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"Enough Blood Has Been Spilled": Israel Condemned for Striking U.N. Shelter as Death Toll Tops 1300

U.S. Jewish Leader Henry Siegman to Israel: Stop Killing Palestinians and End the Occupation

Disabled Children Regularly Restrained and Isolated in School

Contradicting earlier claims, CIA admits it legally accessed Senate computers in secret

Who's Profiting from Israel's Offensive in Gaza?

Bolivia declares Israel ‘terrorist state’, scraps visa exemption agreement

Pope Francis’ 10 tips for happiness: Be generous, spend Sundays with family, work for peace

Police Say DRONES Continue To Appear At Crime Scenes

Celebrity Scientist Reveals Nutrition Ignorance: Neil deGrasse Tyson defends GMO foods

The Politics of Going Green

Henry Siegman, Leading Voice of U.S. Jewry, on Gaza: "A Slaughter of Innocents"

Israeli Government Massacres Palestinians Seeking Refuge in United Nations Shelter

Reaganism and Thatcherism were Intellectually Dishonest

Jesse Ventura wins $1.8 million in defamation suit against 'American Sniper'

Brazil Farmers Say GMO Corn No Longer Resistant to Bugs

Former NSA Chief: Why I'm Worth $1 Million a Month to Wall Street

Mass U.S. Surveillance Targeting Journalists and Lawyers Seen as Threat to American Democracy

Right-wing Israeli mob mocks deaths in anti-Gaza chant

Despite Growing International Condemnation, No End to Gaza Violence in Sight

Gaza Suffers One of Deadliest Days So Far as Israel Vows "Protracted" Assault

The Corporate Takeover of "All Natural" Food

The Silent Anguish of Pregnant Women Who Struggle With Addiction

UN's Investigation of Israel Should Go Beyond War Crimes to Genocide

Professor Ilan Pappé: Israel Has Chosen to be a "Racist Apartheid State" with U.S. Support

How Rogue Capitalism Is Cheating Young Americans

ISIS militants blow up Prophet Jonas’ tomb in Iraq

Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies: Social media campaign goes viral

6 year-old kid gets prosthetic arm from 3D printer

No ‘rainbow families’: Canadian fertility clinic bans white woman from using non-white sperm donor

‘Refusing to kill their own’: Over 40 Ukrainian soldiers flee to Russia

Thousands gather in worldwide protests against Israeli massacres in Gaza

From Palestine to Baltimore, Protesters Demand an End to Bloody Gaza Assault

No Safe Place in Gaza: How Silence Encouraged a Genocide

Doctor: After "Losing Everything," Palestenians Cling to Hope Israel's Crippling Siege Will End

A Turning Point: Largest West Bank Protest in Decades Slams Apartheid Israel

Demonstrations in response to Israel's attack on Gaza represent full-scale Palestinian uprising

Palestinians killed in West Bank Gaza solidarity march

Big Oil and the Nigerian Frankenstein

"Israel is a terror state': 15,000 turn out in support of Gaza

‘Saddest photo yet’: Astronaut photographs Gaza offensive from space

Bombed in Their Homes and in the Streets, Where Can Gazans Flee?

Israeli Military Reservists Refuse to Participate in Israel's "Brutal" Assault on Gaza

Women and children kill by Israeli bombing of Gaza school, as Palestinian deaths exceed 750

Passenger asked to leave Southwest flight after critical tweet of employee

Tortured To Death: Lawyers call for outside probe of 'botched' Arizona execution

US Stands Alone in Vote Against UN Inquiry Into Gaza Assault

Joseph Wood's execution in Arizona murderer takes nearly two hours

EU Court: Poland Enabled CIA Torture

Has the Dept of Homeland Security Become America’s Standing Army?

Is Israeli Public Opinion Turning After 700 Palestinian Deaths?

UN Human Rights Chief Cautions Israel on War Crimes in Gaza

Not In Our Name: Jewish Activists Arrested in Sit-in

‘Palestinians are Warsaw Ghetto prisoners of today’

TransAsia plane crash lands in Taiwan, dozens killed

Historic Win in Maine's Battle Over Tar Sands

Israeli Human Rights Spokesperson says Attacks on Palestinian Civilians Unjustifiable

Palestinian Toll Tops 650 as Israel Attacks Gaza’s Sole Power Plant

MSNBC’s Palestinian Commentator Rula Jebreal Takes on Pro-Israeli Gov’t Bias in US Media

The Specter of Iraq

''Freedom From Other People's Definitions'': An Interview With Janet Mock

MSNBC Commentator Says She Was Canceled For Criticizing Network's Pro-Israel Coverage

Legalized Bribery Has Allowed Sheldon Adelson to Buy and Sell Politicians

Israel's White Supremacy Usurps Palestine, as Lack of International Pressure Permits Endless Assault on Gaza

Federal judge rules California death penalty unconstitutional

Fabricating Crime: FBI Entrapment Creates 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots

Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block

UK Supermarket first in world to be powered entirely by garbage

"Blood on American Hands": Richard Falk on Palestine

The Fight for the Freedom of Information

Multiple Israeli solders post hate crime images against Arabs online

Max Blumenthal: U.S. Created Political Space for Israeli Assault on Gaza

White Racism, Left Politics, and the Spectrum of Acceptable Opinion

Sweden Affirms Complicity in US Persecution of Julian Assange's Human Rights

"Indiscriminate" Bombing in Gaza Pushes Death Toll Beyond 500

Reaping What We Have Sown in Gaza

Fukashima's children are dying

Appeals court rules Oklahoma’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional

U.S. Complicity in Israel's War against Gaza

Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy

Obama's betrayal of Blacks and Latinos rages on

The Criminalization of Black Youth and the Rise of Restorative Justice

On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza

David Versus Goliath in Gaza

The crumbling infrastructure of the US reflects wrong priorities and moral decay

NYC Mayor and Police Chief Issue Statements on the Death of Eric Gardner

Eric Garner supporters to rally in protest of his in-custody death

The End of Pot Prohibition as We Know It

Investigation Demanded for Plane Shot Down over Ukraine

Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz Hails New BRICS Bank Challenging U.S.-Dominated World Bank & IMF

BRICS Bank: An Alternative to US Global Financial Power?

The Periodic Slaughter of Palestinians

World Celebrates Nelson Mandela Day

Privatization, Public Health, and the Detroit Water Crisis

Why Did NBC Pull Veteran Reporter After He Witnessed Israeli Killing of Gaza Kids?

New York Times Photographer Witnesses Israeli Killing of 4 Palestinian Boys

Life In Gaza Explained

Imagining Economic Policy Focused on Women

Why Big Business Loves Desperate Workers

Four More Children Killed in Gaza as Israel Ground Invasion Looms

Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig on Money and Politics

California death penalty unconstitutional, federal judge rules

Israel's Assault on Gaza Obscures Core Issues: Racism, Occupation, Colonization

Anti-Drone Activist and Grandmother Sentenced to One Year for Protesting US Drone Violence

How Do We Define American?

Navy nurse refuses to force-feed Guantánamo captive

Capitalism's Deeper Problem

Richard Bowmen: The Unsung Hero of the $7 Billion Citigroup Settlement?

Israel & Palestine: A Very Short Introduction

Citigroup: The Original Gangsta

Does Uncle Sam Have a God Complex?

Corporate Polluters Rarely Criminally Charged for Violating Environmental Law

Animal Rights Activists Face Terrorism Charges for Freeing Minks from Fur Farm

Paris Launches Kid-Friendly Bike Share

Is Elizabeth Warren the Next President?

Google To Take Over Two More Buildings Around S.F. Embarcadero

Go to law school. Rack up debt. Make $62,000

How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations

Muslim American Groups and Individuals Boycott White House Ramadan Dinner

Israel Firing Experimental Weapons at Gaza’s Civilians, Say Doctors

Charity Smokescreens: Plundering Africa behind a shroud of ‘generosity'

Charles Koch: A Racist and Modern Robber Baron, Exposed

NYC Allocates $1.2 Million to Sponsor Worker Cooperatives

Deal or no deal - why Ian Thorpe kept quiet

Church of England votes to allow women bishops

"We are Human Beings": Gaza Doctor Pleads for End to Israeli Bombing of Civilian Population

Freed OWS Activist Cecily McMillan on Plight of Women in Jail

Israel Inflicts Illegal Collective Punishment on Gaza

Israel’s Incremental Genocide in the Gaza Ghetto

Economic Lynching

Why Do Banksters Get Help but Not Homeowners?

Exceptional America in Decline: The US Empire as Basket Case

Israel Is Captive to Its ‘Destructive Process’

Corporate Titans Speak Out for 'Open Internet' & 'Net Neutrality'

Brian Taylor’s gay slur shows the importance of Ian Thorpe’s coming out

Indiana stored babies’ DNA, blood for research without parental consent

A Ground Invasion of Gaza Will Achieve Nothing but More Bloodshed

Israel's ground raid in Gaza is mostly killing civilians, including children as death toll tops 160

Cecily McMillan: "There's No Sense in Prison"

Dr. Jeff Ritterman on Roundup and Chronic Kidney Disease

Chelsea Manning and The Power of Empathy

Five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe comes out as gay

Russia writes off 90% of Cuba's debt ahead of Putin's 'big tour' to L. America

ABC reporter Diane Sawyer misinforms about who's being bombed in Gaza

Is the Supreme Court Out of Order?

No Lessons Learned at the NYT

NSA records 80% of all phone calls, the full audio not just metadata as claimed

Tommy Ramone: Last Ramones member Tommy dies at 62

Tracy Morgan sues Wal-Mart for negligence in fatal highway crash

Israeli Propaganda and the Politics of Revenge Against Gaza

Joel Berg: How Hungry Is America?

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

World Council of Churches pulls fossil fuel investments

Max Blumenthal Speaks At NYC Rally For Palestine July 9 2014

After 3 Millions Views, Greenpeace 'Save the Arctic Lego Movie' Pulled from YouTube

Paul Krugman | The Trouble With Dynasties

$27 million for suicide barrier on Golden Gate Bridge approved

A million gallons of oil-drilling byproducts has leaked into N. Dakota drinking water

38 Journalism groups blast Obama admin for ‘politically driven suppression of news’

Germany expels CIA Berlin chief over NSA spying

90% Under Surveillance: Investigation Proves NSA Spies on Americans beyond Metadata Collection

The "Liberal" Ivory Tower Often Discriminates Against Women of Color

Monsanto's Herbicide Linked to Fatal Kidney Disease Epidemic

Gaza Death Toll Soars as Israel Intensifies Bombing Campaign

Safeguarding Free Speech in the Digital Age

Julian Assange on Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and life in the Ecuadorian Embassy

Six-Month Anniversary of Major Chemical Spill in West Virginia

Prominent Muslims Targeted by NSA Respond to U.S. Gov’t Surveillance

Cultures of Hate and Israeli Vengeance

After Arab Teen’s Murder, Israeli Gov’t Accused of Fueling Hatred

Billionaire of White Supremacy: Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher

The Kochs’ Anti-Civil Rights Roots: New Docs Expose Charles Koch’s Ties to John Birch Society

"Absolutely Unjustifiable": Relative of US Teen Decries Brutal Beating by Israeli Forces, Caught on Video

Joseph Stiglitz: Nobel Prize Winner says Inequality Is Not Inevitable

Joseph Stiglitz says Inequality Isn't Inevitable (VIDEO)

Germany and the Minimum Wage

Salvadoran Farmers Successfully Oppose the Use of Monsanto Seeds

Monsanto begins compensating victims of dioxin exposure

Is This the Dawn of a Renewable Energy Revolution?

Confronting Terrorism With Peace

220,000 Metal Workers on Strike in South Africa

Israeli Army Violently Stops African Refugees Trying to Leave

Australia admits holding 153 Sri Lankan asylum seekers at sea