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 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: "It was the careerists who made possible the genocides, from the extermination of Native Americans to the Turkish slaughter of the Armenians to the Nazi Holocaust to Stalin's liquidations. They were the ones who kept the trains running. They filled out the forms and presided over the property confiscations. They rationed the food while children starved. They manufactured the guns." |
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 Ben Sherman, News Report: The 2010 BP oil spill killed 11 people and released 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Though BP has spent millions on an ad campaign promoting their response to the spill, the work to identify the damage has just begun. In April, Al Jazeera reported that Gulf seafood is showing signs of drastic deformities from the spill, such as eyeless shrimp and fish riddled with lesions. |
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 Dean Baker, Op-Ed: "A higher minimum wage is an important step toward reversing this rigging. It should not be too much to expect that workers today should get at least as much as they did 45 years ago, and perhaps some dividend to allow them to share in the benefits of economic growth over this period. A minimum wage of $10 an hour would be a big step in the right direction." |
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 Suevon Lee, News Analysis: "Voter IDs laws have become a political flashpoint in what's gearing up to be another close election year. In these so-called 'non-strict photo ID states' — Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Idaho, South Dakota and Hawaii — individuals are requested to show photo ID but can still vote if they don't have one. Instead, they may be asked to sign affidavits affirming their identity or provide a signature that will be compared with those in registration records." |
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 William deBuys, Op-Ed: It's never too late to take action, but now, even if all greenhouse gas emissions were halted immediately, Earth's climate would continue warming for at least another generation. Even if we surprise ourselves and do all the right things, the forest fires, the insect outbreaks, the heat-driven die-offs, and other sweeping transformations of the American West and the planet will continue. |
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 Isabelle De Grave and Stephanie Parker, News Report: "This year is not the first time that Olympic sponsors have come under scrutiny. In 2008, human rights activists called for a boycott to end sponsorship of McDonald's and other restaurants. The McDonald's Olympic restaurant, located in the Athlete's Village, is the largest in the world, seating up to 1,500 people. It is expected to serve around 14,000 people a day during the Games, and will be offering free Olympic-themed happy meal toys to children." |
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 Bill Moyers, Video Interview: "There are forgotten corners of this country where Americans are trapped in endless cycles of poverty, powerlessness, and despair as a direct result of capitalistic greed. Journalist Chris Hedges calls these places 'sacrifice zones,' and joins Bill this week on Moyers & Company to explore how areas like Camden, New Jersey; Immokalee, Florida; and parts of West Virginia suffer while the corporations that plundered them thrive." |
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 Tom Magstadt, Op-Ed: "In real life, there's no happy ending. And as long as politicians, preachers, judges, and self-appointed guardians of liberty continue to pretend that there's no legal or moral – or lethal – difference between, for example, hunting rifles designed to kill deer or elk one at a time and military-style weapons designed to kill scores of people in a minute or less (the AR-15, for example, can use a high density magazine containing more than 30 rounds) there will continue to be 'tragedies' like the ones in Columbine and Aurora. And that's the real tragedy." |
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 Nick Lyell, News Report: "Representative John Sarbanes (D-MD) put another potential reform law on the table for congressional campaign finance. Importantly, this is the first proposal to directly combat the huge influence of Super-PACs. Alongside the Fair Elections Now Act, the DISCLOSE Act, and a constitutional amendment to overturnCitizens United, Sarbanes is placing 'The Grassroots Democracy Act' which would institute a voucher system to increase grassroots campaign donations." |
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 Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 310 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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 Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "I visit forums to find others discussing similar problems and sometimes offering good advice. Every now and then, I have a problem or question for which only an informed human can help. When that happens, I want a human. I demand a human. And I don't think I should have to roll on the floor, kicking and screaming for a human. No one wants to employ humans these days. But as long as the customers are human, companies ought to hire a few." |
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 John Perkins, News Analysis: Hydroelectric energy is anything but "clean" when measured in terms of the excruciating pain it causes individuals, social institutions, and local ecology. The costs—often hidden—include those associated with the privatization of water; the extinction of plants that might provide cures for cancer, HIV, and other diseases; the silting up of rivers and lakes; and the disruption of migratory patterns for many species of birds. |
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