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- Pro Publica Reporter: How Mitt Romney Followed Me Around the Internet
- Poll suggests Obama swing state attacks working
- Chris Matthews in tears as he remembers Nora Ephron: “I wish now I had told you I liked you from the start.”
- Chicago City Council Overwhelmingly Voted to Decriminalize Small Amounts of Marijuana Possession
- New York Attorney General Enters Campaign Finance Fray
- Ending Military Rape: The Crusade of "The Invisible War"
- A Top Progressive On The Correct Response If SCOTUS Nixes "Obamacare"
- For-profit colleges lose one tool for deceptive marketing to veterans
- Robert Koehler: For Love or Money
- VIDEO: Brad Friedman on Thom Hartmann TV Discussing Florida's Deceptive PR Blitz
- Jon Stewart: Fox's "Outrage Repertoire Has Been So Overused As to Render Justified Outrage Meaningless"
- The firefighters trying to save Colorado homes don't have health insurance
- Barclays Execs Get No Criminal Charges for International Manipulation of Interest Rates, But You Can Go to Jail for Smoking Pot - Mark Karlin, Editor for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Claire McCaskill Drops Out of Charlotte
- Re-Open COINTELPRO Investigation: If the Sioux Can Seek Justice, Why Can’t Blacks?
- Americans Pool Together $945.23 To Counteract Corporate Money's Influence In Politics
- VIDEO: "The Daily Show": Jon Stewart Mocks Republicans' Obama and Watergate Comparisons
- Democrats Say Voters Ready To Kick GOP Out Of Statehouses
- In California Norman Solomon Concedes, Paving Way for Jared Huffman
- Children in Prison for Life: The Supreme Court's Ruling Is an Important Step in Juvenile Justice
- Stiglitz: The Inequality Crisis
- Library of Congress obtains astronomer Carl Sagan’s personal papers
- Senate deal would freeze student-loan rates for year
- What’s Needed for Change at This Political Moment? 5 Well-Known Progressives, 5 Strong Opinions
- Pollution, Poverty, People of Color: No Beba el Agua--Don't Drink the Water
- The Financial Transactions Tax: Robin Hood or Sheriff of Nottingham?
- Elizabeth Warren Rips Into Romney in Mass. at Obama Fundraiser
- Poisoning Workers at the Bottom of the Food Chain
- Obama leads in three key states amid immigration support: poll
- Syria: No to Intervention, No to Illusions
- SCOTUS Update: La Loi, C'est Moi
- Romney leaves vital questions unanswered on immigration
- Minimum Rage: College Grads in the Service Industry
- Moving Forward: What the Landmark SCOTUS Decision on Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law Means for Immigrant Women
- American Autumn: An Occudoc
- Soros Tells Spiegel Germany Will Be Hated for Its Role in Crisis
- Charlie Rangel Survives Primary Challenge
- "Senators should not accede to a compromise measure to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act unless the bill includes key provisions dealing with immigrants, gays and lesbians and Native Americans that are opposed by Republicans in the House, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Tuesday."
- 878 Wind Farms, 42,994 Turbines: Tools to Find & Learn About Your Wind Farms
- Wind Power Cuts CO2: Fact
- Robert Parry: The Price of Political Purity
- Nora Ephron, screenwriter and playwright, died at 71
- Stop the drug war to fight AIDS
- Pennsylvania Republican: Voter ID Laws Are ‘Gonna Allow Governor Romney To Win’
- The 5 Craziest Policies In Texas Republicans’ 2012 Platform
- The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class
- Friends Reel from Shooting of Teen Lesbian Couple in Texas
- Barclays will pay $400M for manipulating interest rates
- Stockton Bankruptcy: "All That's Left is Sadness" for City
- Truthout Revealed That at Least Some Bush Administration DoD Officials Knew of Potential 9/11 Targets -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court, and Health Care as a Human Right -- Mark Vorpahl for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Facts Make It Clear: Public Workers and Unions Are Not Overpaid -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Catholic League’s William Donohue’s Rage Against the Jews -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- The Washington Post's ‘Fact-Check-Gate’
- "And further off the deep end..."
- GOP Still Trying Hard to Make Voting Harder
- VIDEO from New HBO Series "The Newsroom": "America Is Not the Greatest Country In the World"
- Elizabeth Warren: "No, Mitt, Corporations Are Not People"
- Sanford Police: Zimmerman Passed Up Two Chances to Talk to Trayvon Martin
- Another GOP Lie Exposed: Scott Walker/John Doe Prosecutors Reveal Source of Leaks
- Heavy Fighting Around Syrian Capital
- Military Deaths, Suicides Lead to 'Opt-Out' Campaign
- Paul Krugman | Why This Economic Crisis Is Not Like the Others
- Robert Reich | What’s the True Meaning of Patriotism?
- Rachel Maddow | The GOP's Affinity for Loyalty Oaths
- How Right-Wingers on the Supreme Court Sold Our Democracy Down the River - Again
- VIDEO: Grover Norquist Struggles To Explain Taking Big Pharma Money, His Fannie Mae Lobbying Past
- For Progressives, There Is No Choice But to Vote for Obama
- David Swanson | The End Is Near
- Obama Slams GOP For Opposing DISCLOSE Act Meant to Expose "Shadow Groups" Behind Ads
- Was Scalia's Anti-Obama Outburst after Arizona Immigration Decision a Tell? Maybe He's Not Happy with the Upcoming Health Care Ruling...
- Kansas Board of Health Revokes License Of Doctor For Not Forcing 10 Year Olds To Give Birth
- Seismologists Warn Japan Against Nuclear Restart
- Public Option Advocates To Push Medicare For All If Supreme Court Strikes ‘Obamacare’
- Earth Still Probably Doomed No Matter Which Way Court Rules
- With Gas Prices Expected To Drop Below $3, Republicans Suddenly Silent On Obama’s Role
- Prominent Americans Urge Ecuador to Accept Julian Assange's Asylum Request
- Oreo Supports Gay Rights on Facebook, Dividing Fans
- Justice Scalia Cites Pro-Slavery Laws Excluding ‘Freed Blacks’ To Justify His Anti-Immigrant Opinion
- The Dilbit Disaster: Inside The Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, Part 1
- Democrats Pounce On Poll Showing Attacks On Mitt Romney's Bain Capital Career Are Working
- The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS: How the Criminalization of Drug Use Fuels the Global Pandemic
- The Case For a World Republic
- Greg Palast | Robert Mundell, Evil Genius of the Euro
- Charts: The Supreme Court's Rightward Shift
- SB 1070 and the Scalia Clown Show
- Congress Said to Delay Automatic Budget Cuts Until March
- Pennsylvania GOP Leader: Voter ID Will Help Romney Win State
- The Robin Hood Tax: A Powerful Antidote to Austerity
- Top Republican Senator Suggests Impeaching Obama Over Immigration Policies
- Derp Derp Derp Jon Kyl Blames Obama For Failure Of Immigration Reform Under Bush Derp Derp
- VIDEO: Chris Matthews Says Current Supreme Court Would Not Have Backed Desegregation, Civil Rights Bill
- The American Dream Is Now a Myth: Joseph Stiglitz
- "The high court on Monday reaffirmed its controversial Citizens United decision from 2010, following a challenge to a Montana law that prohibited corporate spending in elections. But the decision in the Montana case probably will mean a push for more campaign-finance deregulation."
- Do the Koch Brothers Determine Our Energy Dependence?
- Bradley Manning Wins Battle Over US Documents
- "So, this brings us to the central problem with President Obama's administration. They were under the unbelievably mistaken impression that if they worked with the Republicans, comprised with them and gave them what they wanted, that the Republicans would react likewise. Progressives (and anyone that was paying attention to politics in the last decade) warned them that would not be the case. We were dismissed. Now look at what's happened."
- Immigration Could Sink Mitt Romney Regardless of Supreme Court Rulings
- The Student Loan Countdown: Four Days and Counting
- Five Signs You May Be A Fast & Furious Conspiracy Theorist
- Fears Accompany Fishermen After Japan Disaster
- High Court Produces a Politics Of, By and For Corporations
- Paraguay's Parliamentary Coup and Ottawa's Imperial Response
- Scalia Gets Political
- Arizona Immigration Ruling Complicates Republicans’ Strategy with Hispanics
- Pentagon Contractors Play a Disturbing Game
- Stealing Votes and Buying the Presidency: A Winning Combination to Destroy Our Democracy
- Murdoch's News Corporation Considers Dividing Itself
- Koch Brothers Hope to Raise Even More Funds at Secretive Right-Wing Gathering
- Bill Clinton says, In the 51 years since President Kennedy took the oath of office, Republicans have had 28 years in the White house; Democrats have had 23. In the same half century, the economy has produced 66 million private-sector jobs—42 million of them under the Democrats, 24 million under the Republicans. “No one states these facts,” Clinton asserts.
- Antonin "All Hail Caesar" Scalia Goes Ballistic Against Obama in Defense of Arizona Draconian Anti-Immigration Law, Accuses Obama of Objecting to Law to Please Foreign Powers. How Does One Impeach Scalia? He's Out of Control.
- Supreme Court says states may not impose mandatory life sentences on juvenile murderers, only because Kennedy swung away from the right wing mafia on this one
- Antonin "All Hail Caesar" Scalia Goes Ballistic Against Obama in Defense of Arizona Draconian Anti-Immigration Law, Accuses Obama of Objecting to Law to Please Foreign Powers. How Does One Impeach Scalia? He's Out of Control. Due to Technical Difficulties, the BuzzFlash Videos are Temporarily Unavailable
- The George W. Bush Pet Goat "Dereliction of Duty" Video From 9/11 That Won't Go Away
- Report: California May Sink Five Feet Into Ocean In Next Century
- Thousands Occupy Tel Aviv, Police Respond With Brutal Force
- "Jimmy Carter savages US foreign policy over drone strikes. Former president calls on Washington to regain moral leadership in wake of drone strikes and targeted assassinations."
- Michael Tomasky: Democrats Should Come Out Swinging Against the Court
- Move on the Rove Diatribe: What Prompted Karl Rove To Go Off On a Fact-Free Rant About Don Siegelman and Jill Simpson? Me Thinks Karl Protesteth Way Too Much.
- Our Local Governments Are in Financial Crisis. Wall Street Economic Bias Hits Main Street Like a Tsunami.
- Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith on the Follies of Big Banks and Government
- 3 policemen shot to death at Mexico City airport
- Hilary Rosen on This Week: GOP Targeted Eric Holder Over Voter Suppression Investigations
- Mitt and the Junk Bond King
- Drone Documents: Why The Government Won’t Release Them
- Paul Krugman: The Great Abdication
- Why did the FBI gut a bill requiring the cruise industry to report sexual assaults and rapes?
- Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Police Stop and Check for Immigration Law in AZ
- Supreme Court Rules Against Montana Law Prohibiting Corporate Contributions. In Short, Citizens United, True to Republic Hypocrisy, Overrides States' Rights.
- Worker's Cooperatives: An Alternative to Trickle Down Economics
- Report: White House Prepared to Issue Executive Orders if Parts or All of Healthcare Reform Act are Overturned
- Boehner and Others Protected Themselves Against Financial Losses With Inside Knowledge During the 2008 Financial Crisis
- Study: Warmer seas are rising faster and more along US East Coast than rest of the globe
- "Progressives need to engage in a values-based strategy that builds trust across the issue silos. We need to focus on building communities of shared identity that bind us together."
- ‘Invisible War’ documentary examines rape in the military
- "Six years into a ghastly drug war, none of the top candidates in next Sunday's presidential election has offered a significant new strategy to win a conflict that has claimed more than 50,000 lives and terrorized Mexican society."
- The Ten Things That You Would Miss About the Healthcare Reform Act, Even If We Prefer Single Payer
- Scalia’s scary thinking: The Supreme Court justice actually believes the things he says and writes, even though they make no sense
- Rove Repeatedly Lies on Fox News About Siegelman Case
- Police State Alert: Austin Man Facing 10 Years in Prison After Photographing Cops Making Arrest
- 5 Reasons America Is Not -- And Has Never Been -- a Christian Nation
- We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident: The Imperative Of Women’s Human Rights And Empowerment In A True Democracy
- Genetic Engineers Explain Why GE Food Are Dangerous
- Posh.0: Mitt Romney’s ultra mega super duper double secret retreat
- How the US Government, Banks, Prison-Industrial Complex, Corrupt Officials, Businesses, Law Enforcement, Racists and the CIA Profit From Illegal Drugs | Latest in Mark Karlin's Border Series
- Egypt on alert as election result imminent
- Saudi Arabia to let women compete in Olympics for first time
- Appendix I, the Constitution of the “Old United States and the New American Republics”
- Influenza: Five Questions on H5N1
- Accusation Published in Washington Post: Infighting on Obama team squandered chance for peace in Afghanistan
- ‘Invisible War’ documentary examines rape in the military
- Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egyptian Election
- "And A Little Child Shall Lead Them ..." But What If They Don't Follow? Reflections on the Sham and Shame of Rio+20
- Unanswered Questions About Sandusky Case
- More Mexican reporters flee state of Veracruz after Zetas claim responsibility for killing of latest journalist
- Some Employers and Republicans Want to Lower the Minimum Wage -- Here's Why They're Completely Out of Touch
- Bernanke bails out Europe The Fed debated domestic policy this week, but its actions in Europe are just as revealing
- The Anti-Union Roberts Court
- Extreme Weather Takes Over America
- Hip-Hop Foodies: When Rappers Turn to the Kitchen What hip-hop's cooking boom could mean for the next generation.
- The (Sort of) New Mitt on Immigration
- Wave of Violence Swallows More Women in Juárez
- Retired Horace Mann Teacher Admits to Sex With Students
- What will Washington do about Fernando Lugo's ouster in Paraguay? This hasty, trumped-up impeachment of President Lugo amounts to a coup d'etat. The US must back democratic process
- Words of Power: And A Little Child Shall Lead Them ..." But What If They Don't Follow? Reflections on the Sham and Shame of Rio+20
- Philadelphia City Council Says Stop Funding the War Machine
- Obama vs. Romney: The Framing Matchup, Round One
- A Biblical Threat to National Security
- Self Comes To Mind
- A Battle Over Faculty Housing
- Drilling the Arctic: Are we in a Shell game?
- All the President's Frenemies In publicly attacking Barack Obama are Tavis Smiley and Cornel West upholding the prophetic tradition of Martin Luther King or acting out of personal pique -- or both?
- Health Care Reformers At Odds Over Post-Supreme Court Strategy
- US Drone Strikes Setting Dangerous Global Precedent
- A Biblical Threat to National Security
- Obama’s Muslim World Fantasy: Early Hopes Undermined by Drone War
- Coinstar: Or, Why the Poor Gamble
- For Wealthy Romney Donors, Up Close and Personal Access
- Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay
- Obama’s legal tactics seen as possibly hurting chances to save health-care law
- The Well Quiz: Supersize Soft Drinks
- Drone Questions for Americans (Jamiol Cartoon)
- Guardian: How Romney's Getting Away With His "Pervasive" & "Reckless" Lying
- OCCUPY TEL AVIV! - Israel's Social Justice Protests Renew as Thousands March & Overwhelm Police
- Corporations Have Feelings (A Short Story by the GOP)
- Turkey goes to Nato over plane it says Syria downed in international airspace
- Trade unions on the move for Rio+20: World Leaders do not deliver on the Future We Want
- Judge Finds Merit In Zelenik’s Attack Ads Against Black
- Election Fraud in Egypt
- Companies’ Ills Did Not Harm Romney’s Firm
- For Duquesne Professors, a Union Fight That Transcends Religion
- Honduran Scholars Call on US to Cease Support for Military and Police
- How to Report on Mexican Cartels and Live to Tell - Don't Go There, It Seems
- How Top Law Professors Are Working To Expand Corporations’ Constitutional 'Rights
- Pension Giant Dumps $73 Million Caterpillar Stock Over Israel Ties
- Jerry Sandusky convicted: Guilty on 45 counts in sex abuse trial
- Tesla Motors begins delivering Model S electric cars in a Silicon Valley milestone
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - Trickle-Down: Erupting Urinal Soaks House Press Gallery
- Has Romney Just Undercut GOP Witch-Hunt Against Eric Holder?