Things i have read over the past month, that you might want to read too

It has been several weeks since i have shared my readings here; it is not that i have not been reading, just that a series of misadventures got in the way of my posting them. Here they are, the highs and lows:

• ‘These guys have to get out’: Prison guards union to campaign against Conservatives; by Laura Stone Global News May 26, 2014
• Saskatoon woman deported to Pakistan where she fears stoning; CTV Sept 16 2014
• Secret shame: The Scots who made a fortune from abolition of slavery; Russell Leadbetter Scotland Herald Feb. 28 2013
• U.S. to help train people to spot potential violent extremists; By Aruna Viswanatha, Reuters September 15, 2014
• Reflections on the New Edition of Sakai’s “Settlers”; MLM Mayhem Sept. 19, 2014
• Idealizing Protracted Peoples War: A Response to Canadian Maoists; Curtis Cole, kasama Sept. 2 2014
• Researcher loses job at NSF after government questions her role as 1980s activist; by Jeffrey Mervis, Science 10 September 2014
• Is One of the Most-Cited Statistics About Sex Work Wrong?;  Chris Hallsep The Atlantic 5 2014
• The New World Disorder and U.S. Military Policy; David Ranney, September 7, 2014
• The Islamic Roots Of Science Fiction; by Charlie Jane Anders, i09 Sept. 9 2014
• The Strange Story Of The Man Behind ‘Strange Fruit’; by Elizabeth Blair, NPR September 05, 2012