Geopolitical – Week of 06.08.14

How Bill Gates Pulled Off the Swift Common Core Revolution
The Washington Post | 07 June 2014
The pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public-school classroom in America…

20 Students Taken To Hospital After First Grader Brings Heroin To Cobbs Creek School
CBS Philly | 10 June 2014
Twenty first grade students were taken to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Tuesday…

Children Given Lifelong Ban on Talking About Fracking
The Guardian | 05 August 2013
Two Pennsylvanian children will live their lives under a gag order imposed under a $750,000 settlement…

Insurgents in Northern Iraq Seize Key Cities, Advance Toward Baghdad
The Washington Post | 12 June 2014
Insurgents inspired by al-Qaeda rapidly pressed toward Baghdad on Wednesday…

Putin Envoy Warns Finland Against Joining NATO
Barents Observer | 09 June 2014
Anti-Semitism started World War II, Russophobia could start the third…

Veterans’ Three-Month Wait for Doctors Pressures Congress
Bloomberg | 10 June 2014
Another report of delays in medical care for U.S. military veterans…

War Gear Flows to Police Departments
The New York Times | 08 June 2014
Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city…

Russia Would React to NATO Build-Up Near Borders: Minister
Reuters | 09 June 2014
Russia would consider any further expansion of NATO forces near its borders a “demonstration of hostile intentions”…

NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the Juiciest Documents
Zero Hedge | 08 June 2014
NSA whistleblower Russel Tice was a key source in the 2005 New York Times report that blew the lid off the Bush administration’s use of warrantless wiretapping…

Bulgaria Halts Work on Gas Pipeline After US Talks
BBC | 08 June 2014
Bulgaria is to halt work on its Russian-backed South Stream gas pipeline following criticism from the EU and US…

The Continuing Blowback: China and Germany Impose “Sanctions” on U.S. Servers, Computers Companies
Giza Death Star | 07 June 2014
What goes up must inevitably come down(unless, of course, it’s Malaysia Air Flight 370)…

UN Talks Take Aim at ‘Killer Robots’
Space Daily | 13 May 2014
Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield…

Tennessee Just Became the First State That Will Jail Women for Their Pregnancy Outcomes
Salon | 30 April 2014
Against the advice of doctors, addiction experts and reproductive health groups, Gov. Bill Haslam signed SB 1391…