Bernie and the Sandernistas: Into the Void

Staff / Truthdig Aug 4, 2015 Pull the Sandersmobile into the garage for inspection, pop the hood and you’ll soon discover the vacuous truth: no engine, just an exhaust pipe, pumping out rhetoric. So much talk, so little action. The deeper you look at Sanders, the less substance you see. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Google the Advertising Giant

Staff / Truthdig Nov 15, 2013 Mostly due to revenue from ads, the Web firm will rake in $60 billion this year, making it bigger than both the newspaper and magazine industries; the hypocrisy of British Prime Minister David Cameron announcing extended austerity from a golden throne sickened more than one; meanwhile, The New York Times is losing talent left and right. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Paying the Price for Unwavering Dissent

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 9, 2012 CounterPunch, the muckraking political newsletter founded in 1994 by investigative journalist Jeffrey St. Clair and recently deceased iconoclast Alexander Cockburn, has paid a “savage price” for maintaining its deeply critical view of President Obama during the 2012 presidential campaign season. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alexander Cockburn at Ease

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 24, 2012 Fashion, tips for surviving a police encounter, and why we might all be better off when the American empire crumbles are among the subjects the late CounterPunch editor Alexander Cockburn rapped about in a conversation in the Deep South sometime during the summer of 2006. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Goodbye, Old Friend

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jul 22, 2012 He could be infuriating in his lust for truth and social justice, but no serious student of our time can deny Alexander Cockburn’s importance as one of the most principled and insightful political journalists of the past half-century. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

CounterPunch Editor Dies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 22, 2012 Alexander Cockburn, editor of the political newsletter CounterPunch, lost a two-year battle against cancer when he died in Germany on Friday night. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Alexander Cockburn’s Amerika

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 7, 2012 Two percent of the U.S. adult population in lockup; 600,000 “stop-and-frisks” in New York City; three-quarters of a million people booked as official sex offenders. Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn thinks it's time we revisit the notion of “fascism.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tumbrils and the English Language

Staff / Truthdig Feb 12, 2012 As George Orwell pointed out more than half a century ago, the storehouse of the English language occasionally needs a good sweep. In the hands of excited, careless or tired writers, words and phrases that once were new or uniquely descriptive become so overused that they seem to threaten the integrity of the language itself. With a broom (or rather, cartwheel) in hand, CounterPunch editor Alexander Cockburn attempts a cleaning. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )