Truthdigger of the Week: Tomas Young

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 24, 2013 When he dies this spring, Iraq War veteran Tomas Young will have spent his final years struggling to expose the guilt of those who make a holiday of the deaths and suffering of the powerless. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Christopher Hitchens: A Jingo in Every Essential Way

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2013 With the onset of the Iraq invasion, there was an abrupt change not just in Hitchens’ tone, but in his authorial voice. Hitchens emerged a convinced American nationalist, deploying a full tonal diapason -- from hysteria to triumphalism, with the scale calibrated by braggadocio. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

One Dove, One Hawk: The Night the Feathers Flew

Staff / Truthdig Apr 1, 2012 “What you have witnessed,” recently elected British MP George Galloway said back in 2005, speaking of Christopher Hitchens’ support for the US-Iraq War, “ is something unique in natural history: the first ever metamorphosis from a butterfly back into a slug”. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cindy Sheehan Challenges Robert Gibbs to Drug Test Duel

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2010 The anti-war mom who famously camped out on then-President Bush's doorstep is so offended by press secretary Robert Gibbs' statement that Obama's critics on the left ought to be drug-tested, she has challenged him to a "urine duel" "I have no drugs in my system and nothing to be ashamed of " (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Sheehan Qualifies for Pelosi Challenge

Staff / Truthdig Aug 13, 2008 As the most powerful woman in government, Nancy Pelosi is used to confronting political rivals, but the House speaker has trouble on her flank. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan (above), displeased with the Democrats' lack of progress against the war, has gathered enough signatures to challenge Pelosi as an independent. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cindy Sheehan Makes Bid for Pelosi’s House Seat

Staff / Truthdig Apr 26, 2008 It's not going to be an easy campaign, but anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has made good on her pledge to try to take over Nancy Pelosi's congressional seat this fall. Sheehan filed Friday to run for the House in Pelosi's San Francisco district -- but she has to collect over 10,000 signatures before she can make her bid official. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Call to Service

Scott Ritter / Truthdig Aug 1, 2007 The "Waging Peace" author argues that the antiwar movement's strategies are failing to reach everyday Americans and doing little to end the war or repair our troubled democracy. He proposes a different model to win the hearts and minds of mainstream America: national service. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Cindy Sheehan Returns to the Antiwar Movement

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2007 Video blogger Davis Fleetwood asks a recently reinvigorated Cindy Sheehan about her candidacy, impeachment, Scooter Libby's pardon, the military-industrial complex and more. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gore and Sheehan Join Forces

Marie Cocco / Truthdig May 31, 2007 They are an unlikely couple. She, an exhausted and emotionally spent woman limping home to find solace in a measure of solitude she could have given herself long ago. He, an upbeat and oh-so-confident man who once was down but is now anything but out. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Cindy Sheehan: ‘It’s Up to You Now’

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2007 Antiwar protest icon Cindy Sheehan says she is retiring from the spotlight and "going home for awhile to try and be normal" In her Daily Kos diary, she writes: "Goodbye America you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can't make you be that country unless you want it". Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Gitmo Anniversary Inspires Global Protests

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2007 Activists from Europe to Kuwait have joined with Cindy Sheehan and others to protest the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where nearly 400 prisoners await their fate. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Hippie Factor

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Aug 15, 2006 Tempting though it may be to lump them together, Baghdad is not Saigon, and Cindy Sheehan is not Jane Fonda. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )