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January 31, 2018

'Outrageous' Gold Rush-Style Grab of Public Lands To Begin in Less Than 48 Hours

January 31, 2018

A Booming Stock Market Does Not Mean a Strong US Economy

January 31, 2018

Ilhan Omar, First Somali-American State Lawmaker: Trump’s SOTU was “Disgusting” & “Fascist” (VIDEO)

January 30, 2018

Canada's BC submits new rules to restrict oil shipments

January 30, 2018

A Tribute to Robert Parry: Independent Journalism at Its Best

January 30, 2018

Ari Berman Says GOP Uses Gerrymandering to Stay in Power (VIDEO)

January 29, 2018

Alabama’s Hale County is Subject of Poetic Documentary on Blackness

January 29, 2018

Robert Parry’s Legacy and the Future of Consortiumnews

January 29, 2018

Macron Leads France Back into Diplomatic Limelight

January 29, 2018

US Lends a Hand in Prosecuting Brazil's Lula di Silva

January 27, 2018

Australia's national day fuels debate on colonial past

January 27, 2018

Trump’s latest interview shows he’s not really the president

January 27, 2018

Centrist Democrats Are Undermining Progressive Candidates

January 27, 2018

How the 'diversity industry' silences people of colour

January 27, 2018

A Look at Germany's Extremely Unequal Wealth Distribution

January 27, 2018

Zeman beats Drahos to win Czech presidential runoff

January 27, 2018

Largest Marine Spill in History of Natural Gas Condensate

January 27, 2018

US Tourism Industry Blames Trump as Foreigners Flock Elsewhere

January 27, 2018

Special prosecutor to investigate 'every corner' of Michigan State University

January 27, 2018

Steve Wynn resigns as RNC finance chair after sexual misconduct allegations

January 27, 2018

Honduras: The Never-ending Coup

January 27, 2018

Deadly blast rocks Kabul, Taliban claims responsibility

January 27, 2018

Land Grab in Barbuda implicate Robert Di Nero and others

January 27, 2018

One Year in, Trump's Guantánamo Policy Is an Echo of Bush -- and Obama

January 27, 2018

More Bombs, Deaths in Trump's First Year in Office

January 27, 2018

Medea Benjamin: An American Jew Banned from Israel

January 27, 2018

Dear Democrats, You Just Don’t Have a Clue, Do You?

January 26, 2018

Stupid but True: Burger King's Whopper Video on Net Neutrality

January 26, 2018

MLK’s Radical Final Years: Civil Rights Leader Was Isolated After Taking On Capitalism & Vietnam War (VIDEO)

January 25, 2018

Don’t Send Asylum Seekers on a Journey of Pain, Suffering and Death

January 24, 2018

Denouncing 'FCC's Dangerous Ruling,' Cuomo Signs Order to Protect Net Neutrality in New York

January 24, 2018

Brazil court upholds Lula da Silva's graft conviction

January 24, 2018

New York sues Big Pharma for deadly opioid epidemic

January 24, 2018

German far-right politician quits nationalist party and becomes Muslim

January 24, 2018

"Both Cops And Robbers At The Same Time"

January 24, 2018

Fantasy Novelist Ursula Le Guin, Who Explored Resistance & Change, Dies at Age 88

January 24, 2018

It's Going to Take a New Economy to Save the Planet

January 24, 2018

Inside the Trump Administration's War on UNRWA and Palestinian Refugees

January 24, 2018

Oprah Is Not the US's Savior

January 24, 2018

Pennsylvania court orders new congressional map due to gerrymandering

January 23, 2018

DuPont Covered Up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across Globe

January 23, 2018

Two students dead, 12 others wounded by gunfire in Kentucky high school shooting

January 23, 2018

What Happens When Wall Street Becomes Your Landlord?

January 23, 2018

Trump Isn't Crazy, He's Just a Terrible Person

January 22, 2018

Robert Reich: Trump Is Destroying the GOP from the Inside Out

January 22, 2018

Banks Made $6.4 Billion in Overdraft Fees Last Year

January 22, 2018

Israel reaffirms its racist anti-Black policies

January 22, 2018

Apple: The Biggest Tax Cheaters in History Repatriate Profits Under Trump's Tax Bill

January 22, 2018

Progressives Slam Schumer for Caving to GOP on #TrumpShutdown

January 22, 2018

New Documentary Celebrates Life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

January 22, 2018

Global Protests Mark Anniversary of Women’s March & Trump Inauguration

January 21, 2018

Statue of Liberty to reopen; shutdown keeps other parks, monuments closed

January 21, 2018

Eleven killed, dozens injured in Turkey bus crash

January 21, 2018

Nation's Largest Janitorial Company Faces New Allegations of Rape

January 21, 2018

Fear of a Black Planet: Under the Republican Push for Welfare Cuts, Racism Boils

January 20, 2018

Zainab's rape, murder sparks child sexual abuse debate

January 20, 2018

Cape Town Water Wars: A Literal Shitstorm

January 20, 2018

Charges dropped for 129 anti-Trump protest defendants

January 20, 2018

The US is Arming and Assisting Neo-Nazis in Ukraine

January 20, 2018

Women's March draws thousands as Trump term enters second year

January 20, 2018

Four Unbelievable Realities for US Public Schools

January 20, 2018

Mayor Announces New Baltimore City Community Grants Program

January 20, 2018

Massive Oil Spill in East China Sea Is the Size of Paris

January 20, 2018

Massive Oil Spill in East China Sea Is the Size of Paris

January 20, 2018

Apple Avoided $40 Billion in Taxes. Now It Wants a Gold Star?

January 20, 2018

Government shutdown looms as Senate short of votes for spending bill

January 20, 2018

Police killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud angers Pakistanis

January 20, 2018

Ohio teen Joseph Haynes killed by police in court

January 20, 2018

The “Big Lie” About Gaza is That the Palestinians Have Been the Aggressors (VIDEO)

January 20, 2018

#TheAssistance: Democrats Hand Trump Warrantless Spying

January 18, 2018

Why some African Americans are moving to Africa

January 18, 2018

Congress Has Entrenched the Surveillance State

January 18, 2018

Belgium pledges $23m to UNRWA after US aid cut

January 18, 2018

Majority of National Parks Panel Quits to Protest Ryan Zinke

January 18, 2018

New York Rescinds Controversial Prison Books Policy

January 18, 2018

Trump Biographer on the President’s Cognitive Decline & Whether He Will Be Impeached

January 18, 2018

Three killed as severe storm lashes Netherlands

January 18, 2018

Iran's supreme leader: Saudis betrayed Muslim world

January 17, 2018

North and South Korea to field joint ice hockey team

January 16, 2018

Why menstrual stigma continues to claim lives in Nepal

January 16, 2018

Sex-For-Repairs Victim: 'I Felt Like I Had to Do This to Keep My Home'

January 16, 2018

Christen Smith on How Trauma from Police Violence Is Killing Black Women (VIDEO)

January 16, 2018

Norway to Trump: Keep Your Gold-Plated Sh*t Hole

January 15, 2018

A different kind of MLK Day

January 15, 2018

New York officials denounce Trump as racist and maniac at Martin Luther King Day event in Harlem

January 15, 2018

Florida prisoners plan Martin Luther King Day strike over 'slavery'

January 15, 2018

If Martin Luther King Jr were alive today, politicians would denounce him

January 15, 2018

Dolores O’Riordan, Lead Singer of the Cranberries, Dies at 46

January 15, 2018

Florida Inmates Launch Month-Long Campaign Protesting Prison Slavery, Inhumane Conditions

January 15, 2018

Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa (VIDEO)

January 15, 2018

Strong quotes for Martin Luther King Jr Day

January 15, 2018

Tunisians march on seventh anniversary of uprising

January 14, 2018

Mahmoud Abbas slams Trump over 'slap of the century'

January 14, 2018

Hospital Dumping Woman Into Freezing Cold Stirs Demand for "Medicare for All"

January 13, 2018

From Haiti to Africa, US Owes More Than a Trump Apology

January 13, 2018

Guatemala congressman arrested, accused in murders of two journalists

January 13, 2018

Paramilitary Forces Threaten to Derail Colombia's Peace Agreement

January 13, 2018

Chelsea Manning eyes U.S. Senate seat for Maryland

January 13, 2018

Ballistic missile warning sent in error by Hawaii authorities

January 13, 2018

I Live in a ‘Shithole Country.’ It’s Called the United States

January 13, 2018

Anti-Trump demonstrators march in Swiss capital

January 13, 2018

Julian Assange granted citizenship by Ecuador

January 13, 2018

Africans demand Trump apologise for racist remark

January 13, 2018

Trump's 'Shithole' Moment Is His Ugliest Yet

January 13, 2018

For black Americans, Trump's 'shithole' comment was an insult to their histories

January 13, 2018

World Leaders Denounce Trump's "Reprehensible and Racist" Insult to Haiti and African Countries

January 12, 2018

Two Palestinian teenagers killed by Israeli troops

January 12, 2018

Rev. William Barber: Trump is a Symptom of a Deeper Moral Malady Behind Racist, Xenophobic Policies (VIDEO)

January 12, 2018

"Victory for Democracy" as Court Rules Against North Carolina Gerrymandering

January 12, 2018

Judges Rule N. Carolina Representatives Cannot Choose their Voters

January 11, 2018

Honduras: 7.6 earthquake triggers Tsunami alert

January 11, 2018

'Tide Is Turning': Cheers Erupt for NYC's Suit Against Fossil Fuel Giants and Divestment

January 11, 2018

Oprah 2020? A Progressive's Take

January 11, 2018

Norman Finkelstein on the Many Lies Perpetuated About Gaza

January 10, 2018

Money for Police and Prisons but Not for Heat in Classrooms

January 10, 2018

Outrage at Baltimore School Board Meeting Over Freezing Classrooms

January 10, 2018

Billionaire Tom Steyer and the Wealthy Trump Resistance Grifters

January 10, 2018

“The Rape of Recy Taylor”: How Rosa Parks Helped a Sharecropper Report Her Assault & Seek Justice (VIDEO)

January 10, 2018

US Child Mortality Rate 70% Higher Than Other Wealthy Nations

January 08, 2018

Can Prisons Be Flipped for Good?

January 08, 2018

Prisons Slammed for Banning Book on Racist Legacy of Mass Incarceration

January 08, 2018

NAACP Calls for "A Mighty Storm of Snowflakes" to Greet Trump at Atlanta Game

January 08, 2018

Oprah Lifts Up Women, Brings Down the House at Golden Globes

January 07, 2018

Cornered Merkel upbeat as seeks to revive grand coalition

January 07, 2018

Iranian oil tanker still ablaze after collision off China's coast

January 07, 2018

Baltimore's $12M Youth Fund Gives Community the Reins

January 07, 2018

Internet Unites to Protect Net Neutrality as Netflix Tells FCC: "See You in Court"

January 07, 2018

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard declares victory over unrest 'caused by foreign enemies’

January 06, 2018

Warren Buffett Wins $1 Million Bet That Hedge Funds Are a Rip-Off

January 06, 2018

Max Blumenthal on 'Fire and Fury', Clinton Probe, and Russiagate

January 06, 2018

Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection

January 06, 2018

Other Countries Have High-Speed Trains. We Have Deadly Accidents and Crumbling Infrastructure

January 06, 2018

Trump, Defending His Mental Fitness, Says He’s a ‘Very Stable Genius’

January 05, 2018

Author of Trump book contradicts president, says aides see him as a 'child'

January 05, 2018

Nearly 1,000 Americans Killed By Police Officers in 2017

January 05, 2018

North and South Korea to resume diplomatic engagement

January 04, 2018