| William Rivers Pitt | Please Don't Take the "2016" Bait William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Midterm elections are, by orders of magnitude, more important than presidential elections on every meaningful level. And when they get ignored, we get the kind of Congressional disaster zone we currently endure. Read the Article How One State Protects Taxpayers From Privatization Pitfalls Ellen Dannin, Truthout: A Massachusetts law requires that the costs that are normally hidden when public services are privatized be revealed when analyzing every new contract bid. Read the Article Greg Palast | Rand Paul's Zombie-nomics Versus Janet Yellen Greg Palast, Truthout: Will Sen. Rand Paul, misunderstanding the voices of the undead, block the appointment of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve? Read the Article Paul Krugman | Alan Greenspan, Doing His Best to Make Things Worse Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Alan Greenspan isn't just being a bad economist; he's being a bad person, refusing to accept responsibility for his errors in and out of office. And he's still out there, doing his best to make the world a worse place. Read the Article Health Care in the US as Seen From Down Under: "Mens Sana in Insanus Patriae" Niall McLaren, Truthout: Australia's national health service, Medicare, treats health care as a human right for all, including illegal immigrants - and it costs less and delivers better outcomes than US health care. Read the Article GMOs for Profit: The Missing Context of Industrial Agriculture Curt Ries, Truthout: It is not what GMOs are that should demand so much attention but, rather, what they do: They lead to corporate control over the food system. Read the Article A Trail of Tears: How Veterans Return From America's Wars Ann Jones, TomDispatch: In this excerpt, Ann Jones reports on the hidden reverberations of our distant wars - from what goes on unseen behind hospital doors to the long, private struggles that occur anonymously in suburban neighborhoods and rehabilitation centers across the United States. Read the Excerpt On the News With Thom Hartmann: The IRS Can Go After People Who Stash Fortunes Overseas, and More In today's On the News segment: The Southern District Court of New York says the IRS can go after people who stash fortunes overseas; Japanese officials want to lower the cost of decontaminating the area around Fukushima by changing the way the nuclear radiation will be measured; the Rolling Jubilee has eliminated nearly $15 million of American debt; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Public Citizen Report Reveals Dents, Holes in Keystone XL Southern Half Weeks Before Planned Startup Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: A chilling report reveals that the 485-mile Keystone XL southern line is plagued by dents, faulty welding, exterior damage that was patched up poorly and misshapen bends, among other troubling anomalies. Read the Article The Invisible Refugees - Internally Displaced People Andrew Lam, New America Media: There is a growing population of refugees that often goes without international support, a subgroup of people whose basic needs are rarely addressed by the global community: the internally displaced. Read the Article Chris Hedges: Jeremy Hammond Exposed State's Plan to Criminalize Democratic Dissent Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Whatever crimes whistleblowers like Jeremy Hammond and Chelsea Manning may have committed, they are nothing compared with the war crimes in the fraud and the lies that are being perpetrated by the corporate state, says Chris Hedges. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Economic Update: "There Is No Recovery... and the Policy Is Not Working" Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update, Truthout: Rick Wolff quotes Larry Summers above and asks why, when society funds high-tech companies like Twitter, doesn't society have any ownership? Why does the US have the lowest minimum wage among developed countries? Why, if the US is so committed to free trade, does it insist on upholding the Cuban trade embargo? Why are our universities "private" when the bulk of their funding is public?; and more. Listen to the Radio Segment | 
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