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Rise Up or Die

Revenge of the Bear: Russia Strikes Back in Syria

Tumblr Is Worth $1.1 Billion to Yahoo for One Reason: You

Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist

DOJ Allegedly Spied on Fox News Correspondent, the FBI Investigates Bachmann, and More

Lock Up Washington
By Richard Reeves

Too Soon to Tell: The Case for Hope, Continued
By Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch

Warming Climate Endangers U.K. Farming
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network

Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist
By Susan Zakin

The Promise of a Courageous Al-Jazeera America May Be Fading

A Step Closer to Immigration Reform

GOP Senator’s Hypocrisy on Tornado Aid, Jon Stewart Hates Washington, and More

Our God of Imagination

Videos Capture Scary EF-5 Oklahoma Tornado

Genocide Conviction of Efraín Ríos Montt Overturned

Economic Murder: How and Why Austerity Kills

‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta

Save Our Democracy: Buy the L.A. Times for $660 Million

‘The Daily Show’: Stewart Slams Hypocrites Cheney and Rumsfeld

‘SNL’: Stefon’s Farewell Features Anderson Cooper

Act of Congress
By Jesse Eisinger

Daily Rituals
By Gabriel Thompson

The Girls of Atomic City
By Scott Martelle

The Questions Education Reformers Aren’t Asking

Dig led by Mike Rose

Gore Vidal: His Life and Legacy

Dig led by Truthdig Staff

‘Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit From the Nest Eggs of American Workers’

By Ellen E. Schultz

Tag: Confidential

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AP Review Downplays Threat From WikiLeaks Disclosures

An Associated Press inquiry into U.S. State Department sources who were outed in the latest unredacted WikiLeaks file dump found virtually no one who felt endangered by public knowledge of their involvement in U.S. government information gathering. (more)

Posted on Sep 11, 2011 READ MORE | 1 COMMENT

AP / Charles Dharapak

The Palestine Papers

Thousands of pages of secret Palestinian records spanning a decade of peace negotiations have been obtained by The Guardian. The documents show a surprising history of concessions by Palestinian negotiators in trying to resolve the long-simmering conflict.

Posted on Jan 23, 2011 READ MORE | 8 COMMENTS

The Joy of Snooping

Truthdig’s James Harris and Josh Scheer speak with Harry Helms, author of “Top Secret Tourism: Your Travel Guide to Germ Warfare Laboratories, Clandestine Aircraft Bases and Other Places in the United States You’re Not Supposed to Know About.”

Posted on Aug 30, 2007 READ MORE | 15 COMMENTS

Feds Tracking ABC News Phone Calls in Leak Hunt

A “senior law enforcement official” has told ABC News that the government, in trying to root out confidential sources, is tracking the phone numbers the news organization calls.
Maybe we should just start calling him George “Big Brother” Bush.
Update: An official acknowledges its “backtracking” of journalists’ phone records.