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 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Op-Ed: "On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied. Over Hiroshima, and three days later over Nagasaki, it exploded an atomic device that was the most efficient weapon of genocide in human history. The blast killed tens of thousands of men, women and children." |
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 Jesse Eisinger, News Report: "As ProPublica has been detailing for two years, Wall Street banks and the hedge fund Magnetar worked together to build mortgage-backed deals that the hedge fund also bet against. The more than $40 billion of deals helped fuel the crash of 2008. Now, recently collected emails from bankers and a Magnetar executive involved in some of the deals appear to shed new light on how they did it." |
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 Dean Baker, Op-Ed: "Last week I wrote about the conspiracy of corporate chieftains to impose a budget plan involving large cuts to Social Security and Medicare, regardless of who wins the elections in November. According to veteran Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein, who wrote approvingly of these efforts, many of the top executives of the country's biggest companies are meeting behind closed doors to design such a budget plan." |
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 Lisa Garber, News Report: "Yet another study has concluded that feeding animals GMOs results in higher rates of infant mortality and causes fertility problems. Other than fertility problems, the GMO phenomenon has been noticed elsewhere—even in our own United States. Farmers using GM feed have reported infertile pigs and cows. Overall, GM sounds like a sweet deal only for Monsanto (and our own FDA and USDA, repeatedly found in bed with them). It remains a bad deal for us, the consumers." |
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 Anim Steel, Op-Ed: "If, back in the 18th century, you could see all the way across the Atlantic, you would find an unbroken line of plantations that stretched from Buenos Aires to Baltimore. Down this entire line, slaves harvested sugar for British tea, rice for the West Indian consumption, and cotton for the textile mills of New England. These were vast monocrops that broke the body and ruined the soil—but made money for planters and big companies that traded the goods." |
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 Lawrence Del Gigante, News Report: The latest development has been a constitution written by the people of Iceland themselves. Any Icelandic citizen could run to be considered for a position at the drafting table. Furthermore, everyone in the country could monitor the writing of the new constitution and submit suggestions via Facebook and Twitter. A referendum to ratify the constitution will be held Oct. 10. |
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 Laura Flanders, Video Interview: "An Arizona Sheriff is facing a class action suit that may one day make a difference. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is being accused of racism in law enforcement. Omar Jadwat, a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, tells Laura Flanders what's at stake and what this lawsuit can do for Arizona's future when dealing with discrimination. A challenge this case will face is from a the federal law that permits officers to serve as immigration agents." |
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 Michael T. Klare, Op-Ed: "The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America's countiesdesignated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions. This, in turn, willboost food prices domestically and abroad, causing increased misery for farmers and low-income Americans and far greater hardship for poor people in countries that rely on imported U.S. grains." |
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 Tara Culp- Ressler, News Report: "One Louisiana school is dealing with the state's high rates of teen pregnancy by taking an 'out of sight, out of mind' approach. No pregnant students are welcome at Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana — a policy that the institution enforces by requiring students who are 'suspected' of being pregnant to submit to a mandatory pregnancy test." |
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 Special Coverage: "As we enter Day 324 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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 Joseph E. Stiglitz, Op-Ed: "New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries – including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, and Mozambique – raise an important question: Will these windfalls be a blessing that brings prosperity and hope, or a political and economic curse, as has been the case in so many countries? On average, resource-rich countries have done even more poorly than countries without resources." |
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 Aaron Mehta and Zach Toombs, News Analysis: "The Pentagon has pumped billions of dollars into programs to counter the dangers of improvised explosive devices over the last decade but still lacks a way to track whether its initiatives are meeting their goals — a circumstance that a government watchdog warns could lead to overlap and wasted taxpayer funds. Poor record keeping has hindered the Defense Department's ability to monitor more than 1,300 individual anti-IED projects, complicating any effort by outsiders to assess whether the funds have been well spent, a report released Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office said." |
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 Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: "The tea party movement has become the dead bad-luck bird hanging around the GOP establishment's neck. Its anger-fueled energy has forced moderate Republicans off ballots in places where moderates tend to win. It has burdened otherwise centrist Republicans with radical positions that don't go well with a general electorate. The Grand Old Party is being taken over by an ideological fringe with unclear motives, a loose grasp on reality and little interest in actually governing." |
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