Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatchApr 15, 2018
Let's take a few moments to think about what some of those lessons might be for the world’s most exceptional and indispensable nation, the planet’s sole superpower, the globe’s only sheriff. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
BARBARA ORTUTAY / The Associated PressApr 8, 2018
The 87 million users whose data might have been shared with Cambridge Analytica will get detailed messages through their news feed, the social media giant says. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
BULLIT MARQUEZ / The Associated PressJan 22, 2018
Authorities expand evacuation zone, and an official urges that electricity and water be shut off in the area to dissuade inhabitants from going back to check on their homes. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Muhammad Sahimi / TruthdigJan 9, 2018
President Trump and neoconservatives want to exploit demonstrations about the Iranian economy for their own political gains. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
The Associated PressNov 12, 2017
The U.S. president has arrived in Manila to attend international summits and close his five-country tour of Asia. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Janice G. Raymond / TruthdigMay 5, 2017
In addition to his ruthless anti-drug policies, the Philippines president is known for undermining women, but they continue to defy him. (Pictured, Vice President Leni Robredo, a Duterte critic.) Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Janice G. Raymond / TruthdigMay 4, 2017
The first installment of a two-part series investigates the brutality and rampant misogyny that the Philippines president has visited upon his country. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Julie Bindel / TruthdigDec 15, 2016
Many women who participate in the international marriage market go from "mail-ordered" to "male-ordered," becoming commodities in an inherently unequal transaction based on money, sex and power. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Eugene Robinson / TruthdigOct 4, 2016
If you care who wins the election next month, get off the couch, go down to your polling place and vote. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Emma Niles / TruthdigSep 7, 2016
President Rodrigo Duterte's crude comment aimed at President Obama led the White House to cancel a meeting between the two leaders. Media coverage of the controversy does nothing to help raise awareness about the extrajudicial slaying of thousands in the Philippines. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigJan 4, 2016
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations. Update: Video added. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
Marjorie Cohn / TruthdigJul 22, 2015
The International Peoples’ Tribunal on Crimes Against the Filipino People has found the U.S. government and that of the Philippines guilty of egregious human rights violations as an outgrowth of the war on terror. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
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