Who Exactly Is the Economy ‘Booming’ For?

Jim Hightower / OtherWords Jun 25, 2019 Ordinary workers now have to work centuries—or even millennia—to make what their CEOs make in a year. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Banks Are Becoming Obsolete in China—Could the U.S. Be Next?

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Aug 22, 2018 Big banks on this side of the Pacific are watching with trepidation, as developments in China’s mobile system could indicate that significant shifts will happen in the U.S. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Why North Carolina’s New Anti-LGBT Law Is a Trojan Horse

Staff / Truthdig Apr 6, 2016 It’s not just bathrooms. Lawmakers also took away the right to sue under state law for all kinds of employment discrimination. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

What We Know (and Don’t Know) About This Year’s Bilderberg Meeting

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Jun 11, 2015 What could possibly be sinister about leaders of the world's most powerful companies and countries meeting in closed sessions on an Austrian mountaintop to discuss global strategy? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

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The Author Who Hates Public Libraries

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2013 Best-selling children's book writer Terry Deary claims the concept of providing the "impoverished access to books" is outdated and irrelevant; despite hopes that the next pope will be less homophobic than the last, the likely candidate supports "Kill the Gays" laws; meanwhile, PayPal and Lenovo aim to finish off passwords in order to move on to more secure measures. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Progress Report: PayPal Founder’s College Dropouts

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 10, 2012 Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel gave 24 young would-be entrepreneurs a two-year $100,000 grant each to drop out of college and pursue the business plans of their dreams. One year on, financial returns are in short supply. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

WikiLeaks Has a New Commercial

Staff / Truthdig Jun 28, 2011 The biggest threat to WikiLeaks isn't the house arrest of Julian Assange or the militaries of frustrated world governments -- it's the financial blockade by PayPal, Bank of America, Visa and other institutions that has cut off $15 million in donations (by WikiLeaks' estimate). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

BofA Cuts Off WikiLeaks

Staff / Truthdig Dec 19, 2010 The digital war of position between WikLeaks and those who have something to hide got a bit more barbed as Bank of America, a likely target in the next WikiLeaks documents drama, announced it will refuse to process payments to the website. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The WikiLeaks Hacker War Rages On

Staff / Truthdig Dec 10, 2010 They've successfully targeted MasterCard's and Visa's websites, but the coalition of hack-savvy cyber-protesters taking the name Anonymous apparently missed their mark when it came to tripping up monster e-retailer Amazon on Thursday. Updated with video Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Payback Time for MasterCard in WikiLeaks Cyber-Clash

Staff / Truthdig Dec 9, 2010 A group of hackers organized under the familiar moniker of Anonymous (remember those anti-Scientology demonstrations?) has registered its collective disapproval of MasterCard and the Swedish prosecution authority for participating in the censure of WikiLeaks and founder Julian Assange by, fittingly, compromising the functionality of their websites. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cell Phones Set to Dial For Dollars

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2006 PayPal will now allow users to buy goods and exchange money using their cell phones. Sweet! It's been getting far too hard to blow money on impulse items in recent years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )