The Many-Sided, Overlapping Meanings of May Day

Paul Street / Truthdig Apr 29, 2017 The working-class holiday has Marxist and anarchist industrial-era roots, but the significance of May 1 goes deeper than that. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

The Final Stage of the Machiavellian Elites’ Takeover of America

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould / Truthdig Apr 28, 2017 Neoconservatism was born during the Cold War with an overt mission to roll back Russian/Soviet influence everywhere. That mission continues today. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

How Neocons Push for War by Cooking the Books

By Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould Apr 25, 2017 To understand America’s drift into despotism over the last 40 years, we must de-encrypt the evolution of its secret "double government." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

American Imperialism Leads the World Into Dante’s Vision of Hell

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould / Truthdig Apr 24, 2017 This four-part series called "Universal Empire" examines the current stage of the neocon takeover of American policy that began after World War II. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Important Anti-War Films That Reveal the Uncensored History of the United States

By Frank Dorrel Sep 27, 2016 The U.S. is addicted to war. Stopping this horrible situation is up to the American people. The way we do this is by getting informed. These documentaries can help. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Mass Aerial Surveillance Is a Growing Orwellian Concern in the United States

Thor Benson / Truthdig Sep 8, 2016 The federal government has been equipping planes with monitoring devices for some time. But how far will law enforcement agencies go in order to watch citizens? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Keeping Us Safe From an Information Explosion

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Donald Trump Explains It All: Post-Iowa Caucus Edition

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Feb 3, 2016 By any pollster's gauge, the schadenfreude factor was off the charts on Trump's social media platform of choice (that would be Twitter) and in various news outlets Tuesday following his bruising defeat by Ted Cruz in Iowa the night before. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Cli-Fi Is All the Rage

By Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network Dec 26, 2015 Stuck for some new-year reading material? How about a thriller on a world in climate-driven turmoil? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

States of Terror

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 23, 2015 We waded into conflicts in the Middle East we did not understand, propelled forward by fantasy. And our folly spawned a death spiral of political, social and economic collapse, widespread poverty, massive displacement, misery and radical jihadism. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

U.K. Surveillance ‘Worse Than Orwell,’ Says U.N. Privacy Chief

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Aug 26, 2015 Joseph Cannataci, recently appointed as the first U.N. digital privacy chief, has called British oversight a "bad joke" and says the world needs a "Geneva Convention" for the Internet to safeguard personal data. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge Into Authoritarianism

By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch Jun 21, 2015 In spite of their differing perceptions, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley both argued that the established democracies of the West were quickly foreclosing the promise of liberal democracy and entering a space where totalitarianism perverts the modern ideals of justice, freedom and political emancipation. Dig deeper ( 30 Min. Read )