| Laura Flanders | Noam Chomsky Talks US Militarism and Capitalism, at Home and Abroad Laura Flanders, Truthout: Professor and author Noam Chomsky speaks with Laura Flanders on the US bombing of Iraq and Syria, US policing and the criminalization of Black life, the US-China carbon emissions deal, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript GMO Contamination Denial: Controlling Science Don Fitz, Truthout: Did you ever think that investigation of the potential dangers of putting GMOs into food would be based on objective research? Through all of its phases, scientific research is subject to repression, manipulation and more insidious forms of control that push it toward a profit-based consensus. Read the Article A Brutal "Torture Report," but No Accountability Mike Ludwig, Truthout: While the Obama administration does not deny the brutality of the CIA's top secret, post-9/11 torture program, detailed in the long-awaited "torture report" released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the administration is refusing to hold anyone publicly accountable. Read the Article William Ayers | Bad? Suffering From Youthful Tendency Disorder? Lost Children in a Lost Society William Ayers, Teachers College Press: In his foreword, titled "Through a Glass Darkly," to Crystal T. Laura's new book, Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School-to-Prison Pipeline, William Ayers reflects on how that pipeline actually functions. Read the Excerpt Torture Has No Place in US Society The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Today marks a new chapter in US history. Every US citizen should read the summary of the CIA torture report and learn from it. We must acknowledge that the Bush administration committed torture and war crimes, and we must promise to never, ever do these things again. Read the Article Chomsky Turns 86: Happy Birthday, Noam Dan Falcone, Truthout: Renowned linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky turned 86 years old on December 7. Dan Falcone revisits some of his best interview questions to Chomsky, and Chomsky's thoughtful responses. Read the Article Hidden Files on Treatment of Internees Could Change the Definition of Torture Samantha Newbery, The Conversation: On December 2, the Irish government announced that it will ask the European Court of Human Rights to reconsider its 1978 judgment on the UK's treatment of internees in Northern Ireland. This action has the potential to affect how torture is defined in law. Read the Article This Week Senate Democrats Can Limit the ISIS War Robert Naiman, Truthout: If Americans don't want to embark on another endless war, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee must vote to restrict the use of US ground troops in combat against ISIS and pass an authorization for the use of force with an expiration date. Read the Article NYT DealBook's Dishonest Salvo at Elizabeth Warren Over Calling Out an Unqualified Nominee for Treasury Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Even though The New York Times DealBook is a reliable defender of Big Finance meal tickets, it's managed to skim above abject intellectual dishonesty. But the DealBook has published three pieces in defense of an unacceptably weak Obama administration nominee for an important Treasury post. Read the Article ALEC Fumes: Transparency Threatens Corporate Free Speech! Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: After spending hundreds of millions of dollars in undisclosed funds on state and federal elections, the corporate members of the American Legislative Exchange Council are demanding that state legislators preserve their "right" to anonymously spend money on politics and curry favor with elected officials. Read the Article We're All Tired - Protests Against State Violence Go Worldwide Kate Aronoff, Waging Nonviolence: Simultaneous protests over the abduction and likely murder of 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were held in France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries. At the action in New York City, demonstrators gathered for a vigil in Union Square and then moved to the Mexican consulate. Read the Article Kind of Blue: Contextualizing the Ebola Crisis, Humanitarian Imperatives and Structural Deficits Sonasha Braxton, Hampton Institute: "The beneficial nature of having a US passport in my back pocket is that it also serves as a 'get out of Ebola land' card. In other words, this blue passport affords you the opportunity to get evacuated, while everyone else stays behind." Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Our Ancestors Evolved to Recycle, and More In today's On the News segment: Our ancestors evolved to understand the importance of recycling; if you love seafood, eat up while you can; Canada may be home to the tar sands, but it's also home to thousands of green energy jobs; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
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