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The Economist — http://www.economist.com

• Psychiatry : Shrink wrapping [16 mai]
  THE human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. It contains 100 billion nerve cells. Considering how complex that is, it goes wrong remarkably rarely.But go wrong it sometimes does. Which is why, since 1952, the American Psychiatric Association has published its “Diagnostic and (...)
  
  
• Disaster in Syria : The least-bad choice [16 mai]
  NOTHING in recent years epitomises foreign policy’s “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” dilemma more bloodily than Syria. All options for the West—and especially Barack Obama—are fraught. Do nothing, and the civil war could become twice as murderous, spill into fragile neighbouring states, and (...)
  
  
• Guidance for insects : Brood 2030 [16 mai]
  OVER the next few weeks billions of cicada grubs will awake from 17 years of subterranean slumber and emerge into the bright sunshine of America’s mid-Atlantic states. Their strange cycle has attracted the attention of journalists all over the country. The males will travel in vast swarms, (...)
  
  

TomPaine.com — http://www.tompaine.com/

In These Times — http://www.inthesetimes.com/

• Is Your Town in Transition ? [20 mai]
  When I set out to investigate the appeal of Transition, a sustainability movement that has spread to 1,105 towns in 43 countries over the past eight years, I started with what I thought was a basic question: What are ‘Transition Towns’ transitioning to? "Resilience," I was told. "What does that (...)
  
  
• Woodstock in Transition [20 mai]
  I was away from home on Aug. 29, 2011, when Hurricane Irene cut a devastating path inland through New York state and into Vermont, leaving a deep, impassable ditch across my road, south of Woodstock, N.Y. When I returned, I learned that men who had never before said more than a passing “hello” (...)
  
  
• Not Your Grandma’s Wooden Nickel [19 mai]
  The American idiom “Don’t take any wooden nickels!” predates the 1930s, but that era’s bank crises did lead to the actual use of wooden currency. When local banks failed or were inaccessible in the Pacific Northwest, some merchants and towns issued wooden money as a stopgap. The wooden nickels (...)
  
  

New Scientist News — http://www.newscientist.com/news/

• The festival year starts here [21 mai]
  It's nearly summertime in the northern half of the world – time to find out what the festivals are laying on to entice the rational reveller
  
  
• B vitamins may slow the advance of Alzheimer’s [20 mai]
  Vitamin supplements seem to prevent atrophy of brain regions such as the hippocampus, which waste away in people with Alzheimer's
  
  
• Why penguins dumped flight for flippers [20 mai]
  Energy profiles of diving seabirds reveal they sacrifice flying efficiency to swim better, edging towards flightlessness
  
  

The Nation — http://www.thenation.com/

• Why Prosecuting Ariel Castro for Murder Won’t Prevent Violence Against Pregnant Women [21 mai] — Crime, Feminism, Reproductive Rights, Politics
  Lynn Paltrow Whatever their intent, laws equating pregnancy termination with murder are used against pregnant women, not for them.
  
  
• Chicago Teachers Union Overwhelmingly Re-Elects Karen Lewis’s CORE Caucus [20 mai] — Education, Labor, Cities
  Micah Uetricht CORE’s victory is a boost to social movement unionism—and a model for other unions around the country.
  
  
• The Case for Hope [20 mai] — Editor's Picks, Politics, Society, World
  Rebecca Solnit It’s a starting point: not the tinder or the blaze but a match, a belief in possibility.
  
  

New Left Review — http://www.newleftreview.org/

Harpers.org — http://www.harpers.org/

• Dan Baum Argues That Efforts to Ban the AR-15 are Hopeless [20 mai] — Précis, Dan Baum, Gun control, Gun violence, Guns, Harper's Magazine
  “The smart question is not ‘How we can ban more guns?’ but ‘How can we live more safely among the millions of guns already floating around?’ ”
  
  
• Gary Greenberg’s “Manufacturing Depression” (2007) [20 mai] — Harper's Finest, Depression, Gary Greenberg, Pharmaceutical industry
  “This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
  
  
• On Gun Control and the Great American Debate Over Individualism [17 mai] — Perspective, 3-D printers, AR-15 rifle, Cody Wilson, Gun control, Individualism
  The firearm as emblem of personal sovereignty
  
  

The Observer — http://observer.guardian.co.uk/

• Oklahoma City tornado : 91 feared dead - live updates [21 mai]
  
  — United States, Blogposts, Oklahoma, Minute by minutes, World news, News, guardian.co.uk, Natural disasters and extreme weather, World news, Resource Content, Oklahoma, Natural disasters and extreme weather, Tornadoes, United States, World news
  A major disaster has been declared in Oklahoma after a tornado struck, killing scores of peopleHaroon Siddique
  
  
• Guatemala overturns former dictator’s genocide conviction [21 mai]
   
  — Americas, World news, News, guardian.co.uk, Guatemala, World news, Article, Guatemala, Americas, World news
  Trial of Efrain Rios Montt, convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity in 1980s, thrown into disarray by court ruling Guatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, ordering that the trial be taken back to the middle of proceedings. The (...)
  
  
• G4S boss Nick Buckles quits [21 mai]
   
  — News, guardian.co.uk, G4S, UK news, Business, Business, Article, G4S, Business, UK news
  Chief executive of world's largest security company steps down ahead of company's AGM, to be replaced by chief financial officer Nick Buckles has unexpectedly quit as chief executive of G4S, the company responsible for the botched handling of security at last year's Olympics. Buckles is being (...)
  
  

Truthout — http://www.truthout.org/articles/feed

• Congress Must Debate the Libya War [Mars 2011]
  
  — Congress, Libya, military, No Fly Zone, Obama, war
  The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds that the (...)
  
  
• News in Brief : Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manning, and More ... [Mars 2011] — Alaska, Ann Wright, Daniel Ellsberg, Japan, Libya, Manning, nuclear power, public radio, Qaddafi
  Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manning read more
  
  
• In This Nuclear World, What Is the Meaning of "Safe" ? [Mars 2011]
  
  — health risk, Japan, nuclear, radiation
  In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and (...)
  
  

Wall Street Journal — http://online.wsj.com

• Burberry Shows Signs of Rebound [21 mai] — PAID
  Burberry showed further signs of recovery after a midyear profit warning, as it reported a rise in full-year revenue and bucked a wider trend in the luxury industry that has seen some of its rivals lose steam in China.
  
  
• G4S Chief Buckles Resigns [21 mai] — PAID
  Security company G4S said Chief Executive Nick Buckles, who was heavily criticized over the company's handling of the London Olympic Games last year, will resign at the end of the month.
  
  
• Oil Futures Rise with Focus on Bernanke [21 mai] — PAID
  Crude oil futures were steady in Asia in sluggish trade, as market participants remained on the sidelines ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.
  
  

The Christian Science Monitor — http://www.csmonitor.com/

Telegraph News | UK News — http://news.telegraph.co.uk

• Shaun Bailey, the Prime Minister’s only black aide, was ’frozen out by David Cameron’s clique’ [10 mai]
  
  Exclusive: Shaun Bailey alleged that he was pushed out of Downing Street by the Prime Minister's "clique" of Old Etonion aides.
  
  
• Nigel Evans : Minister prepared to speak to police about sexual assault allegation [6 mai]
  
  Senior Tory minister will speak to police after being told four years ago about allegation of "inappropriate sexual behaviour".
  
  
• Nigel Evans : Friends back claim that scar was caused by Reiki massage [6 mai]
  
  Senior Tory minister will speak to police after being told four years ago about allegation of "inappropriate sexual behaviour".
  
  

The New York Times — http://www.nytimes.com/

• Guatemala’s Highest Court Overturns Genocide Conviction of Former Dictator [21 mai]
  
  — Decisions and Verdicts, Rios Montt, Efrain, War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Guatemala
  The decision, which rolled back the proceedings to April 19, when a decision by a pretrial judge sent the trial into disarray, is a dramatic legal victory for General Ríos Montt, 86, and a blow to human rights advocates.
  
  
• Guatemala’s Top Court Overturns Genocide Conviction [21 mai]
  Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Monday ordered that the trial of the former dictator Efrain Rios Montt be restarted.
  
  
• Video-on-Demand Viewing Is Gaining Popularity [21 mai]
  
  — Time Warner Cable Inc|TWC|NYSE, Video Recordings and Downloads, Television, Netflix Inc|NFLX|NASDAQ, ABC Inc, Comcast Corporation|CMCSA|NASDAQ, Cable Television
  Although it has been around for years, the technology is catching on among people who want to watch television on their own schedules.
  
  

BBC News — http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/default.stm

• Vodafone sales hit by European slump [21 mai]
  Vodafone's full-year sales slip for the first time in eight years as tough economic conditions in Europe take their toll on customers.
  
  
• BBC Young Musician launches Jazz Award [21 mai]
  The BBC Young Musician of the year launches its 2014 talent search, which includes a new Jazz Award.
  
  
• Ant abilities could aid robot design [21 mai]
  A study showing how ants tunnel their way through confined spaces could aid the design of search and rescue robots, say scientists.
  
  

The New Yorker — http://www.newyorker.com

• S&#248 ;ren K.&#8217 ;s Two-Hundredth Birthday [21 mai]
  William James liked to quote Søren Kierkegaard’s famous assertion that “we live forward, but we understand backwards.” Kierkegaard, the great Danish philosopher of subjectivity, would have been two hundred years old on May 5th, and, looking back, we can (...)
  
  
• Slide Show : Oklahoma in the Tornado&#8217 ;s Wake [21 mai]
  On Monday afternoon, a tornado more than a mile wide rolled through Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, leaving behind scenes of devastation, including the wreckage of the Plaza Towers Elementary School. By midnight Oklahoma...
  
  
• Star Trek&#8217 ;s Best Enemy Gets Reheated [21 mai]
  Was the main reveal in the second movie of the director J. J. Abrams’s “Star Trek”-franchise reboot ever supposed to remain a secret? I think not, but more on that in a moment. First, here it is: (...)
  
  

Dissident Voice — http://www.dissidentvoice.org/

• Raghead the Fiendly Neighborhood Terrorist : Why They Fight [21 mai] — /dev/null, Anti-war, Capitalism, Crimes against Humanity, Middle East, Syria, War Crimes
  “War Is A Racket” ~ Major General Smedley Butler
  
  
• Boycotts Are Double-Edged Swords [20 mai] — Bangladesh, Boycott, Labor, Sweat shop, Unions, Gap, J.C. Penney, Rana Plaza, Sears, Walmart
  Following the April 24 collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed (at last count) 1,127 factory workers, a group of the world’s leading apparel and retail companies got together to adopt a new set of safety rules, in the hope that future (...)
  
  
• Students Stage Checkpoint [20 mai] — Activism, Discrimination, Israel/Palestine, Racism, Students, Middlebury College
  On May 15, students at Middlebury College in Vermont staged a checkpoint outside their dining hall during the busiest meal of the year to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which led to the establishment of the state of Israel. As the Middlebury divestment (...)
  
  

Guardian Unlimited — http://www.guardian.co.uk/

• Oklahoma City tornado : 91 feared dead - live updates [21 mai]
  
  — United States, Blogposts, Oklahoma, Minute by minutes, World news, News, guardian.co.uk, Natural disasters and extreme weather, World news, Resource Content, Oklahoma, Natural disasters and extreme weather, Tornadoes, United States, World news
  A major disaster has been declared in Oklahoma after a tornado struck, killing scores of peopleHaroon Siddique
  
  
• Syria crisis : Israel returns fire [21 mai]
  
  — Blogposts, Middle East and North Africa, US foreign policy, Hezbollah, Minute by minutes, Israel, Arab and Middle East unrest, Saudi Arabia, Bashar al-Assad, guardian.co.uk, Palestinian territories, Tunisia, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Refugees, World news, Resource Content, Syria, Bashar al-Assad, US foreign policy, Refugees, Israel, Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Iraq, Hezbollah, Lebanon, Arab and Middle East unrest, Middle East and North Africa
  Israeli troops have shot at targets in Syria in response to gunfire at its forces in the Golan Heights as the violence in Syria also spills over into Lebanon and IraqMatthew WeaverGuardian readers
  
  
• Marks & Spencer profits fall again [21 mai]
   
  — News, guardian.co.uk, Marks & Spencer, UK news, Retail industry, Business, Business, Article, Marks & Spencer, Retail industry, Business, UK news
  Sales in womenswear division and general merchandise disappoint Profits at Marks & Spencer have fallen for the second year in a row as its much maligned womenswear divison continued to disappoint. UK sales fell 1% overall, dragged down by a poor performance in general merchandise, which dropped (...)
  
