| Henry Giroux | Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: As universities turn toward corporate management models, they increasingly use and exploit cheap faculty labor while expanding the ranks of their managerial class. Read the Article Fat Cats and Suck-Ups Karen Garcia, Sardonicky: If the Democrats are wondering why their electoral chances in the midterms are looking so dismal, they should look no farther than the progressive wing of their own increasingly right-wing corporate party. Read the Article Environmentalists Call For Ban on Fracking in Ohio After Earthquakes Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Environmental groups are calling for a ban on fracking in Ohio after a series of small earthquakes erupted near an active fracking site last week. Regulators ordered Hilcorp Energy to shut down its operations after five temblors ranging from 2.1 to 3.0 in magnitude were recorded March 10-11. Read the Article Abby Huntsman Promotes the Wall Street Banksters' Big Lie The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Abby Huntsman has bought the banksters’ big lie hook, line and sinker, and now she's pushing it live on national TV. Last week, Huntsman, a co-host on MSNBC's "The Cycle" and the daughter of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, went off on what she said was the biggest issue facing her generation: Social Security. Read the Article Fixing the Facts To Create a Crisis With Iran Gareth Porter, Truthout: Fictitious WMDs created a pretext for launching the ill-fated and destructive war with Iraq. Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare argues that similar tactics were created to justify a war with Iran. Read the Excerpt The Iraq War: Forgotten in Plain Sight Hugh Gusterson, Truthout: On the 11th anniversary of the war in Iraq, the US mainstream media's decontextualized rendering of violence in Iraq fails to explain political divisions and struggles in Iraq or how this violence is a direct consequence of the US invasion and occupation. Read the Article Banks Seek To Sway Critical GAO Report Alison Fitzgerald, The Center for Public Integrity: Lobbyists are working hard to get ahead of a critically important report by the government's internal watchdog that may determine how banks are regulated in the future. Read the Article Nukes Now: Obama Worse Than Reagan Steve Breyman, Truthout: Heads-up, veterans of the nuclear freeze movement in the US, the anti-Euromissile campaigns in Western Europe and the various anti-nuclear weapons efforts in New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Incoming. Read the Article Sri Lanka Bans Monsanto Herbicide, Citing Potential Link to Deadly Kidney Disease Sasha Chavkin, The Center for Public Integrity: Concerned the chemical may be linked to a kidney disease killing agricultural workers, Sri Lanka this week ordered a ban on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's top-selling herbicide Roundup. Read the Article Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis on Fighting for Fairness Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Economic equality advocates Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the City, and Madeline Janis, co-founder and national policy director of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, discuss how social action can change policy and lives. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Advice Too Secret To Ignore: Col. Manners Answers Your Questions on CIA Practices, Proper Cyberwar Behavior, Invasion Etiquette Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: At a time of heightened tension among the US intelligence community, the White House, Congress, and the American people, who better to explain the workings and thought patterns of the inner world of official Washington than the Colonel? Once again, Col. Manners answers the questions of ordinary citizens about how their secret government actually works. Read the Article GOP Bill Designed To Disrupt John Doe Dark Money Probe, Court Filings Confirm Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: New court filings confirm that Wisconsin's John Doe campaign finance investigation hinges on how state election law treats "issue ad" groups coordinating with political campaigns, shedding new light on a Republican effort to quietly change the law in advance of Gov. Scott Walker's re-election campaign. Read the Article A World Awash in a Nuclear Explosive? Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity: A new industry focused on plutonium-based nuclear fuel has begun to take shape in the far reaches of Asia, with ambitions to spread elsewhere - and some frightening implications - if nuclear expert Thomas Cochran is correct. Read the Article | 
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