Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 16, 2013
Leaders of the unmanned aerial vehicle industry instructed journalists at a conference this week in Washington, D.C., to stop using the word "drone" to refer to the terrifying flying robots the government uses to monitor and kill people. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 16, 2013
Faced with the oversight of a new independent panel, the military has announced a plan to combat sexual assault in the ranks. Such attacks were up 37 percent in 2012, according to the Pentagon's own information. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 15, 2013
In response to the massacre of more than 500 Egyptians by the country's military, President Obama said Thursday that he "deplore[s] violence against civilians" but made no indication he would suspend military aid. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatchAug 15, 2013
Joe, like much else in his era, was hardly what he seemed. Launched the year Lyndon Johnson ran for president as a peace candidate against Barry Goldwater while his administration was secretly planning the large-scale bombing of North Vietnam, Joe, too, was involved in a cover-up. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigAug 15, 2013
Bert Yaffe, who died Monday, was a businessman and a decorated Marine combat veteran and one of the best human beings I will ever know. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigAug 15, 2013
The murderous assault by Egyptian security forces against supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsi is not only an ideological battle, but a war waged against hundreds of millions of Muslim poor who find in radical Islam their only source of hope, meaning and dignity.What is happening in Egypt is a precursor to a wider global war between the world’s elites and the world’s poor. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 15, 2013
At his court-martial Wednesday, the whistle-blower behind the biggest leak in American history apologized. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
William Pfaff / TruthdigAug 15, 2013
George Bush's overwrought and misdirected war against global terror, conceived as a war of the Righteous to destroy Evil, having failed wherever it was launched, has now been reconceived under Barack Obama as a war against political dysfunction. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 14, 2013
The interim Egyptian government has declared a national emergency and killed 149 people, it says, while clearing camps of people protesting its existence. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigAug 14, 2013
Whether he passes reforms or not, President Obama's mass surveillance program has made him the closest thing we have to Big Brother. Will his top lieutenants, Vice President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, take that funk with them into the next election? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigAug 13, 2013
Without the leaks, there would be no reforms. The politicians who kept us in the dark are the ones who should have to answer to the public. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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