| William Rivers Pitt | On the Cover of the Rolling Stone William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: There are far larger and more dangerous fish to fry right now than getting all worked up over who is on a magazine cover. Read the Article Telecom Companies Implicated in NSA Spying Unite to Lobby Congress on Digital Privacy Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The telecom industry launches a lobbying group headed by two Washington insiders to advocate for privacy policies that could affect millions of consumers nationwide. Read the Article Prometheus Among the Cannibals: A Letter to Edward Snowden Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: In her letter to Edward Snowden, Solnit writes, "I am moved by your choice of our future over yours, the world over yourself." Read the Article Snowden Asylum: Where's the "Irony"? Worldview, WBEZ: Latin America scholars are critical of the coverage of the Snowden affair. Read the Article Does the NRA Want African-American Men to Stand Their Ground? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: If the NRA is serious about the right to bear arms, then the group needs to announce a new program to give guns to young African-Americans to protect themselves. Read the Article Economy of the Squeegee: Carwasheros Organizing Across the Country Amy B. Dean, Truthout: Can the "carwasheros," who are organizing across the country, lead the next wave of alt-labor insurgency? A conversation with Adam Kader of ARISE Chicago. Read the Article Turning the NLRA into "Groundhog Day," the Movie Ellen Dannin and Ann Hodges, Truthout: In this latest installment of the Judicial Amendment Project series on the history of the National Labor Relations Act, the authors discuss the Supreme Court's ruling that the only remedy for an employer's bad faith bargaining is to go back and do it again and again, when what unions really need is a ruling that doesn't allow employers to delay bargaining with no desire to reach an agreement. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Your Local Police Department May Be Tracking Your Every Move, and More In today's On the News segment: A new report from the ACLU shows that automatic license plate readers are snapping photos of our cars; it turns out that lying to homeowners and laying off thousands is good business; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Global Power Project: Banking on Influence With Bank of America Andrew Gavin Marshall, Occupy: Bank of America is, in short, a profound symbol of much that is wrong on Wall Street: massive fraud, money laundering, racketeering, conspiracy and weighty influence in Washington and beyond. Read the Article Torturing Citizens Who Won't Turn Snitch: A Letter from Pelican Bay Anonymous, Truthout: In a letter that illuminates the present hunger strike at Pelican Bay prison, an anonymous correspondent wrote Truthout contributor Victoria Law in 2011 about how California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation tortures those inmates unwilling to snitch. Read the Article Chris Hedges: We Must Grasp Reality to Build Effective Resistance Paul Jay, The Real News Network: In the continuation of Paul Jay's "Reality Asserts Itself" interview with Chris Hedges, they discuss the fantasy that we can have everything we want and the reality of the grave dangers facing us. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Michelle Alexander: "Zimmerman Mindset" Endangers Young Black Lives with Poverty, Prison and Murder Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, Democracy Now!: Michelle Alexander, a law professor at Ohio State University and author of the best-selling book, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness," says the biases that led to Trayvon Martin's death and let his killer go free are deeply embedded in US society. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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