The CIA’s 60-Year History of Fake News: How the Deep State Corrupted Many American Writers

BLANK Mar 17, 2017 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Joel Whitney, author of "Finks," about how the spy agency turned literary figures into propagandists for militarism and imperial power. Transcript added. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Put It Together, People!

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Mar 16, 2017 Dig deeper

Picture of Hellth

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Mar 16, 2017 Dig deeper

American Artists Against War

Paul Von Blum / Truthdig Jan 8, 2016 Artists of conscience have always responded angrily and passionately to war, genocide and torture. This book examines the work of American visual artists from 1935 to 2010 who believed that governments and humanity must be held to higher moral standards. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Bush’s Masterpiece

David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star Jan 15, 2014 Dig deeper

GOP-uernica

Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com Dec 24, 2012 Dig deeper

75 Years Later, the Lessons of Guernica

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jul 19, 2012 Seventy-five years ago, the Spanish town of Guernica was bombed into rubble. The brutal act propelled one of the world's greatest artists into a three-week painting frenzy. Dig deeper

Art as Journalism

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 21, 2012 Dig deeper

Guernicamocracy

Mr. Fish / Truthdig Feb 21, 2009 Dig deeper

Leave World War II Out of Gaza

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Jan 17, 2009 I have long raged against any comparisons with the Second World War -- whether of the Arafat-is-Hitler variety once deployed by Menachem Begin or of the anti-war- demonstrators-are- 1930s-appeasers, most recently used by George Bush and Lord Blair of Kut al-Amara. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )