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August 31, 2017
Google Is Coming After Critics in Academia and Journalism. It’s Time To Stop Them
August 31, 2017
Kamala Harris to Co-Sponsor Bernie's Medicare for All Bill
August 31, 2017
Blasts at chemical plant spark new worry in storm-soaked Texas
August 31, 2017
Port Arthur, TX Faces New Oil Refinery Environmental Crisis Following Hurricane Harvey Floods (VIDEO)
August 31, 2017
New York Times Slammed for Running 'Advertorial' by Notorious War Profiteer
August 31, 2017
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Mean More Jobs
August 31, 2017
Hurricane Harvey hits Louisiana as Texas hunts for survivors (VIDEO)
August 31, 2017
Rightwing alliance plots assault to 'defund and defang' America's unions
August 31, 2017
Chris Hedges: Agenda of hate with Ajamu Baraka
August 31, 2017
LA changes Columbus Day to ‘Indigenous Peoples Day’ as statues continue to be destroyed
August 31, 2017
AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka Slams White House Full of 'Racists' and 'Wall Streeters'
August 29, 2017
What the Abolition of the British Slave Trade Can Teach Us About Free Speech
August 29, 2017
Houston’s “Unrestrained Capitalism” Made Harvey “Catastrophe Waiting to Happen”
August 29, 2017
Storm Harvey paralyzes a fifth of U.S. fuel output
August 28, 2017
Two lawsuits challenge Trump's transgender military ban
August 28, 2017
Tropical storm Harvey displaces 30,000 in Texas
August 28, 2017
"This Is the New Normal": How Climate Change Is Fueling Massive Storms like Harvey
August 27, 2017
Harvey floods Houston as residents hunker down for days of storms
August 26, 2017
Trump pardons ex-Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio
August 26, 2017
DUTERTE'S WAR ON DRUGS: Death of a schoolboy
August 25, 2017
The Conflict in Afghanistan Is Trump's War Now
August 24, 2017
Texas Racist Voter ID Law Smacked Down
August 24, 2017
Former Trump Adviser Warns of Armed 'Insurrection' If Trump Impeached
August 24, 2017
Iowa becomes 47th US state to recognize Armenian Genocide
August 24, 2017
‘US doesn’t want Afghanistan war to end – it's cash cow for Pentagon, contractors’
August 24, 2017
Our swastika anchor doesn’t endorse Nazism – Canadian mayor
August 23, 2017
State Department science envoy Daniel Kammen resigned Wednesday
August 23, 2017
Charlottesville shrouds divisive Confederate statues in black cloth
August 23, 2017
Oregon Passed the Country's Most Progressive Reproductive Health Care Policy
August 23, 2017
UN issues rare warning over 'alarming' racism in US
August 23, 2017
Robert Kuttner on His Extraordinary Interview with Steve Bannon (VIDEO)
August 22, 2017
Secret Safe Injection Site Responds to US Drug Crisis
August 22, 2017
Helen Mirren Politely, Completely Rips Ivanka Trump
August 22, 2017
Blue Is Not A Race (Duh) and You're Not The Damn Victims Here
August 22, 2017
Trump's a Racist — Don't Tell Me Otherwise
August 22, 2017
Detroit's Urban Farming Revolution
August 22, 2017
Native Americans seek to reclaim ancestral land from Brown University
August 22, 2017
Trump’s betrayal is complete as military-industrial complex continues expansion of power
August 22, 2017
BANNON’S BREITBART SLAMS TRUMP FOR AFGHANISTAN “FLIP-FLOP”
August 22, 2017
Trump Joins Bush and Obama on Afghanistan War Plan
August 22, 2017
Missouri halts execution of Marcellus Williams
August 22, 2017
Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban of killer robots
August 22, 2017
Dick Gregory In His Own Words: Remembering the Pioneering Comedian and Civil Rights Activist (VIDEO)
August 22, 2017
Anger simmers in Philippines over Duterte's drug war
August 22, 2017
Jane Mayer on the Mercers & the Dark Money Behind the Rise of Trump & Bannon (VIDEO)
August 22, 2017
Social Security: Still the Most Efficient Way to Provide Retirement Income
August 22, 2017
Sadness and cynicism as London's Big Ben falls silent
August 20, 2017
Jerry Lewis, entertainment icon, dead at 91
August 20, 2017
New York City police show support of Colin Kaepernick
August 20, 2017
Dick Gregory, 84, Dies; Found Humor in the Civil Rights Struggle
August 20, 2017
Marcellus Williams faces execution despite new evidence
August 20, 2017
Lawrence Wilkerson: Under Trump, Al Qaeda is Flourishing
August 20, 2017
Marijuana Becomes a Player in California Politics and It's Putting Its Money on Gavin Newsom
August 20, 2017
U.S. warship Indianapolis found 18,000 feet deep in Pacific Ocean
August 20, 2017
Trump Attacks Boston Anti-Racism Demonstrators as 'Anti-Police Agitators'
August 18, 2017
Campuses, cities reject far right after Charlottesville
August 18, 2017
Taylor Swift starts giving to charities for sex-assault victims after trial win
August 18, 2017
ACLU Shifts Position on Defending Armed Demonstrations After Charlottesville
August 18, 2017
Trump fires controversial chief strategist Bannon
August 18, 2017
Elizabeth Warren Says Days of 'Lukewarm' Policies Are Over
August 18, 2017
Museum or dumpster? U.S. cities wrestle with Confederate statues' fate
August 17, 2017
An Open Letter From Great, Great Grandsons of Stonewall Jackson
August 17, 2017
Iran Will Change When the US Changes
August 17, 2017
Durant says will boycott White House, slams Trump
August 17, 2017
Titans' DaQuan Jones: Don't want to be labeled as 'a Colin Kaepernick'
August 17, 2017
Van plows through crowd in Barcelona, deaths reported
August 17, 2017
Germany: Confronting the colonial roots of racism
August 17, 2017
BPA Breakthrough: New Treatment Takes Controversial Chemical Out of Water
August 17, 2017
Trump defends monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy
August 17, 2017
20-Year-Old Deandre Harris Speaks Out About Being Assaulted by White Supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
August 16, 2017
White Supremacy Carries More Than a Tiki Torch
August 16, 2017
Mass burials after devastating Sierra Leone mudslide
August 16, 2017
Internet firms shift stance, move to exile white supremacists
August 16, 2017
A Look at the Anti-Fascist Movement Confronting White Supremacists in the Streets (VIDEO)
August 16, 2017
‘Not a true Italian’: Black teen barred from singing in Verona music festival
August 16, 2017
Trump disbands business councils after CEOs exit in protest
August 16, 2017
Baltimore removes 4 Confederate statues overnight amid fears of violence
August 16, 2017
Far-right lauds Trump amid Charlottesville backlash
August 16, 2017
The Roots of the Philippines Trafficking Epidemic
August 16, 2017
Virginia rally victim's message 'magnified,' mother tells memorial
August 16, 2017
Brazil set for landmark indigenous land rights ruling
August 15, 2017
Police Stood by as Mayhem Mounted in Charlottesville
August 15, 2017
Africa-Israel summit 'justifies colonialism, apartheid'
August 15, 2017
Uproar Over Omarosa Manigault-Newman at Black Journalists Convention
August 15, 2017
White House's Omarosa Manigault Jeered During Panel Talk
August 15, 2017
Saudi Arabia to reopen border with Iraq after 27 years
August 15, 2017
Trump Cut Funds for Group Fighting White Supremacy
August 14, 2017
One person dead as driver rams car into French pizzeria
August 14, 2017
Bridges and Roads Are as Important to Your Health as What's in Your Medicine Cabinet
August 14, 2017
The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh
August 14, 2017
Hundreds feared dead in mudslide near Freetown
August 14, 2017
Saudi crown prince wants out of Yemen war, leaked emails reveal
August 14, 2017
Remembering partition: 'It was like a slaughter house'
August 14, 2017
California to sue Trump administration over sanctuary policy
August 14, 2017
Merck CEO resigns from Trump council over Charlottesville
August 14, 2017
Tehran to send fleet to West Atlantic, says Iranian rear admiral
August 14, 2017
Let Me Remind You Who Jeff Sessions Is
August 14, 2017
Cornel West & Rev. Traci Blackmon on Torch-Wielding Nazis in Virginia (VIDEO)
August 14, 2017
University of Virginia's Historical Ties to KKK & White Nationalist Alums Richard Spencer & Jason Kessler (VIDEO)
August 14, 2017
Media Downplays Wells Fargo's Latest Scandals
August 14, 2017
US tourist beaten for giving Hitler salute in Dresden, Germany
August 13, 2017
Charlottesville is America everywhere
August 13, 2017
Rethinking Schools: How to Talk About Nuclear War and Donald Trump with 2nd-Graders
August 13, 2017
David Duke Blasts Trump’s Call for Unity: ‘It Was White Americans Who Put You in the Presidency’
August 13, 2017
Trump’s Remarks on Charlottesville Violence Are Criticized as Insufficient
August 12, 2017
Terror in Charlottesville: Car Rams into Anti-Racist Protesters at White Supremacist Rally
