Reports | Truthdig http://www.truthdig.com/report/ 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 2013-05-24T16:19:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Three Questions Left Unanswered by Obama’s Counterterrorism Speech http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/fXyhQq7YSz0/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/three_questions_left_unanswered_by_obamas_counterterrorism_speech_20130524/ barack obama, bill blum, codepink, counterterrorism, drone wars, drones, guantanamo, guantanamo bay prison, medea benjamin, national security, speech, terrorism,

The president’s address Thursday left at least three core issues in the war on terror entirely unsettled: when Guantanamo will close, who will oversee future drone attacks and when surveillance of the press will end.

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]]> 2013-05-24T16:19:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/three_questions_left_unanswered_by_obamas_counterterrorism_speech_20130524/ New York City’s Summers May Heat Up http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/HE-wcqEnqOY/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/new_york_citys_summers_may_heat_up_20130524/ brooklyn, chinese centre for disease control and prevention, climate change, climate news network, columbia university, global warming, heat death, heat stroke, manhattan, new york, new york city, queens, summer, the bronx, tim radford, By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

Cities are liable to heat up much more than open countryside as the climate warms, and in the case of New York City, this could mean a big increase in heat-related deaths.

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]]> 2013-05-24T13:48:53+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/new_york_citys_summers_may_heat_up_20130524/ After Oklahoma Disaster, Give Thanks to Government http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/JzEsaKi4AIY/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/after_oklahoma_disaster_give_thanks_to_government_20130523/ charity, david sirota, government, money, natural disaster, oklahoma, politics, tornadoes, There is something troubling about government leaders initially implying—if subtly—that a nongovernmental response is as significant as a governmental one.

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]]> 2013-05-24T04:10:38+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/after_oklahoma_disaster_give_thanks_to_government_20130523/ A Mission on Climate Change http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/66xjJNIxZU0/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_mission_on_climate_change_20130523/ climate, climate change, climate crisis, congress, economy, environment, eugene robinson, global warming, government, history,

President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem.

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]]> 2013-05-24T00:53:21+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_mission_on_climate_change_20130523/ More Exposés, Less Action http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/zAI91NK3SV0/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/more_exposes_less_action_20130523/ action, articles, books, cable news, civic engagement, community, documentary, fluff, media, morning news shows, politics, television, By Ralph Nader

This new media landscape is more hostile to the civic community and discourages the younger generation from believing that change is truly within our grasp.

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]]> 2013-05-23T19:31:44+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/more_exposes_less_action_20130523/ Terracide and the Terrarists: Destroying the Planet for Record Profits http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/8eO0fPRFWNc/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/terracide_and_the_terrarists_20130523/ big oil, bp, british petroleum, chevron, climate change, conocophillips, exxonmobil, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse gases, oil, petroleum, shell, terracide, terrarist, terror, terrorist, tom engelhardt, tomdispatch, By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch

We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group, and one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment. But we don’t have one for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live on. “Terracide,” from the Latin word for earth, has the right ring, given its similarity to the commonplace danger word of our era: terrorist.

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]]> 2013-05-23T14:42:52+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/terracide_and_the_terrarists_20130523/ Fish Migration Reveals Ocean Warming http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/UT3-C0LW8Nc/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fish_migration_reveals_ocean_warming_20130523/ climate change, climate news network, fish migration, global warming, nature, ocean warming, By Tim Radford, Climate News Network

Establishing what temperatures suit different species of fish has enabled scientists to find elusive evidence of what climate change is doing to oceans.

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]]> 2013-05-23T13:44:08+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/fish_migration_reveals_ocean_warming_20130523/ Benghazi: Dissecting Congressional Follies, Media Coverage and ‘Cover-Up’ Charges http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/s6kSj4OWA_w/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/benghazi_dissecting_congressional_follies_media_coverage_and_cover-up_charg/ benghazi, benghazi attack, benghazi libya, benghazi scandal, benghazi witch hunt, darrell issa, obama administration, politics, state department, thomas pickering,

An interview with Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the State Department’s Benghazi review board and has found himself a target of Republican Rep. Darrell Issa of California, the excitable partisan who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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]]> 2013-05-23T06:29:10+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/benghazi_dissecting_congressional_follies_media_coverage_and_cover-up_charg/ Oklahoma Needs Help, Not Ideology http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/qCxJ5wDSViw/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/oklahoma_needs_help_not_ideology_20130522/ disaster, disaster aid, natural disaster, oklahoma, oklahoma moore, oklahoma moore tornado, oklahoma tornado, politics, tornado,

While listening to an NPR report out of Moore, Okla., this week, I was genuinely shocked. Not by the scale of the devastation or the tenacity of people who have grown stoically accustomed to the damage tornadoes can do, but by a political sentiment that, in almost any other era, would not have been surprising at all.

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]]> 2013-05-23T06:15:39+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/oklahoma_needs_help_not_ideology_20130522/ It’s Time to Support Guantanamo Detainees http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Truthdig/Reports/~3/cI_ZFejLfcA/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_call_to_support_guantanamo_detainees_20130522/ guantanamo, guantanamo bay, guantanamo bay detainees, guantanamo bay detention center, guantanamo bay hunger strike, hunger strike, obama administration, protest, torture, By Timothy Murphy

Last Friday marked the 100th day of the detainees’ hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. I am not a Guantanamo detainee, but I too began a water-only hunger fast.

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