Staff / TruthdigApr 25, 2012
The New York Times columnist is paid for his opinions, but he says, "like many liberal American Jews I basically avoid thinking about where Israel is going" And where it's going, writes Krugman, is "national suicide". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 23, 2012
Until his daughter, Marine, captured 19 percent of the vote in France's first round of presidential elections Sunday, Jean Marie Le Pen was the country's most politically successful right-wing crazy In a way he saw this coming, promoting his daughter, as The Guardian recalls, as a "big healthy blonde girl an ideal physical specimen". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 2, 2012
After an international conference in Turkey, the Syrian National Council said it will receive millions a month in funding from wealthy Gulf nations to pay Syrians who are either rebelling against or defecting from President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMar 28, 2012
Fake photographs of Trayvon Martin are being used to diminish public concern about his killing; emails and other documents of the Department of Homeland Security reveal that the hacktivist group Anonymous was investigated as a dangerous security threat; Egyptian women are finding ways to express their revolutionary voices through music. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 28, 2012
AP claims a source familiar with high-level American-Israeli discussions says Israeli officials have made it clear they will not alert the U.S. before any attack by their country on Iran. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 22, 2012
Press representatives at the White House and the State Department are using the same vague phrase, "additional measures," to describe the administration's mystery plan for addressing the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 22, 2012
Syrian forces are shelling Homs while across the country, reports ITN's Jonathan Rugman, "state brutality has failed to crush" the popular uprising. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 15, 2012
Angry Greeks tried to torch Athens after parliament passed an austerity package Sunday While European leaders continue to press for additional cuts, the Greek minister for citizen protection says the Greek people "cannot take any more we have reached the limits of the social and economic system". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 9, 2012
A $750 million, 104-acre complex that employs 16,000 people might have been George W. Bush's concept of an embassy, but the people who run the country that happens to surround America's fortress in Baghdad aren't thrilled and the State Department has decided to scale back. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Barry Lando / TruthdigFeb 8, 2012
In the brief interview he gave NBC before the Super Bowl, President Obama declared, “I’ve been very clear that we’re going to do everything we can to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and creating an arms race, a nuclear arms race, in a volatile region.” Sounds like a very laudable goal, right? Except for the fact that the nuclear arms race in the Middle East is already under way. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 30, 2012
Those words above belong to Iraq's acting minister of the interior, Adnan al-Asadi, who is quoted by The New York Times among other Iraqi officials reacting negatively to the State Department's unmanned (and unauthorized) surveillance drones flying over Baghdad. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 6, 2012
Obama dodges Netanyahu's attempts to suck the U.S. into a war against Iran; Stephen Colbert's many fictional faces are interfering with real world politics; meanwhile, the Argentine LGBT community is combatting the country's deep-rooted stereotypes. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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