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December 31, 2014
The NYPD Is an Embarrassment to the City of New York
December 31, 2014
Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism on a Planet "Exploited by Human Greed"
December 31, 2014
Black Lives Depend on a Free and Open Internet
December 31, 2014
After 11 Years Without Charge Or Trial, 5 Men Released From Guantánamo
December 31, 2014
‘No more waiting’: Palestine to set date for joining ICC, other intl bodies
December 31, 2014
CIA fingerprints’ all over Kiev massacre – Oliver Stone
December 30, 2014
IMF Austerity Helped Fuel Ebola Crisis: Researchers
December 30, 2014
2-year-old boy accidentally shoots and kills mom inside daho Wal-Mart
December 30, 2014
Zombie Apocalypse and the Politics of Artificial Scarcity
December 30, 2014
Congress continues concealing full 9/11 report from public scrutiny
December 30, 2014
Methane leaks from 40,000 gas wells hovering over Southwest US
December 30, 2014
AirAsia plane wreckage found, bodies being recovered
December 29, 2014
Greed Kings of 2014
December 29, 2014
Gay to straight therapy conversion deemed illegal in Beijing, China
December 29, 2014
Indonesia Search Chief: AirAsia Jet Likely 'on the Bottom of the Sea'
December 29, 2014
Before Freedom Rings, Some Bitter Pills Must Be Swallowed
December 29, 2014
Vermont celebrates the closure of its nuclear power plant
December 29, 2014
Missing AirAsia flight QZ8501
December 28, 2014
Native Americans Confront History of Dispossession
December 28, 2014
Gorbachev says Putin saved Russia from disintegration
December 27, 2014
DC Activists Disrupt Xmas Shopping as Another Teen Killed Near Ferguson
December 27, 2014
Vice President Biden, Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton eulogize Officer Rafael Ramos at Queens funeral
December 27, 2014
Mourners from around the nation attend funeral for slain NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos
December 27, 2014
France's second largest city issues Nazi-style 'yellow triangle' homeless badges
December 27, 2014
Cuba, Be Careful What You Wish For
December 27, 2014
Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public
December 27, 2014
New Russian military doctrine says NATO top threat
December 27, 2014
Concealed Crminal Admissions, The NSA Dumped Its Spying Violations While You Were Waiting on Santa
December 26, 2014
Citigroup Becomes Its Own Self-Serving Lawmaker
December 26, 2014
Silicone Valley: How One of the Wealthiest Cities in America Treats Its Homeless
December 26, 2014
California mandates increase in living space for factory farm chickens
December 26, 2014
Stopping Imperialistic Wars Could Radically Reduce Terrorism
December 26, 2014
Dear Starbucks, Let’s Get Real
December 25, 2014
René González, First Freed Member of Cuban 5, Speaks Out from Havana
December 25, 2014
‘God stronger than darkness & corruption’: Pope delivers Christmas message
December 24, 2014
Protests Erupt as Officer Cleared in Killing of Unarmed Dontre Hamilton
December 24, 2014
Video with mother of latest black teen killed by police in Berkeley, Missouri
December 24, 2014
Independent security experts says Sony hack most likely an inside job
December 24, 2014
Outrage Mounts After News of Another St. Louis Police Killing
December 24, 2014
Thousands rally at anti-Islam protest in Germany
December 24, 2014
Peru village evacuated after isolated tribe attacks with bows & arrows
December 24, 2014
Police Kill Another Young Black Man In Missouri; 'It's Not What People Portray,' Mayor Says
December 23, 2014
LAPD body camera footage won’t be released to the public
December 23, 2014
Jordan Baker was shot by officer Juventino Castro in January
December 23, 2014
The Police Union's Irresponsible Reaction To Shooting Of Two NYPD Officers
December 23, 2014
Marjorie Cohn on Drone Warfare: Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective
December 23, 2014
Public transit use reaches record high, in spite of low petrol prices
December 23, 2014
This Moment Must Be About Black-Ness
December 23, 2014
Argentine court extends human right to freedom to orangutan
December 23, 2014
Bush & Cheney Should Be Charged with War Crimes Says Col. Wilkerson, Former Aide to Colin Powell
December 23, 2014
Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War
December 23, 2014
Spanish Government Strips Away Protesting Rights
December 23, 2014
China pledges to help Russia overcome economic hardships
December 23, 2014
Pope declares Vatican suffers from ‘spiritual Alzheimer’s’, lists 15 sins
December 22, 2014
Calls for Calm After NYPD Union Says Mayor, Protesters Have Blood on Their Hands for Cops’ Murder
December 22, 2014
The CIA Didn't Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings
December 22, 2014
Ferguson Reverberates Around the World
December 21, 2014
Hollywood, the Police and the Poor
December 21, 2014
Abolishing the CIA
December 21, 2014
Anti-police brutality rally paralyzes Mall of America
December 20, 2014
2 New York cops murdered in ‘execution style’ ambush
December 20, 2014
3D-printed legs gives disabled dog the joy of running
December 20, 2014
The Oil Price Crash of 2014
December 20, 2014
Deemed Unsafe: Fracking shut down in New York and elsewhere
December 19, 2014
How One Indigenous Woman Took On a Multinational Mining Corporation... And Won
December 19, 2014
War Crimes Case Against Bush Administration Filed in Germany
December 19, 2014
Obama authorizes ‘economic embargo’ on Russia’s Crimea
December 18, 2014
Chevron cancels Arctic drilling plans
December 18, 2014
NYC sued over violence against young inmates at notorious Rikers Island jail
December 18, 2014
Obesity can be viewed as disability – EU court
December 17, 2014
New York bans fracking because of uncertain health effects
December 17, 2014
New York State Just Banned Fracking
December 17, 2014
US and Cuba to Restore Diplomatic Relations in Historic Overhaul
December 17, 2014
Was Key Grand Jury Witness in Michael Brown Case a Racist, Mentally Ill, Lying Ex-Felon?
December 17, 2014
Despite Warnings of Future War, Obama to Impose New Russian Sanctions
December 17, 2014
Los Angeles lawyers stage die-in protest against police (VIDEO)
December 17, 2014
Reporter James Risen Faces Subpoena in CIA Whistleblower Case
December 17, 2014
S.C. boy executed for 1944 murder is exonerated
December 17, 2014
Prosecute the Prosecutors: A Way to Justice in Staten Island, Ferguson and Cleveland
December 16, 2014
Despite fierce NRA opposition, Vivek Murthy confirmed as new Surgeon General
December 16, 2014
Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public Like I Did with Pentagon Papers
December 16, 2014
"Psychological Torture is Enshrined in U.S. Law": Complicity in Abuses Began Long Before Bush
December 16, 2014
Taliban attack Pakistan school killing mostly children
December 16, 2014
Haiti PM steps down amid anti-govt protests
December 16, 2014
War by Media and the Triumph of Propaganda
December 16, 2014
Russia Pivots to Eurasia for Trade and Military Alliances
December 15, 2014
Black Youth-Organized Millions March NYC Draws Tens of Thousands in Movement’s Biggest Protest Yet
December 14, 2014
Bush 'Intimately Involved' with CIA Torture, says Rove
December 13, 2014
Beverly Johnson: Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story.
December 13, 2014
Protesters against police violence march in D.C., NYC
December 13, 2014
The Ominous ‘Cromnibus,’ A Budget Bill That Should Have Died
December 13, 2014
GRIT tv: Noam Chomsky on slavery and the extermination of the indigenous population
December 13, 2014
Moyers & Company: Democrats, Not Just Republicans, Are Bowing Down to Wall Street
December 13, 2014
Convicted With No Evidence by an All-White Jury, Black Community Leader Faces Life in Prison
December 13, 2014
Silencing Dissent: U.N. Bars Climate Protesters from Putting "Keystone," "Kerry" or "U.S." on Signs
December 11, 2014
#WhiteCoatsforBlackLives: Medical Students Stage Nationwide Die-Ins
December 11, 2014
Alternative Nobel: Fidel Castro wins China’s Confucius Peace Prize
December 11, 2014
Top Canada court rules cops don’t need warrants to search cell phones
December 11, 2014
What They Haven't Told Us About the European Financial Crisis
December 11, 2014
Latin American Indigenous Groups Decry Corporate Destruction of Land
December 11, 2014
San Francisco, California whacked by 'Pineapple Express' storm
December 11, 2014
California Flooded: Torrential rains close schools and highways
December 11, 2014
Udall blasts Obama for breaking word on CIA torture disclosures
December 11, 2014
Holiday Season Survival: Low Wage Workers and the Gutting of Christmas
December 11, 2014
There Should Be "No Impunity" for US Torture
December 11, 2014
Our rapper in Havana: USAID hijacked Cuban hip-hop scene trying to undermine govt
December 11, 2014
Internet should be a 'human right' – Web’s inventor
December 11, 2014
Pirate Bay shut down by Swedish government, but vows to return online
December 10, 2014
Tens of Thousands Protest Water Privatization in Ireland
December 10, 2014
The United States of Ferguson
December 10, 2014
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’
December 10, 2014
Michael Brown and Eric Garner: Killed in the Name of the State
December 10, 2014
"These Are Crimes": New Calls to Prosecute Bush Admin as Senate Report Reveals Brutal CIA Torture
December 10, 2014
2014 'Devastating' for Millions of Children Across the Globe
December 10, 2014
CIA Torture Report Incomplete as Key Documents Remain Withheld
December 10, 2014
'They’ll try to shut you down': Meeting Assange & the non-stop 'War on RT'
December 09, 2014
Indigenous Women: Earth Defenders Speak Out from the Front Lines of Climate Change
December 09, 2014
GMO Contamination Denial: Controlling Science
December 09, 2014
China opens 32 high-speed rail routes in grand expansion
December 09, 2014
Supreme Court Orders BP to Pay Up
December 09, 2014
Senate CIA Torture Report Details 'Ruthless' Brutality of Bush Era
December 09, 2014
Senate accuses CIA of torturing prisoners, overstepping legal boundaries
December 09, 2014
Extinction Rate Rivals That of Dinosaurs, 2014 Likely Hottest Year Ever
December 08, 2014
French black justice minister under fire after slamming Ferguson police brutality
December 08, 2014
US seeks to overthrow political leadership in Russia - Foreign Ministry
December 08, 2014
At Lima Talks, Nations Worst Hit by Global Warming Say Climate Aid Isn’t Charity, But Reparations
December 08, 2014
Widows of Peru’s Murdered Indigenous Rainforest Defenders Demand Justice at U.N. Climate Summit
December 07, 2014
New employment data shows workers returning to jobs with lower wages, fewer benefits,
December 07, 2014
US sends 6 Guantanamo Bay detainees to Uruguay as 'refugees'
December 07, 2014
Rubber bullets, tear gas in Berkeley as police disperse #EricGarner, #Ferguson rally
December 06, 2014
Remains of missing Mexico student identified
December 06, 2014
The Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men is about a Larger State of Official Terror
December 06, 2014
1000s protest police violence across US for 3rd night
December 05, 2014
'Don't Waste Our Time': Angry Mother Denounces Ferguson Commission
December 05, 2014
"It was Criminal": Retired NYPD Detective Slams Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision
December 05, 2014
A Racist and Unjust System? A Discussion on Policing in Wake of Michael Brown and Eric Garner Deaths
December 05, 2014
Pioneering Politician Herman Badillo, the First Puerto Rican Elected to Congress, Dies at 85
December 05, 2014
Congress gives Native American lands to foreign mining company with new NDAA
December 04, 2014
Unarmed black man killed by white Phoenix officer
December 04, 2014
The decision not to indict Eric Garner's killer is just the latest story in a long history of violence against black men
December 04, 2014
Brazil and Uruguay begin process of dumping US dollar
December 04, 2014
Selling Individual Cigarettes or Walking Down the Street Are Not Grounds for Killing People
December 04, 2014
CIA torture report to be published on Monday without the word 'torture'
December 04, 2014
Another Unarmed Black Male Killed: Phoenix police shooting is latest to ignite outcry
December 04, 2014
'Worst' Ecological Disaster in Israel's History as Pipeline Spews Oil
December 04, 2014
Out Cheneying-Cheney: Obama’s Likely Defense Pick Once Backed Pre-emptive Attack on North Korea
December 04, 2014
Vince Warren on How Police Officers Get Away with Killing from Ferguson to NYC
December 03, 2014
Rams don't regret Ferguson gesture -- nor should they
December 03, 2014
Stephen Hawking: Artificial Intelligence could spell end of human race
December 03, 2014
Las Vegas and the Global Casino We Call Wall Street
December 03, 2014
BREAKING: Protests Erupt After Cop in Eric Garner Chokehold Death Not Indicted
December 03, 2014
US Department of Justice opens investigation into Eric Garner's death
December 03, 2014
Justice Department to open civil rights investigation in Eric Garner case
December 03, 2014
Protests After Grand Jury in Eric Garner Chokehold Case Doesn’t Indict Officer
December 03, 2014
French parliament votes to recognize Palestinian state
December 03, 2014
Alcatraz: A Prison as Disneyland
December 03, 2014
Amid Receipt of 'Alternative Nobel,' McKibben Donates Prize Money to 350.org, Steps Down as Chair
December 03, 2014
A "Precise" U.S. Drone War? Report Says 28 Unidentified Victims Killed for Every 1 Target
December 03, 2014
Father of Missing Mexican Student Speaks Out as U.S. Protesters Stage Day of Action Against Drug War
December 03, 2014
United Nations Panel Slams U.S. Record on Police Brutality, Torture, Child Migrants & Guantánamo
December 02, 2014
Disrupting 'Daily Order,' Ferguson Walk-Outs to Hit Over 30 Cities
December 02, 2014
The Strange Ferguson Grand Jury
December 02, 2014
Widespread Detroit power outage; Schools, hospitals, traffic lights, many buildings affected
December 02, 2014
Power Outage Hits Downtown Detroit
December 02, 2014
Poor teens in Baltimore face worse conditions than those in Nigeria
December 02, 2014
The Root is Racism in America: Ferguson Activist Speaks Out on Police Abuses After Meeting Obama
December 01, 2014
Four dead in West Virginia shooting rampage
December 01, 2014
Japanese robot Pepper will sell you a coffee machine… with a smile
December 01, 2014
Son Convicted of Looting Brooke Astor's Money Dies
December 01, 2014
Nearly 8,000 resign from Finnish church after same-sex marriage vote
December 01, 2014
Dehumanizing the Black Lives of America: Michael Eric Dyson on Ferguson, Police Brutality and Race
December 01, 2014
"Not One More Darren Wilson, Not One More Mike Brown": National Protests Continue Ferguson Struggle
December 01, 2014
Obama's Record on Defending Civil and Constitutional Rights Abysmal
December 01, 2014
Nearly 8,000 resign from Finnish church after same-sex marriage vote
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