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Human Rights Watch: Israel Has Committed War Crimes

The watchdog group released a 50-page report detailing Israel’s failure to distinguish between combatants and civilians in Lebanon, in one case wiping out an entire 12-person family because one member was merely suspected of being sympathetic to Hezbollah.

Posted on Aug 4, 2006 READ MORE  | 122 READS


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Check out a collection of the best Truthdig-flavored video clips of the past week. Featuring: Hillary Clinton’s smack-down of Donald Rumsfeld; Jon Stewart on Mel Gibson media coverage; a head-banging Ted Stevens music video, and more…

Posted on Aug 4, 2006 READ MORE  | 66 READS


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So You Say You Want a Revolución?

President Bush may be offering Cuba the chance to refashion itself in America’s image, but Cubans aren’t buying what Bush is selling.
Wonder why?
Saul Landau, an award-winning American filmmaker and journalist who has worked extensively in Cuba over the last 40 years, lays out the answers.

Posted on Aug 4, 2006 READ MORE  | 680 READS


Molly Ivins: Media With No Guts, No Grace

The press is under attack by the administration, but does the Washington corps of reporters fight back? No, instead it falls all over itself trying to play courtier to George W. Bush.

Posted on Aug 2, 2006 READ MORE  | 152 READS


Ellen Goodman: Wedding Bells Only for Breeders?

Washington state’s Supreme Court says it limited marriage to heterosexual couples in order to encourage procreation. OK, so what about straight couples that can’t or don’t want to have kids? Are they banned from marriage, too?

Posted on Aug 2, 2006 READ MORE  | 287 READS


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A Tale of Two Transitions

Why is the United States still pumping tens of millions per year into regime-change efforts that have proved to be a dismal failure?

Posted on Aug 1, 2006 READ MORE  | 379 READS


Robert Scheer: Israel’s Dependency on the Drug of Militarism

The Jewish state’s die-hard supporters in the White House, Congress and the media seem unable to understand that Israel will never be able to bomb its way to security.

Posted on Aug 1, 2006 READ MORE  | 498 READS


John Dean Lauds ‘Playing President’

In a thoughtful review, the former presidential counselor and bestselling author writes about Robert Scheer’s new book: “If anyone has more succinctly stated and summarized the folly we call presidential campaigns, I am not aware of it—and I read widely about the subject.”

Posted on Jul 29, 2006 READ MORE  | 49 READS


Jabari Asim: Closing the Racial Gap in Medical Treatment

Why do African Americans still lag behind even recent African immigrants when it comes to beating heart disease and cancer?

Posted on Jul 29, 2006 READ MORE  | 101 READS


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Playing the Atheism Card Against Pat Tillman’s Family

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.

Posted on Jul 28, 2006 READ MORE  | 10219 READS


Marie Cocco: The Meltdown We’re Not Supposed to Talk About

The American middle class is in a free fall. But if Congress and the White House were to acknowledge the problem, then they might have to do something about it.

Posted on Jul 26, 2006 READ MORE  | 66 READS


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Ellen Goodman: The Baby Bump Fixation

“How did this fixation on celebrity babies, this upbeat bump beat, happen just as we are being told that parenthood is onerous and grueling and that parents are overworked and overwhelmed?”

Posted on Jul 26, 2006 READ MORE  | 380 READS


Molly Ivins: 24/7 Coverage Doesn’t Cover It

The Middle East crisis is a big story, and the media know what to do with a big story: hammer at it nonstop, drench it in fear, report just a little bit of what’s going on and be sure never to let facts get in the way.

Posted on Jul 26, 2006 READ MORE  | 91 READS


Robert Scheer: Labor Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy

By saying that the Israel-Lebanon crisis simply represents the “birth pangs of a new Middle East,” Condoleezza Rice underscored the Bush administration’s blindness to the disastrous effects its foreign policy has wrought.

Posted on Jul 25, 2006 READ MORE  | 168 READS


Molly Ivins: Run Bill Moyers for President, Seriously

“Think about the potential Democratic candidates. Every single one of them needs spine, needs political courage. What Moyers can do is not only show them what it looks like and indeed what it is, but also how people respond to it.”

Posted on Jul 24, 2006 READ MORE  | 479 READS


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