Thursday sept 12

Putin Op-Ed makes Menendez want to vomit, (what restaurant was he eating at??) hereand JFK speech made Santorum want to vomit,(Jon Stewart asked if he read the speech in a moving car)

America's new gilded age here

Considerations on Syria with Andrew Bacevich  here  from Decode DC here

Andrew Bacevich on Manning and Snowden here


Assad Forces Accused of Bombing Hospital; Al-Qaeda Group Linked to Massacre here

In some of the latest violence from Syria today, local activists say Assad regime warplanes have bombed one of the main field hospitals in the rebel-held north. According to the Aleppo Media Center, 11 civilians, including two doctors, were killed in the town of al-Bab. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile reports that 22 civilians belonging to the minority Alawite sect have been killed in a massacre by the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front near the city of Homs.

In Historic Move, AFL-CIO Expands Ranks With Vote to Include Non-Union, Immigrant, Low-Wage Workers here

Syrian Refugees enter Germany---Germany will accept 5,000 here

FBI chief says sequester hurts national security here

western militants killed in Somalia here

Two top Islamist militants, from the US and UK, have been killed in Somalia after falling out with al-Shabab, witnesses have told the BBC.

The man convicted of murdering 77 people in attacks in Norway in 2011 has enrolled at the University of Oslo to study political science. here

Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year sentence, has not been admitted to a degree-granting programme, but will study modules.

The 34-year-old will study at his high security prison and will not have direct contact with university staff.

Egpyt extends state of emergency 2 more months---the last one lasted 30 years here

GOP still wants to defund obamacare here