Did NYC Officials Deliberately Inflate Land Value of New Yankee Stadium to Turn Public Money into Private Profit? Attorneys for Death Row Prisoner Troy Davis to Make Final Plea Before Georgia Parole   more...Board. Increased Raids and Checkpoint Arrests Endanger Undocumented Immigrants Threatened by Gulf Coast Storms. FLOW: For Love of Water...New Film Examines Global Water Crisis.  less

US, NATO Air Strikes Triple Civilians Deaths in Afghanistan. Breaking with Convention (Part I): Highlights from the DNC, from the Suites to the Streets to the Convention Floor. "We Need to Remind   more...People That You Cannot Trample the Bill of Rights" - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Calls For Impeachment.  less

Facing Impeachment, Musharraf Resigns as President of Pakistan. Obama, McCain Discuss Views on Christianity and Supreme Court Justices at Religious Forum. Referendum on Torture: Debate Over Role of   more...Psychologists in Military Interrogations Comes to a Head at APA Annual Convention  less

Summer Olympic Games Open in Beijing, Pro-Tibet Protester Deported to US. "This is the Olympics the West Wanted" - Dave Zirin on US Corporations Entering China, Athletes Speaking Out and the   more...Games from '68 to Today. The Wrecking Crew: Thomas Frank on How Conservatives Rule.  less

Israeli Troops Kill Two Palestinians in Ni'lin, Site of Nonviolent Anti-Wall Demonstration. NYPD Officer Caught on Tape Body-Slamming Cyclist During Critical Mass Ride. Colorado "Fusion Center"   more...to Step Up Intelligence Gathering During DNC; US Northern Command to Play Role.  less

Raj Patel on the Collapse of the World Trade Organization Talks. Plan Mexico and the U.S.-Funded Militarization of Mexico. GOP Congressional Candidate Accuses Al Jazeera of Trying to Kidnap Him In Florida

Stop-Loss: A Look at the US Military Policy that Creates a "Backdoor Draft" to Force Soldiers to Continue Service. Slavery By Another Name: Author Douglas Blackmon on The Re-Enslavement of   more...Black People in America.  less

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Broadcast Legend Bill Moyers on Media Reform: "Democracy Only Works When Ordinary People Claim It as Their Own". Bill Moyers Takes on Fox News Producer Sent by Bill O'Reilly to Media Reform   more...Conference.  less

Juan Gonzalez on Puerto Rico?s Overlooked Primary and a Bitter Divide Within the SEIU. "Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington". Anti-Torture   more...Activists Convicted, Jailed for Protesting Gitmo Outside Supreme Court.  less

Blackwater: From the Nisour Square Massacre to the Future of the Mercenary Industry. Iraqis Protest Looming Pact with US.

Israel Bars One of its Most Prominent Critics, Norman Finkelstein, for Ten Years. Gore Vidal on the Kennedys and His 1960s Battle with the New York Times. 1968, Forty Years Later: Tariq Ali Looks Back   more...on a Pivotal Year in the Global Struggle for Social Justice.  less

The "Golden Voice of the Great Southwest": Legendary Folk Musician, Activist Utah Phillips, 1935-2008. Carter: Israel Has 150 Nukes. Pentagon, House to Investigate Propaganda Program.

1968, 40 Years Later: Student, Worker Protests Sweep France, Leaving Indelible Mark on the Country, and the World. Legendary Author Gore Vidal on the Bush Presidency, History and the ?United States of   more...Amnesia?  less

White House Denies Attempt to Link Auto Industry Bailout to Colombia Pact. Filibuster-Proof Democratic Majority Hinges on 3 Undecided Senate Races. Gaza Again Plunged into Darkness, Hunger as Israel   more...Blocks Fuel, Food to Suffering Population  less

Pulitzer-Winning Author Alice Walker on Obama's First White House Visit as President-Elect. On Veterans Day, 15 Vets of Iraq and Afghanistan Face Trial for Antiwar Protest. Bush Links Auto Industry   more...Bailout to Colombia Trade Bill.  less

Republican Senator Ted Stevens Indicted on Corruption Charges. Drilling and Killing: Landmark Trial Against Chevron Begins Over Its Role in the Niger Delta. Van Jones on "The Green Collar Economy:   more...How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems". Syria Condemns US Attack as “Terrorist Aggression”  less

Ignoring Evidence, Mexican Authorities Charge Activists with 2006 Murder of Independent Journalist Brad Will. Eugene Jarecki on "The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic   more...in Peril". Grassroots Effort Helps New York Mother Avoid Foreclosure. Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama, McCain and Palin Suggest Obama Is a Socialist, Tens of Thousands Of Iraqis Protest US-Iraqi Pact  less

Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 Election. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter Challenges.   more... Report: Voter Purging Process Is Shrouded in Secrecy, Prone to Error and Vulnerable to Manipulation.  less

Amy Goodman Among 4 Recipients of 2008 Right Livelihood Award, Known as the "Alternative Nobel". Third Party VP Candidates Matt Gonzalez and Rosa Clemente Respond to Biden-Palin Debate. Wary   more...of Public Outcry, Revised $800B Wall St. Bailout Stuffed with Earmarks to Sway Election-Year Incumbents.  less

Promising "Change" in Washington, McCain Accepts GOP Nomination. Maverick? Author Paul Waldman on "Free Ride: John McCain and the Media". Convention Cash: Journalist Peter Stone   more...on the RNC's Sponsors. Crashing the Party: Suites, Corporate-Sponsored Events Gather the Money Behind the Conventions. McCain: "We Have to Catch Up to History". Abramoff Sentenced to Four Years in Jail for Corruption and Tax Offenses. Nearly 400 Arrested on Last Day of RNC, Including Over a Dozen Media Workers. Ramsey County Sheriff Admits Local Police Used Paid Infiltrators and Spied on Activists Including RNC Welcoming Committee. "We Are Not Terrorists": Activists with the RNC Welcoming Committee Speak Out Against Police Crackdown & Terrorism Charges. Iraqi American Sami Rasouli Says McCain Should Have Invited an Iraqi to Talk at RNC About the Effect of the Surge  less

Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Condemns Police Intimidation of Journalists. Hurricane Gustav Slams Louisiana: A Report from Jordan   more...Flaherty in New Orleans. As the RNC Opens in St. Paul, Twin Cities Police Arrest Nearly 300; Journalists Targeted. Report: Secretive Right-Wing Group Vetted McCain's VP Candidate Sarah Palin. As RNC Opens, Iraq Veterans Against the War March in St. Paul. A Debate: Iraq Veterans Against the War vs. Vets for Freedom.  less

Clinton Calls on Supporters to Unite Behind Obama. Narrowing the Obama-Clinton Divide: A Roundtable Discussion. 600 Arrested at Mississippi Factory in Largest Immigration Raid in US History. "Operation   more...First Casualty": Outside Democratic Convention, Iraq Veterans Against the War Re-Enact Raids on Iraqi Civilians. Rep. Dennis Kucinich: "Wake Up America!". Labor Groups Challenge Retail Giant Wal-Mart on Pressuring Employees to Vote Against Obama. In Wake of Deadly US Air Strike, Jeremy Scahill Questions Lawmakers About Obama's Afghanistan Policy. Tarnished by Sex Scandal, John Edwards' Absence Reduces Focus on Poverty at Democratic Convention. When Off the Silver Screen, Actress Daryl Hannah Seen on Frontlines of Environmental Movements. Amy Goodman Questions Fmr. President Jimmy Carter on Being Sidelined at DNC.  less

Michelle Obama Delivers Keynote Address on Opening Day of Democratic Convention. Jeremy Scahill Grills Democratic Lawmakers on the War, Obama's Foreign Policy Team and the Corporate Money Behind the   more...Big Show. Denver Police Arrest 91, Fire Pepper Spray & Pepper Balls at Protesters. As Democratic Convention Kicks Off, Massive Security Presence Clamps Down on Dissent in Denver. Former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan and Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan on the 2008 Race, Their Role As Convention Delegates & Voter Registration. Iraq Veterans Against the War Descends on Denver to Call on Democrats to Endorse True Antiwar Platform.  less