The Capitalist Hagiography Has Little Room for Saints

Stuart Whatley / Truthdig May 5, 2010 Perhaps the most enervating element of the BP-Deepwater Horizon disaster is its eerie familiarity -- the sheer, inexorable predictability of it all. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Obama Is Sending BP the Bill

Staff / Truthdig May 3, 2010 It's difficult to predict how many billions of dollars the cleanup effort in the Gulf of Mexico is going to end up costing, but President Obama, touring the devastation over the weekend, says he knows who should pay (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Rough Seas Spread Oily Misery

Staff / Truthdig May 1, 2010 Amid a wave of finger-pointing, rough waters in the Gulf of Mexico have quickly tripled the surface area of what could become one of the most disastrous oil spills in U.S. history, with the goo already lapping at valuable shoreline habitat. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Don’t Drill, Baby, Drill

Staff / Truthdig Apr 30, 2010 Just a month after President Obama's rightward lunge into the realm of political appeasement known as offshore drilling, the administration reinstituted a ban on new drilling as it investigates the causes of the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cuba and Russia Get Back Together

Staff / Truthdig Jul 30, 2009 The Russians are coming to Cuba Moscow has inked a deal with Havana to hunt down and suck out what could be as much as 20 billion barrels of oil from Cuba's share of the Gulf of Mexico It's just like old times . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

From the Bayou to Baghdad: Mission Accomplished?

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Sep 5, 2007 The host of "Democracy Now!" reports from New Orleans, where residents are fighting to keep their homes and resist the unholy alliance of opportunistic developers and an unresponsive government. Meanwhile, the president seems just as oblivious to the suffering of people in Louisiana as he is to that of Iraqis. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Katrina and Terror Coverage Win Pulitzers

Staff / Truthdig Apr 18, 2006 Two Gulf Coast newspapers took home the big award for their hurricane reportage; Risen and Lichtblau of the N.Y. Times won for their stories on Bush's eavesdropping; and Dana Priest of the Washington Post earned a Pulitzer for reporting on secret CIA prisons. Full list of winners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Caught on Tape

Staff / Truthdig Mar 4, 2006 This Washington Post editorial cuts through the smokescreen of Bush's Katrina apologists. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Katrina Video Refuels Debate Over Bush’s Response

Staff / Truthdig Mar 3, 2006 The video that made a liar out of Bush on Katrina has reignited the controversy over his administration's incompetent response to the hurricane. Democrats are calling for an independent probe into the catastrophe, and the video has even taken enough of the heat off ex-FEMA Director Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown so that he's now calling for the firing of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Tape: Bush Warned on Levees Before Katrina

Staff / Truthdig Mar 2, 2006 Confidential video footage obtained by the Associated Press proves that federal officials warned Bush that Hurricane Katrina could breach levees and cause a tidal wave of disaster Watch the video Ex-FEMA chief Michael "Heckuva Job" Brown says Bush was overconfident about FEMA's response to Katrina FireDogLake: In an attempt to spin the story and make Bush seem in charge, the White House leaked Newsweek transcripts from FEMA conference calls during and after Katrina. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )