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From MI6 Al Qaeda Plot to Kill Gaddafi to Spying on Domestic Dissent: An MI5 Whistle Blowers Story

Climate Change, Hurricanes and the Fate of America’s Coastal Cities

Jill Stein Arrested 'Connecting the Dots' at Keystone Site

Struggle, Loss, Ruin in Sandy's Wake

Greg Palast: Easy Ways to Steal an Election

Global Warming and Sandy: Heating of the Oceans Fuels Record Storm, Leaving Millions Without Power

Bainport Day 50: Workers at Bain-Owned Plant Ask Romney to Save Their Jobs from Going to China

Why Chavez Won Again

Survival and Dignity in an Afghan Winter

The Great Betrayal – and the Cynicism of Calling it a Grand Bargain

Support for California GMO Labeling Proposal Drops Following Industry-Funded Ad Blitz

Industrial 'Ocean Grabbing' Causes Untold Damage, Food-Insecurity: UN

Reflections on Occupy Baltimore

US Detention of Imran Khan Part of Trend to Harass Anti-Drone Advocates

Refugees March to Berlin Demanding Full Human Rights

Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It"

10 Filthy-Rich, Tax-Dodging Hypocrites Pushing Disastrous Austerity on America

Manufacturing Corporate-Friendly State Legislation

Marijuana on the Ballot 2012

The Supreme Court and the Death of Progress

Gaddafi and 66 Others Murdered After Capture - Human Rights Watch

Tens of Thousands Protest Against Austerity in Rome

The Happy Hero: An Interview With Paul Buhle About Robin Hood

How Wall Street Won the Election Long Before the First Vote Was Cast

Imran Khan Detained on US Flight over Anti-Drone Activism

Paying Taxes to Your Boss: A Step Toward 21st Century Feudalism

Candidates Flee East Coast as Frankenstorm Takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change

Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons

Greece’s New Americanized Health Care System

Capitol Hill’s Rabid, Ravaging Republicans

Chevron Gives $2.5 Million to Conservative Super PAC

US base has 'crowded the skies over the Horn of Africa' with drones

"Citizens" United: Bain Capital, Clear Channel and Those Voter Fraud Billboards

Lies of Plutocracy: Exploding Five Myths that Dehumanize the Poor

Colin Powell endorses President Obama's reelection

Prop 34: Ex-San Quentin Prison Warden Jeanne Woodford Backs California Measure to End Death Penalty

Paul Wellstone's Legacy

Paul Wellstone, We Miss You

Valeria "Munique" Tachiquin: U.S. Agent Kills Young Mother of 5 in Latest of Growing Border Deaths

With Beyond Silver Gelatin, collage art goes digital

Why I Cannot Support the Nobel Prize for the EU

WikiLeaks Reveals 'Systematized Human Rights Abuses' at US Detention Facilities

Obama Moves to Make the 'War on Terror' Permanent

Ex-CIA Officer, Torture Whistleblower to Be Sentenced for Leak

ood Fight: Debating Prop 37, California’s Landmark Initiative to Label GMO Food

Michael Pollan: From GMOs to NYC’s Soda Ban, Local Efforts Challenge Agri-Giants’ National Control

Does the Romney Family Now Own Your e-Vote?

Exclusive: As Obama and Romney Agree on Afghan War, Israel and Syria, Third Parties Give Alternative

Senator George McGovern: 1922-2012

McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul

George McGovern: Touchstone of Liberalism

At Oakland's Abandoned Army Base, a Jobs Plan Brings Hope to Locals

Poverty: The Election Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Employees of Romney Family's Secret Bank Tied to Fraud, Money Laundering and Drug Cartels

Immigrants and Unions Work To Oust Notorious Arizona Sheriff

Men tell of sexual abuse by scoutmaster decades ago

Four dead in salon shooting in suburban Milwaukee (VIDEO)

Triple killing at spa stuns Milwaukee suburb

American Bombing of Iraq Left Legacy of Deformed Babies

Over 100,000 March in London for 'A Future That Works'

Proposition 36 Promises an End to California's Punitive 3 Strikes Law

If the "War On Drugs" has Failed, is Legalization the Answer?

Food, beverage industry pays for seat at health-policy table

Noam Chomsky makes first Gaza visit

Fracking Poisoning Families at Alarming Rate: Report

Greek Society Unravels Under Austerity Measures

Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down DOMA: Defense of Marriage Act

Dark Days: Life in Crack City

Scenes of 'Dust Bowl Days' Return As Oklahoma Storm Causes Highway Pileup

As Sen. McGovern Nears Death, How the Antiwar Candidate Challenged Vietnam and Inspired a Generation

Greg Palast: "Mitt Romney’s Bailout Bonanza: How He Made Millions from the Rescue of Detroit"

Sold Into "a Piece of Hell:" A Death of Innocence at Gitmo

The Nobel Peace Prize for War

Greg Palast on "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps"

Truthout Files FOIA Lawsuit Against Department of Justice/FBI for Occupy Wall Street Documents

Green Party Candidates Arrested, Shackled to Chairs For 8 Hours After Trying to Enter Hofstra Debate

Over Half of All Wetlands on Earth 'Destroyed' in Last 100 Years

Bill Black and Glen Ford on Presidential Debate #2

Why I'm Standing Up to TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline in East Texas

Green Party Ticket Arrested at Presidential Debate

Koch Brothers Among U.S. Billionaires Pressuring Thousands of Employees to Vote GOP on Election Day

Texas Landowners Join Environmentalists for Historic Blockade of Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

US Joins Israel in Blockading Education to Students in Gaza

EU Support for Israeli Crimes Makes It Unworthy of Nobel Peace Prize

Humanitarian Aid Blocked As UN Imposes New Iran Sanctions

Arlen Specter, Longtime GOP Senate Moderate, Dies at 82

Why Are Americans So Easy to Manipulate?

Microbuses set ablaze near Tahrir, Brotherhood members chased from square

European Union Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Despite Ties to NATO, Crippling Austerity Cuts

Pinkwashing Fracking? How the Komen Board Is Cashing in on Shale Gas

Only Organics Can Feed the Hungry World: Here's Why

The Internet as Political Lie Detector

Israel Threatens Force Against Aid Boat to Gaza

Paul Wellstone: 10 Years After His Death, He Still Sets the Bar for a Politics of Conviction

"Is This a Joke?" Critics Slam Decision to Award EU Nobel Peace Prize

Sanctions Against Iranian Banks is Economic Warfare

California Food Fight: Just Say No to GMOs

BP Amnesia: Life and Death After the Spill

The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy

Ghost of the New Deal Haunts Democrats' Agenda, but It's Time to Summon FDR

As Millions Buy iPhone 5, Chinese Workers at Apple Plant Foxconn Protest Workplace Conditions

Big Coal Wins Latest Battle to Blast Historic Blair Mountain

Immunity Sealed: Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Telecom Spying

How Speculating on Prisons Leads to Mass Incarceration

Lakota: The Revitalization of Language and the Persistence of Spirit

Coal Workers Say Murray Energy "Coerces" Them to Make GOP Donations

UN changes stats for malnutrition

Election Year Garbage

On Columbus Day, Indigenous Urge Celebration of Native Culture & Teaching of the Americas’ Genocide

Nearly Two Weeks After Chemical Spill, South Korea Declares Disaster Zone

GOP Congressman: Evolution a Lie 'Straight From Hell'

Chávez Victory Affirms Left Still Thriving in Latin America

‘There will be no more professional writers in the future’

Reflections on "Columbus" Day

The US Presidential Debates' Illusion of Political Choice

Anti-Drone Rally Held Despite Military Blockade

Chávez Wins New Term in Venezuela

PTSD Counselors Forced to Attend Anti-Union Meetings on Army Base

On Afghan War 11th Anniversary, Vets Confront Mental Health Crisis, Soldier Suicides and Violence

Living with Death by Drone

Honduras ‘Model City’ Plan in the Spotlight

Breastfeeding Moms Boot Nestlé from Maternity Wards

For Obama, No More Excuses

America's Duopoly of Money in Politics and Manipulation of Public Opinion

No to NY Fracking: 'Will Not Compromise On the Health of Our Families'

Same Love: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis make compelling LGBTQ music video

The Obama Romney Debate: A Sorry Affair

A Nationally-Televised Presidential Fail

Assange Speaks to UN

On Media Bias in Venezuela

As U.S. Death Toll in Afghanistan Passes 2,000 Mark, Phyllis Bennis on America’s Longest War

On the Anniversary of the Va. Tech Massacre, Nikki Giovanni says "Guns are and Idea Whose Time has Passed"

Back to $chool: College Is the Past, Prison Is the Future

The Betrayal of America's Middle Class Was a Choice, Not an Accident

Detroit Workers Fight Back Against 'Union Busting,' Privatization Plans

Venezuelan Barrios Vote for Chavez and Participatory Democracy

The True Reason US Fears Iranian Nukes: They Can Deter US Attacks

'Intimidation, Threats, and Lawyers': The Great American Gas Fracking 'Land Grab'

irginia Residents Fight Back Against Nuclear Industry Effort to Lift Ban on Uranium Mining

Jerry Brown Vetoes Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights

Why Don't Americans Care About Democracy at Home?

Organic Farming: Resilience in the Time of Drought

Anti-Drone Protesters Gather for Weekend March into Waziristan

"Democratic Womanism": Poet and Activist Alice Walker on Women Rising, Obama and the 2012 Election

Palestine Conditions "More Brutal" Than in U.S. South of 50 Years Ago, Says Author Alice Walker

Alice Walker on 30th Anniv. of "The Color Purple": Racism, Violence Against Women Are Global Issues