William Rivers Pitt | The Fundraising Message That Ate America William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: A truly massive number of people are going to take the government shutdown on the chin. But one very select group is not complaining right now. This group is, instead, stacking green paper in very large piles. Read the Article The IRS Scandal That Wasn't Michael Winship, Moyers & Company: Conservative politicians' staged controversy over the IRS has distracted from a real Washington scandal - our inability to rein in the outrageous amounts of money used by the rich and powerful to secretly broker elections and buy our government. Read the Article Paul Krugman | No Triumph for Austerity Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The evidence suggests that Europe's austerians did a terrible thing, ruining the lives of millions. They will never admit it; they will seize on anything that gives them an out. Read the Article The Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes Taught These Indian Villagers Sven Eberlein, Yes! Magazine: Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects. To help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Read the Article Energy Reform, Shale Gas and Public Spending Cuts in Mexico Santiago Navarro F., Truthout: The majority of Mexicans oppose a newly introduced energy reform bill that would enable greater private investment in the energy sector, including for unconventional oil. Publicly owned Mexican Petroleum is also in the cross hairs of would-be neo-liberalizers. Read the Article Government Shutdown ... Brought to You by Citizens United The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The result of the Citizens United decision is that Republicans, instead of working with Democrats to find a bipartisan middle road for the country, have to compromise with and do the bidding of the right-wing billionaires and their Tea Party mouthpieces in Congress. Read the Article Republicans Win Standoff, Shoot Hostages Anyway Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: A majority in Congress, made up of Republicans who understood they had won and Democrats who feared a government shutdown, would have voted for a bill that included all of the Republicans' wrong-headed fiscal demands. Read the Article This Week, Let's Help Burlington Kill the $1.5 Trillion F-35 Taxpayer Ripoff Robert Naiman, Truthout: This week, the Burlington City Council will vote on a binding resolution that would block F-35 warplanes from being based at Burlington International Airport. The vote could mark a historic defeat of pork-barrel military Keynesianism by citizen engagement. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: For the First Time in 17 Years, Our Government Is Officially Shut Down, and More On today's On the News segment: For the first time in 17 years, our government is officially shut down; as the government shuts down, the next budget deadline is right around the corner; despite the Republicans' best efforts, the Affordable Care Act is open for business; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript The Forgotten War: 12 Years in Afghanistan Down the Memory Hole Ann Jones, TomDispatch: Will the US still be meddling in Afghanistan 30 years from now? If history is any guide, the answer is yes. And if history is any guide, three decades from now most Americans will have only the haziest idea why. Read the Article This Way: A Review of David Swanson's New Text on War and the Search for Peace Kathy Kelly, Let's Try Democracy: David Swanson reminds us to look to humanity's incredible achievements in resisting war, in choosing the alternatives that we have yet to show our full power to realize. Read the Review Nuclear Engineer: Japan's PM "Lying to the Japanese People" About Safety of Fukushima Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Japan's prime minister claims Fukushima is safe, but the nuclear disaster is underfunded and lacks transparency, causing the public to remain in the dark, according to nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript | 
