Operation Flailing Empire

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Apr 6, 2018 Pentagon planners' use of such words as "freedom" and "hope" and catchy code names for U.S. operations reflects our utter hypocrisy. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Former French President Sarkozy Arrested in Campaign Finance Case

SAMUEL PETREQUIN / The Associated Press Mar 20, 2018 He is accused of illegally receiving millions of euros from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dark Money Then, Trumpocalypse Now

Glen Ford / Black Agenda Report Feb 5, 2018 The Russians didn't bring us Donald Trump. It was the usual suspects: private equity and hedge funds bandits. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

The Korean Missile Crisis vs. the Cuban Missile Crisis

Paul Street / Truthdig Aug 13, 2017 John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev avoided nuclear war in 1962. Whether Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un will do so remains a question. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Killer Drones and the Militarization of U.S. Foreign Policy

Col. Ann Wright / Truthdig Jun 21, 2017 Continuing the use of drone warfare will exacerbate foreign distrust of American intentions, playing into the hands of our opponents. Continuing the use of drone warfare will exacerbate foreign distrust of American intentions, playing into the hands of our opponents. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

What Did Theresa May Know About the Manchester Bomber?

By John Pilger May 31, 2017 Critical questions remain unanswered, deflected by promises of an internal review. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

The Return

Rayyan Al-Shawaf / Truthdig Oct 14, 2016 "When Qaddafi took my father," Hisham Matar writes in the long-awaited nonfiction account of his father's disappearance, "he placed me in a space not much bigger than the cell Father was in. I paced back and forth, anger in one direction, hatred in the other, until I could feel my insides grow small and hard." Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

A Worrisome New Plan to Send U.S. Troops to Libya as ‘Advisers’

John Kiriakou / Truthdig May 25, 2016 Gen. James Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the United States may soon send "military advisers" to Libya to fight Islamic State. But if the past is any lesson, the plan will presage a large combat contingent. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Want Endless War? Love the U.S. Empire? Well, Hillary Clinton’s Your Choice

Marjorie Cohn / Truthdig Feb 2, 2016 If the candidate's foreign policy record is any guide, a Hillary Clinton presidency would perpetuate and bolster some of our most hateful national characteristics. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Moammar Gadhafi Would Test Teenagers for STDs Before Raping Them in His Sex Dungeons

Staff / Truthdig Feb 4, 2014 We all know the late Libyan dictator was a deplorable man, but now, thanks to a BBC documentary released Monday, more details of his depravity have come to light. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Blue Man Coup, Part 2: War for God, Country and Cocaine

Susan Zakin / Truthdig May 17, 2012 Are the emirs of the Sahara criminals or revolutionaries? A little bit of both, probably. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Blue Man Coup: How Gadhafi’s Mercenaries Broke Mali

Susan Zakin / Truthdig May 16, 2012 Everything that rises must converge, and in 2012, an uprising at the ancient crossroads of Timbuktu kicked up a decades-in-the-making sandstorm of global capitalism, US counterterrorism, cocaine smuggling and the long-denied rights of the most romantic nomads on earthAn uprising at the ancient crossroads of Timbuktu has kicked up a decades-in-the-making sandstorm of global capitalism, U counterterrorism, and the long-denied rights of the most romantic nomads on earth. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )