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‘Chris Stevens Was a Hero’ to Libya

Staff / Truthdig Sep 14, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Juan Cole, recently returned from Libya, says "Libyans love the United States and [Ambassador] Chris Stevens was a hero to most of them" Also: captured by the Taliban; progressives' racial divide, and presidential debatescom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Juan Cole says "Libyans love the United States and . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Three Strikes and Civil Rights

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig May 10, 2011 The racism within the police-court-prison system is one of America’s most neglected evils, as is the impact it has on the poor African-American and Latino communities that are home for so many released convicts.I’m wondering if I’ve already lost some of my readers. Who cares about criminals? Some of the journalists I met last week said they get the same reaction from their editors. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Longest War in U.S. History

Staff / Truthdig Jun 7, 2010 The U.S. has now been fighting in Afghanistan longer than in any war in American history, including that other quagmire, Vietnam. Our friends at Brave New Films send this mini-documentary, featuring Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and others. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tom Hayden on Mark Rudd

BLANK May 8, 2009 Forty years after he helped destroy SDS, Mark Rudd condemns his role in Weatherman as "the greatest single mistake of my life … a historical crime." How did it happen and what did it mean? Why did peaceful protest give way to violent resistance? What lessons are to be learned from the failure to spurn the seductions of charismatic cults? Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )