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 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: "I have interviewed Lolly several times over the past two years for the new book,'Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,' that I wrote with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. In the book, Joe, who also spent time with her, illustrates the story of Lolly's life. Lolly radiates the indomitable and magnificent strength of the women and men who rise up in the pockets of poverty and despair we reported from, whether in Camden, Pine Ridge, S.D., the coal fields of southern West Virginia or the produce fields in Florida." |
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 Greg Palast, News Analysis: "The idea that the euro has 'failed' is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor – and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it – predicted and planned for it to do. That progenitor is former University of Chicago economist Robert Mundell. The architect of 'supply-side economics' is now a professor at Columbia University, but I knew him through his connection to my Chicago professor, Milton Friedman, back before Mundell's research on currencies and exchange rates had produced the blueprint for European monetary union and a common European currency." |
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 Robert Reich, Op-Ed: True patriots don't hate the government of the United States. They're proud of it. Generations of Americans have risked their lives to preserve it. They may not like everything it does, and they justifiably worry when special interests gain too much power over it. But true patriots work to improve the U.S. government, not destroy it. But regressive Republicans loathe the government – and are doing everything they can to paralyze it, starve it, and make the public so cynical about it that it's no longer capable of doing much of anything. |
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 Adam Peck, News Report: "It took almost three quarters of a century, but one Sheriff in Alabama is finally speaking out against a 1939 law that allows for the state's 67 sheriffs to keep leftover money the state provides to each municipality for feeding inmates in local prisons. The Alabama legislature has tried to pass bills before repealing the 1939 law, most recently in 2009, but those bills have failed to advance to the Governor's desk." |
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 Dean Baker, Op-Ed: "Those familiar with the 'confidence fairy' recognize that economic policy debates in Washington are dominated by imaginary creatures. The confidence fairy, which was discovered by Paul Krugman, is the mythical creature that brings investment, jobs, and growth as a reward to countries that practice painful austerity." |
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 Charlotte Silver, News Analysis: "As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence of corporate interests is on display. On Jun. 21 the United States' Senate voted overwhelmingly against the Sanders Amendment that would have allowed states to pass legislation that required food and beverage products to label whether or not they contain genetically engineered ingredients." |
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 Laura Flanders, Video Interview: "June is Pride month in the U.S. and we can say that we have accomplished some big wins this year, but still have more to achieve. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) people have won acceptance into the military. Unfortunately poverty, terror and shame are still with many daily. Amber Hollibaugh, an activist and organizer, talks about what is next for the LGBTQ movement and some of the difficulties they will have to face along the way. There is still so much to change and everyone must speak out." |
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 Stephen Pitt, Cartoon: Stephen Pitt is NationofChange's art director. Stephen is a southern California artist whose work focuses on matters political, social, and economic. In 2004 Stephen began drawing and painting political imagery to communicate his sincere displeasure with disturbing changes set in motion by ideologues acting in bad faith. With a background in figurative drawing and respect for color, Stephen traded the 6B pencil for a digital stylus and went to work. Published by the San Francisco Chronicle and Z Magazine, Stephen's work has since been seen on Truthout and Firedoglake. |
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 Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "If the war on drugs were over, the murderous drug business would be over. Americans would save about $50 billion a year prosecuting a war in which every dealer's arrest means more profits for a competitor. Addicts could find treatment without admitting criminality. Or they could get their fix without hitting strangers over the head or ripping copper pipes out of old buildings. High-schoolers caught smoking pot wouldn't have their lives ruined by a criminal record. And a 'battered and confused addict' might have some chance at a decent life." |
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 Susan Ferriss, News Report: "Children are not adults. That's the basic message the U.S. Supreme Court sent Monday with a 5-4 decision declaring that mandatory life-without-possibility-of-parole sentences for juveniles represent cruel and unusual punishment. Children's vulnerability to family and social pressure — and scientific evidence supporting children's capacity to change — figured prominently in the court's ruling that such sentencing violates the Eighth Amendment's protections." |
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 Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 282 of the Occupy movements the protests have spread not only across the country but all over the globe. Thousands of activists have descended on Wall Street these past weeks as part of the #OccupyWallStreet protest organized by several action groups. What follows is a live video stream and live Twitter feed of this event." |
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 Tom Engelhardt, Op-Ed: "As so many Americans have noticed, this was a spring for the record books just about everywhere in the continental United States. And keep in mind that at the moment we also seem to be making a beeline for a potentially record-setting summer, the months of your job hunt for a future, and maybethe hottest year in American history as well. And records or no, this year is no anomaly." |
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 Sharee Lopez, News Report: "However, like many states California is confronting an ever-tighter financial crunch, forcing near bone-deep cuts in schools across the state, meaning that Oliver's beloved gym class could soon be on the chopping block. California Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget in May, aimed at balancing the state's $16 billion deficit, contains several proposed tax initiatives — a temporary sales-tax increase and higher taxes on the wealthy – that, if rejected by voters come November, could lead to more cuts in school districts." |
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 Research: "Over the last year, the Orange County Register has published numerous editorials that falsely portray California's pollution reduction program as costly, ineffective and arbitrarily imposed by state regulators. In fact, the program -- which incorporates a cap-and-trade program -- is part of a bipartisan law expected to benefit the state's economy." |
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 Leo Gerard, Op-Ed: "Robin Hood popped up all across America last week. A bunch of green-suited Merry Men protested in front of Wall Street bank branches in 15 cities. Another felt-hatted group demonstrated in Washington D.C. during J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon's testimony about why his bank shouldn't submit to regulation even after flushing $2 billion down the toilet. The biggest band of Robin Hoods appeared on dollar bills -- a pointy hat drawn on George's head and the words 'Robin Hood tax' written below." |
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