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Bombs Continue to Fall On Yemen As Arab States Announce New Military Force

The Pain Doesn't Go Away - Rachel Corrie's Parents on Reality Asserts Itself

One dead after vehicle rams into NSA HQ

Indiana's new discriminator "religious freedom" law suffers major backlash

Sound-based fire extinguisher puts out flames (VIDEO)

Bush Administration Official Defends Iraq War at Conference

Thousands Rally Against Cuomo's Billionaire-Backed Education Scheme

African Economist Samir Amin on the World Social Forum, Globalization & the Barbarism of Capitalism

Elizabeth Warren puts fear in the hearts of America's banking elite

2014 Deadliest Year for Palestinians Since 1967, UN Report Finds

Yemen Does Not Need Another War: Report from Sana’a as Saudi Attack Enters Second Day

As Saudi Arabia and Allies Continue Airstrikes, Sorrow and Rage in Yemen

Firefighters putting out huge blaze in NY on 66th & 1st, second fire in same night

The Costs of War, the Price of Peace

"War on Terror" Toll Tops 1.3 Million

‘To neutralize, they shoot suspect 10 times’ – ex-Philadelphia officer

My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam Site of U.S. Massacre He Exposed

Thousands in Montreal Unite Against Austerity and Petro-Economy

Germanwings Airbus Flight 9525: "Everything is pulverized"

Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS

Yemen in Crisis: U.S. Closes Key Drone Base & Withdraws Forces as U.N. Warns of Civil War

Costa Rica is now running completely on renewable energy

Three Florida cops sacked and one forced to resign after exchanging racist texts

​'Disgusted & shocked': Florida cops fired over racist texts, KKK video

'The living walls': Russian artist breathes life into abandoned & shabby buildings

Starbucks Baristas Stop Writing 'Race Together' on Cups

Noam Chomsky on the Roots of American Racism

Jim Crow in the Holy Land

The Growing Degradation of Work and Life, and What We Might Do to End It

Remembering Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector": Pioneering Journalist, Filmmaker & Activist

Progressive Community Celebrates Life, Work of Danny Schechter (1942-2015)

Monica Jones to the UN: US Must Decriminalize Sex Work

The institutional and normalized domestic terror against African-Americans

Danny Schechter, the News Dissector, Dies in NYC at 72

As Gentrification Persists in San Francisco, Evictions Take New Forms

Joseph Stiglitz on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: "This Is A Big Deal"

Univerity of Virginia: Black student’s bloody arrest prompts college protest

US THREATENED GERMANY OVER SNOWDEN, VICE CHANCELLOR SAYS

Remembering Civil Rights Leader Parren Mitchell

Obama Seeks Fast Track for TPP, Trade Deal that Could Thwart "Almost Any Progressive Policy or Goal"

"How the FBI Created a Terrorist"

In Chicago, Calls Grow for Investigation Into Homan Square 'Gestapo Tactics'

Oregon’s Radical Innovation: Make Democracy Easy

Ali Abunimah: Palestinians Better Off with Netanyahu

100,000 gather in central Moscow to celebrate Crimea reunification

Mesa Shooting: 1 Dead, 5 Injured in Arizona, Police Say

19 people killed in Tunis museum attack

Netanyahu Deserves the Israeli People, and They Deserve Him

Obama administration sets record for hiding gov't files

Largest US Presbyterian Group Approves Same-Sex Marriage

As Whistleblowers Jailed, Petraeus Escapes Prison & Advises White House

China cuts back on US debt for 5th month in a row

Vanuatu Blames Global Warming as Cyclone Causes Nation’s Worst Climate Disaster in Recent Memory

After Swedish Prosecutors Back Down, Is WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Close to Freedom?

On 12th Anniversary of Rachel Corrie's Death, Renewed Calls for Justice

Nick Hanauer: Self-made Billionaire Says Corporate America Bankrupting The Nation

As Tony Robinson Laid to Rest, Calls for Action Grow

Pedophilia in Britain ‘woven into the fabric of society’ – Theresa May

Putin in film on Crimea: US masterminds behind Ukraine coup, helped train radicals

Style mavens in a tizzy as Kardashians take over Fashion Week

Normalized racism exists in Oklahoma, and elsewhere

Are California's Starving Sea Lions Latest Victims of Climate Change?

Michael Graves dies at 80; pioneering figure in postmodern architecture

New Senate Cybersecurity Bill Seen as Trojan Horse for More Spying

Should McDonald’s & Monsanto Have the Same Rights as People?

Swedish prosecutors offer to question Assange in London over rape case

South America unites as Bolivia lashes out at Obama for Venezuela sanctions

Eyewitness to Ferguson Police Shooting: Gunfire Did Not Come From Area of Nonviolent Protest

Iceland announces dropping bid to join EU

2 police shot in racially tense Ferguson

Ambush shooting in Ferguson part of disturbing trend

Iran's Ayatollah Khameini Derides GOP Letter as 'Collapse of Political Ethics'

50 Years After Selma, African Americans Remain Targeted by Mass Incarceration

Gateway to Freedom: Historian Eric Foner on the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Ferguson Police Chief and City Manager Resign

Iran Letter Shows GOP Senators Just 'Itching for War', says Senator Bernie Sanders

Martin Luther King III: Don’t Idolize My Father, Embrace His Ideals of Freedom, Justice and Equality

First Wedded Same-Sex Couple in Montgomery, Alabama, on Fight for Marriage Equality & Civil Rights

International Women's Day: How We Discuss Rape in India and the World

Overturned tanker spills fuel, closes stretch of I-95 in Md.

Oklahoma university bans fraternity after racist anti-black chant

Candidates Kiss the Koch Ring

How to Become a Conservative in Four Embarrassing Steps

103-Year-Old Civil Rights Pioneer Joins Original Foot Soldiers, Jesse Jackson to Mark Bloody Sunday

In Trip to Selma, Michael Brown’s Mother Calls for Elimination of Ferguson Police Dept.

"Still Work to Be Done": Rep. John Lewis Returns to Selma 50 Years After He Was Beaten Unconscious

The Worst Supreme Court for Civil Rights Since 1857: Alabama’s First Black Federal Judge Speaks Out

Civil Rights Pioneer Diane Nash: I Refused to March With George Bush During Selma Anniversary

Israeli FM calls for beheading of Arab citizens disloyal to Israel

Netanyahu’s govt more ‘frightening’ than all Israel’s enemies – fmr Mossad chief

Estimated 50,000 Rally Against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv

Russia: 5 suspects arrested over Nemtsov murder, 1 'confessed'

Another unarmed black teen killed by police, this time in Wisconsin

Meet Jesús "Chuy" García, the Chicago Activist Aiming to Unseat "Mayor 1%" Rahm Emanuel

Derailed Oil Train Continues To Burn In Illinois

From Crispus Attucks to Michael Brown: Race and Revolution

Chelsea Manning Wins Milestone In Years-Long Fight for Gender Rights

Robert Reich Says Elizabeth Warren Should Challenge Hillary Clinton

"I Thought I Saw Death": John Lewis Remembers Police Attack on Bloody Sunday in Selma 50 Years Ago

Daniel Ellsberg: Petraeus Case Shows Hypocrisy of Whistleblower Crackdown

General David Petraeus: Too Big To Jail

Attica’s Ghosts: New Calls to Close Site of Prison Revolt

Benjamin Netanyahu's Fantasy World

Nearly 60 Lawmakers Boycott Netanyahu Speech

Koala cull: 700 endangered marsupials secretly slain by Australian authorities

Michelle Alexander on Racial Control and the American Jim Crow Justice System

Noam Chomsky on Black Lives Matter: Why Won’t U.S. Own Up to History of Slavery & Racism?

Noam Chomsky: To Deal with ISIS, U.S. Should Own Up to Chaos of Iraq War

Nurses Unite to Stop TPP Fast Track

Blaming Elizabeth Warren, Democrats throw themselves at the feet of Republicans...again

Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student Loan Papers

Western media reaction to Nemtsov’s murder is ‘absolutely outrageous’

The United State's Terrorist Legacy of Lynching

Noam Chomsky on How the Iraq War Birthed ISIS & Why U.S. Policy Undermines the Fight Against It

Noam Chomsky: Opposing Iran Nuclear Deal, Israel’s Goal Isn’t Survival — It’s Regional Dominance

Los Angeles Police Kill Unarmed Homeless Man

Video shows fatal shooting of homeless man by Los Angeles police

Islamic State’s Destruction of Museum & Library is Cultural & Ethnic Cleansing