| The Missing Photos From the Senate Report on CIA Torture Michael Meurer, Truthout: The Senate report on CIA torture is just a start. More than 2,000 photos that show the full spectrum of prisoner abuse at CIA and military detention facilities need to be released and investigations expanded to include military prisons. The ultimate goal is full accountability. Read the Article Prop 47, Immigration Reform and More: The Contradictory Road of "Reforming" Mass Incarceration James Kilgore, Truthout: Three important recent events have affected mass incarceration: the passage of Proposition 47 in California, Obama's new immigration policy and a survey of prison population projections by the Pew Center. Read the Article Why Dick Cheney Is Wrong About the CIA Torture Memos John Nichols, The Nation: With Cheney taking the lead, the former administration aggressively and repeatedly rejected the principles of transparency and accountability that are essential to maintaining not just national honor but meaningful democracy. Read the Article Necropolítical Capitalism and Ayotzinapa Luis Arizmendi, Truthout: Ayotzinapa is the window to an era that reveals, in all its horror, in the murder of 43 college students, the new configuration that is traversing Mexico: necropolítical capitalism. It discloses the politics of death as the basis for accelerated and decadent forms of accumulation by dispossession. Read the Article "Chipping Away at the System": Maya Schenwar on Alternatives to Our "Justice" System George Lavender, In These Times: Locked Down, Locked Out author Maya Schenwar talks about how writing the book changed her own perspectives on prison abolition and alternative forms of justice. "Every single person in society is affected by incarceration, so I definitely wanted to bring that into the forefront of the conversation." Read the Interview Waiting for Fahd: One Human Story Behind Guantánamo Fahd Ghazy, The Center for Constitutional Rights: A Guantánamo detainee talks about becoming an adult while detained at the facility. "I was 17 when they sent me here . . . Now I am almost 31. That means I grew up in Guantánamo. I grew up in this system. I grew up in fear. I hope that helps you to understand me." Read the Article and Watch the Video The Propaganda War Over Crimea's Break From Ukraine Roger Annis, Truthout: Given the very high stakes involved in all of this for the future of Europe, if not the world, it is time to step back and examine what is actually taking place in Crimea. Read the Article The Long History of Presumed White Innocence and Black Guilt Claudia Garcia-Rojas, Bitch Media: Darren Wilson's narrative is so grossly entrenched in US culture that it goes uncontested to this day: This is the narrative of white innocence. Read the Article Torture Is Not an American Value The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program: Whenever you hear one of those fools say, "We're ruining America's reputation by coming clean about torture," translate that in your brain to "We're ruining Bush and Cheney's reputation by coming clean about their torture programs." Read the Article While No One Noticed, Did Vermont Just Win a Big Case Against the Republican Governors Association? Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Brennan Center for Justice: A case between Vermont and the Republican Governors Association is about a much larger issue: Can giant out-of-state organizations trample through state elections, amassing and spending big bucks, and in so doing, can the outside groups ignore local election laws? Read the Article The Logic of Short Hospital Strikes Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes: Hospital strikes are different than most labor strikes. Leaving patients with no one to care for them is the last thing your union's caregiver members would do. But strikes are still valuable to health care workers despite the particular challenges posed by the needs of patient care. Read the Article Benzene and Worker Cancers: "An American Tragedy" Kristen Lombardi, The Center for Public Integrity: Over the past 10 years, scores of lawsuits, most filed by sick and dying workers, have uncovered tens of thousands of pages of previously secret documents detailing the petrochemical industry's campaign to undercut science showing the links between benzene and cancer. Read the Article On International Human Rights Day, the Fight for Indigenous Land and Autonomy in Honduras Stephen Bartlett and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: A fierce social movement, composed of many sectors, is pushing back to protect democracy, lives and political rights in Honduras. Indigenous peoples are asserting their human rights to autonomy, territory and cultural survival. Read the Article | 
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