Scenes From the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2011 Americans gathered at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in Manhattan and at other sites Sunday to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

New York, D.C. Respond to Specific, Credible Terrorist Threat

Staff / Truthdig Sep 9, 2011 New York and Washington, D.C., police officers are ramping up security measures Friday in response to what intelligence officials are calling a specific, credible terrorist threat planned for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Happy 50th, ‘Catch-22’

By Heller McAlpin Aug 26, 2011 Joseph Heller's brilliant satire on the absurdities of war and bureaucracy has hit the half-century mark. Commemorating the anniversary are the first full-scale biography of the novelist and a more personal project by his daughter.Joseph Heller’s novel has hit the half-century mark, and two new books are marking the occasion. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Bin Laden Was Planning 9/11 Anniversary Attack

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2011 Documents taken from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound indicate that the head of al-Qaida was plotting an attack to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The records contained names of possible operatives, but little else that was useful, according to Siobhan Gorman of The Wall Street Journal. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

International Women’s Day

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Afghanistan: A Costly and Brutal Anniversary

Staff / Truthdig Oct 7, 2010 Here's a sobering reminder, from the vigilant filmmakers at Brave New Films, about exactly what has been lost (thousands of Afghan civilians, more than 1,200 U.S. soldiers, over $1 trillion) in the last decade of the war in Afghanistan. Ten years -- and at least someone is counting. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Seven Years Later

Staff / Truthdig Mar 22, 2010 To a near-deafening silence in the mainstream media, Saturday marked the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an occasion that protesters in Washington used to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from both Iraq and Afghanistan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Haiti, One Month Later

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2010 Today marks the one-month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, which provides an appropriate moment to bring attention to the recovery effort -- rebuilding the country's infrastructure, caring for those still injured and helping the hundreds of thousands still in precarious situations. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Sesame Street’ Turns 40

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2009 On Tuesday, producers and fans of "Sesame Street" marked the 40th birthday of the super-popular children's program -- the most researched show in TV history -- in New York City. Big Bird and friends were on hand for the festivities, of course. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Jacob Heilbrunn on Alger Hiss

BLANK Mar 20, 2009 Susan Jacoby’s lucid new book reminds us that the Hiss case offered a vengeful postwar right a golden opportunity to tar the New Deal as a crypto-communist conspiracy -- and why it still matters. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

What Is the Point of NATO?

William Pfaff / Truthdig Mar 20, 2009 NATO today, approaching its 60th birthday, faces the prospect of sending home all of its units not willing to fight in Afghanistan under the American flag. They will go home to "defend" Europe. From whom? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Our Cuba Policy: A Failure at 50

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Jan 2, 2009 President-elect Obama will have more urgent matters to deal with after he takes the oath of office. But somewhere on his long to-do list, he should make a note to finally bring five decades of counterproductive American policy toward Cuba to a definitive end. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )