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September 6, 2010
'They Kill Alex'
Crazed and distraught with grief, the father went into his garage and took out five gallons of gasoline and a propane torch. He walked past the three Marines in their dress blues and began to smash the windows of the government van with a hammer.
They Kill Alex
Crazed and distraught with grief, the father went into his garage and took out five gallons of gasoline and a propane torch. He walked past the three Marines in their dress blues and began to smash the windows of the government van with a hammer.
September 5, 2010
'They Kill Alex'
Crazed and distraught with grief, the father went into his garage and took out five gallons of gasoline and a propane torch. He walked past the three Marines in their dress blues and began to smash the windows of the government van with a hammer.
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September 1, 2010
Chris Hedges on Moral Courage
The Truthdig columnist begins this speech to the Veterans for Peace convention by saying, "Physical courage is something you see on a battlefield. Moral courage you almost never see."
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August 16, 2010
Formalizing Israel's Land Grab
Desperate Israeli politicians, watching opposition to their apartheid state mount, have proposed a perverted form of what they term "the one-state solution."
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August 9, 2010
The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears
Muslim, Christian or Jew, we ignore this suffering at the peril of our own humanity. As Rachel Corrie wrote in her last letter to her parents, "I could live a comfortable life and possibly, with no effort at all, exist in complete unawareness of my participation in genocide."
August 1, 2010
Why the Feds Fear Thinkers Like Howard Zinn
By the end of Howard Zinn's 423-page FBI file one walks away with a profound respect for the historian and a deep distaste for the buffoonish goons in the FBI who followed and monitored him.
July 21, 2010
Live Chat: Chris Hedges on Global Warming
If you missed our inaugural Q&A session with author and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges in which he discussed with readers his latest column, Calling All Future-Eaters, or you just want to relive the excitement, you can read the full transcript here.
July 19, 2010
Calling All Future-Eaters
We sit passive and dumb as corporations and the leaders of industrialized nations ensure that climate change will accelerate to levels that could mean the extinction of our species. Homo sapiens, as the biologistTim Flannery points out, are the "future-eaters."
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