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August 31, 2013
Syria: Putin rubbishes chemical attack claims
August 31, 2013
King’s dream still just a dream after 50 years
August 30, 2013
Before suicide, raped Montana teen loved outdoors, poetry
August 30, 2013
Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet of Soil and Strife, Dies at 74
August 30, 2013
Firefighting felons: Hundreds of inmates battling the Yosemite blaze
August 30, 2013
What Awaits Chelsea Manning as the Military's First Openly Trans Woman?
August 30, 2013
Breast-feeding gets boost with airport lactation station
August 30, 2013
Selective ‘obscenity’: US checkered record on chemical weapons
August 30, 2013
NFL Reaches Settlement with Former Players Who Suffer from Brain Injuries
August 30, 2013
Growing Charter School Chain Suspends Special Needs Kids in Bid to Raise Test Scores
August 30, 2013
Why I'm on Strike Today: I Can't Support Myself on $7.85 at Burger King
August 29, 2013
Anthony Monteiro: Obama administration has nothing to do with MLK's legacy
August 29, 2013
NFL agrees to compensate retired players with concussion-related brain injuries
August 29, 2013
David Cameron loses Commons vote on Syria action
August 29, 2013
Fast-food workers continue fight against low wages as thousands take part in nationwide walk-out
August 29, 2013
Iran foreign ministry appoints first-ever spokeswoman
August 29, 2013
Air pollution cause of 200,000 premature US deaths
August 29, 2013
Syrian Lawmakers Warn Britain Over Military Strike
August 29, 2013
Scot Nakagawa: Civil Rights Are for Everyone
August 29, 2013
Even if Assad Used Chemical Weapons, The West Has No Mandate to Act as a Global Policeman
August 29, 2013
How the FBI Secretly Denies Muslim Immigrants Their Citizenship
August 28, 2013
Victory for Activists, Entergy to Close Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant; Will More Follow?
August 28, 2013
Greg Palast: MLK's 'Dream' drowned in Hurricane Katrina
August 28, 2013
As Fukushima Raises Severity Level, Nuclear Expert Warn of "Worse" Radioactive Leaks
August 28, 2013
In Syria, the Other Target Is Iran
August 27, 2013
‘Largest hack’ in Chinese history has Beijing stumped
August 27, 2013
Arab League Rejects Attack Against Syria
August 27, 2013
Hypocrisy and Legacy of Death as US Claims Moral Authority in Syria
August 27, 2013
Family Sues Miami Beach in Taser Death by the Police
August 27, 2013
Should Obama be Welcomed at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington?
August 27, 2013
Syrian Electronic Army takes down New York Times website
August 27, 2013
San Francisco Community College Targeted by "Rogue" Accreditation Commission
August 27, 2013
George Zimmerman to ask for $200,000 from Florida for court costs
August 27, 2013
Cornel West Says Civil Rights Leaders Have Failed The Movement
August 27, 2013
‘Violent chaos’: Libya in deep crisis 2 years since rebels took over
August 27, 2013
World Press Slams UK Threats Over Snowden Docs
August 27, 2013
California Battling Wildfire the Size of Chicago
August 26, 2013
200 days of Guantanamo hunger strike
August 26, 2013
Hysteria around chemical attack suits those who want military intervention in Syria
August 26, 2013
President Obama should not be welcomed at the 50th Anniversary March on Washington
August 26, 2013
Exclusive Glenn Greenwald Interview: "I Won't Be Kept Out of My Country for Doing Journalism!"
August 26, 2013
International Law Required Manning to Be a Whistleblower
August 26, 2013
Defying Russian Govt & Oil Giants, Greenpeace Enters Arctic Waters
August 26, 2013
Three Illusory "Investigations" of the NSA Spying Are Unable to Succeed
August 26, 2013
Press freedom: an open letter to David Cameron from Nordic editors
August 25, 2013
Bayard Rustin: the gay black pacifist at the heart of the March on Washington
August 25, 2013
San Francisco's Green Power Plan Still Stalled by Corporate Interests a Decade Later
August 24, 2013
'Privacy rights don’t exist in US anymore'
August 24, 2013
Mountain Grown: Appalachia's New Local Food Economy
August 24, 2013
"Empowering, So Brave": Trans Activists Praise Chelsea Manning, Raise Fears over Prison Conditions
August 24, 2013
UK government now leaking documents about itself
August 24, 2013
Calif. Prisoner on 47-Day Hunger Strike Speaks Out
August 24, 2013
Materials implicating Syrian govt in chemical attack prepared before incident – Russia
August 24, 2013
New Documents Show Financial Ties Between NSA and Major Internet Companies
August 24, 2013
Advocate of Government Surveillance Promoted to Review NSA Oversight
August 24, 2013
Manning heads to notorious Fort Leavenworth prison to serve sentence
August 24, 2013
Those Not-So-Good Old Days
August 23, 2013
Nuclear World Threat: As Fukushima Crisis Spirals, Expert Warns 'It's Much Worse' Than Claimed
August 23, 2013
‘You Failed to Break the Spirit of Bradley Manning’: An Open Letter to President Obama
August 22, 2013
Amazon Received $600 Million CIA Computer Cloud Contract: Surveillance Shopping?
August 22, 2013
Bradley Manning: "Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society"
August 22, 2013
"He Wanted To Help America": Manning Attorney in First Extended Interview After 35-Year Sentence
August 22, 2013
Western Despotism in the name of fighting terrorism
August 22, 2013
How Europe Can Learn From Latin America's Independence
August 22, 2013
San Francisco files suit to keep Community College (CCSF) open
August 22, 2013
Edward Snowden leaks reveal UK’s secret Middle-East web surveillance base
August 22, 2013
'I am Chelsea Manning,' says jailed soldier formerly known as Bradley
August 21, 2013
Manning refused to plead guilty in exchange for lesser sentence
August 21, 2013
'Sending a message': what the US and UK are attempting to do
August 21, 2013
Global Progressive Community Reacts to Manning Sentence
August 21, 2013
NSA gathered thousands of Americans’ e-mails before court struck down program
August 21, 2013
Bradley Manning Sentenced 35 Years: An unfair trial – Obama declared Manning's guilt in advance
August 21, 2013
'Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society'
August 21, 2013
Using Massive Surveillance to Suppress Domestic Dissent: When We Become the Hunted
August 21, 2013
50 Years Later, the Untold History of the March on Washington & MLK’s Most Famous Speech
August 21, 2013
Lawrence Stroll pays record US$27.5 million for rare Ferrari at U.S. auction
August 21, 2013
Greenwald partner sues Home Office as UK defends 'Miranda op'
August 21, 2013
Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street's Worst Nightmare
August 20, 2013
Citing Privacy Worries, Tech And Legal Site Groklaw Shuts Down
August 20, 2013
‘There’s our target’: Christopher Lane gunned down by three ‘bored’ teens
August 20, 2013
Miranda's Lawyers Threaten UK over 'Flagrant Misuse' of Authority
August 20, 2013
10 Arrested Protesting Chicago Community Center and Library's Demolition
August 20, 2013
The Guardian: Downing St. involved in 'Snowden materials' destruction order
August 20, 2013
How Corporate America Used the Great Recession to Turn Good Jobs Into Bad Ones
August 20, 2013
UK ordered Guardian to destroy hard drives in effort to stop Snowden revelations
August 20, 2013
How Low Can You Get: The Minimum Wage Scam
August 20, 2013
How Billionaire "Philanthropy" Is Fueling Inequality and Helping to Destroy the Country
August 20, 2013
US soldier behind Afghanistan massacre laughs at murder charges
August 20, 2013
Matt Taibbi: U.S. Student Loan Bubble Saddles a Generation With Debt and Threatens the Economy
August 20, 2013
UK Media Crackdown: Greenwald’s Partner Detained, Guardian Forced to Destroy Snowden Files
August 20, 2013
Small debts enough for UK lenders to force borrowers to sell property
August 20, 2013
Judge gives green light to torture and deny human rights in California's prisons
August 20, 2013
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face
August 20, 2013
Radiation levels in Fukushima bay highest since measurements began - reports
August 19, 2013
San Francisco jail inmates 56% black
August 19, 2013
White House knew Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda would be detained
August 19, 2013
Obama Administration: 'We Want to Make an Example Out of Bradley Manning'
August 19, 2013
Obama Administration had advance knowledge of David Miranda's UK detention
August 19, 2013
WikiLeaks posts 400 gigabytes of encrypted ‘insurance’ data online
August 19, 2013
UK freedoms, farewell! Detention of Miranda reveals vindictiveness of wounded police state
August 19, 2013
New Zealand PM walks out of press conference amid spy bill grilling
August 19, 2013
Amidst Egypt’s Bloodshed, "We Are Trying Keep the Discourse of the Revolution Alive"
August 19, 2013
Charles Koch: The Scariest Man in America?
August 19, 2013
Feminist organizations denounce Spitzer due to their close ties to Wall Street
August 19, 2013
Some 57,000 fewer children will go to Head Start preschool program
August 19, 2013
Hackers use virus to create fake ‘likes’ and followers on social media sites
August 19, 2013
Why an Iraqi Single Mom Is Suing George W. Bush for War Crimes
August 19, 2013
Moral Monday Marches on With Dr. King in Mind
August 19, 2013
Dozens of California prisoners hospitalized after 40 days of hunger strike
August 19, 2013
Time magazine senior correspondent says he "can't wait" for government to assassinate Assange
August 19, 2013
Editor of the Progressive Arrested Covering Solidarity Singers’ Protest of Wisconsin Gov. Walker
August 19, 2013
Companion to Glenn Greenwald arrested and held by UK police for 9 hours without warrant
August 19, 2013
SF fire chief bans helmet cameras in wake of crash
August 18, 2013
Crocodile-Tear Time for America’s Free Press
August 18, 2013
NSA Revelations of Privacy Breaches 'the Tip of the Iceberg'
August 17, 2013
NSA to open new $60mln facility in N. Carolina university
August 17, 2013
Remembering Pioneering NYC Political Strategist Bill Lynch
August 17, 2013
Germany to become first European state to allow ‘third gender’ birth certificates
August 17, 2013
In Nebraska, Lakota Women Lead Fight Against the "Liquid Genocide" of Liquor and Beer
August 16, 2013
'Jaw-Dropping' Record of Violations Reveals Perils of NSA Self-Policing
August 16, 2013
Day of Rage in Cairo: Anti-Coup Groups Hold Massive Protest Marches to Condemn Deadly Crackdown
August 16, 2013
Manning Sentencing Defense Plays Up Psychological Stress, Fails To Use Whistleblower Defense
August 16, 2013
Fannie Mae Hires Banker It Sued for “materially misleading statements”
August 16, 2013
Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America? U.S. Drone Killed Yemeni Man After Boy Planted Tracking Chip
August 16, 2013
Silent Circle encrypted Internet service shutting down after Lavabit
August 16, 2013
Google: Gmail users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’
August 16, 2013
Australian Navy locates bombs dumped by US onto Great Barrier Reef
August 16, 2013
Why Is the Tea Party Teaming up With the Sierra Club?
August 15, 2013
The Nobel Peace Prize Needs Bradley Manning More Than Manning Needs It
August 15, 2013
US Government Threatens California City Trying to Save Homeowners From Foreclosure
August 15, 2013
Detroit Residents on Bankruptcy - We Have No Democracy!
August 15, 2013
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
August 15, 2013
Swiss unveil sex drive-in
August 15, 2013
Intolerance inverted: Is rodeo clown satire now banned under Obama?
August 15, 2013
Cops will hand-out Doritos at Washington's first post-legalization Hempfest
August 15, 2013
French revolutionary rule keeps Paris bakers baking
August 15, 2013
Hot Century Ahead: Study Finds Onslaught of Heat Waves Now Inevitable
August 15, 2013
Revealed: Public transit price-rigging scam in Brazil
August 15, 2013
Massacre in Cairo: Egypt on Brink After Worst Violence Since 2011 Revolution
August 15, 2013
Facebook lowers personal morale
August 15, 2013
America’s Upside-Down Morality
August 15, 2013
'That '70s Show' actress Lisa Robin Kelly dies
August 15, 2013
In Texas, police add surveillance cameras to officers’ uniform
August 15, 2013
At Bradley Manning trail full decay of US government exposed
August 15, 2013
Eric Holder's Reforms to Minimum Drug Sentencing Don't Address Structural Racism
August 15, 2013
Facing 90 Years, Bradley Manning Expresses Regret for "Unintended Consequences" of Leaking Docs
August 14, 2013
Obama Administration exaggerated Justice Department's mortgage fraud crackdown before election
August 14, 2013
Corporate Greed Is Making Us Sick
August 14, 2013
Revealed: Carcinogens in Lac-Mégantic Waters 400,000 Times Govt Limit
August 14, 2013
Holder Backpedals on Mandatory Minimums Amid Intelligence Laundering Controversy
August 14, 2013
ALEC's Unwelcome Party in Chicago
August 14, 2013
Egypt on edge after at least 278 killed in bloodiest day since revolution
August 14, 2013
Questlove on Police Racial Profiling, Stop & Frisk, the Message He Took from Trayvon Martin Verdict
August 14, 2013
Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to 30 months in prison
August 14, 2013
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Please.
August 14, 2013
We The People Website: Where Unwelcome White House Petitions 'Go to Die'
August 14, 2013
'Pools of Blood' in Cairo Streets as Egypt's Military Attacks Sit-Ins
August 13, 2013
Former Internet Provider Gagged by National Security Letter Recounts How He Was Silenced for 6 Years
August 13, 2013
Nurse Suspected of Killing Up to 46 Kids Set to Leave Prison
August 13, 2013
Tesla car creator introduces concept design for Hyperloop high-speed train
August 13, 2013
The US Has Lowest Minimum Wage and Most Young People Without Jobs Among Wealthiest Countries
August 13, 2013
When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto
August 13, 2013
N.C. agrees to $12 million settlement for two wrongly imprisoned men
August 13, 2013
Owner of Snowden’s Email Service on Why He Closed Lavabit Rather Than Comply With Gov’t
August 13, 2013
Washington afraid of BRICS, needs to spy to maintain hegemony
August 13, 2013
Judge Rules NYPD's "Stop and Frisk" Unconstitutional, Orders Federal Oversight
August 13, 2013
Let’s Talk about a Real Healthcare System (And, No, I Don't Mean "Obamacare")
August 13, 2013
Big Business Drives "Stand Your Ground"
August 13, 2013
Judge Rules NYPD "Stop and Frisk" Unconstitutional, Cites "Indirect Racial Profiling"
August 13, 2013
Would Receipt by Manning Lift 'Dark Cloud' over Nobel Peace Prize?
August 13, 2013
Senate Committee Had Authority to Expose NSA All Along
August 13, 2013
After lying to Congress, DNI Clapper will head ‘independent’ NSA review group
August 13, 2013
Torturing Animals with Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Feed
August 13, 2013
Snowden: NSA Story Needed the 'Courage' Major Media Outlets Have Abandoned
August 12, 2013
The Long and Unfinished Struggle: Single Payer Health Care in Vermont
August 12, 2013
Taming Capitalism Run Wild (VIDEO)
August 12, 2013
The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
August 12, 2013
Pakistan's burqa-ninja heroine set to go global
August 12, 2013
Bradley Manning, the Nuremberg Charter and Refusing to Collaborate with War Crimes
August 12, 2013
Little is rebuilt at NYC beach burned during Sandy
August 12, 2013
Singer Eydie Gorme dies at 84
August 12, 2013
Bayard Rustin Remembered For Role in March on Washington, Mentoring MLK
August 12, 2013
Federal Judge Rules Stop-And-Frisk Unconstitutional
August 12, 2013
US fast-food workers in vanguard of growing protests at 'starvation' wages
August 12, 2013
America's Disappeared
August 11, 2013
Hundreds mourn teen artist tasered to death by Miami cop
August 11, 2013
Mega to run ‘cutting-edge’ encrypted email after Lavabit’s ‘privacy seppuku’
August 11, 2013
The Fukushima Nightmare Gets Worse
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