| Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: As the US continues to progress towards a "social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and a threat," we are slowly losing our ability to defend against the neoliberal war that would divorce power and authority from any sentiment of social morality. Read the Article Edward Snowden and Financial Speculation Taxes Dean Baker, Truthout: While the US government has enough influence to pull the Bolivian President out of foreign airspace in the pursuit of Edward Snowden, it refuses to use that same influence to support financial speculation tax and combat the looming threat of offshore tax havens. Read the Article Keystone XL May Actually Raise American Gas Prices Beth Buczynski, Care2: A new report by Consumer Watchdog reveals that the Keystone XL Pipeline actually will increase prices at the pump for the average American, dispelling any ideas that this project will do anything to decrease the financial burden of oil production in the US. Read the Article Unjust Justice Lewis R. Gordon, LRG Blog: In the murder of Trayvon Martin, race was not just a single factor, it was the most important. While media pundits and the prosecution tried again and again to divorce the case from its racial implications, it is precisely Martin's race that secured George Zimmerman his freedom and posthumously convicted an unarmed teenager of his own murder. Read the Article Cracked Open Exposes Heartbreak of Many Counting on Fertility Methods Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Miriam Zoll's new memoir, which details her experience trying to conceive as a middle-aged woman, exposes the failed promises of Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the business that sells modern women on the idea that technology can overrule nature. Read the Review Mr. President, Have Pity on the Working Man Michael Winship and Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: In a new report, economic analysts Amy Traub and Robert Hiltonsmith of the public policy and advocacy group Demos reveal how "tax dollars are fueling the low-wage economy and exacerbating inequality" as job creation continues to be a languishing problem since the recession. Read the Article Former US Olympian Escapes Christian Sect's Ideology of Fear Chris Hedges, TruthDig: Noel Lyons, former US Olympic Skier, went from bad to worse as she sought treatment for her alcohol abuse with an organization that used extreme, conservative Christian ideology to brainwash her into submission. Read the Article The US Embarrasses Itself by Flailing Around Over Edward Snowden Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance: The more drastic actions the US government takes to apprehend Edward Snowden the more attention is also drawn to the NSA surveillance scandal, prompting citizens to take a hard look at the ways in which our governement has betrayed us. Read the Article Boehner Brags About Turning America Into Detroit The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Speaker John Boehner's comment that Congress should be measured by the amount of laws it repeals is an echo of Reaganism; and just as Reagan's economic policies stripped Detroit to its bare bones, so will Boehner strip American government to next to nothing. Read the Article On the Death of Helen Thomas Lawrence Davidson, To The Point Analysis: Helen Thomas, the first female journalist to cover the White House, died this week at the age of 92. Lawrence Davidson revisits her legacy and discusses the attacks made later in her career by "Zionist American Ideologues." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: An Ohio Gun Group Gathers Donations to Arm George Zimmerman Shane Farnan, Thom Hartmann Program: This week Shane Farnan sits in for Thom Hartmann to discuss the crippling debt that the now-bankrupt city of Detroit faces as well as the thousands who protested George Zimmerman's acquittal who demand a special session to look at the culture of violence and racial profiling that the Stand Your Ground laws perpetuate. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Censoring Howard Zinn: Former Indiana Governor Tried to Remove "A People's History" From State Schools Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Emails discovered by the Associated Press reveals that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels sought to ban Howard Zinn's publications from the Indiana school system describing Zinn's most famous work as a "truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page." Watch the Video | 
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