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- Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll
- Obedience to Corporate-State Authority Makes Consumer Society Increasingly Dangerous
- Tech boom forcing longtime San Francisco family out of home
- One Year After Marikana: No Justice for the Poor in South Africa
- “Catfood Commission” Threat Re-emerges Amid Budget Crisis
- NSA maps some Americans' social connections, says report
- The Wall Street Protection Racket: Pay the Government Fines and Bankers Don't Get Prosecuted -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia warns Gov. Scott Walker on giving misleading data on WI economy
- Obama Chides Republicans as Shutdown Looms
- How the Syrian Revolution Went Wrong
- Five Reasons Food Stamps Work Just Fine
- U.N. Security Council Unanimously Passes Syria Chemical Weapons Resolution
- Shooting Gallery America: Pastor Ronald J. Harris Sr. Shot, Killed While Preaching During Church Service In Lake Charles Louisiana
- Looting Public Pensions
- The Four Eras of the American Right
- Fessing Up to Our Imperial Footprint -- David Sirota on BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Why Obama Can't Negotiate Over Debt Limit
- A Corporate Coup of a Different Order: The Growing Resistance to the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- Senate Rejects Cruz's Obamacare Defunding Strategy
- If You Thought Citizens United Was Bad, Wait for This Supreme Court Case
- Here Are the GOP's Debt-Ceiling Demands, and They Are Insane
- Petraeus Scared: Veterans Drive The General Out Of LA
- Because They're Insane: "PPP's newest national poll finds Ted Cruz is now the top choice of Republican primary voters to be their candidate for President in 2016."
- Civil Society Statement to the UN High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Disarmament
- Michael Tomasky | End Days for the GOP
- Planned Parenthood Sues Texas over Abortion Restrictions
- Mississippi Judge Ejects Sikh Man from Court for Refusing to Remove "That Rag" from His Head
- David Swanson | Top 45 Lies in Obama's Speech at the UN
- Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the "Pathetic" American Media
- Syria Chemical Weapons Inspections "to Begin Next Week"
- Seven Things You Should Know About the Wackiest “Fiscal Crisis” Yet
- Canada PM Won't Accept US Rejection of Keystone Pipeline
- Poll: GOP Opinion On Social Issues Wildly Out Of Step With Mainstream
- IPCC Climate Report: Humans "Dominant Cause" of Warming
- "The nation's top intelligence official has sidestepped questions from a senator about whether the National Security Agency has tracked the whereabouts of millions of Americans using their cellphone signals."
- Paul Krugman | Plutocrats Feeling Persecuted
- Republican Hard-Liners Block Strategy to Avoid Shutdown
- Researcher: Extent of BP Oil Spill's Damage to Sea-Floor Life "Astounding"
- 5,000 Military Families to Lose Food Stamp Benefits
- GOP Official Says Obama 'Shucking And Jiving' On Health Care Law
- Wendy Davis to Announce Run for Texas Governor Next Week, Democrats Say
- You Already Know The Future Of Ted Cruz
- John McCain Defends Obamacare, Slams Ted Cruz For Comparing Implementation To Nazi Appeasement
- Senate Is Set to Vote on Budget Bill as House Weighs Options
- The Argentine Press Pass: Wal-Mart Censors Local Media With Ad Freeze
- Republicans Hate Ted Cruz as Much as You Do
- Suddenly, Great Expectations for Iran-U.S. Relations
- Workers Rejoice And Continue Organizing Efforts As Orlando Health CEO Sherrie Sitarik Resigns
- SEC Recusals Highlight Revolving Door Dangers
- Matt Taibbi | Looting the Pension Funds
- Syrian Rebels Embrace al-Qaeda
- William Rivers Pitt | Green Eggs and Derp
- Latest Fukushima Crisis Shows Catastrophic Threat of Nuclear Power Companies -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Halliburton’s Lethal Crimes Get a Slap on the Wrist While Non-Violent Minority Drug Offenders Get Long Prison Terms -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Poison Gas, Poison Values, Poison History -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Anti-GMO Campaigners Claim Victory as 'Monsanto Protection Act' Stripped From Senate Bill
- Charles P. Pierce | There Was a Crooked Country
- Climate Change Movement Shifts to Convey Urgency
- Al Gore Explains Why Civilization Might Not Survive the Next 100 Years
- Robert Reich | The House Republicans’ Dangerous New Constitutional Doctrine: Repealing Laws by De-Funding Them
- Senator Cruz Is Not The Only One Who Wants To Shut Down The Government Over The ACA
- Shutdown Grows More Likely as House Digs In
- Ted Cruz Apparently Gets His Health Insurance From Goldman Sachs
- Even Dr. Seuss Recognized He was "Subversive as Hell"
- The Real Reason for the Fight over the Debt Limit
- NSA Spied on Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali, Documents Reveal
- The Self-Employed and Obamacare - Real Relief
- GOP’s Economic War on Women About to Explode
- Democrat Manchin Breaks Ranks to Back Mandate Delay
- The Fall of the Heritage Foundation and the Death of Republican Ideas
- 4 Climate Myths You'll Hear This Week
- House Republicans Issue Ransom Demand: Implement Romney Plan or the Economy Gets It
- Blake Shelton, Westboro Baptists' Latest Target, Is The Opposite Of Scared
- Here We Go Again, Playing That Old "Government Shutdown" Song
- Abused for Surviving: What Amanda Lindhout Faces After Captivity (Warning: Graphic Content)
- Tim DeChristopher Talks With Truthout About the Government's Failure to Silence Him
- Shellie Zimmerman Doubts Her Husband Killed Trayvon Martin In Self Defense
- High School Football Coach Suspends Entire Team For Online Bullying
- TomDispatch: Engelhardt, The American Exceptionalism Sweepstakes
- Thinking Like a Conservative (Part One): Mass Shootings and Gun Control
- Video: Jon Stewart vs. Ted Cruz
- Japan Agrees to Foreign Help with Fukushima
- Poachers Poison 90 Elephants with Cyanide in Zimbabwe Wildlife Park
- Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones’ War on Your Mind
- VIDEO: Outsourcing America Exposed
- Tea Party Support Dwindles to Near-Record Low
- Senators Push Bill to End Phone Record Collection
- New Jersey Unprepared for Climate Threats to Water Supplies
- Popular Resistance Rises to Mexico’s Neoliberal Reforms
- Ted Cruz's "crusade to dismantle President Obama's health care law has helped cement his status as an emerging hero of the Tea Party and conservative grass roots. But it is stoking resentment and derision from many other Republicans, including his own Senate colleagues, who see his campaign as impractical, self-interested and potentially damaging to the party's electoral efforts in 2014 and beyond."
- "Lakota and Dakota grandmothers capture the Nazi flag hanging in Leith, ND and burn it."
- Judge Orders Documents Released in Probe of Scott Walker Aides
- Ted Cruz’s Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions
- "This week, 12 kids were shot, and children as young as 7 years old took guns to school."
- Atheism to Be Taught to Irish Schoolchildren
- Ted Cruz’s Phony Obamacare Filibuster was Really About...Ted Cruz
- Bombings at Markets in Iraq Kill 21
- CA Gov. Brown Signs Bill to Raise Minimum Wage to $10/hr by 2016
- Mark Morford | Louis CK and the Bawdy Mystic
- NC Teachers Consider Walkout to Protest Poor Working Conditions
- Iran's Rouhani on Holocaust: "A massacre that cannot be denied"
- Climate-Deniers Threaten the Lives of Our Children -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- A New Voice of Morality Responds Bluntly to Right-Wing Rants Against Anti-Poverty Programs -- Jim Hightower for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Half Ounce of Pot Gets Louisiana Man 20 Years in Prison -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Freakish vote breaks partisanship, pits hunger vs. jobs
- Jon Stewart skewers Ted Cruz’s crusade: ‘Obamacare is your Springtime for Hitler’ (VIDEO)
- Glenn Greenwald | The NSA's View of Drone Opponents
- Remember the Tar Sands Leaks That No One Knew How to Stop in July? They’re Still Leaking.
- Thom Hartmann: Global Warming About to Claim Three Quarters of a Billion People
- 11 Craziest Moments From Ted Cruz’s Quasi-Filibuster (VIDEOS)
- Business as Usual: SEC Wins Big Fine From JPMorgan but Execs Skate Free
- Right-wingers are full of it on inflation! - Q&A; with Dean Baker
- Despite Ted Cruz’s More Than 21-Hour Speech, Senate Votes to Proceed With Debate on Funding Bill
- The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s "Neo-Con" Doctrine of Military Force in UN Speech (VIDEO)
- Scientists Break the World Record for the Most Efficient Solar Cell
- US Plans Nuclear-Capable Missile Test on Day of UN Nuclear Disarmament Meeting
- TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Ted Cruz’s marathon speech against Obamacare
- No, Ted Cruz’s Fake Filibuster Isn’t The Same As Wendy Davis’s Real One
- The 10 least wealthy members of Congress
- Federal workers to strike, march on White House Wednesday
- A New Study - The State of Women in America: A 50-State Analysis of How Women Are Faring Across the Nation
- Renewable Energy Barn Built in Path of Keystone XL Pipeline
- ‘Armed Citizen Project’ giving homeowners shotguns near where Trayvon was killed
- Fines, criminal charges in LIBOR probe
- Senate Democrats move to end ‘Monsanto Protection Act’
- John Kerry Signs UN Arms Treaty
- UN chemical team arrives in Syria to finish investigation
- How the NRA Tried to Stop a Member From Conducting Gun-Control Research
- After 21 hours, Cruz ends Senate floor marathon
- Ecuador's Campaign: "The Dirty Hand of Chevron"
- US Soldier Fights for Afghan Interpreter Who Saved His Life
- 12 Signs America Is Insane
- Pakistani drone victims' lawyer accuses US of blocking his visit to Congress
- Twenty-Five Regulations to Watch
- NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe: Security researcher Bruce Schneier, who is now helping the Guardian newspaper review Snowden documents, suggests that more revelations are on the way.
- What if they had called it "Johnsoncare" instead of "Obamacare?"
- Status of the Resistance Movement: Growing, Deepening, Succeeding
- Walmart Cut Employee Hours So Drastically They Can't Keep Shelves Stocked, Losing Customers
- Florida Cop Kills Man by Running Him Over With His Car, Will Not Be Charged
- House to Move to Debt Ceiling Vote
- Sister of Kent State shooting victim taking new evidence of state-ordered and orchestrated killing to the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Committee in October (RADIO SEGMENT)
- 10 Guns Found in Schools Last Week
- Four held without bail in Chicago shooting that hurt 13
- Matt Taibbi | AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Compares Bonus Criticism to Lynch Mobs
- Most GOP Senators Will Bow to Ted Cruz on Obamacare
- Colorado: Flooded with fracking fluid?
- Poll: Huge Majority Thinks Washington Can Reduce Gun Violence
- Mexican Communities Resist Environmentally Destructive Canadian Mining Companies
- This is America’s worst regulator (and JPMorgan’s best pal)... Want to know how a megabank like JPMorgan gets away with so much garbage? This obscure regulator will infuriate you.
- Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Judge for Federal Circuit
- Why Many Marijuana Industry Investors Were Thwarted in Colorado, Despite Legalization
- Women Rising 23: Via Campesina (RADIO SEGMENT)
- Shutdown Threat Has Federal Agencies in Scramble Mode
- Henry A. Giroux | Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
- Children Will Bear Brunt of Climate Change Impact, New Study Says
- Final Word on Obamacare Coverage: Cheaper Than Expected
- Treasury will exhaust emergency borrowing measures "no later than" Oct. 17
- Verizon's Plan to Break the Internet
- Were Vets Who Served in Guam Exposed to Agent Orange and Denied Benefits?
- More than 300 protest white supremacist in Leith, North Dakota
- Generation W (Whistleblowers), Ages 18 - 34, Believes Snowden Did a Good Thing -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- William Rivers Pitt | Send in the Clowns
- The "Discriminating Taste" of Racism and Sexism -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Learning From a Thousand-Year Flood -- David Sirota on BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Wind Power Now Competitive with Conventional Sources
- Cruz Likens Obamacare Defunding Skeptics To Nazi Appeasers
- GOP Launches Race War to Boost the 1%
- "In two weeks, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in what many describe as the next Citizens United and the outcome could have major implications for campaign spending at the state level."
- Charles P. Pierce | Cruz Control
- Baltimore School System Sued Over Homeless Students
- Maddowblog: "Meanspirited Class Warriors"
- Kenya: Terrorists Defeated, 72 Dead After Mall Floors Collapse
- "Carrying a loaded assault weapon in downtown Appleton, the fine is zero dollars," he said. "The fine for carrying a loaded chicken — and she is loaded — is $263.50."
- Google Executives Globetrotting on Taxpayers' Dime
- Paul Krugman | The (Very) Rich Are Getting (Much) Richer
- Colorado Lawmaker: Democrats Using "Mind Control" to Make People Accept "Homosexual Marriage"
- Now That McConnell Won't Support Cruz on Gov't Shutdown, House GOP Leaders May Delay Obamacare Fight Until Debt Ceiling Talks
- My Short-Lived Hope for a More Compassionate Catholic Church
- How I Got Licensed to Carry a Concealed Gun in 32 States by Barely Trying
- After Meetings with Federal Ministers on Pipelines, Chief Stewart Phillip Urges British Columbians to Take to the Street
- Booting Up: New NSA Data Farm Takes Root In Utah
- The House’s Un-American Activities
- In Vancouver, Thousands Walk for Sovereignty and Justice for First Nations
- VIDEO: Bill Maher Gets Bill Nye to Explain Science to Republicans
- For US-Iran, It’s All in the Timing
- Tomgram: Lewis Lapham, Selling Death
- McConnell Slams Cruz's Filibuster Plan On Senate Floor
- Mass Shooting at Movie Theater Foiled by Salt Lake City Police
- What Then Can I Do? Ten Ways to Democratize the Economy
- TPP Protesters Take Over US Trade Rep Building to Expose Secret Negotiations
