Racializing Abortion in Georgia

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2010 A Georgia anti-choice group has a "choice" strategy to cater to African-Americans in an effort to diversify its majority-white membership: launch a public outreach campaign that argues that abortion is a decades-old conspiracy to kill off black people. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Chuck Norris, Conspiracy Theorist

Staff / Truthdig Jan 13, 2010 What are the true patriots of the U.S. of A. to do when a bona fide Muslim-sympathizing, Constitution-shredding president signs a mysterious and probably anti-American "executive order" granting sinister "privileges, exemptions and immunities" to the France-based International Police Organization -- aka Interpol? Enter Chuck Norris, onetime "Texas Ranger," martial arts movie star and amateur conspiracy theorist, stage right. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rights Group Fires Back at Israel

Staff / Truthdig Nov 14, 2009 Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel and its backers of waging a campaign of misinformation in an effort to discredit the group. HRW has been a leading voice in condemning alleged Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Daily Show’ Insta-Classic: What Lurks Within Glenn Beck?

Staff / Truthdig Nov 7, 2009 It's not so much that Jon Stewart is lampooning Glenn Beck for the heck of it that makes this clip from Thursday night's "Daily Show" so inspired, it's that he practically out-Glenn-Becks Glenn Beck, all the while stealing a potential conspiracy theory that the excitable Fox News showman might soon have cooked up if left to his own devices. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

British PM: ‘No Double-Dealing’ in Lockerbie Bomber’s Release

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2009 The Scottish government may not be united with respect to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to release the so-called Lockerbie bomber, Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, last month, but for his part, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants to make it clear that any conspiracy theorists working on this case should hang it up already. Hmmm. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Time for a Second Revolution?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 9, 2009 Hold on to your latte, there are some seriously pissed-off white Americans out there who are not happy with the way things are going -- and they're armed. Truthdig's Chris Hedges leads this tour of "Americana: The 2nd Revolutionary War." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Soldier Gets Life in Killing of Iraqi Prisoners

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2009 He was one of three U.S. soldiers implicated in the execution-style shooting of four Iraqi prisoners near Baghdad in March 2007, but 40-year-old Army Master Sgt. John E. Hatley was also believed to have been the main instigator in the incident. On Thursday, Hatley was sentenced to life in prison for murder. 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 )

Was Helicopter Deal a Tool in Bush’s War Scam?

Staff / Truthdig Mar 11, 2009 You may have heard about the scandalously overpriced presidential helicopters the U.S. had ordered from Italy, but did you know they may have been a payoff for forged intelligence used to sell the war in Iraq? It's all a part of "a web of conspiracy and deceit," says journalist Paolo Pontoniere. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

We Told You So

David Sirota / Truthdig Dec 12, 2008 With the release of three new reports, there’s no debate anymore about who was correct and who wasn’t concerning the economic collapse and the Wall Street bailout. The studies prove that progressive critics were right and the Washington ideologues and the pundits were wrong. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Scariest Day of the Year

Ellen Goodman / Truthdig Oct 30, 2008 Have you noticed that the spookiest colors of the season are not orange and black but red and blue? As Halloween slips into Election Day, the race for the White House has scared more grown-ups than any trip to the haunted house. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Military Court Finds Osama’s Driver Guilty

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2008 Osama bin Laden's alleged driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, was convicted Wednesday by a military court on five counts of supporting terrorism. The decision was largely symbolic, since the U.S. had reserved the right, regardless of guilt or innocence, to detain Hamdan indefinitely. The ACLU called the verdict a "monumental debacle." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )