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Washington - The US Department of Justice has launched civil and criminal investigations into the events surrounding the BP oil spill. Does that mean people who helped cause the …

Many of us with sympathies—and therefore blinders—on the side of the Free Gaza Movement’s work have been reluctant to accept the possibility that, indeed, people aboard the Mavi Marmara …

Kabul, Afghanistan - Would-be Taliban suicide bombers staged a jarring attack Wednesday morning on a closely watched national peace conference as President Hamid Karzai opened the gathering with an …

The new zombies have an increasing presence in the death chambers of high finance, the highest reaches of government and in the forefront of mainstream media.

For some time now, it has been clear that nuclear weapons threaten the existence not only of humanity, but of all life on Earth. Thus, Barack Obama's pledge to …

Mexico City - Six months after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights handed down two sentences against the Mexican state, one of them linked to the wave of murders …

Israel begins the release and deportation of the 700 activists detained from the Gaza Freedom flotilla, reported The Guardian UK. The Israeli attorney general has said Israel will not …

Why are there 40 million poor people in America? When you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of …

Virginia’s recently elected attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, has his hand in just about every divisive issue of the day.

Last week, the LA Times reported that local fishermen hired by BP to clean up the Gulf Coast spill had “become ill after working long hours near waters fouled …