| Current Iran "Crisis" Began With Overthrow of Democratically Elected Government in 1953 Mark Karlin, Truthout: In Manufactured Crisis, investigative journalist Gareth Porter details the manipulation and fabrications that have accompanied the current Iranian nuclear situation. The main difference between this and the Iraq war conspiracy, the author says, was that the neoconservatives who were carrying it out never got the war on Iran they wanted. Read the Interview Academia Under the Influence Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: While we may tend to romanticize universities as bastions of free thought and intellectual rigor, Piya Chatterjee and Sunaina Maira's new book, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent, demonstrates their subjection to the same ideological underpinnings as the general body politic. Read the Review With International Law in the News, Could We Make the US Comply? Robert Naiman, Truthout: In many of its foreign policies, the US breaches international law, but there have been no European sanctions against US officials involved in these ongoing violations. Yet there are things we Americans could do right now to push the US closer to compliance with international law. Read the Article The Fold Behind the Knee: Kopenawa and Albert's Falling Sky Stephen Corry, Truthout: Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert's The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman is a monument to the authors' lifetime of friendship and collaboration and a searing testimony of indigenous worldview. Read the Review Truthout Interviews Featuring Aaron Cantú on TV Cop Shows and Police Violence Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: In this interview, Aaron Cantú talks to Ted Asregadoo about who profits and who loses when cop booster shows legitimize police violence. Watch the Video Robert Strauss's Watergate Secret Robert Parry, Consortium News: Robert Strauss, who died Wednesday, was a Democratic powerbroker who thrived in the age of Nixon, Reagan and Bush-41. But an enduring Watergate mystery is whether Strauss earned his GOP spurs by secretly helping the Republicans in the spy scandal. Read the Article Questions Remain About US Border Patrol's Killing of Teen Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers: Sixteen-year-old Jose Antonio Elena got the kind of punishment that those who toss rocks at Border Patrol agents receive with startling frequency: He was shot with a .40-caliber round from an agent’s service weapon. Yet he may not have tossed any rocks at all. Read the Article Reckoning Time for Lawbreaking Utilities on Coal Ash? Sue Sturgis, Facing South: Sue Sturgis breaks down the numbers in the latest coal ash dumping incidents by Duke Energy and Louisville Gas & Electric. Read the Article Why ExxonMobil's Partnerships With Russia's Rosneft Challenge the Narrative of US Exports as Energy Weapon Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: Even as some say we are witnessing the beginning of a "new cold war," few have discussed the ties binding major US oil and gas companies with Russian state oil and gas companies. Read the Article The Myth of Maximizing Shareholder Value Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Corporations are devoting increasing amounts of their considerable and growing financial resources to upward redistribution rather than innovation. And they are doing so based on the justification of "increasing shareholder value." Read the Article This week in Speakout: Derek Monroe reports direct from Maidan Sqaure with original photographs; Ann Wright describes the further deterioration of quality of life in Gaza due to Egyptian security concerns; Dan Bacher reports on a protest at California's state capitol by hundreds of California Indians against fracking; Sarah L. Blum excoriates Congress for failing to pass legislation that would have increased accountability for the rape of US service women; Lawrence Davidson questions the detention and physical abuse of peace activist Medea Benjamin by Egyptian authorities; Roberto Rodriguez offers a tribute to activist Consuelo Aguilar; Randall Amster analyses the "real" in Russia's latest realpolitik in Crimea; David Swanson recounts how the Army's own documentation makes the case for not enlisting; Bill Astore confesses a vet's ambivalence at being thanked for his service; and more. Read the Articles | 
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