Which Side Are You On!

Richard Reeves / Truthdig Oct 14, 2011 I am all for Occupy Wall Street -- and a lot of other places -- but I wish I understood where this is going. And why it took so long to get going. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Hotchner Remembers Ernest Hemingway … and the Feds That Pursued Him

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2011 Earlier this month, on the 50th anniversary of his friend's death, A.E. Hotchner penned a tender letter in remembrance of Ernest Hemingway, pictured above. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Resistance, Acquiescence and My Friend J. Edgar Hoover

Steve Fraser / Truthdig Dec 11, 2010 Three moments -- 1911, 1964, now -- coming together compelled me to think about when and why people resist power, why they acquiesce, and why, sometimes, they may believe they are resisting when they are in truth acquiescing. If it is so self-evident that the Triangle Army was compelled to say “enough is enough” back then and act on that resolve, what has happened now? Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 2, 2010 By the end of Howard Zinn's 423-page FBI file one walks away with a profound respect for the historian and a deep distaste for the buffoonish goons in the FBI who followed and monitored him. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Freedom’s Fight: Part II

Gary Phillips / Truthdig Nov 21, 2009 Truthdig is pleased to present the second excerpt from Gary Phillips’ novel “Freedom’s Fight,” which interweaves real historical figures and situations in a fictive narrative about World War II, focusing not just on the black soldier’s struggle, but also on the debates various civil rights groups had about the war stateside. This second installment from Gary Phillips' historical novel "Freedom's Fight" focuses on black soldiers in World War II. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Hoover’s Secret Plan to Jail ‘Dangerous’ Americans

Staff / Truthdig Dec 27, 2007 According to recently declassified documents, infamous FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover presented President Harry Truman with a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 people, mostly Americans, of whom he disapproved. The year was 1950 and the occasion was the start of the Korean War, but Hoover had apparently been building his list of the "potentially dangerous" for years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Coretta Scott King Closely Tracked by FBI

Staff / Truthdig Sep 1, 2007 Under J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI kept close tabs on Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife, Coretta Scott King -- which isn't exactly startling news, except for the detail that the agency's surveillance intensified after her husband's assassination in 1968. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )