Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigJan 21, 2017
On this week’s “Informed Rant,” Joshua Scheer speaks with Shadowproof journalist Kevin Gosztola, lawyer and author Chase Madar and screenwriter and author Ruth Fowler. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 16, 2014
As an Occupy Wall Street activist goes to trial on charges of assaulting a police officer, author and lawyer Chase Madar asks what the rights to freedom of assembly, freedom of the press and freedom from warrantless search are worth in the United States today. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Chase Madar, TomDispatchFeb 10, 2014
Consider that the top recipient of U.S. foreign aid over the past three decades isn’t some impoverished land filled with starving kids, but a wealthy nation with a per-head gross domestic product on par with the European Union average, and higher than that of Italy, Spain, or South Korea. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
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By Chase Madar, TomDispatchDec 9, 2013
If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 2, 2013
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: He survived Fox News. Now the religions scholar discusses his new book, at last. Also: More revelations about the NSA, Bradley Manning's sentencing, and Oregon's alternative to student loans. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Chase Madar, TomDispatchJun 11, 2013
Bradley Manning, the young Army intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of public documents and passed them on to WikiLeaks, has done far more for U.S. national security than SEAL Team 6. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 20, 2013
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Terrorism expert Audrey Kurth Cronin says terrorists are surprisingly logical. Also: Islamophobia in the U.S.A., Bradley Manning's secret trial, and Congress wants to share your Internet secrets. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Chase MadarMar 28, 2013
The school-to-prison pipeline is under fire for its over-the-top thuggishness, but officials are responding to massacres like the one in Newtown by pushing to make campuses more prison like. Bay Area journalist and author Annette Fuentes discusses the phenomenon she documented in her book "Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse."The school-to-prison pipeline is under fire for its over-the-top thuggishness, but officials are responding to massacres like the one in Newtown by pushing to make campuses more jail like. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 6, 2013
"If you look at the context of what he's done and the enormous damage he did to national security and our prestige around the world, throughout most of history someone like that would be executed," former Defense Department spokesman J.D. Gordon said of Pfc. Bradley Manning on Al-Jazeera this week. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Chase Madar, TomDispatchFeb 27, 2013
Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more 7-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to local police precincts. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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