"Observers estimated that the ice was moving up to two feet per minute."

www.democracynow.org The Wall Street Journal revealed this week that a little-known watchdog group, largely subsidized by ExxonMobil, was responsible for getting the IRS to audit the environmental organization Greenpeace. We speak with the reporter who...

"The City of London’s representative, the Remembrancer, should not have the right to sit in the House of Commons chamber. With 6 lawyers and a budget of £5.3 million a year, the centuries-old post of the Remembrancer has the right to see every draft law...

medicalxpress.com Every cell in our bodies runs on a 24-hour clock, tuned to the night-day, light-dark cycles that have ruled us since the dawn of humanity. The brain acts as timekeeper, keeping the cellular clock in sync with the outside world so that...

www.alternet.org Al Jazeera reveals in detail how the practice of force-feeding prisoners at Guantanamo is carried out.

www.forbes.com If the world's largest surveillance agency has a working relationship with the world's largest Internet firm, that's no one's business but theirs, according to an appeals court in the DC Circuit. In the ruling issued Friday, (PDF here )...

rt.com The city of Detroit, Michigan is days away from running out of money, and a state-appointed emergency manager says the situation is dire.

www.elephantjournal.com If you could pay a penny more per pound of food to eliminate slavery, would you? Sanjay Rawal, director of Food Chains (Executive produced by Eva Longoria | produced by Smriti Keshari) shares with us in the first episode of “SRO...

indigenoushistory.wordpress.com The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives wer...

chronicle.com Class divides in protest movements have never been as simple as they seemed.