| An Elegantly Simple Way To Revolutionize Government Carmen Yarrusso, Truthout: A system claiming to work for the best interests of the people, while in fact largely working for corporate special interests, must necessarily be riddled with elaborate lies and deception. Read the Article Capitalism's Crisis of Value and Imagination Max Haiven, Zed Books/Truthout: The commons represent a means to reclaim our lives, our energies, our passions and our time from a system that orients them towards ecological destruction, horrific inequality and untold misery. Read the Article The PTSD Crisis That's Being Ignored: Americans Wounded in Their Own Neighborhoods Lois Beckett, ProPublica: A growing body of research shows that Americans with traumatic injuries develop PTSD at rates comparable to veterans of war. Just like veterans, civilians can suffer flashbacks, nightmares, paranoia, and social withdrawal. Read the Article The Beatles on Sullivan: You Say You Want a Revolution? Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: "As many have noted, it was less than three months after the Kennedy assassination, bringing across the Atlantic a whiff of much needed fresh air, a reacquaintance with joy we all had been craving since November 22, 1963." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Four Thousand Organizations Are Fighting Back Against Internet Surveillance, and More In today's On the News segment: House Speaker John Boehner is standing in the way of immigration reform; four thousand organizations are fighting back against internet surveillance; West Virginia is finally sticking up for pregnant women; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Big Business Is Hugely Responsible for Our Major Unemployment Crisis, So Why Is Obama Turning to Them for Solutions? Lynn Parramore, AlterNet: As we know, the United States has a giant long-term unemployment problem. Rather than using the full force of the federal government, President Obama is turning to corporate CEOs to solve the problem. But is corporate America really ready to help? Read the Article In 'Nuestro Texas,' a Call for Human Rights in Reproductive Health Care Andrea Flynn, Next New Deal: Nine of the Valley's 32 health clinics have closed, and those remaining have curtailed hours, reduced staff, increased fees, and eliminated some services. Before the cuts, public clinics there served nearly 20,000 patients. Today they serve just over 5,000. Read the Article What Will Reversing Inequality Really Take? Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: In the fierce debate over our top-heavy distribution of income and wealth, egalitarians have vanquished both inequality's deniers and defenders. Now the debate is shifting to the most pivotal question of all. Read the Article How Arts and Organizing Helped Defeat Alabama's Anti-Immigration Law Levana Saxon, Waging Nonviolence: While much of the media coverage has focused on the work of large legal aid groups, Levana Saxon discusses with Gwendolyn Ferreti Manjarrez the power and impact that community and arts organizing played in turning the tide in Alabama. Read the Article The Snow Conspiracy Michael I. Niman, Media Study: If we don't re-prioritize our spending from private luxuries to public necessities, there will be many more, and much more serious, cases of Atlanta Syndrome – not being prepared for the predictable. Read the Article | 
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