| Cantaloupe vs. al-Qaeda: What's More Dangerous? Michael Meurer, Truthout: One of the most important revelations from the international drama over Edward Snowden's NSA leaks in May is the exposure of a nearly lunatic disproportion in threat assessment and spending by the US government. Read the Article 3D Printed Guns Won't Hurt You - but Jobs of 50 Million Women Could Be in Danger Anne Elizabeth Moore, Truthout: Advances in 3D printing technology may threaten the global fashion industry's present structure - and particularly its largely female workforce - far more than it does your personal safety or intellectual property arrangements. Read the Article Not a Game: How the NYPD Uses Sports for Surveillance Dave Zirin, The Nation: The NYPD has done a generation's worth of damage in its efforts to build bridges into communities. Read the Article Truthout TV Interviews William I. Robinson About the Crisis of Global Capitalism Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: UC Santa Barbara sociology professor, William I. Robinson, discusses the crisis of global capitalism and social democratic ways to address the financial, ecological and social crises wrought by this system. Watch the Video McCutcheon Supreme Court Case Could Give Money More Say in Politics Brentin Mock, Facing South: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission is seen by campaign finance reform watchdogs as a sequel to Citizens United, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates for unlimited political contributions by corporations. Read the Article The US Federal Deficit Continues to Shrink Jessica Schieder, Center for Effective Government: The federal budget deficit has been plummeting in size over the last few years; however, most Americans do not know that - their concern over the deficit has grown even as the annual deficit has shrunk significantly. Read the Article Washington's Contradictory Policy on Tax Avoidance Elise Lefeuvre, Council on Hemispheric Affairs: Washington is pursuing two opposing policies: increasing the repatriation of assets, and tacitly allowing US territories to continue their offshore financial activities. Read the Article Low Expectations for High-Level Nuke Meet Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service: For the first time in its 68-year history, the 193-member UN General Assembly is holding a high-level meeting of world leaders on one of the most controversial issues of our time: nuclear disarmament. Read the Article A Case Study in Awful: The Eight Worst Parts of the Recent Naval Academy Rape Hearing Erin Matson, RH Reality Check: The Naval Academy rape hearing is so gut-wrenching because the woman for whom prosecutors are seeking justice was treated as much (or more) of a defendant as the three alleged rapists. Read the Article In the Midst of a Transformational Moment Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance: In this update, Flowers and Zeese focus on one of the fundamentals for the advancement of all societies, and certainly a foundation for the development of all movements - youth organizing for better education and a more just world. Read the Article Labor Leaders, Obamacare and the Fate of the Unions Shamus Cooke, Workers Action: Obamacare is perhaps the most blatant example of the complete incompetency of many US labor leaders, who've tied the fate of organized labor to the Democratic Party, with disastrous results. Read the Article Defending Indigenous Lands and Waters in Honduras: The Case of Rio Blanco Beverly Bell and Tory Field, Other Worlds: A Honduran-owned and foreign-financed company has been attempting to build a dam on the sacred Gualcarque River in the Lenca community of Rio Blanco, but indigenous community members are fighting back. Read the Article | 
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