• Congress Returns to Confront Health Care, Spending Bills
• Introducing the Swiftboat Network: How Right Wing Millionaires and Neofascist Tycoons Plan to Conceal Their Funding of "Swiftboat' Attack Campaigns
• Secret Service investigating Facebook poll asking if Obama should be assassinated
• FDA: NJ Politicians Pressured Them into Approving Unsafe Medical Device - After They Received Large Donations
• Ex-Bush officials sued over terror policies

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Michael Collins reports that the ongoing economic struggle of billions of people didn't deter key G-20 figure Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke from announcing that the worldwide recession is "very likely over."  Of course, there's a qualifier.  It will be a jobless recovery which raises the question, just exactly who will be recovering?

• It's on: White House launches aggressive campaign to line up votes for a health care bill
• U.S. Seeking Tougher Sanctions Against Iran
• CBO: No public option to cost $110 billion; and public option insurance premiums would cost you 10% LESS than your current private plan
• Village Voice uncovers 'Independent' (not!) filmmaker James "Pimpin' for ACORN" O'Keefe's hard-right $ugar daddy
• Bill Clinton: Right-Wing Noise Machine Seeks to Tear Down President Obama

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• Obama to Reassess Afghanistan War; No Deadline Set for Decision on Troops
• Federal Reserve Ignored Evidence of Mounting Crisis in Subprime Lending
• Evidence builds: Census worker Bill Sparkman was brutally murdered
• Election Commission Decisions Deadlocking on Party Lines

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