ONIM For January 21, 2019

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Christian News

• How To Fight Racism, Part 1--Awareness -- Witness: A Black Christian Collective
• Why Being Pro-Life And Pro-Death-Penalty Isn't A Contradiction -- The Chorus In The Chaos
• Some Thoughts On Systematic Theology As Poor Relation, Part One -- Moritification Of Spin
• Empathy Is Good, Justice Is Better -- Roger Olson
• Consider Me Triggered -- Mortification Of Spin
• Administrator Who Tried To Rig Online Polls For Trump 'Made Great Contributions,' Liberty University Says -- Christian Post

World News

• Cory Booker Joins Senate Republicans To Kill Measure To Import Cheaper Medicine From Canada -- Intercept
• Ted Cruz Won't Rule Out Future Support For White Supremacist Steve King -- Huffington Post
• Tens Of Thousands Take To Streets In Act 9 Of 'Yellow Vest' Protests -- France 24
• France's Mass Yellow Vest Protests Continue To Grow In 2019 -- World Socialist Web Site
• Food Pantry Offering Free Groceries To Furloughed Government Workers -- Chicago Sun Times
• Arrests For Illegal Border Crossings Hit 46-Year Low -- NPR
• No Park Rangers Or Food Inspections--But Government Reopens For Oil And Gas -- U.S. News And World Report
• Hundreds Of Government Employees Aren't Getting Paid. So Restaurants Across The Country Are Feeding Them For Free -- CNN
• U.S. Shows Flagrant Disregard For Science Once Again -- Truthdig
• This EPA Rule Change Could Kill Thousands -- Truthdig
• Angela Merkel Assails Europe's Nationalists As Agents Of 'Catastrophe' -- Bloomberg
• Standing Rock Inspired Ocasio-Cortez To Run -- Guardian
• Gunman Dead After Hostage Incident At Logan Township, New Jersey UPS Facility -- 6 Action News
• 6 Ways The Border Wall Could Disrupt The Environment -- National Geographic
• FDA To Resume Food Safety Inspections Tuesday -- NBC News
• This Coal Lobbyist Should Not Run The E.P.A. -- New York Times
• Who Are The UK Yellow Vest Protesters? -- BBC
• Kiah Morris: The Vermont Incidents That Led To A Black Lawmaker's Resignation -- Burlington Free Press
• EPA Criminal Action Against Polluters Hits 30-Year Low -- AP News
• U.S. House Republicans Move To Reprimand King Over White Supremacy Comments -- Reuters
• School Shootings Have United Gen-Z And Young Millennials -- Axios
• The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Insult To Angela Davis Has Boomeranged -- Nation
• ACLU: Government Mistakenly Wanted To Deport US Veteran -- AP News
• Why Federal Workers Have To Show Up Even If They're Not Being Paid -- Atlantic
• Global Debt Of $224 Trillion Nears Record Despite Faster Growth -- Bloomberg
• NASA May Decide This Year To Land A Drone On Saturn's Moon Titan -- Space
• California Commission Finds PG&E Falsified Records For Years -- CNN
• Restuarant Owner Meets Man Who Robbed Him Instead Of Calling The Cops: 'Forgiveness Is Better' -- Yahoo News

Israel-Palestine News

• World Food Programme Cuts Aid For Palestinians -- Aljazeera
• Why Is The Pro-Israel Right So Threatened By Black Jews? -- Forward
• Video: Israel's Blockade Threatens Collapse Of Gaza's Strawberry Industry -- Mondoweiss
• Israel Evicting Palestinian Family To Replace Them With Settlers -- Aljazeera

Donald Trump News

• Judge Blocks Trump's Attempt To Roll Back Birth Control Mandate -- New York Times
• Preet Bahara, Sally Yates And James Comey: Fired While Investigating Donald Trump -- CNN
• All Signs Point The Same Way: Vladimir Putin Has Compromising Information On Donald Trump -- USA Today
• Congress Members Donate Salaries During The Shutdown, But Not Trump Appointees -- Quartz
• Trump's Support Plummeting Among White Americans Without Degrees Admid Government Shutdown, Poll Shows -- Independent
• 5 Reasons Why Trump May Want A Shutdown That Have Nothing To Do With A Wall -- USA Today
• Trump Tried To Illegally Withhold Disaster Relief Money From Puerto Rico -- Vox
• Trump's Government Shutdown Is Becoming Catastrophic For The Economy -- Business Insider

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• Angela Davis: 'It's Important Not To Generalize' About Birmingham's Jewish Community -- AL.com
• Millions Of College Students Are Going Hungry -- Atlantic
• The 'Private Governments' That Subjugate U.S. Workers -- Truthdig
• Fleeing A Hell The US Helped Create: Why Central Americans Journey North -- Guardian
• Antarctica Is Losing Ice 6 Times Faster Today Than in 1980s -- AP News
• Domestic Violence Shelters Are Cutting Services Because Of The Shutdown -- Huffington Post
• 10 Persistent Cancer Myths Debunked -- Cancer Research UK
• Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Veterans In Burn Pit Lawsuit Against KBR, Halliburton -- Military Times
• The Legacy Of 'Boys Will Be Boys' On American Life -- Christian Science Monitor
• World's 2nd-Deadliest Ebola Outbreak Reaches 600 Confirmed Cases -- ABC News
• Witnessing Firsthand The Cruel And Inhumane Treatment Of Asylum-Seekers -- Seattle Times
• Zimbabwe Police Fire Live Rounds During General Strike Protests -- Guardian
• More Than Half Of All Food Produced In Canada Is Lost Or Wasted, Report Says -- CBC
• TSA Officers Open Up About What the Goverfnment Shutdown Is Doing To Their Families -- AZ Central
• $11 Toothpaste: Immigrants Pay Big For Basics At Private ICE Lock-Ups -- Reuters
• For First Time In History, A US Military Service Is Working Without Pay -- Military.com
• The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong -- Truthdig
• White People Assume Niceness Is The Answer To Racial Inequality. It's Not -- Guardian
• Native American Vietnam Veteran Speaks Out After MAGA Hat-Wearing Teens Harass Him -- Huffington Post
• The Fear That Lies Behind Aggressive Masculinity -- ZNet

Just For Fun

• Trump Offers Pelosi $130,000 To Keep Quiet -- Barowitz Report
• ICE Launches Campaign To Reunite Immigrant Children With Arresting Officer -- Onion
• Defiant Pelosi Begins Swimming To Afghanistan After Trump Denies Use Of Government Plane -- Onion
• Trump Threatens To Cancel Pelosi's Netflix Subscription -- Babylon Bee
• Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Math Of Sexism -- Babylon Bee

ONIM For December 15, 2014

Christian News

• American Architect Of Uganda's 'Kill The Gays' Bill Faces Trial For Crimes Against Humanity -- Progressive Secular Humanist
• CIA Torture: What Should The Christian Response Be? -- Christian Today (UK)
• Palestinian Minister's Funeral Sees Thousands Mourn -- Christian Today (UK)
• Why Personal Devotions Aren't Enough -- Christianity Today
• Ebola Medical Missionaries Named Time's Person Of The Year -- Christianity Today
• Bob Jones University Apologizes For For Failing Sexual Abuse Victims -- Christianity Today
• Five Conditions That Lead To Negative Departures Of Pastors -- The Christian Post
• Christian Leaders Talk About What To Do Now After Ferguson And New York -- The Christian Post

World News

• Being A Cop Showed Me How Racist And Violent The Police Are -- Washington Post
• 'I Can't Breathe' Protests Rally Nationwide For Fifth Day -- Time
• Hundreds Of Armed Women Defend Mexican City From Cartels -- True Activist
• Mexico Says Evidence Proves Missing Students Were Burned Up -- Reuters
• Fire In Downtown L.A. Destroys Apartment Complex, Damages Other Buildings -- LA Times
• A Burger Joint Is Paying $15 An Hour. And Yes, It's Making Money -- NPR
• Sick, Poisoned And Hungry: The Bees Of New York State -- Truthout
• Fuel Exports Soar Under Obama -- Yahoo News
• House Intelligence Chief: Reports Will Spur Attacks -- Yahoo News
• Roundup Weed Killer Found In 75% Of Air And Rain Samples, Gov. Study Finds -- The Cornucopia Institute
• Environmental Groups File Legal Challenges To Offshore Fracking In California -- Truthout
• How Israel Treats African 'Infiltrators' -- The Jewish Daily Forward
• North America's Oil-By-Rail Problem -- Weather.com
• Suicide Surpasses War As Leading Cause Of U.S. Military Deaths -- Readers Supported News
• As Hourly Wages Barely Rise During Job Growth, CEO's Receive Lavish Salary Increases -- BuzzFlash
• Big Bang May Have Created A Mirror Universe Where Time Runs Backwards -- PBS
• Wall Street To Workers: Give Us Your Retirement Savings And Stop Asking Questions -- Moyers & Company
• Greece Exploded In Riots Again This Weekend -- ZNet
• Freedom Industries President Faces Federal Fraud Charges -- WVNS TV
• US Held Youngsters At Abu Ghraib -- BBC
• Guiliani Blames 'Liberal Guilty Whites', Teachers For Police Relations -- New York Observer
• 2015 NDAA Gives Native American Land To Foreign Mining Corporation -- The Anti Media

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• A Society Of Captives -- Truthdig
• New 'Daily Show' Contributor Puts America To Shame With A Comparison To Africa -- Truthdig
• US Control Is Diminishing, But It Still Thinks It Owns The World -- ZNet
• Alleged Sexual Abuse At Immigration Detention Facility In Karnes, Texas -- Human Rights First
• How Police And Hospitals Shut Down Rape Victims -- BuzzFeed
• Senate Report Says Torture Program Was More Gruesome, Widespread Than CIA Claimed -- Huffington Post
• War By Media And The Triumph Of Propaganda -- ZNet
  
  
  

ONIM For October 27, 2014

Christian News

• Krish Kandiah: Why Left Behind Is Better Left Alone -- Christian Today (UK)
• Pope Francis Condemns Death Penalty -- Christian Today (UK)
• Jeff Lucas: Five Things Not To Say To A Depressed Friend -- Christian Today (UK)
• Bless This Tackle? Not A Prayer -- Christianity Today
• Winter Is Coming: Mark Burnett, Roma Downey Launch $25 Million Plan To Help Christians In Iraq And Syria -- Christianity Today
• When Punishment Isn't The Point -- Christianity Today
• Mars Hill Pastor David Bruskas Defines 'New Values' For 'Broken, Repentant' Church; Acknowledges 'Unhealthy Culture' -- The Christian Post
• Robert P. George: Gay Marriage And Religious Freedom Cannot Coexist -- The Christian Post
• Dallas Nurse Thanks God After Being Declared Ebola-Free; Receives Hug From Obama -- The Christian Post
• Who Are The Five Pastors In The Houston Sermon Subpoena Scandal -- The Christian Post
• Are (White) Evangelicals Really Dwindling? A Debate Heats Up -- Religion Dispatches
• Does Traditional Christian Marriage Mean Just "Not Gay"? -- Religion Dispatches
• Evangelical Disability Activist Condemns Brittany Maynard's "Death-With-Dignity Agenda" -- Religion Dispatches

World News

• Sweden Is Now Recycling 99 Percent Of Its Trash -- Truth Theory
• On HBCUs, White House Moves From Disregard To Dismantling -- HBCU Digest
• What Could Be At Stake With The TPP -- Global Research
• Philadelphia Students Go On Strike For Teachers' Benefits -- Truthout
• Black Voters In St Louis County Direct Their Anger At The Democratic Party -- The Washington Post
• 2 Dead In Shooting Attack At Canada's Parliament -- Yahoo News
• Threats To Environmental Activists On The Rise -- The Goldman Environmental Prize
• From Indigenous Socialism To Colonial Capitalism, Examining Native History Of A Settler State -- Truthout
• Michael Brown Protesters Briefly Occupy St. Louis County Police Department -- Black Talk Radio Network
• Young Jews Are Fed Up With Censorship Of Critical Voices -- Rabble.Ca
• Study Shows Direct Connection Between Mountaintop Removal Dust Exposure And Lung Cancer -- WFPL News
• Alabama Man Gets $1,000 In Police Settlement, His Lawyers Get $459,000 -- Yahoo News
• Allegations Of Anti-Semitism Used To Cover Up Anti-Palestinian Hate Crime In Brooklyn -- Mondoweiss
• Craig Spencer Tests Positive For Ebola In New York City -- Huffington Post
• GamerGate Is Loud, Dangerous And A Last Grasp At Cultural Dominance By Angry White Men -- The Guardian
• Occupy Protesters Forced To Hand Over Pizza Boxes And Tarpaulin -- The Gaurdian
• Student Who Stood Up To Don Young Says He Was Shocked By Homophobic Remark -- Huffington Post
• Doctor In New York City Is Sick With Ebola -- New York Times
• Ebola Death Toll Tops 4,900 Out Of More Than 10,000 Cases: WHO -- Christian Today (UK)

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• Noam Chomsky: What Links ISIS To World War One, Gaza And Nuclear Catastrophe -- Stop The War Coalition
• UN Officials Shocked By Detroit's Mass Water Shutoffs -- Aljazeera

ONIM For October 20, 2014

Christian News

• Mark Driscoll Resigns From Mars Hill Church -- Religion News Service
• Distorted Love: The Toll Of Our Christian Theology On The LGBT Community -- Huffington Post
• All Aboard The USS Persecution Complex -- The Daily Beast
• Hopes Rising That Asia Bibi's Death Sentence Will Be Lifted -- Christian Today (UK)
• Mexican Priests Are 'Most Persecuted In The World' -- Christian Today (UK)
• New Figures Reveal Massive Decline In Religious Affiliation -- Christian Today (UK)
• Was Driscoll's Board A Problem? -- Christianity Today
• Houston Drops Sermons From Subpoenas -- Christianity Today
• Catholic Bishops At Synod On Family Rejects Gay-Friendly Policy Change; Undecided On Cohabiting And Remarried Members -- The Christian Post
• Anger, Privilege, And Invisible Justice: What Cain And Able Have To Do With Ferguson -- Religion Dispatches
• Congregants Flee Traditional Churches, But This Former Pastor Rejoices -- Religion News Service
• Why We Need A Cultural Theology -- Political Jesus

World News

• Fox News Appalled That Harvard Students Think The US Is A Threat To World Peace -- Ring Of Fire
• Horror Of Kobani -- The Independent
• Pentagon: Global Warming Will Change How US Military Trains And Goes To War -- The Guardian
• Jean Tirole Wins Nobel In Economics For Work On Regulation -- New York Times
• Supreme Court Stops Parts Of Texas Abortion Law -- Huffington Post
• Mora County Commission Votes To Keep Drilling Ban -- Santa Fe New Mexican
• Utah State University Threatened With School Shooting Over Sarkeesian Appearance -- Polygon
• Pipeline Remains Shut After Spill In Louisiana On Monday -- Wall Street Journal
• The "Eye Popping" Cost Of Cancer Drugs -- CBS News
• C.I.A. Study Of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels -- New York Times
• Amber Vinson Identified As 2nd Dallas Hospital Worker To Contract Ebola -- Huffington Post
• Video Of Climate Change And Greenland -- Upworthy.Com
• Mexico's Missing Students: Were 43 Targeted By Cartel-Linked Police Targeted For Their Activism -- Democracy Now
• More Pro-Russian Far Right Conferences In Europe -- EuroMaidan
• Mexico Universities Call Strike In Solidarity With Missing Students -- Aljazeera
• Philadelphia Teachers Hit By Latest Cuts -- New York Times
• Welsh Council Embargoes Israel Over Gaza "Savageness" -- Electronic Intifada
• You Thought California's Drought Could Not Get Any Worse? Enter Fracking -- Mother Jones
• Now The UN Is Intervening In Detroit's Water Conflict -- The Guardian
• Court Overturns Marissa Alexander's 20-Year Sentence For Warning Shot At Abusive Husband -- The Pittsburg Courier
• Report: Senate Report On CIA Will Sidestep Look At Bush 'Torture Team' -- Common Dreams

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• Chomsky: Business Elites Are Waging A Brutal Class War In America -- Alternet
• "Dear White People" Is The College Movie Of Our Times -- Salon
• Anita Sarkeesian On GamerGate: 'We Have A Problem And We're Going To Fix This' -- Rolling Stone
  
  

ONIM For October 13, 2014

Christian News

• The 10 Best Evidences Of Science That Confirm A Young Earth -- Answers Magazine
• Bart Campolo, Humanist Chaplain, On The Moment He 'Came Out' Humanist To His Famous Evangelical Father -- Huffington Post
• New Jersey Nun Is The First Would-Be Saint Beatified In The United States -- Huffington Post
• Former Bishop Of Hong Kong: 'We Must Fight Now Before It's Too Late' -- Christian Today (UK)
• Linda Woodhead: The Church Of England Is On Its Last Chance -- Christian Today (UK)
• Mass Exodus For Mars Hill Pastors Who Criticised Mark Driscoll's Leadership -- Christian Today (UK)
• Intervarsity's Plan For A Culturally Diverse Staff -- Christianity Today
• CCCU Settles Lawsuit With Fired Former President -- Christianity Today
• Airstrikes Alone Cannot Defeat ISIS; Christians In Syria Facing Possible Genocide, Warns American Professor And Author -- The Christian Post
• What 19th Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight over Gay Marriage -- Religion Dispatches
• Pope Calls Out "Bad Shepherds" As Conservatives Prepare To Fight Change -- Religion Dispatches

World News

• Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Will Cost U.S. 4-6 Trillion Dollars: Report -- Inter Press Service
• White House Jabs Netanyahu Over 'American Values' Critique -- Yahoo News
• High Court Refuses To Rule--And Gives Tacit Victory--On Same-Sex Marriage -- CNN
• In The Medical Response To Ebola, Cuba Is Punching Far Above Its Weight -- The Washington Post
• Is Israel Guilty Of Genocide In Its Assault On Gaza? -- The Nation
• Cornell West Calls Obama The 'Black Face Of The American Empire -- RT
• Seattle Changes Columbus Day To Indigenous Peoples' Day -- Time
• Spanish Nurse First To Contract Ebola Outside West Africa -- The World Post
• Adam Hanieh On The Gulf States, Neoliberalism And Liberation In The Middle East -- RS 21
• How To Spot A Communist Using Literary Criticism: A 1955 Manual From The U.S. Military -- Open Culture
• Judge Stops Ferguson Police's 'Five Second Rule' -- Popular Resistance
• Turkey: Syrian Town About To Fall To Jihadists -- ABC News
• Taner Akcam Cancels Visit To University Of Illinois Because Of Salaita Boycott -- Days And Memory
• New Consumer Reports' Tests Find GMOs In Many Packaged Foods--Including Those Labeled 'Natural' -- Prevention
• Israeli Shell Game: Aid Meant For Israeli Towns Affected By Gaza War Sent To Illegal Settlements Instead -- Mondoweiss
• A Men-Only UN Conference On Gender Equality? If Only It Was A Joke -- The Guardian
• Walmart Cuts Health Benefits For Some Part-Timers -- ABC News
• Report: New York Governor's Office Altered And Delayed Fracking Study -- Climate Progress
• Hard Choices: Hillary Clinton Admits Role In Honduran Coup Aftermath -- Aljazeera
• Chicago University Latest To Investigate Students Over Palestinian Activism -- Electronic Intifada
• Sweden To Recognize State Of Palestine -- Yahoo News
• How The World Health Organisation Covered Up Iraq's Nuclear Nightmare -- The Guardian

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• Why Bill Mahr And Ben Affleck Are Both Wrong -- Huffington Post
• Toxic Legacy Of US Assault On Fallujah 'Worse Than Hiroshima' -- The Independent
• Chomsky: US Spawned A Fundamentalist Frankenstein In The Middle East -- Alternet
• Sick Of This Market Driven World? You Should Be -- The Guardian
  
  

Ebola Shows How Our Connections Can Make Us Vulnerable

It seems like we, in America, like to have our cake and eat it to. We want the benefits of access to the resources from and strategic control over other countries but without any mess or demands. We should note that such access and control provided the main reasons for the 9-11 attacks. This is not to say that those attacks were justified. It's just that neither are many of the means we use to acquire access and exercise control.

Since we haven't changed our desire to use these connections, we continue to apply force to get what we want. And we depend on the same force to enable us to live in denial of the consequences of our actions. We do this by increasing the powers of both Homeland Security and our military. We also do this by providing military aid to those nations that follow orders. And for the most part, that strategy has allowed us to return to a state of denial regarding our connections with others and the negative effects they can have at home.

But now we have Ebola and the times are changing. Whereas in the past, Ebola breakouts have occurred where we have no connections in Africa. But that is no longer the case and Homeland Security cannot protect us from this threat. It is our connections with the infected parts of Africa that have brought Ebola to our country.  And while the current existence of Ebola in America might be eradicated with minimal suffering and losses, there can be no doubt that future cases of Ebola, and perhaps other diseases, can and will occur here. Why? Because we have connections that we wish to maintain.

Now, if only this lesson learned from Ebola coming to America can be generalized to our other connections around the world, we might learn to be careful about the kinds of connections we keep. Perhaps we would cut our foreign military aid to those countries that commit human rights abuses.  Perhaps we would carefully craft our assistance to Israel so that we are supporting neither the Occupation nor its expansion of the settlements. And, perhaps, we would also stop supporting proxy leaders and attempting to commit coups for strategic control or business purposes.

Our connections with Africa has caused a dreadful disease to make its way across the ocean. And though the fortune we have spent to keep terrorism at bay has succeeded to this point, it won't always be that way. So just perhaps we might want to eliminate the kinds of connections that motivates people to want to lash out and strike back at us. After all, Ebola has proven that we are vulnerable.

ONIM For September 22, 2014

Christian News

• Nigerian Churches Risk Spreading Ebola Virus Through Communion And Sharing The Peace -- Christian Today (UK)
• Central African Republic Pastor: 'Only God Can Save Our Country' -- Christian Today (UK)
• How Pope Francis Became A 'Powerful New Ally' In The War On Climate Change -- Christian Today (UK)
• Study: Where Are The Women Leading Evangelical Organizations -- Christianity Today
• What Evangelicals Think About Scotland's Independence Vote -- Christianity Today
• Raising Our Standards: It Is Time To Improve Education In America -- Christianity Today
• Maryland Church Evangelizes The Community One Load Of Laundry At A Time -- The Christian Post
• 8 Things Pastors Do When Their Churches Are In A Slump -- The Christian Post
• Eric Metaxes: Christians Who Remain Silent About Persecution In The Middle East Enable Evil, Like In Nazi Germany -- The Christian Post
• Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered -- Religion Dispatches
•  How Hell Has Shaped America -- Religion Dispatches

World News

• Fraiser River Would Take Up To Five Years To Recover From Pipeline Oil Spill -- The Vancouver Sun
• Large 'Dead Zone' Signals More Problems For Chesapeake Bay -- The Washington Post
• Obama's Legally Dubious ISIS Campaign Is Just A Way To Continue Perpetual War -- The Guardian
• Trayvon Martin's Mom: 'If They Refuse To Hear Us, We Will Make Them Feel Us' -- Time
• Holder Says Private Suit Risks State Secrets -- The New York Times
• Inside A Secret Hearing At A Foreign Tribunal, El Salvador Awaits A Verdict -- Oxfam
• Leaders Talk Peace, Some Ukrainians Contemplate Guerilla War -- The Washington Post
• Koch Foundation Proposal To College: Teach Our Curriculum, Get Millions -- Truthout
• Police ID Suspect Wanted In Pa. Barracks Shooting -- CBS Philly
• U.S. Military Will Lead $750 Million Fight Against Ebola In West Africa --  The Washington Post
• US School Districts Given Free Machine Guns And Grenade Launchers -- The Guardian
• Sea Change: The Ecological Disaster That Nobody Sees -- Truthout
• Coalition Bidding For Ban On Federal Funding For Anti-Israel Activity On Campus -- JTA
• Los Angelas Law Enforcement Officers Kill About One Person A Week -- Huffington Post
• Israeli High Court Upholds Racist "Admission Committees" Law -- Electronic Intifada 
• Why Americans Know So Much About Sports -- ZNet
• Israel Tortures Prisoners Captured In Gaza Invasion -- Electronic Intifada

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• The End Of History? -- Information Clearing House
• 80% Of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into The U.S. -- Huffington Post
• The American Deportation Mill -- Truthout
• MLK Jr., The Two Kingdoms And The Politics of Love -- Political Jesus

ONIM For August 4, 2014

Christian News

• Gaza's Christians And Muslims Grow Closer In Defiance Of Israeli Attacks -- Middle East Eye
• Modern National Israel Is Not Old Testament Israel -- The Christian Curmudgeon
• 'I Started Reaching For The Bible Instead Of The Bottle' -- Christian Today (UK)
• Former 'Ex-Gay' Leaders Publish Open Letter Saying Conversion Therapy Is Damaging -- Christian Today (UK)
• Pope Francis Apologizes For Pentecostal Persecution, But Italy's Evangelicals Remain Wary -- Christianity Today 
• Engaging An Ever-Changing Culture With A Never-Changing Gospel -- Christianity Today
• The Gospel For Those Broken By The Church -- The Christian Post
• Contemporary Christian Music's Sinking Witness -- The Christian Post
• Lebanese TV Adds Arabic 'N' To Shows To Show Solidarity With Iraqi Christians -- The Christian Post
• Can A Church Split Truly Be Gracious?-- Religion Dispatches
• More Than 100 Religious, Immigration Activists Arrested At White House -- Religion News Services

World News

• Joint Declaration By International Law Experts On Israel's Gaza Offensive -- Richard Falk's Blog
• US Sends Very Clear Message To Israel -- Press TV
• UN Warns Downing Of Flight MH17 'May Be A War Crime' -- Yahoo News
• BP Oil Spill Is Much Worse Than People Think, Scientists Say -- Climate Progress
• Israel's Propaganda Machine Is Finally Starting To Misfire -- The Independent
• Police Arrest Anti-Israeli Protesters In New York City -- Press TV
• 'World Stands Disgraced" As Israeli Shelling Of School Kills At Least 15 -- The Guardian
• Wall Street Spending $1.5M A Day On Lobbying, Campaigns -- The Hill
• Israeli Attacks Designed To "Terrorize" Gaza Population, International Law Experts Say -- Electronic Intifada
• One Year Of Prison Costs More Than One Year At Princeton -- The Atlantic
• Brazilian Farmers Demand Monsanto Refund Their Money For GMO Crops That Don't Work -- RT
• Israel Bombards Hamas Symbols, Power Plant In Gaza -- Wall Street Journal
• U.N. Says Evidence Points To Israel In Gaza School Attack -- New York Times
• DOD Releases Arms To Israel, Official Says -- Stars And Stripes
• Violating International Law In Gaza -- Truthout
• Gaza War Prompts Latin America To Break Ties With Gaza --  Channel 4 News
• Nearly 1 In 3 Restaurant Workers Suffer From Food Insecurity -- The Nation
• Ben & Jerry's Throws Fudge Brownie Into GMO Food Fight -- Yahoo News
• It's All Hamas' Fault, Right Israel? -- ZNet
• KKK Wants A "Shoot To Kill" Policy To Include Migrant Children -- The Nation
• Who Is Behind Gaza's Mass Execution -- Yahoo News
• Why I Don't Criticize Israel -- Sam Harris
• UNICEF: Israel Deliberately Killed 264 Children In Gaza -- Middle East Monitor

Pick(s) Of The Litter

• Collective Punishment In Gaza -- The New Yorker
• Rabbi Henry Siegman, Leading Voice Of U.S. Jewry, On Gaza: A Slaughter Of Innocents -- Democracy Now (Video)
• US Jewish Leader Henry Siegman To Israel: Stop Killing Palestinians And End The Occupation -- Democracy Now (Video)
• Nightmare In Gaza -- Truthout
• Ebola-Infected Doctor's Extraordinary Sacrifice -- Yahoo News

ONIM For July 7, 2014

Christian News

• Christians Question Hobby Lobby's Defense, Biblical Stance Against Obamacare -- The Christian Post
•  Hobby Lobby's Hypocrisy -- US News & World Report
• Russell Moore Weighs In On Hobby Lobby's China Dealings -- Religion News Service
•  Hobby Lobby Invested In Numerous Abortion And Contraception Products While Claiming Religious Objection -- Forbes
• Pastors Rarely Preach About Domestic Violence Though It Affects Countless Americans -- Huffington Post
•  Pope Francis: Communists Are Closet Christians -- Huffington Post
•  Iraq's Christians Are In Their 'Darkest Hour' As They Face Choice Of Converting Or Leaving -- Christian Today (UK)
• Churches Buying Back Guns To Keep Them Off The Streets -- Christian Today (UK)
• Top 10 Tweets About July 4th By Christian Leaders -- Christian Today (UK)
• America's Founding May Not Have Been Christian, But It Sure Wasn't Anti-Christian -- Christianity Today
• Christian Worshippers Latest Targets In Nigerian Violence -- Christianity Today
• How Hobby Lobby Affects Wheaton College And Nearly 100 Other Cases -- Christianity Today
• Sudanese Christian Meriam Ibrahim: Newborn Daughter Is Disabled After Prison Childbirth In Shackles -- The Christian Post
• Gay Christians Should Change Or Remain Celibate; A Response To Matthew Vines -- The Christian Post
• What Many Christians Get Wrong On July 4th -- Religion News Service

World News

•  Blackwater Threatened To Kill US Investigator In Iraq -- Yahoo News
• Why Is Washington Still Protecting The Secretive Political Power Of Corporations? -- The Guardian
• Roundup Herbicide Linked To Tumors, Organ Damage-- Rodale News
• 10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know -- The Free Thought Project
• Cecily McMillan Leaves Prison Behind But Won't Forget Fellow Inmates -- DC Media Group
• Court: Public Union Cannot Make Nonmembers Pay Fees -- Journal Sentinel
• Hundreds Of Children Under 10 Being Subject To Stop And Search -- The Telegraph
• Jeb Bush Catching Up With Hillary Clinton In Presidential Polls -- RT
• How Capitalism Will End? -- New Left Review
• Unpatriotic US Corporations Increasingly Move Headquarters Overseas To Decrease Taxes -- Buzz Flash
• The Giant Methane Monster Lurking -- Truthout
• Occupy Wall Street Activist Cecily McMillan Released, Brings Messages From Women Held At Rikers Jail -- Democracy Now
• Environmental Groups Want NY To Release Information On Rail Shipments Of Crude Oil -- CBS
• Algeria Will Donate Their World Cup Prize Money To The Poor In Gaza, Reveals Forward Islam Slimani -- Mail Online
• Three Kidnapped Israeli Teens Found Dead In The West Bank -- 972
• Palestinian Teen Murdered In Suspected 'Revenge Kidnapping' -- 972
• Disturbing Footage Of Police Beating Palestinian In Shuafat -- 972
• Vulture Funds Against Argentina -- ZNet
• California Highway Patrol Beats Barefoot Baglady -- Yahoo News
• Fake Job Applications Prove There's Real LGBT Discrimination In Hiring -- Yahoo News
• WHO: 'Drastic Action' Is Needed To Stop The Worst Ever Ebola Outbreak -- The Christian Post

Pick(s) Of The Litter 

• Pity The Children -- Truthdig
•  The Searing Hypocrisy Of The West -- The Hindu
•  How Washington Protects Itself And The Corporate Sector -- Truthout
•  Is Christian Capitalism A Heresy -- Political Jesus
• Noam Chomsky: America's Real Foreign Policy -- Popular Resistance
• Palestine: Caught Between Selective Sympathy And Collective Punishment -- ZNet
• War Is Our Business And Business Looks Good -- ZMag