Emmy Glory Won’t Solve Lingering Problems With ‘The Vietnam War’

Barbara Myers / Truthdig Aug 15, 2018 Historically questionable aspects of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's celebrated series raise issues about the renowned documentarians’ responsibility to the public. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Have We Learned Anything From My Lai?

Barbara Myers / Truthdig Mar 15, 2018 The 50th anniversary of the U.S. massacre in Vietnam offers an opportunity to take stock of American culpability for the gravest of crimes. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Path to a New 1914? How America Chose War After 9/11

By Jonathan Schell, TomDispatch Jul 24, 2014 The analogy between 1914 and 2001, like all measurements of the present with yardsticks from the past, is useful only for querying events, not for predicting them. There are equally important differences between the two moments, some of them obvious, others less so. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Jonathan Schell

BLANK Apr 5, 2014 Readings of over half a dozen commemorations of Schell and a handful of his works in the days after his death suggest that a firm orientation toward basic moral concerns was one of the gifts he gave to readers caught in a society losing faith in its own decency.A firm orientation toward basic moral concerns was one of the gifts Jonathan Schell gave to readers caught in a society losing faith in its own decency. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Tomgram: In Memoriam: Jonathan Schell (1943-2014)

By Tom Engelhardt and Chris Appy, TomDispatch Mar 31, 2014 Jonathan Schell was in the early days of this century perhaps the only person who imagined that, in our future, lay an Arab Spring, an Occupy Movement and whatever-is-still-to-come. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

Polish Dissidents Cry Out for Snowden

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 30, 2013 Four members of Poland's Solidarity movement, which toppled the country's totalitarian regime in the 1980s, recently issued an open letter calling for their government to grant NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden sanctuary from the United States. “The fact that only dictatorial governments agreed to give him shelter shames the democratic states,” they wrote. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Nick Turse

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 20, 2013 The historian and author's new book about the Vietnam War reveals for the first time, in painstaking detail, the full atrocities committed by American forces in that country. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

By Jonathan Schell, TomDispatch Jan 17, 2013 In Kill Anything that Moves, Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

How Empires Fall: An Interview With Jonathan Schell

By Andy Kroll, TomDispatch Mar 3, 2012 Since Occupy and the Arab Spring, the animating message of Schell's "Unconquerable World"—that, in the age of nuclear weaponry, nonviolent action is the mightiest of forces—has undergone a renaissance of sorts. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )