| That was incredible! We thought there was a very real chance that we wouldn't hit our fundraising goal, but with the final push last night we just made it! We want to thank everyone who stepped up to donate to Truthout - you are our constant inspiration and we couldn't do this without you. Top 10 Epic Reasons Why Americans Should Give a Sh*t About Voting Victoria Collier and Ben-Zion Ptashnik, Truthout: Voting - or not voting - in some way impacts almost every aspect of our lives, including whom we can love, our bodies, our food, our air and water. Voting is important in spite of our fundamentally corrupt political system. Read the Article Tom Engelhardt: The National Security State Has Filled Us With Fear but Has Not Improved Our Well-Being Mark Karlin, Truthout: Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch discusses his new book, Shadow Government, about whether the surveillance state actually makes the United States more secure and how Washington exists in a post-legal world. Read the Interview Smoke and Mirrors: Essential Questions About "Prison Reform" Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress: We're hearing that we've entered a new era of "bipartisan prison reform." Don't celebrate just yet, though. There is a "reform" agenda, to be sure, but what are the elements of that reform? Read the Article 'Tis the Season to Be Frightened Brian Moench, Truthout: Ebola, Dengue fever, West Nile virus, valley fever, Lyme disease, hantavirus: Republican ideology created some of these threats in the first place, or managed to make others worse. The climate crisis, which Republicans dismiss en masse, is a key ingredient in all of them. Read the Article The 0.01 Percent's "I Reap All" Accounts Bob Lord, OtherWords: Multimillionaires and billionaires are shielding vast fortunes from taxation with monstrously huge IRAs. While the government sets limits on IRA contributions to curb this abuse, there are still more loopholes than restrictions. Read the Article What Would Republicans Do With a Senate Majority? Robert Naiman, Truthout: Election fatigue can often foster election cynicism. Perhaps it would be useful for progressives to eavesdrop a bit on what Republicans are saying to other Republicans about what they should do with a majority in the Senate. Read the Article Green World Rising: A Call to Save the Earth From Climate Change The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: The threat of climate change is very real, but we have the solutions, knowledge and ingenuity needed to save our planet; a new video talks about how we can put those solutions and that knowledge into action right now. Watch the Video Arming the Warrior Cop: From Guns to Drones, Inside the Booming Business of Police Militarization Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!: Mother Jones reporter Shane Bauer goes inside the corporations and government departments involved in enabling police departments to acquire anything from bayonets to semiautomatic rifles and drones. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript US Sends Planes Armed With Depleted Uranium to Middle East David Swanson, War Is A Crime: Depleted Uranium (DU) is classed as a Group 1 Carcinogen by the World Health Organization, and evidence of health damage produced by its use is extensive. Yet the US Air Force says it is not halting its use of DU weapons, it has recently sent them to the Middle East and it is prepared to use them. Read the Article Voters Turned Away Because of Texas Photo ID Law Staff, Brennan Center for Justice: Actual voters tell of the difficulties they've encountered at the polls. Texas failed these voters twice - first, by requiring identification they did not have, and second, by not training election officials to help them navigate the rules. Read the Article US Energy Policies Based on Inflated Fracking Predictions: Post Carbon Institute Report Julie Dermansky, DeSmogBlog: A new report from the Post Carbon Institute shatters the government's estimate of the potential productivity of shale regions in the United States. Four out of seven of the top shale regions have peaked and are now in a decline. Read the Article The Missing Women of Afghanistan: After 13 Years of War, the Rule of Men, Not Law, Prevails Ann Jones, TomDispatch: The disconnect between Washington's much-advertised support for women's rights and its actual disdain for women was not lost on canny Afghans. From early on, they recognized that the Americans were hypocrites at heart. Read the Article Dean Baker | Defense Spending and Net Exports Spur Higher Than Expected Third-Quarter Growth Dean Baker, Center for Economic Policy and Research: GDP grew at a higher than expected: 3.5 percent annual rate in the third quarter. Although there was a 16 percent increase in defense spending, health spending continues its slower path. Read the Article | 
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