News Analysis | Pentagon Report Predicted West’s Support for Islamist Rebels Would Create ISIS Anti-ISIS coalition knowingly sponsored violent extremists to “isolate” Assad and rollback “Shia expansion”. By Nafeez Ahmed , INSURGEintelligence May 26, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Senate Moves to Check Executive Spying Power The Senate effectively allowed portions of the Patriot Act to expire. Who won and what comes next? By Shahid Buttar , Truthout May 26, 2015 Truthout
News Analysis | Economy & Labor “The Art of the Gouge”: NYU as a Model for Predatory Higher Education New York University has been operating as a real estate development or management business with a predatory higher education side venture. By Yves Smith , NakedCapitalism May 26, 2015 Truthout
Interview | Mark Crispin Miller: Neoliberalism and Its Impacts on Free Speech, Education and Democracy Mark Crispin Miller discusses neoliberal doctrine and his new series, “Forbidden Bookshelf.” By Michael Nevradakis , Truthout May 26, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor A Tale of Two Supermarkets: One Transition Town’s Efforts to Respond to Gentrification It takes much more than one project or policy to address gentrification. It takes a movement. By Sarah Byrnes & Jeanette Origel , InstituteforPolicyStudies May 26, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Politics & Elections The Trans-Pacific Partnership: This Is Not About Ricardo The Obama administration is lobbying hard for Congress to pass a trade promotion authority and to quickly approve the TPP. By Simon Johnson & Andrei Levchenko , TheBaselineScenario May 26, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor The Worst of All Possible Worlds: Did Market Leninism Win the Cold War? Instead of the best of all possible worlds, the international community now faces an unholy trinity of authoritarian politics, cutthroat economics and Big Brother surveillance. By John Feffer , TomDispatch May 26, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Rethinking Our Takes on Memorial Day: Hecel Lena Oyate Ki Nipi Kte “In a world built on your destruction and disposability, resilience is resistance.” By Kelly Hayes , TransformativeSpaces May 26, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Movement Builders Should Listen to Bernie Sanders: Focus on Mass Action, Not Candidates He's even started bringing a long-taboo word back into mainstream American political conversation: socialism. By Kate Aronoff , WagingNonviolence May 26, 2015 Truthout
Op-Ed | Economy & Labor An Open Letter to Obama: If You Want Money for the Climate, Tax Wall Street An innovative new tax could fund climate transition and help rebuild the social safety net. So why is the White House knocking it? By Janet Redman , ForeignPolicyinFocus May 26, 2015 Truthout