Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 15, 2013
The link between tech and the right wing was confirmed in a report by a lobbying watchdog that shows some of America's largest technology and telecom companies "are backing a network of self-styled 'free-market thinktanks' promoting a radical rightwing agenda in states across the nation," The Guardian reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigNov 12, 2013
Thankfully, there are still a few political leaders who remember the wisdom of the founders in designing a system that properly limits governmental power. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigNov 11, 2013
The corporate state's illegitimacy and destruction of privacy and civil liberties are spawning a class of young idealists such as Jeremy Hammond. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 11, 2013
For those who can't get enough of the revolutionary message of the British comedian-turned-populist figure, The Huffington Post UK hosted an hourlong interview last week in East London with journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 9, 2013
The mother of the activist-journalist with links to Anonymous was sentenced to six months' probation Friday for helping her son hide laptops from the FBI. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 9, 2013
A series of agency advertisements using Google's auto-complete function to search phrases such as "women should" highlights widespread misogyny; ads on Twitter may soon target specific personalities; meanwhile, police freed 17 victims from a "gay addiction" torture clinic in Ecuador. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 9, 2013
If you're wondering why Wal-Mart is advertising about how well it treats its worker bees, it may be because demonstrators have launched an ambitious campaign to draw attention to the retail giant's exploitation and alleged abuse of employees. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 7, 2013
After 50-odd years without coordinated strikes in U.S. Wal-Marts, the chain has seen a series of employee protests organized by the nonunion workers’ group OUR Wal-Mart. Wednesday the wave of demonstrations reached Southern California in a surprise strike riding on the coattails of a successful walk-off in Hialeah, Fla. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 5, 2013
Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party made a Senate bid in September for a spot representing Victoria, Western Australia. Now, thanks to some missing ballots being found, the party has another opportunity to take part in the elections, and this time Assange himself will head the party ticket. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 5, 2013
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist punk band arrested last year after an outspoken performance, has been kept "out of sight" since she was moved from a penal colony in Mordovia, Russia, to an unknown location. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
BLANKNov 3, 2013
What emerges from the duo's reckoning of promises broken by Obama's "health care" law is the sense that nothing pledged to an ailing, exhausted and impoverished public is sure to be delivered.What emerges from the duo's reckoning of promises broken by Obama's "health care" law is the sense that nothing pledged to an ailing and exhausted public is sure to be delivered. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutNov 1, 2013
Lourde's defense of poetry as a mode of education is especially crucial for those of us who believe that the university is nothing if it is not a public trust and social good; that is a critical institution infused with the promise of cultivating intellectual insight, the imagination, inquisitiveness, risk-taking, social responsibility and the struggle for justice. Dig deeper ( 30 Min. Read )
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