Anaheim Police Crack Down on Protesters (Video)

Staff / Truthdig Jul 26, 2012 Officers stepped up efforts to quell demonstrations in Anaheim that have grown increasingly heated as protesters demand answers about two police shootings over the weekend. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mad Cow: Consumer Reports Says Regulators Are Failing the Food Supply

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Consumer Reports senior scientist Dr. Michael Hanson tells us the United States lags far behind Europe and Asia in its regulation of the meat industry; Tupac and the LA Riots at 20; Rocky Anderson's alternative campaign for president; and Greenpeace protests Apple's dirty cloud. Dig deeper

Mad Cow: Consumer Reports Says Regulators Are Failing the Food Supply

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Consumer Reports senior scientist Dr Michael Hanson tells us the United States lags far behind Europe and Asia in its regulation of the meat industry; Tupac and the LA riots at 20; Rocky Anderson's alternative campaign for president; and Greenpeace protests Apple's dirty cloudThis week on Truthdig Radio: Consumer Reports senior scientist Dr Michael Hanson on mad cow disease; Tupac and the L. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Taxes, Riots and Prostitutes

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Thousands of companies are withholding and keeping their employees' state income taxes; 20 years after the LA riots: Whites don't see the racial divide everyone else senses; the Secret Service and masculinity in Colombia; and Robert Scheer sounds offcom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Companies are keeping their employees' state income taxes; 20 years after the L riots: Whites don't see the racial divide; the Secret Service; and Robert Scheer sounds off. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Taxes, Riots and Prostitutes

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Thousands of companies are withholding and keeping their employees' state income taxes; 20 years after the L.A. riots: Whites don't see the racial divide everyone else senses; the Secret Service and masculinity in Colombia; and Robert Scheer sounds off. Dig deeper

20 Years After the L.A. Riots and Nothing Has Changed

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Apr 18, 2012 The killing of Trayvon Martin is a reminder of the racial divide poisoning American life, which has resisted all attempts to bridge it, even after the country elected its first African-American president. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Greek Unrest the Result of Suppressed Democracy

William Pfaff / Truthdig Feb 16, 2012 Denied a referendum on crippling austerity measures, Greeks demonstrated Sunday night that if they couldn't express their opinions one way, then they would do it in another. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Egypt Chaos

Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China Dec 28, 2011 Dig deeper

A Poet’s-Eye View of Occupy Berkeley

Staff / Truthdig Nov 21, 2011 When he caught wind of conflict between students and police on campus, former poet laureate and UC Berkeley professor Robert Hass rushed to the scene on Nov. 9, only to witness local riot police beating students -- and eventually his wife and him, too -- with billy clubs. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dispatches From Cairo: Egypt’s Black Sunday

Lauren Unger-Geoffroy / Truthdig Oct 12, 2011 How can the people who made this revolution of unity have been so betrayed? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Breakdown of the European Union

Staff / Truthdig Sep 21, 2011 The demise of the European Union has begun with riots; scholars afraid of repression are creating alternate Internets; meanwhile, the Occupy Wall Street protests are starting to get some traction with the mainstream. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.K. Rioters: Young, Poor, Male and Unemployed

Staff / Truthdig Aug 20, 2011 The Guardian put together a database of court cases of those detained during and after the unrest that swept London in early August after Metropolitan Police shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan in the city's Tottenham neighborhood. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )