Real American Boy: How Our Byzantine Immigration System and Failed Economy May Have Made a Terrorist

Susan Zakin / Truthdig May 21, 2013 It's likely Tamerlan Tsarnaev was just another angry young man in our brave new America, a burgeoning dystopia where mass murder suddenly seems like a weekly occurrence. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

Murder Is Our National Sport

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 13, 2013 The decision to execute William Van Poyck, who in his writings from death row has chronicled our penal system's depravity, is one more footnote to our perverted belief in the regeneration of society through violence.The decision to execute writer William Van Poyck, who has chronicled our penal system's depravity, is one more footnote to our perverted belief in regeneration through violence. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

‘Slow-Motion Mass Murders’

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig May 13, 2013 Public officials are very selective about when violence and death matter. Massacres and terrorist incidents cannot be ignored, but the day-to-day toll from gun violence is often swept aside. Politicians who tout themselves as advocates of law and order don't want to be unmasked as caring even more about their ratings from gun lobbyists. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Prosecutor in Benazir Bhutto Case Shot Dead

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 3, 2013 Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, a lawyer who was leading the push to prosecute Pakistan's former military dictator in the slaying of ex-Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was killed Friday as he was driving to court in Islamabad. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

War

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Desperate L.A. Offers $1 Million Bounty for Accused Cop Killer

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Feb 11, 2013 A week after former police officer Christopher Dorner is alleged to have begun killing those people he reportedly views as his enemies, authorities in Southern California -- and even Charlie Sheen -- are doing everything they can to bring the elusive man out of the shadows. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pleased to Meat You

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Suspected Subway Pusher Charged With Murder as a Hate Crime

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Dec 31, 2012 Authorities say a 31-year-old woman who is accused of pushing a man off a subway platform into the way of a train in Queens last week did so because of his religion. Erika Menendez was arrested Saturday and charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime in the death of Sunando Sen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Documentary Claims Serial Killer Murdered O.J. Simpson’s Ex-Wife

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Nov 20, 2012 The former football star did not kill Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a new documentary alleges; convicted killer Glen Rogers did. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Behind the Twinkie Defense

By Paul Krassner Nov 18, 2012 News this week that Hostess will be shutting its doors brings back memories of psychiatrist Martin Blinder testifying that on the night before Dan White killed San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, White "just sat there in front of the TV set, binging on Twinkies." Another psychiatrist stated, “If not for the aggravating fact of junk food, the homicides might not have taken place.” Hostess shutting its doors brings back memories of psychiatrist Martin Blinder testifying that on the night before Dan White killed San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, White "just sat there in front of the TV set, binging on Twinkies." Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

U.S. Soldiers Allegedly Plotted to Kill Obama, Overthrow the Government

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Aug 28, 2012 Four members of the Army killed a former comrade and his teenaged girlfriend to keep secret the plans of the anarchist group they had formed, prosecutors in Georgia say. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Disappearing Brazilian Tribe Cries Out

Staff / Truthdig Apr 23, 2012 Terrorized by gunmen, loggers, drug traffickers and encroaching farmers, the 355 surviving members of the Amazonian Awá tribe face extinction if the Brazilian government and the international community fail to protect them from what a Brazilian judge termed "a real genocide." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )