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NSA Creates Google-Like Search Engine to Help Other Agencies Access Collected Phone, Email Records
The search tool, known as ICReach, is designed to share more than 850 billion records - that is more than twice the number of stars in the Milky Way.
“The Damage Is Beyond Imagination in Gaza”: Journalist Mohammed Omer on Ceasefire Deal and Rebuilding
Israelis and Palestinians have agreed to an indefinite ceasefire, ending Israel's 50-day assault on the Gaza Strip.
The Islamic State, Assad, and the Contradictions Faced by the US in Syria
President Barack Obama has authorized the military to conduct surveillance flights over Syria. With US airstrikes already happening in Iraq against extremist group The Islamic State, these surveillance flights …
Greek Crisis and the Dark Clouds Over the American Economy: An Interview With Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Until Greece, the EU and the United States reorganize themselves politically and economically to support fiscal stimulus policies, the outlook will remain bleak for employment, according to Dimitri B. …
Fed Chair Signals Possible Policy Shift on Unemployment
Gerald Epstein discusses how Fed chair Janet Yellen's recent comments on bringing unemployment down could be positive but Fed policy still remains toothless in helping out working Americans.
Blowback: Vijay Prashad on How Islamic State Grew Out of US Invasion of Iraq
Militants from Islamic State stormed an air base in northeast Syria on Sunday, capturing it from government forces.
Hip-Hop Voices Talib Kweli and Rosa Clemente in Ferguson, “Ground Zero” for Police Brutality Struggle
Mourners are gathered in St. Louis for the funeral of Michael Brown, the unarmed African-American teenager killed by a white police officer on August 9.
Ferguson Police Profiling of Black People a Major Funding Source for City Budget
The city of Ferguson's second-highest source of revenue is court fees and traffic tickets handed out by a majority white police force that disproportionately targets the black community.
Dr. Paul Farmer on African Ebola Outbreak: Growing Inequality in Global Health Care at Root of Crisis
As the death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak nears 1,400, two American missionaries who received experimental drugs and top-notch health care have been released from the hospital.
Protecting the Amazon Includes Defending Indigenous Rights
Hiparidi Top'Tiro Xavante says indigenous peoples of the Amazon are uniting to defend their way of life and protect the biodiversity of the “lungs of the world.”