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World Reacts to Debt Ceiling Debacle: "Irresponsible," "Worst Kind of Absurd Theatrics"

Massive 'Social Justice' Protests Sweep Israel

Turkey's Top Generals Quit En Masse Over Political Targeting

Capacity Crowd Hears Cynthia McKinney and Others at Eyewitness Libya's Atlanta Report Back

Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training for Nuclear Missile Officers After Publication of Truthout Report

Obama & the Fake Debt Ceiling Crisis: This President Is Really Just Smarter Than You Are

Obama's Whistleblower War Suffers Two Defeats

Prison Slave Labor

War is a Racket

"Hell No" - Your Right to Dissent

Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

In Secret, Senate Panel May Re-Up Vast Surveillance Dragnet

Who Put McDonald’s in Charge of Kids’ Health?

Monsanto Nation: Taking Down Goliath

Why Is Pat Buchanan Still an Acceptable Television Pundit When He Is a Fringe White Supremacist?

Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Gains Bipartisan Support

Getting Away With Torture: the Ill Treatment of Detainees

Fracking Operations Cause Thousands of Earthquakes in Arkansas

Where is Our Crisis President?

Human rights groups warn of severe water crisis in Gaza Strip

The Tax-Free American Aristocracy

ALEC, Republicans Beat Up On Kids in Special Ed

None Dare Call It Privatization

I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me

The GOP’s State-by-State Crusade to Disenfranchise Voters

Breaking: New Study Links Mountaintop Removal to 60,000 Additional Cancer Cases

Florida Looks for the Lowest Bidder as It Privatizes 30 State Prisons

In Cuba, three modernists vindicated

Air Force Cites New Testament, Ex-Nazi, to Train Officers on Ethics of Launching Nuclear Weapons

Ten Questions the Media Are Not Asking About Norway

America Held Hostage to Two-Party Failure: Government of, by and for the Corporations

From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock

Why Washington is About to Make the Jobs Crisis Worse

Consumer Bureau Launches in Shark-Infested Waters

Norwegian Shooting Suspect’s Views Echo Xenophobia of Right-Wing Extremists in U.S., Europe

As Stores Die, So Does Book Culture

Too Many Rulings are Supremely Courteous to Corporations

Columbia U., Race, Class and the Gentrification of Harlem

Jeremy Scahill Reveals CIA Facility, Prison in Somalia as U.S. Expands Covert Ops in Stricken Nation

Glenn Greenwald: Norway Attacks Expose U.S. Media’s Double Standard on "Terrorism"

Norway Mourns 92 Victims After 'Hell on Paradise Island'

Two Months Later, Spain's 'Indignants' Converge on Madrid

Pioneering Comedian Roseanne Barr on Her Life on Screen as a “Working-Class Domestic Goddess”

Former chief oversight official of contracts at the Army Corps of Engineers receives $970,000 settlement six years after publicly criticizing a multi-billion-dollar, no-bid contract to Halliburton

Mike Lee: I Want America’s ‘House To Come Down’ Unless Congress Votes To Rewrite Constitution

Wealth in America: Whites-minorities gap is now a chasm

Obama is NOT “Caving” to Corporate Interests

Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York, from Niagara Falls to Manhattan

Emails Show White House Promotes Genetically Engineered Crops in Wildlife Refuges

Black Chicago Divided

A Boom in Corporate Profits, a Bust in Jobs, Wages

No Wonder Obama Is Losing Support from the Left

Norway PM: 'We Must – and Will – Meet Terror with More Democracy, Not Less'

Murdoch Shaped British Politics for 40 Years

Third Prize: You're Fired

Film Chronicles American Jews Caught Between Two Worlds

After Long Wait, Same-Sex Couples Marry in New York

Put 15 Million Back to Work Fixing $2.2 Trillion in Infrastructure: the Works Progress Administration

Praising the Hostage Takers: Will Obama Ever Hold the Republicans Accountable?

New York Set to Close School for Troubled Teens After Simple Clerical Error in Budget Request

NLRB Orders New Election After Ruling SEIU, Kaiser Colluded to Influence Union Vote

With GOP Roadmap in Hand, Where Will Obama and Dems Wind Up?

Rejecting Lucrative Offer, Cenk Uygur Leaves MSNBC After Being Told to "Act Like An Insider"

Destination? GAZA! The Freedom Flotilla II - Stay Human Meets the Shayetet 13

Hacking crisis edges closer to David Cameron (VIDEO)

States Can’t Win the Endless ‘Business Climate’ Game

Israel Draws International Criticism for Sweeping Anti-Boycott Law

After Thwarting Flotilla, Israeli Navy Seizes Lone Gaza-Bound Ship that Eluded Greek Authorities

To Save Our Cities, Put Children First

EXCLUSIVE: The Deficit Is Not Default of Obama

Fracking at Drinking Water Source for 80,000 Pennsylvanians Raises Alarms

Japan Set to Ban Fukushima Cattle Shipments After Radioactive Meat Scare

Hidden Bombs Hit Libyans

Youth Continue to Fight For Their Future

Eating Less, Better Meat: Yes We Can

Prisoners Strike Against Torture in California Prisons

Unequal Protection: The Court Takes the Presidency

Advice Hillary Clinton Should, But Won’t, Give to Economically-Strapped Greece

Whistleblower in Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal Found Dead

NYC Schools Approve $2.7 Million Deal with Murdoch-Linked Firm to Track Student Performance

Weakening of Media Consolidation Rules Helped Murdoch Build U.S. Media Empire

Thom Hartmann: Workers Are the Real Job Creators

Neoliberalism, Austerity, and the Global Crisis of Legitimacy

Ralph Nader: Obama is a "Political Coward" for Not Picking Elizabeth Warren to Head Consumer Bureau

Ralph Nader’s Solution to Debt Crisis: End Corporate Welfare and Corporate Tax Loopholes

Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group Claims to Have News Corp. Emails

Press Release: Co-Chairs Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison & Budget Task Force Chair Michael Honda Blast Republican Plan to End Medicare

Muslim Victim of Post-9/11 Hate Crime Calls on Texas to Spare Life of His Assailant

The Republican Light Bulb Joke

Cameron Calls in Parliament as the Hacking Scandal Grows

Exclusive: David House on Bradley Manning, Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury, and U.S. Surveillance

As Nelson Mandela Turns 93, a Discussion with Anti-Apartheid Freedom Fighter Ronnie Kasrils

Getting Away with Torture

Liberation When? Five Months of Waiting in Egypt

Abuses in Tech Industry in China Exposed

Hollow Deficit Debate Ignores the Burden of Afghanistan Military Spending (VIDEO)

Mass Psychosis in the US: How Big Pharma Hooked Americans on Drugs

On Biking, Why Can’t the US Learn Lessons from Europe?

The End Game: Saving Obama From Himself

Sitting Atop Trillions: What Would Business Do with Another Tax Break?

If McCain had won

Elizabeth Warren Out, Another Bank Critic to Lead Consumer Agency

America’s Disappeared

Koch Brothers' ALEC Tentacles Creep Into Your State

The Corporate Supreme Court

Connecting Extreme Weather Dots Across the Map

ALEC, For-Profit Criminal Justice, and Wisconsin

Scotland Yard Chief Quits Over Murdoch Hacking Scandal

China oil spill six times size of Singapore

Rupert Murdoch Has Gamed American Politics Every Bit as Thoroughly as Britain's

Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law

WikiLeaks: Haiti Disaster Capitalism's Latest Electroshock Patient

Aiding Insecurity: Four Years of Mexico's Drug War

Murdoch Shaped British Politics for 40 Years

One Thing Certain in Debt Debate: More Cuts for States

Former Bush Special Counsel Wants a "Do-Over" on Guilty Plea

BP Pipeline Leaks Oily Mixture Onto Alaskan Tundra

Global food bubble on the way?

Mired in Scandal, News Corp Seeks New York State's Signoff for $27 Million No-Bid Contract

British Phone-Hacking Scandal (News of the World)

Neocons Fume Over US Boat to Gaza

British Police Arrest Rebekah Brooks in Phone Hacking Scandal

West Prepares to Hand Rebels Gaddafi's Billions

Somalia Crisis One of 'Largest in Decades'

Making Beautiful Art out of Beach Plastic

House Leaders to Palestine: Seek UN Recognition, Forget Foreign Aid

Former Obama Supporters: 'Touch Social Programs and We're Out'

Why Banks Aren't Lending: The Silent Liquidity Squeeze

Graphic sex talk at Julian Assange's extradition trial

Betty Ford 1918-2011: Former first lady laid to rest beside her husband

Teaching Gay History Becomes Law in California

Rupert on the run: News Corp's UK future in doubt as MPs turn on Murdoch

FDR: "Government by Organized Money is Just as Dangerous as Government by Organized Mob"

Gordon Brown Alleges Shuttered Murdoch Paper Hired "Known Criminals"

Six Birmingham women pardoned for 1963 civil-rights protest arrests

Mainstream media won't report on CIA's secret sites

Pentagon declares the Internet a war domain

Obama’s “Big Deal”: Wallowing with Pigs in Search of a Grand Center-Right Coalition

Koch Brothers, ALEC and Their Corporate Allies Plan to Privatize Government

Italy Eyes Privatization as Market Tension Eases

Juan Cole Sues FBI and CIA for Suspected Files

The Whistleblower From the Madoff Scandal Tells How to Reform the SEC

Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity

Greece--a Dress Rehearsal for United States

Greece--a Dress Rehearsal for United States