Elizabeth Warren's QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic Breakthrough? Ellen Brown, The Web of Debt Blog: On July 1, interest rates will double for millions of students - from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent - unless Congress acts, and the legislative fixes on the table are largely just compromises. Only one proposal promises real relief - Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act. Read the Article Troubling Implications of Susan Rice's Appointment as National Security Adviser Stephen Zunes, Truthout: Rice defended the Bush administration's lies about the supposed "Iraqi threat" in the run-up to the Iraq War. Read the Article Celebrate the Defeat of the Granny Bashers! Dean Baker, Truthout: Medicare and Social Security are safe from austerity hawks - for now. Time to raise a toast, then switch from defense to offense. Read the Article US Cold War Ally in the Docks at Guantanamo for USS Cole Bombing Adam Hudson, Truthout: The backstory of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspected mastermind of the USS Cole bombing in 2000 whose military commission pretrial hearings were recently held at Guantanamo Bay, is intertwined with that of US foreign policy during and after the cold war. Read the Article Syria: If People Don't Do Their Own Damn Revolution, It Won't Work The Thom Hartmann Program, The Daily Take: If the people of a nation in turmoil aren't sufficiently capable of revolution without help from outside forces, they won't be able to self-govern afterwards, leaving them worse off than when unrest began. Read the Article Don't Call Me Illegal: An Interview With Youth Immigrant Activist Tania Unzueta Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Unzueta, currently an organizer with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and co-founder of the Immigrant Youth Justice League, is one of many undocumented youth who have stepped into the public light to change the way the media covers the immigration debate. Read the Interview Motion Sickness: How the Supreme Court Erects Barriers to Justice Jeffrey McCord, Truthout: The court's changes to federal rules of procedure lead to dismissal of cases before the facts are weighed. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Curtails Arizona's Disenfranchising Voting Laws, and More In today's On the News segment: TransCanada tells state law enforcement to treat Keystone protesters like terrorists, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Obama's One-Way Mirror Shayana Kadidal, Truthout: The Bradley Manning trial provides a perfect example of the one-way mirror we're on the wrong side of, where the government can access nearly limitless information about us but we know little about what it does in our names, with our tax dollars. Read the Article Transcend Conditioned Consciousness: None but Ourselves Can Free Our Minds David DeGraw, Notes From the Underground: A look at the intricacies of mental slavery in everything from political policy to economic debt. Read the Article |
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