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Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?

Anti-Union Forces Try to Knock Out New York City’s Hard Hats

(VIDEO) Vandana Shiva: Understanding the corporate takeover

Egypt Warns Israel: Don't Interfere With Opening of Gaza Border Crossing

Guantanamo Detainees Stage Hunger Strike to Protest Confinement Conditions

(VIDEO) WikiLeaks: Security Threat or Media Savior?

(VIDEO) White House Threatens to Blacklist Paper for Covering Protest

May Day Rallies Celebrate Unity; Labor Unions and Immigrants Plan to March Side by Side

Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s Comments on Bradley Manning Mark "Amazing Amount of Improper Influence" in WikiLeaks Case

As a Holocaust Survivor, AIPAC Doesn’t Speak for Me

Vegan Food in Restaurants: The Changing Tide of Food Preferences

Lessons for Progressives From Power Shift Youth

All the WikiLeaks Fit to Print

DOJ Drops Probe of Whistleblower Who Exposed Bush-Era Domestic Spying, Thomas Tamm: "The Bottom Line Is I Don’t Think I Ever Broke the Law"

5 Years After U.S.-Backed Clashes, Palestinian Factions Fatah, Hamas Reach Unity Deal

Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern: Petraeus Will Expand Pro-War Agenda as New CIA Director

Venezuela Institutes Windfall Oil Tax to Support Social Programs, Education

The Really Smart Phone

Tornado Ravages Alabama City; Storm Toll Grows

President Obama Makes a Fair Trial of Bradley Manning Impossible By Declaring Him Guilty

Exiled Tibetans elect new leader

Statement by President Barack Obama on Release of His Birth Certificate

Democracy Now: Court Rules Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Death Sentence is Unconstitutional, Grants New Sentencing Hearing

Haiti's Displaced: Greedy Landlords and an Absentee Government

WikiLeaks: Just 8 at Gitmo gave evidence against 255 others

Chernobyl survivor warns of 'bombshell' in Japan

Classified Files Offer New Insights Into Detainees

Rachel Maddow: Closeted Gay Anchors 'Have A Responsibility To Come Out'

Chrissy Lee Polis, Victim In Maryland McDonald's Attack, Alleges Hate Crime

Wanted: An Opposition Party, Not a Coalition

Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Dr. Henry Giroux

Is It Fear of Uprisings or Altruistic Punishment?

President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law

(VIDEO) Obama on Manning: “He Broke the Law.” So Much for that Trial?

9/11 Responders To Be Warned They Will Be Screened By FBI's Terrorism Watch List (EXCLUSIVE)

Bradley Manning's Supporters Confront Obama, and More

Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement is Changing the Game

St. Louis Tornado Causes Damage, Injuries At Lambert Airport

Earth Day: Environmental education has failed. But we can fix it.

BP Oil Spill: A tragic drama that continues to unfold

Libya Fighting: U.S. Warns Of 'Stalemate' As Misrata Battle Rages

Quarter-Million Dead and Not Counting

Liberals Pitted Against White House on Trade

One Hundred and Fifty Years After General Strike, Bay Area Workers Still Fighting for Justice

One Year After BP Oil Spill: Communities Lead While Congress Fails

VIDEO: US, France and Britan continue military inavsion of Lybia

Canada’s Health Care: An Alternate Universe

Obama, War President

Bradley Manning to Be Moved From Quantico

VIDEO: Democracy Now features hour long show on 1 year anniversary of the Deep Horizon blowout in the Gulf

The New Corporate World Order

Obama's Mexicogate?

Researchers Say Oil Dispersants Still an Issue in the Gulf

BP Still Being Awarded Lucrative Government Contracts

'US helped Israel with UN Gaza war probe'

A year after Horizion's Gulf oil well disaster, congress fails to pass a single bill strengthening prevention laws

Top ‘U.S.’ Corporations Outsourced More Than 2.4 Million American Jobs Over The Last Decade

Waiting for the spark

Phyllis Bennis: U.K. Sends Troops into Libya as International Coalition Expands Mission to Include Regime Change

Secret Memos Expose Link Between Oil Firms and Invasion of Iraq

Obama ran against Bush, but now governs like him

Obama's Dirty Energy Fixation

Antarctic Penguin Population Declines with Krill

"Sweet Mickey" Hitches Haitian Recovery to Washington Bandwagon

BP Handling of Claims Slammed by Gulf Residents

The War In Afghanistan: How Much Are You Paying?

Throw Out the Money Changers: A speech by Chris Hedges

Georgia Set to Enact First Arizona Copycat Anti-Immigrant Bill

VIDEO: "5 Million Barrels of Oil Does Not Disappear": Author, Activist Antonia Juhasz on the BP Spill, One Year Later

In 12 Years, Income For Richest 400 Americans Quadruples, Tax Rate Nearly Halved

Ethnic Media Still Lack Visibility at Media Reform Conference

Bradley Manning: Whistleblower or Scapegoat?

GOP Spreads Corporate Tax Disinformation, America Fights Back (VIDEO)

Feds thwart investigation into dolphin deaths in Gulf region

Our Left-Wing Country and Our Center-Right Government

Japan sees no end in sight for nuclear catastrophe

Super rich see federal taxes drop dramatically

VIDEO: 27 Arrested at DC Protest Against US Militarization in Latin America

Liberals Are Suckers

State by State: G.O.P. Pushes to Deregulate Environment

Al Gore to Young Advocates: Battle Industry Lobbyists to Turn the Tide on Climate

NY Times calls Quadaffi "dictator" says US seeking place for his refuge

Van Jones At Power Shift 2011: ‘While They’re Stuck On Stupid In DC, Your Generation Is Rising’

Tornadoes rip through Southeast

A Year On, BP Oil Still Mars Gulf Communities, Public Scrutiny Dries Up

London Gay Couple Say Kiss Got Them Kicked Out Of Pub

The Real Housewives of Wall Street

Tokyo Power to Compensate 50,000 Evacuees

Playing With Fire in Iraq

Aisha Gaddafi Sends Defiant Message From Libya

Most House Democrats Reject Obama's Austerity Budget Deal With GOP

Offshore Banking and Tax Havens Have Become Heart of Global Economy

Foreclosure Investors Flip Homes, Reap Rewards

New Health Care Advocacy Group Launches With $5 Million In The Bank

It’s a Hoax: GE Does Not Plan to Return $3.2 Billion Tax Refund to U.S. Treasury

Assessing Obama’s Budget Plan & State of U.S. Economy with Author Thomas Frank, Rev. Jim Wallis, and Activist/Philosopher Grace Lee Boggs

Obama Delivers Republican Arguments

Recognising Palestine?

Frankenfoods in Your “Natural” Foods Store: Whole Foods or Whole Hypocrisy?

Endless War in Lybia?

Arianna Huffington faces $105M lawsuit

Millionaires demand that Obama raise tax on rich

NY Governor Andrew Cuomo: Taking Progressives for Granted

We're not being told truth about Lybia

I Remember America

Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Foreign Minister, Faces Corruption Charges

Obama still ordering air strikes in Lybia

Jeffery Sachs: The People's Budget

The Army vs. the People?: A Democracy Now! Special Report from Egypt

"I Am Willing to Give My Life": Bahraini Human Rights Activists Risk Lives to Protest U.S./Saudi-Backed Repression

Governors Cut Taxes — and Medical Aid to the Poor

Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill?

Bolivia Set to Pass ‘Law of Mother Earth’ (VIDEO)

Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

Moby 'The Day' Video: MoveOn Teams With Artist To Bash Obama-GOP Spending Cuts

Pete DeFazio To Obama: 'Act Like A Democrat' (VIDEO)

"Don’t Punish the Poor" Economist Jeffrey Sachs Slams Obama-GOP Budget Deal

Bradley Manning: Former Obama professor and other top US legal scholars voice outrage at 'torture'

Tom Ferguson: Billionaires and corporations find many hidden ways to control American politics

France Burqa Ban Takes Effect; Two Women Detained

Iceland vote freezes repayment plan

Wisconsin Republicans Claim Another Win

Brutal Repression in Honduras Targets Teachers, Popular Resistance

Icelanders vote on repaying UK and Netherlands

Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results

Sex Workers File Civil Rights Suit Against Louisiana's "Crime Against Nature" Law

Latin America Shakes Off the US Yoke

As One-Month Tsunami Anniversary Approaches, Japan's Nuclear Fears Far From Over

How the Media Promotes Ignorance and Stifles Debate

Pendleton, Oregon Cowboy Town, Promotes Solar Energy With No-Interest Loans

Egypt Protesters Defy Military After Crackdown

Death Toll rises in Deadly Gaza Strikes

At National Conference for Media Reform, a Roundtable on Journalism, Broadband and Broadcast Amidst Cutbacks and Consolidation

The Strange Politics of Fitzwalkerstan: GOP Clerk "Finds" Votes to Reverse Defeat of Conservative Wisconsin Justice

States’ Shameful Trade-Off: Putting Prisons over Public Schools

Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan

Toyota Will Begin Suspending North American Production Next Week

Angela Merkel switches off seven nuclear power plants

Robin Hood in Reverse in the US: Seven Examples

Japan earthquake today: Tsunami warning lifted, but Fukushima evacuated

The Libyan Intervention: Humanitarian or an Aggression?

Nobel Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Assault on Social Spending, Pro-Rich Tax Cuts Turning US Into Nation "Of the 1 Percent, by the 1 Percent, for the 1

Residents Say Sea Turtles Rot on Beaches of the Gulf