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Confronting the Terrorist Within

Report: WMD Terror Attack Likely

Bush’s 11th-Hour Bid for Secrecy

Tough Times Could Lead to Sex Boom

Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’

Confronting the Terrorist Within
By Chris Hedges

Class Bigotry Mars Auto Debate
By E.J. Dionne

Taking Over Bush’s Endless War
By Eugene Robinson

Merry Wal-Mart, America: Part II
By Marie Cocco

Bush Being ‘Nixonized’ by Left?

Ford Asks Gov’t for $9 Billion

Palin Milks Georgia Runoff

Franken to Take Senate Fight to … the Senate

No Kidding: U.S. Economy in Recession

Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’

Gates Was ‘Hoping the Question Would Never Be Popped’

‘Daily Show’: Is MSNBC the New Fox News?

Saxby Chambliss Needs New PR Team

Flashback: Obama Looks Forward to Clinton’s Advice

Condi Tickles the Ivories for the Queen

Tough Times Could Lead to Sex Boom

Bollywood Reacts to Mumbai Siege

Richard Ellis on ‘Diagnosis: Mercury’
By Richard Ellis

Financial Meltdown 101

Dig led by aa_noauthor

Vetting Sarah Palin

Dig led by aa_noauthor

Kalakuta Republic: A Book of Poetry

By Chris Abani

The Chavez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela

Saul Landau
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<IMG src="http://www.truthdig.com/images/masthead_newsletter.gif"> Hi, I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting. =-=-=-=-=-=-= For Orwell, Life Imitated Art It turns out that George Orwell, famed author of “1984” and originator of the term “Big Brother,” was <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2161853,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11" title="spied on">spied on</a> by his government for more than 10 years. Members of Britain’s MI5 suspected the writer of being a communist, until they bothered to read him, and were apparently baffled by his “bohemian” clothes. <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070904_for_orwell_life_imitated_art/">http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070904_for_orwell_life_imitated_art/</a> Copyright © 2007 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved. =-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a one-time mailing from Truthdig, (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/">www.truthdig.com</a>) on behalf of the sender. Please report any misuse to webmaster-at-truthdig.com <IMG src="http://www.truthdig.com/images/masthead_newsletter.gif"> Hi, I read this on Truthdig and thought you would find it interesting. =-=-=-=-=-=-= For Orwell, Life Imitated Art It turns out that George Orwell, famed author of “1984” and originator of the term “Big Brother,” was <a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2161853,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=11" title="spied on">spied on</a> by his government for more than 10 years. Members of Britain’s MI5 suspected the writer of being a communist, until they bothered to read him, and were apparently baffled by his “bohemian” clothes. <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070904_for_orwell_life_imitated_art/">http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20070904_for_orwell_life_imitated_art/</a> Copyright © 2007 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved. =-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a one-time mailing from Truthdig, (<a href="http://www.truthdig.com/">www.truthdig.com</a>) on behalf of the sender. Please report any misuse to webmaster-at-truthdig.com

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