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Robert Kennedy Jr. Plans to Sue Over Ohio Election Fraud

Staff / Truthdig Jun 20, 2006 The environmental activist, fresh off his hugely talked-about Rolling Stone article on alleged election fraud in Ohio during the 2004 election, says in an interview that he plans to file a lawsuit against the main perpetrators of the fraud. Read the Rolling Stone article in question. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporate Donations Shift Left

Staff / Truthdig Jun 20, 2006 Companies in the insurance, pharmaceuticals and tobacco industries are boosting their share of contributions to Democrats this year, an indication that the traditionally Republican-friendly donors suspect Dems may soon end up holding the reins of power. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pentagon Still Classifies Homosexuality as a Disorder

Staff / Truthdig Jun 20, 2006 A Pentagon document still lists homosexuality as a mental defect akin to retardation and impulse control disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned the position. News report See the actual document Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Without DeLay, Has the GOP Lost Its Moral Compass?

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Jun 20, 2006 Dennis Hastert gets caught in a suspect land deal, Rep. Jerry Lewis is in deep with a stinko lobbying firm, and the Department of Homeland Security has become a Republican playground. Can't the GOP, self-proclaimed bastion of morality, small government and fiscal responsibility, get anything right? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Cheney Tries to Whitewash Warnings About Iraqi Insurgency

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2006 Speaking at a press conference today about the Iraqi uprising, the vice president said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered"Problem is, Cheney's statement seems patently false. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Murtha Attacks Rove on ‘Cut and Run’ Comments

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2006 Antiwar Democratic Rep. John Murtha on Karl Rove's assertion that Democrats are, essentially, cowards on Iraq: "He?s sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside--saying stay the course. That?s not a plan!" Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gitmo and Afghanistan Interrogation Tactics Exposed

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2006 In a new book, a medical ethicist has compiled a list of interrogation techniques documented at US detention centers in Guantanamo and Afghanistan They include: external electric shocks; beating; punching with fists; use of truncheons; stretching or suspension (to tear ligaments or muscles to cause asphyxia) UPDATE: An L Times reporter writes that the barring of U reporters from Gitmo "make[s] us all the more determined to question, probe and illuminate the actions of our government being waged in the country's name" . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Noah’s Ark in the Arctic: Doomsday Vault for Seeds

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2006 Norway is starting construction on a massive subterranean complex on the Arctic island of Svalbard to store seeds of all known crops in the world. More than 100 countries have signed on to the project, which is designed to reestablish plants in the wake of an apocalyptic manmade or natural attack. Norway's Agriculture Minister Terje Riis-Johansen called the vault a "Noah's Ark on Svalbard." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Google Wants to Listen to Your TV to Place Ads

Staff / Truthdig Jun 18, 2006 OK, now this is getting just downright creepy: Google has apparently tested a system that allows your computer to "listen" to your TV, recognize what program you're watching, and then serve up ads related to that show. Freaked out? Check out Truthdig contributor (and Google book author) Mark Malseed on Google and privacy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Couple Signs Advertisers to Sponsor Wedding Day

Staff / Truthdig Jun 18, 2006 A marketing-savvy couple has lined up corporate sponsors to help pay for a wedding to be held in a Brooklyn minor league ball park. (Via Salon.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sanity: House Doesn’t Up Funds for Abstinence-Only Programs

Staff / Truthdig Jun 18, 2006 Maybe it was towering piles of evidence attesting to the fact that virginity pledges don't work, but whatever it was, Congress declined to add more funds to abstinence-until-marriage programs. (Via Salon.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

DeLay and Abramoff’s ‘Made in the USA’: Shame, Shame, Shame

Staff / Truthdig Jun 17, 2006 Listen to an excellent NPR Weekend Edition story revisiting the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay connection to the slave trade, forced abortions, forced prostitution happening in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. DeLay called industry on the islands a "shining light of the Republican Party" during one of many "fact-finding missions" to the region. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )