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ISIS declares creation of borderless Islamic state in Middle East, 'new era of international jihad'

Bodies of Missing Israeli Teens Found in West Bank

Israeli police forcibly end African migrant protest

The Fashion Victims of Cambodia

Snowden Asylum in Germany? Support Grows for NSA Whistleblower After Merkel Cancels Verizon Contract

Privatized Education Steals From the Poor, Gives to the Rich

Blackwater manager claimed “he could kill” the State Department's chief investigator with impunity

FCC Internet Proposal: The Contemporary Pillage of the Commons

Many Juveniles Still Illegally Sentenced to Life Without Parole

End to Violence Unlikely as Ceasefire Extended in Ukraine

The Constitutional People and Slavery by Another Name

Selective Sympathy in Israel/Palestine

Will Detroit's Water be Privatized or Recognized as Commons?

Why Do We Hate the Poor?

When Public Servants Demonize the Poor

Unitarian Universalists Vote to Divest From Fossil Fuels

Thousands of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Held in US Detention Camps

The Truth is War’s First Casualty

Germany Fires Verizon Over NSA Spying

Low Wages and Unemployment Are Factors that Lead to Violence

The Plunder of Detroit and Iraq

The Human Narrative in Iraq Still Missing

Japanese "Comfort Women" Continue Fight for Justice

Brazilian Workers Buck Union Officials to Strike

Dildo-waving kids star in gun safety video

Spain, Italy warn against investing in Israeli land theft

New York City Approves Municipal ID Cards for Undocumented Immigrants

Relatives of Civil Rights Workers Look Back at Murders that Shaped an Era

German State Set to Achieve 100-Percent Renewable Energy

California Judges Favor Big Banks for Personal Gain

A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana and the New Jim Crow

Data Storms and the Tyranny of Manufactured Forgetting

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Racist Dixiecrats

50 Years After U.S. Launched Secret War on Laos, Unexploded Bombs Still Killing Civilians

The Ghoulish Face of Empire

Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands

How Inequality Shapes the American Family

Obama's Deportation Machine

Man flies drone aircraft to monitor police

There is no real left-wing alternative to the political right

Israel Launches Air Strikes In Syria

Farming for the Future

Buying Up the Planet: Out-of-Control Central Banks on a Corporate Buying Spree

Egypt Hands 'Devastating' Prison Terms to Al Jazeera Journalists

Poland's Finance Minister comparies compares ties with US to giving oral sex

US invasion and occupation in Iraq has resulted in 460,000 deaths since 2003

7,500 Gallons of Crude oil spills into Colorado's Poudre River

Infant dies in hot car after being left for 4 hours by her father

39 women illegally sterilized in California prisons

Patriotism and Lynching: Bob Moses describes growing up in post World War Two, cold war America

Mass graves filled with remains of immigrants discovered in Texas

U.N. head served in Haiti cholera lawsuit

Guns, Denial and Insanity

US Funds "Terror Studies" to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements

Art All Night celebrates Trenton's arts and music scene for 24 hours

World's Global Refugee Population Continues to Swell

: WikiLeaks Reveals Trade Deal Pushing Global Financial Deregulation

NYC’s $40M Central Park 5 Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse

Bringing Prison Abuse Out of the Shadows

Thousands rally in London against govt austerity

Tony Blair "should be lecturing on Iraq from the dock at the International Criminal Court’

Political analyst says ‘In Iraq the US is getting exactly what it wants’

How Secret Partners Expand NSA’s Surveillance Dragnet

Want to Prevent PTSD? End Unbridled US Militarism

It's Official. Big Food Sues Vermont

Up to 900,000 Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pollute Pennsylvania’s Air

Soccer Is Democratic. The World Cup Is Oligarchy

Beneath the streets of Romania's capital, a living hell

A Tiny, Secret, Street Art Monument In Boston Remembers Trayvon Martin

WikiLeaked Doc Reveals Wall Street Plan for Global Financial Deregulation

Scott Walker: The Karl Rove, "Secret Email," "Criminal Scheme" Candidate

Dick Cheney Should Be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials

Julian Assange Remains Trapped In Ecuador Embassy Two Years Later

American Apparel ousts Dov Charney 'for cause,' cites misconduct investigation

Detroit Shuts Off Water to Thousands

"Colonialism is Inhuman": Diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi on the Lessons of Algeria’s Independence Struggle

Michael Ratner: Lift Assange Out of Legal Limbo

5 Links Between Higher Education and the Prison Industry

Massachusetts Opens more Coastline for Wind Energy

Transgender teen fights to wear makeup in his DMV license photo

2 Journalists killed in Ukraine military shelling

Elderly, disabled Philadelphia inmate sets record for being held without trial

U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Power of Finance Over Argentina

New legislation forces the FCC to ban Internet fast lanes

Iraq crisis: Barack Obama sends in US troops

"Iraq" Is Still Arabic for "Vietnam"

Alabama Overturns Anti-Sodomy Law

Legendary radio personality Casey Kasem dies at 82

Doing for the Poor and Doing to the Poor

Real Goal of Iraq War in 2003: Oil and Inciting Terrorism to Create Permanent Conflict

Poverty and Protest of Brazil's World Cup Censored from TV

Desmond Tutu: Anti-Apartheid Archbishop advocates Divestment from Israeli

Recent ruling by international court allows Japan to continue to use loophole to kill whales

What We've Lost Since 9/11

America must do something about gun violence

NATO chief declares Russia an "enemy"

‘Inventing terrorists’: New study reveals FBI set up terrorism-related prosecutions

The US Military’s Campaign Against Media Freedom

Fukushima’s Children are Dying

Homeless in High Tech's Shadow

Woman dies in jail while serving sentence for her kids’ unpaid school fines

The Dangers of a World Without Net Neutrality

Economic Recession Linked to 10,000 Suicides

Southern States See Movement Toward Marijuana Reform

Electronically Stalked by Corporations

Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown

Mexico City Bans Circus Animals in Shows

Hillary Clinton Sides with NSA over Snowden Disclosures

Chile Scraps Dam Project in 'Greatest Triumph of the Nation's Environmental Movement'

Activist, actress Ruby Dee dies at 91

Spike Lee’s Tribute to Ruby Dee

In Rememberance: Ruby Dee on the Psyche of Black America

Denmark allows gender change without forced sterilization

Children on the Run: U.S. Detains Thousands of Young Migrants

Jesse Ventura: The War on Drugs is a Waste

13 aircraft mysteriously disappear from radars in heart of Europe

Businesses in East Jerusalem close shop in solidarity with Palestinian hunger-strikers

Iraq delays vote on emergency as crisis spreads

Phoenix church attack leaves one priest dead, one injured

Fossil Fuel Giants Hijacking UN's Green Energy Fund

Teachers Sound Alarm over 'Anti-Public Education' Ruling

Google Adds Graffiti to Its Art Portfolio

The Fall of Mosul and the False Promises of Modern History

What Palestinian Unity Is All About - The Real Task Ahead

Eric Cantor’s loss puts the many divisions of the GOP in sharp relief

Eric Cantor Suffers Historic GOP Primary Loss in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Corporate Backlash

European Union launches probe of tax breaks for Apple, Starbucks, Fiat

Kiev's bloody eastern Ukraine campaign: 200 dead, including 19 children.

London Mayor Johnson calls for 'anti-homeless spikes' to be removed

And the First US Commercial Drone License Goes To... BP

New Documentary "Ivory Tower" Asks "Is College Worth It?"

Oregon high school shooting: Police say shooter and student victim at Reynolds have both died

Al Gore says Edward Snowden Revealed Crimes 'Way More Serious' Than Any He Committed

Revealed: How Obama administration arms police to the teeth with battlefield weapons

Russia launches Baltic drills alongside NATO Saber Strike war games

Medicalization of the Death and Other Penalties

The James Risen Case Cuts to the Heart of "Freedom of the Press"

Zombie Resurrection

Revealed: Thousands of Irish orphans were used as ‘drug guinea pigs’

Human Rights Watch: Israeli Shooting of Teens a 'War Crime'

What's Gender Got to Do With Policing and Prison?

Louisiana Gov. signs bill killing lawsuits against oil and gas companies

CABLE COMPANIES ARE ASTROTURFING FAKE CONSUMER SUPPORT TO END NET NEUTRALITY

Two Cops, Three Others Shot in Las Vegas Spree

Happy 80th Birthday, Bill Moyers

Love Is in the Air as Wisconsin’s Gay Marriage Ban is Overturned

How Privatization Steals Wages, Harms Communities

The Unlucky Unemployed

The Big Snub in Paris

Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo

How Tax Reform Can Save the Middle Class

Maya Angelou remembered at North Carolina memorial service

Accused Seattle gunman suffers severe mental illness, his lawyer says

'Mass Surveillance at Its Most Severe': Mobile Phone Giant Reveals Direct Govt Wiretapping

The World Cup Exposes Brazil's Injustices

Seattle’s Socialist City Council Hails Historic Vote For $15/Hour Minimum Wage

New York drops surgery rule for changing sex on birth certificate

Israel approves new settlement construction in Palestine

New Whistleblower Organization Launched on Anniversary of Snowden Revelations

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s Idaho Hometown Cancels "Welcome Home" Celebration as Backlash Grows

The Real Villains of the Bergdahl Tale

VA Also Not Telling the Truth About Veteran Disability Claims

Tiananmen anniversary: Crowds in HK but tight security in Beijing

Malaysian teenager gang-raped by 38 men

Hubble telescope captures 10,000 galaxies in one amazing shot

Providing Homeless Permanent Housing and Support Is Less Costly Than Abandoning Them

Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden

New Organization Hangs Sign: 'Whistleblowers Welcome'

Guess Who Is Hurt the Most by Student Debt and Higher College Costs

California voters support plan to spend $600 million for homeless veterans

New Mexico police who repeatedly sodomized man still employed by department

What Excuse Remains for Obama’s Failure to Close GITMO?

California lawmakers reject GMO labeling bill

Michael Ratner: Why I Resigned from Brandeis Univ. Ethics Board

Major explosion and fire at Shell plant in the Netherlands

Father of Freed U.S. Soldier: "Nobody Can Relate to Guantánamo Prisoners More Than Our Family"

Will Obama and Holder Jail New York Times Reporter James Risen?

12 year old girl stabbed 19 times by peers

In historic vote, Seattle makes its work force highest paid in the nation

Ex-Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Committed War Crimes

Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World's "Most Wanted Criminal"