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Truthdigger of the Week: Patrick Cockburn

BLANK Aug 31, 2014 The Irish reporter has written the definitive primer on the Middle East's most ferocious and ambitious new pretenders to power: the Islamic State. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

U.S. Public Worried About ISIL and Putin but Climate Change Is the Real Challenge

Juan Cole / Truthdig Aug 30, 2014 In a new Pew/ USA Today poll, the American public shows itself alarmed by the rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in northern Iraq and Syria as a threat to US security, finding it more threatening even than Russia’s Vladimir Putin, who has risen on the villain scale quite a lot In a new Pew/USA Today poll, the American public shows itself alarmed by the rise of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in northern Iraq and Syria as a threat to U . Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Syrian Rebels Welcome U.S. Airstrikes on ISIL Terrorists

Juan Cole / Truthdig Aug 30, 2014 Arab online newspaper Elaph reports that rebels in East Aleppo, Syria, are deeply divided over the prospect of President Obama ordering U.S. airstrikes on the so-called Islamic State. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Have We Gone to War Again?

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Aug 29, 2014 I'd like to know whether the United States is at war with the Islamic State. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: James Foley

BLANK Aug 25, 2014 The slain photojournalist was "drawn to the human rights side" of war reporting and spoke admiringly of the humanism of his colleagues and some of his early captors. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

ISIS Beheads an American, Threatens Another if Airstrikes Continue

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Aug 20, 2014 A man believed to be kidnapped journalist James Foley was beheaded in a video released to the public by militants who say another captured American will be killed if the United States continues its campaign against ISIS in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Juan Cole Says ISIS Has ‘Awoken the Drone God’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 15, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Mideast scholar suspects the U.S. will begin bombing Iraq like northern Pakistan, police in Ferguson, Mo., provoke a federal investigation, Hillary Clinton stumbles and we remember Robin Williams. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Paying for the 2003 Invasion

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Aug 12, 2014 As President Obama struggles to deal with the crisis in Iraq, it's useful to remember who gave the world this cauldron of woe in the first place: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

White House Might Extend U.S. Military Support to Iraq

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Aug 9, 2014 President Obama announced Thursday that he had authorized airstrikes in Iraq for two specific reasons, but a White House spokesman Friday indicated that the scope in the future may not be so limited. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )