Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen

Staff / Truthdig Sep 17, 2008 An attack on the US Embassy in Yemen killed 16 Wednesday, though it failed to breach the inner walls of the building complex The act, which has been claimed by the group Islamic Jihad, is probably a response to both an internal Yemeni crackdown against insurgent groups and the U global "war on terror". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

9/11: Is the U.S. Safer Seven Years Later?

Staff / Truthdig Sep 12, 2008 On the seventh anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Link TV's Mosaic Intelligence Report takes stock and asks some key questions: Has President Bush's "war on terror" made any progress? Has al-Qaida diminished or grown in strength? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama: Bush ‘Kicking the Can Down the Road’ to Next President

Staff / Truthdig Sep 10, 2008 Barack Obama on Tuesday stepped up his criticism of the outgoing president and the Republican who hopes to succeed him, slamming President Bush for focusing too heavily on Iraq and missing the "central front in the war on terror" -- Pakistan and Afghanistan. John McCain, Obama said, would follow Bush's lead, to America's detriment. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The War on Terror’s Underlings

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WSJ: Bush Is Just Like Batman

Staff / Truthdig Jul 26, 2008 Right, so it was clear that things were going to change a bit at The Wall Street Journal when it became a part of the Murdochian Empire, but this is a little much: In this somewhat startling essay, Andrew Klavan sees a "W" where others see Batman's bat symbol in "The Dark Knight" and believes the film is a "paean of praise" to President Bush. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Keeps Bombing Weddings

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2008 Apparently, the Bush administration is also against straight marriage -- if you live in the desert under U.S. military occupation. Tom Engelhardt details seven years of wedding crashing in Afganistan and Iraq, and the notable lack of remorse on the part of the Pentagon. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Help Me’: Gitmo Video Shows Tearful Teen

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2008 Canadian lawyers released a wrenching 2003 video -- the first of its kind ever made public -- of a tearful 16-year-old boy suffering what appears to be a mental breakdown during an interrogation by Canadian officials at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Five years later, Omar Khadr has still not been charged with any crime. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Legacy of Bush II

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Feb 6, 2008 Curb your enthusiasm. Even if your favored candidate did well on Super Tuesday, ask yourself if he or she will seriously challenge the bloated military budget that President Bush has proposed for 2009. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

War Costs Spiral Out of Control

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Oct 24, 2007 Hey, a billion here, a billion there, who's counting? Not the State Department, which admitted this week that it can't say "specifically what it received" for the $1.2 billion it paid DynCorp, ostensibly to train the Iraqi police -- other than that somebody got an Olympic-size swimming pool out of the deal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Colbert on ‘the War on Error’

Staff / Truthdig Aug 12, 2007 As savvy spin-maestro Stephen Colbert knows, rhetoric is key to any successful political campaign -- ideally, it would involve simple, catchy, even alliterative phrases (e.g. "freedom fries") that fit easily on your average bumper sticker. So, it's no surprise that the pseudo-pundit doesn't cotton to the Democratic presidential candidates' complex takes on "the war on terror." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bush Keeps Israel Close, Saudi Arabia Closer

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Aug 1, 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is busy shopping a recently unveiled arms package, totaling a staggering $63 billion in aid and first-rate weaponry, to America's Mideast "allies" like Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia -- but, as Scheer notes, there's a discrepancy between the Bush administration's official reasons for this show of goodwill and the real motives behind the deal. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Brits Nix ‘War on Terror’

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2007 The British government has officially quit using the term "war on terror," arguing that Bush's slogan has backfired and, instead of weakening the world's polyglot bands of terrorists, has in fact strengthened them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )