| "Risk Assessment" Cannot Solve Systemic Injustice of Prisons Glenn E. Martin, Truthout: While determining the "risk" level of releasing incarcerated people may assuage racially coded fears bolstered by sensational media accounts of violence, these processes do not address the massive destruction of people and communities wrought by our criminal "justice" system. Read the Article A New Examination for Missile Launch Officers and the Rest of Us David Krieger, Truthout: Considering Nazi officers were put to death for following illegal orders, here is a more pertinent examination for launch officers of US nuclear missiles than the one they were given and reportedly cheated on. Read the Article Beyond Homophobia: The Even Bigger Reason To Avoid World Vision Valerie Tarico, Away Point: Sponsorship reeks of colonialism, pure and simple - privileged, mostly white people using their position to manipulate poor brown people, with callous disregard to how much family or cultural disruption it may cause. Read the Article Ryan Vs. Progressive Caucus: Competing Visions on the Federal Budget Jasmine Tucker, Campaign for America's Future: An analysis highlights the top issues that matter most to Americans and, using opinion polls, shows how federal budget proposals from Republicans and the Progressive Caucus stack up against what Americans want. It's clear that some lawmakers' visions are out of step with the priorities of the American public. Read the Article Keeping the Peace in Frightening New Arena: The UN's Cyber Options Shahrooz Shekaraubi, Truthout: It's essential that the United Nations take serious steps to regulate the cyber domain and reduce cyberwarfare with frameworks that could help address this grey area and avoid dangerous international conflicts. Read the Article Truthout Interviews Featuring Panayota Gounari on Greece, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis of Capitalism Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: In a sort of orgy of social necrophilia, the Greek government trumpets the "success" of austerity as the people of Greece suffer high unemployment, a shrinking of social services, the rise of diseases, drug use - and even suicide. Watch the Video Resistance to Racism Intensifies in the Netherlands Bryan Van Hulst, Waging Nonviolence: The reality of everyday violence caused by institutionalized and historically embedded racism in the Netherlands is bringing about new forms of resistance among the country's most marginalized, challenging the boundaries of Dutch politics and national identity. Read the Article Pacific Islands at Sea Over Land Rights Catherine Wilson, Inter Press Service: For many Pacific Islanders, customary land is the source of life, identity and social security. But governments claim land reform is needed to improve infrastructure and for economic development. Registration of customary land is being promoted as the way forward. Read the Article The Supreme Court Just Gave You One More Reason To Join the Clean Elections Movement Fran Korten, Yes! Magazine: The McCutcheon decision will boost the political power of the 1% at the expense of the rest of us. But it also adds to the urgency of the movement that's working to take back our democracy. Read the Article Hobby Lobby Opposes Birth Control, Except When They Can Benefit From It Robin Marty, Care2: An investigation into the Hobby Lobby's employee retirement accounts shows a portfolio chock-full of companies that are invested in developing, marketing and selling contraceptives. Read the Article Taking on Big Business Wage Theft Harmony Goldberg, Next New Deal: Despite the extensive press coverage of the fight of fast-food workers for a $15 hourly wage, one recent development hasn't gotten much attention: fast food workers around the country have started to win significant wage theft lawsuits against McDonald's franchisees. Read the Article This week in SpeakOut: ArrestRecords' stunning infographic depicts police militarization in the US; Anthony Scalise warns future social movements about the dangers of being co-opted; Julie Matthaei discusses the need to raise the minimum wage and guarantee jobs; Pierre Guerlain deconstructs the recent municipal elections in France as a failure of oligarchic "democracy"; Sharon Adams reviews The Unknown Known - Errol Morris' Documentary on Donald Rumsfeld; adam buchanan explains why the average American has no chance of being president; Lorenzo Estébanez details how President Obama has consistently whitewashed the Iraq war, and more. Read the Articles | 
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