The Campaign to Exterminate Muslims

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Apr 8, 2018 Israel’s slaughter of unarmed Gazans doesn’t bother most Americans because we have been indoctrinated into dehumanizing Muslims. We and others live in a world where murder and racism are state policy. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Naomi Klein: Radical Solutions the Proper Response to ‘Unyielding Science-Based Deadline’ (Video)

By Common Dreams staff May 12, 2016 Climate crisis, argues the author and activist, "might just be the catalyst we need to knit together the great many powerful movements bound together by the inherent worth and value of all people." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Chris Hedges Confronts ‘The Whoredom of the Left’ With Anti-Prostitution Activists

Staff / Truthdig Dec 2, 2015 In this episode of teleSUR's "Days of Revolt," Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges explores the conflicted and malignant relationship many self-identified leftists have with prostitution on both the ideological and practical levels. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Tariq Ali: The Time Is Right for a Palace Revolution

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 2, 2015 One of our most trenchant critics of corporate capitalism deplores the rise of an "extreme center" that has seized control of the political process and wages endless war while doing the bidding of global corporations Our only hope, he says, is revolt One of our most trenchant critics of corporate capitalism deplores the rise of an "extreme center" that has seized control of the political process and does the bidding of corporations . Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

On D-Day: Remembering the Muslim Troops Who Fought the Axis

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 7, 2014 One of the frustrations for a world historian is the unyieldingly parochial vision of the North Atlantic common among journalists and even many historians, and consequently among the public. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Gated Intellectuals, Fortress America, and the Politics of Occupy

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Mar 21, 2012 A group of right-wing extremists would have the American public believe it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of a market society. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Mad in America

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 4, 2011 What do we have now? An anti-war movement that is so gutless and so savagely unimaginative that it has proved itself to be too lazy, even too cowardly, to face down the very disease of oligarchy that it had concocted itself to cure.It is a queer fact, indeed, that none of the most outspoken and anti-authoritarian radicals in this country are under 65 years old. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Said What?

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2010 Sound the alarm: The Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition exam taken by high school students across the U.S. uses a quotation from the late Palestinian-American scholar and activist Edward Said. Some Jewish students are complaining that use of the Said material politicizes the test. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Reconsidering E.M. Forster

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 Novelist E.M. Forster was a writer who might be said to have been simultaneously ahead of his time -- or at least better suited to take on certain topics like homosexuality that couldn't be treated frankly during his heyday -- and resistant to some of the modernist impulses he saw arising among authors from the generation following his own. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Lessons in Justice in the Middle East

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jul 27, 2009 Let us now praise famous men and their fathers that begat them. The famous man -- he should be much more famous -- is the Israeli historian Avi Shlaim whose wonderful "reappraisals, revisions and refutations" is coming out in September under the simple title: "Israel and Palestine."Writers like T.S. Eliot, Edward Said and Israeli historian Avi Shlaim know how to string words together, according to this author. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )