Gaza Update: Don’t Expect Quick Action by the International Criminal Court

Bill Blum / Truthdig Aug 26, 2014 The initiative to push the ICC into action rests with the Palestinians, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is stalling. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Ferguson Situation Highlights U.S. Duplicity for America’s Critics Abroad

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Aug 21, 2014 What does Ferguson, Mo., look like from afar right now? For some overseas critics of American foreign policy, it looks like a teachable moment to point out how the U.S. would do better to confront its own issues at home instead of policing the rest of the world. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

More Protests, Troops, an Autopsy and Amnesty International in Ferguson

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 18, 2014 As Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered National Guard troops into Ferguson, a preliminary autopsy revealed that police shot teen Michael Brown six times. Amnesty International ordered a delegation to monitor developments, and a local pastor called for the police chief's resignation after department leaks muddied clarity of the lead-up to the teen's death. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A War Crimes Investigation Could Benefit Both Sides in Gaza

Bill Blum / Truthdig Jul 30, 2014 If and when Palestine becomes a member state of the International Criminal Court, Israel should rejoin, and cooperate with any investigation into human rights violations. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

USA Freedom Act Passes House With Protests and Sighs

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 24, 2014 Many legislators and campaigners are unsatisfied with the "watered-down" version of the anti-surveillance bill that passed the House of Representatives on Thursday. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, Boxer and Fighter Against Racial Injustice, Dies at 76

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2014 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the middleweight boxer whose life outside the ring took on as much significance as his sports career when he was charged with murder in 1966, died in Toronto on Sunday after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 76. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Edward Snowden Says NSA Spied on Amnesty International and Other Human Rights Groups

Staff / Truthdig Apr 8, 2014 Former NSA contractor-turned-whistle-blower Edward Snowden made a virtual visit to a Council of Europe summit in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday to claim that the American security agency had spied on human rights organizations, including Amnesty International. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Pussy Riot Breaks With Liberated Duo

Staff / Truthdig Feb 7, 2014 This may be a case of overstatement, but six members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot have let it be known that Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, the two band members recently released from Russian prison, are no longer part of their collective. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Two Human Rights Groups Target U.S. Drone Policy as Illegal

BLANK Oct 22, 2013 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, in separate reports, accused the US of committing likely war crimes through the drone killings of civilians in Pakistan and Yemen Both also called for full investigations and more transparency from the U on whom it kills, where and why -- and to open itself to criminal investigations when those attacks violated international law. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Genocide Conviction of Efraín Ríos Montt Overturned

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 21, 2013 Guatemala's top court has thrown out the conviction of the general and former military dictator for genocide and crimes against humanity in what Amnesty International has called a "devastating blow for the victims of the serious human rights violations committed during the conflict." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

America the Militarized

Staff / Truthdig Dec 13, 2011 For some strange and troubling reason, the Senate's recent passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, which could drastically change the way the American military relates to US citizens on U soil, failed to raise much of an uproar . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Questions About Gadhafi’s Death Delay His Burial

Staff / Truthdig Oct 21, 2011 Just as in the case of Osama bin Laden's death last May, some major concerns have cropped up in the international community about the circumstances that led to Libyan leader Col Moammar Gadhafi's end on Thursday Specifically, whether the killing of Gadhafi might have been carried out in (more). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )