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• Brennan Asked to Show Legal Opinions Behind Drone Killings
• 2012 military suicides hit a record high of 349
• Department of Justice Is Ruining Lives and Wasting Taxpayer Money Prosecuting Marijuana Cases in Legalized States -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 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
• The Five-Step Process to Cheat the Middle Class Worker -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 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
• Was Patriot Coal Designed to Fail to Dump Retiree Pensions?
• 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

• 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
• Americans Feel Austerity's Bite as Payroll Taxes Rise
• Think Media Consolidation Is Good for Journalism? Think Again
• GOP Rep.'s Gold Standard for Gun Stores Was Sued for Negligence
• US Interference Spoiling Yemen's Revolution
• The 10 most interesting states in politics
• Three Monopolies We Need to Keep an Eye on
• UN: Execution of 17-year-old domestic worker broke international law
• Ford Plans 2,200 Salaried Hires, Biggest Boost Since 2001
• 47 States Report ‘Widespread Flu’
• The parent company of Reynolds Tobacco is a key sponsor of events celebrating North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's inauguration this weekend, capping an aggressive year of political spending by the tobacco giant.
• Millennials Occupy TransCanada Offices Across the US
• Judge approves $1 million settlement in pepper spray lawsuit
• Ten Things Science Taught Us About Happiness in 2012
• Venezuelans Continue to Defy Washington Post
• The US Coal Industry Wants to Boost Exports to Asia - Native American Tribes Stand in the Way
• Eugene Robinson: Hot Enough for You?
• Five Federal Policies on Guns You’ve Never Heard Of
• Farmers Rally at White House to Protest Monsanto's GMO Empire
• Corporations Spread the Flu
• Portland residents panic as men armed with assault weapons ‘educate’ the city
• The Problem With Charity: Water
• Guns Sales Soar in US as Nation Weighs Tougher Limits
• Teacher could be fired for stomping on U.S. flag
• Obama faces heat from left on Wall Street reform after Lew nomination
• State Suspends Handgun Carry Permit of Tactical Response CEO
• NRA Gun Control Crusade Reflects Firearms Industry Financial Ties
• Kurdish Protests Grow in Paris Over Assassination of Three Women in French Capital
• Did the Hostess Bakers Go Galt? Did a Conservative Get It Right? Almost...
• Jesse Jackson Jr. Update: "Sandi Jackson resigned as Chicago's 7th Ward alderman Friday, the latest chapter in the stunning, scandal-laced downfall of what had been one of the city's most prominent and powerful political duos."
• Report: A botched rescue mission meant to save a hostage in Somalia left the hostage and another French solider dead.
• Gun Enthusiast With Popular Online Videos Is Shot to Death in Georgia
• Obama to Accelerate Handover to Afghan Army
• Crazy Gun CEO Apologizes With Attorney
• Pundits Take Aim at the Elderly
• French secret service hostage and soldiers killed in Somali rescue mission
• America’s Bloody Price for Power
• On the News With Thom Hartmann: Another School Shooting in America, and More
• Ohio school board votes to arm janitors in wake of Newtown
• Senate Democrats to Obama: Bypass Congress on debt limit ‘if necessary’
• Supreme Court Should Expand Voting Rights for Citizens, Not Help Limit Them -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Debt Ceiling and Guns: Using Presidential Authority to the Fullest
• Jay Rockefeller Retires: Can Any Democrat Still Win His Seat?
• If You Aren’t Alarmed About Climate, You Aren’t Paying Attention
• Heat, Flood or Icy Cold, Extreme Weather Rages
• Turf War Feared After Syrian Rebel Leader Killed
• Paul Krugman | California in Surplus
• GOP Amendments Could Derail Sandy Aid Again: "At least that's what some House Republicans fear. Or hope, depending on whom you ask."
• Vanishing Immunity Deal Throws More Steubenville Players Back in Spotlight
• GOP Rep: Todd Akin "Partly Right" On Legitimate Rape
• Right Wing Goes Crazy After Anti-Gay Pastor Withdraws from Inauguration Program
• Industry Consultants Warn Frackers: Do Not Underestimate the Global Anti-Fracking Movement
• A Guantanamo Prisoner Is Buried as New Details About His Death Begin to Surface
• Meet The Hero Of The Marriage Equality Movement
• VIDEO: Death of a Prisoner
• Australia Is The Canary In The Global Warming Coal Mine
• Pro-Gun Advocate: Arming Black People Would Have Prevented Slavery
• British Sex Abuse Report Details Decades of Claims
• Inside the Terror Factory
• Giffords Anti-Gun Group Gets $1 Million Texas Donation
• Colorado Theater Shooting Suspect To Stand Trial
• "Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)announced Friday he will not seek a sixth term."
• Was Hitler Really a Fan of Gun Control?
• Russ Feingold: Democrats Sold Out in 2012 and Need to Quit Big Money
• Obama, Karzai Meeting to Discuss Ending Afghan War
• Michele Bachmann Still Hasn't Paid Presidential Campaign Staffers
• Why a Woman Should Lead the FCC
• Paul Krugman | Coins Against Crazies