The injuries that kill the most people around the world (Tech Insider).
It's happening in the United Kingdom too ... Pay inequality between bosses & workers 'widening' every year (RT).
Monsanto to face 'tribunal' in The Hague for 'damage to human health and environment' (RT).
AFTER SAN BERNARDINO ...
New York Times to run editorial on Page 1, which they haven't done since 1929 (Politico)
Here it is ... "End the Gun Epidemic in America" (NY Times Editorial).
The links on this make it worth the read ... "I'm sick and tired of this" (Upworthy / Eric March).
Sandy Hook Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) just summed up the pathetic reality of sending "thoughts and prayers" after San Bernardino (NewsMic).
GUNS ... THE DATA
Gun violence and gun ownership across the world - let's look at the data (Tewksbury Lab).
The common thread in America's unacceptable carnage: Access to guns (Washington Post).
Here's how Britain responded after a mass school shooting. They haven't had one since (Addicting Info).
[Added after originally posted.] Instead of arguing about guns on Twitter, Neil de Grasse Tyson just laid out the numbers (Upworthy).
Here's how Britain responded after a mass school shooting. They haven't had one since (Addicting Info).
[Added after originally posted.] Instead of arguing about guns on Twitter, Neil de Grasse Tyson just laid out the numbers (Upworthy).
HAS THE NRA BECOME A CANCER ON AMERICA?
NRA board member Ted Nugent calls for 'cleansing' the country of liberals (Crook and Liars).
Doing the NRA's bidding, Senate Republicans vote down legislation that would block suspected terrorists, felons, and mentally ill from buying guns (Daily News).
Why the GOP and NRA are on the threshold of treason following San Bernardino shooting (Reverb Press).
This is just sick, and even more asinine than the nuclear bomb drills we did as kids in the 1960s ... Now you can buy a bulletproof blanket specifically made for kids to use during school shootings (Business Insider).
SPEAKING OF CANCERS ... THE WAR ON TERROR
Anti-Muslim rhetoric isn't brave (Washington Post).
U.S. wants to revive terror scare in order to keep up the terror war industry (RT).
Pictures of Afghanistan before the wars (Business Insider).
ISIS NEWS
Anonymous has begun publishing personal details of suspected ISIS extremists (Business Insider).
ISIS response to Anonymous threatening its 'biggest operation ever' (Business Insider).
There are concerns that Anonymous' war on ISIS is doing more harm than good (Business Insider).
Taste of their own medicine: Syrian rebels execute ISIS terrorists, mimicking jihadists' tactics (RT).
MISCELLANEOUS
You don't protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy (Salon).
Death by coconut: A story of food obsession gone too far (NPR).
Technology and the law ... number of police charged with murder, manslaughter triples in 2015 (Huffington Post).
The Lady in Red ... Turkey cop sentenced to plant 600 trees for teargassing 'Lady in Red' during Gazi Park protests (RT).
- Mark
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