Nick Turse on America’s Secret Soldiers

Staff / Truthdig Jan 24, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The "Kill Anything That Moves" author on the clandestine commandos who operate in as many as 120 countries. Also: An NSA panel says shut it down, a little Persian history, and Arthur Yorinks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Truthdig Critics Win National Entertainment Journalism Awards

Staff / Truthdig Nov 26, 2013 Peter Richardson and Chris Hedges took home the first and second place trophies, respectively, in the online critic category at the L.A. Press Club's Sixth Annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards on Sunday. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Whom Did You Rape in the War, Daddy?

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Mar 19, 2013 On August 31, 1969, a rape was committed in Vietnam. Maybe numerous rapes were committed there that day, but this was a rare one involving American GIs that actually made its way into the military justice system. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Kill Anything That Moves

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Mar 13, 2013 Nick Turse’s book about the Vietnam War exposes the sickness of the hyper-masculine military culture, the intoxicating rush and addiction of violence, and the massive government spin machine that lies daily to a gullible public and uses tactics of intimidation, threats and smear campaigns to silence dissenters. Nick Turse’s work is one of the most important books ever written about the Vietnam War. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Nick Turse and the Real Vietnam War

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Feb 15, 2013 Nick Turse's new book, "Kill Anything That Moves," is a ghastly revelation of previously unreported war crimes committed in Vietnam in the wake of the My Lai Massacre. He tells Bill Moyers how 15 years ago a staffer at the National Archives outside Washington, D.C., pointed him toward the "horror trove" of accounts that led to the book. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Hagel Hearings

By Nick Turse, TomDispatch Jan 31, 2013 As Chuck Hagel begins his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday, you can be sure that no senator will ask him about his presence during the machine-gunning of an orphanage in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta or the lessons he might have drawn from that incident.As Chuck Hagel begins his Senate confirmation hearings Thursday, you can be sure he won't be asked about his presence during the machine-gunning of an orphanage in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Nick Turse

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jan 20, 2013 The historian and author's new book about the Vietnam War reveals for the first time, in painstaking detail, the full atrocities committed by American forces in that country. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

An Operation, Not an Aberration

Staff / Truthdig Jan 18, 2013 Even as the My Lai massacre has become the subject of numerous books and articles, all the other atrocities perpetrated by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War have essentially vanished from popular memory, TomDispatch associate editor Nick Turse writes in "Kill Anything That Moves." Dig deeper ( 28 Min. Read )

How Did the Gates of Hell Open in Vietnam?

By Jonathan Schell, TomDispatch Jan 17, 2013 In Kill Anything that Moves, Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )