William Rivers Pitt
William Rivers Pitt is Truthout's senior editor and lead columnist. He is also a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of three books: War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know, The Greatest Sedition Is Silence and House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation. His fourth book, The Mass Destruction of Iraq: Why It Is Happening, and Who Is Responsible, co-written with Dahr Jamail, is available now on Amazon. He lives and works in New Hampshire.
Other articles by this author
TPP in the USA Is Why We Occupy
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | The Long Lesson, and New Legacy, of September 11
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
It's Not War, So Stop Saying That
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
In The Absence of Heroes
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Message
War on Syria: Twenty Pounds of Stupid in a Ten-Pound Bag
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | You Are, In Fact, Being Watched
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
An American Reckoning
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
On the Cover of the Rolling Stone
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
To Be We the People Once Again
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
He Can Marry, She Can't Vote: Another Day in Deranged America
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | You, Terrorist
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | In Defense of Raised Voices
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Special Message from William Rivers Pitt
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Message
The End of the Beginning of the End
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
An Itty Bitty Pity Party for the Associated Press
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Friday Prayers at Yusuf Mosque
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Random Notes From the Police State
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Climbing Heartbreak Hill
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Obama Joins the Club
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
All Politics Is Local
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Iraq, Sandy Hook and America
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | Waking From My Moral Coma
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt: The Sequester is Good for You, and Other GOP Lies
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The "Fix" Is In: Laying Bare Some Sequester Lies
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | The United States of Aftermath
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | Obama, Boehner and the American Theater
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt: Tip Your Server and Save the World
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | Selling the Shooting
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Final Failure of a Failed Congress
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Resolve to Remember the Butcher's Bill
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
All I Want for Christmas...
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Shooting Is Business, and Business Is Good
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Thanksgiving in Dystopia
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Is Everything OK?
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Special Message
William Rivers Pitt | Winning the Outside Chance
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Obama Reelected to Second Term: Truthout Live Blog Election Day 2012
By William Rivers Pitt and Mark Karlin, Truthout | Live Blog
The Eye of the Storm That Sees Us All
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Festival of Gibberish
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
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William Rivers Pitt: When the President Comes to Town
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Big Joe and the Joyful Noise
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt: Hey, Joe
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Nationally-Televised Presidential Fail
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
I Will Occupy
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Just Another TV Show
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Week of Living Dangerously
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Romney, Ryan and Rape: A Todd Akin Special Delivery
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt: Beneath the Bottom of the Barrel
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Pudd'nhead Mitt and the Great Giveaway
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Thinking Makes It So
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Ballot or the Bullet
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Mitt's Kampaign Klown Kar
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
William Rivers Pitt | The Dawn's Early Light'
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
America Must Declare War on America
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Not With a Bang, but a Derp: It's Mitt
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Jo'rneyman's Song
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Essay
It Is Enough: An Open Letter to the Sick at Heart
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Weight
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Savage Arithmetic of the Pre-Existing Condition
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Let the Million Flowers Bloom
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Essay
The Finger of Fate Upon You
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Everything Dies
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
To My Mother
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Good Contest
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Message
When Clint Eastwood Mocks You, You're Officially Screwed
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Komen's Statement on Planned Parenthood: Reversal or PR Stunt?
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Report
This Is What I Know
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Staring at Empty Pages
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Lynching the Dream
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
In the Clearing Stands a Boxer: One Man's Fight Against Fracking
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
"The High Comedy of Alternate Reality"; or, "Ah ... Iowa"
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Rain and the Reckoning
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Final Indignity, the Last Insult, the Real America
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Short Tales From Bizarro World: The GOP Primaries Edition
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
It's Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Gut-Check Moment for Mr. Obama
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
In the Shadow of the Mountain
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The People's Surveillance State
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
This Is What America Looks Like
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Deadly Secrets
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Message
Republicans Crack Me Up
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Then They Fight You
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Moment of Pure Astonishment, Again
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A Delicate Moment for the Occupy Wall Street Movement
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Bank on It: They're Scared
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
An Open Letter to Wall Street
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Onward to Wall Street
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Class Warfare My Ass
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Truthout After Ten Years
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Cult of Death
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Children of Aftermath
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Dick Cheney, the Ultimate American Terrorist
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
War: Too Big to Fail
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Unacceptables
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
Next Stop: Train Wreck
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
The Wisconsin Solution
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed
A President in Reverse
By William Rivers Pitt, Truthout | Op-Ed