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U.S. Senators paid to vote no on gun control

(All but 3 were paid-off in advance of the vote...)

Cochran: "If it doesn't
fit, you must acquit"

STAR WARS IS HERE - U.S. Navy prepares to deploy laser weapon

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Italian prosecutors re-file murder case against Amanda Knox

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(Why does this feel like robbery?)

Bolshoi dancers forced to have sex with wealthy patrons?

Who bears the burden of accountability for the Iraq War?

Where was the press when the U.S. invaded Iraq?

The politics of gun control in America

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Saudis may have to end public beheadings due to a shortage of swordsmen

(Welcome to the dark ages.)

The Guardian: U.S. sponsored death squads in Iraq

Swiss vote to limit "fat cat" compensation

A cure for HIV in infants?

The debt crisis - real, or a fraud?

Study: Mediterranean diet wards off heart disease

Why the Senate needs more like Elizabeth Warren

China hit by "airpocalypse" smog

Britain passes banking reform legislation

(If the Brits are doing it, why can't we?)

President Obama opens fire. Real photo, or faked?
Click on the photo.

Russia: Human rights the worst they've been since the fall of the USSR

U.N. calls for Israel to remove settlers

The truth about cats

An end to the National Football League?

PepsiCo agrees to remove ingredient from Gatorade

The debt ceiling FRAUD

(Come on people, let's start doing some real reporting...)

UNBELIEVABLE! Obama signs bill permitting American citizens to be held indefinitely without benefit of due process

Al Jazeera buys Current TV

"350.org," and the push to go "fossil free" gain momentum on college campuses

Putin penalizes Russian children in flap over U.S. policy

Has the United States become "an Orwellian State?"

Study - one can of soda a day raises risk of prostate cancer by 40%

A defiant Israel to expand settlements

Israel loses Europe's support

Mother Jones: Is more really better?

Is sugar killing us?

China will be world's biggest economic power in four years

Wisc delegates to DNC 2000

American journalists making campaign contributions

(Not long ago, this would have been unthinkable)

Clark Kent quits the Daily Planet

Bush White House repeatedly ignored warnings that attacks of 9-11 were coming

Bush tax cuts and wars account for almost half the U.S. public debt

Federal court strikes down clean air rule

Disappearing Arctic sea ice - eventually the Arctic will be ice-free

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Understanding Roosevelt and the necessity of the New Deal

(What you may not have learned in high school - or college.)

FAA gives authoritzation for domestic drones

Guardian: Global elite hide $21 trillion in offshore accounts

Mountain Lion population regenerates after 100 year decline - big cats moving into Midwest

California building a bullet train to nowhere?

What the Affordable Care Act does

Some student loans become more expensive despite deal reached in congress

"The Newsroom" offers lessons for contemporary journalism

Saudis to fund Syrian rebels

Leading scientists call for nations to face problem of expanding population

(Anybody out there remember Paul Ehrlich in the 60's?)

World Health Organization says diesel engines cause cancer

Study may link Statin drugs to fatigue - also questions mortality benefits

More than 2000 former players file brain injury lawsuit against the NFL

Public workers face "political bull's-eye"

What is the Bilderberg Conference and why does the American media go out of its way to ignore its impact?

40 years since photographer Nick Ut got the shot that helped end a war

photo: courtesy nick ut

Ron Olsen with Kim Phuc, the little girl from Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize winning photo that helped end the Vietnam War. Nick brought Kim over to say hello during our coverage of the Simpson Civil Trial in Santa Monica.

Boomer alert! Hollywood puts Jack Kerouac back on the road

Millions of American seniors face hunger

Our political system has been "warped and paralyzed by a small wealthy minority"

Top 5 special interest groups lobbying to keep marijuana illegal

Lobbying to keep the prisons full in America

Big media lobbies against transparency in political spending

Pakistani men get away with ACID ATTACKS on women by paying off police

(Some of the same good folks who provided cover for Osama bin Laden)

Obama, establishing permanent
U.S. military presence in Australia.
No, really......in Australia.

(it's pushback against our good friends and
business partners, the Communist Chinese)

Baldwin, isn't the only Alec out there...

War continues with contractors staying behind

"....the U.S. can no longer conduct large or sustained military operations or respond to major disasters without heavy support from contractors..."

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