Reports | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/ 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 2009 2009-11-07T01:43:43+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo America Performs Its Familiar Role of Propping Up a Dictator http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_america_performs_its_familiar_role_of_propping_up_a_dictator/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_america_performs_its_familiar_role_of_propping_up_a_dictator/ afghanistan, america, dictator, election, hamid karzai, obama, robert fisk, stanley mcchrystal, vietnam, Karzai

Could there be a more accurate description of the Barack Obama-Gordon Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? Now we have the venal, corrupt, sectarian Karzai in power after a poll far more ambitiously rigged than the Iranian version, and – yup, we love him dearly.

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]]> 2009-11-07T01:43:43+00:00 Happy Birthday, Pat Tillman http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_happy_birthday_pat_tillman/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_happy_birthday_pat_tillman/ afghanistan, kevin tillman, mcchrystal, military, pat tillman, protest, rangers, tillman, torture, war, Pat and Kevin Tillman

Pat Tillman’s birthday is Nov. 6, and we wish to commemorate his life by republishing Truthdig’s most popular piece, “After Pat’s Birthday,” written by Pat’s brother, Kevin Tillman.

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]]> 2009-11-06T17:14:34+00:00 Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_sen_george_mcgovern_on_the_presidency_from_lincoln_to_obama/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_sen_george_mcgovern_on_the_presidency_from_lincoln_to_obama/ afghanistan, history, lincoln, mcgovern, nixon, obama, politics, scheer, truthdig, vietnam,

George McGovern has been a witness to history, as both a scholar and one of the first senators to oppose the Vietnam War. At a recent Truthdig event, he shared his insight into past and current events, from Lincoln’s greatest accomplishment to the war in Afghanistan.

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]]> 2009-11-06T12:14:33+00:00 We Are What We Trade and How We Trade It http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_we_are_what_we_trade_and_how_we_trade_it/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_we_are_what_we_trade_and_how_we_trade_it/ david sirota, economy, free trade, government, health, house, law, media, money, nafta, trade, war, The rules governing what we buy and sell are now playing such a decisive role in almost every major policy that we ignore them at our peril.

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]]> 2009-11-06T06:15:33+00:00 Republicans vs. the Palinites http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_republicans_vs_the_palinites/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_republicans_vs_the_palinites/ congress, conservatives, democrats, election, euene robinson, gop, house, ny-23, obama, republicans, sarah palin, senate, Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday’s elections, but Republicans don’t have time to think. They’re too busy trying to survive the party’s internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.

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]]> 2009-11-06T06:15:25+00:00 Keep the Government Out of the News Business http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_keep_the_government_out_of_the_news_business/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_keep_the_government_out_of_the_news_business/ bill boyarsky, cold war, government, i.f. stone, journalism, leonard downie jr., michael schudson, news, nonprofit, I.F. Stone

I’ve been thinking of I.F. Stone while reading the growing stack of reports and essays giving recommendations on how to save the declining news business. The outrageous solution increasingly favored by the journalism establishment is one that Stone would have hated—turning to Washington for help.

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]]> 2009-11-05T23:03:33+00:00 Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_learning_to_speak_anew_in_a_tribal_world/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_learning_to_speak_anew_in_a_tribal_world/ barack obama, britain, cia, diplomacy, europe, government, history, military, morocco, obama, terrorism, war, william pfaff, The international conversation since the Second World War tended to be something of an American monologue, but that’s changing now that the United States is widely perceived as a large part of the current world problem.

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]]> 2009-11-05T23:06:24+00:00 Scott Ritter on Afghanistan: Don’t Believe the Hype http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_scott_ritter_on_afghanistan_dont_believe_the_hype_report/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_scott_ritter_on_afghanistan_dont_believe_the_hype_report/ afghanistan, military, obama, politics, scott ritter, stanley mcchrystal, war,

Is the war in Afghanistan worth the sacrifice of even one American life? Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter says, “No! ... We are allowing the battle in Afghanistan to be defined by a domestic American political imperative. There is no urgency in Afghanistan, there is urgency in Washington, D.C.”

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]]> 2009-11-05T11:38:12+00:00 What Option for Afghan Women? http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091104_what_option_for_afghan_women/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091104_what_option_for_afghan_women/ afghanistan, bush, democracy, election, ellen goodman, gender, iraq, military, war, women, Have you heard this old proverb? Whether the rock hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the rock, it’s going to be bad for the pitcher. Women are the pitcher in this story.

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]]> 2009-11-05T08:33:33+00:00 The GOP’s Toxic Tea Party http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091104_the_gops_toxic_tea_party/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091104_the_gops_toxic_tea_party/ congress, democrats, election, glenn beck, gop, government, history, house, joe conason, newt gingrich, ny-23, obama, politics, republicans, sarah palin, speech, The more that Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and kindred spirits appear to represent the Republican brand, the less appeal that brand possesses.

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