Taxes, Riots and Prostitutes

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Thousands of companies are withholding and keeping their employees' state income taxes; 20 years after the LA riots: Whites don't see the racial divide everyone else senses; the Secret Service and masculinity in Colombia; and Robert Scheer sounds offcom/avbooth/category/truthdig_radio/" title="Truthdig Radio">Truthdig Radio: Companies are keeping their employees' state income taxes; 20 years after the L riots: Whites don't see the racial divide; the Secret Service; and Robert Scheer sounds off. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Taxes, Riots and Prostitutes

Staff / Truthdig Apr 21, 2012 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Thousands of companies are withholding and keeping their employees' state income taxes; 20 years after the L.A. riots: Whites don't see the racial divide everyone else senses; the Secret Service and masculinity in Colombia; and Robert Scheer sounds off. Dig deeper

Obama’s Policies: The Real Scandal in Cartagena

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Apr 19, 2012 President Barack Obama's re-election campaign launched its first Spanish-language ads this week, just after he returned from the Summit of the Americas. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

New Secret Service Earpiece

Chris Weyant, Cagle Cartoons, The Hill Apr 17, 2012 Dig deeper

Secret Service Prostitute Scandal

Mike Luckovich / Truthdig Apr 17, 2012 Dig deeper

Blackwater Founder Builds Secret Army for UAE

Staff / Truthdig May 15, 2011 Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater (now Xe Services), the world’s most notorious private military contractor, is discreetly training an 800-man army capable of defending infrastructure, suppressing rebellions and battling regional state enemies for the UAE. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

No Tourists Allowed

Staff / Truthdig Mar 26, 2011 A small town in the depths of the Amazon has declared itself off-limits to tourists. Why? Locals complain of tourists behaving badly and the fact that little of their spending actually benefits the indigenous people. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

21 Die in Colombia Mine Explosion

Staff / Truthdig Jan 30, 2011 A blast at a coal mine in Colombia has killed 21 workers, less than four years after an explosion took the lives of 30 at the same La Preciosa mine in the northeast of the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colombian Rebel Leader Killed

Staff / Truthdig Sep 24, 2010 Jorge Briceno, aka “Mono Jojoy,” had long operated as a senior leader of the FARC rebel force in Colombia. But on Thursday news came that Briceno had been killed in a military airstrike, dealing a blow to the guerrilla movement and providing a public relations coup for newly minted President Juan Manuel Santos. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexico May Look a Little Colombian

Staff / Truthdig Sep 10, 2010 In an apparent mixing of official messages, President Obama has contradicted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by rejecting the analogy that Mexico is becoming more and more like 1990s drug-heyday Colombia, when 40 percent of the country's territory was controlled by rebel groups. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Freed Captive Wants Colombia to Pay

Staff / Truthdig Jul 10, 2010 After spending six years as a hostage in Colombia, politician Ingrid Betancourt, who was rescued from her rebel captors in 2008, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Colombian state for "emotional stress and loss of earnings." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Drug Traffickers Catch World Cup Fever

Staff / Truthdig Jul 4, 2010 Whatever your take is on drugs, you have to give traffickers some credit for their innovation: A fake World Cup trophy has been seized by police in Colombia after the 14-inch, 24-pound replica was discovered by investigators and found to be made entirely of cocaine. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )