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Nir Rosen: How I Reported From Inside the Insurgency

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2006 The acclaimed journalist (and Truthdig contributor), who has spent the last three years in Iraq, explains how his street smarts, Arabic skills and Middle Eastern looks afforded him a view of the Iraqi insurgency almost unparalleled among Western journalists. Check out the Buzzflash interview. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Buzzflash: Why Not Just Put Zarqawi’s Head on a Pike?

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2006 The editors at Buzzflash argue that in displaying the picture of Zarqawi's dead, bloated face the way it did, the Bush administration is once again displaying the same kind of sophomoric bravado ("Bring 'em on") that it used to its great detriment in the past Read Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen's account of the life, death and intellectual underpinnings of Zarqawi Also: Buzzflash just won two Project Uncensored awards for contributor columns about U civilian detention camps and "net neutrality". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Buzzflash: “Tyranny Creeps In…” at the NSA

Staff / Truthdig May 11, 2006 "The NSA's gathering of phone call records of millions of Americans is "something that would make the late Leonid Brezhnev proud of Bush -- and [Gen.] Michael Hayden, the Pentagon apparatchik, who saw it through," Buzzflash writes in an editorial. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Buzzflash: Scheer’s Book ‘Incisive, No Holds Barred Commentary’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2006 In a review of "Playing President," Buzzflash says Robert Scheer's "insights appear all the more astounding because he stood virtually alone in making them for so long among mainstream journalists." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

If Al Gore Speaks Out in the Forest and No One Is There to Hear Him…

Staff / Truthdig Jan 18, 2006 Buzzflash decries the fact that the former VP's gutsy critique went largely ignored by the traditional media. | editorial Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )