| Guantanamo, Drone Strikes and the Non-War Terror War: Obama Speaks Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Legal scholar Marjorie Cohn deconstructs President Barack Obama's Thursday speech on drone strikes and continuing indefinite detention and torture at Guantanamo, highlighting the many questions that remain unanswered. Read the Article Jeremy Scahill Recounts How the US Dirty Wars Killed Women and Children in a Yemeni Village Jeremy Scahill, Nation Books: Jeremy Scahill's book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield draws on a plethora of sources who provided him with details of the dirty wars that began with Cheney and Rumsfeld, but have expanded under the Obama administration. Read the Excerpt In Europe, March Against Monsanto Is Latest Rejection of the GMO Giant Katarzyna Gajewska, Occupy.com: Even while an official ban on GM crops is still absent in most of the EU member states, regions and municipalities have taken initiative to define themselves as GMO-free zones. Read the Article Nebraska Keeps Death Penalty, Though Majority Seems to Back Repeal Carson Vaughan, Truthout: Conservative Nebraska came close to repealing the death penalty as a majority - but not the super majority needed to end a filibuster - of the state Senate indicated support for repeal. Read the Article Can Unions and Cooperatives Join Forces? An Interview With United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard Amy Dean, Truthout: United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard talks to Truthout about the challenges and opportunities of a new labor model: the union co-op. Read the Article I-5 Bridge Collapses Over Skagit River; Three People Rescued Brian M. Rosenthal, McClatchy Newspapers: An Interstate bridge in Washington state collapsed into the Skagit River Thursday evening, dumping at least two vehicles into the water. More than a quarter of Washington's 7,840 bridges are considered structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Read the Article When Black News Disappears: White Holds on Black Intellectuals' Minds and Misinforming the Black Public Dr. Tommy J. Curry, Racism Review: Currently, the post-racial idea has contoured black news into a narrow politically progressive ideology. This ideology is thematically geared toward convincing the black public that the symbols of racial progress, are, in fact, actual progress. Read the Article Justice for Patriot Mineworkers Laura Flanders, GRITtv: The battle between the United Mineworkers of America (UMWA) and the Patriot Coal Corporation in St. Louis is a microcosm of the larger struggle for workers' rights everywhere and employers' resistance to providing them. Watch the Video and Read the Report A Dream Foreclosed Staff, Corporate Crime Reporter: Laura Gottesdiener has written a remarkable book, A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home that hits hard against the big Wall Street banks. Read the Article An Excerpt From Lightweb Darkweb: Three Reasons to Reform Social Media Before It Re-Forms Us Raffi Cavoukian, Homeland Press: In this preface to his new book, ecology and children's champion Raffi Cavoukian considers some of the downsides of social media for youth. Read the Excerpt | 
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