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2012 In Review: A Year of Extreme Weather, Mass Shootings, Drone Wars and Dark Money in Politics

Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton of Rainforest Action Network Dies at 39

Headlines for December 28, 2012; Dennis Kucinich on the "Fiscal Cliff": Why Are We Sacrificing American Jobs for Corporate Profits?; Outgoing Rep. Dennis Kucinich: With 2 Parties Failing U.S., It's on Us to Build a "Culture of Peace"; The Wilmington 10: North Carolina Urged to Pardon Civil Rights Activists Falsely Jailed 40 Years Ago

Headlines for December 27, 2012; NY Daily News Honors Juan González for 25 Years as "Beacon to Whistleblowers and Wronged People"; The FBI vs. Occupy: Secret Docs Reveal "Counterterrorism" Monitoring of OWS from Its Earliest Days; The Other Bradley Manning: Jeremy Hammond Faces Life Term for WikiLeaks and Hacked Stratfor Emails; Tea Party Turmoil: FreedomWorks' Dick Armey Takes $8 Million Exit Buyout After Failed Coup

Headlines for December 26, 2012; "Blood on Your Hands": CODEPINK Interrupts NRA's Wayne LaPierre as He Calls for Guns in U.S. Schools; As U.S. Faces Gun Epidemic Post-Newtown, Obama Urged to Break With NRA & Back Global U.N. Arms Treaty; Idle No More: Indigenous-Led Protests Sweep Canada for Native Sovereignty and Environmental Justice

Dr. Gabor Maté on the Stress-Disease Connection, Addiction and the Destruction of American Childhood

Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win, and Now Protect, Voting Rights in U.S.

Headlines for December 21, 2012; New Report Sheds Light on Bin Laden Murder, as Pakistan Faces Fallout from U.S.-Led Vaccination Plot; As the ANC Votes to Support BDS, a New Film Compares Life in Palestine to Apartheid South Africa; "End of the World": Apocalypse or Shopocalypse? Reverend Billy on Consumerism and Climate Change

Headlines for December 20, 2012; Domestic Abuse Survivor Goldie Taylor on Giving Up Her Gun & the Unseen Plague of National Violence; Louisiana TV Station Fires Black Meteorologist for Responding to Viewer's Barb About Her Hair; The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Bribe Its Way Through Expansion in Mexico

Headlines for December 19, 2012; "We Have to Do Something": Rep. Carolyn McCarthy on the Growing Push for Gun Control After Newtown; Rep. Raúl Grijalva Rejects Obama "Fiscal Cliff" Plan to Cut More from Social Security than Military; Michael Moore's Poetic Plea to Obama: "Dear Mr. President, Please Let Leonard Peltier Come Home"; Exclusive: Leonard Peltier Speaks Out from Prison on Denial of Medical Care, Bid for Clemency

VIDEO: New "Kochtopus" Graphic Maps the Influence of Billionaire Koch Brothers on Climate Policy

Headlines for December 18, 2012; As Newtown's First Victims Are Buried, Washington Shows Signs of Life in Taking on Gun Lobby; New Town to Newtown: How '96 Massacre Spurred Gun Laws in Australia -- and No Mass Shootings Since; "Americans Kill People": Michael Moore on Newtown, Mass Shootings, and the U.S. Culture of Violence; As NRA Hides from Public After Newtown, ALEC Ties Reveal Extensive Lobbying Behind U.S. Gun Laws

Headlines for December 17, 2012; "We Can't Tolerate This Anymore": Obama Vows Action After Worst Grade School Massacre in U.S. History; Debate: After Newtown, Will Nation's Worst-Ever Grade School Shooting Spur Tougher Gun Control?; Egypt's Referendum Clears 1st Round, But Critics Seek Revote After Charges of Rigged Polls

Headlines for December 14, 2012; Dean Baker: The Biggest Myth in Obama-GOP Spending Showdown is the "Fiscal Cliff" Itself; Ex-Commissioner Michael Copps on the FCC's Unrelenting Anti-Diversity Push for Media Consolidation; As Admin Preps "Enduring Presence" in Afghanistan, U.S. Peace Activists Build Ties to War's Victims

Headlines for December 13, 2012; Matt Taibbi: After Laundering $800 Million in Drug Money, How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?; Matt Taibbi on the Unfolding Libor Scandal and What Sen. DeMint's Departure Means for Fractured GOP; Exclusive: Native American Activist Leonard Peltier's Jailhouse Plea for Long-Denied Clemency; After Rebuff by Clinton, Actor Peter Coyote Joins New Push to Sway Obama on Leonard Peltier Clemency