Donald Trump Is Getting Off Easy

Paul Street / Truthdig Oct 17, 2019 Impeachment over UkraineGate won’t take care of the left's goals to end the criminal acceleration of ecocide and address rampant inequality. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Constitutional Collision: Trump Won’t Cooperate in Impeachment Probe

ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN / The Associated Press Oct 8, 2019 The letter to House leaders begins a new White House strategy to counter the threat to the president: Stall. Obfuscate. Attack. Repeat. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Donald Trump Is Finished

Bill Blum / Truthdig Sep 30, 2019 Whether he’s ultimately convicted of impeachment in the Senate or not, it seems a foregone conclusion that he will not serve a second term. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

House to Query 60 Trump Officials in Obstruction Probe

HOPE YEN / The Associated Press Mar 3, 2019 The Judiciary Committee will "initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption," Chairman Jerrold Nadler says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

French Authorities Announce Plans to Set Up Deradicalization Centers

Staff / Truthdig May 9, 2016 The French government on Monday said it would set up a dozen such facilities across the country for the purpose of identifying, housing and reforming would-be terrorists. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Sex, Drugs and Dead Soldiers: What the U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Apr 22, 2015 As American military operations have ramped up across Africa, reports of excessive drinking, sex with prostitutes, drug use, sexual assaults, and other forms of violence by AFRICOM personnel have escalated, and many of them have been kept under wraps. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

A Forceful Call to Rescue Democracy: Peter Richardson on Robert Scheer’s New Book

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 31, 2015 The Truthdig editor-in-chief's new book, “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy,” continues the important work on the abuse of power he began five decades ago, writes Peter Richardson at The National Memo.The Truthdig editor-in-chief’s new book, “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy,” continues the important work on the abuse of power he began five decades ago, writes Peter Richardson at The National Memo. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Grand Jury Indicts Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Abuse of Power Charges

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Aug 16, 2014 The Texas governor's presidential aspirations may take a back seat to his legal troubles. Rick Perry stands formally accused of two felonies related to his attempt to force the state capital's district attorney, a Democrat, to resign. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Revealed: Abuse of Secrets Privilege in Obama’s DOJ

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 15, 2014 For almost a decade the U.S. government refused to let Stanford Ph.D. student Rahinah Ibrahim back in the country after putting her on a no-fly list and not telling her why. Invoking the state secrets privilege, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed the information she wanted “could reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to national security.” Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 17, 2013 Sen Kirsten Gillibrand told a panel of judge advocate generals that their supposed efforts to resolve the military's sexual abuse crisis were not enough Kirsten Gillibrand told a panel of judge advocate generals that their efforts to resolve the military's sexual abuse crisis were not enough. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Road Map to Despotism

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 12, 2007 Despite spending an estimated $80 million, the government was unable to prove that Dr. Sami Al-Arian was a terrorist, yet he remains in prison and his sentence will probably be extended. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges warns that the abusive imprisonment of this nonviolent Palestinian dissenter does not bode well for the rest of us. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )