U.S. Readies More Sanctions After Russia Takes Crimea

Staff / Truthdig Mar 18, 2014 The White House vowed on Tuesday to level more sanctions against Russia for its moves to take over Crimea. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘The World Tomorrow’: Occupy

Staff / Truthdig May 30, 2012 In the seventh episode of “The World Tomorrow,” Julian Assange and key Occupy figures from both sides of the Atlantic met in a hollowed-out Deutsche Bank building to talk about the movement’s inception and the challenges it has faced so far. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russia Changes Stance on Libya

Staff / Truthdig May 28, 2011 An unexpected voice is joining the international chorus urging Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to leave On Friday, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that he would use his country's solid rapport with Libya to encourage Gadhafi to finally . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hundreds Busted at the G-20

Staff / Truthdig Jun 27, 2010 Using tear gas, shields, clubs and pepper spray, police arrested almost 500 people at the G-20 summit in Toronto after a breakaway group of protesters smashed storefronts and set fire to several police cars. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Troubled Times Slash G-8 Aid Pledge

Staff / Truthdig Jun 26, 2010 With the scent of the global financial crisis swimming in their nostrils, G-8 leaders pledged a mere $5 billion in aid to reduce deaths among African mothers and infants, a decrease of 90 percent in the funding promised five years ago at the group's meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hotel Calls Bush ‘Poisoning’ a Stunt

Staff / Truthdig Apr 30, 2010 Laura Bush's new memoir reportedly features a scene at a German hotel fit for a Poirot mystery: The president and his entourage suddenly taken ill as the Secret Service frantically searches for poison. The hotel in question says Mrs. Bush is probably just trying to sell books. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

G-20 Muscles G-7 Aside

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2009 It looks like the G-20 is set to permanently replace the G-7 as the world's dominant economic forum, an indirect admission that there was something unfair about the world's seven wealthiest countries deciding economic policy for the entire globe. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

3 Degrees

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G8 Leaders Agree to Limit Their Hot Air

Staff / Truthdig Jul 9, 2009 G8 summit participants have all agreed to cut carbon emissions by 80 percent over the next four decades. Enough to keep Florida above water? The world leaders involved have to keep their promises first, as do successive governments over the next 41 years. Then there are the developing nations that could just absorb all that outsourced pollution. Nice start, though. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S., Britain Part Company in the Poppy Fields

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2009 The U.S. has decided to stop funding poppy field eradication in Afghanistan, declaring the policy a failure and a waste of money. Since 2003, opium production has gone up 40-fold in Afghanistan, making it the producer of 90 percent of the world's heroin. But Britain, backed by the Afghan government, will continue destroying poppy fields as a way to stem the drug trade. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush’s Farewell Gala

Staff / Truthdig Oct 22, 2008 As if there was no better way to conclude the past eight years of the current administration, President Bush will host his own personalized going-away party: the world's first "global financial summit," where leaders will discuss the current global economic troubles and hopefully ways to prevent such crises from recurring. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Second Wind for WTO Talks?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2008 While supporters of the much troubled Doha Round of the World Trade Organization believe talks may have found their second wind, only the world's largest economies seem to be breathing. The form of capitalism supported by these countries is resisted by poorer nations, which rightly fear WTO deregulations would disproportionately benefit the wealthy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )