atrocity

Shooting Tragedy in Santa Barbara Leaves 7 Dead

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 25, 2014 A 22-year-old man with apparent social difficulties is suspected of killing six people and injuring seven late Friday near the University of California campus in Santa Barbara. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Obama’s Bad Prescription for Indonesia

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Mar 24, 2010 The White House is engaged in fierce behind-the-scenes negotiations with Congress on whether to restore aid to the Indonesian military, which has a habit of committing atrocities. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Remember Vietnam

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Sep 5, 2007 Sex scandals aside, it's too soon to simply let Bush's asinine Vietnam analogy go. The team that has so often ignored history is out to rewrite it, and they must be stopped. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Real-Life Violence

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2007 Director Brian DePalma says "Pictures are what will stop the war," and he's out to prove it. His new film "Redacted," which focuses on the brutal rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family, uses graphic images from the war that he says media outlets have been too timid to show. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A Culture of Atrocity

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 18, 2007 The veteran foreign correspondent writes that while physical courage is common on the battlefield, moral courage is not. When young men and women are sent to occupy a foreign land -- whether Vietnam, Gaza or Iraq -- and they encounter constant danger, a population hostile to their presence and a faceless but determined enemy, the value of human life inevitably becomes relative and killing all too quickly becomes murder. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )