_anyone_else_terrified target=_blankread more/a/p