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The Real Miami Vice

Staff / Truthdig Jul 26, 2006 In connection with the new Colin Farrell / Jamie Foxx movie, the L.A. Times interviewed a real-life veteran of Miami's vice, intelligence and narcotics squad. Interestingly, it seems the situations on the TV show weren't that far off the mark. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Politics

Israel’s Barrier to Peace

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 26, 2006 Chris Hedges, the former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times, argues that there can be no hope for peace in the Middle East as long as America continues to aid Israel in its dehumanizing practices.The former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times and author of the bestseller "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" examines the way Israel's security wall has ripped a mortal gash in the lives of Palestinians residing in its shadow, and argues that there can be no hope for peace in the Middle East as long as America continues to aid Israel in its dehumanizing practices. Dig deeper ( 34 Min. Read )

Stewart Straight-Talks McCain on Iraq

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2006 The "Daily Show" host tells the Arizona senator, "President Bush has been very clear that through his leadership, he made the world safer My question to you is this: How much safer can we afford to have him make us?" When McCain wouldn't answer straight, Stewart chided him, saying, "Don't dodge the question" . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

?Fresh Air? Investigates Hezbollah

Staff / Truthdig Jul 23, 2006 As the conflict in Lebanon continues to develop, Terry Gross brings context to the names in the news. Here are two interviews by the "Fresh Air" host that offer some insight into Hezbollah. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Congressman to Colbert: ‘I Like Cocaine Because…’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2006 What do you get when you put Stephen Colbert in a room with a congressman facing an uncontested election? Television magic. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert to Suskind: We Need a ‘Zero Percent Doctrine’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 14, 2006 Stephen Colbert tells author Ron Suskind that Vice President Cheney's so-called "One Percent Doctrine"--whereby a one percent chance of terrorists obtaining WMDs must be treated as a certainty--is "soft on terror." Colbert: "One percent? Shouldn't it be a zero percent doctrine? I mean even if there's no chance that someone's a threat to the United States, and they just look at us funny, shouldn't we just--[beats a fist into his palm]--tag 'em?" Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert to Congressman: ‘Are You High Right Now?’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 13, 2006 "Your state is one of the few that has a medical marijuana program," Stephen Colbert said to Congressman Rick Larsen of Washington. Larsen: Uh-huh, that's right. Colbert: Are you high right now? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Robert Scheer: Why I Wasn’t Prepared for George W. Bush

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2006 In an interview with Democracy Now!, Truthdig Editor Robert Scheer explains how, after he had spent decades covering U.S. presidents, Bush threw him for a loop: "At least the other [presidents] knew a lot about the world, had experience, had brains about this, cared. This guy had the platinum American Express card and didn?t even want to see Paris or London." Read the whole story in Robert Scheer's new book "Playing President." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: John Paul Stevens

Staff / Truthdig Jul 1, 2006 Truthdig salutes the 86-year-old Supreme Court justice who wrote the majority opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which struck down the military tribunals Bush set up to try Guantanamo detainees. But more important, this decision, in the words of a Yale law professor, "effectively undermines the Administration's strongest claims about Presidential power," and may constitute the legal framework necessary to halt the more egregious of Bush's civil liberties-infringing programs -- like warrantless wiretapping and holding terrorism suspects without trial. Dig deeper ( 2 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 Occupation of Iraqi Hearts and Minds

Nir Rosen / Truthdig Jun 28, 2006 Truthdig contributor Nir Rosen, an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, describes what it's like to live under the boot of a culturally callous -- and sometimes criminal -- occupying force in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Ron Suskind

Staff / Truthdig Jun 25, 2006 Truthdig salutes Ron Suskind, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose most recent book, "The One Percent Doctrine," stripped down Vice President Dick Cheney's counter-terrorism philosophy to its Strangelovian essence: If there is a 1% chance of a terrorist attack, America must respond as though it is a 100% certainty. Click here for disclosures from the book, Suskind TV appearances, links to other writings and biographical information. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )