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Truthdig is an online Web magazine that provides a mix of long-form articles, interviews, and blog-like commentary on current events, delivered from a progressive point-of-view. The site is built around major "digs" led by authorities in their fields, who write multi-faceted pieces about contemporary, often controversial, topics. Articles on Truthdig are open for comments, and the participants in the discussion tend to be somewhat left-leaning. Truthdig was co-founded by Los Angeles entrepreneur Zuade Kaufman, who serves as publisher, and journalist Robert Scheer, the website's editor, ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Unintended Consequences in Nuclear Pakistan
If U.S. military leaders are right that they cannot prevail in Afghanistan without escalating into Pakistan, this is the strongest possible argument for withdrawing from ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
What Will History Make of Colin Powell?
How do we remember history? Time diminishes our memories of details and spear carriers. Thirty-five years ago, as Richard Nixon prepared to resign, we readily recited the ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Why So Scared of a Public Plan?
Within the coming weeks, Americans will begin to consider critical issues concerning the future of health care for themselves and their children, including universal coverage, ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
"Clean" Energy and Poisoned Water
Corporations in Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and upstate New York have launched a massive program to extract natural gas through a process that could, if it goes ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
U.S. Intel Chief's Shocking Warning: Wall Street's Disaster Has Spawned Our Greatest Terrorist Threat
In plain English, something bureaucrats and the military seem incapable of employing, this translates into the imposition of martial law and a de facto government being run ...Posted by Gregory Kruse -
Cheney's Legacy of Deception
But the hoary warmongering after 9/11 afforded a convenient distraction from the economic problems at home. As I asked in a column on June 26, 2002: "Has the war on terrorism ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
McCain's Race-Baiting Scoundrels
On Sunday, the exceedingly thin-skinned Graham was still shocked, saddened and outraged over Obama's throwaway line, spoken days earlier, about not looking like previous ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on ...Posted by Ben Ross -
The Illusion of Saving Nations From Themselves
It is an axiom of history that no government put in place by foreign troops, or needing to be maintained in place by them against internal opposition, can be considered a ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them
Neither newspaper indicated why we needed $100 billion in tankers, other than in a revealing photo in the Times showing one of the airplanes refueling a B-2 bomber,Posted by Dwight Rousu
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The Man Who Put the Rainbow in 'The Wizard of Oz'
There’s more to the Scarecrow and the Tin Man than meets the eye, and Harburg’s message has renewed resonance today in the midst of the greatest financial collapse since ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Why I Voted No
We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the strengthening, ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia
War memorials and museums are temples to the god of war. The hushed voices, the well-tended grass, the flapping of the flags allow us to ignore how and why our young died. ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Let Us Not Become the Evil We Deplore
Barbara Lee presciently compared the invasion of Afghanistan to Vietnam in her speech back in 2001 and closed by quoting the Rev. Nathan Baxter, dean of the National ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Reports - Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War
Instead of reading ecology and novels on his vacation, the president should read Charles de Gaulle. He ended the dreadful insurrection in Algeria that brought him back to ...Posted by John Louden -
Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan
Karnow told the AP that the main lesson to be learned from Vietnam was that “we shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”Posted by Dwight Rousu -
The Politics of the Jackboot
Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush?Posted by Dwight Rousu -
In a Reasoned Debate, Single Payer Will Come Out on Top
A health care “reform” that protects private insurers and massive profits for the pharmaceutical industry inevitably becomes an ugly game where ordinary people’s ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Reports - Pulling the Plug on the Public Option
Sen. Kent Conrad on Saturday declared “there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option. There never have been.” Conrad, a key health care ...Posted by John Louden -
Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero
It’s lack of adequate health care. So maybe the president’s solution isn’t Jack Bauer, but rather the actor who plays him. The star of “24” is played by Kiefer ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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