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• The Wealthy and Wall Street Want Us to Drive Off of a Fiscal Cliff That They Created -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Under Pressure, Boehner Submits Budget Counter Proposal
• Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Poor Women and Children Faced With Fiscal Threat
• Paul Krugman: The Big Budget Mumble
• Meet the Climate Denial Machine
• Obama Knifes GOP Plan To Avoid Rate Hike
• LOL Of The Week: The Worst Thing Allen West Ever Said
• "Criticized as Weak in Past Talks, Obama Takes Harder Line"
• False Start: GOP Stumbles Badly With Women In First Month Since Election Day
• The Anonymous Multi-million Dollar Ballot Initiative Donor in California
• Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War: Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
• The Impending Demise of Progressive Talk AM1090 in Seattle?
• Will Obama Use His Campaign List to Break The Filibuster?
• GOP Rep. to former Bush staffer: Investigate WMD claims before attacking Susan Rice
• "Krugman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, may be the most prominent advocate of the view that the greatest danger to the economy is the continued paucity of jobs. Krugman argues that only the government has the spending power to move enough people from unemployment lines back onto payrolls."
• Rolling Jubilee Poised to Retire $9,000,000 in Medical Debt!
• Humor: GOP Accuses Susan Rice of Misleading Statements on ‘The War on Xmas’
• 100 Injured, 92 Arrested in Protests Against Mexico’s New President
• More Children Growing Up With Parents Behind Bars
• The Onion Book of Known Knowledge: Full Color Excerpt, By America's Top Satirical Newswriters | Truthout
• Humor: These Are Ironic Times
• NY Times Seeks Buyouts From 30 Newsroom Employees
• Weirdest Headline of the Day: "Milkshake promoter denies reports of tear gas at Kim Kardashian protest in Bahrain"
• Britain summons Israeli ambassador over decision to build in occupied territory
• "Here’s a sentence you won’t read every day: The president and first lady sat down with the members of Led Zeppelin, a former prima ballerina and Dustin Hoffman on Sunday night. And, um, Buddy Guy and David Letterman were there, too. In other words, an unusual but somehow typical crew looked down from the main mezzanine box at the Kennedy Center for the 35th annual Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday."
• "Look it up The dictionary definition of entitlement is “the fact of having a right to something and the amount to which a person has a right.” I have been working and putting into Social Security since I was 19. I am now 80 — still working and putting into Social Security. This also includes Medicare, which I got when I was 65. So, please, tell me how the Republicans can ask for “entitlements” to be cut when, in the above case, I put into the system? Of course, I am fully aware that the Republican politicians in both the Senate and the House of Representatives get benefits the likes of which I will probably never see." Yeap.
• Race, Class, Lightweights and the Contradictions of Sport | Truthout
• NBC's Bob Costas calls for gun control after Chiefs shootings
• The Publisher of Ballotpedia, Judgepedia and WikiFOIA and Her Right-Wing Bedfellows
• "Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Georgia, hit back at Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, saying he doesn't want Washington to "dictate" how he votes and that his commitment is to his constituents."
• Bradley Manning's trial delayed for more pretrial proceedings
• Bachmann to Chair Zombie Apocalypse Committee
• McCaskill: ‘I Feel Almost Sorry For John Boehner’
• Nate Silver: Politico Covers Politics Like Sports But ‘Not In An Intelligent Way At All’
• Savita Had a Heartbeat, Too
• Roger Waters UN Address - Nov 29, 2012
• Hitham Emerges From the Rubble in Gaza | Truthout
• Protests flare in Bahrain for Kim Kardashian visit
• White House "No new Offers until GOP drops opposition to tax increases"
• Eviction of Occupy Sandy: Staten Island
• For-Profit Health Insurer HealthLink (WellPoint) Denies Man's Stage IV Cancer Surgery
• Truthout Radio: Gareth Porter on Petraeus
• Politico says left media has a problem with Obama
• Cuba pushes swap: its spies jailed in US for American contractor held in Havana
• Donald Trump: Chinese Made Up Global Warming (Video)
• West Point Chapel Hosts First Same-Sex Marriage
• Tax Incentives to Companies Bleeding Towns Dry, With Few Results | Truthout
• Aide to Obama Faces a Big Test in Fiscal Talks
• Netanyahu Forms Alliance with Far Right's Lieberman Shir Hever: UN Vote and criticism over Gaza attack matter little to Netanyahu who unites with Minister who advocates ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens of Israel
• North Korea plans new rocket launch as leader asserts power
• Egypt court halts all work amid Islamist 'pressure'
• US-Afghan base attacked in eastern Afghanistan
• Treating schools like "pop up" stores and kids like bubble gum trading cards
• Hot and Crusty Bakery Workers Seal the Deal on Unionization
• Local blogger surrenders to police after live broadcasting standoff Man turns to social media, live broadcast with police negotiator as officers attempt to serve warrant
• Finding Strength In The Extraordinary Ordinary
• From Dream to Reality in the Philippines
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The future will not be cool Futurists always get it wrong. Despite the promise of technology, our world looks an awful lot like the past
• New clues and a powerful Wall St. skeptic challenge the official story of CIA financier Nick Deak's brutal murder
• A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid
• The Squandered Potential of Occupy
• This week in the War on Workers: Warehouse workers seek to add Walmart to lawsuit
• Five Rich Americans Willing to Pay Higher Taxes
• New Israeli Settlements Set Back Peace, Clinton Says
• Stem Cells Being Made From Blood
• Police: Kansas City Chiefs linebacker kills girlfriend, then himself
• Rival Rallies Grow in Egypt as Tensions Mount over Constitution
• Eight Reasons Wall Street Greed Is the Cause of (and the Solution to) the Phony Fiscal Cliff Crisis
• How Walmart Is Devouring the Food System (Infographic)
• 200-Year Floods in California More Frequent with Climate Change
• House GOP addresses its “only white male committee chairs” problem
• The 'I Don't Remember' Files, Part II: Hedge Fund Chief Stevie Cohen
• The Rise of the Sharing Communities
• Obama debt-limit proposal would ease concerns on Wall Street
• HIV/AIDS Funding Is in Jeopardy
• Fast-food striker fired — but not for long
• DOJ Mysteriously Quits Monsanto Antitrust Investigation
• Obama Administration announces first offshore wind farm project
• 100 still out of homes over New Jersey train derailment
• AFL-CIO Demands 'Unionmade' Stop Its Fakery
• Fossil Fuel Lobby in the Driver's Seat at Doha
• Republicans Frustrated With the New Obama, Who Will No Longer Negotiate With Himself
• Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza - What Really Happened
• Tourist Snapshot Makes NYPD Cop An Overnight Hero
• Fracking's Health Calamities Left to Fester
• GOP centrists split on plan to extend only middle-class tax rates
• Loss and Damage From Climate Change Must Not Become the "New Normal"
• Odds Improving on Filibuster Reform
• Fake AP Graph Exposes Israeli Fraud and IAEA Credulity
• New York Times Undercounts Drone Deaths in Pakistan
• Five Reasons Obama Will Rout GOP in Lame Duck Budget Battle -- Robert Creamer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• GAO Report on Guantanamo Doesn't Touch Indefinite Detention, Civil Liberties Offenses
• Manning Testifies About His Torture; Was It Aimed at Turning Him on Assange? (Video)
• 'Crisis Pregnancy Center' that Made Couples Study the Bible Now Suing for Taxpayer Dollars
• Post-Election Federal Education Priorities
• Senate strips ‘indefinite detention’ for Americans from 2012 NDAA
• Bangladeshi Garment Workers Rally for Union Rights after Deadly Fire
• Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones
• The Changing Face of Southern Voters
• Strengthening the Ties That Bind in an Era of Alienation
• How Drug Company Money Is Undermining Science

• Strike Launches Largest Union Drive in US Fast Food History
• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: What "Free Trade" Actually Means
• Nancy Pelosi threatens to use discharge petition to break stalemate on middle class tax cuts
• GOP Extremists Continue to Push Repugnant Anti-Women Laws
• Infrastructure Spending Needed: Century-Old New Jersey Bridge Collapses For Second Time In Four Years
• Cleveland Anarchist Bomb Plot Aided and Abetted by the FBI
• Nuke Power's Collapse Gets Ever More Dangerous -- Harvey Wasserman for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Charles Pierce | The Pirates Behind The Campaign To Fix The Debt
• On the News With Thom Hartmann: Thanks to Citizens United, Foreign Entities Are Meddling in Our Elections, and More
• Drone crashes mount at civilian airports - Just in time for the Holidays!
• Young Immigrants Say It’s Obama’s Time to Act
• Mexico's Pena Nieto to be sworn in as president. Return of the Corrupt PRI, One Party Rule to Mexico. Not that Calderon Was Anything to Write Home About.
• Senate Approves New Iran Sanctions
• Bradley Manning Tells His Story
• The New Right’s Rabid Watchdog: The only political party linked to organized ‘voter fraud’ in 2012 was the one loudly denouncing it.
• It's Not Just That Corporations Are Ignoring Global Warming, They Are Profiting From It -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Worker Health Advocates Say 9/11 Mistakes Repeated in Sandy Clean-up: OSHA has lowered safety enforcement for those doing Hurricane Sandy recovery work, despite hazards such as asbestos.
• Democrats express confidence that Republicans will give in on taxes
• Tax Burden for Most Americans Is Lower Than in the 1980s
• READ: The White House’s fiscal cliff proposal
• The cost of cheap clothes at Walmart, Sears
• Shirtwaist 2012: Discounting Lives to Maximize Profits -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Pledges to Fight Global Warming Inadequate, U.S. Off Track: Study
• 5 States Where GOP Extremists Still Rage Against Women
• What the UN Vote for Palestinian Statehood Really Means
• Shell VP: Yeah, We’re Gonna Spill Oil in the Arctic
• Glenn Greenwald: AP's Dangerous Iran Hoax Demands an Accounting and Explanation
• The Deficit Did Not Cause The Recession, The Recession Caused The Deficit
• Dispersants Used in Gulf of Mexico Clean-Up Makes 2010 Spill 52 Times More Toxic
• Sen. Sanders: Wall Street CEOs are the 'Faces of Class Warfare'
• Chrysler Factory Workers to Receive $1,750 Bonus Checks
• Maddowblog: Boehner Invites Global Economic Ruin, on Purpose
• "An explosion rocked the Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande AZ on Friday morning. The blast was caused by a device that detonated at the rear of the building."
• Paul Krugman | Class Wars of 2012
• Five Reasons Obama Will Rout GOP in Lame Duck Budget Battle
• Dingbat Oversight
• Right-Winger: Not Using Fossil Fuels is an Insult to God
• Tobacco Industry Uses Trade Pacts to Try to Snuff Out Anti-Smoking Laws
• Israel to Build 3,000 Settler Homes After UN Vote on Palestine
• Eavesdropping on Obama and Romney's Lunch Meeting: The president and his former challenger are meeting at the White House. Here's what we imagine they might be saying to each other.
• Why Are Cows Tails Dropping Off?
• Skittish Democrats Putting Filibuster Reform in Peril
• Colombians Living in Fear as Battle for Control Rages Around Them
• New York Times: Stake in Keystone Pipeline Is Potential Conflict for Susan Rice
• People In Three N.J. Towns Advised To Stay Inside After Train Derailment
• New York City Celebrates Unprecedented Day without Violent Crime
• Why We Need to Jump Off the Fiscal Cliff
• ALEC Convenes in Washington; Damage Control at Top of Agenda
• GOP Unites in Support for John Kerry to be Secretary of State; Likely Motivation is to Open Senate Seat for Scott Brown
• Indefinite Detention: Senate Votes Down Military Imprisonment Of Americans
• Thirty-Six Congressional Republicans (And Counting) Have Distanced Themselves From Norquist’s Pledge
• SATIRE: On Fiscal Cliff, GOP Spurns Grover In Favor of Wile E. Coyote
• "Killing Them Softly": A Hitman Movie—That's Actually About The Financial Crash
• Ray McGovern | The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
• Mark Moford | Your Prius Will Not Save You Now
• Austerity: The 1%’s Global Battle Cry
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart: Fiscal Cliff Like An Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth That We Created And Fired At Ourselves
• Obama to GOP: I’m Done Negotiating With Myself
• AP Source: Strauss-Kahn, NY Hotel Maid to Settle
• Exclusive: The Internal Polls That Made Mitt Romney Think He'd Win
• Walmart Union Organizers Promise Multi-Pronged December Actions
• Robert Reich | Bungee-Jumping Over the Fiscal Cliff
• Pat Robertson Challenges Creationism
• Reid: I Don’t Understand Boehner’s Brain
• Senate Backs Quicker Afghanistan Withdrawal
• Hostess Wins OK to Give Execs Up to $1.75 Million in Bonuses
• "U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice deplored the Thursday vote by the U.N General Assembly to grant Palestine non-member observer State status at the United Nations, saying that the resolution does not establish Palestine as a state."
• Environmental Activist and Her Son Slain in Mexico
• Antarctica, Greenland Ice Definitely Melting Into Sea, and Speeding Up, Experts Warn
• Saudi-Led Oil Lobby Group Financed 2012 Dark Money Attack Ads
• Conservative Activist Threatens to Steer Donors From RNC if GOP Raises Taxes
• The Supreme Court's Big Gay-Marriage Day, Explained
• Colin Powell's Fabricated UN Iraq War Speech Was Fine With "Bomb, Bomb" McCain and Graham -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Dodging Bullets and Winning the Day -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Walmart, Sears and a Mass Grave in Bangladesh -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• When Anti-Gay Hate Comes Home to Roost -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Outgoing Mexican Calderon Finally Fesses Up: "Mexico’s attorney general has compiled a list showing that more than 25,000 adults and children have gone missing in Mexico in the past six years, according to unpublished government documents." And that is likely an undercount.
• UN Grants Palestine Observer State Status
• Red Climate Change Alert: New study finds Antarctica, Greenland losing 3 times as much ice as in 1990s
• Judge Gives Bradley Manning Permission to Plead Guilty for Wikileaks Dumps
• Liberals Double Down: No Entitlement Cuts
• White House: No Debt Deal Unless Tax Rates on Top Earners Go Up
• Republicans Push Back Against Charge Of Preparing Surrender On Bush Tax Cuts
• Real-Life "Wonderful Life" Boss Gives Business to Employees
• WalMart’s Tears for a Tragedy
• Former President George H. W. Bush Hospitalized
• Walter Pincus | Why Is the US Building a Secret $100 Million Underground Facility Outside Tel Aviv?
• Susan Rice Vocally Supported the Iraq War, and Every Mid-East War Since
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Blasts McCain, Graham Hypocrisy Over Susan Rice
• Paul Krugman | The Con Goes On
• Volcker: Rule Is Already Changing Wall Street
• The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama's Third Term
• U.S. Economy Grew at 2.7% Rate, More Than First Estimated
• GOP Divisions Surface Early in 2014 Senate Contest
• Study: US Jails Could Handle Guantanamo Detainees (trials would be nice, too)
• The Irony of Right-Wing Secessionist Fantasies
• Dumping on Low-Wage Workers Is Lousy Direct Action
• Ohio Secretary Of State May Be Illegally Tossing Ballots
• Palestinians Certain to Win Recognition As a State
• Wave of Bombings Kills Dozens in Iraq
• Supreme Court Expected To Dive Into Gay Marriage Battle