| Between the Peacekeepers and the Protesters in Ferguson Raven Rakia, Truthout: After the first three or four nights of protest in Ferguson, people deeming themselves "peacekeepers" began appearing at the protests. These member of an older generation are often in conflict with those who want to see justice for Michael Brown and their community. Read the Article Noam Chomsky | What's Next for Israel, Hamas and Gaza? Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch: This cease-fire is just the most recent of a series of cease-fire agreements reached after each of Israel's periodic escalations in its unremitting assault on Gaza. Throughout this period, the terms of these agreements remain essentially the same. Read the Article The Connecting Threads Anne Elizabeth Moore and Leela Corman, Truthout: With this strip, "Our Fashion Year" culminates a year-long comics journalism investigation into connections between the garment trade and the sex trade that has brought the authors all over the globe and revealed what's behind fast fashion. Read the Comic Accidental Hero: Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man at 50 Ben Agger, Truthout: It is now 50 years after One-Dimensional Man, an obscure philosophical account of political conformity and quiescence that required a significant background in European theory, became an unlikely central text of the 1960s "New Left." Its message remains ever more urgent. Read the Article Ukraine Conflict: Red Meat for Anemic NATO Alliance Medea Benjamin, PINKtank: The recent NATO meeting in Wales was supposed to be about how to wind down NATO's 12-year military adventure in Afghanistan - without admitting the monumental failure of leaving behind a fractured, impoverished nation. Afghanistan, however, was barely mentioned. Read the Article Corporations Screw Everybody The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: We need to undo the damage done by Reagan, and make CEOs answerable once again to their companies, their communities, their customers and their workers. Only then will Americans overall begin to reap the rewards of corporate successes. Read the Article EU Popular Opposition to Israel Stronger Than Ever Bruno Jäntti, Truthout: The European Union is emerging as the world's most significant political battleground for the trajectory of Israel-Palestine. As the recent Israeli military onslaught against besieged Gazans is coming to an end, opposition to Israeli policy appears stronger in Europe than ever before. Read the Article "Fight for 15" Gets Into the Ring With Taco Bell Mary Bottari, PR Watch: The chant "Come on out, we've got your back!" echoed through the air at Taco Bell as peaceful protesters took the "Fight for 15" directly to the fast food giant, calling on workers to walk off the job. Read the Article ISIS War Needs to Be Debated in Congress and the UN Security Council Mark Weisbrot, The Hill: It is not surprising that President Obama has been able to send 1,200 soldiers back to Iraq, carry out more than 100 airstrikes and commit himself to a longer engagement, without authorization from the US Congress. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Fast-Food Workers in More Than 150 Cities Go on Strike, and More In today's On the News segment: Fast-food workers in more than 150 cities go on strike to demand a living wage and the right to unionize; a coalition of over 50 organizations is calling on Google to drop ALEC; millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet, despite the fact that they're putting in long hours at work; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Railroad Conductor: "Railroading Has Changed So Much" Steve Early, In These Times: Brian Lewis speaks about his job as a Union Pacific Railroad conductor, which he has just retired from after 36 years. Discussing his long years in the industry, he describes diminished union influence, and increased safety hazards. Read the Article Does California's "Kill Switch" Bill for Smartphones Risk Privacy for Personal Safety? Crystal Shepeard, Care2: A California law requires the "kill switch" feature to be on at the time of a smartphone activation, meaning that users would have to opt-out if they didn't want to use it, giving the company access. Privacy rights activists worry about it being used for nefarious purposes. Read the Article Film Exposes Militarized Police Facts Day Ahead of Hearings in Congress Brave New Films, Truthout: A short film documents how the Pentagon has flooded small town police forces with tanks and equipment capable of waging war, a day before a congressional subcommittee is scheduled to open hearings on the phenomenon. Watch the Video and Read the Article | 
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