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• Sandy Relief Passes House Despite Conservative Opposition
• While Department of Justice Let Financial Criminals Go Free, They Pursued Aaron Swartz to Death -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Gun Appreciation Day: A Gathering of Conspiracy Theorists and Right-Wing Extremists -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Meet the New Year, Same As the Old Year? -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Reagan, Jesus, God and Lincoln: 11 Dream Cabinet Picks the GOP Would Still Oppose
• Manmade Global Warming Has Increased Monthly Heat Records By A Factor Of Five, Much Worse To Come
• Aaron Swartz's Father Says Reddit Co-Founder Was 'Killed By The Government'
• The Flu, Explained
• Report: At Least One Shot In St. Louis School Shooting
• Aaron Swartz’s Unbending Prosecutors Insisted on Prison Time
• Could This Scary Report Get Americans to Care About Climate?
• Sandy Aid Package Moving Toward House Vote
• VIDEO: Aaron Swartz - a Fighter Against the Privatization of Knowledge
• Mark Karlin Interviews Robert Parry | America's False History Allows the Powerful to Commit Crimes Without Consequence
• Former Aide: Michele Bachmann Had “Unnatural Relationship” With Debate Coach
• Impeachmentum: Reagan AG Says Obama Can Be Impeached Over Guns
• Surprise! Arizona Gov. Brewer Opts For "Obamacare" Medicaid Expansion
• HUMOR: The NRA Plays Games
• David Swanson | A New Jefferson Bible
• New Suspected Cases of Gang Rape Show Threat Facing Indian Women
• As Inauguration Approaches, Obama’s Most Virulent Foes Want the Celebration Stopped
• Conservatives Surrendering in Debt Ceiling Fight?
• Are the Jobs Walmart Is Promising Veterans Any Good?
• Sen. Lisa Murkowski Rejects GOP's Debt-Ceiling Hostage Strategy
• House Republicans Poised To Spend $3 Million On Legal Defense of DOMA
• Revealed: America’s Arms Sales To Bahrain Amid Bloody Crackdown
• Jon Huntsman: The GOP's Lonely Climate Hawk
• White House To Announce Gun Proposals On Wednesday
• Fitch Ratings Warns It May Downgrade US Over Debt Standoff
• The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz: Sharing Knowledge Is a Greater Crime Than Bringing Down the Economy
• Ann Coulter on the US Murder Rate: "If you compare white populations, we have the same murder rate as Belgium." Yeah, She Said That.
• Turtles and Tomahawk Missiles, Together at Last? War is Not the Answer to Climate Change
• Senator Asks CIA Nominee When Drones Can Kill Americans
• Democrats Troll Republicans With Snarky List Of Retreat “Agenda Items”
• "A San Francisco supervisor wants to rename the city's airport in honor of civil rights leader Harvey Milk"
• VIDEO: Soledad O’Brien Challenges GOP Congressman Over Opposition To Newest Hurricane Sandy Relief Package
• Stop Telling Me Not To Punish Law-Abiding Gun Owners
• Robert Reich | Obama’s Debt Ceiling Strategy Hinges on GOP Sanity
• The GOP’s Big Electoral Vote Gambit, Explained
• VIDEO: Fox's Todd Starnes: If They "Confiscate Our Weapons," I'll Be On The First Flight "Back South Of The Mason-Dixon Line"
• Reid Downplays Chances for Assault Gun Ban, Filibuster Changes
• Glenn Greenwald | The Bombing of Mali Highlights All the Lessons of Western Intervention
• Biden: White House Readies 19 Executive Actions on Guns
• Well That's Big of 'Em: Justice Drops Charges Against Swartz After Activist Kills Himself
• Troubled CA Nuke Plant Inches Toward Restart
• U.S. Prepares Support for French Military Intervention in Mali
• 5 Creepy New Ways for Police to Intrude on Your Rights
• Schumer Says He’s Satisfied With Hagel on Mideast
• The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
• RNC Chair: Rig The Next Presidential Election For Republicans
• NRA iPhone Shooting App Launched On Massacre Anniversary’s Eve
• Native American Logging Blockade in Canada Decade Old as "Idle No More" Support Grows
• VIDEO: Cenk Uygur To Alex Jones During Heated Interview: "Have You Ever Sought Mental Health Treatment?"
• House GOP Leaders Consider Four-Year Debt Limit Deal
• "Gene Rosen sheltered six kids during the Sandy Hook massacre. Now he's become a target of conspiracy theorists."
• Lawmakers in New York Reach Deal on New Gun Curbs
• New York Times Editorial | The Moment for Action on Guns
• Rep. Stockman Threatens Obama Impeachment Over Guns
• Glenn Beck Hopes to Build Utopian City/Theme Park Hybrid
• "President Barack Obama on Monday rejected any negotiations with Republicans over raising the U.S. borrowing limit, accusing his opponents of trying to extract a ransom for not ruining the economy in the latest fiscal fight."
• Lance Armstrong Admits Doping, and Plans to Testify
• Afghanis Want Withdrawal of Village Police Trainers
• How the 2nd Amendment Got Hijacked by the NRA and Antonin Scalia
• "Hey Moms ‘n’ Dads! NRA has a shooting game app for your kiddies – as young as four! – with targets in the shape of coffins!"
• Department of Justice Is Ruining Lives and Wasting Taxpayer Money Prosecuting Marijuana Cases in Legalized States -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Five-Step Process to Cheat the Middle Class Worker -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Brennan Asked to Show Legal Opinions Behind Drone Killings
• 2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349
• Jodie Foster Speaks About Coming Out and So Much More in Candid, Moving Golden Globes Speech
• Poll: Most Americans support new gun control measures after Newtown massacre
• CNN's Erin Burnett: Hagel Has Now 'Tempered' His View Favoring Diplomacy Over War in Iran
• Aaron Swartz, a Spark in Life and Death
• William K. Black: Jacob Lew Is Another Brick in the Wall Street on the Potomac
• How a Government Report Spread a Questionable Claim About Iran
• Weapon Wonderland Song Parody
• Roe at 40: ‘It’s never been this frightening before.’
• The pro-GM lobby's seven sins against science
• The four business gangs that run the US
• John Brennan: The New Normal
• Paul Krugman: Japan’s Huge Economic Move
• RFK children speak about assassination in Dallas
• White House may consider funding for police in schools after Newtown
• Lines harden in debate over guns
• More Second Amendment Madness
• Prosecutor Dismisses Charges Against Aaron Swartz
• Twelve Questions Progressives Should Ask Jack Lew
• How the world manages to waste half its food
• State Suspends Handgun Carry Permit Of Tactical Response CEO
• Ten Awful Crimes That Get You Less Prison Time Than What Aaron Swartz Faced for Freeing JSTOR Articles
• John Boehner’s Secret
• Glenn Greenwald: The Lessons of Western Intervention
• Obama Knocks GOP on Debt Limit; Says US Not a "Deadbeat Nation"
• The debt sequester mash up
• Obama Says He'll "Vigorously" Pursue "Meaningful" Assault Weapons Ban
• Planned Parenthood Gives Up the “Pro-Choice” Label: What Does It Mean for the Movement?
• Keeping a growing Austin green — and weird — is no easy task
• A new grand strategy for the U.S., built around sustainability

• Humor: Public Warned About Counterfeit Trillion Dollar Coins
• Mexico's drug war undiminished in some areas close to Texas, authorities say
• Chuck and the Chicken Hawks
• Why the Unemployment Rate Is So High
• Series of Brooklyn Billboards Put Racial Inequity on Display
• An Open Letter to President Obama
• PFAW Delivers 178,000 Petitions Calling for Bachmann’s Removal from Intelligence Committee
• The Suprising Unknown History of the NRA
• Obama Says US Warplanes Involved in Somali Rescue Mission
• Treasury Nominee Jack Lew Retained Citigroup Foreign Investments After Joining Obama State Department; Public Kept In Dark
• At Presser, Obama Demands Congress Raise $16.4T Debt Limit
• Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Privilege (Video)
• Eugene C. Patterson, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor, dies at 89
• What Watchdog? How the Financial Press Has Failed the American Public
• The Case Against Aaron Swartz Was Complete Garbage
• It's Time To Right The Colossal Blunder That Is The Iraq War
• Matt Taibbi & Bill Black: Obama's New Treasury Secretary a 'Failure of Epic Proportions' Taibbi and Black dissect the career of Jack Lew, who has been a cheerleader for the financial industry at the public's heavy expense.
• Glenn Greenwald: The inspiring heroism of Aaron Swartz
• How Unions Went From Border Hawks To Immigration Doves
• Satire: The Ultimate Way, to Trick the NRA
• Interview with Francis Fukuyama 'Where Is the Uprising from the Left?'
• How Our Universities Have Been Turned into Corporate Marketing Centers
• Tea Party Trashes Boehner’s Capitol Hill Office
• The Social Security proposal you never hear
• George Packer: The Political Isolation of the American South
• "Failure of Epic Proportions": Treasury Nominee Jack Lew's Pro-Bank, Austerity, Deregulation Legacy
• Comprehensive immigration reform: The time is now
• Aaron Swartz's family condemns MIT and US government after his death
• A Voice from Afghanistan: "US Drones Bury Beautiful Lives" (Video)
• RIP, Aaron Swartz
• Obama Administration To Seek Citizenship Pathway For Immigrants, Including Current Undocumented Workers in Many Cases
• Paul Krugman: Japan Steps Out
• NYT Editorial: "The fiscal cliff agreement did not fully reform the alternative minimum tax. It will continue to allow the highest-end taxpayers to escape, while still afflicting many others."
• True believers and the NRA: ‘No compromise’ It Is About a White Male Paranoid State of Mind
• Will the Far Right Keep Congress from Acting on Gun Control?
• Another day, another shooting suspect in America
• NRA president calls on gun makers to give him more money
• The Frenzied Conspiracy Theories of Jeff Boss
• Meet The House GOP’s Anti-Science Committee
• Sweeping new gun laws proposed by influential liberal think tank
• Invisibility in Django Unchained: Broomhilda in Chains
• White House Denounces GOP Brinksmanship Over Debt Limit
• Online Activist for Open Internet, Aaron Swartz, Commits Suicide at Age 26 Co-founded Reddit and Developed RSS
• Treasury: We won’t mint a platinum coin to sidestep the debt ceiling
• Obama faces 'limited' options on executive action on gun violence
• Like President Obama, Rahm Emanuel pivots on gun control
• Media Failures Lead to Flawed Understandings in Cherokee Adoption Case
• Canadian Aid to Haiti Tied to Mining Interests Yves Engler: Strategic objectives of Canadian aid are to strengthen a pro-elite police and advance Canadian commercial interests
• Afghan Peace Volunteer says drones bury beautiful lives
• 100,000 cops
• Hawks on Iraq Prepare for War Again, Against Hagel
• White House answers petitions demanding secession from union: ‘No’
• 2012: “Are You Serious?” Awards
• Colonialism and the Green Economy: Villagers Defy Pressure to Forfeit Farms for Carbon-Offset
• Register Guns and License Owners
• Truthout Radio with Marisa Holmes on Debt
• Standardized test backlash: Some Seattle teachers just say 'no'
• NBC Sports is sponsoring the largest gun show in America
• Buttons, Memorabilia Popular as Inaugural Store Opens
• ‘Fracking’ success sparking talk of oil shale boom
• NM-Sen: Organized Labor & Sierra Club Back Udall-Merkley-Harkin Filibuster Reform
• With the Resurrection of Immigration Reform We'll Hear a Lot About Securing Our Borders, But What Does It Really Mean?
• Zero Waste: Including Grassroots Recyclers in Buenos Aires, Argentina
• GOP Senator Promotes Iranian Propaganda To Oppose Chuck Hagel
• Timeline of the NRA
• Reform Advocates Celebrate "Supermax" Tamms Prison Closing
• 7 men gang rape bus passenger in India
• New Mexico's Latina Gov. Susana Martinez makes waves in the GOP New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez chides fellow Republicans for estranging Latinos, but she has angered some herself.
• Will Obama cave on Social Security? With chained CPI a likely part of any debt ceiling deal, outraged progressives are organizing in advance
• Jared Diamond: It’s irrational to be religious Supernatural beliefs might not make sense, but they endure because they're so emotionally satisfying
• CIA Drone Wars Protested at CIA
• White House Responds to Secession Petitions
• Will Obama Cave on Social Security?
• Californians Deal With Freezing Temps, Snow
• Reddit cofounder and online activist Aaron Swartz dead at 26
• Why the Feds opted for a sweeping safety review of Boeing 787
• Cancer Sell: An undercover investigation of the clinics offering cancer patients little but false hope.
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Mercury Poisoning Is a Growing Menace
• Shell's Arctic Drilling Experiment Has Been an Epic Failure
• Marines order clubs on base to allow same-sex spouses
• Naomi Wolf | Will Obama's 'War on Weed' Ignore Voters?
• In gun debate, video game industry defends itself
• Wells Fargo’s Mortgage Gains May Be Unsustainable
• Bahraini activist’s triumphant return
• Glenn Beck Attempts a Laughable Make-Over as a Libertarian
• Why the Government Should Pay Farmers to Plant Cover Crops
• Taliban Commanders Say They Were Tortured by Pakistani Intelligence
• How Did a Book Glorifying Rape and White Skin Get Into an Elementary School Classroom?
• California School Shooter Had a ‘Hit List’
• Conservatives Are Always Triumphant and Also an Oppressed Minority, According to Notably Stupid New Book
• How Anonymous Hacking Exposed Steubenville High School Rape Case
• What America's Most Vulnerable Need: A Bill of Rights for the Homeless
• Energy Efficiency Tax Credits Are Back Just in Time
• Bill O'Reilly's Fact-Free War on Planned Parenthood
• Release of DREAMer Erika Andiola’s Family Highlights Youth Movement’s Power
• John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old