Activism

Now You See Me

By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch Jan 24, 2014 Growing up in a well-heeled suburban community, I absorbed our society’s distaste for dissent long before I was old enough to grasp just what was being dismissed, which is why I traveled thousands of miles to a Zapatista “organizing school” in the heart of the Lacandon jungle in southeastern Mexico to try to sort out just what I’d been missing. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Nick Turse on America’s Secret Soldiers

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The "Kill Anything That Moves" author on the clandestine commandos who operate in as many as 120 countries. Also: An NSA panel says shut it down, a little Persian history, and Arthur Yorinks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Aaron Swartz: The Life We Lost and the Day We Fight Back

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jan 23, 2014 A year after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz's suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remarkable young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

8 Tasteless Stock Photos Related to Abortion

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jan 23, 2014 Roe v. Wade turned 41 on Wednesday, and in searching for images to illustrate our posts, we came up with some very weird, gross and even comical results. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Turkish Government Accused of Defying ‘International Human Rights’ in Its Fight Against Protesters

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Jan 22, 2014 Medics and human rights groups are calling out the Turkish government for intimidation against street protesters as new legislation criminalizes the use of urgent assistance. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Russell Brand: ‘Socialism Is Christianity Politicized’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 21, 2014 Comedian-actor-writer Russell Brand took on a range of topics including spirituality, materialism, politics and revolution during an interview at Cambridge University's student union in England last week. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Re-Establishing King

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 21, 2014 "There is probably no figure in recent American history whose memory is more distorted, whose message more bowdlerized, whose powerful words are more drained of content than King," University of Pennsylvania history professor Thomas J. Sugrue writes at Jacobin. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

People Pressure Is Making Fast Tracking the TPP Politically Toxic

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Jan 20, 2014 After four years of secret negotiations with more than 600 corporate advisers, the once seemingly invincible trade bill -- the largest in history, covering 40% of the world’s economy -- looks very much like it can be defeated. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Gov’t Used Surveillance of MLK in Bid to Destroy Him: Now They Want Us to Just Trust Them

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jan 20, 2014 Among the ironies of Barack Obama trying to sell us the gargantuan NSA domestic spying program is that such techniques of telephone surveillance were used against the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in an attempt to destroy him and stop the civil rights movement. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Does This Man Look Like a Criminal to You?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 19, 2014 Vice News visited the palatial New Zealand residence of tech mogul and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom in October to discuss his copyright case and the future of privacy and the Internet. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Scare Tactics Distort NSA Debate

David Sirota / Truthdig Jan 18, 2014 In order to have a genuinely constructive debate, data must be compiled, evidence must be amassed and verifiable truths must be presented. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Facebook Is Work, and You Should Get Paid for It

Staff / Truthdig Jan 17, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Internet as we know it could soon disappear, we remember the radical Martin Luther King, the mega rich and Citizens United 2, and why Facebook's 1.3 billion users should think of socializing as work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )