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August 31, 2012
No Justice When Women Fight Back
August 31, 2012
Amy Goodman Questions Top GOP Donor David Koch: Does Concentration of Wealth Subvert Democracy?
August 31, 2012
Glenn Greenwald on the Justice Dept.’s Rejection of CIA Torture Prosecutions After 3-Year Probe
August 31, 2012
'Continuing Impunity': No Charges for CIA in Detainee Torture, Deaths
August 31, 2012
Striking South African Miners Charged with Murder After Police Kill 34
August 31, 2012
Facing Grand Jury Intimidation: Fear, Silence and Solidarity
August 31, 2012
Assange row: Hague says 'no solution in sight'
August 30, 2012
Failures of Obama administration opened door to far right revival
August 30, 2012
Matt Taibbi: The Secret to Mitt Romney’s Fortune? Greed, Debt and Forcing Others to Foot the Bill
August 30, 2012
L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa & GOP Latino Leader Mario Lopez on Immigration Reform in 2012 Race
August 30, 2012
Massacre: Up to 80 Yanomami in Venezuela killed by Brazilian gold miners
August 30, 2012
They Love the Lies Paul Ryan Tells
August 30, 2012
Challenging Big Labor to Fight for a Living Wage
August 30, 2012
Chicago Teachers Give Notice of Strike
August 30, 2012
Canada Orders US Soldier Who Fled War Deported
August 30, 2012
Iran's Khamenei Calls for 'Nuclear Free Middle East'
August 28, 2012
Tunisia to Reject Odious Debt
August 28, 2012
Comedian, Author Baratunde Thurston on Vote Suppression & Romney’s 0% Support from African Americans
August 28, 2012
Rachel Corrie’s Parents Denounce Israeli Military Exoneration for 2003 Killing in Gaza
August 28, 2012
Our Hunger Games
August 28, 2012
She's Just an Easy-Bake Oven: How the GOP and the Anti-Choice Movement See Women
August 28, 2012
Iran opens nonaligned summit with calls for nuclear arms ban
August 28, 2012
How the US and Israeli Justice Systems Whitewash State Crimes
August 28, 2012
Court: Israel at No Fault for Death of Rachel Corrie
August 28, 2012
'Rachel Corrie ruling a black day for human rights'
August 28, 2012
Rachel Corrie lawsuit result 'dangerous precedent' say human rights groups
August 28, 2012
Court Rules Israel Is Not at Fault in American Activist’s Death
August 28, 2012
Medical Journal Raises Questions About Medical Abuse at Guantanamo
August 28, 2012
George W. Bush as Hurricane Isaac
August 28, 2012
Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social Awakening
August 28, 2012
Hard Travelin' With Henry Rollins: An Exclusive Interview
August 26, 2012
NYPD: Empire State victims hit by police gunfire
August 26, 2012
Refinery blast kills 39 in Venezuela, dozens hurt
August 26, 2012
The Harsh Politics of Rape Pregnancy
August 25, 2012
First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82
August 24, 2012
Truthout Interviews Chris Hedges About Why Revolt Is All We Have Left
August 24, 2012
Toyota’s gender-bending win
August 24, 2012
The Bizarre, Unhealthy, Blinding Media Contempt for Julian Assange
August 24, 2012
"Subversives": How the FBI Fought the 1960s Student Movement and Aided Reagan’s Rise to Power
August 24, 2012
Was Bay Area Radical, Black Panther Arms Supplier Richard Aoki an Informant for the FBI?
August 24, 2012
Elisabeth Murdoch takes aim at brother on media morality
August 24, 2012
Lance Armstrong says won't fight doping charges; will lose titles
August 24, 2012
Court bans some Apple, Samsung products in South Korea
August 24, 2012
Getting Rid of Dubya Wasn't Enough. The US Remains a Bully
August 24, 2012
Montreal Students Protest Continue
August 24, 2012
California Supreme Court Throws Out Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ban
August 24, 2012
Wall Street Tightens Grip on Public Water as Local Residents Suffer
August 24, 2012
US 'should hand over footage of drone strikes or face UN inquiry'
August 24, 2012
Gaza Reacts to Egyptian Tunnel Closures
August 24, 2012
Election 2012: Dreams of a Vote Deferred?
August 22, 2012
Robert Reich: The Fanatical GOP
August 22, 2012
Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum; U.S. Seen as "Hidden Hand" Behind U.K. Threat to Raid Embassy
August 22, 2012
Victims Fight for Justice After DEA Operation Leaves Four Dead in Honduras
August 22, 2012
The Invisible Wounds of War: Number of Soldiers Committing Suicide Reaches Record High
August 22, 2012
With Romney-Ryan, GOP Becomes Grand Old Private-Equity Party
August 22, 2012
Sikh Community Activist Simran Jeet Singh: After Wisconsin Attack, I Refuse to Live in Fear
August 22, 2012
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
August 22, 2012
Akin Defies GOP Pleas to Exit Missouri Senate Race Before Deadline After Rape Comments Spark Uproar
August 22, 2012
Forcible Murder is a Heinous Crime (in Support of Todd Akin)
August 22, 2012
The Five Most Under-Reported Stories of the Summer
August 22, 2012
Former DHS Analyst Daryl Johnson on How He Was Silenced for Warning of Far-Right Militants in U.S.
August 22, 2012
The Hollowing Out of America, Up Close and Personal
August 22, 2012
Ecuador president warns UK not to enter embassy to seize Julian Assange
August 22, 2012
AT&T: Pay Me, Screw Net Neutrality
August 22, 2012
New Report: America Trashes Forty Percent of Food Supply
August 22, 2012
USDA Closes Slaughterhouse After Video Showing 'Sickening' Animal Cruelty
August 22, 2012
Glencore declares drought good for business profits
August 22, 2012
US Court Throws Out EPA Coal Pollution Rule
August 21, 2012
Cultural Miseducation: Knowledge, Power and Ethnic Studies
August 21, 2012
No Person Shall Be Deprived of Life, Liberty or Property… Unless the Oil and Gas Industry Says So
August 21, 2012
Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians listed as 'terrorist incidents' by US
August 21, 2012
Human Rights Critics of Russia and Ecuador Parade Their Own Hypocrisy
August 21, 2012
Japan's Katrina Moment
August 21, 2012
Youth Activists Come Together to Build a Movement for Student Power
August 21, 2012
WikiLeaks and Free Speech
August 21, 2012
Exclusive Truthout Interview: Sioux Spiritual Leader Speaks Out on Land Sale at Sacred Site
August 19, 2012
Many New York City Teachers Denied Tenure in Policy Shift
August 19, 2012
UNESCO warns that Brazilian capital's architectural delights in danger of falling prey to development
August 19, 2012
Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel New Show: 'War Isn't Entertainment'
August 19, 2012
Israel Kicks Out Migrants – By Changing Their Nationality and Sending Them to Another Country
August 19, 2012
US War On Whistleblowers Must End: Official Statement by Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy
August 19, 2012
Striking South Africa miners given ultimatum
August 19, 2012
U.S. Court Upholds Status Quo on Gene Patents
August 19, 2012
Dozens killed in South Africa mine shooting
August 19, 2012
African lives cheap as ever
August 19, 2012
Bahrain jails activist for three years over protests
August 19, 2012
The New Totalitarianism of Surveillance Technology
August 19, 2012
The Life of An African Is Expendable
August 19, 2012
Organisation of American States to hold meeting next week following Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to Assange
August 17, 2012
Two American soldiers killed by Afghan ally hours after Taliban leader boasts of "green on blue" threat
August 17, 2012
Two American soldiers killed by Afghan ally hours after Taliban leader boasts of "green on blue" threat
August 17, 2012
Pussy Riot verdict sparks worldwide protests
August 17, 2012
Pussy Riot Verdict: Guilty
August 17, 2012
Ecuador Defies UK/US Pressure, Gives Assange Asylum
August 17, 2012
Occupy Movement Inspires Conversations About Criminalizing Homelessness
August 17, 2012
Cover-Up of Civilian Drone Deaths Revealed by New Evidence
August 15, 2012
Fund the Arts to Create Beauty and Meaning in America
August 15, 2012
Boston's Logan Airport 'Rife' with Racial Profiling: Report
August 14, 2012
Ecuador Grants Julian Assange Asylum
August 14, 2012
The US and Honduras
August 12, 2012
Behind Oak Creek, Divided Families Endure
August 12, 2012
Racial Profiling Rife at Airport, U.S. Officers Say
August 12, 2012
Bradley Manning treatment in 'flagrant violation' of military code – lawyer
August 12, 2012
Manning Defense Calls for Dismissal of Charges over Cruel and Unusual Punishment in Detention
August 12, 2012
Scores Killed in Iran after Two Devastating Earthquakes
August 12, 2012
Caravan for Peace: Mexican Victims of Violence Take Aim Against US Firearms
August 12, 2012
Thousands evacuated in Spain forest fires
August 12, 2012
Schools Without Playgrounds, Children Without Childhood, a Future Without Hope
August 12, 2012
US Post Office Considers Bringing Back Banking Services
August 12, 2012
Undue Influence: The Power of Police and Prison Guards' Unions
August 12, 2012
General Petraeus and the Drone War
August 12, 2012
Earthquake in Iran puts deathtoll at 250
August 12, 2012
Classified Life: Sibel Edmonds' Story
August 10, 2012
Three Thousand San Francisco Janitors Prepare for a Strike
August 10, 2012
Major Banks Help Clients Hide Trillions in Offshore Tax Havens
August 09, 2012
Gehry, Gang and other leading architects urge Emanuel to save old Prentice Women's Hospital
August 09, 2012
NYPD to Launch Expansive Citywide Surveillance System, For a Profit
August 09, 2012
UN Should Get Rid of Cholera Epidemic That It Brought to Haiti
August 09, 2012
Fire destroys Missouri mosque in second blaze at the Islamic center in 5 weeks; no injuries
August 09, 2012
Group Exposes Practice of Adding Synthetic Preservatives to 'Organic' Baby Formula
August 09, 2012
The Koch Brothers Go After Actor Zach Galifianakis and the Film "The Campaign"
August 09, 2012
Return Your Eagle Scout Badge
August 09, 2012
News Corporation posts $1.6bn loss as phone-hacking legal fees stack up
August 09, 2012
Mr. President, the Elephant in the Room Is Not a Republican
August 08, 2012
Tom Waits: Hell Broke Luce
August 08, 2012
Interpol issues notice for arrest of Sea Shepherd founder
August 08, 2012
NOAA: July Was Hottest Month Ever in US
August 08, 2012
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping
August 08, 2012
Companies are set to pay $8 billion to settle charges of ripping off the government, though no CEOs have been charged
August 08, 2012
Bill Moyers: Suppressing Votes by Law
August 07, 2012
Journalist ends up in handcuffs after photographing arrest in New York
August 07, 2012
Interview With the Green Party's Jill Stein, Candidate for Organizer in Chief
August 07, 2012
New House Bill Tries to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries From Justice Department Crackdown
August 06, 2012
Harry Truman's grandson attends ceremony marking 67th anniversary of attack on Hiroshima
August 06, 2012
Turning College Students Into Commodities
August 06, 2012
Drone Attacks Only Create More Enemies for the US
August 06, 2012
The LIBOR Scandal: Why is it Scandalous?
August 06, 2012
Shootings at a Temple Test the Founding Faith of America
August 06, 2012
Sikh Temple Shooter Identified: US Veteran Wade Michael Page
August 06, 2012
Gunman's tattoos lead officials to deem Sikh shooting terrorism
August 06, 2012
Chaos and Carnage: At Least 7 Dead after 'Domestic Terrorism' at Wisconsin Sikh Temple
August 06, 2012
The Top Five Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors
August 06, 2012
The Dangers of ‘Football Brain’
August 06, 2012
Handmaidens to Barbarity
August 06, 2012
Goldman Sachs will invest nearly $10 million in a New York City jails program
August 06, 2012
The Bomb and the Drone: The Grim Reaper Keeps Taking Its Toll
August 05, 2012
Chick-Fil-A: ‘Not the Freedom The American Dream Promises’
August 05, 2012
Flight of the teddy bears lands Belarussian generals in hot water
August 05, 2012
Despite Promises, Colombia FTA Does Little to End Abuse of Labor Activists
August 05, 2012
Happiness Comes From Respect, Not Riches
August 05, 2012
Almost a billion go hungry worldwide
August 05, 2012
Obama the Pioneer
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