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Robert Scheer: A Monster of Our Creation

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jan 3, 2007 Someone has to say it: The hanging of Saddam Hussein was an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of President Bush's claim it was "an important milestone on Iraq's course to becoming a democracy." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 1, 2007 The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country's military and law enforcement. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Silencing Saddam

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 30, 2006 The grisly holiday hanging of Saddam Hussein has been greeted mostly with cheers from the media, but Truthdig editor Robert Scheer takes a different view, noting that even top Nazis, in the Nuremberg trials, received a far superior grade of justice. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Ike Was Right

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 27, 2006 Many critics of the war suggest that the U.S. remains in Iraq because it wants that nation's petroleum. But oil is not the primary reason. Instead, look to the military-industrial complex, a threat that President Eisenhower warned of in the 1960s. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Bush Can’t Kick the Habit

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 20, 2006 Here we go again: A new secretary of defense and yet another call for ending the war in Iraq by escalating it. What are they smoking in the Bush White House? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Worse Than Apartheid

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 19, 2006 The N.Y. Times' former Middle East bureau chief, writing about Israel's unrelenting attack on the Gaza Strip, argues: "It is a sad commentary on the gutlessness of the American press and timidity of the Democratic opposition that most Americans are not aware of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis they bear so much responsibility in creating." Above: Water mixes with blood in a street of a northern Gaza Strip town after an Israeli tank shelling in November. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: One Last Lie for the Road

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 13, 2006 Truthdig's editor enters the mind of Donald Rumsfeld, who journeyed to Iraq recently to bid farewell to the troops, but ended up repeating the lies that put them at risk. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Becoming What We Despise

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 6, 2006 The Founding Fathers won a war, but their true contribution to human history was to tackle head-on the reality that humans and their institutions can so easily become that which they despise. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Learning to Live With the Ayatollahs

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 29, 2006 How in the world did George W. Bush manage to turn Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the "Supreme Leader" of "Axis of Evil" Iran, into a prophet of peace in the Middle East? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: In the Shadow of Ho Chi Minh

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 22, 2006 President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model, however, is perhaps his most ludicrous yet. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: Bring Down That Wall

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 20, 2006 If we allow Israel to complete its massive $2-billion project to ring Palestinians in militarized, pod-like encampments in Gaza and the West Bank, we will condemn Israel and the Palestinians to endless cycles of violence that could ultimately doom the Jewish state. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Murtha’s No Lefty, But He’s Right

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 15, 2006 If they know what's good for them, the Democrats will heed the call of the voters on Thursday and elect Iraq war critic John Murtha as their leader in the House. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )