We're counting on you: Truthout is in danger of not making our budget goal unless we raise at least another $16,000 by midnight. This is critical to help us keep publishing revelatory investigative reporting and powerful new ideas. Any amount you give will be tax-deductible and have an immediate impact. Can you make a donation now? 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 On the Front Lines of Hawaii's GMO War, Part Two Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Big Agriculture is regrouping after the defeat of its effort to quash Kauai's law forcing biotech companies to disclose details of pesticide use and a ban on the Big Island of development of genetically modified crops, with the outcome determining perhaps nothing less than the future of food. Read the Article Heart of Darkness: Criminal Investigation of Wisconsin Recall Money Mary Bottari, PR Watch: The post-Citizens United dark money showdown is under way in Wisconsin. Dozens of 501(c)(4)'s spent huge sums in defense of Team Walker. Not only did they not disclose their donors, they engaged in a dizzying array of fund transfers that raise many questions. Read the Article Without Reagan's Treason, Iran Would Not Be a Problem The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The biggest threat to an American-Iranian accord comes from President Obama's enemies at home - Congressional Republicans - not from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani; Republican attempts to sabotage a Democratic president's deal with Iran are nothing new. Just ask Jimmy Carter. Read the Article A Call to Arms From Oz to American Academics Salvatore Babones, Truthout: The social disease of neoliberalism is spreading to Australia, with a not-so-veiled threat to academic freedom. Secure academics in the English-speaking world need to mount a vigorous counteroffensive. Read the Article The Resurgence of Authoritarianism in Economically Beleaguered Greece: The Shaping of a Proto-Fascist State CJ Polychroniou, Truthout: The present Conservative-Socialist coalition Greek government brooks no opposition in its drive to do the bidding of the neoliberal troika that has taken control of the Greek economy. Harsh crackdowns on demonstrators against Eldorado Gold's destruction of the ancient Skouries forest and other civil society groups reveal a proto-fascist authoritarianism. Read the Article George Lakoff | New York Times Uncovers Conservative Attacks, Then Prints One: All on Front Page George Lakoff, Truthout: The New York Times finally reported on the longstanding, extensive communication campaigns by conservative Republicans to change public discourse and the way the public thinks. Then it published a classic piece of propaganda by that campaign on the front page in the same week. Read the Article Henry Giroux on the "School-to-Prison Pipeline" Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: "The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it's not controlled by the administration; they're controlled by the police," Henry Giroux tells Bill Moyers this week. "This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools." Watch the Video The Hunger Games Are Real: Teenage Fans Remind the World What Katniss Is Really Fighting For Christopher Zumski Finke, Yes! Magazine: What if we used fantasy not as an escape from our world, but an invitation to look deeper into it? Teenage fans are fighting injustice in real life. Read the Article The Empire Strikes Back: How Wall Street Has Turned Housing Into a Dangerous Get-Rich-Quick Scheme - Again Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch: You can hardly turn on the television or open a newspaper without hearing about the nation's impressive, celebrated housing recovery. Home prices are rising! New construction has started! The crisis is over! Yet beneath the fanfare, a whole new get-rich-quick scheme is brewing. Read the Article Drone Strikes in Pakistan: Reapers of Their Own Destruction Medea Benjamin, Pink Tank: The latest protests in Pakistan show that even when the United States hits its mark, as in the case of the last two strikes in Pakistan that killed key leaders of two extremist cells, they're still counterproductive. Read the Article Branding the Revolution Brad Evans and Julian Reid, Truthout: Does the Russell Brand "brand" offend the sensibilities of some leftists because he challenges their intellectual monopoly on questions concerning the stakes of political struggle, social transformation and, indeed, the future of "the left" itself? Read the Article |
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