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Make a Comment to the FCC About the Need to Make the Internet a Common Carrier

Oil Giant Citgo Gets Slap On the Wrist for 10 Years of Illegal Operations

The FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal Is Out: It's Time to Make Our Voices Heard

Elizabeth Warren Reveals Inside Details of Trade Talks

Is Shinseki the New Sebelius?

Wayne County Clerk: Rep. John Conyers Won't Be on August Ballot

Are Charter Schools in New Orleans the 2014 Version of Plantation Education?
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

Robert Reich | How to Shrink Inequality

Diesel Dope, Monster Trucks, and Snotty Dispensary Clerks: A Veteran Pot Grower's Back-to-the-Land Adventure

Elizabeth Warren’s Moment

How 3-D Printed Guns Evolved Into Serious Weapons in Just One Year

Fast Food Protests Spread Overseas

OathKeepers: We Distributed Ammo to "Mentally Imbalanced" Bundy Thugs

Not the "Illuminati": How Fundamentalist Christians Are Infiltrating State and Federal Government

BagNews Compiles Shocking Visual Evidence of Cecily McMillan Injustice

Why Don’t We Know How Many People Are Shot Each Year in America?
Has nonfatal gun violence increased or decreased over the past 10 years? No one really knows.

US Threatens to "Bleed" Russia if It Disrupts Ukraine Vote

Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan Forgot This Key Detail About Running for President

In Historic Vote, FCC Advances Rules to Kill 'Open Internet'

Five of the Most Dangerous Delusions of the Far Right

These Stunning Photos Show What Iconic US Locations Look Like After 12 Feet of Sea Level Rise

More Police Have Died From 9/11 Illnesses Than On 9/11 Itself

Jackson Rising: An Electoral Battle Unleashes a Merger of Black Power, the Solidarity Economy and Wider Democracy

7 Mindblowing Economic Trends You Need to Know About

Measles Vaccine Attacks Cancer in Landmark Study

Officer Faces Charges After Destroying Woman’s Eyesight
A woman’s eyesight has been destroyed after a police officer allegedly fired his gunpowder-propelled pepper spray weapon into her face from less than a foot away.

Race, Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

David Swanson | Public Health Experts Identify Militarism As Threat

50 Things the Working Poor Never Say

Paul Krugman | It's True: An Economy Can Be Damaged by Too Little Spending

"I Have Been to the Darkest Corners of Government, and What They Fear Is Light"

Exploited Employee Resistance Needs to Be Coordinated Worldwide: It's Beginning to Happen
-- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout

El Salvador Mulls Freeing 17 Women Jailed for Abortion "Crimes"

Internal Graph at CME Shows How the Futures Market is Rigged

Marco Rubio Defends His Climate Denialism With Unscientific Rant on Abortion

"We Kill People Based on Metadata"

FCC Votes to Move Ahead on Net Neutrality Plan

It’s Sign-Off Time for TV Legend Barbara Walters
In her wake, she’ll leave a mixed legacy, from the highs of her groundbreaking network career in the 1960s and ’70s as a tenacious woman in a male-dominated profession, to the lows of her rampant blurring of the lines between journalism and entertainment.

More Proof for Climate Change
A significant chunk of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has begun to disintegrate, and the process has now become unstoppable.

World Court to Target UK for War Crimes in Iraq

No Slowdown in Unfair Marijuana Arrests

Why America's Middle-Class Housing Crunch Is Here to Stay

Quebec Election: A Seismic Shift Within the Independence Movement?

The US Military’s New Normal in Africa
A secret African mission and an African mission that’s no secret

New York Times Ousts Its Executive Editor, Elevating Second in Command

Turkey Mine Disaster: Grief Turns to Rage as Hopes of Finding Survivors Fade

The Many Faces of the Indian Left

"You Need to Die": Cliven Bundy and Violent Militias Still Terrorizing Utah, Nevada

"Accidents Happen": Turkey Coal Mine Explosion Death Toll Hits 274, Making Soma Disaster the Worst of Its Kind in Country's History

'Operation American Spring' Aims To Bring 10 Million "Patriots" To DC On Friday

Five Principles for Independent Media in 2014

Feeling Defeated? These Solutions Fight Climate Change and Empower People

Charles P. Pierce | Eric Shinseki's Very Long, Very Bad Morning

Conservatives Seek to Regain Control of GOP Agenda

CNN Fires News Editor Who It Says Plagiarized At Least 50 Stories

Associated Press and The Guardian Join Media Push for Details on Lethal Injection Mix

When It Comes to Expanding the US Oil Empire, Expect Chaos in Ukraine and Nigeria
-- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Students Nix IMF Chief’s Commencement Address at Smith College

Harry Reid Calls for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United

Despite Select Committee, Issa Pushes Forward With His Own Benghazi Investigation

Bill to Curb NSA Spying Looks Like Change, but Isn’t Really

Dangers Of Supreme Court Prayer Ruling Quickly Become Clear

Six Reasons to Be Afraid of the Private Sector/Government Security State

Former Alabama KKK Leader Gets Prison Time for Cross Burning

David Brock Painting A Target on the Koch Brothers

Pakistan Wants Drones, and It Doesn't Need America's Permission to Get Them
The nation already has remote-piloted surveillance aircraft, some of which look a lot like China's.

How Climate Change Will Brew a Bad-Tasting, Expensive Cup of Coffee

Bee Losses Highlight Urgent Need to Restrict Pesticides, Shift to Sustainable Agriculture

David Swanson | One Day We Will All Strike for More Than One Day

Paul Krugman | Points of No Return

Republicans Turn On Each Other Ahead of Key Primaries

Low-Cost Mass Graves for the Working Class: Miners Massacre in Turkey

The One Immigration Reform Bill The House Might Pass: Military DREAM Act

US Military Describes Its Mistakes in Afghanistan

Miners Say Safety Declined After Turkey Privatized Soma Mine

The Neoconservative Obsession with Iran

UN Treaty on Corporate Rights Abuse Sees New Momentum

The People Are Bigger Than the Pipelines

Challenging a Militarized Police State in the US

Building a Movement for Happiness

US Will Sell Iraq $1 Billion In Warplanes, Armored Vehicles, And Surveillance Equipment

Ted Mitchell, Leader in Privatization Movement, Confirmed as Undersecretary of Education

The Fascinating Bedlam of Creationism
-- Steven Jonas MD, MPH for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Meet the Breakfast Cereals That Want to Destroy You

Charles P. Pierce | Heavenly Daze

Spitting, Stalking, Rape Threats: How Gun Extremists Target Women
Welcome to the dark side of America's war over guns.

Step on the Gas, Step on a Man: The New Abolition Movement
-- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Harry Reid Backs Constitutional Amendment to Roll Back Campaign Finance Decisions

SATIRE: "Shoot Anything That Moves" Becomes Law

Mark Morford | Heart Attack of the World

Say Goodbye to Capitalism as We Know It

The 2008 Karl Rove Calls the 2014 Karl Rove "Reprehensible"

Los Angeles Spill Leaves Knee-Deep Oil
An oil pipe near suburban Glendale, California, ruptured around 12:15 a.m. Thursday and spilled 50,000 gallons of crude onto the streets. The spill is spread out over roughly half a mile, and oil is knee-deep in some places.

Word from Jack Kerouac Alley: If Murals Could Speak

Scott Brown Plays Dirty Politics With Shaheen-Portman Energy Bill, Railroading the Bill

Georgia Democrat Awaits Crowded, Crazy Republican Primary

Meet North Carolina's Revolutionary Register of Deeds

Senate Confirms First Native American Woman Federal Judge

Arkansas Gay Marriages End, For Now, After Ruling
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to put on hold a ruling that overturned the state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, but the short-lived ability for same-sex couples to wed in the state still came to a halt amid confusion about what comes next.