| Democrats Share the Blame for Tragedy of Iraq War Stephen Zunes, Truthout: The Democrats who voted to support the war and rationalized that vote by making false claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs were responsible for allowing the Bush administration to get away with lying about Iraq's alleged threat. Read the Article "The Consumer's Got to Change the System": Farmer Ben Burkett on Racism and Corporate Control of Agriculture Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: Racism is still here in the marketplace and in credit, but we have learned to deal with it and not give up on changing the system. We struggle every day to bring about a change. Read the Article Killing Us Softly: Why the Administration's Response to Criticism on Drones Carries Little Water Shahid Buttar, People's Blog for the Constitution: The question ignored by proponents of drone strikes is the same overlooked by those who defend torture: "How do we know our government has the right person?" Read the Article L.A. Teachers Block Corporate Donor Attempt to Buy School Board Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes: The Los Angeles teachers union squeaked out a victory in yesterday's L.A. school board election, beating back corporate donors who flushed millions of dollars into an effort to unseat an independent school board leader. Read the Article Truthout TV: Victoria Law on Closing Cages Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: The discussion centers on funding priorities of local governments for youth jails and the defunding of schools and rec centers that are integral in giving young people a hand up. Watch the Video Business and Labor Unite on Immigration Reform, But Future Uncertain Anna Challet, New America Media: While the business sector and organized labor agree that immigration reform must include a road map to citizenship, there remain significant concerns over what will be addressed - and who will be left out - in the bill being drafted in the Senate. Read the Article Israel: Where Soccer Fans Boo Their Own Players When They Score Dave Zirin, The Nation: What does it say that sixty-six years later, Israeli fans of the soccer club Beitar Jerusalem have not evolved to postwar-Brooklyn standards of human decency? Read the Article Can We Cut Healthcare Costs Without Hurting Patients? Mike Alberti, Remapping Debate: If there is a single message that has come to dominate the debate over health care in the United States in the last several years, it is that Americans are receiving too much of it. Remapping Debate found that the claim that utilization could be reduced at no risk to patient health has been oversold. Read the Article "The Poor Are Too Free?:" Unlocking the Middle-Class Code PL Thomas, The Becoming Radical: The idealized middle-class fantasy of the poor ignores that behind the weightless freedom often lurked the life-long burden of debt - the thirty-year mortgages, the monthly bills, the billowing cost of college-for-all. Read the Article This week in SpeakOut: Jan Wellman presents an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky;New America Media interviews journalist and essayist Andrew Lam on his most recent fiction project "Birds of Paradise Lost;" Both Danny Postel and Winona LaDuke speak on the complex political legacy of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez; Betty Reardon gives the hard facts about violence against women and the nature of war; and more. Read the Articles | 
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