The U.S. Deserves Its Own Nuremberg Trials

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Mar 23, 2019 Nazi Germany’s crimes and the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may not be so different in the eyes of international law. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

Nicaragua at the Barricades and at a Crossroads

Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Jun 25, 2018 As Nicaraguans confront a crisis, you may ask yourself why people should care what happens in an impoverished Central American nation thousands of miles from the centers of power. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Resurrecting the Unholy Trinity: Torture, Rendition and Indefinite Detention Under Trump

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Apr 7, 2017 In the Middle East and elsewhere, the Trump administration has begun to signal that human rights aren’t exactly on its agenda. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

No ‘New Normal’

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Nov 25, 2016 I’ve fought, organized and loved too long to let Trump and the people who run him shove me -- or any of us -- back into a bottle. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Learning to Claim Our Victories

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Oct 19, 2016 Why am I feeling hopeful right now? An 11-year-old recording of the presidential nominee bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy” seems to have brought us to Peak Trump, sending even stalwart GOP leaders fleeing. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Arresting Our Way to ‘Justice’

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Sep 28, 2016 We live in a country where the solution to just about any social problem is to create a law that deals with it—and then punish those who break that law. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

An Illegal Military Strategy Disguised as Technological Advance

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Jul 18, 2016 However they are achieved, the United States has now embraced extrajudicial executions on foreign soil. And most of the discussion has focused more on the new instrument—drone technology—than on its purpose: assassination. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Should George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Others Be Jailed for War Crimes?

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Jun 8, 2016 We need a full and public accounting of the CIA’s activities, the doings of military and civilian agencies and outfits, the White House’s drone assassination program, and the illegal, devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Turning American Communities Into War Zones, Death By Death

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Feb 24, 2016 A crowd of people watched as what CNN described as “a sea of police officers” surrounded Mario Woods and shot him dead. At least two people recorded cellphone videos of what looks eerily like an execution by firing squad. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

American War Crimes: Candidates Compete to Promise the Most Torture and Slaughter

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Jan 7, 2016 There’s nothing like the heady combination of a “populist” Republican race for the presidency and a national hysteria over terrorism to make Americans want to reach for those “enhanced interrogation techniques.” Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Home, Sweet Kleptocracy: Kabul in America

By Rebecca Gordon / TomDispatch Nov 25, 2015 Many citizens regard their government at all levels with a weary combination of cynicism and contempt. Fundamentalist groups respond by calling for a return to religious values and the imposition of religious law. What country is this? Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

The Secret to Winning the Nobel Peace Prize? Keep the U.S. Military Out

By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch Oct 21, 2015 This year’s Nobel Peace Prize went to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011” -- the opposite of what the US did. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )