‘Sicario’ Film Review: Dirty War on Mexican Drug Cartels Could Become Reality

By Sebastian Rotella / ProPublica Oct 28, 2015 A veteran border correspondent compares the film’s underworld with the one he knows, and says Denis Villeneuve’s movie gets much right about the borderlands but crosses the line into exaggeration. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

It’s Official: Joseph Clancy to Head the Secret Service

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Feb 19, 2015 President Obama permanently appointed Clancy to the position Wednesday. He had been serving as interim chief of the beleaguered agency since former Director Julia Pierson was ousted in October. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 9, 2015 Both ISIS and the West revel in brutality that feeds the fever for war. The line that separates us from our enemies is technological, not moral. We are those we fight. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges Honors Humanists Combating the ‘Culture of War’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 19, 2014 Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges channeled his solemn, sermonic style at Stony Point, N.Y., on Saturday at a dinner inaugurating the Anne Barstow and Tom Driver Award for Excellence in Nonviolent Direct Action in Retirement. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gabriel García Márquez

Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, El Imparcial de México Apr 20, 2014 Dig deeper

Gabriel García Márquez

Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain Apr 18, 2014 Dig deeper

Colombian Nobel Laureate, Author and Journalist Gabriel García Márquez Dies at 87

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Apr 18, 2014 The writer, who is considered by many to be the creator of magical realism, died Thursday in Mexico where he'd lived for 30 years. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Taibbi: ‘Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War Is a Joke’

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 6, 2014 British bank HSBC received a settlement deal from the Justice Department for laundering billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels and violating a host of international banking laws. Matt Taibbi calls the preferential treatment "the ultimate insult to every ordinary person who's ever had his life altered by a narcotics charge." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The CIA and NSA Helped Colombia Target and Kill FARC Leaders

BLANK Dec 22, 2013 A clandestine program that began under the Bush administration and continues under the Obama administration led to the killings of at least two dozen leaders of the rebel group, The Washington Post reports. How did the U.S. justify involving itself in assassinations by another government? The same Office of Legal Counsel that OK'd the use of torture said it could. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Protests Rage Against Colombia’s Economic Policies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 30, 2013 Students and labor unions armed with pots and pans marched alongside miners, truckers, coffee growers, milk producers and potato farmers in a general strike in Colombia on Thursday, where hard laborers have to endure such difficulties as high fuel prices and free trade agreements that farmers say have brought them to the edge of bankruptcy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Colombian GM Employees Sew Mouths Shut in Protest

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 16, 2012 After a year of fruitless protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, some former GM employees have sewn their mouths shut in a hunger strike against the company’s treatment of workers at its Colombian plant, pledging death if their grievances are not addressed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Will GOP Exploit Secret Service and GSA Scandals?

Joe Conason / Truthdig Apr 27, 2012 Concerned as President Obama must be over the unfolding embarrassments in the Secret Service and the General Services Administration, he may actually be comforted by the feeble attempts of a few politicians to wring political profit from those scandals. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )