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Truthdiggers of the Week: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Richard Branson

Truthdig salutes the California governor and the Virgin empire founder for their leadership in the fight against global warming.

Posted on Sep 29, 2006 READ MORE  | 131 READS


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Elite Bipartisan Group Pushes for Foreign Policy Overhaul

Nearly 400 of the world’s leading foreign policy intellectuals contributed to a Princeton University-organized initiative that calls for a new grand strategy to address America’s national security concerns. (More after the jump…)

Posted on Sep 28, 2006 READ MORE  | 90 READS


Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006)

With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a cornerstone of legal justice since the Magna Carta.

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 READ MORE  | 772 READS


Joe Conason: GOP Can’t Handle the 9/11 Truth

When Condoleezza Rice claimed that Bush & Co. did just as much in the run-up to 9/11 as Clinton & Co. did in the preceding eight years, it had to rank as one of the most baldfaced lies ever uttered by a Bush administration official.

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 READ MORE  | 111 READS


Ellen Goodman: Speak of the Devil

In the same week, both Hillary Clinton and President Bush were labeled the devil. Have we gotten perhaps a bit too literal in the demonization of our enemies?

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 READ MORE  | 87 READS


Marie Cocco: The Race That ‘Macaca’ Made

The unraveling of Virginia Sen. George Allen’s reelection campaign may have begun with a single offensive remark caught on tape, but his competitor’s Lamont-style netroots insurgency is just as responsible for making the race tight.

Posted on Sep 27, 2006 READ MORE  | 82 READS


Robert Scheer: A War on Intelligence

All 16 U.S. intelligence services have concluded that Bush’s war in Iraq “has become the ‘cause celebre’ for jihadists” worldwide, but that won’t deter a president who puts no stock in intelligence.

Posted on Sep 26, 2006 READ MORE  | 113 READS


Paul Cummins: A Generation in Peril

The co-founder of the trailblazing Crossroads and New Roads schools in Santa Monica grapples with a report which concludes that more students now attend de facto segregated schools than before Brown v. Board of Ed.

Posted on Sep 26, 2006 READ MORE  | 92 READS


Molly Ivins: New News Is Bad News

The Texas columnist sounds off on the National Intelligence Estimate, corruption in the Education Dept. and Bush’s view of the “comma” in Iraq.

Posted on Sep 25, 2006 READ MORE  | 67 READS


Marie Cocco: Dirty Tricks at HP

“In this political atmosphere, who could blame Hewlett-Packard for believing it could spy on reporters—or even try to intimidate them?”

Posted on Sep 25, 2006 READ MORE  | 28 READS


Campaign 2006: The Issues, the Stakes, the Prospects

The choices are stark, the consequences are momentous, writes a public policy professor at UC Berkeley, who argues that the November elections will be the most significant in a generation.

Posted on Sep 24, 2006 READ MORE  | 116 READS


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Gold Star Mom Speaks Out

In honor of Gold Star Mothers Day, Truthdig brings you this letter from Gold Star mom and blogger Karen Meredith, whose son Ken died in Iraq two years ago.

Posted on Sep 24, 2006 READ MORE  | 170 READS


Marie Cocco: Hypocrisy Among Torture Opponents

If John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham are so intent on keeping Bush from legalizing torture, why did they vote to confirm Alberto Gonzales, the architect of Bush’s terror policy, as attorney general?

Posted on Sep 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 52 READS


Joe Conason: Torture Opponents Are True Patriots

“Clearly, Bush cannot comprehend the damage he is doing to American dignity, credibility and prestige…. His public negotiations with the dissident senators over torture techniques have created one of the worst spectacles in modern political history.”

Posted on Sep 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 167 READS


Ellen Goodman: Taking ‘Choice’ Out of Pro-Choice

The sad drama of a 19-year-old whose parents allegedly attempted to force her to have an abortion refocuses the question of what, exactly, constitutes “choice.”

Posted on Sep 20, 2006 READ MORE  | 480 READS


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