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Bill Clinton, Boehner, And Some Other Rich White Guys Had A "Summit" And Agreed: It's Your Fault 5/16

Uncovering the Other ALECs 5/16

Back to the Land for the Occupy Movement 5/16

Romney Has Public and Private Morality Upside Down 5/16

Five Reasons Drone Assassinations Are Illegal 5/15

Don't Look Now -- Banks Are Still Ruining America 5/15

How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane 5/15

Colonized by Corporations 5/14

Five Facts That Put America to Shame 5/14

Tim DeChristopher: Oil Lease Bids Stopped Greater Crime 5/12

Twelve Questions for Mitt Romney That Journalists Might Not Ask 5/12

Conservative Thinktanks Launch Campaign to Turn Americans Against Wind Energy 5/11

How Cutting the Pentagon's Budget Could Boost the Economy 5/11

Mitt, the prep-school sadist 5/10

Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America 5/9

Christian Men Want Their Kingdom Back, and They Won't Stop Until They've Gotten It 5/8

A Rebellious World or a New Dark Age? 5/8

Arsonists Posing As Firemen: US Austerity and the Destruction of a Nation 5/8

John Brennan Should Tell the Whole Truth About the Drone Strikes 5/4

New Billboard Says Believing in Climate Change Makes You the Unabomber 5/4

Government Explained 5/4

Five Overlooked Battles in the War on Women 5/3

The Truth Behind the Official Story of Finding Bin Laden 5/3

Drone Attacks and the Brennan Doctrine 5/3

Friendly Advice to CNN -- Change Everything 5/2

Will the Occupy Movement be Co-opted? 5/1

Welcome to the Asylum 5/1

ACLU: Admission of US Drone Strikes Does Nothing to Justify Program’s Legality 5/1

Dog-Training the Press Corps 4/30

Is It Possible To Build An Economy Without Jobs? 4/29

Unexceptionalism: A Primer 4/28

International Drone Summit: Live Streaming Coverage 4/28

You Are All Suspects Now 4/28

Recognizing Heroes 4/28

Selective bin Laden leaking 4/27

The NSA Is Watching You 4/26

The Ghost of Joe McCarthy Slithers Again 4/26

Is that a Poem in Your Pocket? 4/25

The Vatican's Latest Target in the War on Women: Nuns 4/24

Mitt Romney: Professional Liar 4/23

The Globalization of Hollow Politics 4/22

The Republican Brain on the Republican Brain  4/20

Your Bank of America 4/20

America’s drone sickness 4/19

How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe 4/18

How the War on Women Became Mainstream 4/18

The Republicans Who Want Ignorance to Get Equal Time in Schools 4/17

Connecting the Dots Between Extreme Weather and Climate Change 4/17

Unified Latin America Challenges Failed US/Canada Policies on Drug War, Cuba, and Finance 4/16

The Rich Are Different from You and Me – They Pay Less Taxes 4/13

Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Are the Real Job Killers 4/13

Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist 4/11

Ozzie Guillen and Free Speech 4/11

The Afghan Syndrome  4/10

Tar Sands in the United States: What You Need to Know 4/10

Guerrilla Grafters: Undoing Civilization One Fruitless Branch At A Time 4/10

Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse 4/9

It's Official: Homophobes May Have ‘Unacknowledged Attraction To The Same-Sex’ 4/9

Son of Frackenstein 4/7

Keith Olbermann Suing Current for $50 Million. Really? 4/7

How the US Uses Sexual Humiliation as a Political Tool to Control the Masses 4/6

Limits to Growth: 1972 'Collapse' Prediction Still on Track 4/6

Our Men in Iran? 4/6

Where We're Going, We Don't Need New Roads 4/6

Rachel Maddow Eviscerates Michigan Republicans for Circumventing Democracy 4/6

Are America's Nukes on the Brink of Death? 4/5

Save Wall Street! Congress Passes JO(BS) Act 4/4

Pink Slime Economics and the Most Fraudulent Budget in US History 4/2

Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the United States 4/2

No Democracy in Michigan? 4/1

Tongue-cutting at Al Jazeera 3/31

Jailed Climate Hero Tim DeChristopher Thrown in the Hole 3/28

Let the Million Flowers Bloom 3/28

Geraldo Rivera: Guns Don't Kill People; Hoodies Do 3/26

When men were free 3/25

Romney or Robot: The Quiz 3/21

Here's Your Job Application. Now Give Us Your Facebook Password 3/20

Murder Is Not an Anomoly in War 3/19

Why Is It Hard to Believe President Obama Would Want a Journalist in Prison? 3/16

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Journal of 9/11 Studies

The End of Reason 5/31/05

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power 12/7/2004

Mountaintop removal coal mining and the "clean coal" oxymoron

"The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service." --Albert Einstein

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NDAA's 'Indefinite Detention' Provisions Unconstitutional, says Judge 5/17

Predator Drone Spotted Near Chicago Days Before NATO Summit 5/17

Judge Blocks Controversial NDAA 5/16

What Do GMO Seeds Have to Do With Bee Die-Offs in the Corn Belt? 5/16

Newly Discovered Homeland Security Files Show Feds Central to Occupy Crackdown 5/15

Wells Fargo Has Blood on Its Hands: Desperate Man Commits Suicide After Shocking Foreclosure Mistreatment 5/15

Campaign Finance Disclosure Decision Means Rove, Others Could Suddenly Have To Disclose Donors 5/15

War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes 5/13

Once a Bully, Always a Bully 5/12

Pentagon Spending and the War on Children 5/11

US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics For ‘Total War’ On Islam 5/11

Newly discovered Mayan calendar further disproves doomsday myth 5/10

A Commons Mistake: Romney Confuses Public Roads with Private Pipelines 5/10

CA Cops Finally Face Charges for Beating Mentally Ill Homeless Man to Death 5/10

Obama Endorses Same Sex-Marriage 5/9

To Everything There Is A Season, If A Long Painful One: Passport In Her Hand 5/9

GOP, Dems 'Play Chicken' with Student Loan Rates in US Senate 5/8

The Day After: Europe Rejects Austerity 5/7

They Are Taking Our Rights Away, Again 5/7

Sarkozy Loses in France; Greek Voters Also Turn on Leaders 5/6

4 May Day Stories the Corporate Media Missed While Fixating On Obama's College Girlfriend 5/4

New Police Strategy in New York – Sexual Assault Against Peaceful Protestors 5/4

Japan May Go Nuke-Free Tomorrow…but Will the US and China Follow? 5/4

What It's Like When the NYPD Raids Your Apartment At Dawn-- Because Your Roommate is in Occupy 5/4

Krugman Unloads On Paul Ryan 5/3

'Take the Flour Back': Activists Mobilize to 'Decontaminate' GM Wheat Field 5/2

FBI Dupes 5 into Planning to Bomb Bridge 5/2

Why Are We Striking? Or to Put it Another Way – What’s Wrong with the World? 5/1

Budgets: The Ultimate Lie-Detector 5/1

NYC City Councilors Sue NYPD Over Occupy Wall Street Abuses 4/30

99% Spring has Sprung: Shareholder Actions Underway Across the County 4/29

ALEC May Target Renewable Energy Mandates 4/28

Ex-Israeli Spymaster: Leaders 'Messianic' 4/28

Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem 4/28

'Wrong Font Size' Keeps Michigan's 'Shock Doctrine' in Place 4/27

Gulf Coast Waters Closed to Shrimping 4/26

Kids Sue to Force Government Action on Global Warming 4/26

Colbert Lampoons Koch Brothers at Time Gala 4/25

Canada (still) Refuses to Allow Fox “news” A License 4/23

American Nuns Reject Vatican’s Orders – Say They Are Not Going To Stop ‘Caring For The Least Among Us’ 4/23

North, South, East, and West: Austerity Revolt Felt Across Europe  4/23

The Shame of Nations: A New Record is Set for Spending on War 4/23

Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart
After Top-Level Struggle
4/21

Vatican Orders Crackdown on 'Radical Feminist' US Nuns 4/20

Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Admits Ahmadinejad Never Said Israel Should Be 'Wiped Off the Face of the Map' 4/18

Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena 4/19

Catholic League Promises To “Mobilize” Religious Groups Against Jon Stewart 4/18

Still There 4/15

Tennessee Senate Approves Bill To Warn Students That Hand-Holding Is A ‘Gateway Sexual Activity’ 4/13

The man the State Dept. wants silenced 4/12

US in Flames: Global Warming, 'Perfect Recipe for Fire' 4/12

Israeli Forces Gear Up to Confront 'Flytilla' Activists 4/10

Record Warm March Temperatures Continue Record-Breaking Periods  4/9

U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border 4/8

Arizona to Outlaw Internet Trolling? 4/7

US Continues to Train Terrorists on its Own Terror List 4/6

Who Put Tim DeChristopher in Isolation? 4/6

California nuclear plant shut indefinitely amid hunt to find cause of problems 4/6

Unarmed Black Woman Shot and Killed by Chicago Police Officer Less Than a Month After Trayvon Martin 4/6

ICC Refuses to Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza 4/4

Chicago has its own Trayvon Martin-like scandal 4/3

'Triumph of the People' says Suu Kyi After Victory in Burmese Elections 4/2

Fox News Debunks Its Own Lies About Chevy Volt: It’s ‘An Anti-Terrorist Weapon’ And ‘The Safest Car On The Road’ 3/27

Generals PLay with Toy Soldiers as Support in U.S. for Afghan War Drops 3/26

Unprecedented Temperatures Soar, Highs Continue 3/20

Mutant Heat Wave Shattering records3/19

Executives from Chevron, Transocean Held in Brazil 3/18

Claiming they can’t be held liable for human rights abuses, corporations reach a new height of hypocrisy 3/16

Westboro Baptist Church Offers to Advertise on Limbaugh's Show 3/16

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