‘Left, Right & Center’: NSA Reform and Bezos Buys the Post

Staff / Truthdig Aug 10, 2013 Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other "Left, Right & Center" panelists discuss President Obama's suggested changes to the National Security Agency surveillance policy. With four major categories of reform, he attempts to ease skepticism with an "amend it, don't end it" approach. How did it go over? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama Gives Russia the Hand

Staff / Truthdig Aug 9, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Nato Green, Ninotchka Rosca, Phil Yu, Leilani Albano, Laura Carlsen, Bill Boyarsky, and Robert Scheer on racism three ways, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bradley Manning and Obama's change of heart. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Little Bit of Everything

Staff / Truthdig Aug 9, 2013 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Nato Green, Ninotchka Rosca, Phil Yu, Leilani Albano, Laura Carlsen, Bill Boyarsky, and Robert Scheer on racism three ways, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bradley Manning and Obama's change of heart. Dig deeper

The Ancient Brain, Modern Times and the Atomic Bomb

By K.C. Cole Aug 6, 2013 August is a great month for celebrating human stupidity. On Aug. 6, 1945, we all but disappeared Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, and then did it again, three days later, at Nagasaki. And now we barely seem to care. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 6, 2013 August 6 marks 68 years since the United States committed what is arguably the single gravest act of terrorism that the world has ever known. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices

Stanley Kutler / Truthdig Aug 6, 2010 Today, it is common wisdom that President Truman had only two simple, stark choices: to use the bomb or invade and suffer a “million” casualties. There was, however, an alternative.It's believed that President Truman had only two choices: to use the bomb or invade and suffer a “million” casualties. There was an alternative. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Earning His Nobel Prize

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 7, 2010 At last, a believable sighting of that peace president many of us thought we had elected. Give Barack Obama credit, big time, for the startling progress he has made in tempering the threat of nuclear annihilation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Cameron Puts His Money Down for ‘Hiroshima’

Staff / Truthdig Jan 9, 2010 James Cameron, that visionary mega-director of historic oceanic tragedy and, more recently, virtual blue puma-people, has dug into his giant pockets to option a book for a possible film project that's quite different in subject and tone from his latest blockbuster, "Avatar." Variety reported Friday that Cameron now has movie dibs on Charles Pellegrino's nonfiction book "The Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 6, 2009 This week marks the anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the Wheel for 64 Years

BLANK Aug 6, 2009 Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame writes that “official secrecy and deceptions about our nuclear weapons posture and policies and their possible consequences have threatened the survival of the human species.”Daniel Ellsberg writes that deceptions about our nuclear weapons have "threatened the survival of the human species.” Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )

The Terror America Wrought

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 8, 2007 During a week of mayhem in Iraq, in which terrorists have rightly been condemned for targeting schoolchildren, it is sobering to recall that this week is also the 62nd anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )