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‘The Death Squads’

UPDATE: Google has removed the video.
Watch this chilling, full-length documentary (produced by UK’s Channel 4) showing Shiite militia groups waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad. It contains footage and details never before seen in the West. Watch it, and read the accompanying article.

Posted on Nov 22, 2006 READ MORE  | 108 READS


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Melanie Morgan Takes Aim at Pelosi

Radio host Melanie Morgan launches a right-wing tirade against Nancy Pelosi, saying: “We’ve got a bull’s-eye painted on her big, wide, laughing eyes.”  Later in the clip, the pundits on the show are then too fixated by a discussion of Pelosi’s style of blinking to offer a more nuanced critique of House leadership.

Posted on Nov 22, 2006 READ MORE  | 101 READS


Fox News shoves

Fox News Reporter Elbows Drunk Fan

Sorry, we couldn’t resist—too delicious. (And for the record: We’re not ranking on Fox News. The reporter was probably justified.)

Posted on Nov 21, 2006 READ MORE  | 15 READS


Kramer

‘Kramer’ Apologizes for Racist Tirade

Michael Richards (Kramer from “Seinfeld”) went on David Letterman to try to make amends for repeatedly hurling the N-word at African-Americans at a recent stand-up performance.

  • The only winner in this situation: Mel Gibson, who’s breathing a little easier now that he’s got company in Camp Intolerance.

  • Posted on Nov 21, 2006 READ MORE  | 135 READS


    U.S. soldiers taunting

    Hearts and Minds

    This appalling video shows a group of U.S. soldiers in a truck taunting a pack of Iraqi children with a bottle of water.
    A bottle of water…

    Posted on Nov 21, 2006 READ MORE  | 128 READS


    McCain

    McCain Marches to the Right

    Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued his Jekyll and Hyde routine Sunday on “ABC This Week,” contradicting his once moderate positions with pre-campaign right-wing pandering.  McCain said he would like to see Roe vs. Wade overturned, and noted his plan to send more troops to Iraq would “put a terrible strain on the Army,” but said it would be better than losing the war.

    Posted on Nov 19, 2006 READ MORE  | 55 READS


    Seymour Hersh

    Hersh: White House ‘Stovepiping’ Iran Intelligence

    Seymour Hersh says the White House is channeling intelligence related to Iran’s nuclear program, a la Iraq, preventing the CIA from scrutinizing “evidence” attributed to a secret Israeli source inside Iran.  According to Hersh, the CIA maintains Iran has “no secret program of significant bomb making.”

    Posted on Nov 19, 2006 READ MORE  | 39 READS


    Daily Show

    Stewart on Beck’s Botched Interview

    Jon Stewart takes on last week’s newsmakers, including Glenn Beck, who recently asked the first Muslim ever elected to Congress to prove he’s not working with our enemies: “Finally a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.” Watch it

    Posted on Nov 19, 2006 READ MORE  | 69 READS


    Video roundup

    Weekly Video Roundup

    This week, our favorite assemblage of videos includes: HBO’s revelatory documentary “Hacking Democracy”; a shocking video of a UCLA student being repeatedly Tasered by campus police; and Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer sounding off on Joe Lieberman, Bernie Sanders and O.J. Simpson.

    Posted on Nov 17, 2006 READ MORE  | 137 READS


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    Truthdig Podcast: House Politics, Traitor Joe, Education and O.J.

    Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer breaks down the race for speaker, Lieberman’s threats, the reason the education system is broken and O.J.‘s revolting hypothetical.

    Posted on Nov 16, 2006 READ MORE  | 23 READS


    Democracy Now!

    Democracy Now! on the L.A. Times Firings

    Amy Goodman interviews L.A. Times reporter Henry Weinstein about the shock waves that have rocked the newspaper since its corporate parent fired the paper’s publisher and editor. Unfortunately, it’s an all-too-common story these days.

    Posted on Nov 16, 2006 READ MORE  | 35 READS


    UCLA student tasered

    UCLA Cops Taser Cuffed Student

    University police officers repeatedly stunned a handcuffed UCLA student with a Taser in a library after he could not produce an identification card. The video is sickening. The university is promising an investigation.

    Posted on Nov 16, 2006 READ MORE  | 294 READS


    Hacking Democracy

    HBO’s ‘Hacking Democracy’

    Watch this full-length documentary that exposes the truly frightening security flaws in America’s voting machines.

  • Earlier: The woman at the heart of this film was recently one of our Truthdiggers of the Week
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    Posted on Nov 16, 2006 READ MORE  | 88 READS


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    Dean Fights Back

    During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Howard Dean defended his chairmanship of the DNC against James Carville’s recent onslaught: “The truth is, we got six governors. We got nine additional legislative chambers. New Hampshire now has a Democratic House and Senate for the first time in a century.”
    Not to mention, you know, the Congress. Watch it

    Posted on Nov 15, 2006 READ MORE  | 60 READS


    Trent Lott

    Bigot Returns to Senate Leadership

    Sen. Trent Lott was just elected to the No. 2 spot in the GOP Senate leadership. Remember: He was driven out as Senate majority leader in 2002 for apparently praising Sen. Strom Thurmond’s racist, segregationist policies. Read about that, and watch the video.

    Posted on Nov 15, 2006 READ MORE  | 75 READS


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