An association of 5,000 academics became the largest U.S. scholarly organization ever to join the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
Thousands of French high school students have launched protests across Paris, building barricades to block their own schools' entrances, to show their…
The more than 40 year solitary confinement of "Angola Three" inmate Albert Woodfox "amounts to torture and it should be lifted immediately,"…
Amid the hoopla of the government shutdown, the White House quietly passed a bill Monday that overrides a law banning military aid…
Amid a flurry of reports that five years after the financial collapse US poverty rates and wealth inequalities remain dismal, the GOP…
As Obama moves to fast-track the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), critics are blasting the highly-secretive trade deal as "NAFTA on steroids" and…
After a week of massive protests against a Canadian firm's efforts to build Europe's largest open-pit gold mine in the pristine Apuseni…
A nationwide strike in Colombia—which started as a rural peasant uprising and spread to miners, teachers, medical professionals, truckers, and students—reached its…
A new study dishes out some very bad news about the global warming crisis. It is too late to stop a "several…
Update: Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina ruled Friday afternoon that Detroit's bankruptcy filing is "unconstitutional" and must be withdrawn. The ruling,…
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