What you are watching unfold in Greece right now is eventually going to come to your own neighborhood. Someday, people living all around you will be storming the supermarkets in a desperate attempt to secure the food and supplies that they neglected to store up when they had the chance. Of course the Greeks never thought that it would happen to them either. Their civilization had endured for thousands of years, and they were a part of the most powerful economic alliance on the face of the planet. Most Greeks never imagined that they would be plunged into a multi-year economic depression that would ultimately lead to "bank holidays", long lines at ATM machines, and people diving into dumpsters in a frantic search for something to sell. And this is just the beginning of the chaos in Greece - things are going to get much, much worse for them. Hopefully, this will serve as a wake up call for millions upon millions of clueless Americans out there, because we are on the exact same path that Greece has gone down. The sad truth is that no amount of "American exceptionalism" is going to prevent us from suffering the consequences of decades of very foolish decisions. We are steamrolling toward our own version of economic collapse, and when that time arrives you don't want to be caught totally unprepared for it.

In some cities in the United States, it only takes an inch or two of snow during the winter to set off panic hoarding at local supermarkets and hardware stores.

Saudi warplanes have bombed a German hospital in the Yemeni city of Harad in the northwestern Hajjah Province. According to the al-Masirah news channel on Tuesday, a number of people were killed and injured in the attack. Saudi airstrikes also targeted the al-Deylami air base in the capital, Sana'a, with witnesses reporting huge explosions following the attacks.

A 16-year-old Florida girl was charged as an adult in connection with a shooting last month that left her boyfriend dead and a state trooper injured, WESH-TV reported.

The suspect, Morgan McNeil was denied bond on Monday. According to investigators, McNeil and her boyfriend, 15-year-old Zane Terryn, were parked in a truck outside a gas station in Cocoa when they were approached by state Highway Patrol Lt. Channing Taylor. The two teens were allegedly planning to drive to Ohio to commit suicide. McNeil, who was driving, had taken a handgun and money from a relative's house before they got on the road.

McNeil is charged with second-degree murder in connection with Terryn's death, in accordance with state law, since both were allegedly committing felonies at the time. She is also charged with attempted first-degree premeditated murder of a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence following the incident on June 15.

Taylor testified on Monday that he saw Terryn pointing the gun at him as he was writing down the vehicle's license plate number.

"It scared me to death that someone would point a gun at me," he said. "My reaction was to get out of the way."

If you want to track a civilization as it collapses, watch what happens to the concept of the rebel.

On a profound level, mass shootings and assassinations (whether staged or not) are used to define the ever-present "lone assassin" as the REPRESENTATION AND THE SYMBOL OF WHAT THE INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL IS.

You're a separate and distinct individual? An outsider? Watch out. Overnight, you could turn into a raging killer.

You happen to know an outsider, a loner? He's dangerous. He doesn't live by the rules the rest of us accept. He's deranged. Stay away from him. Shun him. And if you see the slightest indication of (insert your own term here), report him to the authorities.

"See a rebel, say something," to paraphrase the DHS motto.

Any human being who has courage, intelligence, eyes to see, and a determination to express his power in uncompromising terms can now be redefined as a potential threat to the stability of society—if he criticizes the prevailing Authority.

The National Education Association has launched an attack on the practice of homeschooling, and one leading education expert is not taking it lying down.

"The National Education Association's radical attacks on constitutionally protected liberties and homeschooling families in particular are outrageous and should be vehemently denounced by every real educator and every real American," internationalist journalist and educator Alex Newman declared.

The NEA's 2014-2015 resolution on homeschooling begins like this: "The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."

Just a week out from trial, state prosecutors have reached a deal with the Tennessee mom at the center of a chaotic traffic stop where a state police officer shot at a minivan full of kids.

Prosecutors for the Taos District Attorney's Office and the attorney for Oriana Farrell announced a plea deal at a Monday afternoon hearing at the Taos County Courthouse.

Farrell is charged with child abuse, aggravated fleeing from a police office and drug paraphernalia possession after an October 2013 incident with New Mexico State Police.

After being stopped for speeding on a highway outside of Taos, dash-camera video from New Mexico State Police shows that Farrell got in a disagreement about the ticket with the office who pulled Farrell over. Video shows Farrell couldn't decide if she wanted to agree to pay the ticket or to go to court to fight it.

The dash-camera video shows Farrell drove away from the scene, but was pulled over a short time after. New Mexico State Police officer Tony DeTavis then tried to arrest Farrell and got in a scuffle with the mother of five. In the middle of the scuffle, Farrell's then 15-year old son tried to fight the officer. Initially, he too was charged in the case but those charges were later dropped.

Now former New Mexico State Police officer Elias Montoya then arrived at the scene and fired three shots at Farrell's van, which had her and her five children inside. Nobody was injured.

An F-16 Fighting Falcon has crashed near Charleston, South Carolina, after colliding with a civilian plane identified as a Cessna C-150.

A photo of the wreckage identifies the F-16 as part of the 55th Fighter Squadron (55 FS), part of the US Air Force's 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina.


Rescue crews have located the Air Force pilot, who is on the way to a hospital. There is still no word about the civilians aboard the Cessna.

Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary and the police, can be adjusted, modernized or professionalized to make possible a post-racial America. We discuss issues of race while ignoring the economic, bureaucratic and political systems of exploitation—all of it legal and built into the ruling apparatus—that are the true engines of racism and white supremacy. No discussion of race is possible without a discussion of capitalism and class. And until that discussion takes place, despite all the proposed reforms to the criminal justice system, the state will continue to murder and imprison poor people of color with impunity.

More training, body cameras, community policing, the hiring of more minorities as police officers, a better probation service and more equitable fines will not blunt the indiscriminate use of lethal force or reduce the mass incarceration that destroys the lives of the poor. Our capitalist system callously discards surplus labor, especially poor people of color, employing lethal force and the largest prison system in the world to keep them under control. This is by design. And until this predatory system of capitalism is destroyed, the poor, especially people of color, will continue to be gunned down by police in the streets, as they have for decades, and disproportionately locked in prison cages.

"The strength of 'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander is that, by equating mass incarceration with Jim Crow, it makes it rhetorically impossible to defend it," said Naomi Murakawa, author of "The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America," when we met recently in Princeton, N.J. "But, on the other hand, there is no 'new' Jim Crow, there is just capitalist white supremacy in a state of constant self-preservation."

"We should talk about what we are empowering police to do, not how they are doing it, not whether they are being nice when they carry out arrests," she said. "Reforms are oriented to making violence appear respectable and courteous. But being arrested once can devastate someone's life. This is the violence we are not talking about. It does not matter if you are arrested politely. Combating racism is not about combating bad ideas in the head or hateful feelings. This idea is the perfect formula to preserve material distributions in their exact configuration."

Comedian Bill Cosby said in a court testimony he obtained sedatives with the intent of giving them to women he wanted to have sex with. He admitted giving the drug to at least one woman.

Cosby's testimony comes from court documents obtained by the Associated Press on Monday, which themselves stem from a 2005 sexual abuse lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand. Constand was a former employee of Temple University, where Cosby, now 77, was on the board of Trustees until he resigned.

The AP had gone to court to compel the release of a deposition in the case.

Cosby's lawyers had objected to the release of the material, arguing it would embarrass him. But the Pennsylvania court judge unsealed a small portion of the deposition.

More than 1,000 doctors convicted for a range of criminal offences, including possession of child pornography and drug dealing, are still being allowed to practice medicine in the UK, an investigation has revealed.

Some doctors have committed crimes such as fraud, perverting the course of justice, cruelty to a child and death by dangerous driving.

Figures released by the General Medical Council (GMC) after a Freedom of Information request by the Mirror newspaper found 1,068 doctors and surgeons continue their work with a criminal record.

The GMC said it has asked the government for the power to automatically strike off doctors convicted of specific crimes.

The number of convicted doctors has risen by nearly 150 since December 2012, according to the Mirror.

The most common offence in the data is drink driving, with 360 convictions, followed by 189 for dangerous driving and 211 for "unspecified" offences.

A number of doctors have convictions for violent crimes, trafficking drugs and even cruelty to children.