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The NYPD Is an Embarrassment to the City of New York

Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism on a Planet "Exploited by Human Greed"

Black Lives Depend on a Free and Open Internet

After 11 Years Without Charge Or Trial, 5 Men Released From Guantánamo

‘No more waiting’: Palestine to set date for joining ICC, other intl bodies

CIA fingerprints’ all over Kiev massacre – Oliver Stone

IMF Austerity Helped Fuel Ebola Crisis: Researchers

2-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills mom inside daho Wal-Mart

Zombie Apocalypse and the Politics of Artificial Scarcity

Congress continues concealing full 9/11 report from public scrutiny

Methane leaks from 40,000 gas wells hovering over Southwest US

AirAsia plane wreckage found, bodies being recovered

Greed Kings of 2014

Gay to straight therapy conversion deemed illegal in Beijing, China

Indonesia Search Chief: AirAsia Jet Likely 'on the Bottom of the Sea'

Before Freedom Rings, Some Bitter Pills Must Be Swallowed

Vermont celebrates the closure of its nuclear power plant

Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501

Native Americans Confront History of Dispossession

Gorbachev says Putin saved Russia from disintegration

DC Activists Disrupt Xmas Shopping as Another Teen Killed Near Ferguson

Vice President Biden, Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton eulogize Officer Rafael Ramos at Queens funeral

Mourners from around the nation attend funeral for slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos

France's second largest city issues Nazi-style 'yellow triangle' homeless badges

Cuba, Be Careful What You Wish For

Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public

New Russian military doctrine says NATO top threat

Concealed Crminal Admissions, The NSA Dumped Its Spying Violations While You Were Waiting on Santa

Citigroup Becomes Its Own Self-Serving Lawmaker

Silicone Valley: How One of the Wealthiest Cities in America Treats Its Homeless

California mandates increase in living space for factory farm chickens

Stopping Imperialistic Wars Could Radically Reduce Terrorism

Dear Starbucks, Let’s Get Real

René González, First Freed Member of Cuban 5, Speaks Out from Havana

‘God stronger than darkness & corruption’: Pope delivers Christmas message

Protests Erupt as Officer Cleared in Killing of Unarmed Dontre Hamilton

Video with mother of latest black teen killed by police in Berkeley, Missouri

Independent security experts says Sony hack most likely an inside job

Outrage Mounts After News of Another St. Louis Police Killing

Thousands rally at anti-Islam protest in Germany

Peru village evacuated after isolated tribe attacks with bows & arrows

Police Kill Another Young Black Man In Missouri; 'It's Not What People Portray,' Mayor Says

LAPD body camera footage won’t be released to the public

Jordan Baker was shot by officer Juventino Castro in January

The Police Union's Irresponsible Reaction To Shooting Of Two NYPD Officers

Marjorie Cohn on Drone Warfare: Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective

Public transit use reaches record high, in spite of low petrol prices

This Moment Must Be About Black-Ness

Argentine court extends human right to freedom to orangutan

Bush & Cheney Should Be Charged with War Crimes Says Col. Wilkerson, Former Aide to Colin Powell

Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War

Spanish Government Strips Away Protesting Rights

China pledges to help Russia overcome economic hardships

Pope declares Vatican suffers from ‘spiritual Alzheimer’s’, lists 15 sins

Calls for Calm After NYPD Union Says Mayor, Protesters Have Blood on Their Hands for Cops’ Murder

The CIA Didn't Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings

Ferguson Reverberates Around the World

Hollywood, the Police and the Poor

Abolishing the CIA

Anti-police brutality rally paralyzes Mall of America

2 New York cops murdered in ‘execution style’ ambush

3D-printed legs gives disabled dog the joy of running

The Oil Price Crash of 2014

Deemed Unsafe: Fracking shut down in New York and elsewhere

How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won

War Crimes Case Against Bush Administration Filed in Germany

Obama authorizes ‘economic embargo’ on Russia’s Crimea

Chevron cancels Arctic drilling plans

NYC sued over violence against young inmates at notorious Rikers Island jail

Obesity can be viewed as disability – EU court

New York bans fracking because of uncertain health effects

New York State Just Banned Fracking

US and Cuba to Restore Diplomatic Relations in Historic Overhaul

Was Key Grand Jury Witness in Michael Brown Case a Racist, Mentally Ill, Lying Ex-Felon?

Despite Warnings of Future War, Obama to Impose New Russian Sanctions

Los Angeles lawyers stage die-in protest against police (VIDEO)

Reporter James Risen Faces Subpoena in CIA Whistleblower Case

S.C. boy executed for 1944 murder is exonerated

Prosecute the Prosecutors: A Way to Justice in Staten Island, Ferguson and Cleveland

Despite fierce NRA opposition, Vivek Murthy confirmed as new Surgeon General

Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public Like I Did with Pentagon Papers

"Psychological Torture is Enshrined in U.S. Law": Complicity in Abuses Began Long Before Bush

Taliban attack Pakistan school killing mostly children

Haiti PM steps down amid anti-govt protests

War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda

Russia Pivots to Eurasia for Trade and Military Alliances

Black Youth-Organized Millions March NYC Draws Tens of Thousands in Movement’s Biggest Protest Yet

Bush 'Intimately Involved' with CIA Torture, says Rove

Beverly Johnson: Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story.

Protesters against police violence march in D.C., NYC

The Ominous ‘Cromnibus,’ A Budget Bill That Should Have Died

GRIT tv: Noam Chomsky on slavery and the extermination of the indigenous population

Moyers & Company: Democrats, Not Just Republicans, Are Bowing Down to Wall Street

Convicted With No Evidence by an All-White Jury, Black Community Leader Faces Life in Prison

Silencing Dissent: U.N. Bars Climate Protesters from Putting "Keystone," "Kerry" or "U.S." on Signs

#WhiteCoatsforBlackLives: Medical Students Stage Nationwide Die-Ins

Alternative Nobel: Fidel Castro wins China’s Confucius Peace Prize

Top Canada court rules cops don’t need warrants to search cell phones

What They Haven't Told Us About the European Financial Crisis

Latin American Indigenous Groups Decry Corporate Destruction of Land

San Francisco, California whacked by 'Pineapple Express' storm

California Flooded: Torrential rains close schools and highways

Udall blasts Obama for breaking word on CIA torture disclosures

Holiday Season Survival: Low Wage Workers and the Gutting of Christmas

There Should Be "No Impunity" for US Torture

Our rapper in Havana: USAID hijacked Cuban hip-hop scene trying to undermine govt

Internet should be a 'human right' – Web’s inventor

Pirate Bay shut down by Swedish government, but vows to return online

Tens of Thousands Protest Water Privatization in Ireland

The United States of Ferguson

The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’

Michael Brown and Eric Garner: Killed in the Name of the State​

"These Are Crimes": New Calls to Prosecute Bush Admin as Senate Report Reveals Brutal CIA Torture

2014 'Devastating' for Millions of Children Across the Globe

CIA Torture Report Incomplete as Key Documents Remain Withheld

'They’ll try to shut you down': Meeting Assange & the non-stop 'War on RT'

Indigenous Women: Earth Defenders Speak Out from the Front Lines of Climate Change

GMO Contamination Denial: Controlling Science

China opens 32 high-speed rail routes in grand expansion

Supreme Court Orders BP to Pay Up

Senate CIA Torture Report Details 'Ruthless' Brutality of Bush Era

Senate accuses CIA of torturing prisoners, overstepping legal boundaries

Extinction Rate Rivals That of Dinosaurs, 2014 Likely Hottest Year Ever

French black justice minister under fire after slamming Ferguson police brutality

US seeks to overthrow political leadership in Russia - Foreign Ministry

At Lima Talks, Nations Worst Hit by Global Warming Say Climate Aid Isn’t Charity, But Reparations

Widows of Peru’s Murdered Indigenous Rainforest Defenders Demand Justice at U.N. Climate Summit

New employment data shows workers returning to jobs with lower wages, fewer benefits,

US sends 6 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay as 'refugees'

Rubber bullets, tear gas in Berkeley as police disperse #EricGarner, #Ferguson rally

Remains of missing Mexico student identified

The Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men is about a Larger State of Official Terror

1000s protest police violence across US for 3rd night

'Don't Waste Our Time': Angry Mother Denounces Ferguson Commission

"It was Criminal": Retired NYPD Detective Slams Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision

A Racist and Unjust System? A Discussion on Policing in Wake of Michael Brown and Eric Garner Deaths

Pioneering Politician Herman Badillo, the First Puerto Rican Elected to Congress, Dies at 85

Congress gives Native American lands to foreign mining company with new NDAA

Unarmed black man killed by white Phoenix officer

The decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer is just the latest story in a long history of violence against black men

Brazil and Uruguay begin process of dumping US dollar

Selling Individual Cigarettes or Walking Down the Street Are Not Grounds for Killing People

CIA torture report to be published on Monday without the word 'torture'

Another Unarmed Black Male Killed: Phoenix police shooting is latest to ignite outcry

'Worst' Ecological Disaster in Israel's History as Pipeline Spews Oil

Out Cheneying-Cheney: Obama’s Likely Defense Pick Once Backed Pre-emptive Attack on North Korea

Vince Warren on How Police Officers Get Away with Killing from Ferguson to NYC

Rams don't regret Ferguson gesture -- nor should they

Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence could spell end of human race

Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street

BREAKING: Protests Erupt After Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Not Indicted

US Department of Justice opens investigation into Eric Garner's death

Justice Department to open civil rights investigation in Eric Garner case

Protests After Grand Jury in Eric Garner Chokehold Case Doesn’t Indict Officer

French parliament votes to recognize Palestinian state

Alcatraz: A Prison as Disneyland

Amid Receipt of 'Alternative Nobel,' McKibben Donates Prize Money to 350.org, Steps Down as Chair

A "Precise" U.S. Drone War? Report Says 28 Unidentified Victims Killed for Every 1 Target

Father of Missing Mexican Student Speaks Out as U.S. Protesters Stage Day of Action Against Drug War

United Nations Panel Slams U.S. Record on Police Brutality, Torture, Child Migrants & Guantánamo

Disrupting 'Daily Order,' Ferguson Walk-Outs to Hit Over 30 Cities

The Strange Ferguson Grand Jury

Widespread Detroit power outage; Schools, hospitals, traffic lights, many buildings affected

Power Outage Hits Downtown Detroit

Poor teens in Baltimore face worse conditions than those in Nigeria

The Root is Racism in America: Ferguson Activist Speaks Out on Police Abuses After Meeting Obama

Four dead in West Virginia shooting rampage

Japanese robot Pepper will sell you a coffee machine… with a smile

Son Convicted of Looting Brooke Astor's Money Dies

Nearly 8,000 resign from Finnish church after same-sex marriage vote

Dehumanizing the Black Lives of America: Michael Eric Dyson on Ferguson, Police Brutality and Race

"Not One More Darren Wilson, Not One More Mike Brown": National Protests Continue Ferguson Struggle

Obama's Record on Defending Civil and Constitutional Rights Abysmal

Nearly 8,000 resign from Finnish church after same-sex marriage vote

Almost Impossible to Indict a Cop

Ferguson protesters march to governor’s mansion

Egyptian court dismisses charges against Mubarak

Citizens' Ballot Initiative Another Casualty of Citizens United Decision

Arrests, protests & 'Xmas carols': Ferguson unrest enters fifth day

#BlackOutBlackFriday Protests Connect Ferguson with Consumer Boycott

Isabel Allende on Her Literary Career and Memories of Chile During the CIA-Backed Coup

Laying the Foundations of a World Citizens Movement

Assange and Chomsky Appear Arm-In-Arm at Ecuadorian Embassy

Killing Black Men: Two More 'Police Incidents,' Shrouded in Media Euphemism

Shaking the Heavens in Ferguson

'Love Each Other': Support Floods in for Ferguson Public Library

Whitewashing White Power: Unorthodox police procedures emerge in grand jury documents

"I Didn’t Know What the Sky Looked Like Any More": Ricky Jackson Exonerated After 39 Years in Jail

Donation of Prize Money by Canadian Activist Spurs Flood of Dollars to Tar Sands Fight

No Justice in Ferguson

Egypt apartment collapse kills 17 amid concerns over poor construction

After Vowing to End Combat Mission in Afghanistan, Obama Secretly Extends America’s Longest War

12yo boy carrying toy gun shot dead by Cleveland police

‘Abused, tasered’: Watchdog says Met Police racially-profiled black firefighter

Ferguson burning: Torched cars, tear gas, clashes in massive night riots

Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Erupts After Grand Jury Clears Officer in Michael Brown Killing

Brown's mother screams, sobs over grand jury decision

After Michael Brown verdict "It is Officially Open Season on Black Folks" says legal expert

Sanders Joins Warren in Opposing Obama's Wall Street Nominee for Treasury

Longest-Serving U.S. Prisoner in Solitary Ordered Free Again, But State Obstruction Bars His Release

Progressive Election Strategy and the Norman Solomon Campaign

The Poor Suffer From Hunger - Not the Munchies

Scholarship, Mentor Program Helps Children of Incarcerated Parents Go to College

US Defense Sec. Hagel resigns over apparent disagreements with White House

Big Pharma—Crony Capitalism Out of Control

In a Shift, Obama Extends U.S. Role in Afghan Combat