Ray McGovern / ConsortiumnewsApr 5, 2018
John Bolton was seen as one of the "crazies" in the George W. Bush administration. Now he will be the national security adviser for Donald Trump. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Barbara Myers / TruthdigMar 15, 2018
The 50th anniversary of the U.S. massacre in Vietnam offers an opportunity to take stock of American culpability for the gravest of crimes. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Mike Farrell / TruthdigOct 6, 2016
President Obama’s decision to spare CIA torturers from prosecution is wrong. "Good Germans who were only following orders" are not exempt from the bar of justice. Individuals must be held responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Juan Cole / TruthdigOct 23, 2015
In saying a mufti put Hitler up to the Holocaust, the Israeli prime minister is attempting to paint Palestinians as congenital Jew-haters -- justifying robbing them of their remaining land, their livelihoods and their lives. Netanyahu is wrong on the history.In claiming that a mufti put Hitler up to the Holocaust, the Israeli prime minister is trying to paint Palestinians as congenital Jew-haters—justifying continued quashing of their future. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigJan 19, 2015
Lola Mozes’ desperate plea to a Nazi camp guard did not save her mother. But by then her parents had taught her a lesson that has informed her life—no human being ever has the right to live at the expense of another. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigDec 17, 2014
In 1946, the judges of Nuremberg ordered that high-ranking war criminals -- the people who had ordered that the gloves be taken off -- should be hanged until dead. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Amy Goodman / TruthdigOct 6, 2010
News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 18, 2008
In what will be the Pentagon's first war crimes trial since World War II, the U.S. will go forward Monday in trying Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Unknown still is the trial date for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the government cabal that also may have committed war crimes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 22, 2008
It's unfortunately not unusual anymore to hear about the politicization of American legal and intelligence institutions under the Bush administration, but, even so, this report by The Nation's Ross Tuttle about how the trials of six key prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have allegedly been rigged from the get-go is disturbing. Updated Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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