| The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto's Monopolistic Greed Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: From its origins as the manufacturer of lethal poisons, Monsanto represented a challenge to human and environmental health. Today it threatens food supplies and democracy around the world. Read the Article Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered Rania Khalek and Craig O'Connor, Truthout: Hundreds of foreclosed homeowners and housing rights activists rallied outside the Justice Department on Monday, May 20, to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute the Wall Street bankers responsible for the financial collapse and foreclosure crisis. View the Photo Essay The DC Circuit Court Versus Workers' Rights John Logan, Truthout: While the GOP in Congress blocks National Labor Relations Board nominees, thereby incapacitating the agency, the DC Circuit Court ruling absolving employers from posting the rule of the land in the workplace further guts worker protections. Read the Article Austerity Comes to America Gerald Friedman, Center for Popular Economics: Even while scholarship has exposed the fallacy of austerity economics and this news has reached wide audiences, the US government is embracing austerity's policy prescriptions. Read the Article Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit David Morgan, Truthout: Operating a workplace as a democracy in the contemporary business world isn't easy, Morgan says, but worker cooperatives are showing the way while thriving and multiplying. Read the Article Teach Your Children Well: Don't Play Monopoly Mark Karlin, Truthout: You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner. The maker of the board game Co-opoly tells Truthout how the game encourages cooperation in a climate of cutthroat capitalism. Read the Interview The Corporate Dictatorship of PBS and NPR The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Public broadcasting institutions now rely more and more on corporate and billionaire cash to operate, which is probably why PBS and NPR now filter what they play on their airwaves: so that they don't anger their wealthy backers. Read the Article Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its "Verify the Recall" Effort in Wisconsin Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: The Texas-based Tea Party group True the Vote is claiming they were one of the groups inappropriately "targeted" by the IRS since their application for charitable status has been delayed for years. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Senate Judiciary Committee Has Advanced a So-Called "Comprehensive" Immigration Plan, and More In today's On the News segment: The Senate Judiciary Committee has advanced a so-called comprehensive immigration plan; Yesterday, the US House of Representatives voted to provide support for veterans; Obama won't let the GOP fast-track the Keystone XL pipeline, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript WikiLeaks Cables Reveal State Department Promoting GMOs Abroad Paul Jay, The Real News Network: According to Darcy O'Callaghan, the international policy director at Food & Water Watch, US embassies are aggressively and systematically promoting biotechnology and GMO food abroad. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Economic Update: Measuring Capitalism's Results Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update/Truthout: Richard Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally, in relation to the economic crisis. Updates include news on Google caught evading taxes, the state of food stamps and the crisis in public higher education. The radio segment also includes a major discussion on the US medical-industrial complex and the meaning of Bangladesh's building collapse. Listen to the Radio Segment | 
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