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- Why a Mortgage Cramdown Bill Is Still the Best Bet to Save the Economy
- Massachussetts Bridge Carrying 50,000 Vehicles/Day Appears Ready to Collapse
- Florida teacher could face thousands of dollars in fines for helping students register to vote
- #OWS Occupies GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt's Front Lawn.
- Tents Popping Up in Zuccotti Park - Police and Privately Owned Park's Landlord, Appear to Be Letting it Happen as the Weather Turns Cold
- Irish President Mary McAleese Accepts Most Gay Friendly Politician Award
- Obama's Announcement that the Iraq War is Over is a, “sham of a mockery of a sham.”
- Romneycare allows free care for some undocumented immigrants.
- US Chamber's Disgraced Smear Plot Conspirator, "Anonymous" Foe, Aaron Barr Found Collaborating with Self-Appointed #OccupyWallStreet "Snitch"
- President Obama has moved up six points in Gallup’s approval-rating tracker.
- Wall Street Protest Plans Global Rally Ahead of G20
- Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis: Only "Success" in Iraq is that US Troops are Leaving
- Secretive Religious Right Group's Electoral Plans for 2012
- Obama Hires Lobbyist for Keystone XL Pipeline as Key Campaign Adviser, Also Was Lobbyist for Bank of America. The Audacity of Cynicism to Rake in Campaign Dollars for Wall Street, Big Oil, and Corporate America.
- Government Could Hide Existence of Records under FOIA Rule Proposal
- Will Lawmakers Rewrite the Farm Bill in Less Than Two Weeks?
- House GOP Wants to Waive Environmental Laws on US Border
- Herman Cain Has No Real Campaign
- A Growing Number of States Are Sharply Limiting Hospital Stays Under Medicaid to As Few As 10 Days
- Christie's Overhaul May Not Save New Jersey Pension System
- After Gadhafi, the West Eyes the Libyan Prize
- A Rabbi from Alabama Comments on Recently Passed Immigration Law: "The Bible tells us to be kind to the people who pick our fields."
- Nurses to picket City Hall Over Arrests at Occupy Chicago Protest
- William Rivers Pitt on the Tea Partiers' Declaration That There Will be No Jobs for Anyone Until Obama is Gone
- Chart: How Income Inequality Skyrocketed And The 1 Percent Profited From The Decline Of Unions
- US Lawmakers Reject Canada Drug Purchases
- Lifting the Hood Off Rick Perry: Was His Family In The Ku Klux Klan?
- Glenn Greenwald: WikiLeaks Cables and the Iraq War
- Top Candidates Happy to Take Wall Street's Money
- Proof of Global Domination By a Few Corporations
- Obama’s Efforts to Aid Homeowners, Boost Housing Market Fall Far Short of Goals
- Tensions Over Immigration Tear Away at GOP Candidates
- Tea Party Hoopla Fades on the Hill
- The Chamber Spends More Than $4 Million In Just Three Months Lobbying For Corporate Immunity To The Law
- Chinese Censors Ban References to US Protests from Social Media
- Supreme Court Expected Focuses in On Health Care Cases it Wishes to Take
- Hispanic Alabama Schoolchildren Face Bullying In The Wake Of Anti-Immigrant Law
- Meet some of the 68 families that endured cranks and street sweepers to camp out in Zuccotti Park
- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY): Police and Firefighter Layoffs Not My Problem
- Should Africa Repay Its "Odious" Debts That were Incurred by Dictators?
- Final Federal Election Of 2011 A Big One For Women
- Members of Congress are Working to Give a Select Group of US Multinational Firms Like Oracle, Apple and Pfizer a Lavish Tax Break on $1 trillion Stashed Offshore
- Tea Party Uncertainty in 2012
- Paul Krugman: "If it weren’t so tragic, the current European [financial] crisis would be funny, in a gallows-humor sort of way
- New Documents Detail Sex Abuse of Detained Immigrants
- Chemical Bomb Thrown into Occupy Maine Encampment. Isn't That Terrorism?
