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August 31, 2016
Florida State Attorney Who Oversaw Trayvon Martin & Marissa Alexander Cases Is Defeated in Primary
August 31, 2016
America’s True Role in Syria
August 31, 2016
With Tacit US Support, Brazil's Right-Wing Senate Ousts First Female President, Dilma Rousseff
August 31, 2016
A New McCarthyism: Greenwald on Clinton Camp's Attempts to Link Trump, Stein & WikiLeaks to Russia
August 30, 2016
Abdul-Jabbar: Insulting Colin Kaepernick says more about our patriotism than his
August 30, 2016
UN Says 10,000 Civilians Killed, Wounded in Yemen Conflict
August 30, 2016
Colin Kaepernick explains why he sat during national anthem
August 30, 2016
Maine's Governor Openly Calls for Race War Against People of Color
August 30, 2016
Why Are We Paying $300 for an EpiPen That Holds Only $1 Worth of Medicine?
August 30, 2016
DOJ Report on Baltimore Echoes Centuries-Old Limits on Black Freedom
August 30, 2016
A Turning Point for the Charter School Movement
August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder, Star of 'Willy Wonka' and Mel Brooks Classics, Dies at 83
August 29, 2016
The Olympics May Be Over, But the Anger, Disillusionment Among Brazilians Remains High
August 29, 2016
Venezuela's Maduro Accuses US of "Imperialist Attack" Against Latin America
August 29, 2016
Fukushima Nuclear Cleanup Exceeds $628 Billion
August 28, 2016
Quake Exposes Italy’s Challenge to Retrofit Its Architecture
August 28, 2016
Italy Earthquake Survivors Bury Loved Ones; Rescue Efforts Continue
August 26, 2016
Naomi Klein, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky, Others Condemn 'Coup' in Brazil
August 26, 2016
Regime Change in Libya Mirrors Iraq: Both Efforts Led to Failed States & Destabilized Region
August 25, 2016
John Oliver Slams Charter Schools
August 25, 2016
Political Gerrymandering Moves Forward
August 25, 2016
Pentagon unable to "account" for 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan
August 25, 2016
Bernie Sanders Launches New Organization, But Key Staffers Quit in Protest
August 25, 2016
Corporate Conquistadors Violate Indigenous Lands and Bodies
August 24, 2016
Dozens dead as shallow 6.2 quake shakes Rome, devastates towns in central Italy
August 24, 2016
New Trump Campaign Chief "Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists"
August 24, 2016
Nobel laurete and elder economist blasts Obama for "outrageous" and "absolutely wrong" TPP
August 23, 2016
Virginia's Govenor Announces Process for Full Restoration of Former-Felons’ Civil Rights
August 23, 2016
Grad Students Win Right to Unionize at Private Universities
August 23, 2016
How Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' Redefines Pop Queerness
August 23, 2016
Ex-Host Sues Fox, Says Network Operates Like 'Playboy-Mansion-Like Cult’
August 23, 2016
Tensions Rise as American Indian Tribes Move to Block a Pipeline
August 23, 2016
Lawmakers, Peace Groups Team Up to Block 'Disturbing' US-Saudi Arms Deal
August 23, 2016
Mislabeled pills seized at Prince's home after his death
August 23, 2016
Mislabled pills found at Prince's estate contained a drug 50 times more powerful than heroin
August 22, 2016
Postal Contract Narrows the Gap Between "Tiers" of Workers
August 22, 2016
Chicago Cops Killed a BlackTeen -- Then Locked Up His Best Friend for the Murder
August 22, 2016
Republicans say party can’t afford to cut ties to Trump
August 22, 2016
Brazilians are Fed Up with U.S. Olympian Ryan Lochte and Privileged First-World Tourists
August 22, 2016
‘I was playing with friends when it hit me’: Aleppo kids injured in rebel fire tell their stories
August 22, 2016
Dakota Pipeline Construction Halted Amid Ongoing 'Defiance of Black Snake'
August 21, 2016
U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars
August 20, 2016
Milwaukee's War on Black People
August 20, 2016
Video shows LA cops tasering grandfather who died in jail
August 20, 2016
Twenty-two killed, 94 injured in bomb attack at Turkish wedding
August 20, 2016
Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
August 20, 2016
China unveils world’s longest & highest glass bridge
August 20, 2016
Bolivia Builds Anti-Imperialist School to Counter US Hegemony
August 19, 2016
U.S. Government to End Use of Deadly, Costly, Negligent Private Prisons
August 18, 2016
Killing the Homeless in California
August 18, 2016
Justice Department Announces Initiative to End Use of For-Profit Prisons
August 18, 2016
Detroit plans to sue banks, companies for unpaid taxes
August 18, 2016
U.S. Should Stop Funding Israel & Saudi Arabia
August 18, 2016
Ten Times Worse Than Hell: A Syrian Doctor on the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Aleppo
August 17, 2016
Taylor Swift Donating $1 Million to Louisiana Flood Relief
August 17, 2016
Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer
August 16, 2016
NYC Agrees to Pay Over $4 Million to Family of Akai Gurley
August 16, 2016
Louisiana Flood: In Baton Rouge, worst of times brings out best in residents
August 16, 2016
Lee Fang on How Citizens United Opened Floodgates for Foreign Corporate Money in U.S. Elections
August 16, 2016
Matt Taibbi on Trump's Position on NATO, Russia & his Campaign Head's $13 Million Scandal in Ukraine
August 16, 2016
Pennsylvania’s top prosecutor, Kathleen Kane, found guilty on nine criminal charges
August 15, 2016
A Post-Racial Society With a Racial Wealth Divide?
August 15, 2016
African-American Women Make Olympic History by Winning Gold in Swimming, Gymnastics & Shot Put
August 15, 2016
Father & 7yo daughter held at gunpoint by ‘insane & violent’ police officer
August 15, 2016
Disaster declared for Louisiana floods that have killed five
August 15, 2016
The "$500 Million Club" of Colleges Tends to Be Stingy With Aid to Low-Income Students
August 15, 2016
Father & 7yo daughter held at gunpoint by ‘insane & violent’ police officer
August 15, 2016
After the bombing deaths of 10 children in Yemen, new arms sale to Saudi Arabia encounters senate resistance
August 15, 2016
Milwaukee Sheriff Provokes Outrage, Blames 'Urban Pathology,' 'War on Police' for Police Brutality
August 13, 2016
At least 10 children killed in Yemen after school reportedly hit in airstrike
August 13, 2016
Pope Francis visits 20 former prostitutes in Rome on ‘Friday of Mercy’
August 13, 2016
Land Grabs Continue to Destroy Uganda's Forests
August 13, 2016
Surveillance Isn't Colorblind
August 13, 2016
The Invisible Man: George W. Bush and a Hole in History
August 13, 2016
Washington County Shocks Big Oil With Ban on Fossil Fuel Exports
August 13, 2016
In Texas, a man who didn’t kill anybody is about to be executed for murder
August 12, 2016
Ohio police rescue 7yo trying to sell his stuffed animal for food
August 11, 2016
Chronic Hunger Lingers in the Midst of Plenty
August 11, 2016
Crisis Engulfs Fox News as Roger Ailes Sexual Harassment & Spying Scandal Grows
August 11, 2016
Asheville Art Museum exhibits BMC Artwork and Epic Installations
August 10, 2016
LA police kill 14yo boy, said he ‘had a gun’
August 10, 2016
At least 9 dead, dozens injured in coordinated Turkey blasts
August 10, 2016
Social Media Blackout of Korryn Gaines Shows Law Enforcement's Cronyism With Facebook
August 10, 2016
America’s Racial Wealth Divide Is Nothing Short of Shocking
August 10, 2016
Federal Lawsuit Charges Some Missouri Cities "Terrorizing" Poor Through Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons
August 10, 2016
Here’s How Racial Bias Plays Out in Policing
August 10, 2016
Justice Department releases blistering report of racial bias by Baltimore police
August 10, 2016
Clinton blasts Trump for 'casual inciting of violence,' Republicans shaken
August 10, 2016
Donald Trump Under Fire After Hinting Gun Owners Could Assassinate Hillary Clinton
August 10, 2016
"Olympic Pride, American Prejudice": How 18 Black Olympians Defied Jim Crow & Hitler in 1936
August 10, 2016
Richest 100 Members of Forbes List Own as Much Wealth as the Entire African-American Population
August 10, 2016
Police Killing of Black Teenager Paul O'Neal Sparks Protests in Chicago
August 09, 2016
Ecuador's President Correa says 'Neoliberalism Has Failed, Not Socialism'
August 09, 2016
Pakistan Mourns After Bombing at Hospital Kills At Least 74, Including Dozens of Lawyers
August 09, 2016
Sanders Campaign Declares Creation of 'Our Revolution'
August 09, 2016
Murdered by a SWAT Team for Traffic Tickets: Inside the Police Killing of Black Mother Korryn Gaines
August 09, 2016
Green Party Nominee Jill Stein: "We Are Saying No to the 'Lesser Evil' and Yes to the Greater Good"
August 09, 2016
A New Day & Another Way: Green VP Nominee Ajamu Baraka Urges Progressives to Reject Two-Party System
August 09, 2016
Trump’s Economic Team Is a Who’s Who of What’s Wrong
August 09, 2016
Matt Taibbi: Trump's All White Male Economic Team Includes "Financial Crisis Villain" John Paulson
August 09, 2016
465 slain in July: Drug pushers purged in Philippines after presidential plea
August 09, 2016
Nagasaki Mayor: 'Come Find Out What Happened Under the Mushroom Cloud'
August 09, 2016
Google Maps Just Completely Erased Palestine
August 09, 2016
Italian cops cook pasta for crying elderly couple
August 09, 2016
Chicago police officers allegedly caught high-fiving after ‘execution’ of Paul O’Neal
August 08, 2016
Power outage at Delta causes global flight cancellations and delays
August 08, 2016
50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk’
August 08, 2016
Cornel West Speech at Green Party Convention
August 08, 2016
Louisiana parishes launch court battles against oil companies as contamination spreads
August 08, 2016
Roger Ailes Used Fox News Budget to Finance ‘Black Room’ Campaigns Against His Enemies
August 08, 2016
Black churches bring coding classes to the Bay Area and beyond
August 07, 2016
The Voting Rights Act, 2.0
August 06, 2016
Louisiana Parish Hit by Third Oil Spill in 10 Days
August 06, 2016
I Support Hillary Clinton. So Should Everyone Who Voted for Me
August 06, 2016
Amid Zika Scare, FDA Clears Way for GMO Mosquito Trial in Florida
August 06, 2016
Obama's New So-Called GMO "Labeling" Law Is a "Sham"
August 06, 2016
The $100,000-Per-Year Pill
August 06, 2016
Files Released on American Role in 'Horror' of Argentina's Military Dictatorship
August 06, 2016
Black Lives Matter Activists Stage Protests Across Britain
August 06, 2016
Protests by Athletes and Displaced Rio Residents Accompany Opening of 2016 Olympic Games
August 05, 2016
Donald Trump as the White supremacist voice of millions of hateful violent Americans
August 05, 2016
Donald Trump as the White supremacist voice of millions of hateful violent Americans
August 05, 2016
Black Lives Matter Leader Says Even Great People Can Be Part of the Problem (Feature Interview)
August 05, 2016
Black Lives Matter movement declares war on 'Israeli Apartheid'
August 04, 2016
Former Virginia police officer convicted of voluntary manslaughter in killing of unarmed teen
August 04, 2016
Foreign Money Pouring into U.S. Elections After Citizens United
August 04, 2016
Amid City Hall Protests, NYPD Chief Bill Bratton Resigns, But "Broken Windows" Continues Nationwide
August 04, 2016
Why We Must Heed the Call for a Moral Revolution
August 03, 2016
Rivers of wine flood streets of French city
August 03, 2016
Montana town wins back municipal water supply from private company
August 02, 2016
‘Capital murder no longer an option’: Delaware’s death penalty ruled unconstitutional
August 02, 2016
Cities Need More Public Transit, Not More Uber and Self-Driving Cars
August 02, 2016
The Shocking Police Shooting of Therapist Caring for Autistic Patient
August 02, 2016
"All He Has is a Toy Truck": The Shocking Police Shooting of Therapist Caring for Autistic Patient
August 02, 2016
Movement for Black Lives Calls for Reparations & "End to War Against Black People"
August 02, 2016
Pope Francis: Capitalism is 'Terrorism Against All of Humanity'
August 02, 2016
Declining Green Party VP Offer, Nina Turner to Keep Fighting for Soul of Democratic Party
August 02, 2016
Chicago police body cameras fail to record killing of unarmed black teen
August 02, 2016
Buffett rebukes Trump, questions his business skill
August 02, 2016
Former bankers sentenced to jail over Anglo fraud scheme
August 02, 2016
Ireland jails three top bankers over 2008 banking meltdown
August 02, 2016
US Launches Airstrikes in Libya in 'Deeply Concerning' New Offensive
August 01, 2016
Child, 12, died from anthrax, as nine cases confirmed of the deadly disease
August 01, 2016
Sister Simone Campbell on Helping Families, Inequality, Donald Trump & Women's Health
August 01, 2016
Revealed: AARP Is Funding ALEC
August 01, 2016
Puget Sound Is Home to the Biggest Nuclear Stockpile in the World
August 01, 2016
France closed 20 mosques, prayer halls since December
August 01, 2016
Alaskans Witness Collapsing Mountains, Shattered Lives
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