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40 Years Ago, This Chilean Exile Warned Us About the Shock Doctrine. Then He Was Assassinated.

Working class whites blame Washington, but still want more government help

Protests erupt after man killed in officer-involved shooting in Charlotte

Obama Administration Considers Arming Syrian Kurds Against ISIS

Three percent of US adults own half of the country's guns
About 7.7 million adults nationwide make up a group of so-called gun super-owners, a study found.

President Jimmy Carter: Stop the Killing

Racial Segregation in New York Schools Starts With Pre-K, Report Finds

Massive Sinkhole in Florida Is Leaking Radioactive Water Into the Ground

WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer)

Short-Lived Syrian Ceasefire Breaks Down After Attack on UN Convoy

David Letterman is taking a break from retirement and is returning to TV to lend his voice to the important issues of climate change.

Bernie Sanders Asks If Wells Fargo Incident Has Triggered Criminal Referrals to Justice Department

After Police Killing Of Unarmed Man, Tulsa Chief Promises To 'Achieve Justice.' Haven't We Heard That Before. But You Can't Bring Murdered People Back to Life.

Chelsea Manning: Yes, I'll get gender surgery. But I may still be punished for my suicide attempt

US Bill Seeks First Native American Land Grab in 100 Years

Los Angeles Times Endorses Proposition 64 to Legalize Recreational Cannabis

NYC bomb suspect is charged with attempted murder

National Prison Strike Over Unpaid Labor Receives Scant Mass Media Coverage

Teachers Can't Afford to Buy Houses in Califorinia

Obama’s Legacy But Clinton’s Judgment

The Anniversary of Lehman and Men Who Don't Work
Our leading economists had no clue about what was going on when Lehman collapsed, and they still don't seem to have a clue today.

Despite gains, Trump’s chances for 270 electoral votes are dim

One in every five fish we eat is a fraud

Ralph Nader: Bernie Sanders' Opposition to Third Parties is Why His Movement is in Disarray

After court threat, state of Michigan removed Flint's power to sue

Prison Revolutionaries of the '60s Generation: Role Models for Contemporary Strikers

Another child killed by Ohio cops

Saudi Arabia appears to be using U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in its war in Yemen

Climate Justice Meets Racism: This Moment at Standing Rock Was Decades in the Making

France Becomes First Country to Ban Plastic Silverware, Plates and Cups
-- Kristin Falzon of EcoWatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

Mike Pence Says His Role Model for Vice President Is Dick Cheney

Make the Public Option a Central Focus of the 2016 Campaign
Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and others issue a call to hold insurance companies accountable “with a public, Medicare-like option available to every American.”

Trump Calls For Profiling Of People ‘From That Part Of The World’ After Attacks

Ahmad Khan Rahami named by police as New York bomb suspect

Jim Hightower: Donnie is a Trumpist, not a Populist
-- Jim Hightower on BuzzFlash at Truthout

Will Kaepernick's Protest Against Racism Spread to Baseball?
-- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Why the Debates Are So Important

Stop Blaming the Drought on a Lack of Rain

Trump used $258,000 from his charity to settle legal problems
The settlements were among four newly documented expenditures in which Trump may have violated laws against “self-dealing” — which prohibit nonprofit leaders from using charity money to benefit themselves or their businesses.

Sean Hannity in Trouble With Fox After Participating in Trump Ad

Let's hear from Colin Kaepernick critics now

Ninety Billion Dollar Whistleblower Suit Filed Against Four of the Nation's Largest Chemical Companies
-- Lorraine Chow of Ecowatch on BuzzFlash at Truthout

Fight the Pipelines: We Can't Drink Oil

Our Hardliners Are Still Helping Iran’s Hardliners

Saudi Arabia appears to be using U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in its war in Yemen

Taste The Outrage: Donald Trump Jr.'s Tweet Compares Refugees To Skittles

UC Berkeley Reinstates Course on Palestine

Trump Bemoans Bombing Suspect Getting Hospital Care, Lawyer

Wage gap between white and black Americans is worse today than in 1979

Trump: GOP nominee has history of jumping to dangerous conclusions – most recently after the New York bombing

Report: Bush 41 to Vote for Clinton

How racism has shaped welfare policy in America since 1935

Israel’s “50 Most Influential Women”—Not a Single Arab

Clintonian Natural Law: Ex-President Insists It Is Perfectly Natural For Donors To Seek Favors

Conservative Washington Post Columnist Mourns Death of Republican Party

Tulsa police chief: No gun found on man fatally shot

Analysis: Trump Tax Plan Would Cost Trillions, Boost Incomes For The Rich

Chris Christie Knew About Bridge Lane Closings as They Happened, Prosecutors Say

Environmental Concerns -- and Anger -- Grow in Month After Thousand-Year Flood Strikes Louisiana

Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester

Russian President Vladimir Putin Reportedly Planning Reforms to Effectively Resurrect KGB

NYC Bomb Suspect Arrested Amid Gunfire

Food Liberation: Why the Food Movement Is Unstoppable

CEOs Can Now Be Prosecuted Like War Criminals at the Hague

How to "Stop the Violence": March Up the Steps of the Traders Who Pay No Sales Tax
-- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout

Mike Pence Wrote an Article Urging Employers Not to Hire Gay People

Paul Krugman: Vote as if It Matters