Employers Can’t Require You to Be Happy, Uncle Sam Says

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2016 In a victory for free speech, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that employees of T-Mobile do not have to maintain what the company called a “positive work environment” at all times. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Noam Chomsky on the Corporatization and ‘Death’ of American Universities

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2014 The father of modern linguistics weighs in on the decline of higher education in the United States; a writer criticizes the state of dissent from the left in Israel; meanwhile, a new Republican social media campaign backfires. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Cecily McMillan

BLANK May 12, 2014 Occupy Wall Street organizer Cecily McMillan is paying with her time and body for our leaders' sins of unbridled power and extreme wealth. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Activist Says U.S. Using Terrorism Charges to Stifle Political Dissent

Staff / Truthdig Apr 4, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Why is the FBI harassing peace activists in the Midwest? Also: The Sunlight Foundation's plan to fight money in politics, the mystery of Canada's vanishing women, and the threat of big data. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Creating the World We Want

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Feb 24, 2014 If we do not like big finance capitalism, what will take the place of the current economy? Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Ukrainian Protests Persist Despite ‘Orwellian’ Surveillance, Violence

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Jan 25, 2014 Clashes between the Ukrainian government and demonstrators continued Friday, despite President Viktor Yanukovych offering to give a little ground. The government's creative use of text messaging earlier in the week, not to mention violence, had something to do with the ongoing calls for regime change. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Geography of Dissent In Time

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 26, 2013 A Penn State doctoral candidate made a time-lapse visualization of what appears to be every recorded protest on the planet since 1979 that shows a flood of resistance sweeping the planet beginning with the anti-globalization movement of the late 1990s. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Speaking Truth on the Fifth of July

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 20, 2012 "Why it is so hard to tell the truth today?" I asked Vietnam veteran and anti-war hero Ron Kovic one summer night over drinks in midtown Manhattan. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Terror Rules at Bahrain’s Hospitals

Staff / Truthdig May 22, 2012 Bahrain’s hospitals are becoming centers of terror and distrust as government officials use them to identify, torture and arrest protesters, doctors and nurses for their involvement in the ongoing uprising against the ruling Al Khalifa family. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

More Killed in Syria as Country Buries Dead

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2012 At least 27 people were killed in violence across Syria on Saturday as thousands mourned at a government-organized funeral for those killed in Friday’s bomb attack in the capital city of Damascus. Anti-Assad forces suspect the president’s sympathizers ordered the bombing to lend credence to the claim that the government is battling terrorists rather than suppressing dissent. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Time’s Person of the Year: The Protester

Staff / Truthdig Dec 14, 2011 For “once again becoming a maker of history” two sleepy decades after political soothsayer Francis Fukuyama declared Western liberalism the end point in the evolution of human society, Time magazine named "The Protester" 2011’s Person of the Year. For “once again becoming a maker of history,” Time magazine named "The Protester" 2011’s Person of the Year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

EU Slaps a Ban on Syrian Oil

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2011 The European Union announced Saturday that it is banning purchases of Syrian oil, a first for Europe, which had thus far avoided targeting Syrian industry as a method to stem the government violence there. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )