| Henry A. Giroux: Hope in a Time of Permanent War Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: Democratic hope is a subversive, defiant practice that makes power visible and interrogates and resists those events, social relations and ideas that pose a threat to democracy. Read the Article In Depth: How Soft Is the Obama Administration Really Going on Marijuana? Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The Obama administration's attitude toward drug enforcement is evolving, but don't expect the administration to reschedule marijuana or push for an end to prohibition anytime soon. Read the Article Eight Arguments Against Going to War With Syria Stephen Zunes, Truthout: US military action against Syria would be illegal, strategically counterproductive, destructive and deeply unpopular. Read the Article Failing Up to the Fed: a Reporters' Guide to the Paper Trail Surrounding Larry Summers Mary Bottari, PRWatch: For journalists who are being told what a brilliant man and insightful regulator Larry Summers was behind the scenes, here are a few items from his public record you might want to review. Read the Article Should Hurricane James Inhofe Hit the East Coast? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: We should start naming hurricanes and tropical storms after the politicians that deny climate science and the millionaires and billionaires that are funding all of the climate-change-denying nonsense. Read the Article Building the Commons as an Antidote to the Predatory Market Economy Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: We must mobilize to save the commons and build the foundation for a world in which people work together to solve common problems and create better lives for all of us. Read the Article Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Crosshairs Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog: Iraq and Libya have been taken out, and Iran has been heavily boycotted. Syria is now in the crosshairs. Why? Here is one overlooked scenario. Read the Article "Frackademia" by Law: Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 Exposed Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: Almost no focus has gone into scrutinizing Section 999 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which subsidizes biased pro-industry studies for a decade and in turn, further legitimizes unfettered fracking nationwide. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republicans Are to Blame for Health Care Premium Increases, and More In today's On the News segment: A new study found that the premium hikes in many red states are actually the result of Republican lawmakers who refuse to expand Medicaid; Congress is rushing to authorize up to three months of military action in Syria; Kansas is challenging the citizenship of more than 15,000 would-be voters; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript In Secret AT&T Deal, US Drug Agents Given Access to 26 Years of Americans' Phone Records Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: Under a secretive program called the Hemisphere Project, the Drug Enforcement Administration has access to records of every phone call transmitted via AT&T's infrastructure dating back to 1987. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Response to Syria a Duplicitous Affair Antonia Darder and Peter Mayo, Truthout: Caution about war against Syria is more than warranted by knowledge of the history of US interventions in other countries' domestic quarrels and in the absence of clear-cut evidence of the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons. Read the Article | 
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