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- Tacit GOP admission that voter fraud is virtually non-existent
- Supreme Court Justice Roberts Says No Justice Needs to be Recused from the Health Care Reform Deliberations, No Doubt Because with Clarence Thomas He Knows That He Has the Five Votes he Needs to Nix Major Part of It
- Occupy Protest Follows 123rd Annual Rose Parade
- Satire From the Capitol Steps? No, It's From the Father of Senator "Brain Cell Deficient" Rand Paul. Okay, Here is is From CNN: "Ron Paul: Santorum is 'very liberal'" That's Like Calling That Iranian Leader Guy a Friend of Gays.
- "Welcome to the new model of retirement. No retirement. In 1983 over 60 percent of American workers had some kind of defined-benefit plan. Today less than 20 percent have access to a plan and the majority of retired Americans largely rely on Social Security as their de facto retirement plan."
- The Circus Vote: Tomorrow, Tuesday, the Iowa Caucuses Send in the Clowns
- Just Who Is An Iowa Caucusgoer? Depends Upon Their Brain Size.
- Occupy the Rose Parade protesters gather in Pasadena park
- Gingrich claims he's been 'Romney-boated.' No, he's been whale bloated. (Sorry, cheap shot.)
- Satire: "Here is why I am writing to you today: on Tuesday, you will go to your caucuses and choose from among a field of Republican presidential candidates. And let me tell you, the idea of any of these people getting nuclear weapons scares the shit out of me. This is just one of many differences between your country and mine. In North Korea, we lock up the criminally insane. In America, you let them debate on TV."
- What’s the likelihood that Democrats could control Washington in 2012?
- Anti-Immigrant Arsonist Appears on the Loose in NYC
- Opinion: "We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we’re so busy communicating. And — as he might also have said — we’re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines."
- Is Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum the Last Anti-Romney Candidate Standing? Ron Paul?
- New York Times Editorial: Obama Should Checkmate the GOP in the Senate and Nix the Keystone XL Pipeline
- Actess Ellen Barkin Gets Mistreated by NYPD Police, As It is Recorded on Video.Occupy New Year's Eve: 68 Arrested in Zuccotti Park, Director Sam Levinson Captures Arrest Video Near Union Square
- Paul Krugman: Nobody Understands Debt
- Ohio Prepares to Privatize Some State Prisons
- Iowa: "Residents in this town have spent months hearing candidates talk about problems they largely don’t have."
- "Four years ago, the Romney brothers were a staple on the campaign trail. This time around, they have largely stayed away at their father’s request."
- Glenn Greenwald: US Goes to War for Countries That Sell It Goods and Give It a Geo-Political Advantage, Not for Democracy
- The Next War? Iran test-fires new missile as Strait of Hormuz posturing continues
- About 125 people were evacuated overnight from the visitors center at Mount Rainier National Park as authorities searched the snowy terrain for an armed gunman suspected of killing a park ranger.
- Top 10 pundit do-overs of 2011
- Michael Moore: Let's Double Our Effort to Raise a Ruckus
- Will the NLRB Let Graduate Student Workers Down Again?
- LA Times: Requiring porn actors to wear condoms backed by AIDS group
- Arrests at White House Over NDAA Military Detention of Americans, Occupy Wall Street Joins Fight.
- Obama Signs NDAA Into Law Despite "Reservations"
- No More Happy Hour in Utah? Among the 40,000 State Laws to Go Into Effect in 2012: Tougher Rules on Abortions, Immigrants, Voters
- Let's Double Our Efforts to Raise a Ruckus
- Thomas Frank: How the Right Wing Hijacked Rage Over the Economic Collapse and Swindled America
- That Was Fast -- After Only 24 Hours, Verizon Cancels "Convenience Fee" Following Customer Revolt
- Iraq: Remembering Those Responsible
- Populism Isn't Dead, It's Marching: What 19th Century Farmers Can Teach Occupiers About How to Keep Going
- Trampling Out the Vintage ? A dissident’s view of the rise and the fall of the United Farm Workers union.
- Mexico: Youth on the Front Lines of Protest Movement
- Rumsfeld-Era Propaganda Program Whitewashed by Pentagon
- Before Midnight, Occupy Wall Street Retakes Zucotti Park
- Got AIDs? Your fault, says Ron Paul. Boss can't keep his hands off you? Switch jobs, says Ron Paul
- In early book, Rep. Ron Paul criticized AIDS patients, minority rights and sexual harassment victims
- Gas and Other Fuels Are Top US Exports, For First Time
- Iowa: The People's Caucus
- Whaling: campaigners use drones in the fight against Japanese whalers
- The “Arab Spring” Effect
- The Montana Supreme Court restored the state's century-old ban on direct spending by corporations on political candidates or committees in a ruling Friday that interest groups say bucks a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court decision granting political speech rights to corporations.
- Bahrain Riot Police Clash With Protesters
- Nigeria Declares State of Emergency
- Gingrich Thinks Palin Would Be a Darned Fine Energy Secretary
- Occupy Wall Street:Taking Back Zucotti Park Livestream
- Iowa Republicans Closing in on Presidential Choice as Caucuses Near
- Surging Santorum Would Annul All Same-Sex Marriages
- 25 Best Occupy Photos of 2011
- The Top 10 Anti-Environmental Things Congress Did in 2011
- Google, Facebook, Amazon Planning Internet Blackout to Protest "Big Brother" SOPA Bill
- Iran Proposes to Reopen Nuclear Talks
- Muslims Skip NYC Mayor’s Event to Protest Spying
- UK Police Testing Laser Rifle to Blind Rioters
- Montana Court Restores Corporate Campaign Spending Ban
- Verizon Reverses $2 "Convenience Fee" For One-Time Payments
- Gay Rights’ Surprise Weapon: Morality
- Slouching Towards 2012
- San Francisco Becomes First in Nation with $10 Minimum Wage (and the Sky Isn't Going to Fall)
- Amid Inquiry, Comptroller Ends $800 Cap on Donations
- Nullification Makes a Comeback
- Occupy Des Moines is the Democrats’ Problem
- US Officials Holding Secret Talks With the Taliban in Qatar
- Fracking Cracks the Public Consciousness in 2011
- Looking Back, Moving Forward: 2011 Year in Review
- Farmers Seeking High Profits Add Acreage, Harvest "Rottenest" Land
- Norman Solomon: Uncle Sam Is Making the Wrong Choices
- In Case You Wanted to Know the Ratio: 3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US
- Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War
- The Party Line, Nuclear Style
- US Seals $3.48 Billion Missiles, Technology Sale to United Arab Emirates
- Low Friends in High Places Triad of Business, Cops and Politicians Attack Occupy
- New Court Challenge to Wisconsin Union Law Filed
- Iraq War: Reaffirmation or the End of US Exceptionalism?
- World On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Capitalism's ceaseless quest to cut costs made us more jittery in 2011, and there's no relief in sight.
- The Year Dissent Came Back
- President Obama: A Radical Liberal Moderate Conservative Socialist Corporate Stooge?
- NYPD Leave Offenses Off the Books to Keep Crime Rates Down
- Clashes Erupt as Protests Spread Across Syria; At Least 32 Reported Killed
- Obama Waits Before Asking for Increase in Debt Limit
- Ten Ultra-Rich Congresspeople Who "Represent" Some of the Most Financially Troubled Districts
- Poll Finds "Progressive" is the Most Positively Viewed Political Label in America
- Only a couple 2012 Peace Calendars Left. Support Truthout and BuzzFlash and Get 12 Months of Peace. Click Here!
- Report: U.S. nuclear renaissance unlikely after Japan's Fukushima disaster
- Scott Walker Getting Nearly Half His Donations From Out-of-State While Decrying Out-of-State Money
- Snapshots of Washington’s essence
- The Mind Prison of a Soulless Education -- Robert Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The intellectual cowardice of Bradley Manning’s critics
- The BEST of Occupy Wall Street Protest Signs - #OWS
- Major Ron Paul Supporter Favors Death Penalty for Gays
- Occupying the Conventions? How Protests Will Change Politics-as-Usual in 2012
- Enshrining the lies of the US' 1% What chance does truth have, if Americans cannot cast off lies that directly steal money from their own pockets?
- Blaze engulfs Russian nuclear submarine
- What will the future remember about America?
- The Most Interesting Documentaries of the Year
- Ron Paul and his racist newsletters
- The decline of labour unions in the US
- Infiltrating Congress
- Occupy Iowa: We aren't trying to disrupt caucuses
- Poll Finds "Progressive" is the Most Positively Viewed Political Label in America
- Couple Uses Music Video To Embarrass Bank Of America Into Closing On Their Loan
- On Fox News, Ed Whitfield Denies ‘Any Benefit’ To Babies And Pregnant Women From Reducing Mercury Levels
- The Washington Times' Year Of Obama Derangement Syndrome
- Montana Senate race most-competitive as 2012 nears
- The Port Shutdown Controversy: Corporate Profit vs. the Right to Protest
- US Civilians Are Now Helping Decide Who To Kill With Military Drones
- Poverty Matters!: A Christmas Miracle
- REPUBLICAN HICKS AND HOLY ROLLERS
- Our Favorite Books of the Year
- Keynes Was Right
- Midlife Crisis Economics
- Hastings, GOP target Endangered Species Act
- Under Obama, an emerging global apparatus for drone killing
- Department of Homeland Security Using Fake Facebook and Twitter Accounts to Monitor Posts Containing Certain Keywords
- Iran Hawk Watch
- Guest columnist: Iowans can fight for economic justice on Tuesday
- Keep an Eye on This Wild Card: Americans Elect
- Why a Woman of Color Risked Her "Honorary White Man" Status to Blow the Whistle at EPA
- Formerly Middle Class and Going to Pot for Income
- Virginia’s Ballot-Access Laws Turn Tables on GOP
- Slip-Sliding to War with Iran
- Positive Sign: Anti-Gay Groups End Year In Financial Straits
- Israel 'will launch significant Gaza offensive sooner or later'
- Half of Americans Do Indeed Live in Poverty: It's a National Shame -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Republicans Denying College Students the Right to Vote: The Mugging of Democracy -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Electing People Who Will Govern on Foolish Assumptions Won't Work -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Founder of American Family Association Endorses Serial Adulterer Newt Gingrich. Say What? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Preventing the Keystone XL Pipeline: Occupy the Oil Companies -- Paul Loeb for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Capitalism and Loneliness: Why Pornography Is a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
- Dallas Criminal Courts Judge Rules Death Penalty Unconstitutional
- Fox News Ratings Fall Off A Cliff In 2011
- Ayn Rand and the Sociopathic Society or ‘How I Learned to Stop Loving My Neighbor and Despise Them Instead.’
- What a War Over the Hormuz Strait Would Look Like
- Boycott of GoDaddy Over SOPA Bill a Barometer of Internet Politics
- "Good publicity turned bad for Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday when details of a letter from the federal government cast doubt on his motivations for lifting the cap on a state safety net for elderly and disabled residents."
- Criminal Charges Possible Against BP Engineers For Gulf Oil Spill
- Paul Senior Adviser: ‘He’s Not Against War’
- Expected Low Turnout In Iowa?
- Prosecutors Say Manning Collaborated with WikiLeaks’ Assange in Stealing Secret Documents
- Robin Hood Returns: Woman Charged with Robbing Bank in Boston and then Handing Out Cash to Children
- DOJ Aggressively Investigating Police Brutality
- Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings
- 10 Ways the Occupy Movement Changes Everything
- Montanans Launch Recall of Senators Who Approved NDAA Military Detention. Merry Christmas, US Senate.
- Syrian Activist Speaks Out from Hiding as Arab League Mission Fails to Slow Deadly Crackdown
- Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step for Occupy Wall Street?
- Argentine dictator gets 15 years for running torture center inside seized hospital in 1976
- Could Americans Elect be a Republican Ploy to Create an Anti-Obama Spoiler?
- Ohio Redistricting Pits Kucinich Against Kaptur
- Ron Paul Downplays Newsletters: Only ‘Eight To Ten Sentences’ Were Offensive. Well, then, everything's OK now. Derp.
- Top 10 Lies about Social Security (from those who just want to dismantle government)
- Koch Brothers to Launch Vast Database with 2012 in Mind
- How Many Innocent People Are in Prison?
- David Brooks Wants You To Have A Midlife Crisis
- Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, "Serial Fabricators" and the Tale of Iran and 9/11
- 2012: The Year of Nonviolence?
- "You really, really, really, can’t skip Iowa."
- Egyptian Security Forces Raid Offices of US, Other Democracy Groups
- Boehner's Speakership in Peril After Payroll Tax Debacle
- From the "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" Files: Republicans Require No Photo ID to Vote in Republican Iowa Caucus
- FDA Approves Computer Chip for Humans
- 2011: A Year in the NRA's "Insane Paranoid" Conspiracy Theories
- The US Is Really Really Worried About Potential Chaos and Violence in Iraq, Which is Why the US is Selling Them Weapons. Wait, What?
- Republican Nonsense on Regulation
- Virginia GOP Primary to Require Loyalty Oath
- Police Arrest 4 Protesters, Clear Occupy Camp in Bellingham, WA
- Occupy Protester 'Banned' from Flight Home for Christmas
- Ron Paul Campaign Scrubs Radical Anti-Gay Pastor From Website
- GOP Targets Endangered Species Act
- Analysis: Manning's Legal Strategy Could Lead to Plea Deal
- Despite Threats, Iran Unlikely to Block Oil Shipments Through Strait of Hormuz
- Russia Slams US on Human Rights Record
- Scott Walker Getting Nearly Half His Donations from Out of State While Decrying Out-of-State Money
- The Poll Game: Romney rises, Gingrich stumbles in Iowa, New Hampshire. Ron Paul Just Trailing Romney in Iowa.
- GOP Presidential Candidates Campaign for the Jesus is Running America Vote
- Survey Says Latino Voters Sticking with Obama, Democrats
- North Korea Declares Kim Jong-un Supreme Leader
- The Job Killers: Morgan Stanley to Cut 580 Jobs in New York
- "To save middle class, create good jobs"
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Book of Jobs
- Scientists test sick Alaska seals for radiation
- Middle-Aged Borrowers Piling on Student Debt
- Occupy protesters want Romney to release tax returns; he says ‘no’ (includes photos, videos). Arrest made.
- The Bad Food News of 2011
- Special Report: Energy Giant Hid Behind Shells in "Land Grab"
- Congressmen's Incomes Triple While America Gets Poorer
- Perry Pledges To Openly Defy A Supreme Court Decision Striking Down An Anti-Choice "Personhood" Law
- Matt Taibbi: How Banks Cheat Taxpayers
- Kucinich to Challenge Fellow Ohio Democrat
- Police Deaths Rise Sharply Again
- Ten Ultra-Rich Congresspeople Who 'Represent' Some of the Most Financially Screwed Districts
- Utah Doctors Join "Occupy" Movement
- Ben Nelson's Christmas Gift to America
- Eight States Raise Minimum Wage for New Year
- Republicans Require No Photo ID to Vote in Iowa Republican Caucus
- Did Food Draw the Crowd to the Coronation of the New North Korean Cult Leader? -- Tony Peyser, BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Factoid 'O the Year: 50 Percent of Workers Made Less Than $26,364 Last Year
- FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
- High Court says Israel can take advantage of West Bank resources
- The Biggest CEO Screwups Of 2011
- Koch Brothers Are Close to Launching a Nationwide Database to Connect to Tighten Their Grip on US Politics
- Mentally Ill Flood ER as States Cut Services
- Thousands of Israelis Protest Gender Segregation in Beit Shemesh
- 2011’s Big Wins – Brought to You by Women
- Norman Solomon: Uncle Sam Making Wrong Choices
- New Jersey Tilts Redistricting Battle Toward GOP
- Newt Still Lying After All These Years (Limerick)
- Obama to Ask for Increase in Debt Ceiling
- Revolution Versus Reform: The Rift Within Occupy
- Glenn Greenwald: The Real Reason the GOP Primary Is a Pathetic, Incompetent Clown Show
- US Bridges, Roads Being Built by Chinese Firms
- Arizona Schools' Ethnic Studies Program Ruled Illegal
- SOPA Is the End of Us, Say Bloggers
- Let's Try to Remember That People of All Faiths Do Good and "Holiday" Is Not a Dirty Word -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- There Is No "War on Christmas," But There is One On Our Constitutionally Guaranteed Civil Liberties -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- What We Have Now Is Lots of Money and Very Little Intellectual Substance -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Best Political Cartoons of 2011
- The Onion: U.S. Troops In Iraq Excited To Finally Return To Afghanistan
- The GOP's B Team