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Ex-Bush Official Willing to Testify Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once declared that individuals captured by the US military in the aftermath of 9/11 and shipped off to the Guantanamo Bay prison facility …
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Government Recants Major Terror Claims Against High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to …
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EXCLUSIVE: Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: Snap®, Nowordz, Hayley Austin) In recent weeks, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign defending the …
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Snow Can’t Stop Freedom to Marry Day in Dallas
Against a backdrop of a rare amount of newly fallen snow, the city was a scene fit for a gay wedding.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914
Although World War I ranks as one of the most horrific in history, causing about 40 million casualties and up to 20 million military and civilian deaths, it also …
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Truthout Becomes First Online-Only News Site to Unionize
Truthout held the country's first “virtual card check” on August 27, 2009.