John Pilger: ‘We Have Been Misled’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 7, 2014 Australian journalist John Pilger, who speaks with the moral voice of George Orwell, discusses how a majority of Britons polled could say fewer than 10,000 Iraqis have been killed since the British- and American-led 2003 invasion of Iraq, when the real number is closer to a million. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Last Gasp of American Democracy

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 6, 2014 If we fail to halt the state's wholesale intrusion into our private lives, exposed by the Snowden leaks, we will find ourselves living under a ruthless totalitarian system. (At right, NSA Director Keith Alexander.)If we fail to halt the state's wholesale intrusion into our private lives, we will find ourselves living under a ruthless totalitarian system. (Pictured above, NSA Director Keith Alexander.) Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

NSA New Year

Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons Dec 30, 2013 Dig deeper

George Orwell Nearly Died Halfway Through Writing ‘1984’

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Dec 4, 2013 One of the most important books ever written almost never happened. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

1984

Signe Wilkinson / Truthdig Oct 9, 2013 Dig deeper

Alone and Delusional on Planet Earth

By Tom Engehardt, TomDispatch Sep 6, 2013 In an increasingly phantasmagorical world, here’s my present fantasy of choice. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

California Students’ Social Media Being Stalked

Staff / Truthdig Aug 29, 2013 As if the NSA spying on our every move weren’t enough, now kids have to watch what they say online in and out of school. Some 13,000 middle and high school students in Southern California will have their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube accounts scrutinized by social media monitoring service Geo Listening. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

‘Animal Farm’ for the Status Quo?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 13, 2013 Complex works of art lend themselves to multiple interpretations, especially where political matters are concerned. Late in 1946, American writer Dwight Macdonald asked George Orwell whether the book " 'Animal Farm' … meant that revolution always ended badly for the underdog, 'hence to hell with it and hail the status quo.' " In advance of the publication of a new collection of Orwell's letters, here is the author's response. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

George Orwell’s 1984

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2013 Dig deeper

The Next Step in Equality: Genderless Bathrooms

Staff / Truthdig Jun 13, 2013 Transgender people face discrimination every time they go to restrooms marked men or women; as the NSA destroys our sense of privacy, perhaps rather than looking to Orwell's "1984," we should brush up on our Kafka; meanwhile, journalist Phyllis Richman responds decades later to a misogynistic letter from a Harvard professor regarding married women pursuing graduate studies. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Sales of Orwell’s ‘1984’ Soar Amid NSA Surveillance Disclosure

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jun 12, 2013 In the wake of the National Security Agency snooping revelations, George Orwell's dystopian novel is experiencing a renaissance. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Call to Action

By James Cromwell May 23, 2013 The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, obliterate the balance of power, legitimize a military dictatorship, and control the dissemination of truth in the name of protecting its "secrets." Soon we will have lost our freedom, not to some foreign nation that hates it, but to our own devices.The Obama administration has passed or made use of a host of laws to infringe our civil liberties, legitimize a military dictatorship and control the dissemination of the truth. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )