David Sirota, Helen Santoro, Freddy Brewster, Lucy Dean Stockton, Katya Schwenk / The LeverMar 28, 2024
Federal regulators sanctioned Maersk for illegally blocking workers from reporting safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
GREGORY KATZ and CARLO PIOVANO / The Associated PressSep 23, 2019
The immediate shuttering of 178-year-old tour company strands hundreds of thousands; a changing industry and Brexit blamed for its demise. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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The crane, which had been atop a downtown office building, crushed several cars in a densely populated area. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 17, 2014
A new study sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center confirmed the prospect that worldwide industrial civilization could collapse in the coming decades under "unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution," Dr. Nafeez Ahmed reports at The Guardian. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 6, 2013
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discussed "the psychology of the super rich: their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and mistaken belief that their wealth will insulate them from the coming storms" with The Real News Network's senior editor, Paul Jay. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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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 )
Staff / TruthdigNov 16, 2013
After a talk on the collapse of complex societies, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: "How should people of color respond to the dying of a civilization that has not been civil to them?"Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges answers an audience question: "How should people of color respond to the dying of a civilization that has not been civil to them?" Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown, Web of DebtOct 7, 2013
An Associated Press article in February confirmed a purchase order by the Department of Homeland Security for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. Someone in government seems to expect some serious civil unrest. Why? Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 2, 2013
The governor of Michigan said Friday that the city of Detroit was in a state of "financial emergency" and announced that an independent overseer would be appointed to save it from collapse. However, the proposed solutions, which appear to consist mainly of spending cuts, inevitably mean more pain and suffering for Detroiters. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigSep 10, 2012
The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let's not revive it. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigSep 3, 2012
The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world -- the one steadily collapsing around us.We, as a species, may be doomed. And this is a bitter, bitter fact for a father to digest. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigMar 28, 2011
The last people who should be in charge of our food supply or our social and political life, not to mention the welfare of sick children, are corporate capitalists and Wall Street speculators. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
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