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Banks Win Big as Regulators Refuse to Rein in $700 Trillion Derivatives Market

8 hours 26 min ago
Bill Black: Weakness of financial regulators shows you can not "tame the scorpion"

New Film Exposes the Israeli Weapon and Security Industry

8 hours 27 min ago
Yotam Feldman: the Israeli economy has become dependent on the massive security market. Governments act in hypocrisy when they purchase Israeli arms used against Palestinians, but criticize Israeli violence.

Activists Demand Mexican President Be Held Responsible for Deaths of Protesters

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 13:05
Activists say Mexican president Pena-Nieto must be held accountable for activist's murders and torture during his governorship seven years ago

Occupy No Longer in Headlines But Activism Continues Nationwide

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 13:05
David Swanson: Activists succeeding in turning public opinion against drone strikes; other forms of actions on the rise

3-Day March for Education Justice in Chicago

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 09:05
A Collection of Photos by Jenna Pope

New Documentary Exposes the Mistreatment of Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Greece

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 04:05
Kate Mara and Guy Smallman: European governments impose austerity demands in Greece but fund detention centers in Greece for refugees. Xenophobic views expressed even by centrist parties

Chicago Teachers and Parents Launch Three Day March Against 54 School Closings

Sun, 05/19/2013 - 02:05
Increased gun violence expected in Chicago as school closings will force students to cross gang lines in America's deadliest city

80% of Gitmo Prisoners on Hunger Strike for 100 Days

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 13:05
Group calls for cleared detainees to be released

Taxing Corporate Profits will Force Investment

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 11:05
Heiner Flassbeck: Corporations are sitting on mountains of cash and are unwilling to invest in the real economy - only high taxes on profit will make them do so

Seizure of AP Phone Records Continues Obama Admin's Attack on Whistleblowers

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 03:05
Mark Seibel (McClatchy Newspapers): Seizure of a news organization's phone records should be illegal as it limits the ability of journalists to investigate and report - something guaranteed by the Constitution

Poor People's March from Baltimore to DC

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 12:05
A Collection of Photos by Jenna Pope

Apres Moi, Le Deluge - Make Money Now To Hell With Tomorrow

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 09:05
Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: We're in worse shape now than in 2008 because at least then there was hope governments would face up to the situation

Revolutionary Culture in Cairo

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 11:05
Creative and cultural resistance has played a major role in Egypt's ongoing Revolution

From Capital Punishment to Guns, Old Fears Weigh Like a Nightmare on Today's Debate

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 03:05
Stephen John Hartnett (author of Executing Democracy): The roots of today's debate about capital punishment, prisons and guns goes back to pre-civil war religious ideas that slaves must be terrorized and God must be appeased

Skateboarding: Gaza's newly established leisure sport

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 02:05
Gaza's young population in isolated Gaza connect with other young people worldwide through sport, this time through "skateboarding" but border restrictions and measures imposed by the local authorities in Gaza is a challenge

California Domestic Workers Demand Bill of Rights

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 02:05
Workers and advocates host Mother's Day brunch with legislators to urge passage of bill

Christianity of the Inquisition in the US Army

Tue, 05/14/2013 - 11:05
Larry Wilkerson: Evangelical Christianity is spreading with official support throughout the US armed forces, including the persecution of "non-believers"

Obama Nominates Cable Industry Lobbyist and Campaign Bundler New Head of FCC

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 11:05
Nicholas Johnson: Nomination of Tom Wheeler shows Obama wants an FCC that manages monopoly competition - not a defender of public interest; Wheeler on President's intelligence advisory board, not likely to defend right to privacy

Drums Beat for US Military Intervention in Syria but Israel finds a Weakened Assad "Convenient"

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 11:05
Phyllis Bennis: The humanitarian disaster in Syria is mostly ignored as external powers vie for position to control outcome of civil war

Hawking and the Growing Israel Boycott Movement

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 06:05
BDS activists in Gaza (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) consider renowned physicist Stephen Hawking's decision to cancel his participation in an upcoming conference in Israel as part of an academic boycott "a huge victory for the BDS movement"


Dr. Radut