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AIDS Activists Rally at UN: “We Are Asking World Leaders to Live Up to Their Promise”
The 2011 U.N. High-Level meeting on AIDS kicked off on June 8 in New York, with more than 30 world leaders attending to discuss the progress and future of …

The Global Energy Crisis Deepens: Three Energy Developments That Are Changing Your Life
Energy prospects are growing dimmer.

Right-Wing Anti-Abortion Ferver Extends to Birth Control and More
Rachel Maddow reports on a movement to oppose the birth control pill that is finding some quarter in the broader big government conservative movement. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, …

“Sing Your Song”: Harry Belafonte on Art and Politics, Civil Rights and His Critique of President Obama

WikiLeaks Reveals US Wanted to Keep Russia out of Libyan Oil (Video)
More at The Real News Kevin G. Hall, is the national economics correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers. Previously he served as Latin America correspondent. During his career he has reported …

Phyllis Bennis: Listening to the People in the Arab World (Video)
Phyllis Bennis joined us by phone from Amman, Jordan to discuss the death of Bin Laden and its impact in the Arab world.

Paris Hatcher, Walter Mosley and Tornados in Alabama
As you probably know, the House just passed H.R. 3, and to comment on the ongoing attacks on reproductive rights - and the lie that is "the culture of …

Richard Trumka: Fight, Mobilize, Educate Workers
In Massachusetts, a Democratic state legislature voted to take away public workers' right to collectively bargain over health care, in what Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, calls "A …

Losing Sleep Over Bradley Manning
Phone home, Mr. President. Laurence Tribe, the legendary constitutional law professor, is really ticked off with you. That should be some kind of wake up call. Because …

Aetna CEO: I Would Be Turned Down for Health Insurance
Washington - To a greater degree than most insurance company chiefs, Mark Bertolini has encountered his own personal challenges with the health care system. Bertolini, the head …