The Culture of Cruelty in Trump’s America

By Henry A. Giroux / Truthout Mar 22, 2017 The repressive state and market apparatus of the 19th century have returned with a vengeance, producing new levels of aggression and violence in U.S. society. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Beware of the World Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Are Making, The Observer Warns

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 20, 2017 “Facebook is the grim sign of something going seriously wrong in our economic model,” according to editors at the British newspaper. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Police Officers Nationwide Are Using Law-Enforcement Databases Illegally for Corrupt, Personal Ends

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 28, 2016 An Associated Press investigation shows officers spying and acquiring information on “romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Clintons and Kissinger

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‘The Enemy Is Us,’ Says Robert Scheer

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 18, 2016 The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation brings Robert Scheer to Deliver the 15th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity's Future at the Faulkner Gallery titled "War, Peace, Truth and the Media" Dig deeper

To Win Back Our Democracy, We Must First Recognize That We Live in an ‘Expository Society’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 25, 2016 Critical theorist Bernard Harcourt coined the term to describe our present culture, in which authorities consolidate their power by exploiting our eagerness to volunteer personal information through technology and social media. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

More Droughts May Mean Less Electrical Power

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jan 8, 2016 Rising temperatures and reduced rainfall will make the flow of rivers less dependable, affecting supplies to the electricity generators that rely on them. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The American Empire: Murder Inc.

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 4, 2016 Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations. Update: Video added. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!

By Bill Moyers / Common Dreams Dec 28, 2015 The vast inequality that the plutocrats and the oligarchs are creating is a death sentence for government by consent of the people. This is the fight of our lives, and how it ends is up to us. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Ralph Nader on the Corporate Elections

Staff / Truthdig Dec 24, 2015 In this video, legendary activist Ralph Nader discusses who has power in America and talks about the 2016 presidential race in vivid terms—from the “brownshirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

AUDIO: Robert Scheer and John Dean on Richard Nixon, Ted Cruz and the Abuse of Power

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 31, 2015 In the premiere episode of KCRW's "Scheer Intelligence," Truthdig's editor-in-chief sits down with John Dean, the former Nixon legal adviser who blew the lid off the Watergate scandal In this podcast, Dean offers his take on the misuse of power under the guise of national security—both during the Nixon era and today (Above, Robert Scheer interviewing President Nixon for the Los Angeles Times in 1985). Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

Noam Chomsky and the Public Intellectual in Turbulent Times

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout May 12, 2014 Noam Chomsky not only represents the antithesis of intellectual accommodation, he exemplifies a new kind of intellectual, one who refuses, as C. Wright Mills put it, the role of "a sociological book-keeper," preferring instead to be "mutinous and utopian" rather than "go the way of the literary faddist and the technician of cultural chic." Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )