Mike Pence’s West Point Address Should Keep Us Awake at Night

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig May 28, 2019 The vice president promises graduating cadets that they'll likely see combat. In a functioning democracy, it would have set off alarm bells. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Kofi Annan, Former U.N. Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 80

JOHN HEILPRIN and FRANCIS KOKUTSE / The Associated Press Aug 18, 2018 Annan was one of the world's most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become its first black African leader. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Confusion Reigns Over China’s Energy Policy

Kieran Cooke / Climate News Network May 7, 2018 China’s energy policy seems perplexing: It is implementing coal-use reductions at home, yet helping to build coal-fired power plants abroad. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia Now a Crime Scene

The Associated Press Nov 29, 2017 United Nations judges have suspended an appeals hearing after a convicted man drank from a small bottle in court and claimed to have taken poison. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Enabling Genocide

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Nov 26, 2017 The sentencing of a former general for the slaughter of civilians in the Bosnian war is a bitter reminder: Key nations of the West, including the U.S., have been deeply complicit in genocide. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Samantha Power, Former Human Rights Journalist, to Receive Award From Henry Kissinger

Staff / Truthdig Jun 1, 2016 Although she is currently the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in the past Power has called out Kissinger for his role in human rights abuses. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 9, 2015 Both ISIS and the West revel in brutality that feeds the fever for war. The line that separates us from our enemies is technological, not moral. We are those we fight. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Let My People Go

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Aug 11, 2014 Chris Hedges delivered this address Saturday in New York City before demonstrators marched to UN headquarters in support of the people of Gaza The event was part of a day of international protest against the Israeli military assault on Palestinians. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Sarajevo 1914 / Gaza 2014: The Short Twentieth Century Lingers On

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Aug 4, 2014 Strange the way things line up, the through-lines that suddenly reveal themselves amidst the twists and turns of historical progression. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Week in Truthdig

Staff / Truthdig Jul 26, 2014 In lieu of our regularly scheduled radio show, we present a summary of some of this week's most interesting original content, including the goings-on in Gaza and the trouble with Executive Order 12333. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Palestinians’ Right to Self-Defense

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 24, 2014 If the international community will not halt Israel's Gaza attack and war crimes then it must concede to the Palestinians the right to self-defense under the U.N. Charter. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Gaza as Sarajevo

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Jul 24, 2014 The image of Israeli tank columns safely ranged on the periphery of Gaza methodically lobbing in round after round of supposedly precision-guided munitions (precision, that is, give or take the odd 25 person civilian family huddled together for the breaking of their Ramadan fast), sent me whistling back to my own time in Sarajevo, after the lifting of the siege there in the wake of the Dayton Accords in late 1995. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )