Obama’s Success Makes a Bloomberg Campaign Moot

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2008 Barack Obama's determination to unite Americans and his strong electoral showing in Iowa, fueled in no small part by independents, have taken the wind out of Michael Bloomberg's sails. The New York mayor has been, by some accounts, considering an independent run for president, but now there just doesn't seem to be much of a point. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Déjà Vu in Annapolis

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Nov 30, 2007 Haven't we been here before? Isn't Annapolis just a repeat of the White House lawn and the Oslo agreement, a series of pious claims and promises in which two weak men, Messrs. Abbas and Olmert, even use the same words of Oslo. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Do You Know the Truth About Lockerbie?

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 16, 2007 I'm not at all certain that the CIA did not have a scam drugs heist on board and I am not at all sure that the diminutive Libyan agent Megrahi -- ultimately convicted on the evidence of the memory of a Maltese tailor -- really arranged to plant the bomb on board Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

A Lesson in Courage From Beirut

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Oct 2, 2007 Not only is The Independent reporter Fisk, like many others in Beirut, no longer shocked by a murder of yet another member of parliament, but he also is no longer affected by viewing the remains of the dead. Such is life in Lebanon today. Here, Fisk relates how Lebanese officials are learning to exist in a perpetual fog of fear. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Lebanese Government on Verge of Collapse

Robert Fisk / Truthdig Sep 22, 2007 Another member of Lebanon's parliament, Antoine Ghanem, was killed on Sept 19 when a bomb went off in his car outside his home in Beirut This means, The Independent's Robert Fisk reports, that " It only takes one more murder for the democratically elected government of Lebanon to fall". Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Poll: More Americans Self-Identify as Democrats Than Republicans

Staff / Truthdig Mar 30, 2006 According to Gallup, Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents make up 49% of the population, Republicans 42%. Last year, the parties were dead even at 46%. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )