Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/breaking-news-china-destroys-3-us.html

According to a report released today by GMWatch, China destroyed three shipments of GM corn imported from the US. The first two shipments are referenced on the website of the Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, confirming that two illegal GM corn shipments entered Wanzai Port in Zhuhai City on May 7th, and were subsequently destroyed:

Link: http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/why-does-monsanto-need-an-army-of-mercenary-soldiers-05222013

The Monsanto Company likes to proclaim that they are the good guys, here to selflessly feed the world, help with sustainable agriculture, and, as if those lofty goals are not enough, champion human rights across the globe.

Link: http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/americas-bubble-economy-is-going-to-become-an-economic-black-hole

What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of the world pops? The mainstream media never talks about that. They are much too busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been up to. And most Americans seem to think that if the Dow keeps setting new all-time highs that everything must be okay. Sadly, that is not the case at all. Right now, the U.S. economy is exhibiting all of the classic symptoms of a bubble economy. You can see this when you step back and take a

Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-05-20/crisis-will-be-over-30-times-bigger-greece

Japan has fueled much of this latest rally in stocks, driving the marketing first with promises of money printing by the Prime Minister in November 2012, and then a massive $1.2 trillion QE program announced by the Bank of Japan last month.

Link: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/Middle_East/article1261403.ece?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2013_05_18

SYRIA has put its most advanced missiles on standby with orders to hit Tel Aviv if Israel launches another raid on its territory.

Link: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/05/18/washington-signals-dollar-deep-concerns-paul-craig-roberts/

Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/18/aumf-m18.html

The Pentagon claims that “war on terror” legislation gives it sweeping powers to wage war around the world without congressional authorization.

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/18/reti-m18.html

The study predicted increasing wealth inequality for each of five successive age groups as they approach retirement.

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/18/bomb-m18.html

Knowing he had nothing to fear from the Senate committee, FBI Director Mueller defended the FBI’s handling of the Tsarnaevs and failure to alert state or local authorities.

Link: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_05_18/90-of-Guantanamo-prisoners-are-innocent-people-sold-to-US-Gov-former-detainee/

The current Guantanamo hunger strike began on February 6th. More than 140 navy medical workers were recruited to treat the strikers. Some of them were forced to feeding. Murat Kurnaz, former Guantanamo detainee, who had been tortured for more than four years, gave an interview to the Voice of Russia.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10065802/Al-Qaedas-Syrian-wing-takes-over-the-oilfields-once-belonging-to-Assad.html

Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are now in rebel hands - in particular Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda off-shoot which is the strongest faction in this part of the country.

Link: http://www.reddirtreport.com/Story.aspx/25653

“A woman in her late 30’s or early 40’s approached me and asked if I could help her,” Stacy recalls. “She told me that ‘those people in the blue uniforms took my daughter in that back room and she’s been gone for a long time.’” Stacy confirmed to the worried mother that that “room” was where “special handling” and “interrogations” and “strip searches” take place. “I’d say she was about 14, maybe even 16,” Stacy said. “She eventually came out of the interrogation room and was shaking and appeared as if she had been crying. She was very attractive... She came up to her mother and said, ‘Mom, they did bad things to me.’ The mother, shocked, held her hand over her mouth and said, ‘Oh, my God!’”

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither." - Ben Franklin

Link: http://gunsnplanes.blogspot.com/2011/05/has-tsa-surpassed-irs-as-most-hated.html

I remember a time when the Internal Revenue Service was the most reviled and despised agency in the government arsenal. Don't worry, IRS, you're still up there near the top--but now you have some serious competition.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/obama-shield-bill-law-453/

United States President Barack Obama is encouraging Congress to take up a media shield law that was abandoned at the start of his administration, but critics of the bill say it might make it even easier for journalists to be subpoenaed by the government.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/303997.html

Russia has criticized the international media for blowing Moscow's weapons cooperation with Syria out of proportion, stressing that Russia only supplies defensive weapons to the Arab country.

Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/05/us-suspends-constitution-in-permanent.html

Two disturbing developments have occurred in the last couple of days that have gone relatively unnoticed compared to the recent IRS, AP, and Benghazi scandals.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-kroll/billionaire-political-donors_b_3285766.html

Today, politics is a rich man's game. Look no further than the 2012 elections and that season's biggest donor, 79-year-old casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. He and his wife, Miriam, shocked the political class by first giving $16.5 million in an effort to make Newt Gingrich

Link: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/16/dark-clouds-over-the-white-house/

Government is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or compels. Everything it owns it has taken from others. Much of what it says is divorced from the truth.

Link: http://asiantribune.com/node/62584

There is a 'side story' going on in the American media - both the electronic and print about the Islamist jihadists lethal attack on the American 'post' in Benghazi, Libya last September 11 which killed American ambassador Christopher Steven and three others...

Link: http://www.blackagendareport.com/category/department-war/self-radicalization

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford. These days, a radical label can get you killed. In National Security Speech, “it is clear that to ‘radicalize’ means very much the same as to ‘weaponize’; the radicalized person has been transformed into a weapon.”

Link: https://soundcloud.com/davidrovics/vanunu

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2013/05/15/kristol-clear

neoconservative dominated American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, sees Chechens and other Central Asian Muslim militants as “freedom fighters” against Russian rule, exists side by side with other organizations..

Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/the-irs-wants-you-to-share-everything-91378.html

The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading.

Link: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-15/david-stockman-american-empire-and-end-sound-money

In Chapter 12 of David Stockman's new book The Great Deformation, the outspoken truth-sayer discusses the realities of the end of the gold standard - from the the Bank of England's 'default' in 1931 to Nixon and Bretton Woods, constantly deferring the day of reckoning...

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/15/asso-m15.html

In a brazen and illegal attack on press freedom, the Obama Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the telephone records of Associated Press editors and journalists and tracked ingoing and outgoing calls on at least 20 telephone lines...

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php?s=Paul+Craig+Roberts&sentence=sentence&in_blogs=6

Over the last several years I have watched the rise of an important new intellect on the American scene. Ron Unz, publisher of The American Conservative, has demonstrated time and again the extraordinary ability to reexamine settled issues and show that the accepted conclusion was incorrect.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/wikileaks-monsanto-cables-report-273/

After US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks showed that the State Department was lobbying worldwide for Monsanto and other similar corporations, a new report based on the cables shows Washington's shilling for the biotech industry in distinct detail.

Link: http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/5/15_How_A_Criminal_Syndicate_Of_Banks_Is_Raping_The_Gold_Market.html

Today one of the most well connected hedge fund managers in the world told King World News that a criminal syndicate of banks is raping the gold market with the cooperation of the US Federal Reserve.

Link: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article22673

Bolivia became the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red.’ And that fact is still making news.

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/march-against-monsanto-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-monsanto/

The March Against Monsanto movement is spreading across the nation, and the initiative spells out an increasingly massive number of activists and citizens who will ultimately be responsible for ending the GMO juggernaut through peaceful protest and the spread of information. ►march-against-monsanto

Link: http://naturalsociety.com/conventional-chicken-contain-high-levels-arsenic-antibitoics/

Conventional Chicken Found to Contain Concerning Levels of Arsenic Due to AntibitoicsDid you know that thanks to excessive antibiotic use in livestock you are actually ingesting carcinogenic arsenic with your meat?

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2013/05/14/gangster-state-america

Just who does the US government represent? There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/justice-department-admits-spying-228/

The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters' phone conversations.

Link: http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/14/pers-m14.html

Last week, Massachusetts high school student Cameron D’Ambrosio was arrested and charged under “terrorism” laws merely for posting lyrics on Facebook that make reference to the Boston Marathon bombings.

Link: http://www.naturalblaze.com/2013/05/science-sunlight-could-reduce-death.html

Here's something I never thought we'd hear in this lifetime: We suspect that the benefits to heart health of sunlight will outweigh the risk of skin cancer.

Link: http://wsws.org/en/articles/2013/05/13/pers-m13.html

Young people around the world have been made to bear the brunt of the capitalist crisis. In the five years since the 2008 crash, youth unemployment has reached Depression-era levels, young workers’ wages have plummeted, and education opportunities have collapsed.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/13/303319/syria-rebel-cuts-eats-soldiers-heart/

A gruesome video has emerged on the Internet, showing a foreign-backed militant in Syria cutting out the heart of a Syrian soldier and biting into it.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/13/supreme-court-monsanto-indiana-soybean-seeds

Justice Elena Kagan says Vernon Bowman's late-season soybean crop infringed on patent for GM soybeans. The US Supreme Court came down solidly on the side of the agricultural giant Monsanto on Monday...

Link: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/murder_is_our_national_sport_20130512/

We murder tens of thousands with our industrial killing machines in Afghanistan and Iraq. We murder thousands more from the skies over Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen with our pilotless drones... And, as if we were not drenched in enough human blood, we murder prisoners—most of them poor people of color.

Link: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/afghans-say-an-american-tortured-civilians-366131

The authorities in Afghanistan are seeking the arrest on murder and torture charges of a man they say is an American and part of a Special Forces unit operating in Wardak province, three Afghan officials have confirmed.