Amy Goodman on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/amy_goodman 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 2013-05-16T00:35:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo The Three Heroines of Guatemala: The Judge, the Attorney General and the Nobel Peace Laureate http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AmyGoodman/~3/FBGAZYFpscQ/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_three_heroines_of_guatemala_the_judge_the_attorney_general_and_the_nobe/ amy goodman, crimes against humanity, democracy, efrain rios montt, genocide, guatemala, history, human rights, military, torture, war, war crimes,

Former Guatemalan President Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was a historic moment, the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.

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Rape is center stage this week after the dramatic rescue of three women from close to a decade of imprisonment in a house on a quiet street in Cleveland.

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“Ultimately, the success of the nation depends on the character of its citizens.” So said George W. Bush in his speech at the dedication of his presidential library in Texas last week.

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The Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath has dominated the nation’s headlines. Yet, another series of explosions that happened two days later and took four times the number of lives, has gotten a fraction of the coverage.

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]]> 2013-04-24T23:12:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/terror_in_the_west_texas_night_20130424/ Peace Activists and Patriots at the Boston Marathon Bombing http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AmyGoodman/~3/msiJbxRFb0U/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/peace_activists_and_patriots_at_the_boston_marathon_bombing_20130418/ amy goodman, boston, boston marathon, boston marathon 2013, boston marathon bombing, boston marathon bombings, carlos arredondo, democracy, history, media,

Monday was Patriots’ Day in Massachusetts, celebrating the day the American Revolutionary War began in 1775, at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. It is also the day of the annual Boston Marathon, which will now, sadly, go down in history as yet another episode of senseless mass violence.

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WikiLeaks has released a new trove of documents, more than 1.7 million U.S. State Department cables dating from 1973-1976 that it has dubbed “The Kissinger Cables.”

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]]> 2013-04-10T21:49:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/wikileaks_new_release_the_kissinger_cables_and_bradley_manning_20130410/ Time for the Majority to Vote on Gun Control http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AmyGoodman/~3/c9YtDoKEwL0/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/time_for_the_majority_to_vote_on_gun_control_20130404/ barack obama, gun control, guns, joe biden, national rife association, newtown, newtown shootings, nra, politics, sandy hook, sandy hook elementary school, sandy hook shooting, senate,

The longer this drags out, the less likely anything will get done. That is why President Barack Obama’s announcement of a commission, just four days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, was a harbinger of failure and inaction.

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]]> 2013-04-04T19:07:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/time_for_the_majority_to_vote_on_gun_control_20130404/ Edie Windsor’s Day in Court http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/AmyGoodman/~3/BZDDI3a9YRQ/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/edie_windsors_day_in_court_20130327/ amy goodman, bill clinton, congress, defense of marriage act, democracy, doma, edie windsor, election, gay marriage, gay rights, gays, government, lgbt, marriage, prop 8, republicans, same-sex marriage, supreme court, white house,

Edie and Thea met in the early 1960s, in New York’s Greenwich Village. They hit it off.

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