Truthdigger of the Week: Tom Engelhardt

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 21, 2013 At least three times a week, there is one place online where readers can go for the most comprehensive coverage possible of the workings of American Empire. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Police State Argument Begins After Bombing Suspect’s Capture

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 20, 2013 After the capture of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, civil rights activists and officials are disputing whether it was acceptable for police to deprive him of his Miranda rights, and whether he should be classified as an enemy combatant and denied a lawyer. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Where the Opposition Is Going

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 4, 2013 As austerity pushed by Britain's Tory government whittles away jobs and benefits and increases poverty and despair, many Brits are asking where the resistance is. Journalist Laurie Penny knows: "There was resistance, and it was brutally and systematically put down." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Spy Agencies to Have Access to Your Finances

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 15, 2013 The Obama administration plans to give all U.S. intelligence agencies full access to a database that contains information on the financial activity of American citizens and others who bank in the country, a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Raytheon Creates Social Media Spy Software (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 14, 2013 The world's fifth-largest defense contractor has developed a surveillance program that predicts your behavior by tracking the movement of your smartphone and mining public data from sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The American Lockdown State

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Feb 5, 2013 This Inauguration Day, Washington was in a lockdown mode unmatched by any inauguration from another era -- not even Lincoln’s second inaugural in the midst of the Civil War, or Franklin Roosevelt’s during World War II, or John F. Kennedy’s at the height of the Cold War. Yet the subject got remarkably little attention during the ensuing media blitz. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Obama’s Second Term Begins, Maher on the U.S. ‘Quasi-Police State,’ and More

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 21, 2013 A look at the day's political happenings, including sore loser Rick Santorum's tough talk for the president and why the Republicans' debt ceiling proposal may be a constitutional fail. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Electronic Frontier Foundation

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 30, 2012 As the larger part of American culture seems ready to surrender its claim to privacy without question, organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation are riding like Paul Revere through the digital Massachusetts night. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Three Men Who Wouldn’t Let the NSA Get Away With It

By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law Nov 30, 2012 Whistle-blowers have warned that intelligence agencies are abusing the Constitution and lavishing private companies with expensive contracts in exchange for subpar results.Whistle-blowers have warned that intelligence agencies are abusing the Constitution and lavishing private companies with expensive contracts. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

High Insecurity in the Police State

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 1, 2012 Anna Minton took a tour of an East London housing estate that received a Secured by Design award for its “small windows, reinforced steel doors and grey, aluminium, military-style roofs. The overall effect,” she says of results that will be published in a forthcoming report, “was oppressive.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

America the Great … Police State

Gore Vidal / Truthdig Aug 2, 2012 Truthdig was proud to be the home of Gore Vidal's essays over the last six years In a tribute to his legacy, we'll be rerunning his great works In this essay, written in 2009, Vidal wants us to accept that the US is no longer a republic, no longer governed by laws -- only by armed men and force . Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Privacy by Design

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 24, 2012 Nicholas Merrill is tired of waiting for Congress to protect Americans' privacy online So he plans to force the matter by changing the way telecommunication companies do business So he plans to change the way telecommunication companies do business. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )