Videocast: Gore Vidal on the Kennedy Assassination, Castro and More

Staff / Truthdig Nov 24, 2006 In this excerpt from the Truthdig interview, Gore Vidal speaks with Robert Scheer about the Kennedy assassination, Castro and imperialism. For the full video, go to www.truthdig.com and click on "interviews." Dig deeper

Joe Conason: Bush’s Strange Vietnam Visit

Joe Conason / Truthdig Nov 23, 2006 What may be remembered someday as one of the strangest moments of George W. Bush's presidency took place last week in Vietnam, when he chose to mention the American defeat there in the same breath as our failing occupation of Iraq. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: In the Shadow of Ho Chi Minh

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 22, 2006 President Bush has said many dumb things in defense of his Iraq policy. Citing the Vietnam War as a model, however, is perhaps his most ludicrous yet. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Turning the Corner Into Madness

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Nov 1, 2006 The dire predictions President Bush is making about "cutting and running" from Iraq are almost identical to the horrifically inaccurate ones Presidents Johnson and Nixon made about Vietnam. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Molly Ivins: Iraq Follows Vietnam Model

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Oct 17, 2006 Of course Iraq is like Vietnam. The only meaningful difference is that we haven't yet lost 57,000 American lives. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Plus ça Change…

Staff / Truthdig Aug 29, 2006 For a dose of perspective, check out this clip of Nixon V.P. Spiro Agnew lashing out at the press after a magazine called him "the great polarizer in American politics." Also, listen to what he has to say about anti-Vietnam War protesters. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Marie Cocco: The Hippie Factor

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Aug 15, 2006 Tempting though it may be to lump them together, Baghdad is not Saigon, and Cindy Sheehan is not Jane Fonda. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Young Vietnamese Doctor’s Diary Becomes Bestseller

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2006 The author, a 27-year-old woman who was killed in 1970, wrote of "love, loneliness and death on the Ho Chi Minh Trail." It has become an Anne Frank-like sensation in Vietnam. The universal nature of her themes is an incredible reminder of the folly of war and of demonizing our enemies. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq War Spending Doubles Since Invasion

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2006 Annual war expenditures have risen from $48 billion in 2003 to an anticipated $94 billion in 2006, thanks to the expected largest emergency spending bill in history. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kerry Calls for Iraq Pullout Deadline

Staff / Truthdig Apr 5, 2006 In the N.Y. Times, the former presidential candidate calls for two deadlines: May 15 for the Iraqis to form a unity government, and a date later in the year for the U.S. to pull out. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Progress Myth in Iraq

Molly Ivins / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 There is now a three-year record of who has been right about what is happening in Iraq -- Rumsfeld or the media. And the score is: Press, 1,095; Rumsfeld, 0. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Our Amnesiac Torture Debate

Staff / Truthdig Mar 9, 2006 Bush's choice of Panama to make his declaration that America does not torture "is a little like dropping by a slaughterhouse to pronounce the United States a nation of vegetarians." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )