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- California Gas Prices Prompt Calls For Investigation From Sen. Dianne Feinstein
- Mexico: Failed State or Economic Giant? (Video)
- Illinois Wal-Mart Supply Workers Win Pledges, Back Pay
- No, this isn't a headline from "The Onion": Charlie Fuqua, Arkansas Legislative Candidate, Endorses Death Penalty for Rebellious Children in Book
- 'I can't afford to live like this': VA weeks, months late paying student veterans
- Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon supports non-existent federal law protecting marriage equality
- Bill Moyers | The Rise of Hispanic America
- A New Evangelical Scam to Invade Public Schools
- How to Avoid Genetically Modified Food
- The Battle for Ohio: Can Obama Keep His Lead?
- The greenest mile: Chicago pushes the limits on sustainable streets
- E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Campaign’s Moral Hole
- Shooting to Kill Immigrants on the Mexican Border: A Border Agent Fired First at Immigrant Smugglers?
- Backed by court, East Jerusalem settlement expands into Palestinian home
- Dutch court rejects Shell bid to ban Greenpeace protests
- Beneath Their Judicial Robes: Who are the men and women who preside over America's highest court?
- Assange Cash Backers Ordered to Pay £93,000
- Mitt Romney Calls for Arming of Syrian Rebels
- Veterans and Allies Arrested in New York as Afghanistan War Enters Year 12
- California's Not-So-Public Higher Ed
- Michele Bachmann Shows Up at Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Strategy Session
- Four Cynical Ad Campaigns by Corporations Desperate to Persuade Us That They're Not Evil
- Paul Krugman | Truth About Jobs
- 12 Questions in 2012 Election
- Did Mitt cheat? Sure looks like it...
- Mayor Bloomberg Pushes a Plan to Let Midtown Soar
- More Evidence That Fracking Waste Is Poorly Regulated
- Hidden Rival of Charter School Growth: Home-Schooling
- US Runs Out of Funds to Battle Wildfires
- New McCaskill Ad Slams Akin on "Legitimate Rape" (Video)
- Will SCOTUS make it illegal to resell your stuff?
- Five Practical Reasons Not to Vote Republican
- Wall Street’s War Against the Cities
- The Unbelievable Ways Schools Are Now Monitoring Children - Even What They're Eating
- 10 Conspiracy Theories Hatched by Conservative Fearmongers as Election Day Nears
- Controversial New Verizon Contract Divides Union
- Watch: Jon Stewart Debates "Mayor of Bullsh*t Mountain" Bill O’Reilly
- Debunking Columbus Day: A Legacy Of Greed, Slavery and Genocide
- Walker-Related "John Doe" Trials Get Underway This Fall
- Big donors give far and wide, influence out-of-state races, issues
- Workers’ Rights at the Ballot Box: Labor flexes its political muscle in the Midwest
- Michigan Landowners Quietly Rack Up Court Victories in Pipeline Fight With Enbridge
- Could Washington state elect the greenest governor in the nation?
- Barack Obama: The $1 Billion Candidate
- Election Countdown 2012: Elizabeth Warren Still Ahead of Scott Brown in Poll of Likely Voters, and More
- Glenn Greenwald | The US Presidential Debates' Illusion of Political Choice
- Obama swings through Calif., Ohio, Va.
- Movements Need Politicians - and Vice Versa
- Sharing Medical Records With Patients
- Howard Zinn | A People's History of the United States - Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
- Mitt Romney Debates Himself (Video)
- How Netanyahu's "Bomb Iran" Ploy Failed
- Charters Do Not Outperform Unionized Schools
- Composer, Musician and Beat Movement Pioneer David Amram
- Chávez Re-Election Continues Trend of Left Governments Re-elected in South America
- Was Jesus Married? A Religion Scholar Decodes the Clues
- No surprise here: Congress members back legislation that could benefit themselves, relatives
- Dean Baker | Social Security: President Obama's Biggest Failure in Last Week's Debate
- Arkansas GOP calls candidates' statements 'offensive'
- "The President Was Warned Security Was Lacking, and Did Nothing."
- What Didn't Get Debated Last Week
- Coal Workers Say Murray Energy "Coerces" Them to Make GOP Donations
- As Governor, Romney Disapproved of Funding Multiple Sclerosis Services
- Chris Hedges: The Maimed Amongst Us
- Disturbing News: Exit Polling to Be Scrapped in Some 19 States, Allowing for Much Easier Manipulation of Election Results
- Reflections on "Columbus" Day
- Does Your Vote Count?
- Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit
- Gray Panthers, Raging Grannies and savvy seniors
- Europe Still at Odds Over the Workings of Its Bailout Fund
- E. J. Dionne Jr. | Romney's Personality Shift
- Chavez Wins New Term in Venezuela
- Virginia Voters Warm To Romney After Debate, But Race in State Hardly Changes
- As Military Suicides Rise, Focus Is on Private Guns
- Venezuela: Bolivarian Revolution on the Line in Crucial Election -- Nikolas Kozloff for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Obama in the First Debate: Terrible Performance or Political Rope-a-Dope? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- With 19 States Deprived of Exit Polls, the Blind are Even Blinder -- Jonathan Simon for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Mitt Romney's Debate Strategy: The Audacity of Mendacity -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- How the G.O.P. Became the Anti-Urban Party
- Maher VIDEO: Hey climate change deniers: “What are we gonna develop that replaces Iowa?” Oceans, marine life, seafood industry now at risk.
- Jerry Sandusky's victim have chance to address him at sentencing hearing
- Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister on Romney: “What I see is ignorance of what is reality.”
- Has Romney Caught up With Obama in Wisconsin?
- Capitol Assets: Congress’s wealthiest mostly shielded from effects of deep recession
- Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly rumble, and zingers fly
- Tea Party Voter Suppression Group Under Investigation for Possible "Criminal Conspiracy"
- Wealthy Congress Did Well During the Recession
- Michigan CEO "Tells" Employees to Vote for Romney or Else
- Romney's Attack on Big Bird Was Calculated
- Walmart Warehouse Strikers to Return to Work with Full Back Pay
- "The Measure of a Nation" Challenges Illusions of American Superiority
- Newt Gingrich: Romney ‘Changed’ On Taxes
- Paul Krugman: The Press Doesn’t Know How To Handle Political Lies
- 30 Days Out: Fundamentals Still Favor Obama
- Paul Ryan: "Let's Make This Country a Tax Shelter" (VIDEO)
- Some in G.O.P. Choose to Return to Akin’s Corner
- Congressman opens voting rights probe of tea party group
- WHEN THE POLITICAL PENDULUM SWINGS
- Joseph Stiglitz tells jobs ‘truthers’ the idea of a conspiracy is ‘literally absurd’
- Could the Western Sahara Blow Up?
- Senate battle hits Big Sky country
- Scant Oversight of Drug Maker Leads to Fatal Meningitis Outbreak
- Phoenix City Council Considering Local ID for Undocumented Immigrants
- The BLS jobs numbers the GOP won't talk about
- Americans donate $7 million toward $16-trillion U.S. debt
- Guy Ryder: Teaching is a profession under siege
- Eight of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s Wildest Comments
- Advertising on Television Rockets, as Super PACs Pour in the Dough: Total Spending $5 Billion
- Crackdown on medical marijuana
- Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: the Mystery of the Stranger on the Stage
- Best Line of the Debate
- Murder of Miami’s ‘Cocaine Queen’ Offers Teaching Moment
- Living in Some Parts of Chicago Can Take More Than a Decade Off Your Life
- Are Liberals Really ’50-50′ Over The Jon Stewart-Bill O’Reilly Rumble
- Manila and Rebel Group Take Step Toward Peace Plan
- Police officer fatally shoots naked student at University of South Alabama
- MIRROR IMAGES: ISLAMISM AND CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
- Gingrich Admits Romney Wasn’t Honest About Tax Plan During Debate
- Republican says evolution, Big Bang theory 'lies straight from the pit of hell'
- Life in Waziristan, 2012 “AD” | Truthout
- Is the Greek Crisis a Harbinger of Our Future?
- 5 terror suspects from UK appear in US courts
- China Moves to Silence Journalists Who Offered Rare Transparency
- Turkish False Flag on Syria
- Iranian Jews to Israel: Our National Idenity is Not for Sale
- Economist Richard Duncan: Civilization May Not Survive 'Death Spiral'
- Did past week’s events change Romney’s, Obama’s fortunes?
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Decision Restoring Early Voting In Ohio
- Obama Des Moines Office Spray-Painted: "Muslim Lier"
- Presidential Debate Aftermath: Mitt Romney Wins All-Important BS Contest
- Former Collaborator of ACORN "Pimp" Lays Bare Plot Aimed at Obama Pastor
- South Korea extends missile range under new deal with U.S.
- The Bane of Banned Books
- Chevron Asks Email Providers to Hand Over Users' Private Information
- Nuclear Plant Owner Proposes Restarting Damaged Reactor
- Obama and Democrats Raise $181 Million in September
- Chavez Supporters Flood Venezuelan Capital as Campaign Closes
- Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises
- Free birth control cuts abortion rate dramatically, study finds
- Peace March Against Drones in Pakistan Ends with Rally After Convoy Stopped by Army
- Platinum Company Fires 12,000 Striking Miners in South Africa
- Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly Set for Debate 'Rumble' in Washington DC
- Rachel Maddow: What could go wrong when Alabama Republicans go to Ohio to campaign for Mitt Romney?
- An Open Letter to Mitt Romney From Big Bird
- When Did Checking the Facts Become Taking a Candidate "at His Word"?
- Stand With Big Bird
- Report: Rep. Paul Ryan among “Worst of the Worst” when it comes to voting against the middle class
- Justice Scalia: Outlawing “homosexual sodomy” is a no-brainer
- Don’t Panic! Five Unnecessary Liberal Freakouts
- 91 People Are Charged With Fraud, Billing Millions to Medicare
- Failed clean coal projects cost Illinois taxpayers millions
- Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The debate, the jobs numbers, and the polls
- Three Approaches to Engaging Climate Deniers
- The Top 11 Excuses Conservatives Are Already Making for Losing the Election
- The Emperor's New Hump: The New York Times killed a story that could have changed the election — because it could have changed the election
- Beyond Voting: It's fine to cast a ballot, but real change comes from coalitions.
- Daryl Hannah and East Texas Great-Grandmother Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline
- September Jobs Report a Huge Boost for Obama
- Robert Reich | The First Presidential Debate
- A Farm Bill Only Monsanto Could Love
- Not Just Big Bird: Six Examples of the Right's War on Beloved Children's Characters
- Where Is War Making Taking Us?
- Right-Wingers Invent Hilarious Excuses for Why Unemployment Has Fallen Under 8 Percent
- Election Countdown 2012: Company Executives in New York Are Finding Their Way Around Limits on Campaign Contributions for Mayoral Candidates, and More
- Jim Lehrer: "I Have No Apologies" for My Debate Moderator Performance
- Texas settles “dead” voter purge lawsuit
- Quote of the day: Lies from “the pit of Hell”
- Canadian-owned firm's mega-donation to super PAC raises ‘legal red flags’- pro-Romney group received $1 million from foreign-owned company
- US Drones Navigate Murky Legal Path in Pakistan
- Did ExxonMobil Pay Torturers?
- Todd Akin "Forgot" About $130,000 Paid to Him
- FBI: Border Patrol agent was likely killed by friendly fire
- Foxconn workers on iPhone 5 line strike in China, rights group says
- Lose the GOP "Free Rider" Meme, Please
- Arctic Ice Melt, Psychopathic Capitalism and the Corporate Media
- Skilled Women Break Through Barriers to Entry and Promotion in Trades Work
- Five Pre-9/11 al Qaeda Suspects Are Extradited to US
- Romney and Ryan: Stabbing at Shadows
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Decision Restoring Early Voting in Ohio
- Why Susan Scott Buried TransCanada's Money on Her Family Farm
- Matt Taibbi | Presidential Debate Aftermath: Mitt Romney Wins All-Important BS Contest
- From Indonesia to California, Laborers Say "No" to Precarious Work
- Appalachian Coal Miners are Eschewing Unions and Going Republican
- Mitt's 50 Lies and Counting
- The Women Who Were Invisible at the Presidential Debate
- Robert Scheer | Sigh No More: Obama, Romney Leave No Room to Argue
- Thom Hartmann: Hey Media - How can Romney lie constantly and then be declared the winner? (Video)
- Did Mitt Cheat at the Debate? (Video)
- On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 250 Walmart Workers and Sympathizers From Southern California Walked Out on the Job Thursday, and More
- Washington Post: Fall in jobless rate strips Romney of an argument
- Romney Speaking to an Empty Chair: New Yorker Cover on the Debate This Week
- Unemployment report could help turn tide for Obama campaign
- How Big Companies Use Plain English to Rob You Blind
- Obama: 'Elmo, You Better Make A Run For It!' (VIDEO)
- Jon Stewart: Romney Won Debate Even Though He Was ‘Lying His A** Off The Entire Night’
- Did Romney cheat as well as lie? Watch the right hand.
- Rick Santorum Hints He Might Eat Big Bird for Thanksgiving -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Wave of Anti-Voter State Laws Detailed by GAO -- The Office of Senator Bernie Sanders for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Gambling Baron Sheldon Adelson Uses Million Dollar War Chest to Convince Jewish Voters to Abandon Democratic Party -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Romney Debate Win: He Proved He Could Sell a Junk Car With No Engine as a New Cadillac -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Romney Accuses the President of Doing All the Right Things, Especially on Green Energy -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- War, Veterans and Moral Injury -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Why Obama Lost the First Debate -- George Lakoff and Elizabeth Wehling for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Why We Fear and Hate the Truth -- Peter Michaelson for BuzzFlash at Truthout