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• 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
• Tea Party Is Partying and Martyring Like It's 2009 -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 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
• Connecticut Advances Conversion from War to Peace Economy
• 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

• 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
• Walter Pincus: "The reality is that this is not a whistleblowing case. There are no heroes here, and the press in this instance was not protecting individuals trying to expose government malfeasance."
• Reid Mulls Nuclear-Style Filibuster Reform for Nominations
• Church Whistle-Blowers Join Forces on Abuse: "They call themselves Catholic Whistleblowers, a newly formed cadre of priests and nuns who say the Roman Catholic Church is still protecting sexual predators."
• How the Government Targeted Occupy: A new report reveals that the US spent millions of dollars spying on Occupiers and other anti-corporate activists.
• Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn Will Seek to Offset Federal Aid to Victims of Tornado with Budget Cuts Elsewhere
• PBS's Koch Problem: How a Major Right-Wing Funder Undercut Key Films
• Eugene Robinson | Obama Administration Mistakes Journalism for Espionage
• Erick Erickson Tweets Benghazi Joke as Children are Pulled From the Rubble in Oklahoma
• ABC News And CBS News Officially Normalize Fabricated Reporting
• What Comes After Hope
• Fukushima No. 1 Can’t Keep Its Head Above Tainted Water
• Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says
• Just How Insane Is E.W. Jackson, The GOP Pick For Lt. Governor In Virginia?
• Under Nixon, Reagan or the Bushes, We Wouldn't Have Tolerated Obama's Surveillance State -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Multinational Corporations Have No Allegiance to Any Nation or Citizens, Only to Profit -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Big Setback for Human Rights and Accountability for Genocide: Guatemala top court overturns genocide conviction of Rios Montt
• Can a liberal wonk save the Senate?
• Supreme Court Should Rule Against Sectarian Prayers Before Town Board Meetings, Says Americans United
• Julian Assange: UK Spy Messages Suggest He is Being Framed
• Tornado emergency: live updates
• Police lead school-closing opponents out of City Hall, into squadrols during protest
• We, the Vast Underclass, Must Rise Up Against Global Mafia - or Die
• Corporation Formalizes Political Contributions Operation
• Americas Coalition Puts Marijuana Legalization Up for Discussion
• A few real scandals to mix with the fake ones
• Congressmen to Hagel: Where Are the Missing War Records?
• Does Woodward Know Watergate?
• Teen Girl Faces Felony Charge Over Lesbian Relationship, Mom Blames "Religious Zealot Parents"
• Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel's Neoliberal Savagery
• More poor live in suburbs than in urban areas, research shows
• Bill Keller: How to Legalize Pot
• Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
• Satire: Embryos Are Corporations, Say Conservatives
• Why Obama Is Not Nixon
• Regulators Adopt Weakened Rule on Derivatives Trading
• The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
• Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
• Arkansas Judge Temporarily Blocks State’s 12-Week Abortion Ban
• Did You See the "Air of Crisis" Hovering Around the Budget Deficit?c
• H&M Responds Slowly to Bangladesh Factory Collapse Killing 1,100
• Huge twister hits near Oklahoma City
• New Era for Labor: Creative Defiance From the Factory to the Street
• OAS Study Eyes Marijuana Decriminalization, Findings Called Historic by Drug Policy Advocates
• Hello Republicans: Japan Switches to Stimulus, Gets Growth; Europe Sticks With Austerity, Stays in Recession
• Poll: 82% of New York Voters - Including 81% of Republicans and Democrats - Support Medical Marijuana
• Glenn Greenwald: Yet Another Serious Escalation of the Obama Administration's Attacks on Press Freedoms Emerges
• George Packer | Celebrating Inequality
• Telecom’s Big Players Hold Back the Future
• Obama's Keystone Decision - What's at Stake?
• A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit
• Occupy the Farm movement rises again, hours after being raided
• Car bomb attacks kill dozens in Iraqi cities
• Gay marriage marching along ahead of Supreme Court justices’ ruling
• Obama urged to make economy a bigger, bolder topic
• Is Nestle Involved in Murder Of Columbian Union Leader?
• Taxpayer Dollars Are Helping Monsanto Sell Seeds Abroad
• "An outspoken and provocative conservative who emerged from Saturday's Republican Party of Virginia Convention as the party's nominee for lieutenant governor once compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan and blasted African-Americans for their "slavish devotion" to the Democratic Party."
• Sheila Bair: Dodd-Frank really did end taxpayer bailouts
• Texas sues BP for damages related to oil spill
• Soda Industry Cashes In on Govt. Food Assistance Programs to Tune of $4 Bilion a Year
• Fighting Poverty Through Wall Street Accountability
• Gay Man Fatally Shot In NYC’s West Village, Suspect Charged With Hate Crime Murder
• The One Percent Are Only Half the Problem
• Activists bristle as India cracks down on foreign funding of NGOs
• Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
• Joe Miller must pay Alaska Dispatch $85k in legal fees, judge rules
• Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts
• Challenging the Claim that Microfinance Loans Result in Poverty Reduction
• Newtown victims’ parents urge legislators to limit weapon magazines to 10 bullets
• Is There a Stock Market Bubble?
• Paul Krugman’s right: Austerity kills Austerity kills - radical cuts destroy economies and lives, and the honest numbers and economics keep proving it.
• Climate Change vs. Terrorism and the Costs of Inaction
• Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?
• Tornadoes Slam Plains, Midwest; One Dead in Oklahoma
• Hundreds of Kindergarten Students Suspended from School
• Obama to address drones, Gitmo in defense policy speech
• France to Buy US-Made Reaper Drones for Use in Mali
• Racism and the American Right
• 2-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shot In North Carolina
• At Guantanamo, a Costly Confinement
• Myanmar President To Make Historic White House Visit Today
• Fresh wave of violence kills 16 people in Iraq
• How Children Transformed America
• New Report Unravels the Sordid History of Racial Segregation in Chicago Public Schools
• Boston Suspect’s Writing on the Wall: Hiding and near death, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly scrawled on the inside of a boat that he did what he did to avenge innocent Muslims killed by US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a rare look at the why behind “terrorism.”
• Fifteen Killed by Suicide Bomber in Kabul
• It’s Now Illegal to Deny Gay Marriages in Brazil
• AP boss condemns US government for 'unconstitutional' phone seizures
• The real IRS scandal: Targeting by class
• In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silent: After violent attacks on its offices, El Manana backs off from reporting on drug cartels.
• Farm Bill Heads to Senate and House Floors
• NYC Gay Man’s Death a Hate Crime - City has seen spike in incidents in the past year.
• Obama speech to address counterterrorism measures
• NRA Tactics: Take No Prisoners
• Inequality Surges in World’s Richest Countries, Especially in Times of Crisis
• Obama’s approval rating up despite scandals