Israel Rejects U.N. Aid Plea

Staff / Truthdig Nov 19, 2008 If it looks heartless and sounds heartless, it probably is heartless. A direct quote from a Voice of America news piece: "Israel is ignoring pleas by the United Nations to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, standing firm on its blockade of the Palestinian territory." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blockaded Gaza ‘Faces Disaster’

Staff / Truthdig Nov 14, 2008 It's been only about a week since Israel closed the border into the Gaza Strip, denying the occupied territory humanitarian supplies and fuel and even blocking journalists, but the UK-based aid group Oxfam is already warning that Gaza "faces disaster" if the blockade is not immediately broken. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Builds Wall in Sadr City

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2008 Sadr City, the Baghdad neighborhood turned refuge for Iraqi insurgents, is getting a infrastructural makeover this week as workers begin building a wall to isolate the area from the rest of the capital city US forces say the construction is a security measure to stem anti-U and anti-coalition activity. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tear Down That Wall

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Sep 14, 2007 I sat down with former President Jimmy Carter last week at the Carter Center in Atlanta. The Center was hosting a conference of human rights defenders, people at the front lines confronting repressive regimes around the globe. After a quarter-century of humanitarian work through the Carter Center, monitoring elections, working to eradicate neglected tropical diseases and focusing on the poor, Jimmy Carter now finds himself at the center of the storm in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

AT&T Mutes Pearl Jam’s Anti-Bush Riff

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2007 In what has to be the most exciting Pearl Jam-related news in, oh, a decade, AT&T censored Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder's anti-Bush adaptation of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" during a live cybercast of the retro-grunge band's Lollapalooza performance on Sunday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mr. Bush, Tear Down These Walls!

Scott Ritter / Truthdig Apr 26, 2007 With his security barrier in Baghdad, a wall along the Mexican border and the provocative missile defense shield plan in Europe, President Bush's interest in barrier-building is a betrayal of his conservative forebears that does not bode well for the spread of freedom and democracy. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Mr. Bush, Tear Down That Wall

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Apr 24, 2007 Walls don't unite, they divide. Contrary to Bush's rosy estimation of the "surge," the news that the U.S. is ghettoizing Baghdad is a sign of how chaotic the situation has become. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Iraqi PM Shuts Down Wall Construction

Staff / Truthdig Apr 23, 2007 Last week U.S. forces began building a controversial wall around a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad, ostensibly to protect its residents from sectarian violence. On Sunday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said he opposed the construction and had ordered it stopped. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Walling ‘Em In (and Out)

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2007 Apparently hoping that good fences make good neighbors, American forces in Baghdad are erecting a concrete wall in Baghdad's turbulent Adhamiya district to separate Sunnis from Shiites -- the first barrier specifically built along sectarian lines. The wall, which will be three miles long and 12 feet high when it is finished later this month, is not a popular project among Iraqis from either side. Dig deeper ( 1 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 )

The Fertility Gap

Staff / Truthdig Aug 23, 2006 Liberals will continue to lose ground in American politics as long as conservatives continue to outbreed them, argues a Syracus University professor in the Wall Street Journal. (The blue/red baby gap is much bigger than you'd imagine.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Enough Already

Staff / Truthdig Aug 21, 2006 It's one thing to report a story, it's another to obsess over every detail at the expense of real news. Wall-to-wall coverage of the JonBenet case continues on every major news channel, despite Israel's violation of the cease-fire, the ruling against wiretapping, and Iran's missile tests. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )