Noam Chomsky: Why Trump Is Pushing the Doomsday Clock to the Brink of Midnight

By David Gibbs / AlterNet Apr 3, 2017 The linguist and political commentator discusses the U.S. president, Russia, history and the future in a recent interview. (Pictured, two scientists at a Jan. 26 news conference.) Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Those Who Uncovered Navy SEAL Abuse of Prisoners in Afghanistan

Roisin Davis / Truthdig Dec 21, 2015 A handful of US personnel made reports on the lethal brutality after it occurred in 2012, and their accounts were brought to public attention by three New York Times writers last week This combined effort has informed the American citizenry, once again, about atrocities committed in its name A handful of U. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Obama From Afghanistan: ‘This Is Where It Will End’ (Update: Video)

Staff / Truthdig May 2, 2012 First the president spoke to the troops, then to the American people. In a live address from Afghanistan, Barack Obama echoed his predecessor: "I will not keep Americans in harm's way a single day longer than is absolutely required for our national security."In a live address from Afghanistan, Barack Obama echoed his predecessor. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Karzai’s Bagram Demands Add Stress to U.S. Policy

William Pfaff / Truthdig Jan 11, 2012 The Afghan government's order a week ago to the United States to close its prison at Bagram Air Base near Kabul, where it holds unidentified prisoners, came as a shock to Washington. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama Nearly Triples Bagram Detainee Population

Staff / Truthdig Jun 6, 2011 The number of detainees held at a Guantanamo-like military detention center in Afghanistan has almost tripled in the three years since President Obama took office. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

U.S. Still Running Secret Jails

Staff / Truthdig Nov 28, 2009 Human rights researchers and former detainees agree: Despite its stated goal of improving detention conditions, the US continues to run a secret prison in Afghanistan, a site that holds inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to outside groups such as the Red Cross Another such U jail is said to exist in Iraq. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Extreme Makeover: Bagram Prison Edition

Staff / Truthdig Jul 20, 2009 The New York Times reports that a U.S. military review calls for "overhauling the troubled American-run prison [at Bagram Air Base] as well as the entire Afghan jail and judicial systems, a reaction to worries that abuses and militant recruiting within the prisons are helping to strengthen the Taliban." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

More Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse

Staff / Truthdig Jun 24, 2009 More than two dozen former detainees at the Bagram military base in Afghanistan say they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs while under U.S. supervision there between 2002 and 2008. None of the detainees were ever charged, and some got apologies upon release. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Torture Is a Crime That Must Be Punished

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Apr 10, 2009 I realize that many Americans, given the scope of the economic crisis and the ambitions of the new administration, would rather look forward than revisit the past. The business of torture, however, is too unspeakable to be left unfinished. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Father of Guantanamo

Marie Cocco / Truthdig Apr 9, 2009 Indefinite and secret detention at the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, was a fundamental breach of justice and morality when the Bush administration did it. It is made worse by the stench of hypocrisy when the Obama administration does it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )