Our Invisible Revolution

by | Nov 4, 2013 | Blog

Published on Monday, October 28, 2013 by TruthDig.com by Chris Hedges An increasing number of Americans are getting it. They know that we have been stripped of political power. They recognize that we have been shorn of our most basic and cherished civil liberties, and...

On the Fence About Syria? Read This!

by | Sep 6, 2013 | Blog, Media Exploitation Gallery

A quick reader on why military intervention in Syria is a big mistake–and what we should be advocating instead. Since Syria has not attacked the United States and the UN Security Council hasn’t authorized any international military action, a U.S. strike on Syria would...

Military Rape Trial

by | Jun 14, 2013 | Blog, Media Exploitation Gallery

As the Senate Armed Services Committee meets to take up its version of the Defense Authorization bill, senators will likely devote at least as much verbiage to discussion of sexual assault in the military ranks as they do to the finer points of the Pentagon budget...

Cruelty on the Border

by | Jul 23, 2012 | Blog

A hidden camera shows Border Patrol agents destroying water jugs left for migrants, and the abuse just gets worse The bodies have been turning up for years, thousands of them, scattered across the borderlands in the American Southwest. Ever-stricter border enforcement...

Egypt Rising Up

by | Jun 23, 2012 | Blog

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Egypt’s military rulers and the Muslim Brotherhood escalated their confrontation on Friday as the generals threatened to use “the utmost firmness” to preserve their authority and the Islamists presented a reunited front with some of their...