Marie Cocco: Protecting Blastocysts, Forsaking Humans

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Jul 24, 2006 It was more important for Bush to veto a bill on stem cell research than it was to push for a halt to the slaughter claiming actual human lives in the Middle East. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Even Ascendant, Condi is Still Ineffectual

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2006 From this week's Time magazine cover story: Although the secretary of state has persuaded Bush to give diplomacy a go in the fight against radical Islam, Rice "has yet to pull off any major diplomatic breakthrough that could burnish the Bush legacy." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: An Outbreak of Diplomacy in the West Wing

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Jun 8, 2006 Having realized that threatening Iran was getting them nowhere, Bush & Co. now find themselves in the awkward position of broaching diplomatic talks with a member of the "Axis of Evil." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.S. Prepared to Join Direct Talks With Iran

Staff / Truthdig May 31, 2006 Sec. of State Rice said America will join Europe in direct talks if Iran suspends its programs to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear fuel. It's a dramatic about-face, and comes a mere three weeks after the Iranian president sent a personal letter to Bush--the first direct communication between the two countries in over 20 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Day: Steve Almond

Staff / Truthdig May 14, 2006 Almond, an adjunct professor at Boston College, has resigned his post to protest the college's choice of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker. "I cannot, in good conscience, exhort my students to pursue truth and knowledge, then collect a paycheck from an institution that displays such flagrant disregard for both," he writes. Imagine if Colin Powell or George Tenet had shown this kind of moral fortitude. There might not have been a war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iranians Fault Rice’s Dismissal of Letter

Staff / Truthdig May 10, 2006 An Iranian diplomat says that Condoleezza Rice squandered a potential "turning point" in U.S.-Iranian relations by her "hasty" rejection of a letter from the Iranian president to Bush. (Read the letter) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Desperation in Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Apr 3, 2006 "The United States, in its hubris, helped bring all this to pass," says a Sunday New York Times editorial about the mounting horrors in Iraq(more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Condi Rice Heckled by Antiwar Protester

Staff / Truthdig Mar 10, 2006 A protester interrupts the secretary of state at a budget hearing: "The blood is on your hands and you cannot wash it away." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Steamed Rice

Staff / Truthdig Feb 16, 2006 The secretary of state gets a grilling when she requests $75 million from the Senate for democracy-building activities in Iran. Most of the money would go toward round-the-clock TV programming in Farsi. And while that's probably not a bad idea, it's hard to imagine that any amount of TV would meaningfully distract attention from the spectacle of the American occupation of Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Dream On, Condi

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 15, 2006 There is no way to soft-pedal it: The astounding rise of an anti-American firebrand like Moqtada al-Sadr is an indicator of how wide and complete a political defeat pro-Western forces have suffered in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Torture

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 4, 2005 Condi Rice is so tired of Old Europe and its human rights complaints. Big deal, so the CIA is using Soviet era torture camps in Eastern Europe to stash "war on terror" prisoners. Don't those fusspots in the EU understand that our use of torture is fundamentally different because we are the good guys and that Eastern Europe has been liberated? That outmoded European slogan of "friends don't let friends use torture" is so over. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )