| William Rivers Pitt | Worse Than the Mob: The Insurance Industry Is Organized Crime William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: Abandoning the concept of single-payer health care is the Original Sin of the Affordable Care Act. The insurance industry has less morality than a Mafia leg-breaker but far more power, and someone decided to keep it in charge of the process anyway. Read the Article Danny Glover and James Counts Early | A Year After the Death of Hugo Chavez Frias Danny Glover and James Counts Early, Truthout: A year after the death of Hugo Chávez Frías, we take time to reflect about his life, his virtues and limitations, his public promises, achievements and unfinished work. Chávez was a bold thinker, uncompromising in his goal of constructing a new, just, economically productive Venezuela. Read the Article Ethics Complaint Filed Against Dallas Police 72-Hour Review Policy Stephen Benavides, Truthout: In November 2013, a secret policy allowed Dallas police to take 72 hours to review any evidence before making an official statement. The policy was instituted in response to a police shooting report that was contradicted by a home surveillance camera. Read the Article Profiteers Are Lining Up To Make Money Off Global Warming McKenzie Funk, The Penguin Press: In his book Windfall: The Blooming Business of Global Warming, McKenzie Funk reports on the long line of individuals, corporations and financial investors who are betting on climate change to make a huge profit from catastrophe. Read the Excerpt Denton, Texas, Citizens Group Fights for Fracking Ban Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: Instead of trying to get a temporary moratorium on fracking, the Denton Drilling Awareness Group plans to turn Denton into a frack-free city, making it the first in Texas to ban fracking outright. Read the Article and View the Photos Hair-Trigger America William J. Astore, Truthout: A nation that used to espouse isolationism has morphed into one poised for hair-trigger pre-emptive war, privately armed to the teeth and the leading purveyor in the global arms trade. Read the Article The Pentagon's Phony Budget War: How the Military Avoided Cuts, Lied About Doing So, Asked for Billions More Mattea Kramer, TomDispatch: Despite cries of doom since sequestration surfaced in Washington in 2011, the Pentagon has seen few actual reductions, and there is no indication that will change anytime soon. Read the Article Keystone PipeLIES Exposed: The Facts on Petroleum Politicians, Crude Money and Media Spin Dave Saldana, PR Watch: From a purely economic standpoint, political contributions are an astonishingly good investment for oil companies. TransCanada and the American Petroleum Institute have very large bank accounts, and they've been willing to open their checkbooks to tell the story their way. Read the Article President Obama Proposes 2015 Budget Jasmine Tucker, National Priorities Project: President Obama released his sixth budget proposal, requesting $3.9 trillion in fiscal year 2015. At a time of conflict over federal spending, the president's budget is largely a political document that shows Obama's priorities in detail. Read the Article Ian Haney Lopez on the Dog Whistle Politics of Race Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Author and legal scholar Ian Haney López says dog whistle politics is "the dark magic" by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Labor Anger Simmers in Cambodia Michelle Tolson, Inter Press Service: With public gatherings banned in Cambodia and charges framed against 23 union leaders and activists, labor discontent within the garment worker sector may not be spilling onto the streets, but it is simmering. Read the Article Economic Update: Subsidizing Corporations Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on International Women's Day; the long-term unemployed; rich/poor cities; subsidies for the biggest corporations; Google's hiring policies; Chrysler subsidies and Canada; the defeat of Arizona's discrimination law; and more. Listen to the Radio Segment | 
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