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• The Extremist Cult of Capitalism -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• After the first black president, who will be second?
• Can We Talk Calmly About Obama's 'Executive Orders'?
• Boeing's outsourcing strategy in the spotlight as FAA grounds the Dreamliner
• At Obama's Second Inauguration, How Emancipated Are We Really?
• Presidential inauguration: 700,000 expected in D.C. to watch Obama take oath of office
• Ortiz says suicide will not change handling of cases
• This is Forty: The Anniversary of Roe v. Wade
• USAF to help transport French troops to Mali
• Inside the heightened Inauguration Day security
• U.S. Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialised Countries
• After the first black president, who will be second?
• Inaugural poet: My story is America's
• Five Dead In New Mexico Shooting
• VIDEO– 5-year-old girl: Ooo, let’s shoot bubbles! PA elementary school: You’re a terrorist. Suspended! No, I’m not kidding.
• Have we reached a new political alignment yet?
• Humor: Ironic Times
• What happens in the artctic doesn't stay in the arctic
• Inequality Is Holding Back the Recovery
• How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size
• Obama II: Older, wiser, stronger Standing up to the three Ns – the NRA, Norquist and the neocons – the president guaranteed us a better second term
• Coordinated Kabul suicide attack targets government building
• Obama: ‘When We Put Our Shoulders To The Wheel Of History, It Moves’
• President Obama Sworn In For A Second Term in Private Ceremony. Monday's Inauguration is Just for Show.
• Edward Tufte was a Proto-Phreaker (#aaronswnyc Part 1)
• Dulling Down Dr. King’s Message
• Aaron Swartz, Financial Fraud, and the Justice Department
• Political ads: Not as powerful as you (or politicians) think
• Abbreviated pundit round-up: On guns, the economy and the 2nd inaugural
• President Obama's not-quite Camelot
• If you look at this website you might be breaking the law
• How Can You Resist the Age of Drones?
• Handicapping the Contenders to Replace Bernanke
• Not the New Deal, But Obama's Big Deal
• India Supreme Court to consider whether to transfer gang-rape trial
• "A Mighty Stream": Martin Luther King Jr.'s Faith Guided Him to a Commitment to Economic Justice
• Hilda Solis, Outgoing Labor Secretary, Reflects On Economic Recovery, Right-Wing Attacks
• They BuyPartisan: ExxonMobil Donates $260,000 to Obama Inauguration
• Inauguration Poet: Making a Man Out of Me
• Binyamin Netanyahu rejects calls for Palestinian state within 1967 lines Israeli prime minister says border would be impossible to defend and allow 'Hamas 400 metres from my home'
• MLK Injustice Index Is on the Rise in 2013: Racism, Materialism and Militarism in the US -- Bill Quigley for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "The U.S. Supreme Court could reshape longstanding federal law on the adoption of Native American children, depending on how the justices rule in the case of a South Carolina family fighting for custody of their adopted daughter."
• A Response to Time Magazine: Young People are Not Fragmenting the Pro-Choice Movement
• Jewish leaders join call to ban assault weapons
• Mainstream Media Taking Aim at the Elderly
• Film ‘After Tiller’ gives voice to stigmatized abortion doctors
• Women snapping up new concealed carry gun purses
• Waking Up in Tehran
• President Obama's Second Term: Symbolic or Ironic?
• Notre Dame’s Real Dead Woman Manti Te'o's soap opera moves the school's athletic director to tears, while Lizzy Seeberg's suicide is ignored.
• Bad Karma at Hyatt Regency San Francisco Yoga and the Picket Line
• Who Paid for This Inauguration?
• Plan To Offer Drug War Training To Mexican Commandos Raises Red Flags
• Looking Before a Leap into Africa
• 8 Surprising Things You Didn't Know About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Although King is one of U.S. history's most widely chronicled individuals, there are aspects of his life that are less well-known.
• My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline I wanted to learn everything about the environmental battle. I saw a country marked by apathy, and flickers of hope
• Palestinian citizens wearily eye Israeli elections
• Even With the Affordable Care Act, Health Insurance Coverage Remains Unaffordable for Many
• The Iraq War "Surge" Myth Returns
• Ex-Army Officer Accuses CIA of Obstructing Pre-9/11 Intelligence-Gathering
• Kim Dotcom’s Mega Manifesto: “Privacy Is a Basic Human Right”
• Change Comes: After 4 Years, Friends See Shifts in the Obamas
• US Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialised Countries
• 5 Hurt in Shootings at Gun Shows in Ohio, Ind., NC
• Sen. Rubio rallying conservatives behind comprehensive immigration reform
• U.N. Report Alleges Abuse by Afghans
• Gun Safety Regulation in Early America
• Central America's tiny states caught in deadly crossfire of battle with cartels Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and even tourist-friendly Costa Rica are now caught up in the drugs trade
• Kim Dotcom makes a Mega spectacle of file-sharing site's launch Bravado and buffoonery at Auckland event as internet entrepreneur says Mega had 250,000 signups in first two hours
• No classified FISA court rulings made public as a result of review
• Aaron Swartz: cannon fodder in the war against internet freedom Governments are determined to control the internet, and if hackers like Swartz get in the way, they will be crushed
• Sheriff Andy of Albany
• Occupy Wall Street Delivers Petition to the New York Post
• Gang Rapes and Beatings, Brothels Filled with Teenage Prostitutes -- The Depths of American Brutality in Vietnam A powerful excerpt from Nick Turse's new book, 'Kill Anything That Moves' exposes the horrors committed by the U.S.
• Overshadowed by Men: Women’s Voices Nowhere to be Found in 2012 Election News Regarding Women’s Rights
• White Veins of Mars: Curiosity Hits 'A Jackpot' in Quest for Wetter Past
• CIA drone strikes will get pass in counterterrorism ‘playbook,’ officials say
• The African-American Army
• Mali, France, and Chickens
• Newtown changed everything
• The Martin Luther King dreams that Obama forgot
• Is Washington DC Trying To Hide Its Homeless Population During Inauguration?
• As Droves Flock to Washington, Republicans Find Somewhere Else to Be
• Obama Administration to Formally Codify "Kill List" in Manual Executive Assassination Orders and Collateral Damage Deaths Will Become "Institutionalized" in Operations Manual
• Algeria: 32 Militants, 23 Hostages Killed
• Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, Interviews Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Remarkable Woman: Susana Vasquez. Nonprofit executive gives the underserved a voice in neighborhood revitalization.
• This week in the War on Workers: Hilda Solis on undoing the Bush administration's harm to workers
• Carmen Ortiz Strikes Out: Congress prepares to slap down prosecutors linked to the suicide of Aaron Swartz
• West Point Study on "Violent Far Right" Shows "Dramatic Rise" in Attacks
• Income inequality in the US rivals that of developing nations Bridgeport, Ct. and Bangkok, Thailand have more in common economically than you might think.
• New York’s Fracking Process is Broken
• 8 Surprising Facts About MLK
• Daniel Radcliffe: Everyone Needs To Chill Out About My Gay Sex Scene
• Belgium to build 'battery island' to store wind farm energy
• Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Restrictions Ruled Constitutional

• Pro-gun rallies across U.S. attack Obama's curbs on firearms
• Palestinians Forge New Village in Protest of Israeli Expansion
• Kim Dotcom: the internet cult hero spoiling for a fight with US authorities
• Big win for labor in Chicago: City council passes "wage theft" law that threatens license of violating companies. Will other cities follow?
• Bullets strike homes, narrowly miss officers as AK-47 target practice goes awry
• Why 58 Representatives Who Voted for Hurricane Katrina Aid Voted Against Aid for Sandy
• Republicans gather at former plantation to discuss minority outreach
• Search Option From Facebook Is a Privacy Test
• Four Graphs That Show How Democrats Predict Your Political Beliefs
• The recent horrific assaults on women in Steubenville and New Delhi require a strong response. Yet as happens all too often, our horror seems to make it difficult for us to fully recognize the pandemic nature of the problem we are addressing.
• Hacktivism: Civil Disobedience or Cyber Crime?
• Guess Who's Behind New 'Findings' That It's Healthy to Be Overweight?
• Bill Maher on what the Second Amendment crowd is missing
• Black Carbon Causes Twice as Much Global Warming Than Previously Thought
• George Monbiot | Wolf Killings: The Raid on Natural Resources
• Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin indicted on corruption charges
• Algeria Gas Plant Seizure Ends as Militants, Hostages Die
• "Universal" flu vaccine in sight, researchers say
• NRA stumbles in fight with Obama over gun-control proposals
• TSA Pulls Plug on Airport Nude Body Scanners
• Seven Gun Groups That Make the NRA Look Reasonable
• Gun Lovers Freak Over Obama's Executive Actions
• Leading from Behind Is No Way to Lead: What a Second-Term Obama Can Learn From FDR
• ALEC to Attack North Carolina Renewable Energy Initiatives
• Obama officials delay fracking rules
• In the Shadow of the Wall: From Gaza to Arizona
• DOD denies bid to drop charges against 9/11 conspirators
• US sends trainers for Mali-bound force
• Obama pushes gun control in address
• Wake-up Call Climate Report from US Government Made Public
• Aaron Swartz suicide has US lawmakers scrutinizing prosecutors
• WikiLeaks show US Government stopped minimum wage increase in Haiti
• The Journal News Took Down Its Controversial Map of Gun Owners
• Mark E. Andersen: Seriously folks - we have a problem in this country. The problem is the glorification of guns. What President Obama has proposed is a start; however, we have a long way to go. The weaponization of America and the gun fetish this country needs to end. We need to stop glorifying these weapons that for all intents and purposes, are military hardware.
• King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone.
• Men who have never done a day of physical work call to raise the retirement age to 70
• The Trillion Dollar Coin: A Debt Solution for the People
• James Hood Dies: Defied Wallace; Integrated U of Alabama
• Islamists Retreat Without Fight From Towns in Central Mali as French Continue to Deploy
• Congress Kills Part of the Affordable Care Act
• The day Aaron Swartz helped make the Internet go dark
• 3 School Shootings Since Newtown
• Obama’s endless fundraising
• Reid reportedly backing away from talking filibuster in reform proposal
• 'White Privilege' Lesson In Delavan-Darien High School Class In Wisconsin Draws Ire
• Corporate Party Favors at the Inaugural Shindig
• Report: 15 Burned Bodies Found at Algerian Gas Plant
• On the News With Thom Hartmann: Corporate America Is Doing Very, Very Well Under President Obama, and More
• As gun biz was hiring 13,000 people a year, its product was being used to kill more than twice that
• Best Films of 2012: Top Ten Picks From a Bumper Crop of Bold Creations
• Security guard leaves gun unattended in restroom at K-8 charter school
• Frackademia: How the Fracking Industry Tries to Bully or Buy Scientists
• Exposed! How the Billionaires Class Is Destroying Democracy
• German Priests Carried Out Sexual Abuse for Years
• In Reversal, House GOP Agrees to Lift Debt Limit
• Flu outbreak kills more children, hospitalizes more seniors
• Polling Shows the GOP Brand Sinking Like Concrete in Water: Only 26 Percent View Republican Party Positively -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Republicans seek three-month debt limit increase, but would require senate to pass austerity budget during that period
• Survivors describe horrors of Algeria desert siege
• Sensible Gun Laws vs. Right-Wing Maneuvering -- Ann Davidow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Massachusetts Bill Would Require Gun Liability Insurance
• Bye Bye Dear Abby
• Republicans Told To Shut Up About Rape At House GOP Retreat
• Stephen Colbert's Sister to Launch Congressional Bid
• House Republicans Agree to Vote on Bill to Raise Debt Limit for Three Months
• House GOP’s New Debt Limit Strategy: Force Dems To Pass A Budget
• Michigan GOP Considering Republican Plan To Rig The Presidential Election
• Report: Algerian Militants in Hostage Standoff Demand US Free Two Terrorists
• The Right’s Dangerously Bad History
• Aaron's Law: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Should Not Land You in Jail
• Winning by Losing: Yes, It's Progress
• Wanted: 20 House Republicans to Save Congress
• John Cusack | What Is an Assange?
• Your Comprehensive Answer to Every Sandy Hook Conspiracy Theory
• "Firearms Instructor" Hired as School Guard Leaves Handgun in Student Bathroom
• Paul Ryan's Personhood Amendment Threatens the Constitutional Rights of Women Across America
• Wealthy CEOs Want To Force Americans To Retire Later
• VIDEO: Paul Krugman Explains the Keys to Our Recovery
• America’s New Gunfight: Inside the Campaign to Avert Mass Shootings
• New Study Highlights Threat From Far Right-Wing Groups In U.S.
• Why People Who Hate Drugs Should Want to End the Drug War
• Dennis Kucinich Debuts As a Fox News Contributor
• Sixty Foreigners Still Caught in Sahara Hostage Crisis
• How Richard Nixon Sabotaged 1968 Vietnam Peace Talks to Get Elected President
• Deal Struck to Reintroduce Wood Bison to Alaska Wild
• Flu-Related Deaths Rise Above Epidemic Levels in US
• GOP Senator Insists Congress will Raise Debt Ceiling
• Chris Christie: NRA is "Reprehensible" for Targeting Obama’s Daughters
• Poll: NY Voters Oppose 'Fracking' by Narrow Margin
• GOP Leaders Moonwalk Away From Debt-Ceiling Armageddon
• "After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier for them to win."
• The Poor, Poor Rich of the Wall Street Journal
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Rips Fox News’ Hysteria Over Obama’s Gun Proposals
• Republican Retreat Kicks Off With a Rocky Start
• How Congress Created the Debt Ceiling Problem