Stan Goff on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/about/staff/72/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2007 2007-03-26T16:59:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo In Defense of Pat Tillman http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070326_defending_pat_tillman/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070326_defending_pat_tillman/ army, cover-up, death, family, investigation, military, pat tillman, Last week’s leak that nine officers will be implicated in the cover-up of the circumstances of Pat Tillman’s death unleashed yet another wave of commentary and speculation about the nature of his patriotism and service. Stan Goff takes on one particularly ferocious vulture in order to defend Tillman’s memory.

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]]> 2007-03-26T16:59:00+00:00 Keeping Our Demons at Bay http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070316_keeping_our_demons_at_bay/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070316_keeping_our_demons_at_bay/ defeat, media, military, ralph kauzlarich, stan goff, surveillance, tillman, vietnam,

The Special Forces veteran and author of “Full Spectrum Disorder” explains why the media celebrate true believers such as Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich who continue to fight a war that is already lost.

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]]> 2007-03-16T09:33:00+00:00 Petraeus! Is Baghdad Burning? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070112_petraeus_is_baghdad_burning/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070112_petraeus_is_baghdad_burning/ maliki, oil, sadr, Oil Burning

A retired U.S. Special Forces soldier takes an oil-filtered look at Bush’s “surge” plan for Iraq.

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]]> 2007-01-13T02:38:00+00:00 Reflecting on Rumsfeld http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601017_reflecting_on_rumsfeld/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200601017_reflecting_on_rumsfeld/ goff, powell, rumsfeld, stan, Donald H. Rumsfeld

Author Stan Goff, a retired 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, describes how two main tenets of the so-called Rumsfeld Doctrine—the reduction of all things military into “metrics” and an obsession with perception management—have left America inured to the human cost of the Iraq war.

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]]> 2006-10-18T01:49:01+00:00 Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/ http://www.truthdig.com/dig/item/200601003_white_supremacism_sexism_militarism/ america, aryan, fascism, feminism, military, supremacy, white, militarism american militarism

Author Stan Goff, a retired 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sounds a warning call that many of the historical precursors of fascism—white supremacy, militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization—are ascendant in America today.

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]]> 2006-10-03T21:01:00+00:00 Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060728_worm_dirt/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060728_worm_dirt/ afghanistan, atheist, boykin, fratricide, kauzlarich, nfl, pat, ranger, religion, tillman, Tillman memorial service

The family of slain NFL-player-turned-Army-Ranger Pat Tillman may have been irreligious, but does that mean they’re not entitled to the truth about the fratricide that killed their son? New Truthdig contributor Stan Goff, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who has written extensively on the topic, probes for the truth.

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