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'Worse than Gaza': Conditions in West Bank Reach Crisis Point

Harvard Study: Warterboarding considered torture until U.S. began using it

We Can’t Afford War

Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree on "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America"

Congo's Quest for Liberation Continues

Where's the Outrage? EPA Betrays Coalfields (Again) With New Mountaintop Removal Permit

Questions for Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan

Lara Logan, You Suck

US banks off the hook until 2022

Robert Byrd’s Redemption

I'm a Mac...and I've got a dirty secret

How many Americans are targeted for President Obama's assassination program?

Unexpected Environmental Alliances Amidst the Oil Spill: 'Jesus Will Rip Your Head Off'

Libraries and Librarians Are Endangered Species: What You Can Do to Help

Austrailia elects first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, as social populist Kevin Rudd exits

Real News journalist attacked by police at G20

Naomi Klein: The Real Crime Scene Was Inside the G20 Summit

Toronto Police Arrest Over 600 in Crackdown Outside G20 Summit

We Are All Trapped in a Global Oil Slick

Lack Of Grant Aid Keeps Low-Income Students From College

"Creating Common Ground"

Oliver Stone: The US Has Launched Military Interventions and Political Coups Fifty-Five Times in Latin America

Media as a Social Justice Issue

It Matters Which Women We Elect to Office

Norman Solomon: From Wall Street to the war, this isn't what progressive democrats voted for

Speaker Pelosi, More War Funding Next Week Is No 'Emergency

Fortress Toronto: Massive Security Clampdown for G8/G20 Meetings

Fighting talk: The new propaganda

Death row inmate's rare chance to prove his innocence

Black Republicans in 2010: Symbolism vs. Practical Politics

Taxpayer-Owned Fannie Mae Attacks Struggling Homeowners

Detroit Hip-Hop Artist and Activist Invincible: Another Detroit Is Happening

From Great Man to Great Screwup: Behind the McChrystal Uproar

Al Jazeera: Michael Hastings on what Gen. McChrystal was trying to achieve by giving a journalist access

Mass Strikes Against 'Austerity Measures' Hit France

3 US Soldiers Speak Out on McChrystal’s Firing, Petraeus as Replacement, and the Unending War in Afghanistan

I am a protester, not a terrorist

Cell Phone Radiation Law Passed In San Francisco

Over 10,000 March in Detroit to Open US Social Forum

Disability Justice Activists Look at "Ways to Maintain Ablism" and Counter "How Our Bodies Experience Trauma in the Medical-Industrial Complex"

47 Years Ago in Detroit: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivers First "I Have a Dream" Speech

The Fate of the Internet. Decided in a Back Room

You Can't See the Boarded-Up Schools From the Mansions

Reversing the Erosion of Workers’ Rights, Benefits and the Role of Social and Environmental Justice in Union Organizing

"The Answers Are Coming from the Bottom": Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs on the US Social Forum and her 95th Birthday

Market-Based Educational Reform and the Politics of Fraud

On Heels of Diebold/Premier Purchase, Canadian Firm Also Acquires Sequoia, Lies About Chavez-Ties in Announcement

Israeli Shipping Line Zim Shut Out at Oakland Docks

Obama's Foreclosure Fail

US Social Forum 2010

Despite Criminal Charges, Obama Keeps Blackwater on the Payroll

Generation Monsanto

Japan Has 'Priority' On Rights To Mine Afghanistan Mineral Deposits, Says Hamid Karzai

Obama's Liberal Critics Find Their Voice

Obama officials still approving flawed Gulf drilling plans

Mailorder Wombs: Outsourcing Birth to India

ACORN Leader says critics Mounted ‘McCarthy-Era War Against the Poor’

High-Tech Torture: U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan

ACORN: A 21st Century Lynching

BP's Gulf well holds enough oil to spew out for two years, claim experts

Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world

Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’

Irony and Mitzvah: German Jews to Gaza

Sea Shepherd activists free hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna off Libya

Iran says UN Sanctions Show Double Standard

Israel's siege of Gaza

Roy Freedle: SAT puts Blacks at a disadvantage

Following Community Protests, Bank of America Backs Down from Foreclosing on Disabled Bronx Homeowner

All Talk No Action: Obama, BP and the Pentagon

New Clash in World Cup Labor Dispute

With Rumored Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder and Arrest of Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings, Obama Admin Escalates Crackdown on Whistleblow

Live Video Feed of Endless Gush of Oil: A Damning Fountain of Truth

Rachel Maddow's Oval Office Oil Spill Speech: What She Wishes Obama Had Said

Jeremy Scahill: Minerals, WikiLeaks, and Blackwater for Sale

Cashiering Helen Thomas

Larry Wilkerson on changing US policy toward Cuba

Britain Acknowledges "Bloody Sunday" Killings Were Unjustified and Apologizes to Victims’ Families

US Assembly of Jews: Confronting racism & Israeli apartheid

Humiliation and Shame: Part of Being Insured in America

NOLA Environmental Attorney Monique Harden, Sierra Club Exec Director Michael Brune and Leading Scientist Amory Lovins on the BP Oil Spill and the Way

Record Number of US Kids Facing Summer of Hunger

Obama's Oil Spill Speech: What was the point?

"I Love the US Republic, and I Hate the US Empire": Johan Galtung on the War in Afghanistan and How to Get Out

Marines Accused Of Beating Gay Man Over Alleged Wink

Savannah, Georgia LGBT leaders want misdemeanor charges in gay man’s beating upgraded to felony

Afghanistan's mineral find and the Washington clock

U.S. Knew About Afghan Mineral Bonanza in 2007

Banks Profit while Farmers Fail

3 Trillion Dollars in Minerals, Said to be Discovered in Afghanistan

Stephen Kinzer on the History of BP/British Petroleum and Its Role in the 1953 Iran Coup

U.S. Identifies Vast Riches of Minerals in Afghanistan

Hip Hop Artist Drake Going Green

Environmentalists Give Barack Obama a Pass on Oil Spill

Palestinian refugees in Lebanon denied rights

Chevron Oil Spill In Utah: 21,000 gallons of oil flows into Red Butte Creek after pipeline breaks

Why unpaid maternity leave isn't enough

The Alternative to Austerity

Remembering Jacques Cousteau: Carrying on the Legacy on His 100th Birthday