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• Study: No Link Between Abortion and Depression
• It Takes a Sex Scandal. But Should It?
• Towards a Women Inclusive Peace: Why 1325 is the Crucial Number
• Conservatives "Wild Notion" to "Topple" the Obama Administration Resumes at Civil Rights Commission
• Federalism and Medical Marijuana
• Washington DC Hotels Reports Colbert and Stewart DC Rallies Outpacing Beck
• Paul Krugman: What Structural Unemployment Looks Like
• ‘Monkees’ Respond to Christine O’Donnell On ‘Evolution’
• Apps Take Labor Out of Childbirth
• Job Loss Looms as Part of Stimulus Act Expires
• Language Barrier Keeps Some Tennesseans From Getting Justice
• Chavez, opposition battle in parliamentary elections Sunday
• The Comedian Political Take-over
• The Push to Ordain Women Priests Gains Ground
• Republicans Rising on College Campuses
• Landrieu Calls for Extension of BP's Rig Worker Compensation Fund
• Turkish PM does not rule out IMF-backed fiscal reform
• Promises, Promises: Waiting for Abu Ghraib Amends
• Democrats' Unleash Ads Focusing on Rivals' Pasts
• Managing Water as Scarcity Looms
• When Pigs Fly: Halliburton Makes the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
• Marion Brady: How Ed Reformers Push the Wrong Theory of Learning
• Bill Maher: New Rule: Rich People Who Complain About Being Vilified Should be Vilified
• Dilma Rousseff: From Guerrilla to World's Most Powerful Woman
• Obama: More Nixon Than Carter
• After Ten Years in US, Abortion Pill Still Divisive
• Israeli settlement slowdown to end at midnight
• House GOP Leadership Colluded With National Review To Blunt Criticism Of ‘Pledge To America’
• Billionaires give 91 percent of funds for Rove-tied group. The latest fundraising numbers from the conservative American Crossroads show the super-rich continue to pony up.
• Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists
• New Muslim comic book superhero on the way
• Dave Lindorff: The American Way: Spreading Democracy to Afghanistan, One Journalist's Arrest at a Time
• Michele Bachmann Parrots GOP Talking Points, And ups the Ante
• Conservatives' "wild notion" to "topple" the Obama admin. resumes at Civil Rights Commission
• Save American Democracy, or What's Left of It
• Paul Krugman: Structural Unemployment: The First Generation
• The Conservative Effort to Control State Supreme Courts
• Obama adviser slams Republican pledge as a rehash
• World in Revolt: The Global Backlash Against Budget Cuts
• Chicago: A mother's pain drives plan to fight violence in streets
• A boat carrying Jewish activists from Israel, Europe and the United States on Sunday set sail from Cyprus bound for Gaza, in a bid to run Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory, an AFP reporter said.
• Chicago: Sandi Jackson reveals her anguish over Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.'s affair
• O'Donnell is first political target of SNL season
• Promoters of Masdar, a city under construction near Abu Dhabi, say that it will be the world’s first carbon-neutral city.
• No amends yet for Abu Ghraib?
• America's Shooting Gallery: Young woman dies after off-campus shooting in New Jersey
• Harvard students protest New Republic editor: Demonstrators confront Marty Peretz in Cambridge with signs quoting his own words about Arabs and African-Americans.
• Tens of thousands will lose their jobs unless Congress extends a program that paid the salaries of people so they could get jobs in government, at nonprofit organizations and at small businesses.
• Obama invokes 'state secrets' claim to dismiss suit against targeting of U.S. citizen al-Aulaqi
• WH senior adviser says nation "can't afford" to extend cuts for $250k+ earners, ties GOP to country's debt and deficits on "This Week."
• Jerusalem Post: "Palestinian Authority negotiator Nabil Sha'ath said that direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians are in the hands of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and only he can "neutralize the explosive situation" by extending the moratorium on West Bank settlement construction, Israel Radio reported on Sunday."
• "Many Democrats are deploying the fruits of a yearlong investigation into the business and personal histories of Republican candidates in an effort to plant doubts about them."
• Wave of distressed mortgage transactions brings unsettling effects for homeowners, buyers.
• Decline of Hunting: "As hunters revel in preparations for their annual autumn forays into the wild, hunting enthusiasts are gearing up to reverse the long-term dwindling of their ranks."
• It's Patriotic for Rich to Pay More in Taxes
• Venezuela gives BP approval to discuss assets sale
• Enough is Enough. "Wounded in Iraq, double-amputee returns to war."
• NYT Editorial: The G.O.P.’s ‘Pledge.' "Extravagant promises and bluster are the stuff of campaign rhetoric, but the House Republicans’ “Pledge to America,” which promises a lot but is devoid of tough policy choices, goes far beyond the norm."
• The Democrats Have Enjoyed a Voting Advantage Among Women. Will that Hold in 2010?
• Deaf victim of sex abuse is suing Pope, and going public with his story for the first time
• Hackers Are Screwing With Oppressive Regimes All Over the World Just Like Wikileaks
• Van Jones Slams Koch Industries’ Role In Prop 23, Calls For Progressives To Stand Up To Tea Parties
• New York "Gov. Paterson appeared on "Saturday Night Live" last night to poke fun at the show's portrayal of him as a bumbling blind man." Sounds Like Saturday Night Dumb.
• The FBI has confirmed that it carried out at least eight raids on the homes and offices of antiwar activists in Minneapolis and Chicago at 7 a.m. on Friday.
• Coalition of National LGBT Rights Groups Joins With Progressive Allies as Part of One Nation Working Together
• New contraceptives, still in trials, could be a powerful tool in fighting global poverty.
• Family Research Council Staffer Says Americans Who Fail To Toe The Religious Right Line Are Serving Satan
• Act Now: Join the Truthout/Buzzflash Movement. We Need Your Financial Backing Today. BuzzFlash Doesn't Keep Blaring for Support Anymore, But We and Our Partner Truthout Can Only Keep the Beacon of Light Burning With Your Tax-Deductible Contribution.
• A federal judge ruled Friday that a decorated flight nurse discharged from the Air Force for being a lesbian should be given her job back as soon as possible in the latest legal setback to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. But the Obama Administration is Still Fighting the Positive Court Rulings.
• One Nation Rally: Local Events
• Ted Sorenson: When Kennedy Met Nixon, The Real Story
• TV host Maher shows another O'Donnell clip: Evolution is a Myth, O'Donnell Claims
• Vatican probes group tied to sex abuse scandal
• Poll: Does the GOP Have "Intensity of Feeling" on Its Side in 2010?
• AP Poll Find that by 2 - 1 Americans Feel Obama's Healthcare Law Didn't Go Far Enough. Obama's Flaws May be Timidity and Losing Control of the Narrative.
• America's Shooting Gallery: 1 killed, 10 hurt in post-party fight in L.A.
• President Obama blasts the GOP's 'Pledge to America' as a 'worn-out philosophy'
• What Else is New? Widespread Fraud Seen in Latest Afghan Elections.
• UN warned of major new food crisis at emergency meeting in Rome. Environmental disasters and speculative investors are to blame for volatile food commodities markets.
• Bicentennial Nothing to Celebrate, Say Indigenous Peoples
• Alexander Cockburn: Masturbating on the Edge of the Apocalypse
• The GOP Pledge Against America: 'Same Sh*t We Heard Before' -- Barbara's Daily Buzz from Atlanta
• Hugo Chavez's Upcoming Test: A Preview of Venezuela's September 26 Elections
• "Two former members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with 18-month prison sentences Friday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers."
• 4th Man Sues Atlanta Megachurch Minister for Alleged Sexual Abuse
• Kite-Jacking in Afghanistan
• How far away is a Middle East peace deal? It could be as little as 13 miles
• GOP Candidate for Governor of New York Sends, Literally, Stinky Messages to New Yorkers
• Adoption route leaves U.S. mother, adopted child exiled in Nepal
• Cuba's a Paradise for Eco-tourism
• Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Education and Immigrant Communities
• Montana Democratic Governor Says drug Companies Avoiding Taxes. You need to stick it to 'em.
• We are One Nation Working Together: Join the March on October 2nd in D.C.!
• John Boehner Alleged 'Affair' To Be Focus Of New York Times Expose, NY Post Reports
• Tea Party Senate Candidate Mike Lee Tried to Dump 1,600 Tons of European Nuclear Waste on Utah
• Fallout From Republicans Stopping TheRepeal Of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• A Billionaire Investor Sues JPMorgan Chase: Joe Nocera on Len Blavatnik and his fight to get back some of the money he lost because of what he calls bank negligence.
• Sikhs Challenge Discrimination in Courts
• The Justice Department has reached an agreement with six major Silicon Valley companies to settle charges they colluded to keep a lid on wages by agreeing not to poach employees from one another.
• W Virginia Orders Chesapeake Stop Activity At Gas-Well Fire Site
• Wealth inequality rivals the months prior to the Great Depression – Americans would prefer a more evenly distributed wealth system. Over 80 percent of Americans still feel we are in a recession.
• Former President Bill Clinton's three-day conference for VIPs with deep pockets generated nearly 300 new commitments valued at $6 billion to tackle major global issues from poverty and disease to climate change.
• "A soft-spoken 14-year-old's nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion."
• America the Bigoted and Deranged: "The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, as social conservative board members warned of what they describe as a creeping Middle Eastern influence in the nation's publishing industry."
• Hidden Under Tax-Exempt Cloak, Political Dollars Flow
• "The Obama administration is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who is said to be targeted for killing by the government."
• Obama takes on GOP on taxes, economy

• "Human rights and free speech groups protested Saturday the arrest of a Thai webmaster as she returned from an Internet freedom conference on charges of insulting the monarchy and violating the Computer Crime Act."
• FBI searches Midwest homes pursuing alleged terrorist ties of Americans, or are they just violating the First Amendment and trying to intimidate dissenters?
• The Case for Backing the Dems and Healthcare Reform
• UK Independent: "How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins"
• Gas Blasts Spur Questions on Oversight of Pipelines
• Tim Pawlenty Joins Michele Bachmann in Endorsing Anti-Wanker Candidate Christine O'Donnell
• Krugman: No CEO to Replace Summers
• Senate debates tax increases on companies that move jobs overseas. It's about time.
• Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul belongs to a conservative doctors’ group that, among other things, has expressed doubts about the connection between HIV and AIDS and suggested that President Barack Obama may have been elected because he was able to hypnotize voters.
• Fox News lavishes 2 1/2 hours on GOP's "Contract on America"
• The misguided movement to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution
• GOP Continues to Fan the Flames of "Whites Being Disenfranchised" by Minorities. It's the "White Victimzation" Syndrome Again.
• Republicans Thrive on Wedge Issues -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash/Truthout "It’s right-wing extremist humans with fully-functioning mouse brains and a skewed set of values who pose the greatest threat to the country."
• Beck Promotes Anti-Semitic Book
• Florida orange groves still shrinking
• Fish Kills and Dead Zones Create Confusion in the Gulf
• In A ‘Shot-By-Shot’ Comparison, Jon Stewart Reveals The GOP’s Pledge Is ‘Exactly Like’ Its ‘Old Ideas’
• Queen of England Hits "Hard Times," Has to Turn in Her Credit Card to UK Government
• Eugene Robinson on the Party of Nonsense
• Stephen Mansfield and David Holland's new book The Faith and Values of Sarah Palin: What She Believes and What It Means for America examines and analyzes the faith of the former Alaska governor. According to Publisher’s Weekly, the book “sheds some light on the topic, but not much.” -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• Republicans Cry “Class Warfare” When They’re Winning the War
• Veterans Defend Accused WikiLeaks' Source Bradley Manning
• Media Matters: How Fox News helps its own employees run for office
• The Cruel Cutback on Food Stamps
• Because of the GOP delaying tactics, only 41 of President Obama's 85 judicial nominees have been confirmed – just 48 percent. The percentage and number of confirmations is the lowest for any president at this point in their term in at least 36 years.
• Nancy Pelosi, said on Friday that Democrats in her chamber may still force a vote next week on the expiring Bush-era income-tax rate cuts, even though their counterparts in the Senate have decided not to bring the issue to the floor until after the November elections.
• Increase Funding to the Public Universities That Help Provide the Healthy Public Sphere That We So Badly Need -- Tom Meisenhelder for BuzzFlash/Truthout
• Florida Ban on Gay Adoption Unconstitutional, Court Rules
• Arming the Saudis
• The October Surprise: Huge Wall Street bonuses?
• A Modest Proposal on Immigration Reform, Inspired by the Master of Satire, Jonathan Swift -- Randall Amster for BuzzFlash/Truthout
• Colbert: "And Nothing but the Truthiness," So Help Me God
• "The Oath, now out on DVD, brilliantly explores the muddy battle lines between the U.S. and al Qaeda."
• On K Street, An Ex-Senate Staffer Is Worth $740,000 A Year
• In Defense of Obama
• Stephen Colbert Testifies Before Congress on Immigrant Farm Workers. "Mr. Colbert was part of a United Farm Workers campaign calling on unemployed Americans to take jobs in the agriculture sector." There aren't many takers, apparently.
• Killings of Journalists Lead to News Blackouts in Mexico
• Paul Krugman: As Far as the GOP, Banana Republic Here We Come
• 10 2 10 DC: This One is Going To Be Big! March as One Nation.
• Liberal blogger directly confronts David Axelrod, accuses White House of "hippie punching." "We're the girl you'll take under the bleachers but you won't be seen with in the light of day," the blogger, Susan Madrak, pointedly told Axelrod.
• Senate Democrats have set up a pre-election floor debate over how best to prevent manufacturing jobs from moving overseas
• House OKs small biz jobs bill
• Another Breakthrough: Cuba to Allow Some Private Enterprise. Lift the Embargo Already!
• Are the Democrats so Busy Trying to Keep Their Jobs That They Aren't Doing Their Jobs? -- Dee Evans for BuzzFlash
• This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Axelrod leaving White House next year to work on 2012 campaign
• Man who questioned U.S. firm's actions in Iraq dies in mysterious hit and run
• Sarah Palin Drops The H-Bomb: 'Barack Hussein Obama' (VIDEO)
• At U.N., Obama puts human rights, democracy at center of foreign policy
• David Sirota: Marijuana vs. Alcohol
• If You Play Fair, They Should Pay Fair: Why the Women's Wage Gap Persists
• The GOP Scam on America
• Avandia to be Taken off the Market in Europe, But Not Here in U.S.
• The Democratic surrender on tax cuts. The gluttonous rich win again.
• 15 Shocking Facts Show That the Middle Class is Being Wiped Out
• The UK is Cutting Its Defense Budget. Why Can't We?
• As Billboards Pop Up In Wisconsin, Tea Party And GOP Accused Of Voter Suppression
• Blue Dogs Tell Pelosi That They Have to Leave Town. LOL.
• Richard Fricker: "Once again Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren [DINO-Muskogee] mounted his high heels, pulled up his hot pants, caressed an 8-by-10 color glossy of Sen. Tom Coburn and headed down the halls of Congress doing the pachyderm strut. This time the Okie from Muskogee DINO boy is trying to preserve the Bush era tax breaks for the rich."
• Keep Your News Corporate Free: Contribute to BuzzFlash at Truthout -- BuzzFlash Editor's Blog by Mark Karlin
• White House Keeps Betraying the LGBT Community and Civil Rights in America: "The Obama administration objected Thursday to immediately ending the military's ban on openly gay service members, saying that an injunction to stop the "don't ask, don't tell" policy might harm military readiness at a time of war."
• Senate Democrats signalled Thursday that they are unlikely to schedule a vote on extending the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts before Congress leaves for the campaign trail
• Good Riddance, Larry Summers!
• Jeff Zucker, the chief executive of NBC Universal, told the company's employees in an e-mail Friday morning that he will step down from his position upon the completion of the takeover of NBC by Comcast.
• Poll: Boxer Edges Ahead
• "In a very unusual move, University of Illinois trustees denied giving emeritus status to controversial retired professor William Ayers."
• Oliver Stone Charges Wall Street
• GOP’s Loony “Pledge” Remains the Same: To Be Destructive
• Dr. J.'s BF Commentary No. 154: Reflections on 9/11 and What is Patriotism -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
• House GOPers Exploit and Insult Thomas Jefferson
• Obama Presses China on Currency
• Fresh off farm gig, Stephen Colbert set for House hearing
• Robert Reich: The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer, and the Democrats Punt
• Help Squash Glenn Beck
• Rory O'Connor: Are We Entering A “Fact Free” Period in Politics and Media?
• Virginia Executed First Woman in Ages. "Death penalty opponents argued that Lewis, a 41-year-old grandmother, should not have died for a 2002 conspiracy that spared two triggermen a capital sentence. Instead they got life without parole."
• How's That Citizens United Thing Working Out?
• Sources Reveal Larger Than Thought Paramilitary Presence in Afghanistan, Pakistan.
• FCC Opens TV 'White Spaces' for Unlicensed Super Wi-Fi
• "But the Republican pledge is also drawing fire from conservative commentators on the right, who say the ideas are watered-down promises. In a bluntly worded column, the blogger Erick Erickson, managing editor of Redstate.com,called the Republican pledge “perhaps the most ridiculous thing to come out of Washington since George McClellan.”"
• Radioactive Waste from Horizontal Hydrofracking
• Does Michele Bachmann Believe Demonically Possessed Humans Are Destroying America?
• US walks out on Ahmadinejad's UN speech
• DHS Develops ‘Black Boxes’ For Mass Transit Buses
• Gray Panthers Urge an End to Tax Cut for the Rich
• John Bolton for President? Just Gag Me With a Spoon Right Now.
• Democrats: GOP now blocking picks for lower courts
• Double-digit hikes for some Medicare drug plans
• Stoned on Righteousness: Time to End the War on Pot -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
• Computer Virus Allegedly Targeted Iranian Nuclear Capabilities
• Americans Vastly Underestimate Wealth Inequality, Support 'More Equal Distribution Of Wealth': Study
• Boeing Working on Pentagon Contracts for Space War Aircraft
• Grassroots Occupation: Chicago Parents Sit-In to Save Field House
• Paul Krugman: US Spending Plan Is Too Little, and Perhaps Too Late
• Allies and Foes of California's Marijuana Legalization Proposition
• Senate Democrats To Delay Action on Expiring Tax Cuts Until After Elections
• Norman Solomon: No, Higher Consciousness Won't Save Us
• GOP's "Pledge" to Rob the Middle Class: No Jobs, No Health Care, No Security
• Travesty: Senate Republicans keep campaign funders secret
• O’Donnell Says Media’s Trying To Paint Her As An Extremist -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• March as One Nation!
• "Tax the Rich!" Must be the Slogan that Working People Unite Around -- Shamus Cooke for BuzzFlash
• Are a Significant Number of Afghan Men Raping Young Afghan Boys? -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash
• BuzzFlash was Hacked for the First Time in 10 1/2 Years! Help Us and Truthout Fight Back. -- BuzzFlash Alert
• Tea Party Lament: "Knowing That I'm Confused About Why I'm Mad Just Makes Me Madder!" -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash
• The "Backlash" of the New Right Wing -- The September BuzzFlash/Truthout Review by Thom Hartmann -- Thom Hartmann's Exclusive September "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash/Truthout
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