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- The President and the Media Must Educate the American People on How to Remove the Cancer From Our Politics -- Burt Hall for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Edward Snowden is not the first NSA whistleblower. A small group of others came before him.
- Trained for Totalitarianism
- FBI admits to domestic surveillance drone use
- Report: Pregnant Workers Continue to Face Widespread Discrimination on the Job
- Talk Nation Radio: U.S. Peace and Justice Activists to Gather in Madison, Wisc.
- House Bill Would Require Women To Be Barefoot And Pregnant
- VIDEO: Senior Washington Correspondent Adele Stan Joins Rachel Maddow to Discuss #GOPScience
- Barack Obama: "Deporter and Chief" -- Dennis J. Bernstein for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Glenn Greenwald | Fisa court oversight: a look inside a secret and empty process
- LePage issues new policy: No more talking to 3 newspapers
- William Rivers Pitt: You, Terrorist
- Why the Spying Scandal Is a Serious Racial Justice Issue
- Ohio Anti-Abortion Group Fundraising With Assault Rifles
- The Fight for Black Men
- Award-Winning Journalist Michael Hastings Dies; His Death Remains Under Investigation
- Big Brother and Silicon Valley
- Obama Renews Calls for Nuclear Reductions
- 3 Bush-Era NSA Whistleblowers: 'Snowden Has Succeeded Where We Failed'
- Obama to call for nuclear warhead reduction in U.S., Russia
- Overseas Cyber-attack Hit List Memo for Obama to Include the Possibility of Government Targeting U.S. -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Jesse Jackson Jr. asks to serve jail sentence before wife
- Afghanistan Suspends Bilateral Security Agreement Talks with US
- Edward Snowden, My Book with Scott Ritter, and the Art of Crushing the Messenger to Crush the Message -- William Rivers Pitt for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Kansas Bleeds the Middle Class
- Big Lie: America Doesn't Have #1 Richest Middle-Class in the World...We're Ranked 27th!
- Michael Hastings, An Honest Reporter, 1980-2013
- Former Intern Sues Atlantic Records
- Brazil’s winter of discontent
- America Feeds the Rich
- Virginia Man Forged Thousands Of Signatures On Newt Gingrich’s 2011 Primary Ballot
- Award-Winning Journalist Michael Hastings Dies; His Death Remains Under Investigation
- Outbreak of deadly piglet virus spreads to 13 U.S. states
- Protests in Turkey - German Chancellor Angela Merkel Now Openly Opposes Turkish Membership in the EU
- Welfare reform took people off the rolls. It might have also shortened their lives.
- GOP War on Women Has a New Face
- Officials investigating death of Puerto Rico bank executive
- Seeking Shelter: Building Housing and Community for LGBTQ Elders
- House panel approves enforcement-based immigration reform bill
- Massive Brazilian Street Protests Against Billions of Dollars in Government Subsidies for World Cup Instead of People -- Jonathan Franklin for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- What Congress and the Media Are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate
- John McCain’s Bad Messaging (Limerick)
- Back-Door Tar Sands Scheme Blocked by Local Community
- Gripping photos: The people of the Turkey protests
- Guitar Center: Prices So Low, Employees Can't Survive on Wages
- We Need a New Deal For Millennials
- Thousands Gather for Protests in Brazil’s Largest Cities
- Giving Arms to Syrian Rebels Is a Bad Idea -- Eugene Robinson for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- "John Boehner is bluffing"
- Full House Committee Transcripts Shed New Light on Genesis of IRS Targeting
- Alan Grayson on Trans-Pacific Partnership: Obama Secrecy Hides "Assault on Democratic Government"
- Should Journalists Who Talk to Leakers Be Worried?
- "Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it’s forced to give the government."
- Iceland Received Informal Approach Over Snowden Seeking Asylum
- Hundreds Of Faith Leaders Arrested for Protesting Conservative Policies in North Carolina
- Boehner Raises Obstacle to Allowing Immigration Vote
- Students Push to Limit School Police After Newtown
- Nostalgia Act: The Great Sarah Palin Revival Tour of 2013
- Biden Warns of "Political Price" for Lawmakers Who Oppose Gun Control Measures
- Hot Tuna? - The Fish of Fukushima
- Mainstream Media Fail: Americans' Confidence in Newspapers Continues to Erode
- Feingold Named Envoy to Crisis Region in Africa
- Maddowblog: What "Dumbed-Down Conservatism" Looks Like
- Did Obama Just Show the Door to Ben Bernanke?
- McConnell to Reid: If You Go Nuclear on Nominations, I’ll Go Nuclear on Everything When I’m Majority Leader
- New York Civil Liberties Union Sues NYPD Over "Muslim Surveillance Program"
- Whose Walmart?: Workers Crash Walmart's Party
- Katrina vanden Heuvel | The NSA State of Secrecy Must End
- Zama City Spill: Wastewater Leak The Largest In Recent History
- US Home Construction Up 6.8% in May; Permits for More Single-Family Homes Hit 5-Year High
- "The NSA Has Stopped Or Covered Up Countless Terrorist Attacks" By James Clapper
- Bank of America Whistle-Blower's Bombshell: "We Were Told to Lie" About Foreclosure Policies
- Taliban Signal Readiness to Begin Peace Negotiations
- Laboratories of Democracy: An Interview with Henry Giroux
- Twin Suicide Bombs Kill 29 in Baghdad
- GOP Plan to Appeal to Millennials: "Make Abortion Funny"
- Dear Barack Obama: Please President Harder
- Big Rollback of California Desert Protection
- Brazil Erupts in Protest Over Services and World Cup Costs
- Republican Cites Masturbating Fetuses to Support New Abortion Restrictions
- Where Uncle Sam Ought to Be Snooping: "Let’s place private corporations with government contracts under surveillance — to make sure no one is getting rich off our tax dollars."
- US Cold War Ally in the Docks at Guantanamo for USS Cole Bombing
- David Swanson | Drones for Christ
- House Takes Up Far-Reaching (read: Insane) Anti-Abortion Bill
- Saving the Ozone Layer and the Climate
- Monsantopoly, Part 1: Sowing Dependence
- A New Regard for Grass-Fed Beef: "Unconventional breeders in the heartland are trying to bring change to the beef industry, raising cows that take longer to mature but lack added chemicals and hormones."
- Rep. Rohrabacher: Boehner Should Lose Speakership if Immigration Passes Without GOP Support
- Senate Intel Committee Blocks Former Staffer from Talking to Press About Oversight Process
- Robert Scheer | The Terror Con
- NYU’s Gilded Age: Students Struggle With Debt While Vacation Homes Are Lavished on the University’s Elite
- Edward Snowden Vows More Disclosures About US Surveillance
- "The White House is threatening to veto the House version of a massive, five-year farm bill, saying food stamp cuts included in the legislation could leave some Americans hungry."
- Confronting Militarism and Patriarchy – The Takeaway from the Congressional Hearings on Sexual Assault in the Ranks
- Banishing the Poor, Unemployed and Working Class from the Mainstream Media Implies That They are Worthless -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
- Why Our Schools Are Broke: Five Years of Corporate State Tax Avoidance -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- 22 Arrested in Chicago Urging President Obama to Reject Keystone XL
- FOIA Suit Reveals Guantanamo’s "Indefinite Detainees"
- Elizabeth Warren's QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough?
- Al Gore Says Obama Must Veto "Atrocity" of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
- Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Former Employees Say
- The Supreme Court’s decision on Arizona won’t put an end to voting wars
- What looming DOMA ruling means for immigration reform
- Supreme Court Cites Bush v. Gore For The First Time Ever
- Seven New Revelations from Edward Snowden
- San Francisco Labor Council Resolution to Defend Labor & the Working People Of Turkey
- Komen Names New CEO
- Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Voter Registration Law
- Apple Says The U.S. Government Requested Customer Data Several Thousand Times This Year
- Online Release of the Film to Shut Down the SOA: Somos Una América
- Russ Feingold Tried to Warn Us About Section 215 of the Patriot Act
- Humor: Darrell Issa's Wanted Poster
- NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls
- Paul Krugman: Fight the Future
- VIDEO: Lindsey Graham: GOP “in a demographic death spiral.” Without immigration reform, “doesn’t matter who we run.”
- Spike in Attacks on Rangers and Federal Land Managers
- Humor: Kardashians Announce Birth of New Show
- Senator Warren Presses White House to Release Pacific Trade Text
- Republicans Want to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks. Here's How One Group Is Fighting Back.
- Meet Up, Eat Up, Act Up: Consumers Join the Movement for Food Workers' Rights
- Turkish unions to strike in support of protests
- Getting to Maybe: Inside the Gang of Eight’s immigration deal.
- Native American Influence in the History of the Blues
- NSA vs Snowden -- Follow the Money
- Rio police tear gas thousands at protest demanding health care and education
- Chart of the Day: America's 30-Year Project to Make the Rich Even Richer
- The Beginning of The End - The Undoing of The Corporate State
- Boston High Schools May Soon Make Condoms Available and Provide More Sex Ed
- Great Gatsby economics are no party for the middle class
- Faces of the Minimum Wage
- What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare
- Sen. Warren Calls for Trans-Pacific Partnership Transparency
- Look who’s squealing now: GMO lovers freak over new study of sick pigs
- Pennsylvania Governor Poised to Sign Bill That Would Push Women to Purchase Non-Existent ‘Abortion Riders’
- As U.S. Plugs Border in Arizona, Crossings Shift to South Texas
- We Know Who You Are: 71 Senators Reject States’ Rights to Label GMOs
- China pressured NYU to make him leave, dissident says
- Minimum Wage: Catching up to Productivity
- Terror laws may apply to Keystone XL pipeline foes
- A British Precursor to Snowden Case
- Want to stop flu epidemics? Give workers paid sick days
- California lawmakers expand Medicaid in final budget voting
- Protests in North Carolina Challenge Conservative Shift in State Politics
- End of BP cleaning crews after oil spill leaves questions, concerns on some Gulf Coast beaches
- Obama names Clifford Sloan to lead Guantanamo Bay closure
- Fracking Is Already Straining U.S. Water Supplies
- VIDEO: Chris Hayes | When unpaid internships are illegal
- Dick Cheney praises NSA surveillance program
- The whistleblowers are the new generation of American patriots
- NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls
- The Deeper Meaning of Mass Spying in America
- Shell Games: How to Keep Doing Internet Data Mining and Avoid the Courts
- Al Gore says Obama must veto 'atrocity' of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline
- Christian College Expels Woman for Lesbian Relationship, Charges Tuition
- What to do about climate change
- NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
- Man of Steel: does Hollywood need saving from superheroes?
- Alan Grayson: IT'S NOT OKAY WITH ME - "We are not North Koreans. & We don’t live in Nazi Germany."
- BofA Gave Bonuses to Foreclose on Clients, Lawsuit Claims
- Chart: Hospital CEO Pay And Incentives
- Nestle Wants Water Privatized, Previously Drained Millions of Gallons of Water from Arkansas Rivers
- Obama names Clifford Sloan to lead Guantanamo Bay closure
- GOP to constituents: Questions on ObamaCare? Call Obama
- Why Elizabeth Warren’s Plan For Student Debt is an Economic Breakthrough
- Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef
- Bill Maher On Syria: "We're Basically Arming Al Qaeda"
- Sarah Palin Is Back: With a new Fox contract and sharp words on immigration, the former Alaska gov. is the smiley face of white backlash.
- Six Months After Newtown, An American Gun Giant Struggles To Find A Buyer
- Senate GOP Puts Corporate Tax Loopholes Over Student Loans
- After Profits, Defense Firm Faces Pitfalls of Cybersecurity
- Al Gore: "Obama Must Veto 'Atrocity' of Keystone XL Pipeline"
- Study: Chemical Used by Monsanto Is Being Found in the Urine of Europeans and It Is Unclear How It Entered Their Bodies
- China’s Uprooting: Moving 250 Million People Into Cities
- Contaminated water suspected as workers fall sick in Bangladesh garment factory
- Supreme Court invalidate Arizona voter registration law
- Rahm Emanuel is losing control of his city
- NSA Letter to Congress Leaves Questions Unanswered
- Truthout TV Interviews Rania Khalek, Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers (Video)
- Lenders seek court actions against homeowners years after foreclosure
- NSA leaks threaten Obama’s G8 agenda
- White America Is Here to Stay: There may be fewer white babies being born, but power still rests in the hands of this privileged racial category.
- Iranian and American Elections Have Similarities
- Pipeline spills oil waste over more than 100 acres of Alberta, Canada
- Series of attacks kill 40 people across Iraq
- What happens if the Supreme Court cuts out the heart of the Voting Rights Act?
- NSA Leaker Snowden’s Whereabouts Unknown, White House Chief Says
- Offshore leaks database reveals names behind secret companies, trusts
- A British Precursor to Snowden Case
- The Conservative Sideshow Descends On Washington D.C.
- Cheney: Obama has ‘no credibility’ — but the NSA is ‘to be believed’
- Against This Authoritarian Euro-Liberal Regime, What We Need Is a Complete Re-Foundation of Our Republic
- How Much Email Metadata Does NSA Collect?
- Why Both Sides Want Gay Marriage Settled by the States
- Six Horrifying Things About Pork Everyone Should Know
- Wall Street is Winning the Long War Against Post-Crash Regulation
- Seeing Red: Disinformation in the Age of Reagan
- A Coup Against the Constitution: Daniel Ellsberg, the man who released the Pentagon papers, says the FISA court is a sham and warrantless wiretapping, which has being going on for years before 9/11, is a violation of the US Constitution no matter what law Congress passes (Video)
- Three Things Young People Should Know to Save the World
- North Korea Proposes High-Level Talks With US
- California man confesses to killing more than 30 as cartel ‘debt collector’
- Supreme Court Gay Marriage: Is Marriage Equality Really the Last Civil Rights Struggle?