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- We, the 99 Percent, Demand the End of the Wars Now
- Occupy Wall Street, Steve Jobs, and the Crazy Ones
- America couldn't veto Palestinian admission to the UN
- Elizabeth Warren: "The People on Wall Street Broke This Country" -- Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout
- Welcome to the OccupiedUSA LiveStream News Room (Videos)
- Libya's missing weapons being smuggled into Gaza
- South Africa: Street art a way of life
- US Attorneys in California Threaten to Prosecute Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
- Prominent Pastor Calls Romney’s Church a Cult
- Syria Kills Opposition Leader
- US soldiers accused of raping teens in South Korea
- 2 Tibetans Set Selves on Fire in Latest Protest
- Mitt Romney (Kind of) Stands up to Fischer's Bigotry
- Tale of Two Loan Programs
- L.A. County jail guards aid drug trading, sources say
- Where Post Office Is the Town’s Heart, Fears of Closings
- Secret panel can put Americans on "kill list'
- Key Regulator Calls for Limits on Speculation in Commodities Markets
- Anti-Immigrant Legislation Hits Alabama Factories
- An Interview With Henry Giroux: Youth Movement in a Culture of Hopelessness
- Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman on Human Rights Abuses Enabled by 'War on Terror'
- Henry Giroux on Al-Jazeera talks about his Truthout article
- Controversial Decision Awaits as Hearing on Oil Sands Pipeline Ends
- State outsourced allocation of federal disaster recovery funds to firm with ties to Perry
- Who Is Robert Bryce? Media outlets have turned to the Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce at least 39 times this yea
- Dick Cheney interviewed by Liz Cheney at “Ideas Forum” The Atlantic Magazine's celebration of Washington's power elite culminates in a pleasant father-daughter chat
- Glenn Greenwald: Various Matters
- Employers’ new ruse: “Independent contractors”
- Cain, Gingrich: Same goal, different tones
- John Boehner undermines Mitt Romney’s foreign policy message
- Does Israel's security service deem lesbian tourists a threat to national security?
- Supercommittee rakes in corporate donations
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chair: Events Like Fukushima Too Rare to Require Immediate Changes
- Slovaks Love and Hate Euro; Bailout May Lie in Between
- The class war over a $39,000 backpack
- Obama’s Food Safety Law That Republicans Fought Could Have Prevented Tainted Melon Outbreak
- Among 3 Women Awarded Nobel Peace Prize, a Nod to the Arab Spring
- Senate Introduces Legislation to Ban Racial Profiling
- A Citizens' Campaign for a New National Security Policy
- Our Next President, as Chosen by 7-Year-Olds
- Chilean girls stage 'occupation' of their own school in education rights protest
- Republican Religious Infighting: "A pastor of a mega church in Dallas said Friday that Republicans shouldn't vote for White House hopeful Mitt Romney because he's a Mormon and described the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a "cult."
- 'Sesame Street' unveils muppet to teach kids about hunger
- Using Ethnic Tensions for Political Games (and Gains): Anti-Roma Protests in Bulgaria
- Survey: Half of Texas doctors may drop Medicare if cuts enacted
- POTUS signs an executive order tightening release of info, post Wikileaks
- Third Fukushima Worker Dies
- Solyndra loan deal: Warnings about legality came from within Obama administration
- One of ‘Cuban Five’ Spies Is Released on Probation
- House Democrats mobilize for a Clarence Thomas ethics investigation. About time.
- A Dangerous Right Wing Tide is Sweeping Across the Political Landscape -- Ann Davidow for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Citi, BofA cut workers after US tax holiday-report
- "Right to teach" bill debuts in Michigan Senate - Republicans who control the Michigan Senate followed through Thursday on their plan to introduce so-called "right to teach" legislation, escalating a clash with the state's largest teachers union.
- Pick of the week: “Hell and Back Again” shows the true cost of war
- Persistent drought threatens Texas oil industry
- Study: Wyoming jails juveniles at a higher rate than any other state
- Nancy Pelosi: ‘God bless’ Wall Street protesters
- New Bank Fees Push More Americans to Credit Unions
- The Sacred Right to Vote
- For Fox, Raising Taxes On Rich Is Class Warfare, Raising Them On The Poor Is Good Sense
- Concern over close ties between Obama, Clinton and tar sands lobbyists
- The Map of Shame: An Interactive Map of GOP Vote-Blocking Laws
- Is Walmart Allergic to Pollan?
- Afghanistan: the worst place on earth for children to be born and raised
- State for Sale: A conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds.
- North Carolina for Sale? New Yorker profile thrusts Art Pope into national spotlight
- Explaining Ten Years of War to a Child
- A freight train loaded with ethanol crashed and exploded Friday.
- Washington Ignored The People, And Now You’ve Got #Occupy
- Book Review: Gwen Ifill on Race Introspection - "What Does It Mean to Be Black?"
- Computer Virus Hits US Drone Fleet
- American Military Deaths in Afghanistan, and the Communities from Which These Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines Came
- Paul Krugman on Occupy Wall Street: "There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear, but we may, at long last, be seeing the rise of a popular movement that, unlike the Tea Party, is angry at the right people."
- Secret Panel Can Put Americans on "Kill List'
- Naomi Klein | Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
- The Drum Beats for Occupy America -- Robert Koehler for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Romney’s Scary Middle East Advisor
- Rep. Cliff Stearns is Against Energy Subsidies That Aren’t to Oil Companies
- Scalia: Federal Drug Laws Were a Mistake - The Supreme Court justice told a Senate panel that the unintended consequence has been lower quality judges.
- Prof. Warren? Voters Say That's OK
- Under A Barrel: What Happened To Rising Gas Prices?
- The Secret Committee That Drafts Obama's Kill Lists
- Meet The Child Workers Who Pick Your Food
- How That Food You Throw Out Is Linked To Global Warming
- After an unexpected showing in Germany's elections, 15 internet-freedom activists become legislators.
- Ignoring Massive Industry Fraud, Bank Of America CEO Hypes Benefits Of Faster Foreclosures
- “We Are the 99 Percent" Creators Revealed
- The Hill's 2011 50 Wealthiest in Congress
- US Senator Dick Durbin Tells Americans to Boycott the Bank of America for Ripping Off Customers -- Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout
- Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Applaud Occupy Wall Street Movement -- Buzzflash at Truthout News Alert
- "Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground"
- Panetta: Loose Lips on CIA’s Not-So-Secret Secret Drones
- Obama to Issue "WikiLeaks" Executive Order
- US Justice Department Asks Federal Appeals Court to Block Enforcement of Alabama Immigration Law
- Occupy SF Camp Broken Up By Police
- Attorneys General Settlement: The Next Big Bank Bailout?
- John Pilger: The "Getting" of Assange and the Smearing of a Revolution
- Environmental groups face off against the oil industry as state department decides whether to approve Keystone pipeline.
- Topeka, Kansas City Council Considers Decriminalizing Domestic Violence To Save Money
- Noam Chomsky: The Threat of Warships on an "Island of World Peace"
- Nobel Peace Prize Goes to 3 Women Activists
- Blackwater Video Game Trailer: You Too Can Shoot People From the Comfort of Your Living Room
- "Leaderless" Protest Movement Continues to Snowball
- U.S. Adds 103,000 Jobs; Rate Holds Steady at 9.1%
- Wall Street saw yet another surge in protesters today - as hundreds of Continental and United Airlines pilots demonstrated in New York City's financial district.
- President Obama said on Thursday that he was "comfortable" with a Senate proposal to pay for his jobs plans with a tax surcharge on income above $1 million.
- 30-year mortgage below 4 pct. for first time ever
- Herman Cain: Wall Street Protests Are Un-American
- A Plea Not to Let the Occupy Wall Street Movement be Co-opted
- After All These Years, Dems in Senate At Least Stop Amendment Filibusters as of Thursday Night. Now Stop Filibusters Altogether.
- Sexism Inc.: Senator Scott Brown Calls In & Thanks Elizabeth Warren For Keeping Her Clothes On
- Democratic lawmakers have begun to embrace the Occupy Wall Street protests as they spread to Washington on Thursday, with some likening the movement to a Tea Party of the left. Several liberal House lawmakers endorsed the protests Wednesday, and the leaders of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said they had been inspired by demonstrators who have been arrested by the hundreds in New York City.
- Think 'Occupy Wall St.' is a Phase? You Don't Get It!
- Obama on Bank Prosecutions: They Did Nothing Illegal (Say What?!)
- The Sarah Palin/Fox News Debacle
- Bank Of America Targeted by Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC, Which is BofA's Home State) In National Campaign
- Poor New Yorkers Can't Afford Milk Anymore, But Mayor Bloomberg Says Priority is to "Help" the Banks -- Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout
- With Rahm Emmanuel Gone, Howard Dean Returns (Often) to the White House
- Biden: The "Middle Class has been Screwed"
- From Boston To Wichita To Denver: Thousands Around The Country Join The 99 Percent Movement
- The Legacy of Anita Hill, Then and Now
- Reagan’s ‘Greed Is Good’ Folly
- How investment banks turned housing and student loans into a toxic and financial disaster – Middle class largest asset coopted by banking sector to raid and speculate on. Financial sector nearly 30 percent of all corporate profits in U.S. In the 1950s it was under 10 percent.
- From Tahrir Square to Wall Street: What Can 'Occupy Wall Street' Learn from the Activists Who Took Down Hosni Mubarak?
- Drug Company To Pay $85 Million Fine in Improper Marketing Case
- Glenn Greenwald: Execution by Secret White House Committee
- The Rick Perry Hustle
- Universities Are All Too Happy to Accept Cash From Shady Sources
- Occupy Wall Street’s Media Team Arrested, Secretly Film Events In Back of Police Van
- Rick Perry v. ‘Rick Parry’: A Study in Pushing Campaign Finance Frontiers
- Bob Dylan Now Favored to Win Nobel Prize for Literature
- Millionaire Tax 'Surcharge' Gaining Steam in Jobs Bill Fight
- "Indeed, Democratic support for Wall Street was one of the major motivations behind Occupy Wall Street in the first place. When you read the heartbreaking “We are the 99 percent” Tumblr and you listen to the protesters, you don’t hear frustration with Republicans. The frustration is with Washington. And if Democrats want to work with the Occupy movement (or, indeed, make the “Republicans are the party of the rich” attack really work), they’ll have to undertake root-and-branch reform of their party’s relationship with Wall Street."
- "The Whole World Is Watching!" "Enough!" Shouts Occupy Wall Street
- The Guardian: "New York police used pepper spray to control protesters on yesterday's Wall Street march, with further accusations of heavyhanded tactics after the mass arrests on Brooklyn Bridge. Meanwhile the occupy demonstrations are spreading across the US, with a large protest planned in Washington DC."
- Conservative Group to Target Romney
- Report: New Restrictive Voting Rules Could Hurt Five Million Americans
- US Foreign Policy Stuck in the Mud -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Secret Panel of Government Officials Can Put Americans on "Kill List."
- Update on Police State Suppression of Anti-Wall Street Protestors on Night of October 5
- Congress Looks Abroad to Distract from Wall Street Protests -- Shamus Cooke for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Boehner To Obama: All Roads Lead To Nowhere On Your Jobs Plan
- Meet The Kendrick Brothers: God’s Faithful Filmmakers -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!
- As NYPD Beat Wall Street Protestors on Wednesday Night, Protest Against Income Equality Spreads Into Unions, Colleges, High Schools and Across the US
- GOP Pushing for More Logging in National Forests
- Andy Kroll: America's Lost Decade
- One Eve of War's 10th Anniversary, Afghanis Rally in Kabul to Demand Immediate Withdrawal of International Military Forces
- 'Occupy Wall Street' Becomes 'Occupy D.C.' Today
- Fox News Crew Maced, Assaulted by NYPD at 'Occupy Wall Street' Protest.
- Palin Goes for the Cash, Says She Won't Run for President She Said That It Was a Difficult Decision Because She Wanted to See France From the Window in the Oval Office. (Well, the Last Part Isn't True, But the Rest Is.)
- Bloomberg, 4th Richest Person in US Due to Wall Street, Is About to Snap the Mouse Trap Shut on Those Who Threaten His Fortune Bloomberg claims we need to "help the banks." In his plutocratic cloud of personal financial interest and self-serving disdain for the right of assembly, Bloomberg resembles a monarchist, not a mayor. -- Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout
- Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple, Has Died
- Jim Hightower: Something Big is Happening
- The NYPD and FBI Are Trying to Infiltrate Wall Street Protest to Discredit It: Of This You Can Be Sure -- Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout
- Iraq Denies Immunity for U.S. Troops After 2011
- The Moral Clarity of Occupying Wall Street -- Danny Schechter for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Suit Alleges Banks and Mortgage Companies Cheated Veterans and U.S. Taxpayers
- Climate Activism Stands With Occupy Wall Street Movement
- Republicans Shed the Truth That is Necessary to Our Democracy -- Ann Davidson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- CNN Anchor Mocks Wall Street Protests, Has Pity Party for Traders "Hit Hard in This Economy"
- Green Groups Sue US to Stop Work on Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas Oil Pipeline
- Former FBI Interrogator: Cheney Owes Obama an Apology
- To Occupy Wall Street, Occupy the Internet First
- Russ Feingold Endorses Occupy Wall Street: “This will make the Tea Party look like ... a tea party.”
- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to Visit White House for Husband’s NASA Retirement Ceremony
- Democratic House Members Formally Demand Ethics Probe Of Justice Clarence Thomas
- Reid Blocks Defense Authorization: Terror Provisions Like Indefinite Detention ‘Are Just Wrong’
- Guantánamo Film Shows Plight Of Canadian National Who Was Detained At 15 And Is Still In Custody
- Tea Party Chews Up Perry, Then Spits Him Out Like the Rest
- "The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89."
- The 'Buffett Rule'? Nah, Let's Try The 'Romney Rule.' Really Rolls Off The Tongue, Don't You Think?
- Scientists Report Potentially Enormous Breakthrough In Stem Cell Research
- Uber-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President
- Shades Of Voter Suppression To Come: 96-Year-Old Chattanooga Resident Denied Voting ID
- Elizabeth Warren Dominates In First Massachusetts Senate Debate
- Amy Goodman: Policing the Prophets of Wall Street
- Welcome to the Revolution: Life At Occupy Wall Street’s Liberty Park
- "Let Them Drink Milk!" Well, no. "They" Can't Afford Milk. High Price Puts Milk Out of Reach for Low Income New Yorkers.
- Warren Buffet Challenges Rupert Murdoch To Release His Tax Return. I'll Be Holding My Breath.
- Tennessee School Principal Bullies Gay Student For Wearing Gay-Straight Alliance Shirt
- "A new Lost Decade is leading to revolution." Well, Actually, More and More People Are Just Asking for the Economic Distribution of Income in the Eisenhower Era.
- From "Occupy Wall Street" to Electioneering, Frustrated Liberals Rising
- Poll: 1 in 3 vets sees Iraq, Afghan wars as waste
- Elizabeth Warren:’Wall St. broke this country’
- Sen. Rand Paul Blocks $36 Million For Disabled And Elderly Refugees, Including Those Who Aided American Troops
- Democrat Wins WV Governorship in Special Election
- 90 Percent Of Corporations Think Their Executives Deserve Above-Median Pay, Driving Income Inequality
- Joe Biden's Son, Beau, is Among 3 Democratic Attorney Generals Opposing Banking Industry Immunity Agreement Obama to Biden: "Hey, Joe, What's With Beau?"
- Reid considers surtax on millionaires
- The Mittster Thinks Crooked Banks and Hedge Funds are Economic Patriots But Wall Street Protestors Are "Dangerous"
- Harry Reid Said He Can't Get Enough Support From His Fractious Caucus to Go to the Bathroom. He Really Said That. Hey, Harry, It's Port-o-Potty Time.
- Transport Workers Union Denied Injunction Against City's Use of Bus Drivers to Transport Arrested Protesters; Suit, However, Not Dismissed
- Billionaire Koch brothers in anti-patriotic hot house over trades with Iran. Tea Party backers made multimillion-dollar deals with Tehran, report claims.
- How A Rick Perry Ally Kept An Innocent Man Locked Up
- Anonymous Threatens To 'Erase NYSE From Internet'
- William Rivers Pitt | An Open Letter to Wall Street
- Alberto Gonzales Named "Distinguished Chair of Law" at Minnie Pearl College -- Tony Peyser for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Divided Appeals Court Upholds D.C. Gun Ban
- On October 7th, The War In Afghanistan Will Enter Its Tenth Year
- Nation's Largest Nurses Union To Join Wall Street Protest
- Log Cabin Republicans Blast Herman Cain For His Comments Regarding Sexual Orientation
- CEO Salaries Continue To Skyrocket Despite Weak Economy
- John Boehner’s Anti-Gay Lawyer Gets A Million-Dollar Bump At Taxpayer Expense
- "It’s that 99 percent of Americans sense that the fundamental bargain of our economy - work hard, play by the rules, get ahead - has been broken, and they want to see it restored." Yup.
- Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize Winning Economist, Supports 'Occupy Wall Street'
- A Member Of The 99%
- Mother Jones: An Interactive Guide To 'Occupy Wall Street'
- Unions Promise Support As #OccupyWallStreet Enters Third Week -- Danny Schechter for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Formerly Imprisoned American Hikers Teach Us That it's Time to Move Beyond the Fiction of the Nation-State-- Robert C. Koehler for Buzzflash at Truthout
- It's Banned Book Week: Librarians Highlight Our First Ammendment Rights By Listing The Most Challenged Titles of the Year -- Walter Brasch for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Schakowsky: The Needless GOP Attack on Planned Parenthood Needs to End -- Buzzflash at Truthout News Alert
- What’s in Rick Perry’s Pocket? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Pakistan Downgraded to Frenemy
- The Other 'Occupy Wall Street'
- Captain Beckaroo
- Wall Street Wunderkinds Devise Plan to ‘Deal’ With Protestors
- Colbert Defends Perry: ‘Until Recently, Camp David Only Admitted White Presidents’