August 12, 2017
Charlottesville: man charged with murder after car rams counter-protesters at far-right event
August 12, 2017
Why Pakistan and India remain in denial 70 years on from partition
August 12, 2017
World's oldest man and Holocaust survivor dies at 113
August 12, 2017
Clashes Break Out as Virginia Declares State of Emergency
August 12, 2017
Venezuela: Trump Threat of US Military Intervention "Madness" of US Imperialism
August 11, 2017
Charlottesville prepares for a white nationalist rally on Saturday
August 11, 2017
Canadian diplomat in Cuba also treated for hearing loss
August 11, 2017
The US's Endless Wars Are Terrorism for Profit
August 11, 2017
Intl. Community recoils as Saudi Arabia goes on 'Crusade' of mass killing in Yemen
August 11, 2017
Trump praises Putin for expelling US diplomats, gets panned... by diplomat
August 11, 2017
Over 150 refugees 'thrown' into Yemen sea
August 11, 2017
Remembering: German nun Ruth Pfau in Pakistan
August 11, 2017
Texas Prisoners Face Deadly Heat and Contaminated Water
August 10, 2017
China in Africa: Old powers sidelined as Beijing follows economic ties with first military base
August 10, 2017
Baltimore Drops Dozens of Cases After Video Casts Doubt on Officers
August 10, 2017
Macron's First Effort to Shake Up the Economy Is Catching On
August 10, 2017
French jobs market springs to life under Emmanuel Macron
August 10, 2017
Megachurch Pastor Says Trump Has God's Approval to Start Nuclear War
August 08, 2017
Swastika-branded clothing pulled after online backlash
August 08, 2017
Formerly Jailed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou: Jeff Sessions Is Extending Obama's War on Leaks (VIDEO)
August 08, 2017
Fearing Trump Censorship, Govt. Scientists Leak Alarming Climate Report
August 08, 2017
The United States and the Crucifixion of Yemen
August 08, 2017
Liberals Strike Back... Against Single Payer
August 07, 2017
Even More Evidence the US Is a Kleptocracy, Not a Meritocracy
August 07, 2017
U.S. to relax rules protecting sage grouse in favor of oil drillers
August 07, 2017
As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures
August 07, 2017
Charlottesville VA Backs "Reparations" Fund for Black Residents & Votes to Sell Robert E. Lee Statue (VIDEO)
August 06, 2017
Blackballing Kaepernick: Fear of the black athlete
August 06, 2017
Hope On This Hiroshima Day
August 06, 2017
As White House Ramps Up Attacks on Free Press, NRA Issues Warning to New York Times
August 05, 2017
Irish Retail Workers Strike for Secure Hours
August 05, 2017
Court Throws Out Blackwater Guards' Sentences for 2007 Baghdad Massacre
August 05, 2017
Norman Lear to Boycott Reception With the 'Archie Bunker' President
August 05, 2017
Syria's doll-makers: 'I protect my children's dreams'
August 05, 2017
"Cruel & Inhumane": Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Trump Push to Slash Legal Immigration (VIDEO)
August 04, 2017
Maduro inaugurates new Venezuela assembly
August 04, 2017
Florida Will Battle Coastal Pollution by Eliminating Old Septic Tanks
August 03, 2017
Meat industry blamed for largest-ever 'dead zone' in Gulf of Mexico
August 03, 2017
Why Are "Activist Investors" Silent on Corporate Social Responsibility?
August 03, 2017
Responding to Dems' 2018 Campaign Plan, Groups Release Pro-Choice Platform
August 03, 2017
Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ's Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended
August 03, 2017
Asylum Seekers, Fleeing Trump's Hostility, Overwhelm Quebec's Refugee Resources
August 03, 2017
Is the UN sending the wrong people to keep the peace?
August 03, 2017
Why Kenya's presidential election on August 8 matters
August 02, 2017
Town evacuated after freight train derails, catches fire in Bedford County, Pennsylvania
August 02, 2017
‘We are ready': If US sanctions hurt European interests, EU can react ‘within days’ says EU leader
August 02, 2017
Land Taken From Freed Slave’s Descendants for Amazon Data Center?
August 01, 2017
Unpaid doctors and nurses fight largest cholera epidemic on record
August 01, 2017
Trump's Comments Endorsing Police Brutality are "Treasonous" (VIDEO)
August 01, 2017
'Historic day' as Jordanian parliament repeals rape law
August 01, 2017
The myth of American 'greatness'
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