Friday's Daily Brief: GOP Outraged By Obama Fiscal Cliff Option

Friday, November 30, 2012 Fiscal Cliff Talks Continue POLITICS Obama Takes Big Push On The Road As Republicans Stew WORLD Palestinians Euphoric Over UN Recognition SCIENCE NASA: WATER FOUND ON MERCURY POLITICS Manning Questioned After Sharing 'Absurd' View NEW YORK Bridge Collapse Causes Train Derailment, Chemical Spill In NJ BLOG POSTS Julian Assange: Two Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time The information WikiLeaks has disclosed frustrates the controlled political discourse that is trumpeted by establishment media and Western governments to shape public perception. We will continue our fight against the financial blockade, and we will continue to publish. Cecile Richards: Women's Health on the Fiscal Cliff Access to health care for millions of women is on the line if Congress fails to act and the fiscal cliff's mandatory budget cuts take effect. George Soros: Europe Is Divided Again -- This Time It's Creditors vs. Debtors When the European Union was only an idea, a fantastic object, it was conceived as an instrument of solidarity. Today, Europe hangs together out of grim necessity. That is not conducive to a harmonious partnership. Marlo Thomas: Free to Be... You and Me -- Forty Years Later Forty years ago this month, a group of my friends and I released "Free to Be... You and Me," a children's record created to expel the gender and racial stereotypes of the era. Our mission was simple: to convince children that their dreams were not only boundless, but achievable. What happened next stunned all of us. Toni Collette: The Lucky Seven For most of us, it is almost impossible to imagine food being hard to come by. The harsh reality is that hunger and malnutrition are the biggest public health threats in our world today. We lose a child every six seconds because of hunger. As a mother, I can't accept that.

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