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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy TRANSCRIPT: RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: We begin tonight though with major developments in what had been one of …

Tokyo - Worries about its political survival will hound Japan’s ruling party after its setback in the recent Upper House polls, leaving it little room to pursue policies that …

Arthur C. Clarke and director Peter Hyams proved less than prophetic in the movie 2010: The Year We Make Contact, but they gave the audiences of 1984 what they …

Update July 13: ProPublica reports that the Coast Guard, under pressure from news organizations (hey, and maybe the threat of journalistic civil disobedience?) has changed its access rules.

Absolutely nothing, according to latest work by San Anselmo filmmaker. Born in 1914, the first year of World War I, poet William Stafford grew up hearing war horror …

Washington, DC - On July 9, 2010, Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri American Council/Kashmir Center, made an imperative appeal for the international community to come …

Taliban attacks on Tuesday night and Wednesday killed eight US soldiers within a 24-hour period, highlighting the intensifying insurgency waged by the Taliban, which this year is carrying out …

This interview with Raj Patel, award-winning writer, activist and academic, was originally featured as a two part series on Nourishing the Planet. Location: San Francisco Can you please explain …

The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! Better regulations won't end what went wrong: Corporate greed, …

Nikolas Kozloff is the author of “Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and the Challenge to the US and Revolution,” a Financial Times Best Book in 2008. An expert on South …