Occupy 2012

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Nov 30, 2011 In its two months of existence, Occupy L.A. showed a resiliency and purpose that could make some of its participants leaders in a great confrontation over economic injustice in the 2012 election. The election could be the next step for the Occupy movement. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Miley Cyrus and OWS Share a Headline for Fun and Profit

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2011 It's bound to happen, when a movement like Occupy Wall Street takes hold on a national scale, that some famous people in the entertainment business will attach themselves to the cause, and that their bids for legitimacy as self-styled political activists will be met with skepticism, if not worse. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

When We Fight Back

Scott Tucker / Truthdig Nov 25, 2011 Morality in the land of the free is a curious mix of Tinkertoys and torture racks We have just witnessed a full week of brutal coordinated police assaults upon peaceful protesters The Occupy movement must therefore rise to a new level of coordinated and class-conscious actions against the corporate state. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Russell Simmons, OWS Crusader

Staff / Truthdig Nov 23, 2011 Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons has thrown in as one of the high-profile 1 percenters to support Occupy Wall Street, speaking and tweeting his allegiance since the movement's early days There are even rumors that he may be one of the power players involved with a shadow affinity group (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Data Behind the Occupy Movement

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2011 Do the Occupiers know what they’re talking about when they chant, “We are the 99 percent!”? With a quick animation, The Guardian breaks down the key economic data representing the conditions that have brought thousands of the disempowered and discontented into the streets all across the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

America’s Middle-Class Neighborhoods on the Decline

Staff / Truthdig Nov 17, 2011 As America's middle class continues to diminish, it follows that the middle-class neighborhoods they once called home would shrink accordingly. Well, they are, finds a new Stanford University study, which charted changes in Americans' living quarters since 1970. The results are sobering, if unsurprising. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 15, 2011 Welcome to the revolution Our elites have exposed their hand They have nothing to offer They can destroy but they cannot build They can repress but they cannot lead They can steal but they cannot share They can talk but they cannot speak . Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Exposing the Worst of the 1 Percent

Staff / Truthdig Nov 3, 2011 Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films is preparing a multimedia onslaught to expose those 1 percenters who use their monetary and political powers to the disadvantage of others -- sometimes millions of others, as in the case of Bank of America (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Speaking Up for That ‘1 Percent’

Joe Conason / Truthdig Oct 28, 2011 Before Paul Ryan delivers another lecture on the "fatal conceit of liberalism," he ought to examine his own silly conceit: that he and others like him represent the hardworking majority, when he was merely born at the top. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Have and Have-Not Nation

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Oct 28, 2011 The hard-right conservatives who dominate the Republican Party claim to despise the redistribution of wealth, but secretly they love it -- as long as the process involves depriving the poor and middle class to benefit the rich, not the other way around. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Real Cause of America’s Debt Crisis

Staff / Truthdig Jul 26, 2011 Over the past century, America's rich made their millions and billions through the use of public assets shared by everyone. By virtue of those profits, they have not only a moral, but a rational obligation to pay more for the upkeep of public services. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Joseph Stiglitz

Staff / Truthdig Apr 8, 2011 This week we tip our hat to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who once helped calculate the true cost of the Iraq War, and more recently has been calling attention to the radical redistribution of wealth from middle- and working-class Americans to the richest among us.This week we tip our hat to Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, who has called attention to the radical redistribution of wealth from middle- and working-class Americans to the richest among us. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )