| To Rescue Local Economies, Cities Seize Underwater Mortgages Through Eminent Domain Peter Dreier, The Nation: Faced with an economic quagmire, a growing number of cities - with the support of community groups and unions - are taking things into their own hands. Read the Article Chris Hedges | Locking Out the Voices of Dissent: Arrests Demonstrate Restrictions on Right of Assembly Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "The security and surveillance state, after crushing the Occupy movement and eradicating its encampments, has mounted a relentless and largely clandestine campaign to deny public space to any group or movement that might spawn another popular uprising." Read the Article NAACP Leads Push for Federal Civil Rights Charges Against Zimmerman After Race Kept Out of Trial Amy Goodman and Aaron Mate, Democracy Now!: As protests against the acquittal of George Zimmerman continue in Los Angeles, Oakland and other cities, the NAACP is calling on the US Department of Justice to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Legalizing Marijuana May Help Save the US Economy, Reduce the Prison Population, Stop the Drug War Death Toll Doug Fine, Gotham Books: Given the passage of the recent statewide initiatives legalizing pot in Colorado and Washington state, Doug Fine's exploration of the Mendocino model provides insight into what is very possibly in store for many states in America. Read the Excerpt Egypt Under Empire: Working-Class Resistance and European Imperial Ambitions Andrew Gavin Marshall, The Hampton Institute: In the past two and half years, Egypt has been experiencing an unprecedented revolutionary struggle of working-class people that is being met with the attempted imposition of a state-capitalist order by imposing imperial powers. Read the Article Prisons, State Budgets and the New National Freedom Agenda Isaac Lev Szmonko and Dan Berger and Layne Mullett, Truthout: As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide. Read the Article How to Be a Rogue Superpower Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: The response to Edward Snowden is unprecedented: an "international manhunt" (or more politely but less accurately, "a diplomatic full court press") conducted not by Interpol or the United Nations but by the planet's sole superpower, the very government whose practices the leaker was so intent on exposing. Read the Article Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: George Ruiz George Ruiz, Truthout: Although eligible for parole since 1993 and suffering from severe medical problems, 71-year-old George Ruiz has been told by multiple parole boards that as long as he's in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit, he will never be paroled unless he supplies authorities with the information they demand. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Had a Closed-Door Meeting With the Entire Senate Last Night, and More In today's On the News segment: After weeks of threatening filibuster reform, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a closed-door meeting with the entire Senate last night; As if getting paid minimum wage wasn't bad enough, now McDonalds wants to tell employees how they should budget their own money; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Chris Hedges: Urban Poverty in America Made Me Question Everything Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Launching a new show "Reality Asserts Itself," Paul Jay interviews author, journalist and activist Chris Hedges about the formative experiences that shaped his world view. Watch the Video Using Human Rights for Right-Wing Politics Joakim Mollersen, Truthout: Norweigian journalist Joakim Mollersen notes that the human rights foundation Oslo Freedom Forum abuses the name of human rights to whitewash human rights offenders, their supporters and apologists precisely because of their political affiliations. Read the Article | 
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