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December 31, 2017
1 officer killed, multiple deputies & civilians wounded in shooting near Denver
December 31, 2017
Happy New Year! Cities across the world welcome 2018
December 31, 2017
Colin Kaepernick says human rights 'cannot be compromised' as he accepts ACLU award
December 31, 2017
Who Knows What Other Surprises the Fool Has in Store for Us?
December 31, 2017
A Return to Debtors' Prisons: Jeff Sessions' War on the Poor
December 31, 2017
Facebook Says It Is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
December 31, 2017
Colin Kaepernick accepts Muhammad Ali Legacy Award
December 30, 2017
Protests hit Tehran, two demonstrators reported killed in Iran town
December 30, 2017
The USDA Wants to Kill Key Organic Egg Standards
December 30, 2017
Renowned Atlanta architect John Portman dies at 93
December 30, 2017
Atlanta’s King family mourns passing of Isaac Farris Sr.
December 30, 2017
Erica Garner, Activist and Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27
December 29, 2017
Will Uterus Transplants Change the Way We Perceive Gender?
December 29, 2017
Why Is the State of Israel So Afraid of 16-Year-Old Ahed Tamimi?
December 29, 2017
Concerns Raised About $1 Billion Facial Scan Program with High Error Rate at Nine U.S. Airports (VIDEO)
December 29, 2017
Trump Dismisses Entire HIV/AIDS Council by FedEx Letter
December 28, 2017
Rattling the Bars: The Strange Case of Merle Unger
December 28, 2017
UNICEF: Children suffer at shocking scale in conflicts
December 28, 2017
Puerto Rico Relief Package Demands More Than Half Measures
December 28, 2017
America’s Farmworkers Face Poverty, Neglect, and Now Deportation
December 28, 2017
“Bussed Out”: How Cities Are Giving Thousands of Homeless People One-Way Bus Tickets to Leave Town (VIDEO)
December 28, 2017
Jones certified U.S. Senate winner despite Moore challenge
December 26, 2017
Clinton, Blair and Obama Destroyed the Idealism of Politics - Gabriel Byrne on RAI
December 26, 2017
Will self-driving cars do more harm than good?
December 26, 2017
Peru's Fujimori asks for forgiveness, thanks Kuczynski for pardon
December 26, 2017
Why We Can't Ignore Libya, Enslavement and the Damages of US Intervention
December 26, 2017
Civil Rights Activist Erica Garner in Critical Condition After Suffering Heart Attack
December 26, 2017
Japan PM Abe urges firms to raise wages by 3 percent or more
December 25, 2017
Pope Francis Appeals for Peace Amid Conflicts Supported and Inflamed by Trump
December 25, 2017
Noam Chomsky in Conversation with Amy Goodman on Trump, Nukes, North Korea, Climate Change & Syria (VIDEO)
December 25, 2017
Let Yemenis Live
December 25, 2017
Israel to maintain ties with Austria's far-right FPO
December 24, 2017
No More Silence About the Torture of Animals
December 24, 2017
Kameron Prescott: Anger as police kill Texas child
December 23, 2017
China's killer smog rolls in
December 23, 2017
Bitcoin Is Plunging! Bitcoin Is Plunging!
December 23, 2017
93 Days Later, Puerto Rico Can’t Get Supplies to Turn on the Power
December 23, 2017
CDC Bars Words Like “Transgender” & “Science-Based” (VIDEO)
December 22, 2017
The Truth About Power and Capitalism: A Socialist Response to the Tax Bill
December 22, 2017
Tax Bill is One of Greatest Transfers of Wealth from Working Class to Rich in History (VIDEO)
December 22, 2017
'Corporations Are Literally Going Wild,' Says Trump as He Signs Tax Bill Most Americans Hate
December 22, 2017
Catalan Separatists Defy Obstacles to Win Parliament Majority
December 22, 2017
UN General Assembly rejects Trump's Jerusalem move
December 21, 2017
While US Attacks Net Neutrality, UK Makes High-Speed Internet 'Legal Right'
December 18, 2017
Charlottesville police chief retires after report faults department
December 18, 2017
US vetoes resolution on Trump's Jerusalem decision
December 18, 2017
Police Shoot More People Than Previously Known
December 18, 2017
Puerto Rico Governor Demands Recount of Hurricane Maria Deaths
December 18, 2017
Amtrak train on new route derails in Washington state
December 18, 2017
Erik Prince to Partner With Mozambique Hidden-Debt Companies
December 17, 2017
Power outage strands thousands at Atlanta airport
December 17, 2017
Veteran Journalist Bill Moyers Announces Site Closure - Retirement
December 17, 2017
Tributes pour in for late Kenyan scholar Calestous Juma
December 17, 2017
ISIL weapons traced to US and Saudi Arabia
December 17, 2017
Mental Health Professionals Warn of Trump’s Increasing Instability (VIDEO)
December 17, 2017
Europe far right hails Trump, slams EU, Islam, migrants
December 17, 2017
Pakistan: Quetta church hit in suicide attack
December 15, 2017
Protests held worldwide against Jerusalem capital move
December 15, 2017
Millionaire's Viral Video Shows How GOP Plan Is 'Just Big Tax Cut for People Like Me'
December 15, 2017
Meet the Woman Who's Boosting Arizona's Mom-and-Pop Business Culture
December 14, 2017
From Net Neutrality to Tax Cuts, Trump's Billionaires are Having a Field Day
December 14, 2017
U.S. Support “Vital” to Saudi Bombing of Yemen, Targeting Food Supplies as Millions Face Famine (VIDEO)
December 14, 2017
Canada granting US border agents 'expanded' powers
December 14, 2017
Net Neutrality Killed as FCC 'Hands Keys to Internet to Handful of Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations'
December 13, 2017
Virtually No Economist Believes the GOP Tax Bill Will Generate Growth
December 13, 2017
Education Victory in Philadelphia as Parents, Teachers & Activists Reclaim Control of Schools (VIDEO)
December 13, 2017
Rwanda report says France 'complicit' in 1994 genocide
December 13, 2017
USA Today's Editorial Bashes "Uniquely Awful" Trump
December 13, 2017
Ford Motor Company moving mid-sized production to China
December 13, 2017
OIC declares East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital
December 13, 2017
Omarosa Manigault Newman Resigns from White House Job
December 13, 2017
Doug Jones defeats Roy Moore in Alabama senate race
December 13, 2017
India's deafening silence after Trump's Jerusalem shift
December 12, 2017
Nearly 60 Female Lawmakers Demand Congressional Investigation into Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump
December 12, 2017
Ed Lee, San Francisco Mayor, Dies at 65
December 12, 2017
'Beaten' Palestinian boy in viral photo to face charges
December 12, 2017
Anti-Nuclear Coalition Accepts Nobel Peace Prize As Calls for Disarmament Grow
December 12, 2017
Mike Pence is “Orchestra Master” of Assault on Women’s Rights Under Trump (VIDEO)
December 12, 2017
Billionaire Branson branded ‘a grasping capitalist’ for suing cash-strapped NHS
December 12, 2017
Web Pioneers Demand FCC Cancel Net Neutrality Vote
December 11, 2017
Palestinians reject "This is Bahrain" delegataion
December 11, 2017
Privatize the Wars, Franchise in China: Erik Prince Is On the Move
December 11, 2017
Putin orders beginning of withdrawal from Syria
December 11, 2017
France to Award Research Grants for US Climate Scientists
December 11, 2017
Black Leaders Boycott Trump Photo Op at Civil Rights Museum (VIDEO)
December 11, 2017
Women demand probe into alleged Trump sexual assaults
December 11, 2017
Explosion rocks New York commuter hub, suspect in custody
December 11, 2017
Sales of Military Weapons Soared Globally in 2016
December 10, 2017
Protesters Greet Trump At Mississippi Museum As Leaders Honor Civil Rights Figures
December 09, 2017
Hariri's Unresignation is Saudi's Latest Failure
December 09, 2017
Far Higher Than Official Count, Puerto Rico Death Toll Likely In Thousands
December 09, 2017
Iraqi PM Abadi declares 'end of war against' ISIL
December 09, 2017
Rare snow for the southern US
December 08, 2017
Pipelines Leak—Or They Explode
December 08, 2017
120 Jewish Studies Scholars Condemn Trump's Jerusalem Declaration
December 07, 2017
Wildfires are Leveling LA Neighborhoods, Is There More to Come?
December 07, 2017
Macron backs Kuwaiti efforts to end blockade of Qatar
December 07, 2017
Hamas: US decision on Jerusalem is a war declaration
December 06, 2017
‘Sugar daddy' dating website advertises in Switzerland after outrage in France & Belgium
December 06, 2017
Jerusalem is the ‘eternal capital of the state of Palestine’ – Palestine leader Abbas
December 06, 2017
Citing Trump's 'Racially Hostile' Record, Critics Say He Shouldn't Attend Civil Rights Museum's Grand Opening
December 06, 2017
Trump's 'Criminal' Jerusalem Move Could Backfire
December 06, 2017
'Good to go': Top Trump aide gave inaugural day ok to nuclear plan
December 06, 2017
Daniel Ellsberg Warns of Nuclear Winter & Global Starvation (VIDEO)
December 05, 2017
Russia banned from Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
December 05, 2017
What a US embassy in Jerusalem means to Palestinians
December 05, 2017
School Privatization Is Educational Apartheid by Another Name
December 05, 2017
Native American Tribes Join to File Lawsuit Against Trump Attack on Bears Ears National Monument (VIDEO)
December 04, 2017
Why Redneck Revolt Says Deal With Racism First, Then Economics
December 04, 2017
Homelessness: One of Capitalism's Many Inevitable Products
December 04, 2017
US Senate Quietly Passes Alaska Oil-Drilling Bill
December 04, 2017
It’s Time To Change More Than Trump
December 04, 2017
Argentine Government Bars Major NGO Representatives from WTO Meeting
December 04, 2017
Rep. Keith Ellison: GOP Tax Bill Would Reorder Society & Create “Hereditary Aristocracy” for Rich (VIDEO)
December 04, 2017
Leaders in the Arab Spring era: Where are they now?
December 04, 2017
Yemen: Ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed
December 03, 2017
CVS Health to acquire Aetna for $69 billion in year's largest acquisition
December 03, 2017
Clinton mega-donor Saban thanks Kushner for ‘collusion’ on Israel’s behalf
December 03, 2017
Thousands rally in Hanover against anti-Islam AfD party
December 02, 2017
Yemen's fate was sealed six years ago
December 01, 2017
GOP Quietly Moves to Open Arctic Refuge to Oil & Gas Drilling While Earth Undergoes 6th Extinction (VIDEO)
December 01, 2017
'Slavery is an outrageous reality in Libya'
December 01, 2017
Disappointment as Mnangagwa names new cabinet
December 01, 2017
Help the Women of Walmart Today
December 01, 2017
Wired device ‘filled with nails’ defused at Christmas market in Potsdam, Germany
December 01, 2017
In Guilty Plea, Flynn Admits Trump Transition Team Directed Him to Contact Russian Officials
November 30, 2017
Protests Erupt as Honduras Presidential Election Results Reversed
November 30, 2017
Indictment Links Drugs Planted by Dirty Cop to Slain Baltimore Detective
November 30, 2017
Bitcoin loses over a fifth of its value in less than 24 hours
November 30, 2017
Joseph Stiglitz says Trump Tax Plan to Worsen Inequality, Expand Loopholes (VIDEO)
November 30, 2017
Saudi women scholars call out prince's reform agenda
November 30, 2017
Africa solidarity is a 'pillar of Palestinian struggle'
November 30, 2017
Heather McGhee on Matt Lauer, Trump, Sexual Assault, Patriarchy and the Tax Code (VIDEO)
November 28, 2017
Trump's Latest Deal? Selling Out West Virginia to China
November 28, 2017
US government has Black Lives Matter under full-time surveillance according to documents
November 28, 2017
Pope Francis arrives in Myanmar amid Rohingya crisis
November 28, 2017
Mosque Attack Comes As Egypt Faces “Wave of Oppression” on Political Freedoms (VIDEO)
November 27, 2017
Saudi Arabia's Role in 9/11
November 27, 2017
Trump-Loving, NFL-Protest-Hating Police-Union Chief Who Supported Tamir Rice Killer Ousted by Black Cops
November 27, 2017
The Curious Case of the Black Male Escort Found Dead Inside a Wealthy Democratic Donor’s Home
November 27, 2017
Democrats Urged to Return Money From Donor Involved In Death of Black Male Escort
November 27, 2017
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt
November 27, 2017
Why we are suing the Norwegian government
November 27, 2017
The death of the Russian far right
November 26, 2017
Overthrowing Assad and the Neoconservative Agenda in Syria
November 26, 2017
Rep. Conyers steps down from committee while lawmakers probe harassment claims
