Trump Isn't the First US President to Betray Iran

[t]   Friday, May 11, 2018 [t r u t h o u t] [View Recent Newsletters]( [Tell a friend about Truthout!]( [Donate Today!](   Truthout is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization; donations are tax deductible. BuzzFlash Breaking the Iran Deal: The Delusion of Victory [Read the Article at BuzzFlash]( Americans With No Religion Greatly Outnumber White Evangelicals [Read the Article at New York Magazine]( West Virginia Republican Said Teachers Won't "Have Any Significant Effect" on Elections. Then They Voted Him Out. 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The US withdrawal plays into the Iranian hardliners' argument that the United States is inherently opposed to Iran, and that Iran's actions and policies do not affect this reality. [Read the Article]( [Health Care Costs Loom Over Midterms as Trump Prepares His Drug Pricing Speech]( Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Trump's long-awaited and twice-postponed policy speech on lowering drug prices today comes in the wake of polls that show health care costs are one of the top policy issues motivating midterm voters of all stripes this year. Despite his boldly populist rhetoric on the issue, drug prices have increased under Trump and now Democrats are demanding aggressive reforms. [Read the Article]( [A Brief Chat With Noam Chomsky]( Dan Brook, Truthout: Can we really classify enterprises as "capitalist" or "socialist" when the origins of even a product like the iPhone can be traced back to the creative work done in the state sector of the economy? A brief interview with renowned linguist and activist Noam Chomsky on politics, economics and voting in the US. [Read the Interview]( [Federal Communications Commission Announces Net Neutrality Will Officially Die on June 11]( Jake Johnson, Common Dreams: Open internet advocates urged Americans to "ramp up" pressure on their senators on Thursday after FCC chair Ajit Pai announced that net neutrality rules his agency voted to repeal last December will officially die on June 11. This comes just a day after Senate Democrats officially filed a petition to restore net neutrality protections using the Congressional Review Act. [Read the Article]( [Racial Justice Groups Are Freeing Black Women From Jail for Mother's Day]( Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: For the second year in a row, a racial justice collective is raising money to bail out as many Black women from jail as possible so they can spend time with their children on Sunday. Mary Hooks, an organizer of National Black Mama's Bail Out Day, discusses how the effort is taking place in dozens of cities to call attention to the injustice of cash bail. [Watch the Video and Read the Transcript]( [Bernie Sanders Has a Sweeping Plan to Expand Union Rights and Workplace Democracy]( Miles Kampf-Lassin, In These Times: On Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced sweeping legislation that would dramatically expand labor rights. Known as the Workplace Democracy Act, the legislation makes it easier for workers to join unions, speed up contract negotiations, roll back "right-to-work" laws and clamp down on union-busting tactics by employers. [Read the Article]( [In Search of Safe Replacements for Harmful Chemicals Used in Everyday Household Objects]( Liza Gross, Ensia: Polyfluoroalkyl chemicals -- which have been added to a dizzying array of consumer and industrial products since the 1950s -- have been detected in the bodies of nearly all people tested in the US. It took decades for manufacturers to discontinue their use, but little information is publicly available on the so-called "less bioaccumulative" substances that have replaced them. [Read the Article]( [Out of the Spotlight, Jeff Sessions Wreaks Havoc at the Justice Department This Week]( Sophia Tesfaye, Salon: Ever since his days as an Alabama prosecutor, Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been dead set on cracking down on marginalized people in a return to "tough-on-crime" law enforcement. There probably has been no better week for the fulfillment of that agenda than this one. [Read the Article]( [Economic Update: Capitalism Provokes Workers]( Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: This week's episode discusses the workers' strikes at the University of California, the privatization of fire departments, big money in academia and fast-food workers unionizing. We also look at the links between capitalism, loneliness and scapegoating, Hillary Clinton's pro-capitalist tendencies and how the Volkswagen CEO is not the problem -- the system is. Finally, we interview Dr. Harriet Fraad on capitalism's destruction of the family. [Listen to the Audio]( [Want to strengthen Truthout and help us plan for the future? Click here to become a monthly sustainer.]( [The Newspaper Guild] Please add messenger@truthout.org to ensure you receive our messages Truthout is a proud member of the Newspaper Guild/CWA, Local 36047 [Subscribe]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy](