The voices of those who fight for justice can all too easily be drowned out by the people and corporations with more money and more clout. Fortunately, Truthout is here to make sure that you keep hearing about these struggles, in depth. We're only able to do that with your support - can you make a tax-deductible donation today and help ensure these voices are heard? Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 Special Investigation: Fracking in the Ocean Off the California Coast Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Following a six-month investigation, Mike Ludwig reports that the Pacific Ocean may be the next frontier for fracking technology. Read the Article Matt Bors: Drawing Terrible Things Without Causing Despair Joe Macare, Truthout: Matt Bors makes the case for why independent media should be paying attention to journalists who use the medium of comics and cartoons. Read the Article Detroit: Donald Cohen Warns of Privatization, Calls for Bailout Candice Bernd, Truthout: As Detroit prepares for a "fire sale" of its public assets to private interests in the wake of its $18 billion Chapter 9 bankruptcy, Detroiters are threatened with losing democratic control over public services in a city looking to infuse its budget with much-needed revenue. Donald Cohen speaks with Truthout about the inherent dangers of privatization. Read the Article Time to Send the Crony Banksters to Jail The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: When are we going to put an end to the administration's "too big to fail" and "too big to jail" policies? Read the Article Richard Wolff: Detroit a "Spectacular Failure" of System that Redistributes Pay from Bottom to Top Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Economist Richard Wolff says that taking away pensions from workers in Detroit is equal to theft. Watch the Video With Voting Rights Act in Shambles, North Carolina Kicks Voter Suppression Into High Gear Brendan Fischer, PRWatch: With the US Supreme Court decision to remove federal pre-clearance requirements from the Voting Rights Act, North Carolina Republicans are taking the opportunity to add dozens of anti-voting measures to its already prohibitive voter ID legislation. Read the Article Political Dreaming in the 21st Century: Where Has It Gone? Ira Chernus, TomDispatch: Chernus reminds us that the ability to dream is the ability to imagine "what it might be like to escape the limits imposed by corporations, the state, the media, the advertisers, powerful forces of every kind." Read the Article Judicially Amended "Remedies" Fail to Promote Purposes of NLRA Ellen Dannin and Ann C. Hodges, Truthout: In this 14th article of the series on the National Labor Relations Act, we learn how judicial amendments have nullified NLRA remedies that ensure a fired worker, his/her co-workers and other employees feel free to choose representatives for collective bargaining and to assert their other NLRA rights. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Alabama Lawmaker Moves to Change State's Stand Your Ground Law, and More In today's On the News segment: President Obama spoke at Knox College in Illinois about his vision for the American economy; TEPCO workers in Japan say more steam has been reported at Fukushima nuclear reactor no 3; a Jefferson County, Alabama, lawmaker wants to change that state's Stand Your Ground law so it won't let the next George Zimmerman get off for taking another life; and More. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails Justin Elliott, ProPublica: How powerful is the NSA if a recent freedom of information request led to a statement by the agency that it had no way to search its employees' emails? Read the Article |
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