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The Economics of Wage Slavery

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Raising the minimum wage, how Oprah Winfrey enabled a self-help disaster, the media vexxing of Hillary Clinton, and we look for the worst judge in America. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Egypt’s Revolution: Director Jehane Noujaim Talks About Capturing the Tahrir Square Uprising

Emily Wilson / Truthdig Dec 5, 2013 The Egyptian filmmaker says what happened in Tahrir forever changed the consciousness of the country. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

U.S. Catholic Bishops Sued After Hospital Turns Away a Woman Miscarrying

Staff / Truthdig Dec 4, 2013 Though Pope Francis has done quite a bit in recent months to better the image of the church, Catholic hospitals are hellbent on destroying it. The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which issued the directives that resulted in a medical facility's refusal of care to a woman suffering a miscarriage. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Unspeakable: Washington Ignores Homeless Epidemic

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Dec 4, 2013 The hardship of families and children is an overlooked national disgrace. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Russell Brand, the Posh Left and the Politics of Class

By Kim Nicolini, CounterPunch Dec 2, 2013 What interested me more than Brand's essay in The New Statesman this October was the backlash that he and people on the Left who support his political stance received from elite Academic Leftists and insulated politically correct Secular Leftists. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Saboteurs

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 2, 2013 Wiebo Ludwig, a messianic Christian minister, took God’s law seriously. And to him that meant blowing up oil and gas drilling stations in northern Alberta to protect his children, his livestock, his water and the planet.Wiebo Ludwig took God’s law seriously. And to him that meant blowing up oil and gas drilling stations to protect his children, his livestock, his water and the planet. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

What Life Is Like in the Economic Trenches

BLANK Dec 2, 2013 A New York Times article Sunday aimed at exploring the life of a fast food worker goes even deeper, and gets at both the frustration of the current economy and the possible benefits for those who would organize. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Reverend Billy

BLANK Dec 1, 2013 The leader of the Church of Stop Shopping faces a year in prison for a 15-minute musical protest he and his choir staged in a Chase Bank in Manhattan in September. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Black Friday Protests Against Wal-Mart Begin

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 30, 2013 Thousands of Wal-Mart workers and their union supporters are staging protests across the United States against the company's practice of keeping its employees poor. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chelsea Manning Gives Thanks for the Truth

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2013 Writing from a prison cell in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is carrying out her 35-year sentence, Manning expresses her gratitude for truth-seekers who do not rest until it is revealed. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges on the Role of Art in Rebellion

Staff / Truthdig Nov 28, 2013 After a talk on the collapse of complex societies, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: "Will it take [literature, music and art] to waken us to the empathy of other suffering or hardship?" Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Voters Approve $15 Minimum Wage for Workers Around Seattle Airport

BLANK Nov 27, 2013 In the same election in which a socialist won a seat on the Seattle City Council, voters in the nearby city of SeaTac also approved a $15 hourly minimum wage for some workers in and around Seattle-Tacoma airport. Even if a recount reverses the result, the election seems to place the Seattle area at the vanguard of a surge of progressive political success. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )