CBC.ca Canada's Olympic Crackdown Truthdig “Are you going to talk about the Olympics?” he asked. I was puzzled. “Do you mean how President Obama recently traveled to Copenhagen to lobby for the ... Vancouver Olympics could be Canada's most watched sport event ever: pollVancouver Sun Democracy Now! host detained at Canadian borderReporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Journalist ...

<img src=" border="0" alt=" width="160" height="110" /> A once-temporary ban on the death penalty is now set to be enshrined into Russian law, permanently banning the practice as Russia prepares to join the majority of the world’s countries that have outlawed capital punishment. —JCL The BBC: Russia’s ban on the death penalty ...

Published on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by TruthDig.com by Robert Scheer "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." ... dictator was to end it, might we not be justified in expecting the enlightened president of a democratic society to do the same? © 2009 TruthDig.com Robert Scheer is editor of Truthdig.com and a regular columnist for The San ...

... 22, 2009 Peter Richardson's new book about the groundbreaking Ramparts Magazine says the rag changed America. Truthdig arts and culture editor Kasia Anderson asks the author and former Ramparts Editor Robert Scheer, Truthdig's editor-in-chief, why its impact isn't better remembered, and who will take its place. ...

... in a war that he always knew never made sense.   2009 CREATORS.COM Robert Scheer is editor of truthdig.com, where this column originally appeared. E- mail Robert Scheer at rscheer@truthdig.com.   Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  Ph: 410-366-1637 ...

... for all of eternity. And each day, we bloggers—from the Huffington Post, Mediaite, Truthdig, Gawker, etc.—plucked newsworthy clips from News1News' Youtube channel, surrounded them ... Jackson's "ghost" on Gawker, or Glenn Beck saying dumb stuff on Truthdig, you will only see "This Video is no longer available due to copyright claim by Fox News LLC". (SPOOKY!!) ...

... : “Revolving doors between industry and the administration and fat-cat political contributors getting bailed out at taxpayer expense sound like business as usual. This certainly isn’t change we can believe in.” Please, Mr. President, say it ain’t so. © 2009 TruthDig.com Robert Scheer is editor of Truthdig.com and a regular columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle.

Opium, Rape and the American Way By Chris Hedges November 03, 2009 "Truthdig" -- The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and ... us to fight against one enemy rather than two." Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and ...

Hungering for a True Thanksgiving By Amy Goodman Truthdig November 19, 2009 "In the next 60 seconds, 10 children will die of hunger," says a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) online video. It continues, "For the first time in humanity, over 1 billion people are chronically hungry." The WFP launched the Billion for a Billion campaign this week, urging the 1 billion ...

By Robert Scheer Truthdig "In a rare turnabout of camera and subject, “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman talks with Truthdig’s Robert Scheer about the major inspirations and role models of her life, her life’s work, and how the ongoing crisis in journalism is really a crisis of truth "

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig Nov. 9, 2009 Success in Afghanistan is measured in Washington by the ability to create an indigenous army that will battle the Taliban, provide security and stability for Afghan civilians and remain loyal to the puppet government of Hamid Karzai. A similar task eluded the Red Army, although the Soviets spent a

From TruthDig By Rep. Dennis Kucinich We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault legislation in which the

— from Truthdig "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." That biblical quotation certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set and whose past practices and recent cautions about Afghanistan should be heeded by Barack Obama. Or, on a secular note, if the Sermon on the Mount doesn't cut it for you, take ...

... Conservative Nation channel, with close to 200 clips, is also still online. Thus, Fox's move will mostly affect stories posted on progressive-leaning blogs, such as Gawker, the Huffington Post and Truthdig, while leaving intact YouTube clips embedded at conservative Web sites. Instead of embedded video, visitors to those sites will now see a notice stating that the video in question is " ...

... operation capitalizing on  Chavez' iconic legacy. The union threatened to sue both of us but never did. We were telling the truth. Now, Pawel, who left the Times shortly after her series was published, has come out with an innovative and heartbreaking social biography of the union and eight of its core leaders. Here is my extended essay review of Pawel's book as it appears on Truthdig.