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April 30, 2011
Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?
April 30, 2011
Anti-Union Forces Try to Knock Out New York City’s Hard Hats
April 30, 2011
(VIDEO) Vandana Shiva: Understanding the corporate takeover
April 30, 2011
Egypt Warns Israel: Don't Interfere With Opening of Gaza Border Crossing
April 30, 2011
Guantanamo Detainees Stage Hunger Strike to Protest Confinement Conditions
April 29, 2011
(VIDEO) WikiLeaks: Security Threat or Media Savior?
April 29, 2011
(VIDEO) White House Threatens to Blacklist Paper for Covering Protest
April 29, 2011
May Day Rallies Celebrate Unity; Labor Unions and Immigrants Plan to March Side by Side
April 29, 2011
Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s Comments on Bradley Manning Mark "Amazing Amount of Improper Influence" in WikiLeaks Case
April 29, 2011
As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn’t Speak for Me
April 29, 2011
Vegan Food in Restaurants: The Changing Tide of Food Preferences
April 29, 2011
Lessons for Progressives From Power Shift Youth
April 29, 2011
All the WikiLeaks Fit to Print
April 29, 2011
DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying, Thomas Tamm: "The Bottom Line Is I Don’t Think I Ever Broke the Law"
April 29, 2011
5 Years After U.S.-Backed Clashes, Palestinian Factions Fatah, Hamas Reach Unity Deal
April 29, 2011
Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern: Petraeus Will Expand Pro-War Agenda as New CIA Director
April 28, 2011
Venezuela Institutes Windfall Oil Tax to Support Social Programs, Education
April 28, 2011
The Really Smart Phone
April 28, 2011
Tornado Ravages Alabama City; Storm Toll Grows
April 28, 2011
President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley Manning Impossible By Declaring Him Guilty
April 28, 2011
Exiled Tibetans elect new leader
April 28, 2011
Statement by President Barack Obama on Release of His Birth Certificate
April 28, 2011
Democracy Now: Court Rules Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence is Unconstitutional, Grants New Sentencing Hearing
April 28, 2011
Haiti's Displaced: Greedy Landlords and an Absentee Government
April 26, 2011
WikiLeaks: Just 8 at Gitmo gave evidence against 255 others
April 26, 2011
Chernobyl survivor warns of 'bombshell' in Japan
April 26, 2011
Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees
April 26, 2011
Rachel Maddow: Closeted Gay Anchors 'Have A Responsibility To Come Out'
April 26, 2011
Chrissy Lee Polis, Victim In Maryland McDonald's Attack, Alleges Hate Crime
April 25, 2011
Wanted: An Opposition Party, Not a Coalition
April 25, 2011
Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Dr. Henry Giroux
April 25, 2011
Is It Fear of Uprisings or Altruistic Punishment?
April 24, 2011
President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law
April 24, 2011
(VIDEO) Obama on Manning: “He Broke the Law.” So Much for that Trial?
April 24, 2011
9/11 Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List (EXCLUSIVE)
April 23, 2011
Bradley Manning's Supporters Confront Obama, and More
April 23, 2011
Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is Changing the Game
April 23, 2011
St. Louis Tornado Causes Damage, Injuries At Lambert Airport
April 22, 2011
Earth Day: Environmental education has failed. But we can fix it.
April 22, 2011
BP Oil Spill: A tragic drama that continues to unfold
April 22, 2011
Libya Fighting: U.S. Warns Of 'Stalemate' As Misrata Battle Rages
April 21, 2011
Quarter-Million Dead and Not Counting
April 21, 2011
Liberals Pitted Against White House on Trade
April 21, 2011
One Hundred and Fifty Years After General Strike, Bay Area Workers Still Fighting for Justice
April 21, 2011
One Year After BP Oil Spill: Communities Lead While Congress Fails
April 21, 2011
VIDEO: US, France and Britan continue military inavsion of Lybia
April 21, 2011
Canada’s Health Care: An Alternate Universe
April 20, 2011
Obama, War President
April 20, 2011
Bradley Manning to Be Moved From Quantico
April 20, 2011
VIDEO: Democracy Now features hour long show on 1 year anniversary of the Deep Horizon blowout in the Gulf
April 20, 2011
The New Corporate World Order
April 20, 2011
Obama's Mexicogate?
April 20, 2011
Researchers Say Oil Dispersants Still an Issue in the Gulf
April 20, 2011
BP Still Being Awarded Lucrative Government Contracts
April 19, 2011
'US helped Israel with UN Gaza war probe'
April 19, 2011
A year after Horizion's Gulf oil well disaster, congress fails to pass a single bill strengthening prevention laws
April 19, 2011
Top ‘U.S.’ Corporations Outsourced More Than 2.4 Million American Jobs Over The Last Decade
April 19, 2011
Waiting for the spark
April 19, 2011
Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change
April 19, 2011
Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms and Invasion of Iraq
April 19, 2011
Obama ran against Bush, but now governs like him
April 19, 2011
Obama's Dirty Energy Fixation
April 18, 2011
Antarctic Penguin Population Declines with Krill
April 18, 2011
"Sweet Mickey" Hitches Haitian Recovery to Washington Bandwagon
April 18, 2011
BP Handling of Claims Slammed by Gulf Residents
April 18, 2011
The War In Afghanistan: How Much Are You Paying?
April 18, 2011
Throw Out the Money Changers: A speech by Chris Hedges
April 18, 2011
Georgia Set to Enact First Arizona Copycat Anti-Immigrant Bill
April 18, 2011
VIDEO: "5 Million Barrels of Oil Does Not Disappear": Author, Activist Antonia Juhasz on the BP Spill, One Year Later
April 18, 2011
In 12 Years, Income For Richest 400 Americans Quadruples, Tax Rate Nearly Halved
April 18, 2011
Ethnic Media Still Lack Visibility at Media Reform Conference
April 17, 2011
Bradley Manning: Whistleblower or Scapegoat?
April 17, 2011
GOP Spreads Corporate Tax Disinformation, America Fights Back (VIDEO)
April 17, 2011
Feds thwart investigation into dolphin deaths in Gulf region
April 17, 2011
Our Left-Wing Country and Our Center-Right Government
April 17, 2011
Japan sees no end in sight for nuclear catastrophe
April 17, 2011
Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically
April 16, 2011
VIDEO: 27 Arrested at DC Protest Against US Militarization in Latin America
April 16, 2011
Liberals Are Suckers
April 16, 2011
State by State: G.O.P. Pushes to Deregulate Environment
April 16, 2011
Al Gore to Young Advocates: Battle Industry Lobbyists to Turn the Tide on Climate
April 16, 2011
NY Times calls Quadaffi "dictator" says US seeking place for his refuge
April 16, 2011
Van Jones At Power Shift 2011: ‘While They’re Stuck On Stupid In DC, Your Generation Is Rising’
April 16, 2011
Tornadoes rip through Southeast
April 16, 2011
A Year On, BP Oil Still Mars Gulf Communities, Public Scrutiny Dries Up
April 15, 2011
London Gay Couple Say Kiss Got Them Kicked Out Of Pub
April 15, 2011
The Real Housewives of Wall Street
April 15, 2011
Tokyo Power to Compensate 50,000 Evacuees
April 15, 2011
Playing With Fire in Iraq
April 15, 2011
Aisha Gaddafi Sends Defiant Message From Libya
April 15, 2011
Most House Democrats Reject Obama's Austerity Budget Deal With GOP
April 15, 2011
Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Have Become Heart of Global Economy
April 15, 2011
Foreclosure Investors Flip Homes, Reap Rewards
April 15, 2011
New Health Care Advocacy Group Launches With $5 Million In The Bank
April 14, 2011
It’s a Hoax: GE Does Not Plan to Return $3.2 Billion Tax Refund to U.S. Treasury
April 14, 2011
Assessing Obama’s Budget Plan & State of U.S. Economy with Author Thomas Frank, Rev. Jim Wallis, and Activist/Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs
April 14, 2011
Obama Delivers Republican Arguments
April 14, 2011
Recognising Palestine?
April 14, 2011
Frankenfoods in Your “Natural” Foods Store: Whole Foods or Whole Hypocrisy?
April 14, 2011
Endless War in Lybia?
April 14, 2011
Arianna Huffington faces $105M lawsuit
April 13, 2011
Millionaires demand that Obama raise tax on rich
April 13, 2011
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo: Taking Progressives for Granted
April 13, 2011
We're not being told truth about Lybia
April 13, 2011
I Remember America
April 13, 2011
Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Foreign Minister, Faces Corruption Charges
April 13, 2011
Obama still ordering air strikes in Lybia
April 13, 2011
Jeffery Sachs: The People's Budget
April 12, 2011
The Army vs. the People?: A Democracy Now! Special Report from Egypt
April 12, 2011
"I Am Willing to Give My Life": Bahraini Human Rights Activists Risk Lives to Protest U.S./Saudi-Backed Repression
April 12, 2011
Governors Cut Taxes — and Medical Aid to the Poor
April 12, 2011
Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill?
April 12, 2011
Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’ (VIDEO)
April 12, 2011
Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
April 12, 2011
Moby 'The Day' Video: MoveOn Teams With Artist To Bash Obama-GOP Spending Cuts
April 12, 2011
Pete DeFazio To Obama: 'Act Like A Democrat' (VIDEO)
April 11, 2011
"Don’t Punish the Poor" Economist Jeffrey Sachs Slams Obama-GOP Budget Deal
April 11, 2011
Bradley Manning: Former Obama professor and other top US legal scholars voice outrage at 'torture'
April 11, 2011
Tom Ferguson: Billionaires and corporations find many hidden ways to control American politics
April 11, 2011
France Burqa Ban Takes Effect; Two Women Detained
April 11, 2011
Iceland vote freezes repayment plan
April 10, 2011
Wisconsin Republicans Claim Another Win
April 10, 2011
Brutal Repression in Honduras Targets Teachers, Popular Resistance
April 10, 2011
Icelanders vote on repaying UK and Netherlands
April 10, 2011
Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results
April 10, 2011
Sex Workers File Civil Rights Suit Against Louisiana's "Crime Against Nature" Law
April 10, 2011
Latin America Shakes Off the US Yoke
April 10, 2011
As One-Month Tsunami Anniversary Approaches, Japan's Nuclear Fears Far From Over
April 10, 2011
How the Media Promotes Ignorance and Stifles Debate
April 10, 2011
Pendleton, Oregon Cowboy Town, Promotes Solar Energy With No-Interest Loans
April 10, 2011
Egypt Protesters Defy Military After Crackdown
April 10, 2011
Death Toll rises in Deadly Gaza Strikes
April 09, 2011
At National Conference for Media Reform, a Roundtable on Journalism, Broadband and Broadcast Amidst Cutbacks and Consolidation
April 09, 2011
The Strange Politics of Fitzwalkerstan: GOP Clerk "Finds" Votes to Reverse Defeat of Conservative Wisconsin Justice
April 09, 2011
States’ Shameful Trade-Off: Putting Prisons over Public Schools
April 09, 2011
Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan
April 09, 2011
Toyota Will Begin Suspending North American Production Next Week
April 07, 2011
Angela Merkel switches off seven nuclear power plants
April 07, 2011
Robin Hood in Reverse in the US: Seven Examples
April 07, 2011
Japan earthquake today: Tsunami warning lifted, but Fukushima evacuated
April 07, 2011
The Libyan Intervention: Humanitarian or an Aggression?
April 07, 2011
Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning US Into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1
April 07, 2011
Residents Say Sea Turtles Rot on Beaches of the Gulf
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