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Nobel Peace Prize Jury Under Investigation 2/2

Divining the Truth about Iran 2/1

The Komen Foundation Pinkwashes Anti-choicers, Punks Planned Parenthood 2/1

The Cancerous Politics and Ideology of the Susan G. Komen Foundation  2/1

The Wall Street Journal’s willful climate lies 2/1

What Happened to Canada? 1/30

The immediate reform fight is not about stopping the flow of money, but rather securing mere disclosure 1/28

US Plans for Perpetual War 1/28

Do Harsh Pot Laws Create a Dangerous Drinking Culture? 5 Reasons to Get Stoned Instead of Drunk 1/27

Jobs, Jobs and Cars 1/26

Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases  1/24

How Bradley Manning’s fate will be decided1/21

Obama Administration Rejects Keystone Pipeline Proposal 1/18

SOPA Blackout Aims To Block Internet Censorship Bill 1/18

Chris Dodd’s paid SOPA crusading 1/18

The FBI's Secretive Practice of "Blackballing" Files  1/17

Why I’m Suing Barack Obama 1/16

Follow the Money—Somewhere New! 1/15

Herding Americans to War with Iran 1/14

10 Reasons the US is No Longer the Land of the Free 1/14

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale 1/14

I'm Confused: It's Okay to Kill Afghanis, But Not Okay to Urinate on the Bodies? 1/13

Arthur Brisbane and selective stenography  1/13

"Bain Capitalism": Mitt's Frankenstein is a Politically-Created Monster 1/12

Iran and the Terrorism game 1/11

"It Was a Sunny Day" 1/11

Have the Super-Rich Seceded From the United States? 1/10

At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why. 1/10

5 Things You Should Know About the FBI's Massive New Biometric Database 1/9

America’s Unlevel Field 1/8

The Evil of Indefinite Detention 1/8

Gaming the Global Economy 1/8

My Guantánamo Nightmare 1/8

Hawk in a Clown-Car Field 1/7

Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire 1/6

Western Oil Firms Remain as US Exits Iraq 1/7

New Hampshire's New Scopes Trial 1/7

Bain, Barack and Jobs 1/6

America's Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity 1/6

Progressive beer goggles for Ron Paul 1/6

Bain, Barack and Jobs 1/5

Memo to Obama: Avoid Another Long War 1/5

Defiling the Constitution, Betraying the Founders 1/5

Why You Can Be Branded a Terrorist for Fighting Animal Abuse 1/5

Forced Military Testing in America's Schools 1/4

Nordic Whoring: US Workers Get Cheap 1/4

Pipeline Inspector-Turned Whistleblower Calls Keystone XL a Potential "Disaster" 1/4

Seven Years After Sieges, Fallujah Struggles 1/3

TransCanada Whistleblower: Keystone XL Pipeline Not Safe 1/3

End of the pro-democracy pretense 1/2

Urging Obama to Stop Rush to Iran War 1/2

When a Child Is Abused by a War Veteran 1/2

Murder is Somehow Less Hard to Bear than the Humane Termination of an Injured Animal  1/1

Nobody Understands Debt 1/1

Where the Real Jobs Are 1/1

Sinners, repent! How our natural self-bias got us into this mess 1/1

Photos don’t lie: See the dramatic expansion of Canadian tar sands 12/31

How Many U.S. Soldiers Were Wounded in Iraq? Guess Again. 12/30

2011 "Are You Serious?" Awards 12/29

We've Lost Nearly All of Our Wild Foods -- What Happened? And What Are We Missing? 12/29

Snapshots of Washington’s essence 12/28

Prevention of Injury (POI) 12/27

When Medicare Isn't Medicare 12/26

Springtime for Toxics  12/25

Bradley Manning: A Hero, Not a Traitor  12/25

The Drone, the Secretary and the Seven Dwarfs 12/24

Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan 12/24

Loom of the Jackboot: Obama Gives Military Extreme Powers 12/23

A Christmas Message From America's Rich 12/23

Happy Holidays, Corporate America – I’d Like to File a Complaint 12/23

Occupy Giving: Why Does Giving for the 1% Feel Like Taking? 12/23

I Am Sorry for the Role I Played in Fallujah 12/23

Bradley Manning Hearing Ends with No Clear Sign of Harm Done to US 12/22

Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth 12/21

The Big Lie Marches On 12/21

A Better World’s In Birth (Maybe) 12/20

This Bastardized Libertarianism Makes 'Freedom' an Instrument of Oppression 12/20

After Durban: We Must Pull the Emergency Brake Before the 1 Per Cent Drive Us Off the Cliff 12/19

Christmas is No Time to Talk About War and Peace 12/19

Why Is It So Easy to Save the Banks, but So Hard to Save the Biosphere? 12/18

The Trial of Bradley Manning-Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation and Retribution 12/17

Obama's "Mission Accomplished" 12/16

Dante’s Divine Comedy: Banksters Edition 12/16

Obama's "Twisted Version of American Exceptionalism" Laid Bare 12/15

Bradley Manning Deserves a Medal 12/15

TINA Comes to America 12/25

Recovering from Authoritarian Simpatico Syndrome (ASS) 12/15

Congressional Tyranny, White House Surrender 12/15

The 2011 Edition: Why Do They Hate Us? 12/14

Climate Apartheid 12/14

President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Dumped 12/14

‘Gentlemen, We Shot a Judge’ and Other Tales of Blackwater, DynCorp, and Triple Canopy’s Rampage Through Iraq 12/13

Bankers are the Dictators of the West  12/11

The Wall Street-climate change connection 12/10

The real definition of Terrorism 12/10

Hillary Clinton and Internet Freedom  12/10

My Mother-in-Law’s One High Day 12/9

Why no one’s investigating Wall Street 12/9

Just 6 Walmart heirs have as much wealth as 30% of Americans 12/8

The End of the American Dream - Corporate Fascism 12/8

Jon Stewart on Indefinite Detention: Destroying Our Own Way of Life Before Terrorists Have a Chance to Do it For Us 12/8

Seven Diseases Big Pharma Hopes You Get in 2012 12/8

The Deep Shallowness of Professor Gingrich 12/8

When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids 12/8

"By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It": Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies 12/7

How Stephen Colbert Played the S.C. GOP 12/7

Listen to the People, Not the Polluters 12/7

Time to Recall the Land Grabbers 12/6

If International Law Existed for US Officials… 12/5

Endless Needless Deaths 12/5

Marching Off the Cliff 12/5

George Orwell on the Evil Iranian Menace 12/4

The Age of Thirst in the American West 12/4

Are Americans in Line for Gitmo? 12/3

Obama Should Veto Empire Over Republic 12/3

The We-Are-At-War! mentality 12/3

It's Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas 12/2

Why Republicans Embrace Simpletons and How it Hurts America 12/1

A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses 12/1

Congress endorsing military detention, a new AUMF 12/1

Top GOP Strategist Admits He’s ‘Scared’ Of Occupy Wall Street Because It’s ‘Having An Impact’ 12/1

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Journal of 9/11 Studies

The End of Reason 5/31/05

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power 12/7/2004

Mountaintop removal coal mining and the "clean coal" oxymoron

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Anonymous reveals Haditha massacre emails 2/3

Cancer charity confronts backlash over grant cuts 2/2

At Hearing on "Fracking," Capitol Police Arrest Director of "Gasland" 2/1

FDA’s New Claim: Your Body Is a Drug—and We Have the Authority to Regulate It! 1/31

FDA staffers sue agency over surveillance of personal e-mail 1/30

Four Psychologists at the Gates of Hell: A Fable for Our Time 1/29

Huge Protest in Pakistan Against US Drone Attacks: 'Drones are counter-productive' Well, d'uh! 1/28

Activist Priest, 83, in Solitary Confinement for Having Supporters 1/27

Dirty Biofuels: Leaked Data Shows Some Worse Than Fossil Fuels 1/27

Twitter Enables Censorship, Boycotts Begin 1/27

US/Israel: Iran NOT Building Nukes 1/25

In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims 1/23

Obama Administration Approves Rule That Guarantees Near-Universal Contraceptive Coverage 1/20

Dubious Pipeline Assertions Become USA Today Headlines 1/19

Denial of the Keystone XL Pipeline Application 1/18

Keystone XL pipeline to be rejected by Obama administration 1/18

Blackout Strike: Anonymous Calls for Street Protests; Lawmakers Drop Support of SOPA and PIPA 1/18

Emanuel's "Sit Down and Shut Up" Ordinance to Chill Protest in Chicago Passes 1/18

Farmer feeds GMO corn to his pigs: they all become sterile. 1/17

Christian Classmates Threaten Girl with Eternal Rape in Hell for Removing Prayer from School 1/16

The Crash and Burn Future of Robot Warfare: What Seventy Downed Drones Tell Us About the New American Way of War 1/16

Fukushima's Owner Adds Insult to Injury - Claims Radioactive Fallout Isn't Theirs 1/16

US, Israel Split on Iran? Joint Military Drill Cancelled 1/15

Report: US Preparing for an Israeli Strike on Iran 1/14

Hot Air in the Gulf Could Easily Spark War 1/14

Moyers & Company 101: On Winner Take All Politics 1/13

Haiti, Raped by the US Since 2004, and Still Bleeding 1/13

Leaked documents reveal US diplomats actually work for Monsanto 1/11

Will Obama Issue an Order Exposing Big Corporate Political Spenders in Citizens United Era? 1/10

Santorum: Selling the Law to the Highest Bidder 1/9

Colorado Sees Worst Snow Drought Since Early 1980s, Foreshadowing Water Shortages And Potential Wildfires 1/9

Fracking on Shaky Ground: How Our Latest Fossil Fuel Addiction Is Linked to Earthquakes 1/9

Poor US Citizens Barter Their Way to Health 1/9

'If eight slaves pick 56 oranges...' Georgia school under fire for racist, violent math homework 1/8

Preppy protester: 19-year-old Mitt Romney demonstrated in favour of Vietnam War draft 1/7

Perry Selects Sheriff Joe Arpaio As AZ Campaign Chair 1/7

Damning New Letter from NY State Insider: 'Hydraulic Fracturing as It's Practiced Today Will Contaminate Our Aquifers' 1/6

Record Heat Floods America With Temperatures 40 Degrees Above Normal 1/6

Climate-Related Severe Weather Made 2011 Costliest Year on Record: Reports 1/6

Obama: the US can no longer fight the world's battles 1/6

David Gregory Should Tell Rick Santorum There Are UN Inspectors in Iran 1/5

Santorum wants to impose 'Judeo-Christian Sharia' 1/5

The USDA Agricultural Survey: Voluntary NOT Mandatory 1/5

After Receiving Bailout, GM May Move Volt Production to China 1/4

President Sidesteps GOP Obstruction With Consumer And Workers' Rights Appointments! 1/4

Occupier Charged With Lynching Herself 1/4

Florida Bill Would Make Abortion A Felony With A Maximum Sentence Of Life In Prison 1/4

Mittens for President? 2% of Voters Think That's Romney's Real First Name 1/4

Time Cheers the Drone War 1/4

Did Psychopaths Take Over Wall Street Asylum? 1/3

Study debunks myths on organic farms 1/2

Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses 1/2

Officials Say Fracking Caused Ohio Earthquake 1/2

FBI Tracking Videotapers as Terrorists? 12/31

4.0 earthquake strikes in northeast Ohio 12/31

Gas And Other Fuels Are Top U.S. Exports, For First Time 12/31

Internet giants seriously considering 'nuclear option' to stop SOPA 12/30

Major Ron Paul Supporter Favors Death Penalty for Gays 12/30

SOPA Hearing Will Never End, GoDaddy helps write SOPA to Exempt self 12/30

Boycott of GoDaddy over SOPA bill a barometer of Internet politics 12/30

In Solar Power, India Begins Living Up to Its Own Ambitions 12/29

Va. GOP to require loyalty oath in presidential primary 12/29

Guerrilla Grafters: Turning Urban Streets into Orchards 12/29

CU study: Medical marijuana saves lives 12/29

Rick Perry Appears To Forget Landmark Civil Rights Case He Long-Opposed 12/29

DOJ Aggressively Investigating Police Brutality 12/29

Weapons Sales to Iraq Move Ahead Despite the Obvious Insanity of injecting Even More Weapons into Iraq 12/28

If You Can’t Beat Them, Enjoin Them (From Voting) 12/28

U.S. military infiltrates social media 12/27

Iraqi Interpreters Hope Visas Come Before Militants 12/27

The "Hancock 38": Put the Robotic Hunter/Killer Reaper Drone on Trial 12/26

93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State Capitol For 30 Years Denied Voter ID 12/26

Anti-whaling activists’ drone tracks Japan fleet 12/25

Now they've supposedly proven that IRAN was behind 9/11  12/24

Pro Pain Killer Drug Organization 90% Funded by Big Pharma 12/23

The watchdogs that didn't bark 12/22

Sarah Palin Somehow Manages to Turn a Cute Picture of Bo the Dog Into a "War on Christmas" Crusade 12/22

The Story Behind Ron Paul's Racist Newsletters  12/21

Politifact, R.I.P. 12/21

Canadian fakin’: Officials admit lack of evidence for cleaner tar sands 12/20

Mass March by Cairo Women in Protest Over Abuse by Soldiers 12/20

SC Baptist Convention President Says Christians Will Have an Easier Time Voting for a Serial Adulterer Than a Mormon 12/20

In Madison, 1,000 Singers Defy Walker’s Edict 12/19

Study: Wealth Inequality In America May Be Worse Than It Was In Ancient Rome 12/19

Rep. Barney Frank Educates George Will and Paul Ryan on Marijuana Legalization 12/19

Sweden legalizes and regulates cannabis 12/19

Newt Gingrich Would Send U.S. Marshals To Arrest ‘Activist’ Judges 12/18

Kim Jong Il Dies from "Fatigue" 12/17

Rick Perry ‘retires’ to collect state pension while still governor 12/16

US Officially Ends Its Mission in Iraq 12/15

Shock as Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice Releases Deadly Greenhouse Gas 12/14

Company Once Known as Blackwater Ditches Xe for Yet Another New Name 12/12

Add Quakes to Rumblings Over Gas Rush 12/12

Kucinich: Protect Our Food Supply from Manufactured Crises  12/10

Protesters Crash Set of Law & Order "Mockupation" 12/9

Bailout Total: $29.616 Trillion Dollars 12/9

Americans Elect: internet-based group gaining steam ahead of election 12/9

Elizabeth Warren versus Karl Rove and the one percent 12/9

Sen. Sanders files amendment to end corporate personhood 12/8

U.S. Publicly Shifts Climate Stance in Face of Widespread Criticism — Then Quietly Backtracks 12/9

Gas-Fracking Chemicals Detected in Wyoming Aquifer, EPA Says 12/8

Rove Switches Gears on Elizabeth Warren Ads 12/8

Santorum: We Don’t Need Food Stamps Because Obesity Rates Are So High 12/7

Downed CIA Stealth Drone Marks Another Step Towards America's War On Iran 12/7

Union Cheers Record Fine Imposed In Deadly Mine Disaster; Now Wants Criminal Charges 12/7

Obama returns to campaign mod with progressive sounding speech - still no actual action, such as firing and/or indicting bankster appointees 12/6

Corporate America Is Sitting On The Solution To The Jobs Crisis 12/5

Has a War With Iran Already Begun? 12/5

The Most Important News Story of the Day/Millennium 12/5

Ex-Countrywide Exec Blows The Lid Off The Systemic Fraud At The Company 12/5

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Break Growth Records 12/5

New Jersey University Hires More Staff To Cover Nurses Who Won't Come Near Abortion Patients 12/5

Under Pressure From Anti-Choice Groups, Gingrich Flips To Anti-Birth Control Position 12/5

Twitter takes sides on the Internet’s future 12/4

Iceland's special prosecutor arrests former Glitnir CEO 12/3

Did fracking help kill Dunkard Creek? 12/2

New Hampshire GOP Speaker Discourages Students From Voting Because They’ll Vote ‘Liberal’ 12/1

Kucinich bill seeks to end the Federal Reserve 12/1

If Not Now, When: Cairo "Brave Five" Refuse to Unload U.S. Tear Gas  12/1

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