Dahr Jamail | What Happens to a One-Industry Town When the One Industry Is the Military?

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This Day Was for the People [Read the Article at Esquire](     We have only three days left to raise the $31,564 Truthout still urgently needs to continue publishing. Will you take a moment to support our work? [Donate Now]( [What Happens to a One-Industry Town When the One Industry Is the Military?]( Dahr Jamail, Truthout: While the military, along with state and federal governments, promote the idea that bases bring jobs and money to local economies, a close analysis shows that they actually cost communities tens of millions of dollars annually. [Read the Article]( [The Uber Crash Is Just the Start: How the Gig Economy Threatens the Future of Work]( Anthony A. Gabb, Truthout: As the workplace rapidly transitions from the 40-hour week with benefits to the gig economy, there is a race to reduce labor costs and pit workers against each other, and particularly against immigrants. The recent fatal crash of a driverless Uber car has highlighted some of the unethical and illegal tactics of corporations that promote the gig economy. [Read the Article]( ["One Life Is Worth All the Guns in the US": Students Demand End to Violence at March For Our Lives]( Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: In a historic day of action, more than 800 protests were held Saturday urging lawmakers to pay serious attention to gun violence. In Washington, organizers say 800,000 took part in the March For Our Lives, which was organized by students who survived the February 14 shooting massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript]( [The Middle East Is Heating Up -- Again: An Interview With Richard Falk]( C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout: The Trump administration's wholehearted approval of Israel's aggressive policies has made peace in the Middle East almost unthinkable. In fact, says author and former UN special rapporteur for Palestinian human rights Richard Falk, peace cannot unfold in a benevolent manner without a structural return to the pre-colonial framework of regional unity and ethnic community. [Read the Interview]( [High CEO Pay: It's What Friends Are For]( Dean Baker, Truthout: Soaring CEO pay is an important part of the story of rising inequality over the last four decades. Changes to corporate governance could rein in CEO pay and help to reduce inequality. Instead of tinkering with small measures like changes to tax deductibility, it's time to seriously rethink how salaries function at the top of the pay scale. [Read the Article]( [Trump to the International Community: Drop Dead]( John Feffer, TomDispatch: The president's embrace of the death penalty for drug dealers is but one example of his across-the-board scorn for human rights. He buddies up with the world's most notorious autocrats and directs the Pentagon to ensure that ongoing human rights catastrophes around the world grow even worse. [Read the Article]( [Trump's Cabinet Is the Most Volatile in a Century]( s.e. smith, Care2: The high turnover in the Trump administration has officials struggling to manage their agencies effectively. The president hasn't accomplished many of the goals he proclaimed would be key to his first year in office, and organizational dysfunction is a key reason why. [Read the Article]( [Forced Sterilization Programs in California Once Harmed Thousands -- Particularly Latinas]( Nicole L. Novak and Natalie Lira, The Conversation: As the fight for contemporary reproductive justice continues, it's important to acknowledge the wrongs of the past. The nonprofit California Latinas for Reproductive Justice has co-sponsored a forthcoming bill that offers financial redress to living survivors of California's eugenic sterilization program. 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