With Space Force, Congress Hands Trump a Major Victory

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jan 2, 2020 Legislators have also capitulated to the president’s vast expansion of the territory of war. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Why Did So Many Democrats Vote for Trump’s Defense Budget?

Marc Steiner / The Real News Network Dec 17, 2019 Political scientist Hassan El-Tayyab explains how a $738 billion spending bill empowers the president to launch wars across the globe. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Schumer: Federal Workers to Get 12 Weeks of Paid Parental Leave

The Associated Press Dec 8, 2019 The measure is included in the National Defense Authorization Act, which would also fund President Trump's proposed Space Force. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Visionless Society

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Dec 31, 2017 Ralph Nader says American democratic institutions have been dismantled by corporate power and must be rebuilt from the ground up. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

The Corruption of the Law

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 20, 2017 The corporate coup that Justice Harlan Fiske Stone attempted to thwart nearly a century ago is complete. His worst fears are our nightmare. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Just Before Christmas, Obama Establishes Anti-Propaganda Agency

By Lauren McCauley / Common Dreams Dec 26, 2016 On Friday President Barack Obama signed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act—and within the $619 billion military budget is a controversial provision that establishes a national anti-propaganda center that critics warn could be dangerous for press freedom. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Close Guantanamo and Return It to Cuba

Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig Nov 16, 2015 President Barack Obama has yet to fulfill the promise he made in his Jan. 22, 2009, executive order to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention camp "no later than one year from the date of this order." Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Post-Constitutional Era

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 5, 2014 The Supreme Court’s refusal to hear our challenge to the law that lets the military indefinitely imprison U.S. citizens is another example of the transformation of the judiciary into an enemy of the Constitution. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Fighting the Militarized State

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 31, 2014 The government has asked the Supreme Court not to hear my appeal that challenges the right of the military to arrest U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

‘Indefinite Surveillance’ Under the 2014 NDAA?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 20, 2013 The National Defense Authorization Act recently approved by the House would build on powers currently available to government to allow unrestricted access to all personal data collected "during combat operations from countries, organizations, or individuals, now or once hostile to the United States," political analyst Stephen Benavides reports at Truthout. Dig deeper ( 3 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 )

A Law to Nullify the NDAA?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 17, 2013 A state bill sponsored by Republican Tim Donnelly would guarantee Californians protection from the threat of indefinite detention made possible by the National Defense Authorization Act. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )