http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/04/crisis-reality-check/
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/as_congress_stalls_on_immigration_deal
http://thinkafricapress.com/drc/corruption-congo-how-china-learnt-west?utm_content=bufferc0785&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10820
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/09/24/obama_to_world_bad_news_the_american_empire_is_dead

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18209-decadent-homosexual-activity-marijuana-and-abortion-caused-colorado-floods-talk-radio-minister-charges-denying-global-warming

http://www.nature.com/news/higgsogenesis-proposed-to-explain-dark-matter-1.13883?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews

i like how they dance around the question of photons being massless.
(i don't think they are entirely massless, just of very very small mass. and i think that eventual realization will blow up a lot of physics in a good way.)
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/october-2013/light-rays-do-the-twist

hrmmmn. i guess i'm posting this as a psa. be careful with assigning authority to journals with fancy names.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

yes, i'd rather ghadaffi were still in power....
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/03/liby-o03.html

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/01/the_army_of_islam_is_winning_in_syria
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10732
http://rabble.ca/news/2013/09/quebec-charter-and-me#.UjtEw4FaXAI.facebook
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/20/the-military-turns-really-ugly-in-egypt/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/09/24/us-credibility-in-syria-and-the-world/