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"This Is the Climate Crisis": Michael Mann on Maui Wildfires & Why Disasters Are Becoming Deadlier

Published 2023-08-14 08:39:15 UTC

"War Zone": Native Hawaiian Scholar Says Colonialism Set Stage for Destruction as Death Toll Soars

Published 2023-08-14 08:16:59 UTC

Headlines for August 14, 2023

Published 2023-08-14 08:00:00 UTC

Why No Insurrection Charge? Ralph Nader on How Trump Could Still Be Reelected Unless DOJ Acts

Published 2023-08-15 08:45:53 UTC

Black Voters Matter Co-Founder: Trump's Georgia Indictment Is "Step Forward" in Defending Democracy

Published 2023-08-15 08:30:48 UTC

Georgia Grand Jury Charges Trump & 18 Co-Conspirators with Racketeering for 2020 Election Interference

Published 2023-08-15 08:13:04 UTC

Headlines for August 15, 2023

Published 2023-08-15 08:00:00 UTC

"Watershed Moment": Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate

Published 2023-08-16 08:44:26 UTC

Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Exposes More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts

Published 2023-08-16 08:12:41 UTC

Kansas to Probe Police Raid on Local Newspaper; Co-Publisher Dies from Stress Day After Raid

Published 2023-08-16 08:30:02 UTC

Headlines for August 16, 2023

Published 2023-08-16 08:00:00 UTC

Did the U.S. Push Imran Khan from Power? Leaked Cable Shows How State Dept. Pressured Pakistan

Published 2023-08-17 08:52:21 UTC

Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia Demands End to Azerbaijan Blockade Amid Accusations of Genocide

Published 2023-08-17 08:36:03 UTC

Rabaa Massacre: A Decade After Egypt Slaughtered 900+ Protesters, No One Has Been Held to Account

Published 2023-08-17 08:16:13 UTC

Headlines for August 17, 2023

Published 2023-08-17 08:00:00 UTC

Investigation Uncovers Smithsonian's Collection of Brains & Other Human Remains Gathered Without Consent

Published 2023-08-18 08:43:11 UTC

Teach No Lies: Historian Marvin Dunn Takes on Ron DeSantis & Florida's Attack on Black History

Published 2023-08-18 08:25:14 UTC

Plantation Disaster Capitalism: Native Hawaiians Organize to Stop Land & Water Grabs After Maui Fire

Published 2023-08-18 08:11:25 UTC

Headlines for August 18, 2023

Published 2023-08-18 08:00:00 UTC

British Columbia in State of Emergency as Climate Change Fuels Canada's Worst Wildfire Season Ever

Published 2023-08-21 08:52:11 UTC

South Africa Hosts Major BRICS Summit as Bloc Eyes Expanding in Global South to Counter Western Powers

Published 2023-08-21 08:35:48 UTC

A Turning Point in Guatemalan History: Bernardo Arévalo Wins in Landslide Rejection of Ruling Elite

Published 2023-08-21 08:11:27 UTC

Headlines for August 21, 2023

Published 2023-08-21 08:00:00 UTC

In Major Win for Indigenous Rights, Ecuador Votes to Ban Oil Drilling in Protected Amazon Lands

Published 2023-08-22 08:51:49 UTC

Vijay Prashad on BRICS & Why Global South Cooperation Is Key to Dismantling Unjust World Order

Published 2023-08-22 08:28:48 UTC

Meet George Chidi, the Journalist Subpoenaed for Uncovering Secret Meeting of Fake Trump Electors

Published 2023-08-22 08:19:00 UTC

"Notorious": Inside the Fulton County Jail, Where Trump Will Surrender & 15 Prisoners Died Last Year

Published 2023-08-22 08:12:12 UTC

Headlines for August 22, 2023

Published 2023-08-22 08:00:00 UTC

"It's Always About Oil": CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran

Published 2023-08-23 08:29:21 UTC

"They Fired on Us Like Rain": Saudis Accused of Killing Hundreds of Ethiopian Refugees at Border

Published 2023-08-23 08:14:03 UTC

Headlines for August 23, 2023

Published 2023-08-23 08:00:00 UTC

Should the U.S. Keep Funding War in Ukraine? Debate Reveals Deep Divisions Within Republican Party

Published 2023-08-24 08:53:55 UTC

GOP Candidates Refuse to Say Climate Change Is Caused by Humans; Vivek Ramaswamy Calls It a "Hoax"

Published 2023-08-24 08:49:28 UTC

6 of 8 GOP Candidates Vow to Back Trump as Party's Nominee Even If He Is Convicted

Published 2023-08-24 08:31:53 UTC

Two Months After Mutiny in Russia, Wagner Group's Yevgeny Prigozhin Dies in Plane Crash

Published 2023-08-24 08:15:19 UTC

Headlines for August 24, 2023

Published 2023-08-24 08:00:00 UTC

Reelected TN State Rep. Justin Jones Decries GOP for Silencing Critics During Session on Gun Violence

Published 2023-08-25 08:46:32 UTC

Are "Mugshots" Unethical? How Jailhouse Photos Undermine Defendants & Reinforce Systemic Bias

Published 2023-08-25 08:33:59 UTC

Inmate P01135809: Trump Surrenders to Jail in Georgia, Booked on 13 Felony Counts

Published 2023-08-25 08:14:44 UTC

Headlines for August 25, 2023

Published 2023-08-25 08:00:00 UTC

Family of Kenneth Chamberlain, Black Man Killed in 2011 By Police, Settles with City of White Plains

Published 2023-08-28 08:42:56 UTC

60 Years After "I Have a Dream": Gary Younge on MLK's March on Washington & the Fight for Racial Justice

Published 2023-08-28 08:22:06 UTC

Gary Younge on Jacksonville Shooting & Why America's Gun Problem "Makes Its Racism More Lethal"

Published 2023-08-28 08:13:51 UTC

Headlines for August 28, 2023

Published 2023-08-28 08:00:00 UTC

Jacksonville Shooting: Rep. Maxwell Frost Blasts DeSantis for Pushing Bigotry & Ignoring Gun Violence

Published 2023-08-29 08:53:34 UTC

"Hurricane of Racism": Racial Terror in Jacksonville, from Recent Shooting to 1960 Ax Handle Saturday

Published 2023-08-29 08:38:48 UTC

Judge in D.C. Sets Trump Trial for March 4 & Rejects Trump Lawyer's Citation of Scottsboro Boys Case

Published 2023-08-29 08:31:12 UTC

As Mark Meadows Pushes for Federal Trial, Activists Say Attack on Voting Rights at Heart of Georgia Case

Published 2023-08-29 08:13:32 UTC

Headlines for August 29, 2023

Published 2023-08-29 08:00:00 UTC

"Modern Form of Slavery": Haitians at Dominican Sugar Plantations Work Under Inhumane Conditions

Published 2023-08-30 08:45:52 UTC

Texas Rep. Greg Casar Condemns Gov. Greg Abbott's "Dangerous Stunts" at the Border

Published 2023-08-30 08:38:14 UTC

Progressive Dems Visit Latin America Seeking "New Path" After Decades of U.S. Interference

Published 2023-08-30 08:27:47 UTC

Biden vs. Big Pharma: Medicare to Begin Negotiations to Lower Price of 10 Costly Drugs & Insulin

Published 2023-08-30 08:13:01 UTC

Headlines for August 30, 2023

Published 2023-08-30 08:00:00 UTC

U.S. Aquifers Are Running Dry, Posing Major Threat to Drinking Water Supply

Published 2023-08-31 08:52:29 UTC

Scientist Peter Kalmus: The Hurricanes, Floods & Fires of 2023 Are Just the Beginning of Climate Emergency

Published 2023-08-31 08:39:09 UTC

Military Coup in Gabon Seen as Part of Broader Revolt Against France & Neo-Colonialism in Africa

Published 2023-08-31 08:10:43 UTC

Headlines for August 31, 2023

Published 2023-08-31 08:00:00 UTC

Biden Administration Sued as Thousands of Afghan Evacuees Are Detained Overseas Waiting for U.S. Entry

Published 2023-09-01 08:52:32 UTC

Green New Deal Architect Rhiana Gunn-Wright Warns the Green Transition May Leave Black People Behind

Published 2023-09-01 08:40:06 UTC

Enbridge Is the Guilty Party, Not Me: Meet the Pipeline Protester Facing 5 Years for Peaceful Action

Published 2023-09-01 08:26:20 UTC

Jan. 6: Proud Boys Lieutenant Joe Biggs, Who Warned of "Second Civil War," Sentenced to 17 Years

Published 2023-09-01 08:11:13 UTC

Headlines for September 1, 2023

Published 2023-09-01 08:00:00 UTC

Salvadoran Writer Javier Zamora on Coping with Trauma from Being Detained & Undocumented in U.S.

Published 2023-09-04 08:25:40 UTC

"The Great Escape": Saket Soni on Forced Immigrant Labor Used to Clean Up Climate Disasters in U.S.

