| Dean Baker | Money in Hyping the Generational War Story Dean Baker, Truthout: As long as the wealthy can focus public debate on retirement benefits for ordinary workers, they can keep the focus away from the policies that allow them to get rich at everyone else's expense. And the rich are prepared to spend lots of money to keep the public distracted. Read the Article Chris Hedges | Israel's War on American Universities Chris Hedges, Truthdig: The banning of Students for Justice in Palestine at Northeastern University in Boston on March 7, along with a university threat of disciplinary measures against some of its members, replicates sanctions being imposed against numerous student Palestinian rights groups across the country. Read the Article Indigenous Voices in Climate Activism: Autonomous or Subjugated? Sara Santiago, Truthout: First Nations are key to much climate change and other environmental activism through the assertion of their sovereign land rights and the fact that their communities often depend on contested environments. Their voices must not be subsumed by NGOs and others. Read the Article Gimme Shelter Leslie Thatcher, Truthout: Howard Mansfield's Dwelling in Possibility; Searching for the Soul of Shelter suggests by demonstration that how we construct our dwellings makes a cosmic difference in the quality of our personal and communal lives. Read the Review How the Antiunion Right Declared War in Chattanooga John Logan, Truthout: If the National Labor Relations Board fails to respond to the right-wing campaign in the Chattanooga VW plant elections - which included a "grassroots" group commissioning antiunion consulting firm Projections Inc. - billionaires will be able to buy labor elections as well as political contests. Read the Article Billionaires ... First They Came for the Economy The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Over the past 40 years, billionaire oligarchs have slowly but surely taken over just about all aspects of life in America. It's time to end America's "oligonomy" by rolling back the Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act so that corporations can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles of money. Read the Article Vermont Bus Drivers Strike Over Dangerous Conditions Jonathan Leavitt, Truthout: Municipal bus drivers in northern Vermont are striking today against unsafe conditions, surveillance and discipline, and part-time status, in a show of union solidarity that could prove a powerful model for public-sector strikes. Read the Article Guatemala's Praised Attorney General To Step Down Under Controversy Paul N. Avakian, Truthout: Guatemala's Constitutional Court - which vacated the genocide verdict against José Efraín Ríos Montt last May - has now ruled that Guatemala's highly respected prosecutor general, Claudia Paz y Paz, must leave office. Read the Article Four Ways To Really Fix the Pentagon's Effort To ID the Missing Megan McCloskey, ProPublica: The Pentagon's floundering mission to find and identify the 83,000 service members missing from past conflicts has been hampered by outdated scientific methods, a lack of public outreach and cumbersome bureaucracy. Here are four ideas to really fix the effort. Read the Article Amy Goodman | Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA "Infects" Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: New disclosures from Edward Snowden show the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide. The Intercept reports that the NSA is spreading the software to millions of computers under an automated system codenamed "Turbine." Watch the Video and Read the Transcript On the News With Thom Hartmann: US Nuclear Regulators Are Hiding the Risk of a Fukushima-Style Incident, and More In today's On the News segment: Recently released documents show that since Fukushima, our nuclear regulators have been playing down the risk of a similar incident happening in the US; homeowners want energy choices - and for once, that's not just a Republican talking point; four new man-made gases are destroying our ozone layer and intensifying the effects of climate change; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Gold for Executives; Contempt for Taxpayers Gerald E. Scorse, The Hill: Jamie Dimon took high heat over his 74 percent mega-raise, but he's not at fault. The blame goes to a 1993 boondoggle for bigwigs - a boondoggle that's cost taxpayers by the billions ever since. Congress should call a halt to it, and the country's mood could push it to do just that. Read the Article | 
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