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- 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
- Massive Brazilian Street Protests Against Billions of Dollars in Government Subsidies for World Cup Instead of People -- Jonathan Franklin for BuzzFlash at Truthout
- 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
- John Cusack: The Snowden Principle
- 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
- 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
- DNI denies NSA analysts can tap calls without a warrant
- 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
- The Pentagon’s Preparations for War Against Us
- 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’
- Faces of the Minimum Wage
- Supreme Court Gay Marriage: Is Marriage Equality Really the Last Civil Rights Struggle?
- A 1999 European Parliament report on NSA spying within Europe
- "World Set to Exceed Global Warming Limit," Per International Energy Agency
- Senators challenge NSA's claim to have foiled 'dozens' of terror attacks
- Obama Tells Keystone Foes He Will Unveil Climate Measures
- Fighting for Our Classrooms, and for the Human Beings Inside Them
- PRISM part of a much larger government surveillance program: Companies have been handling requests from the FBI for years, under a program called US-98XN
- Call records of fewer than 300 people were searched in 2012, US says
- Who Killed the Syrian Peace Talks?
- We Already Tried Libertarianism - It Was Called Feudalism
- Report: Threats made against IRS officials
- Rule of US Law in Mexico: Five Years Later, US-Backed Legal Reforms in Mexico Show Few Results
- Police in Turkey Are Using Chemical Agents in Water Cannons on Protesters
- NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants - National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.
- New Study: No Correlation between Disability Claims and Expired Jobless Benefits
- Five Reasons Why Austerity Hurts Today and Will Even More Tomorrow
- 5-year-old North Carolina boy shoots 4-year-old
- As Public Concerns Grow, Congress Spooked Over Spying
- Fighting the Secrecy/Surveillance State
- Texas Governor Rick Perry Now Begging For Government Handouts (VIDEO)
- BP Whines About Paying Gulf Oil Spill Claims
- Don’t Blame Unemployment on the Work Force
- The Structural Genocide That Is Capitalism
- NSA Leaker's Six-Figure Pay Should Spark Debate: Why Are Federal Workers Being Replaced With Pricier Contractors?
- Moshed in the Pit of Capitalism
- Editorial: Racially Biased Arrests for Pot
- NSA and Big Data: How Technology Innovation Fuels PRISM. PRISM software works just like Facebook ads; data-mining expert Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro says the spy technology has been around for years
- Why Safer Food Workers Mean Safer Food
- Danny Schechter: What We Are Learning - or Should Be - From the Spying Scandal
- Fears of National ID With Immigration Bill
- Why Are Massive National Security Breaches So Ridiculously Easy?
- Attacks Kill 21 in Pakistan