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January 31, 2014

Washington DC's Poorest Residents Fight Displacement by Gentrification

January 31, 2014

Hillary Clinton vs the 99%

January 31, 2014

NSA documents reveal that 'Obama admin. clearly never wanted Copenhagen talks to work'

January 31, 2014

"Dirty Wars" Filmmaker Jeremy Scahill on the "Drone President" & Obama’s Whitewashing of NSA Spying

January 29, 2014

"A Silent Coup": Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU

January 29, 2014

America's Conscience: Pete Seeger Dies at 94

January 29, 2014

"We Shall Overcome": Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger in His Own Words & Songs

January 29, 2014

Norwegian Lawmakers Nominate Snowden For Nobel Peace Prize

January 29, 2014

The State of Phony Populism

January 29, 2014

Forget $10.10... The Real Wage Fight Starts at $15

January 29, 2014

Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality

January 28, 2014

Exposed: Covert, Real-Time Spying on Youtube, Facebook, Blogs

January 28, 2014

Guantanamo must close during Obama's term, says Russian Foreign Ministry

January 28, 2014

Got a charge for $9.84 on your credit card? Beware

January 28, 2014

Endless, Global War Continues as US Bombs Somalia

January 28, 2014

President Obama's Inequality Story

January 28, 2014

Why There’s No Outcry

January 27, 2014

Bill Moyers on the Attack on Voting Rights & How Racism Stills Drives Our Politics

January 27, 2014

NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data

January 27, 2014

The 20 Richest Americans: Takers, Not Makers

January 27, 2014

Costas Lapavitsas Discusses the Financialization of Capitalism: Book Review and Interview

January 27, 2014

20 young people a day hospitalized for gun injuries

January 27, 2014

The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America

January 27, 2014

Republicans vote to end NSA bulk phone metadata surveillance program

January 27, 2014

Federal Oversight Board: NSA Program Ineffective & Illegal

January 27, 2014

Look Who's Talking: Republicans Denounce NSA Spying

January 27, 2014

State of the Estate: Mario Cuomo's Tax Giveaway to the Rich

January 27, 2014

Rhode Island Govenor wants state to be synonymous with the arts

January 26, 2014

Michael Pollan on the Food Movement's Next Goal of Justice for Food Workers

January 26, 2014

Florida Waters Becoming a Morgue for Marine Mammals?

January 26, 2014

NSA is after industrial spying

January 26, 2014

Intelligence Officials Make Direct Threats on Snowden's Life

January 26, 2014

JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon Rewarded With 74% Pay Increase

January 25, 2014

Maryland mall shooting: Death, panic, sorrow

January 25, 2014

Promises, Drugs and Executions

January 25, 2014

44 HD films a second: Team in UK manages fastest ever ‘real world’ internet speeds

January 25, 2014

Ceasefire Reached, But Will South Sudan Survive Oil-Fueled Neocolonialism?

January 25, 2014

Bailout Architect Runs For California Governor; World Laughs

January 24, 2014

Multiple explosions rock Cairo

January 24, 2014

Indian police in West Bengal say officials ordered gang-rape

January 24, 2014

N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

January 22, 2014

Obama’s Lies & NSA Spies: Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom or Peaceful Slavery?

January 22, 2014

Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower says 'I acted alone' and calls spy accusations 'absurd'

January 22, 2014

Ukraine protests: Two people killed while protesting in Kiev clashes

January 22, 2014

Millionaires' Congress vs. The People

January 22, 2014

The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism

January 22, 2014

Why Did Police Beat an Elderly Man for Jaywalking?

January 22, 2014

Ownership of WaPo by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain

January 22, 2014

EU Panel Requests Testimony of NSA Whistleblower Snowden

January 22, 2014

How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia

January 22, 2014

Blackout: Hollywood

January 22, 2014

Kiev frontline brutality: RT reporter films police beating protesters on ground

January 22, 2014

Art as Research

January 22, 2014

Survivors & Advocates Confront Victim Blaming & the Epidemic of Domestic Abuse

January 21, 2014

Louisiana Court Rules That 7,000 Teachers Were Wrongfully Terminated

January 21, 2014

Marriage in a Prison Visiting Room

January 21, 2014

Obscene wealth: World’s 85 richest have same wealth as 3.5 billion poorest

January 21, 2014

SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

January 20, 2014

MLK: Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam

January 19, 2014

Panicked lawmakers mull firing squad executions as drug shortage worsens

January 19, 2014

Company responsible for W. Virginia chemical spill files for bankruptcy

January 19, 2014

Who Elected Them?

January 19, 2014

Protests against government takeover of internet receive violent response in Turkey

January 19, 2014

In the Home of the Richest Man in Palestine

January 19, 2014

Infamous Japan Town on Verge of Mass Dolphin Slaughter

January 18, 2014

Nuclear Refugees from Fukushima Join Anti-Nuke Protests

January 18, 2014

California Governor Declares Drought Emergency

January 17, 2014

The Trans Pacific Partnership – The More We Know, The Worse It Gets

January 17, 2014

Three Obama Speeches for the People

January 17, 2014

Glenn Greenwald on Obama's NSA 'Reforms'

January 17, 2014

Gitmo 12 Years Later

January 17, 2014

Net Neutrality Ruling Will Disempower Communities of Color

January 17, 2014

Secret amendment in Congress keeps CIA in charge of deadly drone strikes

January 17, 2014

Effort to 'Normalize' NSA Spying, 'Mollify Public' Rebuked

January 17, 2014

The United States’ Bloody Messes in Yemen

January 16, 2014

Dr. King’s Nightmare

January 16, 2014

'A Goldmine to Exploit': NSA Vacuuming Up Millions of Text Messages Daily

January 16, 2014

Ohio's latest inmate execution ignites criticism and new death penalty controversy

January 16, 2014

Chelsea Manning awarded 2014 Sam Adams Prize for Integrity in Intelligence

January 16, 2014

The Special Ops Surge: America's Secret War in 134 Countries

January 16, 2014

Abu Ghraib 2.0? Horrifying images of US Marines burning Iraqis prompt military investigation

January 15, 2014

NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance, cyber-attacks

January 15, 2014

For Fukushima’s Displaced, a Struggle to Recover Lives Torn Apart by Nuclear Disaster

January 15, 2014

From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Pursues a Nuclear Future Despite a Devastating Past

January 15, 2014

Single cinder block was used to contain toxic chemical prior to mass W. Virginia spill

January 15, 2014

The FCC Can and Must Prevent a Separate-but-Unequal Internet

January 15, 2014

With Internet Under Attack, Who Will Slay the Telecom Giants?

January 15, 2014

1 student critical, 1 stable after boy opens fire in New Mexico middle school gym

January 15, 2014

Whole Foods Agrees to Stop Selling Produce Grown in Sewage Sludge

January 14, 2014

2013: A Deadly Year For Journalists

January 14, 2014

West Virginia Water Crisis: Gaping Holes in State and Federal Regulation

January 14, 2014

America Is Still a Deeply Racist Country

January 14, 2014

Federal Court Sides With Telecom, Deals Blow to Open Internet

January 14, 2014

How Politicians Use Coded Racism to Push Through Policies Hurting All

January 14, 2014

America's Real Welfare Queens

January 14, 2014

Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off Fukushima

January 14, 2014

Google to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion in cash

January 14, 2014

Thailand anti-government protesters continue effort to 'shut down' Bangkok

January 14, 2014

200 dead in S. Sudan after boat fleeing war sinks

January 14, 2014

Key provision of net-neutrality law struck down by court

January 13, 2014

BREAKING: Police officers not guilty in killing of Kelly Thomas

January 13, 2014

On GMO Seed Patents: Supreme Court hands Monsanto victory

January 13, 2014

Suicide Rate Soars Among Young Vets

January 13, 2014

US tested biological weapons in Japan’s Okinawa in the 60s – report

January 13, 2014

Four Years After Haiti

January 13, 2014

Sabra & Shatila Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls Worst of Jewish Pogroms

January 13, 2014

Noam Chomsky on Ariel Sharon: Not Speaking Ill of the Dead "Imposes a Vow of Silence"

January 13, 2014

A National Strategy Funds State Political Monopolies

January 12, 2014

Black rhino hunting permit auctioned for $350,000

January 12, 2014

Israeli police to investigate ‘expressions of joy’ at Sharon’s death

January 12, 2014

A Racial Justice Bucket List for 2014

January 12, 2014

Fire destroys ancient Tibetan town in SW China

January 11, 2014

Ariel Sharon's Legacy Includes Massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese

January 11, 2014

Washington's Millionaire Boyz Club

January 11, 2014

Guantanamo Anniversary: 12 Years Of A Continuing War Crime

January 11, 2014

Pussy Riot abandons ‘brand,’ will form human rights group

January 11, 2014

Corrupt Britain: UK’s key institutions infiltrated by known criminals

January 11, 2014

Death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon met with tears and cheers

January 11, 2014

Now We Know: JPMorgan Chase Is Worse Than Enron

January 11, 2014

Fukushima radiation reaches 8 times govt standards

January 11, 2014

Unemployment Falls to 6.7 Percent Due to Workers Leaving the Labor Force

January 11, 2014

You Have the Watches; They Have the Time

January 11, 2014

Ex-Israeli PM Ariel Sharon dies at 85

January 11, 2014

Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions

January 10, 2014

Officials reject concerns over 500 percent radiation increase on California beach

January 10, 2014

Crippling West Virginia chemical spill leaves Charleston dry, quiet

January 10, 2014

Almost 50% of people hospitalized for the flu are obese

January 10, 2014

Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp

January 10, 2014

State of emergency, water ban issued in West Virginia over chemical leak

January 10, 2014

US Marines Shoot and Kill Four-Year-Old Afghan Boy

January 10, 2014

As Predators Vanish, Ecosystems Thrown Off Balance

January 10, 2014

Amiri Baraka (1934-2014): Revolutionary Poet-Playwright-Activist Who Shaped Black Culture

January 10, 2014

Obama's Sideways Attack on Edward Snowden

January 10, 2014

Target's Data Breach Just Got Much Worse

January 10, 2014

Feds recognize same-sex marriages in Utah

January 09, 2014

Oklahoma executes another man in convenience store killing

January 09, 2014

Smithsonian showcases Mars rover images taken on red planet

January 09, 2014

Poet and Activist, Amiri Baraka, dies at 79

January 09, 2014

Noam Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'

January 09, 2014

Higher Hopes for Hemp

January 09, 2014

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be an unmitigated disaster for everything..."

January 09, 2014

Monsanto announces high profits and major expansion across Latin America

January 09, 2014

USDA Moves to Approve "Agent Orange" GMO Seeds

January 09, 2014

50 Years After LBJ’s "War on Poverty," a Call for a New Fight Against 21st Century Inequality

January 09, 2014

In New York City’s New Political Era, Progressives Take Major Posts Under Mayor de Blasio

January 09, 2014

Seattle Swears In a Socialist

January 09, 2014

Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses

January 09, 2014

Macy's will lay off 2,500 workers but hire others as it aims to save $100 million a year

January 08, 2014

Deadly cold snap in US shatters temp. records, sends even polar bears to shelter

January 08, 2014

Afghan Children Pay the Price of Brutal War

January 08, 2014

Apple, Amazon downgraded 'on moral and ethical grounds'

January 08, 2014

'Burglars' Revealed: Sixties Activists Who Stole FBI COINTELPRO Files

January 07, 2014

Noam Chomsky | What Is the Common Good?

January 07, 2014

Frigid 'Polar Vortex' Puts Homeless in Extreme Danger

January 07, 2014

Jobs or Inequality? That's No Choice at All

January 07, 2014

By Pushing the TPP, Obama is Repeating the Mistakes of NAFTA

January 07, 2014

Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy Groups, Koch Brothers Network Spent $400 Million in 2012

January 07, 2014

As Polar Vortex Brings Deep Freeze, Is Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change?

January 07, 2014

Extremely cold temperature as deep freeze sweeps east

January 07, 2014

NSA refuses to answer whether it spies on Congress

January 06, 2014

Rethinking Marijuana

January 06, 2014

"Drugs Aren’t the Problem": Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths About Addiction

January 06, 2014

The Last Gasp of American Democracy

January 06, 2014

CIA Lawyer: Stopping Torture 'Would Have Been Easy,' But I Approved It Anyway

January 05, 2014

Bacon: NAFTA Hurt Workers on Both Sides of the Border

January 05, 2014

30,000 African migrants take to Tel-Aviv streets protesting detention policy

January 05, 2014

Brutality against Afghan women at record level

January 05, 2014

Rescue saga: US ship heads to free two trapped icebreakers in Antarctic

January 04, 2014

New York Gov. Cuomo to allow limited use of medical marijuana

January 04, 2014

Quest for justice continues 5 years after slaying of Oscar Grant

January 04, 2014

Chris Kluwe: I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot

January 04, 2014

Chinese leaders mix with the masses in rare display

January 03, 2014

935,000 displaced in Central African Republic amid ‘unprecedented’ violence

January 03, 2014

Syrian Children Lose More Than Their Country

January 03, 2014