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The Terror Con

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Say Hello to the 'Super Rich'

The Making of a Global Security State

This Will Not End Well

REPORTS

Bank of America Lied to Homeowners and Rewarded Foreclosures, Ex-Employees Say
By Paul Kiel, ProPublica

The Making of a Global Security State
By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

Climate Change Puts Lake Life at Risk
By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

The Terror Con
By Robert Scheer

Ear to the ground

U.S. and Taliban Anounce Direct Negotiations

IRS Conspiracy Theory Debunked, Rand Paul Answers Cheney Criticism, and More

Bill Ayers: Try Obama, Bush for War Crimes

Experts Don’t Buy Claim Syria Used Chemical Weapons

Brazil Erupts in Protest Over Services and Soccer Costs (Video)

New Iranian President Wants to Heal ‘Old Wound’ With U.S.

A/V Booth

GOP Congressman: Abortions Should Be Banned Because Male Fetuses Masturbate

The Campaign to Ignore Sarah Palin

Did Progress Leave Christians Behind?

Watch: Rick Perry Blunders Jab at Obama’s Benghazi Reaction

Arts & Culture

Ernest Hemingway: Dud KGB Spy?

The Joy of Singing Out of the Spotlight
By Richard Schickel

Let Nicholas Kristof Damage Your Mind

The Unwinding
By Marc Fisher

Digs

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life

By Scott D. Sampson
$19.77

‘Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers’

By Ellen E. Schultz

Tag: Mr Fish

Trevor in the Middle of Nowhere

By Mr. Fish —

How Do You Take Your Poison?

By Chris Hedges —

We can take it from nurse Romney or we can take it from nurse Obama, but one way or another the corporate hemlock will be shoved down our throats.

Posted on Sep 24, 2012 READ MORE

Growth Is the Problem

By Chris Hedges —

The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let’s not revive it.

Posted on Sep 10, 2012 READ MORE

Being Gay

By Mr. Fish —

Being gay was an expression of nonconformity that had less to do with an urge to proclaim my affection for one type of sex over another than a desire to lodge a formal protest against convention.

Posted on Sep 8, 2012 READ MORE

The Science of Genocide

By Chris Hedges —

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.

Posted on Aug 6, 2012 READ MORE

Graham Nash Still Really Gives a S#!*

By Mr. Fish —

The first time Graham Nash made me want to talk back to grown-ups was in the summer of 1977.

Posted on Aug 5, 2012 READ MORE

The Perversion of Scholarship

By Chris Hedges —

Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities.

Posted on Jul 30, 2012 READ MORE

The Careerists

By Chris Hedges —

The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings.

Posted on Jul 23, 2012 READ MORE

The Battle of Blair Mountain

By Chris Hedges —

There are still bullets in the ground where working people in the 1920s staged the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.

Posted on Jul 16, 2012 READ MORE

Lend Me Your Ear

By Mr. Fish —

In the grand tradition of R. Crumb, Harvey Pekar and testicular self-examiners everywhere, Mr. Fish looks for truth and beauty in bullshit and banality.

Posted on Jul 10, 2012 READ MORE

And Now a Word From the Founders

Happy Birthday, America. Here’s a reminder of your more radical youth.

Posted on Jul 4, 2012 READ MORE

To suddenly realize at age 7 that balls and testicles referred to the same thing was a real eye-opener for me. It meant that the obscenity of the word balls was not intrinsic to the thing that it referred to, but rather to the word itself.