A/V Booth | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/ Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-18T17:14:14+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo ‘Left, Right & Center’: The White House Scandal Trifecta http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AVBooth/~3/DrwWXDQj9m8/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/left_right_center_the_white_house_scandal_trifecta_20130518/ ap, associated press, benghazi, irs, rich lowry, robert scheer, scandal, white house,

Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask whether the Obama administration will be distracted and ineffective from here on out. The head of the IRS apologizes and claims there was no political motivation behind its treatment of conservative groups. Is it a benign symbol of an unwieldy, too-big government, or a terrifying reminder of the Nixon years?

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The Other 98%, a group loosely associated with Occupy Wall Street, is trying to raise enough cash to outbid Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers in their efforts to buy the Tribune Company, owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and The Baltimore Sun, among other newspapers.

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Jon Stewart tells the former Bush administration officials that no, after the atrocities they committed while in office, they don’t get to question anyone’s credibility or weigh in about President Obama’s handling of the fatal Benghazi, Libya, attacks.

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After allegedly beating 33-year-old David Sal Silva to death last week, Kern County, Calif., officers reportedly confiscated cellphones from multiple witnesses containing videos of the incident. One piece of footage they apparently weren’t able to take away, however, is a grainy black and white surveillance video that shows parts of the encounter.

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A viral video adaptation of a commencement speech given in 2005 by the hugely influential late American author reaches for a healing vision of a common humanity amid the relentless crushings of a capitalized and corporatized society.

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“We are now in the last moments of an effort to, in essence, effectively extinguish press freedom,” the Truthdig columnist told “Democracy Now!” in a conversation Wednesday about revelations of the Justice Department’s seizure of work, home and cellphone records of up to 100 reporters and editors at The Associated Press.

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“Here at Gingrich Productions, we’ve spent weeks figuring out what do you call this,” a completely serious Gingrich says holding up a smartphone. Now he’s asking for your help to name something that already has a name.

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A veteran Air Force drone pilot has opened up about his unsettling experiences killing alleged militants and probable civilians from an air-conditioned trailer in the American West.

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]]> 2013-05-11T18:02:56+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/homeless_drone_pilot_talks_about_attacks_20130511/ Greenwald vs. Maher on the ‘Unique’ Nastiness of Muslims http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AVBooth/~3/qzlo5OrFB0I/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/greenwald_vs_maher_on_the_unique_nastiness_of_muslims_20130511/ arab spring, bill maher, glenn greenwald, hob, hosni mubarak, islam, middle east, muslims, real time,

Friday night on Bill Maher’s “Real Time,” Guardian columnist and former civil rights litigator Glenn Greenwald attacked the view that Islam is a “uniquely” threatening force in the world and that Muslims should be deprived of the benefits of the classical liberal values that many groups in the West have struggled to make into policy since the 18th-century Enlightenment.

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]]> 2013-05-11T16:53:41+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/greenwald_vs_maher_on_the_unique_nastiness_of_muslims_20130511/ What’s Going on With Obama and Drug Policy? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AVBooth/~3/1oSng3KLziw/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/whats_going_on_with_obama_and_drug_policy_20130510/ barack obama, bill blum, book, capital punishment, children, chris hedges, christie thompson, cory silverberg, death penalty, drugs, fcc, julian assange, law, marijuana, mark lloyd, sex, terrorism, Truthdig Radio

This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: With marijuana, alone, the administration has adopted multiple, contrary positions. Also: The past and future FCC, why we don’t execute terrorists, and baby books for kids.

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