The Purpose of Argument Online

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 23, 2014 The "public face of social liberalism" is synonymous with "an endless list of things that you can't do or say or think, and with the constant threat of being called an existentially bad person if you say the wrong thing," journalist Freddie deBoer writes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Help Needed Now for Climate Refugees

By Paul Brown, Climate News Network Jun 12, 2014 A United Nations University report urges governments worldwide to draw up plans urgently to avoid conflict and insecurity by helping populations that are being forced to move because of climate change. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Doves Rising

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Drought Adds to Syria’s Misery

By Kieran Cooke, Climate News Network Apr 19, 2014 The hunger-ravaged people of Syria have a long period of drought to blame for their ordeal. And that, experts think, is a result of the changing regional climate. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Climate Change ‘Makes Violence Likelier’

By Alex Kirby, Climate News Network Mar 31, 2014 Climate is helping to increase political instability and violence, scientists say, in studies that reinforce a key conclusion by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A New World Order?

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Mar 3, 2014 Increasingly, the unitary status of states is being called into question. Civil war, violence, and internecine struggles of various sorts are visibly on the rise. In many cases, state power seems to be draining away to no other state’s gain. So here’s one question: Where exactly is power located on our planet right now? Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Viktor Yanukovych Addresses the World

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 28, 2014 “I am the legitimate president of Ukraine,” the deposed Ukrainian president said Friday at a news conference in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Study: Climate Change Means More Violence

By Tim Radford, Climate News Network Aug 2, 2013 As planetary temperatures rise, so does the likelihood of murder, rape and domestic violence, as well as civil war, ethnic bloodshed and invasion, the collapse of government and even the collapse of civilization, a new exhaustive study shows. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Lily-Pad Strategy

By David Vine, TomDispatch Jul 17, 2012 Unknown to most Americans, Washington’s garrisoning of the planet is on the rise, thanks to a new generation of small, secretive, inaccessible bases with limited numbers of troops, spartan amenities, and prepositioned weaponry and supplies. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

South Sudan Vote on Secession Begins

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2011 Jubilant residents of war-torn southern Sudan lined up outside polling stations on Sunday, the first day of a weeklong referendum on the question of seceding from the northern half of the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Belts

Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria Oct 2, 2010 Dig deeper

iRape

Staff / Truthdig Jan 4, 2010 The dirty little secret of the consumer electronics boom is that a lot of the sexy little gadgets you use every day are made from minerals that help fund what this video says is "the deadliest conflict in the world since the holocaust." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )