Media

Phil Donahue, 1935-2024

Jeff Cohen / Common Dreams Aug 20, 2024 Remembering TV’s most progressive daytime host, fired for giving airtime to Iraq War opponents. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

TD Original

The Gruesome Frontier of Thermobaric Weapons

Lital Khaikin / Truthdig May 16, 2024 As these “heat and pressure” explosive munitions become more widely used, observers say international law is “utterly inadequate.” Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

Torture, Abu Ghraib, and the Legacy of the U.S. War on Iraq

Maha Hilal / TomDispatch May 1, 2024 20 years after the Iraq War prison scandal, victims are still in court and Washington is still trying to forget. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Film

An Enhanced Interrogation of an American Shame

Carrie Rickey / Truthdig Apr 26, 2024 In “I Am Gitmo,” French director Philippe Diaz recreates the torture rooms inside the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Finally Get Their Day in Court

Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Apr 16, 2024 Two decades after being brutally tortured, three Iraqis have brought a lawsuit against the U.S. military contractors responsible. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Middle East

In Gaza, Iraq War Architects Want a Redo

Jim Lobe / Responsible Statecraft Mar 4, 2024 Post-conflict plan would make Palestinians consultants, create an Arab-led trust and allow Israeli forces and private contractors to provide security. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

The Healing We Owe Our Vets

Staff / Truthdig Nov 10, 2023 People in the U.S. military are committing suicide at unprecedented rates. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Opinion

Have We Learned Nothing?

David Klion / n+1 Oct 13, 2023 Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Editorial Cartoons

Senate to Repeal 2002 Military Force Authorization

R.J. Matson Mar 22, 2023 Dig deeper

Ear to the Ground

“We Were Used. We Were Betrayed.” 

Staff / Truthdig Mar 18, 2023 Shortly after writing his “Last Letter” for Truthdig, Tomas Young decided to leave hospice and accept further medical treatment. He died on November 10, 2014, at the age of 34. Following his death, Phil Donahue published a remembrance of Young in the Nation, and Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges wrote a number of pieces for Truthdig. Nearly ten years after Young’s death, his suffering, struggle, courage, and fiery eloquence stand among our most powerful testaments to the incalculable human cost of a criminal and unnecessary war.  Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Wounds of War

The Iraq War, Twenty Years Later

Staff / Truthdig Mar 16, 2023 A war of choice, a legacy of ashes. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

17 Years Later: The Consequences of Invading Iraq

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Mar 19, 2020 Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )