Sarah Stillman / TruthdigMay 29, 2008
There's a group of contractors working in Baghdad's Green Zone that we don't often hear about: The cleaners, cooks and construction workers from places like Uganda who toil and die in obscurity. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Anna Badkhen / TruthdigMay 19, 2008
The war is over for now in Sahar al-Jawari's Baghdad neighborhood, but life is still a struggle. An American soldier encourages her not to be pessimistic, but it's hard to look on the bright side while supporting a family by selling off your jewelry. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Anna Badkhen / TruthdigMay 15, 2008
Sectarian violence has driven millions of Iraqis from their homes. Now that the violence has abated in one formerly upscale Baghdad neighborhood, residents are returning to find squatters who refuse to leave and a government and occupying army unwilling to kick them out. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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BLANKMay 11, 2008
As one U.S. soldier tells Truthdig foreign correspondent Anna Badkhen, it's not entirely a bad sign that residents of Baghdad's Saidiyah neighborhood are complaining about their meager daily power allotment: A year earlier they were concerned about just staying alive. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 11, 2008
You just can't catch a break as a politician these days. Right when you think you look all "hip" and "endearingly self-deprecating" by allowing yourself to be skewered by certain late-night comedians (bonus points if you're actually on the show while this gentle, aide-approved ribbing is happening), those same wise asses up and turn on you. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
BLANKMay 9, 2008
In this first installment in her series of stories from Iraq for Truthdig, veteran foreign correspondent Anna Badkhen reports about the civilian costs of war, life under occupation and the precarious state of a Baghdad burger joint. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
BLANKApr 29, 2008
Truthdig foreign correspondent Sarah Stillman reports from Iraq, where she finds parallels between America's fast food fortresses and the general engorgement of the war. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
The Center for Investigative ReportingApr 24, 2008
Two investigative reports uncover the Bush administration's efforts to suppress legal proceedings against high-ranking Chinese officials -- former Trade Minister Bo Xilai and Beijing's Olympic Organizing Committee President Liu Qi -- accused of torturing religious group members. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Jon Wiener / TruthdigMay 3, 2007
Palestinian intellectual, political figure and former PLO official Sari Nusseibeh (above) talks with Jon Wiener, historian and contributor to The Nation, about Nusseibeh's new memoir, future prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and the 2006 July War in Lebanon -- a war, he says, that "both sides lost." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigApr 24, 2007
Walls don't unite, they divide. Contrary to Bush's rosy estimation of the "surge," the news that the U.S. is ghettoizing Baghdad is a sign of how chaotic the situation has become. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Scott Ritter / TruthdigMar 24, 2007
The former weapons inspector and military intelligence officer plumbs the depths of American ignorance and offers this history of Iraq, the Mideast and Islam. When so few of our politicians, and even fewer of the citizens who elect them, understand the forces at work in Baghdad and beyond, is it any wonder the occupation has been a disaster?The former weapons inspector and military intelligence officer plumbs the depths of American ignorance and offers this history of Iraq, the Mideast and Islam. When so few of our politicians, and even fewer of the citizens who elect them, understand the forces at work in Baghdad and beyond, is it any wonder the occupation has been a disaster? Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 29, 2006
The Feminist Majority's Lorraine Sheinberg created the 1999 documentary that first focused attention on the Taliban's brutal oppression of women in Afghanistan. It's worth another look now. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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