As the US government went back to work for its first fully operational day in over two weeks, President Barack Obama addressed the nation Thursday morning from the White House, chastising Republican lawmakers who led the country so close to default. Hours after authorizing a deal that allowed the US government to open back up for business, [...]

Abby Martin calls out the corporate media for its coverage of 16 year old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai, highlighting her heroism promoting education against the Taliban, but omitting her important message to Obama about ending US drone strikes in her home country. [...]

Serenoa repens, better known as Saw Palmetto, is a plant native to North America. Native Americans have used it for centuries as a tonic, topical cleanser against germs, and to remedy urinary and reproductive disorders in men. [1] European and American settlers used saw palmetto for a wide range of ailments. [...]

Lawmakers in the Senate are weighing a bipartisan bill that is expected to re-open the United States government and save the country from default. During an early afternoon hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) acknowledged, “The eyes of the world have been on Washington all this week, and that is a gross understatement. [...]

Abby Martin breaks through the bogus history taught in American schools regarding Christopher Columbus. [...]

Coconut oil is a popular cooking oil and thought to be a healthy alternative to unhealthy oils. Here we take a look at a few of its lesser known qualities. Everything from the coconut water, to the leaves, to the kernel hull have characteristics that are beneficial to human health. [...]

In a 1967 interview, "What I Believe," John Lennon opened up to the world about how he discovered God. "You don't have to have a great faith or anything. The whole thing is so simple -- as though it's too marvelous to be true," Lennon said of discovering Transcendental Meditation in India with guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, during the interview with The Daily Sketch. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) has a suggestion for any of the hundreds of thousands of furloughed government workers worried about being able to pay their bills: take out a loan! In a post on his personal Facebook page that was later deleted, Pearce urged government workers to call their banks and take out a short-term loan if money is tight. [...]

Late in the evening on September 30, 2013, the House Rules Committee Republicans changed the Rules of the House so that the ONLY Member allowed to call up the Senate's clean CR for a vote was Majority Leader Eric Cantor or his designee -- all but guaranteeing the government would shut down a few hours later and would stay shut down. Previously, any Member would have had the right to bring the CR u [...]

According to the U.S. Senate, the individual right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment is debatable. A Senate.gov guide to the Constitution contains an “explanation” next to every section and amendment of America’s founding document. The Second Amendment guarantees, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and [...]

The effectiveness of the Indian government in evacuating people from the path of a deadly cyclone and the ineffectiveness of the US government to protect its own people from natural disasters. The corporate takeover of public education in America, speaking with Diablo Valley College Professor Adam [...]

The ‘shutdown’ of the US government and the financial climax associated with a deadline date, leading to a possible ‘debt default’ by the federal government, is a money-making undertaking for Wall Street. Several overlapping political and economic agendas are unfolding. [...]

A documentary about cannabis in the UK. It looks at the history of the plant, the facts, its many uses and the laws and politics surrounding it. Follow two young filmmakers on a shoe string budget, as they try to unravel what prohibition of cannabis really means, who it affects, who profits from it and why it was prohibited in the first place. Featuring interviews with; a cannabis activist, a hyd [...]

The first videos of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden have surfaced since he received asylum in Russia. The footage, provided by WikiLeaks, was taken during the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence awards ceremony. [...]

The National Security Agency is logging hundreds of millions of email and instant messaging contacts belonging to Americans and others around the world, according to a report based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. [...]

A US debt default could hit on Thursday, and world leaders are second guessing the dominant role America plays in finance. Regardless of the final decision in Washington, confidence and credibility in the US has already eroded. In an editorial published by the Chinese state-owned press agency Xinhua, a columnist says the US economy has ‘failed’ and put many countries who hold state assets in d [...]

We have an abundant cleaner and more efficient forms of energy in our environment. In order to extract these forms of energy, we need to understand them better. During the past one hundred years, many scientists and inventors, such as Nikola Tesla, Tariel Kapanadze, John Searl, and Stanley Meyer, etc., have performed experiments to prove the existence of such energy sources and some of them have p [...]

Some 9,000 activists took to the streets of Tokyo on Sunday to protest nuclear power. The march comes as Japanese authorities are considering restarting the country's nuclear reactors, which were shut down in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. [...]

42 years after Vietnam testimony, Kerry returns to Congress with Syria plea. In 1971, a young Naval lieutenant named John Kerry pleaded with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to stop a war. Four decades later, Kerry will return to that same committee table, this time as Secretary of State, to advocate for U.S. military action in Syria. [...]

Now anyone in the world can seek out your facebook profile. Over the years Facebook has been slowly scaling back their privacy settings, taking more and more control away from the user. One recent change that has been upsetting Facebook users is the fact that now anyone can find your profile by searching your name in their database. [...]

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Abby Martin speaks with Michael Ruppert, investigative journalist and author of "Crossing the Rubicon," about destructive energy policies, the global energy crisis and the potential for a collapse of industrial civilization as we know it unless people become more than just passive actors. Peter Schiff Warns of Economic Collapse and Martial law “Dollar valueless, about to [...]