| William Rivers Pitt | Diary of a Dying Country William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Unlike the energy policies that are filling the rivers and the air with poison, drying up the water out West while making the tap water back East flammable, speaking your mind does no harm. Who knows? They may even listen. Read the Article Massive Coal Ash Spill Chokes North Carolina River as EPA Considers Waste Rules Mike Ludwig, Truthout: A ruptured Duke Energy pipe in Eden, North Carolina, caused the release of up to 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash and 27 million gallons of contaminated water into the Dan River. "The ecological disaster that is unleashed here is going to play out in the order of months, if not years," said Matt Wasson of Appalachian Voices. Read the Article Shocking Facts About America's For-Profit Prison Industry Beth Buczynski, Care2: The prison system has become a for-profit business in which inmates are the product - a system that has shocking similarities to another human-based business from America’s past: slavery. Read the Article and View the Infographic Vermont Students, Workers Object to Tuition Dollars Being Used to Fund Poverty Wages Jonathan Leavitt, Truthout: Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for janitors and food workers in Vermont institutions of higher learning are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality. Read the Article Keystone XL Pipeline to America: Bend Over and Take It The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: We need to make it clear to Big Oil, the Obama administration and their supporters that we aren't just going to "lie back and enjoy" the Keystone XL pipeline and the toxic, dirty and dangerous oil that it would be transporting. Read the Article Being the Wolf of Wall Street Jared Rodriguez, Truthout: What makes The Wolf of Wall Street so vitally important is that it illustrates the entitled, master-of-the-universe mindset that is actively mucking up the world for the rest of us. The problem isn't that this movie encourages viewers to idolize people like Jordan Belfort - the problem is they already do. Read the Film Review The Too-Appealing Wolf of Wall Street Natasha Adams, Truthout: Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street delivers high craft and a rollicking good time. And that's a big problem. Read the Film Review With AIPAC's Power in Doubt, Is Peace With Israel Now Possible? Robert Naiman, Truthout: President Obama has raised questions about the effectiveness of AIPAC's tactics and even its role as the unchallenged voice of the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. If AIPAC can lose on Syria and lose on Iran, could it also lose on Israel-Palestine? Read the Article Selling Your Secrets: The Invisible World of Software Backdoors and Bounty Hunters Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch: The world of NSA mass surveillance involves close partnerships with a series of companies most of us have never heard of that design or probe the software we all take for granted to help keep our digital lives humming along. Read the Article California's Water Wars: 2014-2030 Craig Collins PhD, Truthout: What happens after California drought, peak oil, climate chaos, economic depression and water privatization finally get to the population of the Golden State? Those who hope to keep water in public hands are at odds with those who connive to gain private control of this vital resource. Read the Article In the Name of Love Miya Tokumitsu, Jacobin: The "Do What You Love" mantra distracts us from the working conditions of others while validating our own choices and relieving us from obligations to all who labor, whether or not they love it. It is the secret handshake of the privileged and a worldview that disguises its elitism as noble self-betterment. Read the Article It's Not "All Psychological": How the Medical Establishment Fails Transgender Patients Molly Knefel, RH Reality Check: For transgender and gender nonconforming people, just going to the doctor means risking mistreatment, misdiagnosis, hostility or aggression. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Alaska Could Be the Third State To Legalize Recreational Pot, and More In today's On the News segment: Organizers in Alaska have obtained enough signatures to put recreational marijuana up for a vote in August; Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has introduced a proposal to guarantee every high school senior in his state can go to a community college or technical school for free; there's new legislation aimed at putting government back in the hands of the people; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Economic Update: Public vs. Private Enterprise Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on economic democracy from Jackson, Mississippi, to Marseilles, France; credit card scandals; phony labels for chicken; and overcharging inmates for calls. Major discussions of re-municipalization of water and electric utilities; post office banking; and new book on capitalism's inequalities. Response to audience questions on TPP, corporate tax breaks and minimum wage. Listen to the Radio Segment | 
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