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Bill Moyers, Op-Ed: Meaningful oversight of campaign expenditure, necessary if representative government is to have a fair chance against rapacious wealth, was swept away. Hail to a new era in which a modestly-financed candidate is at the mercy of nuclear strikes from television ads paid for by a rich or corporate-backed opponent with an "equal right" to "free speech." As one hard pressed Connecticut Republican, lagging behind in a primary race against a billionaire opponent outspending him twelve to one, put it: "I'm fighting someone with a machine gun and I've got a pistol." 
John Bonifaz, News Report: "President Obama's statement marks an important new milestone in the growing movement to reclaim our democracy. In just two and a half years, this movement has defied the skeptics who said Washington would never pay attention to a call for a constitutional amendment to overrule the Supreme Court. Millions of Americans across the political spectrum have demonstrated that their voices will be heard on this critical question of our time." 
Daniel Hunter, Op-Ed: Cultural activists, like the Yes Men, keep challenging us to think more creatively. At a training I led for their Yes Labs program, Yes Men co-founder Andy Bichlbaum told me, "If an action doesn't make you laugh or gasp, we have to throw it out." The RNC protesters took a shot at it by melting huge chunks of ice written as "the middle-class." But it doesn't make me laugh or gasp. If inspiring is a goal, ho-hum actions should be stricken from our toolbox. 
Ian Millhiser, News Report: "Last month, James Eagan Holmes allegedly stood up in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire on the audience, killing 12 people and wounding 58 others. A year and a half earlier, a different gunman opened fire in a Safeway parking lot in Tuscon, Arizona, wounding then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), killing federal Judge John Roll, and wounding or killing sixteen others. Both shooters used high-capacity magazines to maximize their ability to kill as many people in as short of a time as possible." 
Stephen Zunes, Op-Ed: "This would prohibit efforts to boycott goods made in illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, support international sanctions on Israel over its ongoing violations of a series of UN Security Council resolution, or have the university divest from its endowment stock in companies supporting the Israeli occupation. The resolution also declares a number of other political activities that, while clearly objectionable." 
Sebastian Rotella, News Report: "Today's action against LET (Lashkar-e-Taiba) is Treasury's most comprehensive to date against this group and includes individuals participating in all aspects of Lashkar's operations," David S. Cohen, the undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, said in a statement. "Attacking LET's facilitation networks is particularly important, since charitable donations LET raises in Pakistan — its primary revenue source — are used to fuel LET's military operations." 
Amy Goodman, Video Report: "When Mitt Romney walked down the aisle toward the stage Thursday night, among the people whose hands he shook was the conservative billionaire and major political donor David Koch. But it was a moment missed by the tens of millions of viewers at home. While Democracy Now! was there on the floor and captured the handshake on video, the networks cut away just before the handshake to show footage of two enthusiastic young women supporters and then an overhead shot of the convention center." 
Robert Reich, Op-Ed: "As wealth and income rise to the top, moreover, so does political power. The rich are able to entrench themselves by lowering their taxes, gaining special tax breaks (such as the 'carried interest' loophole allowing private equity and hedge fund managers to treat their incomes as capital gains), and ensuring a steady flow of corporate welfare to their businesses (special breaks for oil and gas, big agriculture, big insurance, Big Pharma, and, of course, Wall Street)." 
Isaiah Esipisu, News Report: A book soon to be published by the initiative, titled "Transforming gender relations in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: Promising approaches", highlights innovative methodologies in small-scale farming that have improved gender relations. The book states that cooperation between the genders contributes to increased food production, food security and nutrition, stronger value chains, and better use of natural resources. 
Froma Harrop, Op-Ed: The TRUST Act was inspired by the case of Juana Reyes-Hernandez, a tamale vendor arrested for setting up shop on a Walmart parking lot. A more sympathetic person would be hard to find. But because Reyes-Hernandez is an illegal immigrant, she was held under a Secure Communities requirement that fingerprints be sent to a database to confirm she had not committed serious crimes. --
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