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Washington DC's Poorest Residents Fight Displacement by Gentrification

Hillary Clinton vs the 99%

NSA documents reveal that 'Obama admin. clearly never wanted Copenhagen talks to work'

Living near fracking sites increases infant birth defects

Canadian Government Hacked Free Airport Wi-Fi for Mass Surveillance

Fraud-Ridden Banks Are Not LA's Only Option

Is Israel a "Jewish Nation"? Is the US an "American Nation"?

American State of the Union: A Festival of Lies

An Austerity Storm Hammers Georgia

Elementary kids school lunches taken away because parents are poor

Monarch Butterfly in 'Grave Danger'

Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech

Jeremy Scahill on the "Drone President" & Obama’s Whitewashing of NSA Spying

Iran Slams Obama's Claim Sanctions Brought Diplomacy

New York’s Outrageous Attempt to Ban Academic BDS

Hackers deface Angry Birds website following NSA revelations

Shell Ditches Its Arctic Drilling Plans

The Dutch Weed Burger: Vegan Fast Superfood

Top lawyer to MPs: GCHQ mass surveillance largely illegal

Southeast US caught in deep winter freeze

Ukraine Prime Minister Azarov resigns

"Dirty Wars" Filmmaker Jeremy Scahill on the "Drone President" & Obama’s Whitewashing of NSA Spying

"A Silent Coup": Jeremy Scahill & Bob Herbert on Corporate, Military Interests Shaping Obama’s SOTU

America's Conscience: Pete Seeger Dies at 94

"We Shall Overcome": Remembering Folk Icon, Activist Pete Seeger in His Own Words & Songs

Norwegian Lawmakers Nominate Snowden For Nobel Peace Prize

The State of Phony Populism

Forget $10.10... The Real Wage Fight Starts at $15

Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality

Exposed: Covert, Real-Time Spying on Youtube, Facebook, Blogs

Guantanamo must close during Obama's term, says Russian Foreign Ministry

Got a charge for $9.84 on your credit card? Beware

Endless, Global War Continues as US Bombs Somalia

President Obama's Inequality Story

Why There’s No Outcry

Bill Moyers on the Attack on Voting Rights & How Racism Stills Drives Our Politics

NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data

The 20 Richest Americans: Takers, Not Makers

Costas Lapavitsas Discusses the Financialization of Capitalism: Book Review and Interview

20 young people a day hospitalized for gun injuries

The Fukushima Secrecy Syndrome – From Japan to America

Republicans vote to end NSA bulk phone metadata surveillance program

Federal Oversight Board: NSA Program Ineffective & Illegal

Look Who's Talking: Republicans Denounce NSA Spying

State of the Estate: Mario Cuomo's Tax Giveaway to the Rich

Rhode Island Govenor wants state to be synonymous with the arts

Michael Pollan on the Food Movement's Next Goal of Justice for Food Workers

Florida Waters Becoming a Morgue for Marine Mammals?

NSA is after industrial spying

Intelligence Officials Make Direct Threats on Snowden's Life

JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon Rewarded With 74% Pay Increase

Maryland mall shooting: Death, panic, sorrow

Promises, Drugs and Executions

44 HD films a second: Team in UK manages fastest ever ‘real world’ internet speeds

Ceasefire Reached, But Will South Sudan Survive Oil-Fueled Neocolonialism?

Bailout Architect Runs For California Governor; World Laughs

Multiple explosions rock Cairo

Indian police in West Bengal say officials ordered gang-rape

N.S.A. Program Is Illegal and Should End

Obama’s Lies & NSA Spies: Will You Choose Dangerous Freedom or Peaceful Slavery?

Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower says 'I acted alone' and calls spy accusations 'absurd'

Ukraine protests: Two people killed while protesting in Kiev clashes

Millionaires' Congress vs. The People

The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism

Why Did Police Beat an Elderly Man for Jaywalking?

Ownership of WaPo by CIA Contractor Puts U.S. Journalism in Dangerous Terrain

EU Panel Requests Testimony of NSA Whistleblower Snowden

How the Magic of Music Proves Therapeutic for Patients with Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Blackout: Hollywood

Kiev frontline brutality: RT reporter films police beating protesters on ground

Art as Research

Survivors & Advocates Confront Victim Blaming & the Epidemic of Domestic Abuse

Louisiana Court Rules That 7,000 Teachers Were Wrongfully Terminated

Marriage in a Prison Visiting Room

Obscene wealth: World’s 85 richest have same wealth as 3.5 billion poorest

SPECIAL: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words

MLK: Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam

Panicked lawmakers mull firing squad executions as drug shortage worsens

Company responsible for W. Virginia chemical spill files for bankruptcy

Who Elected Them?

Protests against government takeover of internet receive violent response in Turkey

In the Home of the Richest Man in Palestine

Infamous Japan Town on Verge of Mass Dolphin Slaughter

Nuclear Refugees from Fukushima Join Anti-Nuke Protests

California Governor Declares Drought Emergency

The Trans Pacific Partnership – The More We Know, The Worse It Gets

Three Obama Speeches for the People

Glenn Greenwald on Obama's NSA 'Reforms'

Gitmo 12 Years Later

Net Neutrality Ruling Will Disempower Communities of Color

Secret amendment in Congress keeps CIA in charge of deadly drone strikes

Effort to 'Normalize' NSA Spying, 'Mollify Public' Rebuked

The United States’ Bloody Messes in Yemen

Dr. King’s Nightmare

'A Goldmine to Exploit': NSA Vacuuming Up Millions of Text Messages Daily

Ohio's latest inmate execution ignites criticism and new death penalty controversy

Chelsea Manning awarded 2014 Sam Adams Prize for Integrity in Intelligence

The Special Ops Surge: America's Secret War in 134 Countries

Abu Ghraib 2.0? Horrifying images of US Marines burning Iraqis prompt military investigation

NSA able to target offline computers using radio-waves for surveillance, cyber-attacks

For Fukushima’s Displaced, a Struggle to Recover Lives Torn Apart by Nuclear Disaster

From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Pursues a Nuclear Future Despite a Devastating Past

Single cinder block was used to contain toxic chemical prior to mass W. Virginia spill

The FCC Can and Must Prevent a Separate-but-Unequal Internet

With Internet Under Attack, Who Will Slay the Telecom Giants?

1 student critical, 1 stable after boy opens fire in New Mexico middle school gym

Whole Foods Agrees to Stop Selling Produce Grown in Sewage Sludge

2013: A Deadly Year For Journalists

West Virginia Water Crisis: Gaping Holes in State and Federal Regulation

America Is Still a Deeply Racist Country

Federal Court Sides With Telecom, Deals Blow to Open Internet

How Politicians Use Coded Racism to Push Through Policies Hurting All

America's Real Welfare Queens

Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off Fukushima

Google to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion in cash

Thailand anti-government protesters continue effort to 'shut down' Bangkok

200 dead in S. Sudan after boat fleeing war sinks

Key provision of net-neutrality law struck down by court

BREAKING: Police officers not guilty in killing of Kelly Thomas

On GMO Seed Patents: ​Supreme Court hands Monsanto victory

Suicide Rate Soars Among Young Vets

US tested biological weapons in Japan’s Okinawa in the 60s – report

Four Years After Haiti

Sabra & Shatila Massacre That Forced Sharon’s Ouster Recalls Worst of Jewish Pogroms

Noam Chomsky on Ariel Sharon: Not Speaking Ill of the Dead "Imposes a Vow of Silence"

A National Strategy Funds State Political Monopolies

Black rhino hunting permit auctioned for $350,000

Israeli police to investigate ‘expressions of joy’ at Sharon’s death

A Racial Justice Bucket List for 2014

Fire destroys ancient Tibetan town in SW China

Ariel Sharon's Legacy Includes Massacres of Palestinians and Lebanese

Washington's Millionaire Boyz Club

Guantanamo Anniversary: 12 Years Of A Continuing War Crime

Pussy Riot abandons ‘brand,’ will form human rights group

Corrupt Britain: UK’s key institutions infiltrated by known criminals

Death of former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon met with tears and cheers

Now We Know: JPMorgan Chase Is Worse Than Enron

Fukushima radiation reaches 8 times govt standards

Unemployment Falls to 6.7 Percent Due to Workers Leaving the Labor Force

You Have the Watches; They Have the Time

Ex-Israeli PM Ariel Sharon dies at 85

Obama Administration Stays Quiet as Boeing Strikes Major Blow to Pensions

Officials reject concerns over 500 percent radiation increase on California beach

Crippling West Virginia chemical spill leaves Charleston dry, quiet

Almost 50% of people hospitalized for the flu are obese

Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp

State of emergency, water ban issued in West Virginia over chemical leak

US Marines Shoot and Kill Four-Year-Old Afghan Boy

As Predators Vanish, Ecosystems Thrown Off Balance

Amiri Baraka (1934-2014): Revolutionary Poet-Playwright-Activist Who Shaped Black Culture

Obama's Sideways Attack on Edward Snowden

Target's Data Breach Just Got Much Worse

Feds recognize same-sex marriages in Utah

Oklahoma executes another man in convenience store killing

Smithsonian showcases Mars rover images taken on red planet

Poet and Activist, Amiri Baraka, dies at 79

Noam Chomsky Describes US Domestic Policy in Two Words: 'Pure Savagery'

Higher Hopes for Hemp

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership would be an unmitigated disaster for everything..."

Monsanto announces high profits and major expansion across Latin America

USDA Moves to Approve "Agent Orange" GMO Seeds

50 Years After LBJ’s "War on Poverty," a Call for a New Fight Against 21st Century Inequality

In New York City’s New Political Era, Progressives Take Major Posts Under Mayor de Blasio

Seattle Swears In a Socialist

Former NSA whistleblowers plead for chance to brief Obama on agency abuses

Macy's will lay off 2,500 workers but hire others as it aims to save $100 million a year

Deadly cold snap in US shatters temp. records, sends even polar bears to shelter

Afghan Children Pay the Price of Brutal War

Apple, Amazon downgraded 'on moral and ethical grounds'

'Burglars' Revealed: Sixties Activists Who Stole FBI COINTELPRO Files

Noam Chomsky | What Is the Common Good?

Frigid 'Polar Vortex' Puts Homeless in Extreme Danger

Jobs or Inequality? That's No Choice at All

By Pushing the TPP, Obama is Repeating the Mistakes of NAFTA

Funding Climate Deniers to Shadowy Groups, Koch Brothers Network Spent $400 Million in 2012

As Polar Vortex Brings Deep Freeze, Is Extreme Weather Linked to Climate Change?

Extremely cold temperature as deep freeze sweeps east

NSA refuses to answer whether it spies on Congress

Rethinking Marijuana

"Drugs Aren’t the Problem": Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science & Myths About Addiction

The Last Gasp of American Democracy

CIA Lawyer: Stopping Torture 'Would Have Been Easy,' But I Approved It Anyway

Bacon: NAFTA Hurt Workers on Both Sides of the Border

30,000 African migrants take to Tel-Aviv streets protesting detention policy

Brutality against Afghan women at record level

Rescue saga: US ship heads to free two trapped icebreakers in Antarctic

New York Gov. Cuomo to allow limited use of medical marijuana

Quest for justice continues 5 years after slaying of Oscar Grant

Chris Kluwe: I Was An NFL Player Until I Was Fired By Two Cowards And A Bigot

Chinese leaders mix with the masses in rare display

935,000 displaced in Central African Republic amid ‘unprecedented’ violence

Syrian Children Lose More Than Their Country

'The Country You Destroyed': A Letter to George W. Bush by Ralph Nader