| BuzzFlash In Plundering the Earth With Rash Excess, the Oligarchy Has Dug the World's Largest Mass Grave Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: The biblical fable that Jesus multiplied a few fish and loaves of bread to feed 5,000 people is the stuff of faith. In reality, however, the Earth is well on its way to a population of 8 billion individuals. The profiteers are extracting a finite amount of natural resources, exacerbating climate change and creating a toxic carcass of the environment. 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Please make a tax-deductible donation, if you can: We just can't do it without you. 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 Dahr Jamail | Toxic Legacy: Uranium Mining in New Mexico Dahr Jamail, Truthout: The third-largest nuclear disaster in world history occurred in New Mexico in 1979, but the devastating consequences of uranium mining and processing continue to unfold. Read the Article William Rivers Pitt | Not The Onion William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: A fracking well exploded in a town in Pennsylvania, and Chevron compensated the neighbors who were affected with free pizza. Reality has reached such a level of absurdity that satire could easily be mistaken for reality. Read the Article New Report Exposes America's Highest-Paid Government Workers Staff, PR Watch: A new report shows that America's highest-paid "government" workers are not your local teachers, nurses or sanitation workers. Rather, they are corporate executives who sign lucrative contracts to take over public services and pay themselves and other executives eye-popping salaries. Read the Article Laws Seek To Punish Use of Time-Honored Tool for Pushing Social Change Pam Bailey, Truthout: Professors in cultures everywhere should challenge, explore, investigate and critique. Boycotts have an honorable history as a vehicle to promote citizen participation. Academics are rightly concerned that bills seeking to punish academic organizations boycotting Israeli institutions will impose a political test on faculty members. Read the Article William Ayers: Teach Freedom! William Ayers, HarperCollins: In Imagine Living in a Socialist USA, retired education professor William Ayers writes about knowledge as an inherently public good. The development of free people is the central goal of teaching toward the free society of the future, he says, and the fullest development of all is the condition for the full development of each. Read the Excerpt The Limits of Non-Cooperation as a Strategy for Social Change Stephanie Van Hook, Open Democracy: Civil disobedience is vital, but it is insufficient to transform society. A new science of cooperation illuminates the path ahead. Read the Article Human Footprints to a Harrowing Future Evaggelos Vallianatos, Truthout: Nature photographer and photojournalist Peter Essick, who worked for most of his life for National Geographic, has produced a beautiful, horrifying mirror of our Earth in his new book, Our Beautiful, Fragile World. Read the Review Time for White Americans To Wake the Hell Up! The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The result of media and popular culture portraying blacks as more likely to be criminals is that they're far more likely to be treated as criminals, even when they aren't. It's time for white Americans to wake up and help heal this country of 400 years of self-inflicted wounds. Read the Article Progress With Iran as Negotiations Continue in Vienna Laicie Heeley, Truthout: While negotiations between the US and its P5+1 partners on Iran nuclear inspections go smoothly, a wide gap remains to be bridged. Read the Article Documenting Darkness: How a Thug State Operates Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: The inhabitants of our secret state have been moving in dark and disturbing ways. What we know is already disturbing enough. What we don’t know would surely unnerve us far more. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Denton, Texas Is Taking on the Fracking Industry, and More In today's On the News segment: Denton, Texas is taking on the fracking industry; the Federal Communications Commission won't stand up for internet freedom; nearly 100,000 people are about to lose their healthcare in Arkansas; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Economic Update: This System Does Not Work Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on the Olympics; Chicago university faculty strike; Chevron's contempt; Gallup poll on unemployment; consumer debt rising again; Europeans opposing the privatization of water; US adults marrying less to cope with the economy; and more. Listen to the Radio Segment |
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