Welcome to the (Don’t Be) Evil Empire
Jun 26, 2013 What do the U.S. government and Silicon Valley already have in common? Above all, they want to remain opaque while making the rest of us entirely transparent through the capture of our data. What is arising is simply a new form of government, involving vast entities with the reach and power of government and little accountability to anyone.
The Far North of Experience
Jun 13, 2013 Creation is always in the dark because you can only do the work of making by not quite knowing what you’re doing. Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that’s where they may be seen by others, that’s not where they’re born.
Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
May 21, 2013 If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly.
Truthdigger of the Week: Tom Engelhardt
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.
House of Horrors
Apr 18, 2013 Since the Newtown massacre, visions of crazy mass killers and armed strangers in the night have colonized the American mind. But the danger out there is both more mundane and more terrible: You're more likely to be hurt or killed by someone you know or love. And it would probably happen at home.
A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year
Jan 24, 2013 We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a civil rights or human rights issue, or a crisis, or even a pattern.
The Sky’s the Limit
Dec 26, 2012 The gifts you’ve already been given in 2012 include a struggle over the fate of the earth. This is probably not what you asked for, and I wish it were otherwise -- but to do good work, to be necessary, to have something to give: These are the true gifts.
Occupy Your Victories
Sep 19, 2012 The one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street produced a lot of mainstream media stories that assured you Occupy was only a bunch of tents that came down last year. Don’t buy it. A year is nothing and the mainstream media is oblivious to where power lies and how change works.
The Painful Price of Numbness
Jul 13, 2012 Drugs are all anesthesia from pain. The ruthless Mexican cartels crave money, which they make from the Yankee craving for numbness. They sell unfeeling, and we buy it, at tens of billions of dollars and thousands of Mexican lives per year.
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games
May 1, 2012 We have a new science fiction trilogy that’s perfect for our moment: Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games," a dystopian vision set in a North America ruled by decadent, luxurious oligarchs who sacrifice young people in an annual televised Roman-style blood contest.
