LOGO: Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines. A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.Best Political Blog Winner, 2007 Webby Awards, People's Voice and Jury.   Holiday Scheer! Exclusive Truthdig Gifts for the Holidays
 
December 3, 2008
Log in / Register

 Choose a size
Text Size

Most Read

Confronting the Terrorist Within

Chevron in the White House

Tough Times Could Lead to Sex Boom

‘Daily Show’: Is MSNBC the New Fox News?

Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’

Most Comments
Most Emailed

Reports

Ear to the Ground

A/V Booth

Arts & Culture

Digs
Financial Meltdown 101
Vetting Sarah Palin

Truthdig Bazaar
Arsenals of Folly

Arsenals of Folly

By Richard Rhodes
$28.95

The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

The Prison Letters of Fidel Castro

by Fidel Castro (Author), Luis Conte Aguero (Epilogue), Ann Louise Bardach (Introduction)
$11.86

more items

 
Tags

Tag: war

Reports: Chevron in the White House

Reports: Was There Any Point to the Bloodshed in Mumbai?

Reports: Taking Over Bush’s Endless War

Ear to the Ground: Bush Admits He Was ‘Unprepared for War’

Reports: Confronting the Terrorist Within

Ear to the Ground: Bush Speaks of Legacy

Reports: Our Dear Leader

Reports: Obama the Realist

Ear to the Ground: Iraqi Parliament Approves Occupation Deal

Ear to the Ground: Gates to Keep the Reins of War

Reports: Bush’s Follies Will Destroy Obama If He Lets Them

Reports: Tutu, Obama and the Middle East

A/V Booth: Mark Halperin Labels Election Coverage ‘Disgusting’

Reports: Why Obama Can Keep Gates

Reports: To Each His Own Nuke

Ear to the Ground: Gates Might Stick Around

Reports: Bracing for a Major Disappointment

Reports: No More Torture

Reports: America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Toni Morrison’s ‘A Mercy’

Reports: How Many Villages Must We Bomb Before We Find bin Laden?

Ear to the Ground: How Bloody Can Bush’s Legacy Be?

Ear to the Ground: Bush Regrets ‘Mission Accomplished’ and More

Cartoons: No, Thank You

Cartoons: Hope and Reality

Ear to the Ground: Military Spending ‘Not Sustainable’

Ear to the Ground: Secret Rumsfeld Order OK’d Raids in All Nations

Reports: America the Illiterate

Ear to the Ground: New Questions Arise About Georgia-Russia Conflict

Reports: Only One Good Path for the Democrats: Go Big

Reports: Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama

Reports: America’s Relay Race

Reports: Organizer in Chief

Cartoons: Location, Location, Location

Reports: A New Era of Hope

Reports: Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

Reports: The Obama Standard

A/V Booth: Palin Talks of Wars in ‘Iraq and Iran’

Reports: Homeland Security Pays Dividends for Alaska

Reports: Mandate ’08: Reagan vs. FDR

Reports: The Unlearned Lessons of Vietnam Continue to Haunt The U.S.

Reports: Hell to Pay

Ear to the Ground: Liberals Resurrect Reagan to Endorse Obama

Reports: Obama Is the Superior Decider

Reports: Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge

Ear to the Ground: Did Syria OK U.S. Attack?

Ear to the Ground: An ‘Emergency Effort to Stop Barack Obama’

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Attack in Syria Kills 8

Reports: Conservatives in Crisis

Reports: Russia’s Resentment of the West Began With a Broken Promise

Reports: The Idiots Who Rule America

Ear to the Ground: McCain Scares Kids for Halloween

Reports: Signs of an Earthquake in Oregon

Reports: U.S. Loses Its Grip on Europe

Reports: Bush Doctrine Becomes DoD Dogma

Reports: McCain’s Mob

Reports: America’s Political Cannibalism

Ear to the Ground: Turkey Bombs Northern Iraq

Arts and Culture: Rosa Lowinger on Cuba Before Castro

Reports: The ‘New Multilateralism’

Reports: Third-Party Blues

Reports: Honor Won and Lost

Reports: The Real Stars of the Debate

Reports: What McCain and Obama Just Don’t Get About Central Asia

Reports: Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea

Reports: Republican Economic Policies Don’t Add Up

Reports: Weapons of Mass Distraction

Ear to the Ground: British Commander Calls Taliban Unbeatable

Arts and Culture: John Holmes on ‘The Lost Spy’

Reports: Will the Pentagon Be the Next U.S. Institution to Crash?

Reports: McCain Is Guilty Enough

Ear to the Ground: Israel PM: ‘The Time Has Come to Say These Things’

Reports: McCain’s Debate Implosion Bodes Ill for His Campaign

Reports: A Calm Obama Weathers a Storm of Sarcasm

Reports: Robert Fisk: ‘The Middle East Is Not a Complex Place’

Ear to the Ground: Newspaper: Bush Told Israel Not to Bomb Iran

Ear to the Ground: U.S. and Pakistani Troops Exchange Fire

Cartoons: For the Sake of the Children

Reports: In Defense of Elitism

Ear to the Ground: Who Is Behind the ‘Radical Islam’ DVD?

Arts and Culture: Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?

Ear to the Ground: Palin Backs Off War With Russia

Reports: Reality Catches Up to the Free Market

Reports: Farewell, General—but Did You Bring Iraq Hope?

Ear to the Ground: Book: Cheney Deceived GOP Leader on Iraq

Reports: McCain’s Political Games Can’t Compete With an Economic Meltdown

Reports: For Palin, It’s a (Christian) Man’s World

Ear to the Ground: Secret Bush Order OKs Strikes Inside Pakistan

Arts and Culture: Jane Ciabattari on Emily Dickinson’s Friendship With Abolitionist

Reports: Remembering 9/11 and Moving Forward

Reports: Quagmire, Phase 2: The Invasion of Pakistan

A/V Booth: Inside the Surge

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Won’t Declare Victory in Iraq

Cartoons: 9/11/08

A/V Booth: Obama on Death and Taxes

Cartoons: Is There a Doctor in the House or Senate?

Reports: McCain’s Self-Obsessed Campaign

Ear to the Ground: Bush: Under Him, Most Troops Will Stay in Iraq

Reports: Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

Arts and Culture: Robert Christgau on America’s Secret Fundamentalists

Reports: Memoir Politics

Ear to the Ground: What’s a Billion Dollars Between Friends?

Reports: Russia Calls NATO’s Bluff

Ear to the Ground: More Nuggets From the Palin Gold Mine

Reports: Iraq From the Inside

Truthdig Podcast: Iraq From the Inside

Reports: Yes He Can

Reports: Sarah Palin: Maverick or Just a Neophyte?

Arts and Culture: Jonathan Shapiro on the Hamdan Case

Reports: Cleaning Up After Bush

Reports: Running for War President at Any Cost

Reports: The Cost of Saakashvili’s Folly

A/V Booth: Naomi Klein on Holding Obama Accountable

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Promises to Stand Firm on Sovereignty

Reports: Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire

Cartoons: The Private Contracting Games

Arts and Culture: James Blight on the Cuban Missile Crisis

Reports: The Conquest by Presidentialism

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Accused of Jailing Journalists Without a Just Cause

Ear to the Ground: For Obama, It’s Down and to the Right

Cartoons: McCain Speech

Cartoons: New Superpower

Reports: The Second Insurgency

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Demands Sanctions Against Russia

Arts and Culture: Warren I. Cohen on China’s Charm Offensive

Ear to the Ground: McCain: ‘We Are All Georgians’

Reports: Cold War Spin Only Compounds Georgian Crisis

Reports: A Cut-and-Paste Foreign Policy

Ear to the Ground: Russia: They’re Baaaaaaaaack

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Flying Aid, Condi to Georgia

Reports: Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?

Reports: NATO, Georgia and the Ready-Made War

Ear to the Ground: Sheehan Qualifies for Pelosi Challenge

Reports: ‘Where Are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?’

Reports: India’s Role in the Afghan Drama

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Conflict Primer

A/V Booth: City of Walls

Reports: What’s Sex Got to Do With It?

Ear to the Ground: Georgia and Russia Get Their War On

Arts and Culture: Zachary Karabell on the Middle East

Ear to the Ground: Hamdan Sentence Is a Snub to Prosecution

Reports: Threats, Lies and Audiotape

A/V Booth: Ron Suskind on Bush’s ‘Great Lies’

Ear to the Ground: White House Fabricated Iraq Intelligence, Book Alleges

Reports: A War of Self-Destruction

Reports: Syria Succeeds by Doing Nothing

A/V Booth: Hersh: Cheney & Co. Discussed How to Trigger War With Iran

Reports: McCain’s Evil Twin

Reports: It’s the War, Stupid

A/V Booth: The U.S. Role in Mexico’s Drug War

Ear to the Ground: The Return of Rumsfeld

A/V Booth: Pelosi ‘Disappointed’ by Congress’ War Performance

Cartoons: Arctic Oil

Reports: Acts of War

Ear to the Ground: From Surplus to a Record Deficit

Cartoons: Politishop 8.0

Arts and Culture: Nikki Keddie on Iran

Cartoons: We’re Winning

A/V Booth: ‘People of Berlin’

Reports: Washington’s Overrated ‘Old Hands’

Reports: Refighting the Vietnam War

Ear to the Ground: New McCain Gaffes on Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Der Spiegel or ‘Der Lying’?

Cartoons: Save Me

Ear to the Ground: Petraeus Shows Obama the Sights

Ear to the Ground: NYT Rejects McCain Essay

Ear to the Ground: Obama in Iraq

Ear to the Ground: Obama Commits to Afghanistan Escalation

Ear to the Ground: Victor’s Justice

Reports: ‘Centrists’ Running the Asylum

Reports: Obama’s Disaster in the Making

Reports: Iran Shows Its Cards

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Plan for Iraq

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Loses 9 to Taliban Strike

Reports: Disorderly or Not, America Should Withdraw

Ear to the Ground: Gorbachev Scolds Obama and McCain

A/V Booth: Paralympic Athletes Carry Iraq’s Hopes

A/V Booth: Vet Groups Battle for American Hearts and Minds

A/V Booth: The War on Sex

A/V Booth: Obama’s Iraq Flap

Ear to the Ground: Maliki Mulls Troop Pullout

Reports: Surviving the Fourth of July

Reports: Obama the Shape-Shifter? Not Quite

Cartoons: Pull and Pray

Ear to the Ground: Obama Hedges on Withdrawal

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Borrowed Interrogation Methods From an Old Enemy

Cartoons: Prisoner of War

Reports: Fake Outrage Over Clark Comments

Reports: Iraq’s Signature Wound

A/V Booth: American Vets’ Stories in Their Own Words

Reports: Terror Goes a Lot Further With Good Advertising

Ear to the Ground: Afghanistan Death Toll Outpaces Iraq

Reports: Bush’s Loose Ends

A/V Booth: Wes Clark on McCain’s Heroism

Ear to the Ground: Congress’ Missing Backbone

Reports: The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was

Reports: An Unexamined Threat

A/V Booth: George Carlin on Words, War and Power

Reports: The Hedonists of Power

Ear to the Ground: What War?

View the most popular tags overall?

Newsletter

Get Truthdig in your inbox

Privacy Policy

 
Click here to advertise with Truthdig
 

 
Join the Liberal Blog Advertising Network
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

A Progressive Journal of News and Opinion. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman.
Copyright © 2008 Truthdig, L.L.C. All rights reserved.