Seymour Hersh Accuses Obama of ‘High-Level Lying’ About Bin Laden Raid

Roisin Davis / Truthdig May 12, 2015 The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist has put forth a series of explosive allegations about the Obama administration’s role in the 2011 killing of the al-Qaida founder. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Killing Ragheads for Jesus

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jan 26, 2015 The movie “American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society -- including the belief that Christians are called upon to exterminate “lesser breeds.” Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Yemen’s Al-Qaida Outpost Releases Video Claiming Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Jan 15, 2015 Al-Qaida's chapter in Yemen was officially behind the deadly shooting at the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris on Jan. 7, at least according to al-Qaida's chapter in Yemen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

ISIS — the New Israel

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 15, 2014 ISIS is employing the same brutal tactics used in the late 1940s to create the Jewish state. As the Zionist guerrillas did, it is swiftly and perhaps permanently redrawing the map of the Middle East. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

President Obama Remembers 9/11: ‘As Americans We Do Not Give In to Fear, Ever’

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Sep 12, 2014 President Obama marked the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the grounds of one of the hijackers' targets, the Pentagon, commemorating the occasion with rhetorical flourishes that invited Americans to see themselves as fearless and ever on the up-and-up. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How America Made ISIS: Their Videos and Ours, Their ‘Caliphate’ and Ours

By Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch Sep 3, 2014 Minus a couple of invasions, the steps being considered or already in effect to deal with “the threat of ISIS” are a reasonable summary of the last 13 years of what was once called the Global War on Terror and now has no name at all. Dig deeper ( 14 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 )

Did CIA’s Fake Polio Vaccination Program in Pakistan Help Fuel a Global Health Emergency?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 12, 2014 The increase of polio in Pakistan is being linked to a secret CIA effort to hunt Osama bin Laden, in which the agency set up fake vaccination clinics in the city of Abbottabad in order to get DNA from the bin Laden family. The Taliban subsequently banned immunization efforts and carried out deadly attacks on medical workers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Osama bin Laden’s Son-in-Law Found Guilty on U.S. Terror Charges

Staff / Truthdig Mar 26, 2014 A New York jury on Tuesday found Osama bin Laden's son-in-law guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans and supporting terrorists over his role as al-Qaida spokesman in 2001-2002. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

September 11 Revisited

Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle Sep 11, 2013 Dig deeper

Chile’s 9/11: 40 Years Since Pinochet’s U.S-Backed Coup

Staff / Truthdig Sep 11, 2013 Sept. 11 is not just the anniversary of the fall of the twin towers in 2001. Decades before, despotic Gen. Augusto Pinochet led a coup against democratically elected Salvador Allende on the same date. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

9-11

Milt Priggee, Cagle Cartoons, www.miltpriggee.com Sep 11, 2013 Dig deeper