nir rosen

Former DOJ Lawyer Blasts Bush Torture Policy

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2007 Wouldn't it have been chillingly fascinating to watch White House bigwigs in action sometime around 2003, while they played fast and loose with executive power and international law? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

NYU Prof Launches Experiment in ‘Open-Source’ Journalism

Staff / Truthdig Jul 27, 2006 It's called NewAssignment.net, and the idea is for everyday citizens to fund specific reporting projects that will be assigned to professional journalists. This could be the birth of an entirely new paradigm in reporting: professionals and amateurs working together in a truly networked way. Check it out. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Nir Rosen: How I Reported From Inside the Insurgency

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2006 The acclaimed journalist (and Truthdig contributor), who has spent the last three years in Iraq, explains how his street smarts, Arabic skills and Middle Eastern looks afforded him a view of the Iraqi insurgency almost unparalleled among Western journalists. Check out the Buzzflash interview. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Ugly Americans in Iraq

Nir Rosen / Truthdig Jun 28, 2006 Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen presents an oral history of a U.S Army Special Forces soldier who describes how he and his unit created more insurgents than they killed in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Middle East

The Many Faces of Abu Musab al Zarqawi

Nir Rosen / Truthdig Jun 10, 2006 He led Al Qaeda in Iraq, but who was he? What drove Zarqawi to his murderous ends? And what can we learn from his death? Nir Rosen, one of the only Western journalists to have reported extensively from inside the Iraqi insurgency, lays out some answers. Acclaimed Iraq journalist Nir Rosen explores the life, death and intellectual underpinnings of the terrorist who led Al Qaeda in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )