Новости за 19.05.2017

By Peter Van Buren / TomDispatch If America accepts the idea of fighting endless wars, it will have to accept something else as well: that the costs of war are similarly endless.

By Medea Benjamin Rather than using his position to clinch a $100 billion arms deal, the president should press for negotiations to end the two-year-old conflict.

By Troy Jollimore A new biography provides a portrait not only of one of the most significant poets of the past century, but of what it was like to be politically engaged and spiritually conflicted in the 20th century.

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment The Republican Party has long claimed to be the party of security, but the hollowness of these claims are demonstrated by the mass of U.S. allies now vowing not to share sensitive intelligence with the Trump administration.

The Oscar-winning documentarian speaks with Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer about WikiLeaks, whistleblowers and the risks of honest filmmaking.

The WikiLeaks founder is ready to start a dialogue with U.K. and U.S. authorities now that Swedish authorities have ended their seven-year-long investigation.

The Massachusetts senator slammed the treasury secretary for his confusing statements during a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday.

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By Noah Feldman / Bloomberg Michael Flynn has reportedly stopped an attack on the Islamic State after receiving more than $500,000 in payments from a Turkish source. The implications of the story could be central to Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Many on the left are balking at pushing for Trump’s impeachment because of the prospect of a President Pence, but that shouldn’t stop them.

Though those behind the unions of “sex workers” in places like Cambodia claim that their organizations promote workers’ rights, the women interviewed for this story seemed anything but empowered. (Pictured are prostitutes in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.)

By Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy Gay Russian men are attempting to flee their country amid a wave of detention, torture and killing in the country’s southern region of Chechnya.