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From U.S. Politics to Global Voices: Truthdig’s 2023 Highlights

Staff / Truthdig Dec 27, 2023 Selections from a year of long-form investigations, global dispatches, political analyses, commentaries, essays, film reviews and more. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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Kissinger’s Final Legacy

Christopher Weyant Dec 4, 2023 Dig deeper

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War Criminal Henry Kissinger Was a Hero to Media Elites

Norman Solomon / Truthdig Nov 30, 2023 The media establishment finds itself heaping praise upon the "noted statesman" despite his enduring legacy as an indefatigable war criminal. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

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After the Coup: An Interview With Peter Kornbluh, Part II

Marc Cooper / Truthdig Jul 11, 2023 How Kissinger and the CIA bolstered the regime of Augusto Pinochet for years—until they couldn’t. Dig deeper ( 34 Min. Read )

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Kissinger and the CIA in Chile: An Interview With Peter Kornbluh, Part I

Marc Cooper / Truthdig Jul 6, 2023 A comprehensive review of the U.S. role in the 1973 coup of Salvador Allende and its aftermath. Dig deeper ( 46 Min. Read )

Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Dec 11, 2019 The former Fed chairman’s obituaries leave out how his policies devastated lives in the 1980s and underwrote the 2008 financial crisis. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Hillary Clinton Spoils the Party

Jacob Bacharach / Truthdig Oct 25, 2019 In smearing Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the former presidential candidate has cast a pall over the primary and revealed how small she truly is. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Pity the Kurds

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 21, 2019 Donald Trump’s betrayal of our allies in northern Syria is part of a pattern by nation-states that have used the Kurds and abandoned them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Noam Chomsky: The Real Election Meddling Isn’t Coming From Russia

Alan MacLeod / FAIR Jun 20, 2019 The philosopher and linguist reflects on his seminal work, "Manufacturing Consent," and the sinister new ways we are sold to advertisers. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: Nixon’s Dark Legacy

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig May 18, 2019 The president who arguably was the most corrupt in U.S. history lost the Watergate battle but won in his bid to lock U.S. politics on a rightward course. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

Are the Days of U.S. Hegemony Finally Numbered?

Sharmini Peries / The Real News Network May 8, 2019 A burgeoning alliance between China and Russia threatens to upend the global order, University of Kent professor Richard Sakwa argues. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: Vietnam, a U.S. Tragedy

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Apr 20, 2019 Our military intervention there in the 1960s and ’70s cost 58,000 U.S. lives and created a gash in our nation's psyche that never healed. Dig deeper ( 27 Min. Read )