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• John Pilger Calls UK National Health Service a Treasure, Blasts US Lawmakers for Being "in Bed with Powerful Interests" and Neglecting "Their Own People's Basic Human Rights"
• Up in Smoke: How the Tobacco Industry Shaped the New Smoking Bill
• "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City"
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• How Can We Have Sovereignty When We Don't Have Electricity or Water to Bathe? Iraqi Reporter on US Troop Pullback
• What's Behind the Honduras Coup? Tracing Zelaya's Trajectory
• Generals Who Led Honduras Military Coup Trained at the School of the Americas
• Military Using "Brutal" Force Against Anti-Coup Protests in Honduras
• "Change to Win is Dead" - Juan Gonzalez on Labor Movement Struggle
• Headlines for July 1, 2009
• Michael Jackson 1958-2009: The Life and Legacy of the King of Pop
• Judge Sentences Madoff to 150 Years, But Will Regulatory System that Allowed Massive Financial Fraud Really Change?
• Headlines for June 30, 2009
• Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Global Capitalism, Why He Won't Renew the US Base in Manta, Chevron in the Amazon, Obama's War in Afghanistan, and More
• Coup in Honduras: Military Ousts President Manuel Zelaya, Supporters Defy Curfew and Take to the Streets
• Headlines for June 29, 2009
• A Look at the Gay Rights Movement Beyond Marriage and the Military
• Trans Day of Action: "The Rebellion Is Not Over"
• Stonewall Riots 40th Anniversary: A Look Back at the Uprising that Launched the Modern Gay Rights Movement
• Headlines for June 26, 2009
• Rite Aid Workers Fight for a Union
• EXCLUSIVE: Animal Rights Activist Jailed at Secretive Prison Gives First Account of Life Inside a "CMU"
• Headlines for June 25, 2009
• Actress Daryl Hannah, Climate Scientist James Hansen Among 30+ Arrested Protesting Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia
• Hamid Dabashi on Iran Protests: "This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement"
• Pakistani Opposition Politician Imran Khan on US Drone Attacks, the "Massive Human Catastrophe" in the Swat Valley and the Escalation of War in Afghanistan
• Headlines for June 24, 2009
• Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo Prisoner After Seven Years, Saying Government Position "Defies Common Sense"
• Deep Packet Inspection: Telecoms Aided Iran Government to Censor Internet, Technology Widely Used in US
• Education Secretary Arne Duncan Pushes to Aggressively Expand Charter Schools While Admitting Problems
• Headlines for June 23, 2009
• Somalia Declares State of Emergency After Intense Fighting
• Report: Goldman Sachs on Pace to Pay Out Record Bonuses this Year
• After a Day of Deadly Protests, Iran's Guardian Council Admits Voting Irregularities Took Place in Presidential Election
• Headlines for June 22, 2009
• Former Army Secretary Clifford Alexander Calls on President Obama & Congress to Repeal Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy
• As Criticism of Obama Mounts within Gay Community, Gay Rights Pioneer Cleve Jones Calls for March for Equality on Washington
• As Part of Crackdown on Journalists, Iranian Security Forces Detain and Beat Canadian Journalist
• Headlines for June 19, 2009
• "American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone"
• Headlines for June 18, 2009
• New York State Senate Remains in State of Turmoil
• Juan Gonzalez: Battle Over $12 Million Splits Labor Movement UNITE HERE
• Protests Continue in Iran; Government Cracks Down on Foreign Media
• Despite Campaign Promises, President Obama Adopts President Bush's Policy of Secrecy
• Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon Condemns US Supreme Court's Refusal to Hear Appeal of Cuban Five
• Headlines for June 17, 2009
• Speaker Nancy Pelosi Pressures Antiwar Democrats to Approve $106 Billion War Funding Bill
• Report: Senator Max Baucus Received More Campaign Money from Health and Insurance Industry Interests than Any Other Member of Congress.
