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America’s refusal to fund and sustain its intellectual and cultural heritage has come with an enormous cost. We are now paying the bill. Source: The Great Forgetting (from @Truthdig) Read More

+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Venceremos! We Will Win! Educate to Liberate! Peter S. Lopez AKA @Peta_de_Aztlan Sacramento, California c/s ----- Forwarded Message -----From: Blogger <no-re… Read More

The thousands of Michigan children who were knowingly poisoned were victims of an American moral malaise: Our nation has bred generations of bureaucrats who are blind to values other than se… Read More

The candidate, seeking the Green Party nomination, is the only presidential hopeful who understands that what’s important is not the election—it’s the construction of anti… Read More

The façade of democracy and the disempowerment of the citizenry by corporations has sparked a nationwide revolt. Elites, fearing unrest, will soon become ruthless. We must engage now… Read More

With the middle class dissolved the poor strikes back . . . and it will only get worse until the plutocracy folds and dies in its greed. ********** Corporate Democrats rigged the primary ele… Read More

Green Party candidate Jill Stein sits down with Hedges at a crucial moment in the 2016 election cycle to talk about the many emergencies that the two major-party nominees will be categorical… Read More

Wow man, so true . . . and so scary . . . The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. All the traditional tools of democracies—including dispass… Read More

By Chris Hedges/Posted at;truthdig.com/ – Alexander Solzhenitsyn in “The Gulag Archipelago,” his profound meditation on the nature of oppression and resistance in the… Read More

TruthdigWant a Democratic Party that will embrace progressivism to defend the vulnerable against a Trump administration? Then “stop donating to it” until it changes, writes Lawre… Read More

TruthdigIn a new interview on David Axelrod’s podcast “The Axe Files,” President Barack Obama shed light on his eight years in the Oval Office and talked about what may be… Read More

The following is an essay by Chris Hedges . . . I entered it here because of it’s poetic feel and it’s deep truth. I feel it is important to those who still have the option of a… Read More

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By Chris Hedges/Posted at;truthdig.com/ – War opens a Pandora’s box of evils that once unleashed are beyond anyone’s control. The invasion of Afghanistan set out to defeat… Read More

By Chris Hedges/Posted at;truthdig.com Mr. Fish / Truthdig Forget the firing of James Comey. Forget the paralysis in Congress. Forget the idiocy of a press that covers our descent into tyran… Read More

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By Bill Zimmerman/Posted at;.truthdig.com – Anti-war demonstrators assemble around the reflecting pool opposite the Lincoln Memorial in Washington before the “March on the P… Read More

On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former New York Times corre… Read More

TruthdigOf all the African-American sports figures who drive Donald Trump nuts, none could annoy him more than LaVar Ball, a mirror image of the president, capable of matching him boast for… Read More

By Emily Wilson /Posed at;truthdig.com/ Pat Thomas read Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book” at age 10, after his 20-year-old brother brought it home. Thomas appreciated… Read More

More articles on the Lily Cole affair, but nothing really new to show. The New York Times makes a very assertive article:The clash may seem, to paraphrase another literary giant, much ado ab… Read More

This is a long and well written read . . . but well worth it if you are at all interested in today’s war fighting. What I found to my chagrin was a (still) complete ignorance within… Read More

Facebook is bringing communities together–and deciding what we might say and read. This includes both outright Facebook censorship in which posts are taken down and people are placed… Read More

BACKBITING, attaching labels, insulting one another by nicknames, spreading rumours and suspicions about others are major sins in Islam. These are despicable acts in the sight of Allah. The… Read More

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:44 PM John Hemington wrote:Below are links to a three-part discussion on The Real News Network concerning the newly released movie The Occupation of the American M… Read More

Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human… Read More

The story of one of the most fearless editorial cartoonists is told in Mr Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End. Dwayne Booth, better known by his pseudonym Mr. Fish, has been a freelance… Read More

TruthdigAnother week has come and gone and with it, another mass shooting. The American culture of death marches on, fueled by our obscene stockpiles of lethal weaponry and stoked by the div… Read More

Seth Rich's parents — if wingnuts won't let them rest in peacethen I hope they sue like hell.I am talking about the first round of Democratic National Committee emails from the spring… Read More

What happens in a world without Julian Assange?It seems we may be in the unthinkable position of facing such a reality, after WikiLeaks Tweeted regarding the recent statement of Margarita Si… Read More

Mental Conditioning I wonder if any of those guys in the matrix who decided to save the world from communism, even considered what long lasting effects Agent Orange would have on the countri… Read More

When policies fail over and over again, Jacob Bacharach writes, it's because their real intent is succeeding. And, for the past forty years, capitalism's real intent has been on a tear:… Read More

The Really Dangerous Caravan (Video) — Read on www.truthdig.com/cartoons/the-really-dangerous-caravan-video/ Read More

When and how did the polarization of political opinion become so mainstream in the US? When was acrimony institutionalized? When did it become acceptable to deny a political opponent’s… Read More

OCTOBER Where US–Canada relations were concerned, as well as Trump’s trade strategy, NAFTA was the leading event opening the month of October. The US–Mexico–Canada Ag… Read More

4 “No bad ideas in a brainstorm.” That’s a common “re saying that” suggests a darker truth: as soon as an idea… Read More

It's been over six months since Blue Dog Ted turned down easy money in my proposed wager between his lap dog, Joe Biden, and my man Bernie Sanders.  The national conversation is still m… Read More

If You Have The Oil... We Have The Democracy? (Observations on the Advanced Symptoms of Late-Stage Capitalism)by C. A. Matthews When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a ch… Read More

A number of my blogroll members have been there for years. Why, and why are they still there? (Recent additions are noted in my most recent blogroll cleanup piece.)Ted Rall was one of the ve… Read More

Ralph Nader doesn't pull his punches. He's not impressed with the Mueller Report:What a farce and distraction this whole exercise turned out to be! Mueller’s assigned subject was Trump… Read More

On Thursday, April 25, 2019, I had the honour of participating in two separate radio interviews concerning the case of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The first was with Glen Ford of Black Age… Read More

Donald Trump and the House of Representatives are in a fight to see the Orange One's tax returns. Despite the fight, information on his taxes keeps leaking out. And it's abundantly apparent… Read More

How Biased Western Reportage Has Harmed Venezuela. [Republished]Review of Alan MacLeod’s “Bad News From Venezuela.”By Joe EmersbergerTruthdig | July 5, 2018 For almost 20 y… Read More

"The American Academy of Arts and Letters on Wednesday May 22 in New York City awarded one of eight prizes in literature to Chris Hedges. In the citation the academy wrote: "Chris Hedges's… Read More

One Past Midnight. One Past Midnightby Jessica Shirvington Détails Category: Binding: BrochéAuthor: authornameNumber of Pages: Amazon Page : detailurlAmazon.com Price :… Read More

Donate$8$10$15 One of the main criticisms of Afro-Americans voters’ support of progressive Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders is that he has criticized the Democrat Party. As a… Read More

"The scars I carry within me are the whispers of these dead. They are the faint marks of those who never had a chance to become men or women, to fall in love and have children of their own… Read More

States are backing off on using students’ test scores to evaluate teachers, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. This year, 34 states are using student progress as part of teacher evaluat… Read More

Yesterday, I ran across four articles of interest. The coup The starting point is James Howard Kunstler’s October 15 essay, ‘Wait For It’, which is about the ongoing Americ… Read More

Donate$8$10$15 Former Obama Vice President Joe Biden likes to paint himself as a moderate reformer, but his history shows otherwise.  The best and most far-reaching example of how… Read More

What Did You Expect? (Part 2)by Coast WatcherIn last week’s article my colleague Redd Phlagg nailed it by defining the United States for what it is—a system of government set up… Read More

In the era of COVID-19 people want fact-based information and this is driving a shift towards a renewed interest in science and away from partisan sources of information. For a time disinfor… Read More

Presented by KPFA Radio 94.1FM and Project Censored Hosted by Mickey Huff With the election over, it’s the perfect time to get the reliably candid response of one of our few great jour… Read More

My final post on Joe Biden pre-election is taking longer than expected. I plan to post it tomorrow, all being well. The post below involves the left-wing media and recent Biden news stories… Read More

Lawsuit Accuses A 'Real Housewives' Star And Her Husband ... Loving your inst stories and the SHADE.Other performers include The Goo Goo Dolls, Tori Kelly, Leslie Odom Jr.“I reque… Read More

When it comes to the truth about media freedom, media politics and related issues in Nicaragua, if it's Max Blumenthal / Grayzone's framing of the issue vs Columbia Journalism Review, I know… Read More

Friday, July 30, 2021 was Day #2 of an online international and interdisciplinary symposium organized by Doctors for Covid Ethics (see the report for Day #1). The symposium was titled, &ldqu… Read More

The Federal Bureau Of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring An Alarming Number Of FBI Agents Authored by Alan MacLeod via Mint Press News, Twitter has been on a recruitment drive of late… Read More

Narrative Power: How Black and Brown Filmmakers are Infiltrating …  Truthdig Get Film Insurance Today Author: The post Narrative Power: How Black and Brown Filmmakers are I… Read More