Juan Cole / TruthdigNov 22, 2015
GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, having said earlier that as president he might seek to close mosques, last week went further and said he would implement a registration and tracking database for Muslim Americans. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 20, 2015
The aftermath of the Paris terrorist attacks has “devolved into a dark and dishonest debate” in which governments consider banning encryption and barring Syrian refugees from entering their countries. But the attackers were neither Syrian nor refugees and there’s no evidence they used encryption to communicate. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigNov 19, 2015
Information coming out of Paris contradicts intelligence officials' claims that Edward Snowden’s leaks and the increased use of encrypted communications helped the attackers carry out their deadly rampage. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigNov 19, 2015
The body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud was found in the rubble of an apartment building and confirmed using skin samples. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchNov 19, 2015
Paris changed everything; Paris changes nothing. Each view is, in its own way, undoubtedly true. And here’s a third sentence I know to be true: This can’t end well. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 19, 2015
Writing from Paris in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks, theorist and professor Judith Butler laments some French citizens' willingness to give up civil liberties in return for a veneer of safety that masks the development of a stronger "security state and the narrowing versions of democracy before us." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Mark Fiore / TruthdigNov 19, 2015
The terrible attacks in Paris have been met with widespread condemnation and horror, but they’ve also been met with overreaction and panic. Dig deeper
Staff / TruthdigNov 19, 2015
Islamic State's latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigNov 19, 2015
No country was more insistent that Bashar Assad must go than France. But now, as Islamic State looms large as enemy No. 1, Europe is reconsidering the Syrian dictator's fate. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 18, 2015
At least two people have been killed and seven arrested in a police operation targeting the alleged mastermind of last week’s terror attacks on Paris, France’s interior minister said. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 18, 2015
The "Daily Show" host lambastes certain politicians for the "bat shit crazy" comments they delivered in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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