• Dr. Chris McCoy: "Dear AMA: I Quit!"
• Hundreds of Thousands Protest in Tehran Accusing Ahmadinejad of Stealing Election; Guardian Council Orders Partial Recount
• Headlines for June 16, 2009
• Netanyahu Outlines Vision for a Demilitarized Palestinian State with Israel Controlling the Borders and Airspace of Palestine
• Iran in Turmoil After Disputed Presidential Election; Anti-Ahmadinejad Street Protests Continue
• Headlines for June 15, 2009
• 80th Anniversary of Anne Frank's Birth: How a 13-Year-Old Girl Became the Defining Voice of the Nazi Holocaust
• Domestic Workers Fight for Bill of Rights
• Report: Health Insurers Hold Billions in Tobacco Stocks
• AMA Opposition to Obama Public Health Plan Echoes Group's Decades-Long Resistance to Healthcare Reform
• Iranians Flood to Polls in Pivotal Presidential Election
• Headlines for June 12, 2009
• Longtime White Supremacist Opens Fire at DC Holocaust Museum, Killing Security Guard; Shooting is Third in as Many Months Linked to White Nationalist Groups
• New York Legislature in Gridlock as Democratic Defections Give Republicans Senate Control
• Headlines for June 11, 2009
• Genetic Counselor Blasts National Society of Genetic Counselors For Not Putting Out a Public Statement Condemning Dr. Tiller's Murder
• Hungry for a Better Education: Teachers, Parents Lead Hunger Strike Protesting Cuts, Layoffs at LA Schools
• As Tensions Flare in Peruvian Amazon, Award-Winning Actor Q'orianka Kilcher Heads to Peru to Support Indigenous Rights
• "Anti-Abortion Violence and Terrorism Has to Stop" - One of Last Doctors to Practice Later-Term Abortions Blasts Murder of His Friend George Tiller
• Headlines for June 10, 2009
• Sen. Bernie Sanders and Nurses Union Leader Rose Ann DeMoro Urge Obama to Embrace Single-Payer Healthcare System
• Shell to Pay Out $15.5 Million to Settle Landmark Lawsuit over Death of Nigerian Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
• Headlines for June 9, 2009
• "Diary of Bergen-Belsen, 1944-1945": Amira Hass Discusses Her Mother's Concentration Camp Diary
• Obama's Pick to Lead Afghan War Linked to Abuse of Prisoners & Secret Assassination Unit
• Peruvian Police Accused of Massacring Indigenous Protesters in Amazon Jungle
• Headlines for June 8, 2009
• "Guantanamo at Home": Muslim American Syed Fahad Hashmi Held in 23-Hour Solitary Pretrial Confinement for Over Two Years in Case Resting on Plea-Bargaining Government Informant
• 20 Years Later, Chinese Dissident Wang Juntao and US Journalist Philip Cunningham Look Back on Tiananmen Square Uprising
• Headlines for June 5, 2009
• Enduring Jailings and Attacks, Dissident Ayman Nour's Ordeal Exemplifies US-Ignored Egyptian Repression of Political Opposition
• Professor Juan Cole and Cairo-Based Analyst Issandr El Amrani on Obama's Historic Address
• In Cairo Speech, Obama Calls for "New Beginning" Between US and Muslims Worldwide
• Headlines for June 4, 2009
• In 2008 Speech, Dr. Tiller Outlined Views that Underpinned Lifelong Commitment to Reproductive Rights
• Tiller Killing Spurs Renewed Calls for US to Reverse Longstanding Passivity on Anti-Abortion Extremists
• "This Shouldn't Have Been Ignored": Tiller Colleague Dr. Susan Robinson Reacts to News FBI Was Warned on Suspected Killer
• Abortion Clinic Manager Reveals He Warned FBI of Suspect in Murder of Dr. George Tiller, Says Killing Could Have Been Avoided
• Headlines for June 3, 2009



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