| "Truthout is where I go to get the unvarnished version of the news," says actor and activist Mark Ruffalo. If you agree, can you step up with a tax-deductible contribution today? Help Truthout raise the $22,000 we urgently still need! 
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 The Privatization of Infrastructure Is Costing Us All Ellen Dannin, Truthout: We must ask: Who actually benefits from and pays for infrastructure? How is privatization affecting our roads and bridges - and our pocketbooks? Read the Article Hands Off Assata: Protests Can Protect the Revolutionary Fugitive in Cuba Again David Goodner, Truthout: In 1998, a nonbinding resolution called the Joanne Chesimard Fugitive Act passed both houses of Congress. The protest movement that erupted at the time points the way forward for how activists today can win a #HandsOffAssata campaign. Read the Interview Dean Baker | The Trade Agreement Piñatas Dean Baker, Truthout: Many labor, environmental and consumer groups have stepped up their criticisms of the Obama administration's plans for pushing fast-track trade negotiating authority recently. The purpose of fast-track is to allow the administration to negotiate to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Pact. Read the Article The Hunger Games-ification of Police and the Community Dr. Jason Michael Williams, Truthout: American policing began with the slave patrols, and yet, today, as then, the response to the outcries of Blacks on this issue is non-acknowledgement and condemnation - on par with the storyline of The Hunger Games, no? Read the Article Labor Law for the 0.01% John Logan, Truthout: The United States desperately needs labor law reform - but not the "Employee Rights Act" labor law for the 0.01% supported by Rick Berman and Newt Gingrich. Under existing law, unscrupulous corporations and their "union avoidance consultants" effectively choose whether a workplace gets a union. Read the Article We Shouldn't Blindly Worship Authority Figures The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: There's a direct line leading from our hero worship of cops, to the arming of local police forces with weapons of war, to the killing of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The US is not yet an authoritarian state, but if we want to avoid that, we need to keep these dangerous trends in check. Read the Article Cromnibus Pension Provisions Gut 40 Years of Policy, Allow Existing Pensions to Be Slashed Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism: The Kline-Miller amendment, passed by the House, and part of the Senate bill forwarded to Obama for his signature, is one provision that could do immediate harm to working people who made their retirement plans based on the belief that their pension rights were secure. Read the Article Citizens Take Monitoring Into Own Hands as Eagle Ford Shale Boom Continues Undaunted Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: During the past two years, Hugh Fitzsimons lll, a buffalo rancher on the outskirts of Carrizo Springs, Texas, has watched the fracking boom transform a rural locale into an industry hub. Desolate dirt roads are now packed with truck traffic and commercial development to service the growing industry. Read the Article The War to Start All Wars: The 25th Anniversary of the Forgotten Invasion of Panama Greg Grandin, TomDispatch: It was George H.W. Bush's invasion of that small, poor country 25 years ago that inaugurated the age of preemptive unilateralism, using "democracy" and "freedom" as both justifications for war and a branding opportunity. The road to Baghdad, in other words, ran through Panama City. Read the Article Let Us Speak! Let Us Speak! Let Us Speak! Voices From Ferguson to Sharpton Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Black Agenda Report: Al Sharpton's assertion that the people from Ferguson would be violent is more consistent with the position of the police than with the people of Ferguson. It is precisely this assumption that Black people are violent that is getting Black folks all over the country killed. Read the Article Under Fire for Negligence, North Carolina Prisons Chief Seeks New Funding for Mental Health Treatment Lisa Dawson, Solitary Watch: North Carolina corrections chief David Guice wants more than $20 million to improve the treatment of people with mental illness in the state's prisons. His request comes on the heels of two recent reports showing neglect and abuse of prisoners with psychiatric disabilities in North Carolina. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Poverty and Inequality Are Getting Worse in the US, and More In today's On the News segment: Even in the face of the so-called recovery, poverty and inequality are getting worse in our country; the National Labor Relations Board says that employees can use company email to form a union; Sen. Bernie Sanders keeps moving toward progress; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
