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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 8 COMMENTS


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 13 COMMENTS


Molly Ivins: A Tortured Debate

The Rev. Louis Sheldon of the Traditional Values Coalition told Sen. John McCain that he can forget about the evangelical Christian vote if he doesn’t support Bush’s torture bill. I’d like to see an evangelical vote on that one.

Posted on Sep 20, 2006 67 COMMENTS


Molly Ivins: Bush’s Rose Garden Debacle

During his recent press conference, President Bush continued to use the oldest tactic of a verbal bully: saying the same thing louder, as though that makes it true.

Posted on Sep 19, 2006 53 COMMENTS


Robert Scheer: Rendering Unto Syria

A day before Bush paid lip service to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in his U.N. address, a Canadian government commission accused the U.S. of “rendering” a Canadian to Syria for almost a year of torture.

Posted on Sep 19, 2006 33 COMMENTS


Torture Taxi
Courtesy MHP Books

Tracking the ‘Torture Taxi’

The authors of the new book “Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights” tell Truthdig guest interviewer Onnesha Roychoudhuri how they pieced together the first comprehensive look at the largest covert CIA operation since the Cold War—a program run not only by shadowy government contractors in the darkest corners of Afghanistan, but also by unassuming America family lawyers in places like Dedham, Mass.

Posted on Sep 19, 2006 21 COMMENTS


Rev. Ed Bacon
Courtesy All Saints Church

All Saints’ Rev. Bacon Takes On the IRS

All Saints Church in Pasadena, Calif., is facing an IRS investigation for its politically themed sermons dating back to 2004. Here, Truthdig reproduces the defiant sermon that its rector, the Rev. Ed Bacon, delivered this past Sunday, in which he voices strong opposition to the U.S. government’s perceived position that churches should stay silent in the face of the world’s injustices.

Posted on Sep 19, 2006 26 COMMENTS


Gore Vidal: Reflections on 9/11

The legendary man of letters sees echoes of Rome’s devolution from republic to empire in America’s imperial misadventures since the Sept. 11 attacks.

Posted on Sep 19, 2006 77 COMMENTS


Marie Cocco: ‘Scare Tactics’ on Social Security

“One could reasonably ask why talking about Social Security is a scarier tactic than the White House campaign slogan, which amounts to ‘elect Democrats and die at the terrorists’ hands.’ But never mind.”

Posted on Sep 18, 2006 7 COMMENTS


Jabari Asim: Black American Males, or Short-Timers

What does it say about our culture that African-American men living in the nation’s inner cities have a life expectancy roughly equal to that of people of similar age living in West Africa?

Posted on Sep 17, 2006 10 COMMENTS


Essential Reading From Sam Harris and Daniel Ellsberg

Check out these two new (unrelated) reports by men who embody the Truthdig mission of drilling beneath the headlines:

  • Daniel Ellsberg: “Time to Drive Out the Bush Regime”—The man who gave the world the Pentagon Papers delivers an impassioned plea to a new generation of activists to heed the lessons of Nixon and even Hitler when taking stock of the Bush administration’s nuclear ambitions.
  • Sam Harris: “God’s Rottweiler Barks”—The bestselling author of “The End of Faith” gives a fiery response to Pope Benedict XVI’s speech on the interplay between faith and reason.

  • Posted on Sep 16, 2006 9 COMMENTS


    Daniel Ellsberg
    From Benslade.com

    Daniel Ellsberg: Time to Drive Out the Bush Regime

    The man who gave the world the Pentagon Papers delivers an impassioned plea to a new generation of activists to heed the lessons of Nixon and even Hitler when taking stock of the Bush administration’s nuclear ambitions.

    Posted on Sep 16, 2006 38 COMMENTS


    Pope Benedict XVI
    AP/ Jens Meyer

    Sam Harris: ‘God’s Rottweiler’ Barks

    The bestselling author of “The End of Faith” responds to Pope Benedict XVI’s speech on the interplay between faith and reason. Harris: “It is ironic that a man who has just disparaged Islam as ‘evil’ and ‘inhuman’ before 250,000 onlookers and the world press is now talking about a ‘genuine dialogue of cultures.’ ”

    Posted on Sep 16, 2006 1184 COMMENTS


    Andy Borowitz: Rocket Scientists Not as Smart as Originally Thought

    The satirist reveals that rocket scientists, according to a report by the American Association of Brain Surgeons, are less intelligent than you might imagine.

    Posted on Sep 15, 2006 12 COMMENTS


    Keith Olbermann
    From MSNBC

    Truthdigger of the Week: Keith Olbermann

    Truthdig salutes the MSNBC anchor, whose strident monologue at Ground Zero last week ripped to rhetorical shreds the assertion of Vice President Cheney that critics of the government “validate the strategy of the terrorists.” (Jump for video and a full transcription, along with other fiery clips)

    Posted on Sep 15, 2006 28 COMMENTS


    Ann Richards
    From tsl.state.tx.us

    Molly Ivins: Remembering Ann Richards

    The Texas-based columnist reminisces about the former Texas governor, who died Wednesday from cancer. “Anyone who ever heard her speak at an AA convention knows how close laughter and tears can be.”

    Posted on Sep 15, 2006 54 COMMENTS


    Ellen Goodman: Horror or Hope in Vegetative Patient Study?

    British researchers reported that a totally unresponsive 23-year-old woman showed signs of awareness on a brain-imaging test. What we can’t know, however, is whether someone actually wants to keep living like that.

    Posted on Sep 13, 2006 14 COMMENTS


    Joe Conason: Bush Spurned Greatness for Partisan Gain

    Bush’s 9/11 memorial address sought to justify the war in Iraq by stoking fear, while at the same time hypocritically urging national unity.

    Posted on Sep 13, 2006 4 COMMENTS


    Marie Cocco: Longing for the Privacy of Carbon Paper

    Hewlett-Packard used a digital snooping method known as “pretexting”—aka lying—to finger its directors who were leaking to the press. It just goes to show: When it comes to safeguarding the populace against such attacks, we’re still in the Wild, Wild West.

    Posted on Sep 13, 2006 2 COMMENTS


    John Dean and Elizabeth Holtzman
    Dean: AP; Holtzman: The Nation

    John Dean and Liz Holtzman Square Off on Impeaching Bush

    Former Nixon aide John Dean and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who were foes during the early stages of the Nixon impeachment hearings in 1973, sound off in separate interviews on the prospects of impeaching President Bush. (Dean and Holtzman will debate the topic at UCLA on Sept. 13 at a Truthdig/The Nation Institute-sponsored event.)

  • Click here for the Dean interview
  • Click here for the Holtzman interview

  • Posted on Sep 12, 2006 11 COMMENTS


    John Dean
    AP / Nick Ut

    John Dean on the Impeachment of the President

    John Dean, the man who famously blew the whistle on the Nixon White House during the Watergate hearings, gives a primer on the discussion he will conduct with former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman on Sept. 13 at UCLA, “Bush and the Potential for Impeachment.” Hint: Democrats shouldn’t go for impeachment unless they can convict Bush and remove him from office.

    Posted on Sep 12, 2006 29 COMMENTS


    Jon Wiener
    Courtesy Lions Gate Films

    Jon Wiener on John Lennon

    John Lennon historian Jon Wiener supplements his Truthdig article on John Lennon and the Politics of Deportation in this interview with Truthdig editor Robert Scheer.

    Posted on Sep 12, 2006 5 COMMENTS


    Robert Scheer: Subverting Democracy With the Big Lie

    Bush was correct in saying Monday night that “Our nation is being tested in a way that we have not been since the start of the Cold War.” Unfortunately, it’s Bush’s administration that is testing us—with its relentless incompetence, attacks on our civil liberties and inability to acknowledge the bankruptcy of its policies.

    Posted on Sep 12, 2006 76 COMMENTS


    Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich in Lebanon
    Courtesy Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich

    Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich on Lebanon

    U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich and his wife, Elizabeth, discuss their recent personal peace-building initiative in Lebanon, where the congressman was the first U.S. official to tour the area and meet with the country’s leaders in the wake of its war with Israel. Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer conducts the interview.

  • Full audio version available
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    Posted on Sep 12, 2006 50 COMMENTS


    John Lennon

    Courtesy Lions Gate Films

    John Lennon and the Politics of Deportation, From Nixon to Bush

    The documentary “The U.S. vs. John Lennon,” which opens today, recounts President Richard Nixon’s campaign to deport the Beatle because of his antiwar activism. In this report, Jon Wiener, a Lennon historian who consulted on the film, writes that President Bush has gone much further than Nixon in using immigration law to get rid of noncitizens whom the White House doesn’t like.

    Posted on Sep 12, 2006 13 COMMENTS


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