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- The Hidden Hands in Redistricting: Corporations and Other Powerful Interests
- President Obama Gives States the Flexibility to Opt Out of No Child Left Behind Provisions
- The New York Times: The Palestinians’ Bid
- Report: Border Patrol Abuses Widespread
- News Corp May Face Legal Action In The US
- House Passes Stopgap Bill, Edges Closer to Avoiding Shutdown
- Surveillance in the "Homeland": Targeting Immigrants
- Bunny Greenhouse on How KBR Ended Her Career
- Yemen's President Returns, Calls for Cease-Fire
- Bill Gates to Support "Robin Hood" Tax
- Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
- In the Outcry Over Troy Davis, Where was the Tea Party?
- Rick Perry Clalims That He Never Said Social Security Is Unconstitutional
- Get Ron Suskind's Provocative "Confidence Men" and Support BuzzFlash and Truthout. Click here now.
- RNC surpasses DNC in August fundraising
- Census: A Low in Jobs, Mobility, Marriage for Young Adults
- We Must Live With Harmony Within Ourselves and Our Planet -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How Bad Has Rupert Murdoch’s Phone Hacking Scandal Gotten? -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Armed Services Chairman: Cuts Could Mean Draft
- Rick Perry Rewrites His Own History Again, Claims He Never Considered Secession
- Delegates Walkout at UN as Ahmadinejad Speaks
- Bachmann Likes Her Meat With a Side of E. Coli
- "The President's advisers have made it official and are recommending a strong veto of a House bill that would gut two key anti-pollution rules."
- Rep. Waters to Obama: Crash the Tea Party
- The NYPD's Secret Program: Cataloguing Life Inside Muslim Neighborhoods
- Julian Assange Has Been WikiLeaked!
- Senators Clearly Don't Understand Google - It Is Not a “Series of Tubes”
- Marijuana Arrests Drive America’s "Drug War" - FBI Report Shows 88 Percent of Offenders are Charged With Possession, Not Sales/Manufacturing
- Following Failed GOP Assault, Unions Still Have Right to Work (If They Can Find Work)
- Why Michele Bachmann's Campaign is Crashing: Four Theories
- Ten Things Obama Must Do to Slow the Rise of the Oceans and Heal the Planet - Without Waiting for Congress
- Report: Black Wealth Has Nearly Disappeared
- Make Up Your Mind, GOP: Nine Issues Conservatives Have Changed Course On
- Well, It Looks Like Perry Won’t Get the Gay Vote
- BP Oil Spill…The Gift That Keeps on Giving
- Issa: All Clean Energy Loan Programs Are Equal(ly Corrupt); Some Are More Equal Than Others
- Greeks Strike Amid Pain and Anger Over Austerity
- Poll: Vast Majority of Israelis Would Accept UN Recognizing Palestine
- The Execution of Troy Davis Provides Another "Haunting Reminder of Once Prevalent Southern Lynchings"
- The Truth About "Class War" in America
- Global Emissions of CO2 Increased by 45% Between 1990 and 2010
- US Constitution Week is Vetoed by Republican-Appointed Benton Harbor, Michigan, Czar --Mark Karlin for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Troy Davis Executed by the State of Georgia After US Supreme Court Refused to Grant a Stay
- "Occupy Wall Street" Protest Has International Support; Setting Up for Long Haul
- McCaskill So "God-Damn Mad" About Wartime Contracting Abuses
- Sunshine Debate: Five Things to Watch in Tonight’s Florida GOP Debate
- Nearly One Million More Young Adults Have Health Insurance Thanks to Health Care Reform
- Troy Davis Case Prompts Second Look at Eyewitness Identification Rules
- Drilling Off Keys to Begin by December
- Dear Big Coal: You're Not Above the Law
- Ohio's Natural Gas Gold Rush, Courtesy of John Kasich
- Oxfam warns of spiralling land grab in developing countries
- Feingold Group To Press Super Committee On Buffett Rule
- New York City Police Use 150-Year-Old Law Against Wearing Masks To Arrest Wall Street Demonstrators
- Vote on House spending bill reveals John Boehner’s lack of control
- Message to Banks: Pay US Back
- In Memoriam: Troy Anthony Davis, 1968 - 2011
- The Lonesome Death of Compassionate Conservatism; It's Now "Cutthroat Conservatism" -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- 8 People Who Were Executed and Later Found Innocent
- Elizabeth Warren Tells It Like it Is: "No One in This Country Got Rich on his [or Her] Own"
- Liberal group hits GOP on 'let him die' debate moment
- Imprisoned US Hikers Released from Iran
- The Republican War on Voters Goes Nationwide
- Koch Brothers Now Worth $50 Billion
- "The Federal Reserve announced a new plan Wednesday to stimulate growth by purchasing $400 billion in long-term Treasury securities with proceeds from the sale of short-term government debt, defying Republican demands to refrain from new actions."
- US Constitution Week is Vetoed by Republican-Appointed Benton Harbor, Michigan, Czar -- Mark Karlin for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Staff race to save Fukushima plant from expected Japan storm
- House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling
- Middle class incomes fell 7% between 2000 and 2010
- Obama Opposes Palestinian Statehood
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed suit against the national Bass pro Shop chain here in Houston, alleging it routinely discriminated against minorities in its hiring practices. Five alleged racist quotations.
- Words of Power: Prepare for Electoral Madness in 2012
- Troy Davis Request for Polygraph Test Denied Execution Scheduled for Wednesday Night
- Amy Goodman: Why 'Occupy Wall Street' makes sense. Banks are sitting on cash hoards and corporate profits are riding high – yet ordinary US taxpayers face joblessness and cuts.
- Report: Trade Deficit with China Costs 2.8 Million Jobs
- Americans Want Something Done About Jobs Now
- Milwaukee FBI Investigation Draws A Little Bit Closer To Scott Wallker
- Ironic? Bloomberg aims to help the young black and Latino men he has been throwing in jail for a decade
- Troy Davis and the History of Injustice in America
- Republicans threaten the Fed
- Oh, To Be a Fly on the Wall: Rick Perry Has Dinner with Murdoch
- Paul Ryan Thinks Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme Too
- Postal Service: Death by Drowning
- Oklahoma: Cops Target Woman Who Exposed Police Corruption
- Obama To Meet Palestinian Leader Amid U.N. Crisis
- Rick Perry's Dirty Deals With Big Coal
- The Impact of Cutting Social Security Cost of Living Adjustments on the Living Standards of the Elderl
- The War on Abortion in Virginia Could Close Major Clinic
- "Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab news network financed by Qatar, named a member of the Qatari royal family on Tuesday to replace its top news director after disclosures from the groupWikiLeaks indicating that the news director had modified the network’s coverage of the Iraq war in response to pressure from the United States."
- "I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one." -- Author Unknown on BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Big media's shameful news brownout on the Wall Street protests
- US Building Drone Bases in Africa
- Is Yahoo Censoring E-mail About the Wall Street Protests?
- Does Living in the Suburbs Contribute to the Lack of Empathy Among Conservatives and Tea Party Members?
- Poverty in America: Faces behind the figures
- Robert Parry: The Dark Legacy of Reaganomics
- Ron Suskind, the author of a new White House tell-all that has the Obama administration in vigorous push-back mode, said Tuesday that his book is “densely sourced, and the analysis is pitch-perfect.”
- Cenk Uygur Takes "Young Turks" to Current TV, Calls New Show "A Gathering Place for Progressives"
- Gunmen dump 35 bodies on busy street in Mexico
- 23,000 California Nurses to Strike for Better Patient Care
- "See Pop, You Don't Need Medicare." (Satire)
- Afghan Peace Council Chief Killed in Attack on His Home
- Parole board denies clemency for Troy Davis
- DOJ: Texas Redistricting Maps Don't Meet Voting Rights Act Requirements
- Gay Sailors Coming Forth in Wake of Official End of DADT
- The War on Urban Gardeners
- IMF lowers economic outlook, warns of danger ahead
- NC tobacco workers face below-minimum wages and abusive working and living conditions
- The Keystone Pipeline: Too Dirty for George W. Bush?
- Robert Reich on Taxing the Rich
- Obama's Plan May Deliver Help to the Postal Service
- U.S. to build new massive prison in Bagram
- The Wealthy Have Waged Class Warfare on the Working Class for Decades -- Mark Karlin for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan
- An Illinois judge ruled the state’s eavesdropping law unconstitutional as applied to a man who faced up to to 75 years in prison for secretly recording his encounters with police officers and a judge.
- DADT Officially Ends
- Polls Suggest Voters Supportive Of Obama’s Jobs Pivot
- The theft of the American pension In the last decade, the country's biggest companies have raided worker benefits for profit. An expert explains how
- Gov. Perry Cut Funds For Women's Health In Texas
- Wall Street Protests Continue, With at Least 6 Arrested
- Help Feed the Occupy Wall Street Protesters
- "Three-fourths of people support higher taxes and only 21 percent support the doctrinaire right-wing position."
- GOP Accelerates Efforts to Suppress Voters
- Alec Baldwin Walks Out of Emmys After Fox Removes Rupert Murdoch Joke About Phone-Hacking Scandal
- Medicare Premiums Drop, Enrollment Rises in Health Care Law
- WikiLeaks: Washington and Brasilia Monitoring Chávez in the Caribbean -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Creating 2.2 Million Jobs Is Not a Dream. Schakowsky's Bill. -- Mark Karlin for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Despite the historic repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, US military members in same-sex relationships still face a battle for equal rights.
- The Theology of Armageddon -- Robert Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Ralph Nader Seeking Primary Challengers for Obama
- Republicans (Duh) Oppose Obama’s Proposal To Raise Taxes on Millionaires -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Bernie Sanders on Wall Street's Oil Games
- Geithner Says Suskind Book is Wrong and That He Did Not Disobey Directives from President Obama
- Obama: This is Not Class Warfare - It's Math
- NRA Gift Time: Packing Heat Everywhere
- Could Obama’s Jobs Plan Trigger Another Debt Limit Fight Before Election Day?
- Multi-Millionaire Rep. Says He Can’t Afford A Tax Hike Because He Only Has $400K A Year After Feeding Family
- New Get Tough WH Strategy? Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases
- Boehner's Funding From Coal up 2,400 Percent
- Redistricting Battle Coming in Texas
- Michael Pollan: How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System
- More than 17 years after a tortured political compromise that left no one happy, “don’t ask, don’t tell” is done.
- Tea Party Favorite Andrew Breitbart Fantasizes About Killing Liberals
- The Case for Obama: Progressives Fell in Love, Now They Need to Stop Playing Hard to Get
- Why Do Children's Hospitals Tolerate McDonald's
- The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama's Fall From Grace
- Former President Bill Clinton Criticized “Huge Disconnect” Between Washington Politics and the State of the Economy
- The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world
- As new report more than doubles the death toll in Syria, rights groups launch charter for the recording of civilian casualties in conflict.
- The Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra
- Violence Continues on the Streets of Yemen's Capital for a Second Straight Day
- Inside Amazon.com's Warehouse: Workers tell of brutal heat and dizzying pace at online retailer.
- Poverty Grows in Rick Perry's Texas
- To Organized Labor's Dismay, Obama Makes Passage of Trade Deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia Part of His Jobs Campaign
- Obama Deficit Plan to Be Announced Monday Rejects Medicare Age Increase, Stresses Jobs, Fair Taxes
- Bill Clinton: Cheney trying to cause 2012 mischief
- Wall Street Protesters Settled In - They will, "no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%.”
- The Trillion-Dollar, Underground Economy Keeps Many Americans Afloat in Desperate Times
- Blast in Karachi’s DHA kills seven
- Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Says that the Government Has ORDERED the Media Not to Cover 9/11
- FBI Raid Involving Walker Campaign Records May Foretell Bigger Threat
- "I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one."
- America's costly war machine. Fighting the war on terror compromises the economy now and threatens it in the future.
- Maureen Dowd: The Republicans are now the “How great is it to be stupid?” party.
- TX unemployment highest in 24 yrs, twice rate when Perry took office
- Republicans Use A Marriage Smokescreen To Hide Their Economic Failure
- Dare We Question Capitalism?
- Lost, Abused and Neglected for a Profit
- In Protest Outside Middle School, Anti-Abortion Activists Target Daughter Of Abortion Clinic’s Landlord
- New Book: ‘…The Lost Writings of SDS’
- Mike Farrell on Troy Davis and Political Cowardice
- Obama cozies up to Central Asian dictator
- The Theft of the American Pension
- Tumult of Arab Spring Prompts Worries in Washington
- The enduring myth of George Orwell
- Europe Divided Over Palestinian State
- Eleanor Mondale dies of brain camcer; daughter of former vice president
- Tea Party Gets the Constitution Wrong
- Who’s Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
- Investigators Reach Out To News Corp. Whistleblower In U.S.
- Could Rick Perry Become Our Next “Rock Star” President? Part II
- News Corp shareholders lodge complaint against Rupert Murdoch
- CNN Responds to Activists on Tea Party Alliance
- Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin and other fundamentalist Republicans Are a Threat to American Democracy
- Ryan: 'Buffett Rule' class warfare
- The Ron Suskind Bombshell Book: Obama’s Economic Quagmire: Frank Rich and Adam Moss Talk About What’s Really in Ron Suskind’s Revealing New Book About the White House
- After cancer battle, Eleanor Mondale dies at age 51
- Banning & Burning Books in America
- Live Stream: Protesters Occupy Wall Street
- Bahrain at the heart of Middle East tensions
- Eisenhower Wouldn't Have Stood for This
- Statement of the Marches to Paris
- Demonstrators From Across Nation Descend On NYC To ‘Occupy’ Wall Street
- Sure, Obama Can Fire His Staff. So Should He?
- Obama Tax Plan Would Ask More of Millionaires
- Rogue States Threaten GOP Calender
- Anti-Transgender Violence: How Hate-Crime Laws Have Failed
- 10 Signs God Is Furious With the Right
- The end of Israel as we know it?
- The border issue is borderline ridiculous
- UK: Ministers to consult on legalising same-sex marriages
- Exclusive Timeline: Bush Administration Advanced Solyndra Loan Guarantee for Two Years, Media Blow the Story
- Killing Jobs and Making Us Sick
- Fox's War On Regulations Takes On Child Labor, Workplace Safety, Civil Rights Laws
- Minorities Have Been Hardest Hit by the Growing Income Disparity -- Mark Karlin for Buzzflash at Truthout
- President Calls on Congress to Act on Jobs Bill -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Mark Morford: Happy fun cloud will kill you now
- Limerick Ode To The New, Improved Obama
- Jesus Christ Files Lawsuit Against GOP For Slander
- Limerick Ode To John Boehner
- Mark Morford: How to Make a Creationist Weep
- GOP To Support "Trickle-Down" Disaster Aid