| Gareth Porter | How a US and International Atomic Energy Agency Deception Haunts the Nuclear Talks Gareth Porter, Truthout: In 2008, the Bush administration and a key IAEA official agreed on a strategy of misrepresenting Iran's position on the authenticity of intelligence documents, which they used to establish an official narrative of Iran "stonewalling" the IAEA investigation. That narrative continues to shape Obama administration policy in the nuclear talks. Read the Article Racist Policing in the De Blasio Era: Bill Bratton's Crusade to Save a Dying Brand Nick Malinowski, Truthout: Is profiting from the criminalization of people of color racist, and is New York City Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton maintaining a debunked policing philosophy for personal financial gain? Read the Article "Suffered or Permitted to Work" - When Is a Worker an Employee? Ellen Dannin, Truthout: In the first week of the Supreme Court's 2014-2015 term lurks an easy-to-miss case. To miss it would be a mistake. Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk reveals the ugly side of business today. Read the Article We Want Them Alive: The Search for Mexico's 43 Missing Students Andalusia Knoll, Waging Nonviolence: The last time the group of missing students was seen was in the custody of Mexican municipal police forces, who detained them after opening fire on their caravan in an attack that killed six people and injured dozens more. Read the Article Israel-Palestine: Untying the Knot L. Michael Hager, Truthout: The Israeli occupation and settlement expansion, the Gaza cease-fire, reconstruction, PLO-Hamas reconciliation and Palestinian statehood are entangled issues. To untie the knot that lies at the center, the United States must use its military aid to Israel and Egypt as a bargaining chip. Read the Article The Lost Generation The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Thanks to our nation's addiction to 34 years of failed Reaganomics and to devastating libertarian extremist economic policies, the millennial generation is the United States' lost generation. Millennials have seen up close and personal how libertarian economics and unregulated capitalism have brought our nation's economy to its knees. Read the Article Suit Against Kern County Schools Alleges Disproportionate Discipline for Students of Color Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity: A sweeping lawsuit filed in Kern County, California, this month alleges that African-American and Latino high school students suffer discrimination from disciplinary practices that remove them at disproportionate rates from regular school and place them in inferior alternative settings. Read the Article Governor Brownback Outsourced Child Support Services to Donor Mary Bottari and Jonas Persson, PR Watch: In March 2013, the Kansas Department of Children and Families announced that all child support services would be outsourced, and a request for proposal was issued. Not limited to enforcement, the contracts would include services connected to court petitioning, locating parents and establishing paternity. Read the Article Applauding Black Death in the Hour of Chaos Mariame Kaba, Prison Culture: "I heard a 19-year-old young black man say that he wasn't afraid to die for justice in Ferguson. Some in the assembled multiracial audience applauded. But what does it mean to be willing to die for a cause in a society that already considers you to be hyper-disposable?" Read the Article Laura Flanders | New Factories Have Jobs You'd Really Want - and These Chicago Kids Are Skilling Up to Get Them Laura Flanders, YES! Magazine: Manufacturing jobs are returning to the United States, but to fill them we'll have to train a new generation of workers. That's what this school is doing in a struggling neighborhood that once hosted the country's biggest candy empires, as factories return. Read the Article Fighting the Last War: Will the War on Terror Be the Template for the Ebola Crisis? Karen J. Greenberg, TomDispatch: These days, two "wars" are in the headlines: one against the marauding Islamic State and its new caliphate of terror carved out of parts of Iraq and Syria, the other against a marauding disease and potential pandemic, Ebola, spreading across West Africa. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: California's Dwindling Water Supply Is Contaminated, and More In today's On the News segment: The last thing Californians needed was to learn that some of their dwindling water supply has been contaminated; last week, a lab official pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Water Act; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering whether to extend Diablo Canyon's operating license for another 20 years; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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