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- Illinois Workers Fight Back Against Bain Capital Outsourcing Their Jobs to China -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Drug Czar Ignores Failure of Marijuana Prohibition to Curb Use -- Marijuana Policy Project for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How Mormonism Shaped Mitt Romney -- Jeff Fulmer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- No Kenyan, No Cry: Obama and the Filmmaking Fringe-Right Conspiracists -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Bush Deleted Intel Report Passage Saying Saddam Would Only Attack in Self-Defense
- US Judge Upholds Obama Ban on Lobbyists Serving on Government Boards
- Tough on China? Romney Fundraiser Planned Thursday in Hong Kong
- "Mitt Romney probably won't be bragging quite so much between now and the election about all those jobs he supposedly created at Staples. In an inconveniently timed move for Romney's presidential campaign, the office-supply chain announced it would be closing 30 American stores and downsizing 30 more."
- Mitt Romney's 'Them' Problem
- National Republicans Come Home To Todd Akin
- Voter Suppression Is the Last Resort of These Stop-at-Nothing Republicans
- Michele Bachmann's Seat in Peril As House Race Tightens
- Shots Fired at Mobile County Democratic Party Headquarters
- "An Army brigadier general who served five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with several female subordinates."
- The Coming Romney Comeback Narrative: "If there's one thing the media won't tolerate for long, it's an unchanging media narrative."
- More Guns, More Mass Shootings — Coincidence?
- Ryan's "Secret" Tape Is Even More Extreme Than Romney's
- War Is (Still) Hell
- Meet the Welfare Queens of the 1%: The Moochers Mitt Missed That Work for the Pentagon
- Romney To Middle Class Ohioans: Don't Expect Too Much Tax Relief From Me
- The Spanish Public Won't Accept a Financial Coup d'etat
- Ocean Acidification Occurring at Unprecedented Rates
- Mitt Romney Blunders Again on Taxes
- VIDEO: Jon Stewart on Romney: "Every Which Way But Lucid"
- Florida GOP Fires Romney Consultant's Voter Registration Firm After Fraudulent Forms Reported in Palm Beach County
- TransCanada Actively Encouraged Torture Tactics to be Used on Peaceful Protestors
- US Special Forces Deployed in Iraq, Again
- "With just six weeks until the presidential election, a judge raised the possibility Tuesday that he would move to block Pennsylvania's controversial voter ID law."
- Name-Calling Begins as Reported Rift Opens Between ‘Stench’ Romney and ‘Gilligan’ Ryan
- David Corn, Romney-Slayer?
- Calling All Activists: Occupy For Seed Freedom (Oct. 2-16)
- "The University of California regents have agreed to pay out roughly $1 million to end a lawsuit over last November's pepper spraying of UC-Davis students, part of a deal that also calls for a personal written apology from Chancellor Linda Katehi to each person hit with the spray."
- VIDEO: Joe Scarborough Reacts to New Ridiculous Romney Videoclip: "Oh...Sweet Jesus..."
- VIDEO: Rachel Maddow | Scott Brown's Racial Politics Crosses Line
- The Cherokee Chief Wants Scott Brown to Apologize
- SATIRE: The Mitt Romney Latino Outreach Program (Video)
- About Damn Time: President Obama Slams House GOP
- Shocked by the NFL Refs? Where've You Been the Last 30 Years?
- Greek Workers Begin General Strike
- Matt Taibbi | This Presidential Race Should Never Have Been This Close
- David Swanson | Iran, Israel, and Existential Threats
- Outrage: Why Are 6th Graders Being Drug Tested?
- There's Been a Dictatorial Coup -- Koch Bros. Have a Bunch of Czars Running Cities Across Michigan
- Legendary Crooner Andy Williams Has Died
- The Survival of Our Democracy Is on the Line With This Election
- The Other Death Sentence: More than 100,000 Americans are destined to spend their final years in prison. Can we afford it?
- 100 Million Will Die by 2030 If World Fails to Act on Climate: Report
- VIDEO: Where Do 53% of Your Tax Dollars Go?
- World Contraception Day: Myths, Rumors, and Rubbish
- VIDEO: Romney to Teacher "I didn't ask you a question"
- Election Day Starts Now: In Critical Swing States, Early Voting Expected to Exceed ‘08 Levels
- Ryan Goes Rogue? Running Mate Nicknames Romney 'The Stench'
- Prosecutor Deals Blow to NYC Stop-and-Frisk Tactic
- Workplace Pregnancy Bill Introduced Despite Opposition
- Poll: Obama Opens Substantial Leads in Key Swing States
- Russia Suspends Use of Genetically Modified Corn
- Timeline: A Guantanamo Death Foretold
- Conservatives to Each Other: Let's Lie to Ourselves!
- Sen. Harry Reid Calls Out Romney on Their Shared Mormon Faith
- Anti-Austerity Protests Erupt in Greece
- Five Facts About Voting In America For National Voter Registration Day
- Protesters Encircle Spanish Parliament: "As thousands besieged Parliament, Spain’s two largest regions took steps that underscored their economic troubles and displeasure with austerity plans."
- VIDEO: Romney Says Obama Did Not Raise Taxes ‘In His First Four Years’
- Cheese Head Hypocrisy: Union Crusher Scott Walker Wants Union Refs Back After Packers Loss -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Will 9 GOP Governors Electronically Flip Romney Into the White House? -- Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Now We Know Our ABCs, and Charter Schools Get an F -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Humor: Romney Is Upset He Can't Open His Airplane Window Lynn Larrow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Neither Romney Nor Obama: Fifteen Issues This Election is Not About -- Bill Quigley for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Paul Ryan: Preventing Gay People from Marrying Is a "Universal Human Value"
- Washington Post Polls: Obama Lead in Ohio, Edge in Fla. Hamper Romney Path to Victory
- WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange to Address UN Meeting via Videolink from Embassy Hideout
- VIDEO: Video Appears to Reveal GOP Voter Registration Worker Screening Out Dems in Colorado
- Mitt Romney Has the Lowest Favorability Rating Of Any Presidential Nominee In Modern History — Including All Of the Eventual Losers
- Dems Release The Hounds As Deadline For Akin To Drop Out Expires
- Paul Ryan: Preventing Gay People from Marrying Is a "Universal Human Value"
- Rachel Carson and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
- VIDEO: “Romney said he was NOT gonna cut education, and then...those cuts were made.”
- Death Penalty Lessons From a Crime Lab Scandal
- Obama's Lead Is Starting to Look Insurmountable
- "Nigger Lover": Hatred Hits Home...Literally
- VIDEO: Romney Unwittingly Explains Why Citizens United Was Wrong
- Just How Much More Money is Being Spent Because of Citizens United? 78% of All Outside Spending
- VIDEO: Brown's Attacks on Warren's Alleged Heritage Backfire
- 96 Percent Of Americans Have Received Some Government Assistance
- Report: Pakistanis in Drone-Stricken Areas Live Under Cloud of Fear
- Chicago Teachers, Verizon Workers and Quebec's Students Prove That Resistance Works
- Stay Classy: Scott Brown Staffers Mock Warren With ‘Tomahawk Chop’ And ‘War Whoop’
- Conservative ‘Super PACs’ Synchronize Their Messages
- Romney Energy Plan: Hot Cow Manure on Climate Change's Open Wounds
- VIDEO: We Are the 47 Percent
- National Voter Registration Day: The Time To Register Is Now
- Obama Tells Middle East To Get Its House In Order After Libya Attack
- Eugene Robinson | A Voting Issue That Isn't
- Scientific American Responds to Romney's Question About Airplane Windows (be sure to read the comments section)
- Charles P. Pierce | Obama and the Second Term's Ticking Timebomb
- TX State Rep. Riddle (R-Jackass) to Law Student: "Go Live in Afghanistan"
- Union-Busting GOP Governor Scott Walker Demands Return of Unionized NFL Referees after Green Bay Loses on Blown Call
- SATIRE: Ode To Magical Mitt Romney
- Republicans to Pollsters: Too Many Democrats In Your Surveys
- "Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman of New York on Monday rebuffed demands from Congressional Republicans to refrain from requesting tax returns and other information from tax-exempt groups that have spent heavily on campaign ads."
- VIDEO: Rachel Maddow | Romney's Strange Investment in a Chinese Oil Company
- GOP Backer Sheldon Adelson Accused of Commandeering Israel's Media Market to Support Netanyahu, Romney
- Right-Wing Family Feud Continues: Breitbart.com Bashes "Pinhead" Kristol
- The Last Four Years in One Quote
- Taking Liberties: Canada's Growing Torture Infrastructure
- Ralph Reed's Group Compares Obama Policies to Nazi Germany
- Netanyahu Apologizes to Ban Ki-moon over Iran Leak
- Texas Schools Allow Men to Spank Girls Due to Lack of Women teachers
- NYC Schools Handing Out Morning-After Pill Without Telling Parents
- Supporters Struggle to Defend Romney’s Tax Plan Math
- Syrian War’s Spillover Poses New Peril for Fragile Iraq
- Representative David Howard Suggests Civil War if Obama is Re-Elected
- Ann and Mitt's "Household Workers"
- Scientists: "93 percent" of Fox News Climate Change Coverage is "Staggeringly Misleading"
- Montana Wingnuts Jump to Defend “Legitimate Rape” Comments
- Washington Post Editorial: The Romney Approach on Taxes: Leading by Ducking
- "Poor, poor Paul Ryan. Where are the enthusiastic crowds waiting to see him speak?"
- Government Warns Hospitals on Medicare Billing
- In Obama's U.N. trip to New York, there's Whoopi but no "Bibi"
- Mitt Romney’s Sham Economic Plan
- Making $100,000 a Year? Romney Wants to Raise Your Taxes -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- "Fortunately, for more 30 years the American Library Association and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, among others, have sponsored Banned Books Week to highlight the importance of the Freedom to Read. This year, the annual celebration will be held September 30 - October 6, 2012 The top ten most challenged books this past year were..."
- In Effort to Salvage Campaign, Romney Reportedly to Reduce Fundraising Events
- The Secret Tape Of Ryan Is Even More Extreme Than the Romney 47% One
- Voters in more than two dozen states are already casting ballots in early voting for the presidential election, meaning everything the candidates do now could influence votes already being cast.
- Mitt Romney: Don't Have Health Care? Call Ambulance and Hope for the Best
- Lee Camp's Moment of Clarity: Where Do You Get Your News Video?
- Keith Olbermann: “Mitt Romney doesn’t know why airplane windows don’t roll down. Seriously.”
- Michael Siefert: “Eleven year old inhabitant of Matamoros garbage dump wins nation’s Mathematics prize.” We discard more than garbage. We discard children who can excel, but we must lift them out of garbage dumps. "It is so much easier to divide people into the “47%” or into those who live in a civilized place, and those who live in a garbage dump. The algorithm that employs the premises of social class and race and gender offers a joyful simplicity that is much in vogue these days, even as it is wrong. The proof for the refutation of that simplicity is Paloma and her gold medal."
- Mitt Romney Losing Support Among Older Voters
- Humor: The Mitt Romney Automaton Show, Episode One
- 'USA Today' Notices: 'Electronic Voting is The Real Threat to Elections'
- Vets Group: Military, Disabled Vets, Could Be Harmed by OH GOP's Restrictions on Early Voting
- Paul Ryan 2010: The Cayman Islands, “The Place You Hide Your Money”
- Romney Profits From Bain-owned Health Company Facing Wrongful Death, Neglect Allegations
- The US is still Executing Teens and Locking Kids Up for Life
- Shocker Stat: Life Expectancy Decreases by 4 Years Among Poor Whites in U.S.
- Did JPMorgan Host a Secret Meeting on Libor, With 7 Members of the NY Fed
- New Book Reveals Nazi Soldiers Knew of Mass Execution of Jews
- Mormons Want to Excommunicate Romney Critic
- Study Shows Deplorable Conditions, Wage Theft In Chicago Car Wash Industry Fueling Push For Unionization (VIDEO)
- Mitt Romney Could Recoup Extra Tax Payments After Election With Amended Return
- Election Day impersonation, an impetus for voter ID laws, a rarity, data show
- Obama Campaign Lowers Expectations For Debates
- The Self-Made Myth
- Romney tax returns: What’s missing in his report?
- Humor: Romney, on '60 Minutes,' Proposes to Cut Down Show by '47 Minutes'
- Obama is winning in swing states, Bill Clinton says
- Poll: Obama up by five points in Ohio
- Mexican Drug War Victims Denounce US Complicity
- Oxymoron: "Schwarzenegger Starts Think Tank"
- New Obama Ad on the Romney 47% Blowout
- "According to fresh New York Times/CBS News/Quinnipiac polling, majorities of likely voters in Wisconsin, Virginia and Colorado say that Romney's policies favor the rich."
- American Exploitation of Foreign Workers Update: Foxconn Factory in China Is Closed After Worker Riot
- Death by Prescription: "The doctors prescribing the drugs don't know they don't do what they're meant to. Nor do their patients. The manufacturers know full well, but they're not telling."
- 'SNL': Ann Romney Defends Mitt On 'Weekend Update' (VIDEO)
- 23 Nuclear Plants in Tsunami Risk Zones, Study Finds
- Humor: These Are Ironic Times
- Clinton: Republican voter suppression targeting African-American churches
- The Ghosts of the Guatemala Civil War The bones of the disappeared — victims of the Guatemalan civil war — beg to tell their stories. t
- VIDEO: Partisan Voter registration volunteer: “We’re out here in support of Romney, actually… We’re working for the county clerk’s office.”
- Democrats use "47 percent" comments to dog Romney in Ohio
- Washington Post: "Can Romney replicate Bush’s 2004 path to victory? It looks dicey."
- MapBox Aims For Open Source, Digital Map Revolution
- The Hillary Watch: Bill Weighs in on Whether the Secretary of State Will Run for President in 2016
- Bill Moyers: Why Mitt Tells the Truth
- Behind the Chicago trial of a Mexican drug kingpin Vicente Zambada, accused of being one of Mexico’s most powerful drug kingpins, will be tried in Chicago. But does he have his own case against the DEA?
- WATCH: Bill Maher Slams 'Dipsh*t' Undecided Voters
- The Makers vs. The Takers
- Romney haunted by Reagan's ghost
- If Bain Capital Were Running Mitt's Campaign, They'd Fire Him and Hire a Guy in China -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout "Willard has taken bad to a whole new level. Bad like a dumpster behind a fish market during a garbage strike bad. Bad like a three dollar Dark Knight Rises DVD bought off a Times Square cardboard table with Albanian subtitles bad. Bad like Todd Akin at a NARAL benefit bad. Bad doubled down. Beyond breaking bad to the point of broken bad."
- Quebec students call for free education now that tuition hike is off the table
- Naomi Wolf | How the Mitt Romney Video Killed the American Dream
- Why the Mideast Exploded, Really | Truthout
- Jill Biden Introduction of Joe Gets Unintentionally Risque
- New System for Patients to Report Medical Mistakes
- Is Sarah Palin America's Mrs. Kravitz?
- Haitian Political Prisoner Released, Says Repression Likely to Continue
- Obama Nightly News: War Declared on Republican Obstructionists (updated w/ video of FLOTUS at CBC)
- Occupy the Truth: Challenging the Media's Premature Post-Mortem on Occupy
- Voting laws may deter 10 million Hispanics, report says
- New York Prisoner Gets Five Years in Solitary for Cell Phone Smuggled in by Guard
- When the Ballot Hits the Bone Obama’s plea that he “can’t change Washington from the inside” isn’t a surrender. It’s a declaration of war.
- Chicago Teachers Strike Ends, But 'Multi-Year Revolution’ Begins
- Smile, the Government Is Watching | Truthout
- Banks Threaten Elderly Veterans With Foreclosure | Truthout
- In Ryan Country, Obama Keeps Up Attack Over ‘47 Percent’ Remarks
- University Is Uneasy as Court Ruling Allows Guns on Campus
- Eyes wide shut, world watches Syria bleed
- Romney to teacher "I didn't ask you a question"