Armenians Demand Recognition of Genocide at Los Angeles Protest

By Elen Chilingaryan Apr 30, 2016 President Obama has never made good on his promise to officially recognize the massacre of 15 million Armenians for what it was President Obama has never made good on his promise to officially recognize the massacre of 1. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The San Bernardino Massacre Isn’t Part of a ‘World War’

By Mitchell Zimmerman / OtherWords Dec 17, 2015 In most mass shootings, politicians shrug that "stuff happens"—unless the shooters are Muslims. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came?

By Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch Oct 24, 2015 What if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq in 2003? How would things be different in the Middle East today? Let's take a big-picture tour of the Middle East and try to answer those questions. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Memorial Day

Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant, Cagle Cartoons May 22, 2015 Dig deeper

Long Live the Christmas Truce

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 26, 2014 One hundred years ago today, German and Allied soldiers "defied their superiors to declare a truce … providing a glimpse of the power that people without rank or privilege have to determine their own destinies." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Joe Sacco: A Bomb in Every Comic

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 3, 2014 Joe Sacco’s satirical “Bumf” is a radical, savage and sidesplitting look at America’s species of corporate totalitarianism. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Sarajevo 1914 / Gaza 2014: The Short Twentieth Century Lingers On

Lawrence Weschler / Truthdig Aug 4, 2014 Strange the way things line up, the through-lines that suddenly reveal themselves amidst the twists and turns of historical progression. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Veterans Day, 95 Years On

By Adam Hochschild; Illustrations by Joe Sacco, TomDispatch Nov 11, 2013 In a country that uses every possible occasion to celebrate its “warriors,” many have forgotten that Monday's holiday originally marked a peace agreement. Veterans Day in the United States originally was called Armistice Day and commemorated the cease-fire that, at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, ended the First World War. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

The Path of Hubris and War

William Pfaff / Truthdig May 22, 2013 The bombs that ended the Boston Marathon in April were planted by young Muslims who had come to the United States as immigrants, rejected America as a civilization, and then attacked it, leaving behind a message of religious war. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Helmet

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Rebels Stand Alone

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 25, 2013 Those we now deify for resisting evil were, when they found the courage to rebel, condemned by the public, criminalized by the law and declared traitors by the state Rebellion is a lonely pursuit when it begins Those we now deify for resisting evil were condemned by the public, criminalized by the law and declared traitors by the state . Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Fiscal Cliff: An Opportunity for a ‘Deceptive Economic Theory’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 2, 2013 Economists predicted the fighting would last six months when World War I broke out in 1914. Wars were too expensive to be sustained, and the approaching fiscal cliffs would soon enough force the nations involved to negotiate a peace treaty. But they didn’t, because those governments simply printed more money, Michael Hudson writes in the first of a series at CounterPunch. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )