Skip to main content
Search
Search This Blog
Big Fat News
- International Headlines
Posts
Showing posts from October, 2013
Show all
October 31, 2013
In Haiti, Cholera Claims New Victims Daily
October 31, 2013
On Leaving The Guardian and the Future Ahead
October 31, 2013
"Too Scared to Go Outside": Family of Pakistani Grandmother Killed in U.S. Drone Strike Speaks Out
October 31, 2013
"These Drones Attack Us and the Whole World is Silent": New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War
October 31, 2013
Chilean Students Poised for Congressional Victories
October 30, 2013
Activists of Color Lead Charge Against Surveillance, NSA
October 30, 2013
Congressional No-Show at 'Heart-Breaking' Drone Survivor Hearing
October 30, 2013
‘Homeland Stupidity’ creator sues NSA, DHS
October 30, 2013
Barry's Stasi : Obama's Insider Threat Program Turns "Colleagues Against Each Other"
October 30, 2013
Monsanto and Pepsi trying to stop GMO labeling law in Washington state
October 30, 2013
Shackles and Ivy: The Secret History of How Slavery Helped Build America’s Elite Colleges
October 30, 2013
Filmmaker Uncovers Her Family’s Shocking Slave-Trading History, Urges Americans to Explore Own Roots
October 30, 2013
12 Percent of U.S. Spice Imports Contaminated, F.D.A. Finds
October 29, 2013
A Year After Hurricane, 22,000 Households Remain Displaced in New York Region
October 29, 2013
6 dead in Greenwood County, South Carolina, shooting
October 29, 2013
BP's "Widespread Human Health Crisis"
October 29, 2013
US Navy gets largest and most expensive destroyer ever
October 29, 2013
Former Irish President, Climate Justice Advocate Mary Robinson Urges Divestment of Fossil Fuel Firms
October 29, 2013
Perpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?
October 29, 2013
How Science Is Telling Us All To Revolt
October 28, 2013
Kenyan anti-rape petition reaches one million
October 28, 2013
Edith Head: Google Doodle honors Hollywood legend (+video)
October 28, 2013
Glenn Greenwald: Media Venture Will Empower Adversarial Journalism to Hold the Powerful Accountable
October 28, 2013
Genetically Engineered GE Salmon Growing in the Dark in South Dakota
October 28, 2013
Google Doodle Honors Edith Head, Oscar-Winning Costume Designer
October 28, 2013
Ban the Bomb!
October 28, 2013
Penn State agrees on $59.7 million child sex abuse settlement
October 27, 2013
The European Drone War
October 27, 2013
Data Shows Democrats Fully Embraced by Surveillance Industry
October 27, 2013
The World Without US
October 27, 2013
Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
October 27, 2013
Palestinians reach out to 50+ nations calling for economic boycott of Israeli settlers
October 27, 2013
America's Most Beloved War Criminals
October 27, 2013
FBI makes record $28 million Bitcoin bust
October 27, 2013
Rock pioneer Lou Reed dies at 71
October 27, 2013
Venezuela to create 'ministry of happiness'
October 26, 2013
Black Panthers' Fight For Free Health Care Documented in New Book
October 26, 2013
Guitar Center Workers Rock the Shop Floor
October 26, 2013
Main Street Comeback: How Independent Stores are Thriving (Even in the Age of Amazon)
October 26, 2013
Monsanto's Very Bad Week: Three Big Blows for GMO Food
October 26, 2013
US Spies on Its Allies For Business Intel, Not For National Security
October 26, 2013
CryptoSeal follows Labivit in shutdown over NSA and FISA secret court threat
October 26, 2013
Saudi women drive in protest with little problem
October 26, 2013
Addicted to the Apocalypse
October 26, 2013
Obama's Lethal Empire: America's "Secret Wars" in Over 100 Countries
October 25, 2013
A Drone Warrior’s Confession: Ex-Air Force Pilot Brandon Bryant on His Trauma from Remote Killing
October 25, 2013
In 1999, grand jury indicted the Ramseys in JonBenet's death
October 25, 2013
Parents Organize Boycott To End Standardized Testing of 4-year-olds
October 25, 2013
US Drone Strikes Are War Crimes, Despite Human Groups Reluctancy to Blast Obama
October 25, 2013
Stop Watching Us: Edward Snowden supports largest privacy rally in US History
October 25, 2013
Eavesdropped on Amtrak: Ex-NSA Chief Gets Taste of Own Medicine
October 25, 2013
No reports of damage after 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Japan
October 25, 2013
Pentagon agency creating digital map of the world
October 24, 2013
NASA hails new era of laser-fast interplanetary internet
October 24, 2013
Growing Up Black in American Apartheid - Glen Ford Pt1
October 24, 2013
Eight governors make zero-emission car pledge
October 24, 2013
Fukushima moves radioactive water as it braces for Typhoon Francisco
October 24, 2013
Time to End the Torture and Jailing of Palestinian Children
October 24, 2013
Justice Department Misrepresents JP Morgan Settlement
October 24, 2013
US Diplomat: Each US Drone Attack Creates '40 to 60' New Enemies
October 24, 2013
Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
October 23, 2013
It's The Spies, Not the Leaks, That Threaten Our Security
October 23, 2013
Russia drops piracy charges against Greenpeace activists
October 23, 2013
"Prisoners of Profit": Despite Widespread Abuse, Private Juvenile Jail Firm Expands Empire
October 23, 2013
"Cash for Kids": Firms Behind Juvenile Prison Bribes Reach $2.5 Million Settlement in Civil Suit
October 23, 2013
For Transgender Patients, a Growing Fight Over Health Coverage
October 23, 2013
Corporate Media's Hidden Wave of Consolidation
October 23, 2013
Female Prisoners' Babies Shouldn't Be Sentenced to Life Without Breast Milk
October 22, 2013
America's New Employment Reality
October 22, 2013
Indy Chamber votes to oppose state gay marriage ban
October 22, 2013
Deadly 911 Calls: NYPD Kill African Immigrant Student Inside Home After Mother Calls Ambulance
October 22, 2013
Deadly 911 Calls Pt. 2: Police Kill Bipolar Puerto Rican Artist After Wife Calls for Help
October 22, 2013
Art Speaks Louder Than Words
October 22, 2013
October 22, 2013
Apple unveils iPad Air, iPad Mini with Retina display
October 21, 2013
Student Kills Teacher, Then Himself, at Middle School
October 21, 2013
The $13 Billion JPMorgan Settlement Is a Good Start—Now Someone Should Go To Jail
October 21, 2013
The Business of America Is War
October 21, 2013
A Fascist Revival Stirs in Spain
October 21, 2013
Gulf Ecosystem in Crisis Three Years After BP Spill
October 20, 2013
Food Stamp Corporate Welfare
October 20, 2013
Glenn Greenwald and the $250 Million "Angel Investor"
October 20, 2013
The Abject Failure of Reaganomics
October 20, 2013
We Want the Same Things That You Want
October 20, 2013
Charter Schools and the Future of Public Education
October 20, 2013
Meat So Cheap You Could Die
October 20, 2013
NSA Spied on Mexican Government for Years
October 20, 2013
The Government Is Open Again ... Now What?
October 19, 2013
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
October 19, 2013
Sen. Sanders: 'Global Warming a Far More Serious Problem Than Al Qaeda'
October 19, 2013
Syria: From Refugees to Asylum Seekers
October 18, 2013
New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriages
October 18, 2013
Longshoreman Strike Shuts Down Port of Baltimore
October 18, 2013
Obama to name Jeh Johnson as next DHS Secretary
October 18, 2013
NY Federal Reserve Examiner Fired After Submitting Critical Report of Goldman Sachs
October 18, 2013
Canada Sends Armed Paramilitaries to Clear Fracking Protest
October 17, 2013
Government Shutdown Ended, Austerity Drive Lives On
October 17, 2013
Cory Booker wins New Jersey Senate race
October 17, 2013
Fast-Food Giants Make Billions While Their Workers Use Billions in Welfare Benefits
October 17, 2013
SF's Union Square Evacuated
October 17, 2013
Kaplan Teachers Demand Justice
October 17, 2013
Lawmakers launch budget talks as Washington returns to work
October 17, 2013
Kaplan Teachers Demand Justice
October 17, 2013
'Experimenting' on a Death Row Inmate: Florida to Execute Man by Untested Drug
October 16, 2013
Putin Opponent Spared Prison Term in Russia
October 16, 2013
2500+ Killed by Drones in Pakistan, Names of Victims Now Available
October 16, 2013
"Totally Self-Inflicted Damage": U.S. on Verge of Default as Pain from 16-Day Shutdown Spreads
October 16, 2013
Freeing Marissa Alexander
October 16, 2013
Seeing Its Own Money at Risk, China Rails at U.S.
October 16, 2013
BP's Silent Disaster
October 16, 2013
Dutch want answers to beating of diplomat in Moscow
October 16, 2013
JPMorgan to Pay $100 Million and Make Admission of Wrongdoing in London Whale Pact
October 16, 2013
Warren Buffett: It would be 'asinine' if US defaults
October 15, 2013
The Awarding of the World Food Prize to a Monsanto GMO Executive Is a Travesty
October 15, 2013
Would Janet Yellin as Fed Chair Mark a Shift in Economic Policy?
October 15, 2013
2013 is looking a lot like 1927, a scary year in American history.
October 15, 2013
Retired African-American Philadelphia Police: Stop-and-frisk is 'demeaning'
October 15, 2013
Chris Hedges | The Folly of Empire
October 15, 2013
In Photos: The Oil Spill North Dakota Tried to Keep Secret
October 15, 2013
Cleanup at 505 Toxic Sites Suspended During Government Shutdown
October 15, 2013
2 girls arrested on bullying charges after suicide
October 15, 2013
Brazil Agrobusiness Lobby Set to Appropriate Native Land and Timber
October 15, 2013
Wall Street Whistleblower Awarded $14 Million as a Result of Dodd-Frank Act
October 15, 2013
The Perfect Epitaph for Establishment Journalism
October 15, 2013
Why Food Should be a Commons Not a Commodity
October 15, 2013
Philadelphia Cuts School Nurses, 6th Grader Dies of Asthma Attack With No Nurse On Duty
October 15, 2013
Another U.S. Whistleblower Behind Bars? Investor Jailed After Exposing Corrupt Azerbaijani Oil Deal
October 15, 2013
The Answer to the Great Question of Education Reform? The Number 42
October 15, 2013
“Edward Snowden Is A Patriot”: Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow
October 14, 2013
Red Light Cameras, Drones and Surveillance: Fleecing the Taxpayer in the Age of Petty Tyrannies
October 13, 2013
Hurricane Sandy Evacuees Suddenly Left Without a Place to Live Again
October 13, 2013
Malala Yousafzai Tells Obama Drones Are "Fueling Terrorism"
October 13, 2013
Atomic Energy—Unnecessary, Uneconomic, Uninsurable, Unevacuable and Unsafe
October 13, 2013
US Accused of Unprecedented Assault on Press Freedom
October 13, 2013
Access restored for food stamp users
October 13, 2013
Protesters Fill Streets of Santiago: Chile indigenous groups mark Columbus Day with outrage
October 13, 2013
Secret FISA Court Extends NSA Phone Spying
October 13, 2013
India temple stampede in Madhya Pradesh 'kills 89'
October 13, 2013
'Baby Hope' case: Cousin confesses to sexually assaulting, killing toddler Anjelica Castillo
October 12, 2013
Time to Close Guantanamo
October 12, 2013
Food stamp debit cards not working in 17 states
October 12, 2013
800,000 Evacuated as Powerful Cyclone Hits India
October 12, 2013
Mid-Market artists facing eviction
October 12, 2013
NM Still Searching for Multiple Teens Missing from Ranch
October 12, 2013
New measures at S.F. General after patient death
October 11, 2013
Solar Power Sparks Backlash From California Utilities
October 11, 2013
Race Track Pioneer: Former Formula One test driver Maria de Villota dies
October 11, 2013
Google to Use Your Data in Ads Via 'Shared Endorsements'
October 11, 2013
Mass Killings carried out by Syria's extremists financed by private Gulf donors
October 11, 2013
Worse Than Nixon? Committee to Protect Journalists Warns About Obama Crackdown on Press Freedom
October 11, 2013
Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?
October 11, 2013
Janet Yellen as Fed Chair No Victory for Progressive Economics
October 11, 2013
Julian Assange says ‘Civil behavior does not apply to Obama’
October 10, 2013
Canadian author Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for literature
October 10, 2013
"Edward Snowden Has Done This Country a Service": ACLU Praises Leaker for Kick-Starting NSA Debate
October 10, 2013
3 Months After Morsi Coup & Hundreds of Deaths, U.S. Scales Back Military Aid to Egypt
October 09, 2013
Immigration Rights Activists Joined by Lawmakers as 200 Hundred Arrested in DC
October 09, 2013
Brazil’s Rousseff on Canada leak: US and allies must stop spying ‘once and for all’
October 08, 2013
'Coal Is Dead in New England': Region's Biggest Polluter Announces Plant Closure
October 08, 2013
Higher gun ownership equals higher gun violence
October 08, 2013
Russia slams Netherlands over diplomat's beating, 'deadline for explanation' passes
October 08, 2013
Without Single-Payer, Patchwork U.S. Healthcare Leaves Millions Uninsured
October 08, 2013
‘Shutdown’: China’s Xi upstages Obama’s Asia pivot
October 08, 2013
Exonerated Black Panther dies hours after serving 41 years in jail
October 08, 2013
Here Comes the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, Dragging a Broken Moral Compass
October 08, 2013
Higgs boson scientists win Nobel prize in physics
October 08, 2013
Boston school bus drivers go on strike
October 08, 2013
Money and Politics: The Hidden Danger in the Supreme Court’s ‘McCutcheon’ Case
October 08, 2013
New Law in Turkey Criminalizes Protests Before They Happen
October 07, 2013
The Cost of Saving the Planet
October 07, 2013
Lavabit: How One Company Refused to Give FBI "Unrestricted" Access to Emails
October 07, 2013
Government shutdown leaves little kids in the lurch
October 07, 2013
The Golden Dawn Murder Case, Larry Summers and the New Fascism
October 05, 2013
As Congress Stalls on Immigration Deal, Obama Poised to Deport Two Millionth Immigrant
October 05, 2013
Government Shutdown Spares Military but Hurts Children and the Poor
October 05, 2013
"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Obama Pushes Secretive TPP Trade Pact
October 04, 2013
Hillary Clinton: It’s Not Her Turn
October 04, 2013
Saudi black op team behind Damascus chem weapons attack – diplomatic sources
October 04, 2013
Rebelling Against Massive Use of Pesticides, Brazilians Shift to Organic Foods
October 04, 2013
Schizophrenia meds found at home of Miriam Carey after killing by police
October 03, 2013
Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list
October 03, 2013
"Imperialism & Fundamentalism Have Joined Hands": Malalai Joya on 12 Years of U.S.-Led Afghan War
October 03, 2013
Adobe reports massive security breach
October 03, 2013
Five Years After the Big Bailout: Time to Begin Building a “New Economy”
October 03, 2013
Has GOP Already Defeated Obamacare? State Opt-Outs Leave Millions of Poor Without Health Insurance
October 03, 2013
Government Shutdown Disproportionately Impacts Working Poor, People of Color
October 03, 2013
Japan to pay $3.1bn to remove US troops from Okinawa, will host spy drones
October 03, 2013
Herman Wallace, Free at Last
October 03, 2013
No Triumph for Austerity
October 03, 2013
‘Let’s stop this government-by-extortion’ - Green Party’s Stein on US shutdown
October 03, 2013
Activists Unveil Massive Quilt Marking First National Memorial For Rape Survivors
October 02, 2013
Russia charges 14 from Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise with piracy after protest
October 02, 2013
The Coming Domestic Drone Wars
October 02, 2013
The Forgotten War: 12 Years in Afghanistan Down the Memory Hole
October 02, 2013
FBI seizes ‘Silk Road' black market domain, arrests owner
October 02, 2013
Snowden in Final Running For EU Human Rights Award
October 02, 2013
Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves'
October 02, 2013
Jellyfish invasion leads to Swedish nuclear reactor shutdown
October 02, 2013
At 66, author Tom Clancy dies
October 02, 2013
Louisiana Levee Board Sues BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron for Coast Damage
October 01, 2013
Government shutdown: 800,000 workers go without pay; Congress in stalemate
October 01, 2013
The Government Leakers Who Truly Endanger America Will Never Face Prosecution
October 01, 2013
Angola Prisoner Henry James on His 30 Years Behind Bars for Crime He Didn’t Commit
October 01, 2013
Republicans Win Standoff, Shoot Hostages Anyway
October 01, 2013
Angola 3 Prisoner Herman Wallace Given Just Days to Live After 42 Years in Solitary
October 01, 2013
A Single-Payer System, Like Medicare, is the Cure for America's Ailing Healthcare
October 01, 2013
Venezuela expels top U.S. diplomat, two other embassy officials
Newer Posts
Older Posts
Home
