http://www.nature.com/news/water-seems-to-flow-freely-on-mars-1.14343
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strategies-for-aging-vary
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=massive-aquifers-under-the-sea-could-sate-thirst

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/12/extreme-diets-can-quickly-alter-gut-bacteria
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/134
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20131211-self-repairing-running-shoes-made-from-3d-printed-protocells.html
http://mitne.ws/1kCRs9S
https://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2013/12/13/what-do-we-really-know-about-social-resistance-to-vaccines/
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20467-noam-chomsky-interview
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/02/the_kerry_doctrine
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/09/leaked-pussy-riot-greenpeace-activists-and-rioters-in-russia-will-be-freed-under-amnesty/

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/09/asia-d09.html

the rantings of an out of touch old man. hyperbole aside, dude might want to consider if maybe the thrust of these actions are conscious, rather than the result of some kind of "illiteracy". silly liberals...
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20511-henry-giroux-the-spectacle-of-illiteracy-and-the-crisis-of-democracy

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/09/pers-d09.html
http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/montr%C3%A9al-police-kill-donald-m%C3%A9nard/20357
http://www8.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/11/indi-d11.html

right. because india is experiencing low population growth. ugh….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/court-in-india-criminalizes-homosexuality/2013/12/11/ea7274a6-6227-11e3-a7b4-4a75ebc432ab_story.html?hpid=z5

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/12/10/kerry_begins_iran_sales_job
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/12/02/the_design_and_fall_of_civilizations
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20456-in-europe-a-repudiation-of-austerity-policies

http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/12/10/qeqchi-leaders-attacked-with-machetes-on-eve-of-megadam-construction/

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/adiz-d10.html

i don't mind walking to the store at all. in fact, i'm excited about how this will decrease the amount of paper wasted in flyers.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/11/canada_post_to_announce_radical_changes_to_save_itself.html

if you consider {public, private, public-private} to be an oversimplification of the possible approaches, public-private is by far the worst - it combines the exploitation of corporatism with the monopolization of mercantilism. as critical as i am of free market approaches, at least they don't enforce themselves like corporatism does
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20546-when-outsourcing-public-services-to-private-companies-goes-wrong

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11123

because focusing too much hope on leadership, and the authoritarian structures that creates, has been identified as the primary cause of the tremendous failures of 20th century revolt?
http://fpif.org/twilight-leadership/

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20567-how-wall-street-power-brokers-are-designing-the-future-of-public-education-as-a-money-making-machine

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11160
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/11/the_secret_history_of_how_cuba
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=11168
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/12/11/nelson_mandela_on_how_cuba_destroyed
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/12/11/how-the-anc-sold-out-south-africas-poor/