  

Asia Times Online — http://www.atimes.com

• Thein Sein heads to the White House [20 mai]
  Myanmar President Thein Sein is poised to receive red carpet treatment today at the White House in Washington even as his army wages war against Kachin inside his country and religious violence scars the Southeast Asian nation. Of more importance to Washington is progress in its ties with (...)
  
  
• Myanmar needs a new nationalism [20 mai]
  The development of violent outbursts against Mynamar's Muslim population has brought Burmese Buddhists to a crossroads in which they need to initiate conversations about the ways in which the Buddhist community should adapt to the reality of multiculturalism without abandoning its distinctive (...)
  
  
• THE ROVING EYE : Assad talks, Russia walks [20 mai]
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wasted a golden opportunity in an interview to explain to the Western public, even briefly, why petro-monarchies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, plus Turkey, have the hots for setting Syria on fire. While he was talking, Russia was walking, sending a message it is ready (...)
  
  

The Village Voice — http://www.villagevoice.com/

• The Golden Dragon : Umami Dearest [15 mai]
  Did you order a side of magical realism with your moo goo gai pan? Is that a dash of absurdism in your tom yum? In Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon, a brisk, fantastical drama nominally set in a “Thai/Chinese/Vietnamese fast food restaurant,” odd ingredients keep (...)
  
  
• Elemental Ushers in Pollution Porn [15 mai]
  Can a film be too beautiful? With its appreciative close-ups of bubbling, pearl-gray rivers and dramatic vistas of green-gray oil sands, the eco-doc Elemental is so stunningly shot it might well be pollution porn, if anyone wanted such a thing. Fighting to eliminate these gorgeous (...)
  
  
• Taut and Gorgeously Acted, Augustine Traces the Cruel Undertones of a Proto-psychologist’s Method [15 mai]
  "You use big words to say simple things," says Augustine, an illiterate kitchen maid, to the esteemed doctor treating her for the distinctly female malady "hysteria." This would be a show of boilerplate feistiness in most films, but in writer-director Alice Winocour's Augustine, it (...)
  
  

The New York Review of Books — http://www.nybooks.com/

• The Saga of the Flaming Zucchini [20 mai]
  Jenny Uglow Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson Bee Wilson’s Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat combines a passionate gathering of information, diligently communicated, and an amused realism that brings us safely down to earth. Tirelessly, Wilson (...)
  
  
• Dürer’s Devil Within [20 mai]
  Andrew Butterfield In the summer of 1494, soon after his engagement, Albrecht Dürer made a startlingly intimate drawing of his fiancée Agnes Frey. One might have expected a twenty-three-year-old to depict his betrothed as a source of love, or comfort or well-being. Instead, Albrecht showed Agnes (...)
  
  
• Ruthless Iran : Can a Deal Be Made ? [20 mai]
  Roger Cohen Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett are unusual among former staffers of the CIA, the State Department, and the National Security Council in their (...)
  
  

CounterPunch — http://www.counterpunch.org/

• Farewell, Alex, My Friend [Juillet 2012]
  Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died last night in Germany, after a fierce two-year long battle against cancer. His daughter Daisy was at his bedside. Alex kept his illness a tightly guarded secret. Only a handful of us knew how terribly sick he truly was. He didn't want the disease (...)
  
  
• Assassination Nation : Fifty Years of US Targeted ‘Kill Lists’ : From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones [Juillet 2012]
  In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century. Ironically, all this drone killing now offers us a new opportunity: to pry open the Pandora's box hiding long-held secrets of covert US assassination and targeted (...)
  
  
• Syria After the Massacre [Juin 2012]
  Parts of Syria are convulsed by civil war, while in other areas life continues almost as normal. At the same moment as more than 30 children had their throats cut and dozens of civilians were killed by shelling in Houla in central Syria on Friday, people in Damascus were picnicking on the (...)
  
  

Wired News — http://wired.com/

• Hackers Who Breached Google in 2010 Accessed Company’s Surveillance Database [21 mai]
  Hackers who breached Google's network in 2010 obtained access to the company's system for tracking surveillance requests from law enforcement, according to a news report.
  
  
• Utah Springs Surprise Tax on Massive NSA Data Center [21 mai]
  The NSA will spend around $40 million per year on energy bills for the data center, according to one estimate. But those energy costs may be a bit higher than expected, thanks to a new state law that could levy a 6% energy tax on the facility, the Salt Lake City Tribune (...)
  
  
• Yahoo’s Past Big Buys Tell a Tale of Mediocrity and Failure [20 mai]
  Yahoo's narrative arc as a company can be defined by its acquisitions, which taken together also serve as one take on the history of the web itself. In the Yahoo version of that history, founders and backers of overvalued companies enjoy huge exits while the buyer tends to learn too late that (...)
  
  

Independent.co.uk/News — http://news.independent.co.uk/

• ITV axes skating show : Next series of Dancing On Ice to be the last [21 mai] — News
  Popular TV series Dancing On Ice is to be axed after one further series, it was announced today. Related StoriesDice Man books 'influenced' business tycoon Sir Richard BransonThe Archers 'does not compete with EastEnders' for sensational storylinesMr Selfridge actress Amanda Abbington brands (...)
  
  
• Marks and Spencer announces largest fall in profits in four years as clothing sales slump [21 mai] — Business News
  Marks & Spencer's annual profits fell to their lowest level in four years today after clothing sales slumped. Related StoriesFood scares and new rules help us, says Cranswick chiefMitie wins lucrative deals'Market square' mall to have local feelMarks and Spencer announces fall in (...)
  
  
• Simon Cowell appoints Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio American X Factor judges [21 mai] — News
  Simon Cowell has hired former Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and Latin artist Paulina Rubio as judges on the American version of The X Factor. Related StoriesDice Man books 'influenced' business tycoon Sir Richard BransonThe Archers 'does not compete with EastEnders' for sensational (...)
  
  

TIME : Top Stories — http://www.time.com

• A Tale of Two Factory Disasters : What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh [21 mai]
  A Tale of Two Factory Disasters: What Cambodia Can Teach Bangladesh
  
  
• Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France [21 mai]
  Stymied by Socialist Policies, the French Start to Quit France
  
  
• 15 Years After the Fall of Suharto, a Mixed Picture of Indonesia’s Minorities [21 mai]
  15 Years After the Fall of Suharto, a Mixed Picture of Indonesia's Minorities
  
  

The Onion — http://www.theonion.com/

• American Voices : Yahoo Buying Tumblr For $1.1 Billion [20 mai]
  As part of CEO Marissa Mayer’s strategy to expand the company’s social and mobile presence and attract younger users, Yahoo will purchase the popular blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash.
  
  
• ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Missions To Focus Largely On Tutoring, Community Outreach [20 mai]
  NEW YORK—Confirming months of speculation, developers at Rockstar Games revealed today that the missions in the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V video game will largely revolve around the player serving as a tutor and volunteering for various (...)
  
  
• Justin Bieber Recovering In Intensive Care Unit After Being Badly Booed [20 mai]
  LAS VEGAS—Doctors at Valley Hospital Medical Center are reporting that pop sensation Justin Bieber is in critical but stable condition today after being admitted to the facility’s intensive care unit Sunday night with severe booing-related (...)
  
  

Arts & Letters Daily — http://aldaily.com/

• Kinky scholars [21 mai] — Essays and Opinion, Camille Paglia, sex
  Leprechaun fetish? You’re not alone. Indeed, kink has gone mainstream. But don’t ask theory-addled scholars of gender for insight, says Camille Paglia. .. more»
  
  
• Drunk and Disorderly [21 mai] — New Books, Charles Jackson
  The novelist Charles Jackson lied about his advances and name-dropped relentlessly. He was, in short, a literary creature ahead of his time… more»
  
  
• Interview with Todd May [21 mai] — Articles of Note, death
  Immortality and its discontents. Sure, death is a drag. But nothing could be more lonely, boring, or morally ruinous than living forever… more»
  
  

London Review of Books online — http://www.lrb.co.uk/

• Brian Dillon : Eileen Gray [15 mai]
  
• Thomas Jones : How to Survive Climate Change [15 mai]
  On a damp, chill, blustery August afternoon in Whitby a few years ago I overheard a disgruntled holidaymaker declaiming – to his family, to anyone who would listen, to the wind – that ‘global warming is a load of codswallop.’ One of his children, a boy of around ten, was valiantly trying to explain (...)
  
  
• Mike Jay : Memorylessness [15 mai]
  Memory creates our identity, but it also exposes the illusion of a coherent self: a memory is not a thing but an act that alters and rearranges even as it retrieves. Although some of its operations can be trained to an astonishing pitch, most take place autonomously, beyond the reach of the (...)