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August 31, 2018
With art a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida’s penitentiaries
August 31, 2018
John McCain: The Hawkish Voice of Military-Industrial Complex Helped Pave Way for Trump
August 31, 2018
Trump stands by disparaging remarks on Canada and trade
August 31, 2018
Paul Taylor: One of the most influential creators in modern dance
August 31, 2018
Paul Taylor Dies at 88; Brought Poetry and Lyricism to Modern Dance
August 31, 2018
In San Francisco Two White Men Assault and Thrown Teen off Train
August 31, 2018
Uri Avnery, a Dissident Israel Voice of Non-Racist Zionism
August 31, 2018
New Book Concludes Trump is Compromised by Russian Mafia
August 31, 2018
Canadian Court Rescinds Trans Mountain Approval
August 31, 2018
Legal Watchdog Group says Dissolve the 'Fraudulent' and 'Criminal' Trump Organization
August 31, 2018
Respect: A Tribute to Aretha Franklin, an Icon of the Civil Rights & Feminist Movements (VIDEO)
August 31, 2018
Tears, anger as Germany returns human remains seized from Namibia
August 31, 2018
White Privilege 101: How To "Survive" Killing An Unarmed Black Man
August 30, 2018
Reverend Adam Taylor critiques the evangelical Faustian bargain with Trump
August 30, 2018
Thousands of teachers in Washington state strike over salaries
August 29, 2018
Ramaphosa tells Trump: Keep your America. Stay out of our issues
August 29, 2018
White cop charged with murder after shooting black teen Laquan McDonald 16 times
August 29, 2018
Critics blast Ron DeSantis for 'monkey this up' comment about Andrew Gillum agenda
August 29, 2018
Andrew Gillum Upends Expectations in Florida Primary Victory
August 29, 2018
Andrew Gillum Upends Expectations in Florida Primary Victory
August 29, 2018
100+ Lawmakers Deliver 'Irrefutable Evidence' That Net Neutrality Repeal Was 'Abysmally Wrong'
August 29, 2018
Sanders vs. Amazon Intensifies as Senator Stands With Struggling Workers Against World's Richest Man
August 29, 2018
1,000 First Responders Urge Congress to Restore Net Neutrality
August 28, 2018
Nuns On the Bus to Mar-A-Lago: A Fiesta For the Common Good
August 28, 2018
French Environment Minister Quits In Live Interview
August 28, 2018
Soy boom devours Brazil’s tropical savanna
August 28, 2018
Garrett Clayton Came Out And Says He Has A Lover
August 28, 2018
UK's Theresa May endorses South African land reform
August 28, 2018
Trump Privately Urges Pastors to Help Him From the Pulpit in Midterms
August 28, 2018
Anti-LGBT Pastor Explains Why Evangelicals Don't Care About Trump's Adultery
August 28, 2018
Trump instructs religious leaders to campaign for IRepublicans from the pulpit
August 28, 2018
Vermont AG opens investigation into online threats against Kiah Morris
August 28, 2018
White House investigating Google after Trump accuses it of bias
August 28, 2018
U.S. energy companies fume over rejected steel tariff exemptions
August 28, 2018
Peace Activists Block Boeing Bus to Protest War on Yemen
August 28, 2018
50 Years Later, Organizers Recall the 1968 Democratic Party Convention (VIDEO)
August 28, 2018
Obama and the Oligarchs
August 27, 2018
French President Macron: Europe cannot depend on US for security
August 27, 2018
French Open bans Serena William' catsuit
August 27, 2018
Ex-Obama Official: We Fueled the Syria War Rather Than Stopping It
August 27, 2018
Trump tweets about white farmers while indigenous peoples face annihilation
August 27, 2018
9 year-old boy kills himself after being bullied at school
August 27, 2018
Is Rupert Murdoch the biggest threat to democracy in the world?
August 27, 2018
Burning hatred of Donald Trump motivates so many to crowdfund crooks & undesirables
August 27, 2018
Morocco: Outcry after 'girl is raped, tattooed with swastikas'
August 27, 2018
Accusing Trump of 'Naked Economic Aggression,' Iran Urges UN High Court to Halt US Sanctions
August 27, 2018
The Battle Over West Virginia’s Coal Country
August 27, 2018
John McCain: The impossible man
August 27, 2018
What Fifteen Years of U.S. Occupation Has Produced? Angry Iraqis
August 27, 2018
Top student loan official resigns, blaming Trump administration
August 27, 2018
Seth Frontam resigns citing Trump's hostility toward students
August 27, 2018
Pope Francis he says will not respond to allegations of abuse cover-up
August 26, 2018
Neil Simon, Broadway Master of Comedy, Is Dead at 91
August 26, 2018
Horrific Sound of Gunshots Captured Live on Social Media During Mass Shooting at Gamer Event
August 26, 2018
Jacksonville councilman goes off on guns and God at site of gamer shooting
August 26, 2018
Sen. John McCain, Republican War Hawk, Dead at 81
August 25, 2018
Sen. John McCain, Former Presidential Nominee And Prisoner Of War, Dies At 81
August 25, 2018
Swedish nationalist party leader says Hitler is ‘a good person surrounded by lies’
August 25, 2018
How Flint Was Gentrified Through its Water Crisis
August 25, 2018
Judge strikes down Trump’s federal workforce executive orders
August 25, 2018
NSA Leaker Reality Winner’s 5-Year Term is An Attack on Whistleblowing
August 25, 2018
Second Fox News reporter leaves amid objections to network
August 25, 2018
Forget Impeachment: The Entire Trump Presidency Should Be Annulled
August 25, 2018
26 More Children Killed by US-Backed Bombing in Yemen
August 25, 2018
US woman gets five years in prison for leaking NSA document
August 24, 2018
2 Men Sentenced To Prison For Beating Black Man During Charlottesville Rally
August 24, 2018
Trump administration slashes $200 million in funding to Palestinians
August 24, 2018
Election Officials in Georgia Nix Black Voter Suppression Plan
August 24, 2018
US cuts funding for United Nations Human Rights Commission
August 24, 2018
Wildfire Smoke Makes Seattle and Portland World's Dirtiest Cities
August 24, 2018
Verizon throttled Santa Clara County firefighters’ data as they fought Mendocino fire, chief says
August 23, 2018
German police pose as protester harassing a TV Crew
August 23, 2018
Credit Suisse freezes $5 billion of Russian money due to U.S. sanctions
August 23, 2018
National Prison Strike Draws Attention to 'Slave Like' Working Conditions
August 23, 2018
Greece Exits its Bailout but Remains Shackled by Debt and Austerity
August 23, 2018
Venezuela’s New Economic Program: Will it Stop Hyperinflation?
August 22, 2018
Elizabeth Warren Intensifies Anti-Corruption Calls After Manafort and Cohen's Day in Court
August 22, 2018
Trump is an illegitimate president whose election is tainted by fraud
August 22, 2018
Missouri judge affirms $4.69 billion talc verdict, J&J vows to appeal
August 22, 2018
Beto O'Rourke Gains National Attention With Viral Video Defending NFL Players Who Take a Knee
August 22, 2018
Hamas: End to Israel's Gaza blockade 'around the corner'
August 22, 2018
David McReynolds, the Gay Socialist Pacifist Who Twice Ran for President, Dies at 88 (VIDEO)
August 22, 2018
Charles P. Pierce on the Trump Administration's August Meltdown
August 21, 2018
Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen pleads guilty to charges over hush money
August 21, 2018
Protesters topple Confederate 'Silent Sam' statue on US campus
August 21, 2018
Inmates who volunteer to fight California's largest fires denied access to jobs on release
August 21, 2018
Jury finds Paul Manafort guilty of eight charges including tax fraud
August 21, 2018
Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump
August 21, 2018
Lula da Silva: “Brazil is Undergoing a Right-Wing Coup”
August 21, 2018
Donald Trump's Enemies List
August 21, 2018
Elizabeth Warren Unveils Bold Anti-Corruption Legislation
August 21, 2018
Coalition of states ask court to restore net neutrality
August 21, 2018
China's Massive Spending on Clean Energy Delivers Reduction Targets 12 Years Early
August 21, 2018
1953 Iran coup – a crime authored in London and Washington
August 21, 2018
ICE Arrests Husband Taking Pregnant Wife to Hospital to Give Birth (VIDEO)
August 20, 2018
Torpedoing Africa, and then complaining about 'migration'
August 20, 2018
Lockheed Martin receives bloody images instead of cool weapons photos in failed Twitter campaign
August 20, 2018
Greece graduates from EU bailout, but future still unsure
August 20, 2018
The Modern Automobile Must Die
August 19, 2018
Elon Musk Details ‘Excruciating’ Personal Toll of Tesla Turmoil
August 19, 2018
The Venezuela Drone Assassination Attempt
August 19, 2018
U.S. Court Delays Keystone XL Pipeline Construction by Ordering Environmental Review
August 19, 2018
Trump speechwriter fired for appearance at conference beside white nationalist
August 19, 2018
Aretha! Unapologetically Black, Unapologetically Woman
August 19, 2018
'Huge disaster': Deadly Kerala floods displace over 800,000
August 19, 2018
Paul Krugman on the GOPs Slippery Slope of Complicity
August 19, 2018
Korean families to meet after decades
August 19, 2018
Rudy Giuliani says ‘Truth isn’t truth’
August 19, 2018
Gen X challenger to Ted Cruz scateboards through Whataburger parking lot.
August 19, 2018
Inmates in 17 States Plan Prison Strike
August 19, 2018
Elaine Mokhtefi in Algiers With the Black Panthers
August 18, 2018
Italy bids farewell to bridge collapse dead as outrage simmers
August 18, 2018
Brazil’s ‘queer museum’ reopens in Rio after forced closure
August 18, 2018
Making Sense of the Chaotic West Virginia Supreme Court Impeachment
August 18, 2018
World leaders react to Kofi Annan's death
August 18, 2018
The Human Cost of War for Afghan Children
August 18, 2018
Former UN chief and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan dies
August 18, 2018
Brazil’s ‘queer museum’ reopens in Rio after forced closure
August 17, 2018
Newly Released FBI Files Expose Red-Baiting of Woody Guthrie
August 17, 2018
South Korea’s Leader Proposes Broad Economic Cooperation With the North
August 17, 2018
The Tragedy of Families Split by the Korean War
August 17, 2018
Google staff condemn plan for censored Chinese search engine
August 17, 2018
GOP strategist says Trump ‘colluded with the Russians — that’s clear’
August 17, 2018
U.S. court orders Trump administration to enforce chemical safety rule
August 17, 2018
Billionaires Reach for the Stars While World Suffers
August 17, 2018
CNN’s Angela Rye brutally shuts down right-wing pastor — and accuses him of ‘coonery’ for his Trump worship
August 17, 2018
Germany reaches deal on sending back migrants to Greece
August 17, 2018
Six NYC taxi drivers have committed suicide since November
August 17, 2018
Portland's black female police chief boasts bully attitude
August 16, 2018
Ford to invest $740 million in Detroit train station, city development project
August 16, 2018
US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
August 16, 2018
Veteran newsman Dan Rather remembers the way Aretha Franklin ‘could shake the heavens’
August 16, 2018
John Brennan: Trump revoked my clearance to scare others “into silence”
August 16, 2018
Democrats Choose Not To Hold FCC Chair Ajit Pai Accountable Over Net Neutrality Cyberattack Lies
August 16, 2018
John Brennan: President Trump’s Claims of No Collusion Are Hogwash
August 16, 2018
Vatican expresses ‘shame and sorrow’ over US grand jury report on abuse
August 16, 2018
NSA broke into secure network of Al Jazeera and others
August 16, 2018
Hundreds of US newspapers denounce Trump's attacks on the press
August 16, 2018
Trump lashes out against US news outlets defending press freedom
August 16, 2018
Aretha Louise Franklin dies at the age of 76
August 16, 2018
Two Democrats are poised to become the first Muslim women in Congress
August 16, 2018
Parents of Murdered Parkland Student Joaquin Oliver on Using Art to Demand End to Gun Violence (VIDEO)
August 16, 2018
The British Museum’s “Looting” Problem
August 15, 2018
German Police Attack a Jewish Professor, and Blame it on “a Palestinian”
August 15, 2018
Republicans can’t confront Donald Trump’s racism — unless they face their own
August 15, 2018
A nation ripe with police problems also has a police shortage