- The $1 Trillion Student Loan Rip-Off
- Report: US Ambassador to Damascus Leaves After Threats to His Life
- Report: President Obama to Take Executive Actions to Help Ease Job Crisis
- Rick Perry Goes Birther: After Meeting With Trump, ‘I Don’t Know’ If Obama’s Birth Certificate Is Real Good Grief. It's the Invasion of the Pod People!
- Autopsy reveals Moammar Gadhafi's cause of death. Clue: It wasn't a heart attack.
- Pete Seeger and pals attend NYC protest action
- Guns, Not Benefits: Congress Seeks to Cut Vets' "Entitlement" Programs While Warning against Overall Defense Spending Cuts
- What If We Paid Off The Debt? The Secret Government Report
- What the Right Fears Most About Occupy Wall Street
- Neocon Chickenhawks Looking to Spin Iraq Withdrawal into Confrontation with Iran
- "Pay to Play": Texas Insurance Commissioner Raises Campaign Money From Insurance Industry
- Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Funded Center
- After Gadhafi, the West eyes the Libyan prize
- Without ‘Super PAC’ Numbers, Campaign Filings Present an Incomplete Picture
- Falling for New Neocon Propaganda
- Hack and (Don't) Tell: The US Drone Fleet's Cyber Insecurity
- Did Citi Get a Sweet Deal?
- Following Complaints From Gulf, Congress Seeks Audit of BP Oil Spill Fund
- Roadless Rule: US Court Upholds Key Forest Conservation Law
- Without Credit Card Donations, WikiLeaks Facing Funding Crisis
- Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit
- Arrests at "Occupy Orlando"
- "Occupy Madison" Finds Its Voice
- US May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian Plan
- "Occupy Boston" Meets "Occupy the Hood"
- "When the Americans asked for immunity, the Iraqi side answered that it was not possible"
- #OCCUPY Anyway You Can
- Kuwaitis Protest against Government Corruption
- In Sign of Global Influence, China Cracking Down on Occupy Wall Street Coverage
- 130 Arrested at Occupy Chicago
- Occupy Iowa protesters demonstrate at Obama campaign office
- Trigger Laws: Does Signing a Petition Give Parents a Voice?
- Herman Cain's "Outsider" Image Meets His K Street Insider Career
- BEST Irony: Koch-funded Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) Project Proves Validity of Existing Climate Change Models
- The Right Rages Against Occupy Oakland
- Not Seen and Not Heard: NPR Drops "World of Opera" over OWS
- Land for Everything but a New Veterans Hospital in West LA
- Financing Questions Shadow Tunisian Vote, First of Arab Spring
- PlatinumPlus Citizenship: "Marauders in Suits," Says Dylan Ratigan
- The Washington-Islamabad Fault Line
- Whither the Fed?
- (Un)occupy Albuquerque Connects Corporate Greed to Fight for Native Land
- Matt Taibbi: On OWS, Washington Still Doesn't Get It
- Free Enterprise Nation Exec: Blame the Pension-havers, Not the Pension-killers
- 7.2 Magnitude Quake Rocks Turkey: Up to 1,000 People Thought Killed
- GOP Senators on "Investing" in the "New Libya"
- Statler & Waldorf: "Future Financial Elite" Heckles Occupy Philly from Balcony
- Tunisian Polls Open This Sunday for Historic Vote on Constituent Assembly
- CIA Kidnapped, Tortured the "Wrong Guy," Says Former Agency Operative Glenn Carle
- (Un)occupy Albuquerque Connects Corporate Greed to Fight for Native Land
- Mother Jones Reveals Some NYPD Officers Sympathetic to Occupy Wall Street. After All, the Protesters are Speaking Out on Their Economic Behalf.
- Paul Ryan To Student Who Needs Pell Grants: Get Three Jobs
- Occupy Wall Street Protests on GE CEO’s Lawn. GE Paid No Taxes.
- Mortgage CEO Gets 40-Month Sentence for $3 Billion Fraud, Homeless Man Gets 15 Years for Taking $100
- Bank Of America Makes Taxpayers Insure 75 Trillion Dollars in Risky Derivative Schemes -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Live Blog for #OWS: Day 36, Pete Seeger & Occupiers March to Columbus Circle
- Protest causes GOP leader to cancel income inequality speech
- "It Should Be Like This Everywhere": The Free Economy of Liberty Plaza Park
- Unable to Get Simeone Fired, NPR Drops "World of Opera"
- Occupy the Mortgage Lenders
- BREAKING: UPenn Disputes Cantor’s Explanation For Cancellation, Says Speech Was Always Open To The Public
- President Obama Has Written Personal Checks to Letter-Writers In Need, Author Says
- Occupy Wall Street and Verizon workers to march together
- How to Make Banks Really Mad: Occupy Foreclosures
- A Time for Outrage to Actively Engage in the Defense of Human and Economic Rights -- Ann Davidow for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Obama Still Raking in Wall Street Money for Campaign: "Obama has brought in more money from employees of banks, hedge funds and other financial service companies than all of the GOP candidates combined"
- Wal-Mart Cuts Some Health Care Benefits. Wait, What Benefits?
- Tunisia Prepares to Vote: A Harbinger of More Spring or Stormy Weather?
- #OccupyMarines are Preparing to Occupy America Nationwide
- Qaddafi is Dead. Now What for Libya?
- Goodbye Iraq? Not Exactly
- Wall Street protests: NY police arrest religious leaders
- Police arrest six Occupy Tampa protesters
- Latest developments in the global Occupy protests
- Orlando police arrest Occupy Wall St. protesters
- BREAKING: UPenn Disputes Cantor’s Explanation For Cancellation, Says Speech Was Always Open To The Public
- Which Bank Is the Worst for America? 5 Behemoths That Hold Our Political System Hostage
- Falling for New Neocon Propaganda
- San Jose police arrest Occupy Wall St. protesters
- Al Gore lampoons 'insane' Wall Street
- Senators Who Blocked Latest Jobs Bill Have Combined Net Worth Of $400 Million
- Why Are Police Attacking Peaceful Protesters? How OWS Has Exposed the Militarization of US Law Enforcement
- St Paul's Cathedral announces closure due to 'Occupy' protesters
- Depth Needed in News Coverage of Wall Street
- Secure Communities Silences Domestic Violence Victims
- Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy
- Baltimore Debates New Youth Jail
- Occupy Wall Street: If South Americans Can Reform Their Constitutions, Then Why Not Us? -- Nikolas Kozloff for Buzzflash at Truthout
- Sen. Harkin: Dems will hold majority in Senate, may win back House in 2012
- SENATOR WHITEHOUSE’S MUST-WATCH SPEECH ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE SENATE’S ‘FAILURE OF DUTY’
- NYPD's stop and frisk tactics protested in Harlem; Princeton Prof. Cornel West among those arrested
- Global Economic Fate Hinges on European Finance Talks
- Obama Announces Complete Drawdown of U.S. Troops From Iraq by Year’s End Some "Contractors" to Remain
- "The Savage City" Revisits Notorious Crimes to Reveal Biased Policing
- US Businesses Not Being Strangled By Regulation And Taxation, World Bank Says
- Who Are the 1% and What Do They Do for a Living?
- Ain't It Ironic: "Chinese leaders grow nervous about Occupy Wall Street"
- Dems to push 'Rebuild America Jobs'
- The Chamber Spends More Than $4 Million in Just Three Months Lobbying for Corporate Immunity to the Law
- Young Activist Stands Up to the Industry That Enslaves His Community in Appalachia
- Why Obama Needs to Take Immediate Control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
- Spectacle: The lynching of Claude Neal
- The politics of President Obama’s Iraq withdrawal decision
- The end of ETA?
- Some Unsolicited Advice to the Democratic Party: Cave to Occupy Wall Street Movement
- THAILAND: New drug crackdown raises concerns
- How Can We Rouse Police and Other Protectors of the Corporatocracy - "Guards" of the Status Quo - to Join the OWS Rebellion?
- Cantor speech abruptly canceled
- How the Austerity Class Rules Washington
- Obama’s Jobs Plan is Blocked Again by Senate Republicans
- Murdoch media to pay $3.2M over hacking murdered girl's phone
- Did Citi Get a Sweet Deal? Bank Claims SEC Settlement on One CDO Clears It on All Others
- Targeting Gaddafi in 1986
- Ruling Bolsters Chicago Teachers Union in Longer School Day Fight
- Herman Cain tweaks 999 plan to help lower-income Americans, and himself
- Ending the Iraq Catastrophe
- EPA Plans to Issue Rules Covering Fracking Wastewater
- Can the Fed Prevent the Next Crisis by Eliminating Interest on Student Loan Debt?
- Paging Dr. Paul: The Sickness Is in the System
- Will Ukraine Choose a Sympathetic Russia over a Democratic Europe?
- PORTUGAL: Crisis Pushes Women into Prostitution
- Spewing Misinformation and Ideology, A New York Times Op-Ed Spreads Unfounded Fears About Sex Ed
- Fraudulent Defense Contractors Paid $1 Trillion -- Senator Bernie Sanders for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Conservatives Try to Smear Occupy Movement with Charges of Anti-Semitism -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- "Occupy Obama" Could Turn Up Heat on the Democrats
- WhoWhatWhy’s Libya Primer: The (Still) Untold Back Story To Qaddafi’s Demise
- Bombing the Homeless in Sudan
- Why keep fighting?
- "The Man Who Stopped the Desert"
- The De Facto Religious Test in Presidential Politics
- Bachmann’s NH Team Quits
- Alabama Republicans Acted With Racist Motives, Federal Judge Says
- Disability benefits program on unsustainable financial path
- Advocates for Seniors Fight Potential CPI Shift
- Qaddafi’s Death: Barbarism and Hypocrisy
- Obama Fails Wall Street “Conspirators” Too The Secret Republican
- Party of Pollution
- Time Warner Would Charge Rural New York Family $20,000 to Extend Broadband Service to Their Home
- The XL Pipeline: a Political Litmus Test for the Environmental Movement The Biggest Environmental Crime in History?
- The Narrative Has Changed
- How Qaddafi Reshaped Africa
- Obama’s SEC Lets Citigroup Off with a Slap on the Wrist
- Israel: The Ties That Bind
- Globalization Scorches Greece
- States retool food stamp, benefits systems
- One More SEC/Citigroup Sweetheart Deal - Five Reasons to Be Outraged
- About NPR, Soundprint, WDAV, and Lisa Simeone
- Largest study on cellphones, cancer finds no link
- PIPE GRIPE: Roto-Rooter Faces Legal Action For Putting Unlicensed Plumbers to Work
- Why Do You Pay $1.2 Trillion a Year to Prop Up a Vast, Secretive National Security State?
- Occupy Wall Street, unions get their activism together
- It's Time to Institute a Financial Transaction Tax -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- 72 Percent of New York City Voters Support the Continuation of Occupy Wall Street -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- US Government Supports Protesters Abroad and Jails Them at Home -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Occupy Wall Street: Progressives Must Renew Demands for a Just Society -- Jim Block for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Things Go Better with Godfather Pizza and Koch? -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
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THE LIGHTER SIDE: - NBA: Fans Support Greedy Players Over Greedy Owners
- Herman Cain, After Mis-Step, Introduces 9-9-9 Plan For Abortion
- Romney Unveils His Pyramid Plan For America
- President's Approval Rating Soars After Punching Wall Street Banker in Face
- Those Classy Republicans (Limerick)