Published 2023-09-04 08:01:47 UTC

"Doing Harm": Roy Eidelson on the American Psychological Association's Embrace of U.S. Torture Program

Published 2023-09-05 08:39:57 UTC

Racist Shootings "Don't Happen in a Vacuum": Bishop Barber on DeSantis, Trump & Those Who Spread Hate

Published 2023-09-05 08:14:41 UTC

Headlines for September 5, 2023

Published 2023-09-05 08:00:00 UTC

Kenyan Activist at Africa Climate Summit: Fund Green Transition on Continent & Phase Out Fossil Fuels

Published 2023-09-06 08:47:42 UTC

"Alarming": Biden to Supply Depleted Uranium Shells to Ukraine Despite Contamination Risks

Published 2023-09-06 08:30:24 UTC

"A Political Prosecution": 61 Cop City Opponents Hit with RICO Charges by Georgia's Republican AG

Published 2023-09-06 08:03:19 UTC

Headlines for September 6, 2023

Published 2023-09-06 08:00:00 UTC

Democratic Republic of Congo Faces "Worst Hunger Catastrophe" as Mineral Extraction Enriches the Few

Published 2023-09-07 08:45:47 UTC

Ukrainian & Russian Activists: Putin's War Is Emboldening "Authoritarian Forces" Around the World

Published 2023-09-07 08:15:41 UTC

Headlines for September 7, 2023

Published 2023-09-07 08:00:00 UTC

Fulton County Jail: Shawndre Delmore Is 10th Person to Die at Notorious Facility So Far in 2023

Published 2023-09-08 08:47:39 UTC

Mexico Decriminalizes Abortion in Major Step Forward for Reproductive Rights in Latin America

Published 2023-09-08 08:31:54 UTC

Spain: Soccer Head Faces Sexual Assault Charge for World Cup Forced Kiss; Women Players Strike over Pay

Published 2023-09-08 08:13:36 UTC

Headlines for September 8, 2023

Published 2023-09-08 08:00:00 UTC

"The Other 9/11": Ariel Dorfman on 50th Anniversary of U.S.-Backed Coup in Chile That Ousted Allende

Published 2023-09-11 08:33:58 UTC

Morocco: Earthquake Death Toll at 2,500; Criticism Grows over King's Response to Humanitarian Crisis

Published 2023-09-11 08:14:39 UTC

Headlines for September 11, 2023

Published 2023-09-11 08:00:00 UTC

"Capitalism Is an Insecurity Machine": Astra Taylor on Student Debt & Our Radically Unequal World

Published 2023-09-12 08:45:47 UTC

50 Years After Coup in Chile: Peter Kornbluh on How U.S. Continues to Hide Role of Nixon & Kissinger

Published 2023-09-12 08:29:46 UTC

Is Modi Changing India's Name to Bharat? Jayati Ghosh on What's Behind the Move

Published 2023-09-12 08:25:29 UTC

The World Is Undergoing "Significant Realignments": Economist Jayati Ghosh on G20, India, China & More

Published 2023-09-12 08:11:10 UTC

Headlines for September 12, 2023

Published 2023-09-12 08:00:00 UTC

"Complicit": Columbia U. Shielded Predator OB-GYN Robert Hadden for Decades as He Assaulted Hundreds

Published 2023-09-13 08:29:50 UTC

"A Calamity of Epic Proportions": Death Toll from Libyan Floods Tops 6,000 in Latest Climate Disaster

Published 2023-09-13 08:14:59 UTC

Headlines for September 13, 2023

Published 2023-09-13 08:00:00 UTC

Naomi Klein on Her New Book "Doppelganger" & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite

Published 2023-09-14 08:15:28 UTC

Headlines for September 14, 2023

Published 2023-09-14 08:00:00 UTC

Has Impeachment "Become the Norm"? Ryan Grim on New GOP Probe, Hunter Biden's Gun Charges & More

Published 2023-09-15 08:50:39 UTC

“It Shouldn’t Have Taken a Decade”: NYU Student Activists on Long-Awaited Fossil Fuel Divestment Win

Published 2023-09-15 08:43:12 UTC

"I Stand by My Actions": Why Scientist Rose Abramoff Locked Herself to Mountain Valley Pipeline

Published 2023-09-15 08:32:41 UTC

"Members Are Fired Up": UAW Begins Historic Strike Against Big Three Automakers

Published 2023-09-15 08:10:26 UTC

Headlines for September 15, 2023

Published 2023-09-15 08:00:00 UTC

Labor, Frontline & Youth Voices Call on Biden to Immediately Act to Prevent Climate Catastrophe

Published 2023-09-18 08:47:09 UTC

"We Will Not Give Up": AOC, Vanessa Nakate Lead Calls at Massive NY Climate Rally to End Fossil Fuels

Published 2023-09-18 08:31:45 UTC

The March to End Fossil Fuels: 75,000 Rally in NYC to Push Biden & World Leaders on Climate Crisis

Published 2023-09-18 08:13:56 UTC

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