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• Jeremy Scahill Recounts How the US Dirty Wars Killed Women and Children in a Yemeni Village
• Charles P. Pierce | The Lethal President Sends His Regrets: What Obama's Drone Speech Meant
• New Fracking Rules Leave Drought-Ridden States High And Dry
• No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn’t Working
• Obama Condemns Growing Sexual Misconduct in Military
• Robert Reich | Why Democrats Can’t be Trusted to Control Wall Street
• The Bush Tax Cuts Didn’t Work
• Washington Bridge Collapse Another Sign That America’s Infrastructure Is in Bad Shape
• In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant
• Verizon (and Google) Helped US Government to Spy on Reporters
• Sequestration Poll Shows That Nearly 4 in 10 Americans Impacted by Cuts
• Global War on Terror, RIP: "Before you express an opinion about President Obama’s national security speech yesterday, if you didn’t see it live the read the whole speech on the White House’s website. It’s an important and transformative speech, one that is already drawing howls of outrage from rightwing pundits, hawks in Congress, and the neoconservatives."
• Rep. King (R-Insane) Blames Reagan Amnesty Bill for Obama Presidency
• Elizabeth Warren Student Loans Bill Endorsed by Several Colleges, Organizations
• The Supreme Court Agreed to Hear a Case Today That Will Probably Nuke Separation of Church and State
• Banks’ Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills That Soften Regulation
• Marijuana: The Next Diabetes Drug?
• Should Crazy People Be Allowed In The Boy Scouts?
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Annihilates Peggy Noonan
• John Conyers Apologizes for Louis Farrakhan's Anti-Semitic Remarks
• IRS Official Lois Lerner Put on Administrative Leave
• Obama: I Make the Drone Decisions
• Infrastructure in America: Cars, Drivers Plunge Into River After WA I-5 Bridge Collapse
• Eric Holder Signed Off On Search Warrant For James Rosen Emails: NBC News
• Verizon (and Google) Helped US Government to Spy on Reporters
• Some Very Good News for Obamacare
• Boy Scouts Vote to Allow Openly Gay Youths, Maintain Ban on Gay Adult Leaders
• Obama's Speech and the End of the Perpetual War
• Obama Lifts Moratorium on Transfer of Some Guantanamo Detainees
• 100,000th Plug-In Electric Car In US Sold This Week
• Alberta Tar Sands Oil Is Already Flowing and Leaking Into the United States -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Barack Obama: DLC 2.0 -- Steven Jonas MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Metastasizing Epidemic of Military Rape -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• This Is The Woman Who Interrupted Obama’s Speech
• Colbert Slams PBS for Appeasing Koch Brothers
• The Legacy of Andrew Wakefield Continues
• Obama to Convene Media Orgs. to Review DOJ Guidelines
• Boehner: House Won’t Pass Senate Immigration Bill
• VIDEO: CodePink Activist Medea Benjamin Interrupts Obama's Terrorism Speech
• Thanks to Sequester, Four Federal Agencies to Shut Friday
• Internal Emails Indicate IRS Targeting Designed by Low-Level Staffers
• Journalism in the Time of Heroes
• Obama Defends Drone Strikes but Says No Cure-All
• We’re Living In an Ayn Rand Economy
• Big Oil's War on the Sun
• The 20 Craziest Tweets From The Man Who Could Be Virginia’s Next Lt Governor
• VIDEO: Obama Expands Militarization of Police
• House Panel Rejects Pentagon’s Request for Base Closings
• Screwed by Climate Change: 10 Cities That Will Be Hardest Hit
• Huge Majority of GOP Supports Background Checks
• Osama's bin Laden's Death Photos Will Be Kept Secret for Your Own Good
• FALASHBACK: OK Sen. Coburn: Medicare and Social Security "Are Things We Don’t Absolutely Need"
• The Woman Who Stood Up to the Woolwich Butchers
• Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
• Eight Men (NO WOMEN) Consider House Bill to Restrict Women's Reproductive Rights
• Shoddy Materials and Illegal Construction Caused Bangladesh Factory Collapse
• Chicago: Here’s One Parent’s Story About the Closing of Her Neighborhood CPS School
• GOP Sends Operatives to Massachusetts for Markey/Gomez Race
• Annual Income of Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Asks Bill O’Reilly: Do You Get "Sexual" Thrill from Bashing Obama?
• Tesla Motors Fully Repays $465 Million Federal Loan Nine Years Early
• The Supreme Court Empowers Employers to Lock Out Workers
• US for First Time Acknowledges Role in Deaths of Americans in Drone Strikes
• WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad
• The Capone Moment: Could LIBOR Fracture the International Banking Cartel?
• Glenn Greenwald | Was the London Killing of a British Soldier "Terrorism"?
• James Howard Kunstler | The New Abnormal
• Sen. Reid Appears to Back Away From "Nuclear Option" on Filibusters
• OK Sen. Coburn Calls Tornado Aid Debate "Typical Washington BS"
• The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR
• Mississippi Could Soon Jail Women for Stillbirths, Miscarriages
• Neocons, Hill Democrats Push for War Against Syria
• Obama, in a Shift, to Limit Targets of Drone Strikes
• Maddowblog: What Boehner Considers "Inconceivable"
• Oklahoma Tornadoes: The "Big Dog," the Little Boy and the Hug that Triumphs Over Tragedy
• Behold the "Job Creators": Cash Piles Up as US CEOs Play Safe With Slow-Growth Economy
• How a Heroic Woman Single-Handedly Prevented Escalation of London Terror Attack
• Oklahoma Senate Votes to Defund Planned Parenthood Two Days After Tornado
• Obama, Lawmakers Ready Renewed Push to Shutter Guantánamo
• Overdue Student Loans Reach Record as US Graduates Seek Jobs
• Efrain Rios Montt Will Still Face Justice--And So Should Henry Kissinger
• Moyers & Company Preview: "Going to Jail for Justice"
• Keystone Pipeline Nears Completion This Summer as Carbon-dioxide Reaches Record Levels -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009 -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Teach Your Children Well: Don't Play Monopoly
• Board of Education votes to shut 50 schools despite parents’ protests at raucous meeting
• Humor: The Fracking Nun
• Austerity Comes to America
• Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal
• Full coverage of Board of Education's CPS closings hearing
• US acknowledges killing of four US citizens in counterterrorism operations
• The Inside Story Of The Harvard Dissertation That Became Too Racist For Heritage
• Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
• Apple Avoids Paying $17 Million In Taxes Every Day Through A Ballsy But Genius Tax Avoidance Scheme
• Fourth-grade filmmaker sneaks a camera into the cafeteria to document his gross school lunch

• Full coverage of Board of Education's CPS closings hearing
• The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed
• Weak, incompetent Democrats blow another one
• How to Frack an Elected Official
• A Keynesian Victory, but Austerity Stands Firm
• How To Frack An Elected Official
• While Washington Scandals Distract, David and Goliath Tales Inspire Across the Country
• Assault on Wall Street – A Review
• Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
• Report: Tsarnaev Friend Shot By FBI Was In Process of Confessing to 2011 Triple Murder
• The House's IRS hearing: Live updates
• Obama's Attack on Whistleblowers Criminalizes News Gathering
• Nurses Explain the Affordable Care Act in 90 Seconds
• The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers' Rights
• New Video Series: Unions Make the Middle Class
• Rand Paul’s Math Doesn’t Add Up
• Apple CEO Tim Cook Testifies Before Congress About Offshore Tax Havens
• VA Backs Off Promise to Fix Veterans' Claim Backlog
• Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009
• Apple Is in Hot Water in Congress for Shifting its Tax Burden
• The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage
• Creating Good Jobs is the Defining Issue of Our Time
• NBC: FBI Agent Kills Man Connected To Boston Bombing Suspects
• Four Chicago Public Schools saved from closing list
• Obama’s War on Journalism: ‘An Unconstitutional Act’
• How Coca-Cola's Ruthless Business Tactics Created a Despicable Global Powerhouse
• Is Detroit's Recovery for Real?
• Leahy withdraws LGBT measure from Senate immigration bill
• Retailers Key to Bangladesh Worker Safety, Investors Tell Walmart, Gap
• Study: Election officials are biased against Latino voters
• NYPD Stops of (Mostly) People of Color Wrong 90 Percent of the Time: 'High Error Rate,' Judge Says
• Federal court strikes down Arizona abortion ban
• House panel seeks to curb military sexual assaults
• Elders and Chiefs of at least 10 Sovereign Nations Walked Out of a Meeting with US State Department on Keystone XL
• The IRS controversy isn’t about taxes. It’s about disclosure.
• Workers Strike Over Federal Contracts And Low Wage Jobs In DC
• Tornado Questions Y'all Yankees Are Afraid To Ask
• How to Fix Journalism's Class and Color Crisis
• Hold Onto Your Cellphones: Anthony Weiner announces N.Y.C. mayoral run
• Neo-Confederacy Update of the Day: "Texas judge says lesbian couple can't cohabitate, cites morality clause in divorce papers"
• Oklahoma tornado survivor describes friend's heroism
• Climate research nearly unanimous on human causes, survey finds
• Los Angeles elects first Jewish mayor
• Oklahoma Senators Jim Inhofe, Tom Coburn, Face Difficult Options On Disaster Relief
• Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
• The New York Times: Another Chilling Leak Investigation
• Teachers as first responders, as protectors, and as heroes
• Eric Garcetti won the Los Angeles mayoral race, and will become the first Jewish mayor of the nation's second-largest city. (He's also of Mexican and Italian descent.)
• Celebs slam GOP on abortion rights, birth control access
• Choking on the Benghazi Smoke Screen -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• US Economy at Risk as Regulatory Agency Allows Big Banks to Continue Secret and Non-Competitive Derivative Trading -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Terrified children, teachers' heroics, no shelter: Inside a tornado-ravaged school
• Standing Tall for Landowner Rights vs. Oil Pipelines -- Walter Brasch for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Tea Party "Working the Refs" in IRS Scandal -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• "In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters"
• Oklahoma Tornado: Hope for Survivors Fades at Ruined School
• Inhofe and Coburn: Red State Hypocrites
• Obama Administration Approves ALEC Model Bill for Fracking Chemical Fluid Disclosure on Public Lands
• Matt Taibbi | Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again
• Budget Offsets to Pay for Tornado Relief: End Subsidies to Oil Companies
• "My life on the Republican right—and how I saw it all go wrong."
• Charles P. Pierce | In Which We Give Sheldon Whitehouse a Big Bravo
• Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY): No Offsets for Oklahoma Aid
• What a Real Cover-up Looks Like
• Greg Palast | My Big Fat Greek Minister
• Dimon Prevails in Key JPMorgan Vote, Retaining Two Top Jobs
• Feeling the Heat: Coburn’s Office Slams "Crass" Critics on Oklahoma Disaster Aid
• Pat Robertson Blames Tornado Victims For Not Praying
• Hatred of Obama Could Lead to GOP Overreach
• The Debt Ceiling Debate That Wasn't
• White House: Reporters Shouldn’t Be Prosecuted
• Study Finds Election Officials Biased Against Latino Voters
• Inspector General: Treasury Informed Issa Of IRS Investigation In 2012
• Tea Party Group Protesting IRS Has History of Questionable Political Involvement
• GOP Aides Mock House Republicans' "Crazy" Benghazi Witch-Hunt
• The Rescued Women in Cleveland Were Not ‘Sex Slaves’—They Were Raped
• Police Use Tasers Against Foreclosure Activists Outside Dept. of Justice
• Right-Wing Historian Shoots Himself in Notre Dame Cathedral "in Protest at Gay Marriage"
• Limbaugh: Obama Won't Be Removed From Office, Because He's "The First Black President"
• The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
• Oklahoma’s Clout Tested by Tornado Aid Divide
• Robert Scheer | Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You
• Court Rules bin Laden Death Photos Can Stay Secret
• Climate Change Denier Inhofe Says Monster Tornado 'Hard to Explain"
• Inhofe Says Tornado Aid is Different Than Hurricane Aid
• Charles P. Pierce | The Oklahoma Test
• Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
• It's Smart to Scale Back Nuclear Weapons Spending
• Something Has Been Lost
• The Michele Bachmann Campaign Probe, Explained
• Oklahoma: Tornado Death Toll Revised Down To At Least 24
• Undercover: Police Officer Connected to "NATO 5" Case Still Spying on Protest in Chicago
• Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future
• The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks
• PBS Killed Wisconsin Uprising Documentary "Citizen Koch" To Appease Koch Brothers