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When the American Dream Is to "Make America Great Again" by Locking in White Privilege
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Canada’s Trudeau Sworn in as Prime Minister: Unveils Cabinet Equal number of women and men, mix of veteran and new lawmakers make up new leader’s team

Senate Republicans Are Blocking Obama's Judges at a Nearly Unprecedented Rate

Mother Jones Wins Costly Harassment Suit by Megabucks GOP Contributor

Palestinian lawyer in viral tear gas photo: 'We have a right to live like any other nation'

Michigan Tea Party Reps Defeated Over Bizarre Attempt at Covering up Affair While Running on Family Values Platform

Senate blocks legislation to undercut EPA clean water rules, for now

New Poll Shows Jeb Bush With Only 7 Percent of Florida GOP Voters Behind Him

Kentucky Tea Partier Wins Governorship and 40,000 People May Lose Medical Insurance as a Result

Obama Announces Small Step Toward "Banning the Box" on Federal Job Applications

New Bush "Jeb Can Fix It" Slogan Recalls How He Fixed 2000 Florida Vote So His Brother Could Steal the White House

Chelsea Manning on the Struggle to Be Herself in Military Prison

Jon Stewart to Return to Political Commentary, Although in a More Limited Way, on HBO and the Web

Feds say Chicago area school district violated transgender student's rights

Housing and Homeless Activists Storm and Occupy Airbnb HQ in San Francisco

TransCanada Shelves Its U.S. Keystone Application, for the Moment

Chelsea Manning: Fisa courts stifle the due process they were supposed to protect. End them

The astounding blunders of Jeb Bush: An autopsy of 2016’s most overhyped campaign

Hunger Strike at Texas Detention Center Swells Into the Hundreds

More Stand Your Ground Mischief in Florida

Suspect in Assault of Uber Driver Edward Caban Is Taco Bell Executive

Terrorism and Crackdowns in Turkey: An Interview With Gürkan Ozturan

"Captive Genders": CeCe McDonald, Chelsea Manning and Others Map Road to Trans Liberation

How Tasers became instruments of excessive force for the Border Patrol

Dahr Jamail | More Denial, More Problems: UN Predicts Millions of Climate Refugees to Come

Bill Cosby can be questioned in model Janice Dickinson's defamation lawsuit, judge rules

The horrors of Lesbos: on the front-lines of Fortress Europe

US businesses flood Cuban trade fair

Pennsylvania’s Mentally Ill Spend Years in Jail Without Trial or Treatment
Without enough beds in mental facilities, Pennsylvania is forcing the ‘mentally unfit’ to stay locked up. One has become borderline catatonic waiting for help.

So how’s the American middle class, really?

Does eco-friendly shampoo have a short shelf life?

Shaker Aamer’s release doesn’t get Britain off the hook for its part in abductions and torture

Want To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Here’s Which Airlines To Fly

Turkish faith movement secretly funded 200 trips for lawmakers and staff

US fighter jets intercept Russian warplanes near US aircraft carrier

Los Angeles considers officially 'drought shaming' water violators

Fiorina Fights Sexism By Telling The Women Of ‘The View’ To ‘Man Up’

US awash in places with racist names, new study finds

Don't Forget Kim Davis; The Danger of a US Theocracy Continues
-- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Muslim advocates welcome Bernie Sanders' support but want visible action
Student Remaz Abdelgader says she asked Sanders question ‘to create change’

Hub of human trafficking: underground sex trade thrives in Milwaukee
An FBI raid last month pushed Milwaukee up in the trafficking rankings, and one expert says the city is home to a booming underground sex trade economy.

Despite US Pressure, European Parliament Clears Path for Snowden Asylum

Carly Fiorina Says She Was Wrong on '92%' Claim

Hundreds of officers lose licenses over sex misconduct

Beijing PM2.5 level down 20 percent

Why the United States Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market

West Virginia Prosecutor Suspended After Pulling Gun On Halloween Spider Decorations

US Senate Passes CISA, a "Cybersecurity" Bill Critics Say Will Expand Mass Surveillance

Can the Electronics Industry Provide a Living Wage? Not While Corporations Set the Rules

Water too warm for cod in US Gulf of Maine as stocks near collapse

Republican race enters a new, volatile phase

Jeb Bush has only 1,260 confirmed supporters in Iowa

Elizabeth Warren eviscerates Paul Ryan’s breathtakingly bad budgets, nails roots of GOP’s dysfunction

US jets intercept Russian planes near aircraft carrier

Senate Passes Budget That Would Fund Government Into 2017

Pakistan factory collapses, killing at least 18, scores trapped

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz Led US Into Iraq War. Don't Forget That. Chalabi Was Just a Useful Opportunist.

Fiorina 'Misspoke' on 92% Jobs Claim

Quentin Tarantino Won't Back Down on Criticism of Police Brutality

There Must be Something Going on the Gun Control Polls: Hillary Clinton pledges to make gun control a 'voting issue' for Democrats

Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan over accusation of adultery

Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure in Ohio Roundly Defeated: Would Have Created Corporate Ownership of Marijuana Business to 10 Corporations

Houston Equal Rights Ordinance fails by wide margin

The Dark Truth in the Movie 'Truth'

The Perils of Obama's Latest Undeclared War

Watch This Alarming Video of Ted Cruz Attacking Climate Change as a Religion
-- Lorraine Chow of EcoWatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

We Must Hold ExxonMobil Accountable for Deceiving the Public on Climate Change
-- Annie Leonard of EcoWatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

GOP debate revolt crumbles

Reports: 'Heat flash' linked to doomed Russian plane

Ireland to 'decriminalize' small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis, for personal use

Obama: If GOP Candidates Can't Handle CNBC, How Will They Deal With Russia and China?

World's biggest tech companies get failing grade on data-privacy rights

Ahmed Chalabi, Who Dick Cheney Wanted to Be His Puppet Running Iraq After Invasion, Dies of Apparent Heart Attack. Chalabi Gave Cheney a Run for His Money in the Art of the Con.

Recycling Workers Fight Firings and Win a Union

Syrian activists killed by ISIS in Turkey

Dean Baker | Federal Government as Employer: High Road or Bottom Feeder?

World's Largest Floating Offshore Wind Farm Coming to Scottish Coast

New Battery Design Could Take Electric Vehicles the Distance

Sad for 60 Minutes

Chipotle’s Mass Restaurant Closings And the US’s Broken Food Safety System

University Faculty: Don't Let Undercover NYPD Officers Spy On Our Muslim Students
"To be surveilled by police in this way, it's very disturbing."

Porsche pulled into VW emissions-cheating scandal with new EPA charges

There’s Now One Abortion Provider for Every Million Wisconsin Women

Cashing In on the Decision to Keep US Troops in Afghanistan
Why Obama dropping his promise to end US's longest war is going to give contractors billions of dollars.

‘Why Such Violent Treatment of These Women in El Salvador?’ Asks Commission on Human Rights

East Coast and Gulf Coast power grids are still not ready for a big hurricane

Paul Ryan Insists On His Own Family Time But Won’t Support Policies That Would Help Everyone Else

Pentagon blows $43 million on useless Afghan gas station, IG says

Ben Bernanke Is Still Keeping the Secrets of the Crash of 2007-2009

To Understand The Presidential Primaries, Recognize The Impact Of Movements

Bernie Sanders hires undocumented woman who had home raided by immigration officials

Racism Is Rampant In Jury Selection. The Supreme Court Can't Fix It.
The Constitution prohibits excluding jurors on the basis of race, but there isn't much the justices can do to remedy that.

Russian airline say Sinai plane crash not due to technical faults or pilot error
‘Only explainable cause is physical impact on the aircraft,’ says Metrojet official, ruling out technical fault or mistake by crew

Abuses That Wouldn't Exist in a Socialist US
-- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Why Andrew Cuomo’s Pollinator Task Force Won’t Save New York’s Bees

Cardinal: Pope Francis to Visit Mexico in February

Former Senator And 'Law & Order' Star Fred Thompson Dies At 73

Here's the first Bernie Sanders TV ad of the 2016 campaign

The Bicentennial of George Boole, the Man Who Laid the Foundations of the Digital Age

New plant tests US appetite for seawater desalination

Is Indonesia's fire crisis connected to the palm oil in our snack food?
The widespread burning of tropical rainforests and peatlands to develop palm oil plantations is one of the largest sources of carbon pollution today

Students Should Be Protected in Schools From Police Violence
-- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Worries Build Among Investors Over Oil and Gas Industry's Exposure to Water and Climate Risks

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson Knows How to Stimulate the Part of the Brain That Evokes Fear
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Obama Will Send Forces to Syria to Help Fight the Islamic State

St Louis confronts blight with proposal for $1bn investment in football stadium
A new stadium is the last thing the new murder capital of the US can afford to spend public funds on

Paul Krugman: Springtime for Grifters

Shaker Aamer released from Guantánamo Bay after 14-year detention

All the money in the world may not save Jeb Bush's campaign