Robert Scheer / TruthdigApr 21, 2014
You had to be there! Jesse Jackson, in the company of the real life Rubin "Hurricane" Carter at a jailhouse screening of "The Hurricane" before a mostly black and brown audience whose future prospects seemed as drab as their faded inmate uniforms. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigMar 12, 2014
It was a truly historic moment Tuesday when Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein took to the Senate floor to warn that the CIA’s continuing cover-up of its torture program is threatening our constitutional division of power. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigFeb 18, 2014
Yesterday's traitor is today's hero, and the brave journalists who helped Edward Snowden get the word out are at last being honored for their public service. Or so one hopes.
The brave journalists who helped Edward Snowden get the word out are at last being honored for their public service. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Robert Scheer / TruthdigFeb 4, 2014
A Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, that annual celebration of violence as sport, featured a most joyous homecoming for a U.S. veteran of the Afghan War. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigJan 28, 2014
Somewhere in the lowest reaches of hell, Adolf Hitler and his coterie of lesser dictators must be tormented by the knowledge they did not live long enough to get their hands on "Angry Birds." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigJan 21, 2014
His unbridled defense of the surveillance state opened the door to the new McCarthyism of Mike Rogers and Dianne Feinstein. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigJan 7, 2014
Like this country's early revolutionaries, Edward Snowden knows that true patriotism demands a vigilant confrontation with government infamy. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 31, 2013
“We know everything but learn nothing” would be an honest slogan for the NSA, CIA and lesser-known spy agencies that specialize in leading us so dangerously astray. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 18, 2013
The Podesta brothers are the faces of the so-called progressive wing of the Democratic Party that, like the president himself, will talk a good game of reducing income inequality, while catering to the interests of the very corporations that have initiated the problem. How can President Obama be so right and so wrong in the same moment? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 3, 2013
The pope's appraisal of modern capitalism is the obvious truth, whether divinely inspired or not. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigNov 26, 2013
The deal with Iran is potentially an international game changer comparable to Richard Nixon’s opening to Mao’s Red China and Ronald Reagan’s overtures to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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