the major fighting in syria right now seems to be between hezbollah (russia/iran backed) and al qaeda (nato/israel/saudi backed).
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173229

somehow, the solution to blowback is always more colonialism.
http://fpif.org/al-shabaabs-savage-coming-age-respond/

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/25/exclusive_21_nations_line_up_behind_un_effort_to_restrain_nsa
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/alaska-bristol-bay-gold-mine-pebble?CMP=twt_gu
http://fpif.org/world-without-u-s/
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/american_hypocrisy_rip
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/pers-o25.html
http://fpif.org/looting-westgate-analogous-increasing-presence-u-s-military-africa/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/cops-unbound/

so, this is an outlandish propaganda piece by the secretary of state that indicates that the question of invasion is not yet remotely settled.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/john_kerry_humanitarian_aid_syria

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/how-libya-fell-off-the-media-map/
http://buff.ly/1ifYNLk
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-hitchhiking-virus-saga-ancient-human.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/24/more_unionbashing_as_stephen_harper_tries_to_deflect_attention_from_senate_walkom.html

i know it seems maddening, but the cop is just a cog in the system.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-pepper-spraying-cop-got-a-bigger-payout-than-his-victims/280822/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/pot-growers-celebrate-as-uruguay-legalizes-cultivation-and-consumption-of-marijuana/2013/10/23/f8044fc6-3bfe-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html

http://jacobinmag.com/2013/10/robert-taft-moderate-and-mccarthyite/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/24/pers-o24.html

i've repeatedly drawn the connection between the society that followed from reagan/thatcher (or lack of one) and the society discussed in 1984. here's a more startling, direct parallel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-language-of-neoliberalism/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/whose-interests-are-they/
http://atfp.co/1arblys
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/al-qaedas-corridor-through-syria/
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/10/25/ottawa-seems-to-be-backing-off-oil-sands-assessment/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/new-environmental-review-rules-anger-oilsands-critics-1.2252074
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/scse-o26.html

expect an increase in property damage and petty theft, followed by a police crack down. end result: more black people in jail. and was there ever any other goal?
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/food-o26.html

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10921
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/indepth/2013-10/13/c_132794246.htm

i think the study demonstrates that dental morphology is highly fluid.
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/09012013/article/last-common-ancestor-of-neanderthals-and-modern-humans-still-a-mystery

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=search-escalates-for-key-to-why-matter-exists&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-holes-may-have-hair&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://www.nature.com/news/pesticide-makes-invading-ants-suicidally-aggressive-1.14003
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/canadian-researchers-use-bees-to-drop-pesticides-on-crops-1.2251858
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/karl-nerenberg/2013/10/should-canada-give-people-abused-our-mining-companies-access-t

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/24/iran-o24.html
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/russia_denies_running_espionage_trap_in_washington

meaningful ai software will not be possible in conventional programming languages. our brains exist in a more complex reality. as intelligence is a physical process, it utilizes physical laws. quantum laws. modelling that requires more complex machines....
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-would-teach-machines-to-think/309529/

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/obamas-drone-killing-campaigns/
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/council-canadians/2013/10/ontario-will-pay-literally-harpers-new-canada-eu-deal
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/24/the-sectarian-war-at-hand/
http://www.oktlaw.com/blog/do-we-need-the-rule-of-law-in-new-brunswick-to-deal-with-native-protestors/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canadian-spy-agency-sued-for-allegedly-violating-charter-1.2158884
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/guar-o25.html
http://ow.ly/qaf1v
http://fpif.org/surveillance-merkels-phone-demands-scapegoat/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/guatemalan-plaintiffs-in-hudbay-lawsuit-allege-interference/article15058016/#dashboard/follows/

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/exclusive_germany_brazil_turn_to_un_to_restrain_american_spies
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/the_middle_east_power_vacuum
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/detb-o25.html
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10913
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/obam-o25.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/25/the-smear-campaign-against-social-security/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/Death-Is-Having-a-Moment/280777/
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/25/saud-o25.html
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/10/26/eusu-o26.html

when they arrested hitler, he spent his time writing. stay vigilant, greece.
http://libcom.org/news/when-state-turns-antifa-26102013

Today's Pakistan is a place where a provincial governor, Salman Taseer, can be gunned down in broad daylight for criticizing an apostasy law -- and then lawyers jostle for the right to defend the murderer.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/25/the_global_war_on_thinking_bad_thoughts

this is a good precursor to the state's actual response:
http://drezner.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/10/24/american_hypocrisy_rip

....and, somewhere, noam chomsky is having a laughing attack. he *does* laugh. i've seen it.
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140155/henry-farrell-and-martha-finnemore/the-end-of-hypocrisy

i've often wondered how many suicide bombers really *know* they're about to explode.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/24/russia_s_mysterious_deadly_phenomenon_of_new_black_widows

markets *always* produce collusion. competition with advanced capitalism can never be anything but an illusion.
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-facebook-google-advertising-ally.html

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-bee-brains-view-larger-superior.html
http://phy.so/301582052
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24425-universal-law-of-urination-found-in-mammals.html

what, they couldn't tune it finely enough?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-energy-cosmological-constant&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook

http://phy.so/301659943
http://www.nature.com/news/final-word-is-near-on-dark-matter-signal-1.14000
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-scientists-quantum-wells-high-power-easy-to-make.html
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/october-2013/the-big-questions
http://phy.so/301899570
http://mitne.ws/17fDZSO
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-hole-firewall-paradox&WT.mc_id=SA_Facebook
http://chomsky.info/articles/20131024.htm
http://phy.so/301565886