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www.kpfk.orgListen live to Truthdig Radio on your drive home to hear Robert Scheer, Michael Bronski on Prop 8, and Nikil Saval with Eli Schmitt on their new book 'Occupied America.'Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comSince his death last year, we’ve heard plenty of lionizing and denigrating takes on Steve Jobs and his challenging leadership style, but we can now add the FBI’s character sketch of the late Apple founder, circa the George H.W. Bush era, to that mix. - 2012/02/09Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comMillions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the U.S. needs to dedicate itself to making work pay. - 2012/02/08Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comThere may be untold millions of onetime Obama supporters whose feelings of hope have significantly diminished since, say, November 2008—and with good reason. But on Tuesday night, one of the president’s celebrity supporters, Scarlett Johansson, showed she’s still willing to stump for Obama at a gath...Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comA $750 million, 104 acre complex that employs 16,000 people might have been George W. Bush’s concept of an embassy, but the people who run the country that happens to surround America’s fortress in Baghdad aren’t thrilled and the State Department has decided to scale back. (more) - 2012/02/08Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comBribes from billionaires? Let’s just dip our fingers in purple ink and pose for photos. - 2012/02/09Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comIf we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will make the housing bubble of 2007 look like a lark. - 2012/02/08Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comWashington became the seventh state to enter into the distinguished company of those that recognize the right of gays and lesbians to marry when the House passed Gov. Chris Gregoire’s same-sex marriage bill with a 55-43 vote Wednesday. Gregoire is expected to sign the bill into law within the next f...Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comBashar al-Assad’s government rained more than 200 bombs on the opposition-controlled city of Homs on Wednesday, killing an unconfirmed 27 people and demolishing homes. The Russian and Chinese governments maintained their policy of nonintervention while leaders of Western and Arab nations scrambled t...Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comAnimated movies make a bundle on commercial tie-ins, but “The Lorax” presented something of a challenge for Universal. After all, you can’t have plastic replicas of Dr. Seuss’ champion of the environment piling up in a landfill somewhere. The studio found a way to cash in by greenwashing its licensi...Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comNew York City’s hotels have agreed to arm housekeepers with personal panic buttons for use in emergencies, including the event of unwelcome advances from guests. The decision likely results from an increased concern for worker safety stirred up by the alleged sexual assault of a housekeeper by forme...- www.truthdig.comTruthdigger of the Week is a feature in which we recognize a person or group that made a difference.
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www.truthdig.comThe former senator from Pennsylvania swept ahead of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, who have been hogging the campaign airtime, Tuesday night to claim victories in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. - 2012/02/07Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comPresident Obama’s controversial mandate to require religious organizations to include contraception in their health care coverage has already become fodder for his conservative opponents’ campaigns as they round the bend to their final run on the White House. - 2012/02/08Truthdig shared a link.
www.truthdig.comOnce in a while, Bill O’Reilly strays from the expected Fox News formula and surprises us with his politics, as he did in this clip from Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” in which he compares the bid by the conservative women’s group One Million Moms to boycott JC Penney for picking Ellen DeGeneres as the...
