Jon Stewart on America’s Favorite Way to Promote Peace in the Middle East

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 30, 2014 Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Trapped in Qatar: Workers Say They Haven’t Been Paid in a Year (Video)

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jul 29, 2014 The rush to build up Qatar's infrastructure ahead of the 2022 World Cup has come at an appalling human cost. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Five Reasons Why I Refuse to Watch the World Cup

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jun 26, 2014 Soccer (or football, as the rest of the world refers to it) is the most popular sport globally. But can you love the game while hating the World Cup? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Truthdiggers of the Week: Al-Jazeera Journalists in Cairo Jail

BLANK Jun 9, 2014 Three journalists could see more than a decade in an Egyptian prison for the crime of doing their job, and the media and governments of the West are shamefully silent. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

‘Friends of Syria’ Vow to Step Up Aid to Opposition

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2014 Western and Arab nations vowed Thursday to step up assistance for Syria's moderate opposition, while the U.S. said "raw data" suggested chlorine had been used as a chemical weapon in the conflict. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

A New Arab Cold War: Saudi Arabia Pressures Qatar on Muslim Brotherhood, American Think Tanks

Juan Cole / Truthdig Mar 10, 2014 Saudi Arabia’s listing of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization and the withdrawal of the Saudi, Kuwaiti and Bahrain ambassadors from Qatar signal a big geopolitical realignment in the Middle East. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Iceland Sends Four Bank Bosses to the Slammer

Staff / Truthdig Dec 13, 2013 The onetime CEO of Iceland’s Kaupthing Bank, one Hreidar Mar Sigurdsson, is going to jail for five and a half years for his part in his firm's downfall -- which also helped his country’s economy bottom out in 2008. He’ll be in good company. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Qatar an ‘Open Jail’ for Nepalese Laborers Working in Slave-Like Conditions

BLANK Sep 26, 2013 The Gulf state of Qatar is building sites for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament on the backs of thousands of Nepalese migrants working in appalling conditions. Dozens died this summer alone, many of them young men felled by heart failure.The Gulf state is building sites for the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament on the backs of thousands of Nepalese migrants. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Classic Military Runaround

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Jul 9, 2013 For my trouble, on my return to the United States, I was detained at Kennedy Airport in New York by agents of the Department of Homeland Security. Their question for me: Was I planning to fight against U.S. forces in Afghanistan? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

U.S.-Taliban Peace Talks Suspended

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 20, 2013 Peace talks scheduled to begin Thursday between the United States and the Taliban faltered after the Afghan government complained that the Islamist political group's newly opened Qatar office would be treated as a government-in-exile. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Who Benefits If the Killing in Syria Continues?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 5, 2013 "The best hope for an end to the killing in Syria is for the United States and Russia to push both sides in the conflict to agree to a ceasefire in which each holds the territory it currently controls," Patrick Cockburn writes in The Independent. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Doha Climate Talks Roundup

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 7, 2012 An activist observer of the negotiations in Doha, Qatar, this week dismissed offers by developed countries as "an empty shell, an insult to our futures. There is literally no point in countries signing up to this sham of a deal, which will lock the planet in to many more years of inaction." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )