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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.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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Harvard professor and author Stephen Greenblatt won a Pulitzer Prize this week for his account of how an ancient Roman philosophical epic jump-started the modern world.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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George Zimmerman, the volunteer neighborhood watch patrolman charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, apologized to the teenager’s family Friday as a judge set bail at $150,000.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica —
Many of the country’s biggest media companies—which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations—are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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It’s safe to assume that Big Brother would still have prevailed over Winston Smith had the ill-fated protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” been appointed the help of public defender Stephen Downs. But we have reason to believe that Downs, who represents Muslim activists in trials that amount to little more than terrorist witch hunts, would not have backed down.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
Two years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, no one has been held accountable.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Not all overheated political rhetoric is alike. Delusional right-wing crazy talk—the kind of ranting we’ve heard recently from washed-up rock star Ted Nugent and tea party-backed Rep. Allen West—is a special kind of poison that cannot be safely ignored.
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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By David Sirota — Here’s a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: “Christians ‘More Likely to Be Leftwing’ And Have Liberal Views on Immigration and Equality.”
Posted on Apr 20, 2012
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By Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman, TomDispatch —
Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate economy has found no use, make up a virtual brigade within the reserve army of the unemployed whose ranks have ballooned along with the U.S. incarceration rate.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for an accelerated departure of American forces a day after controversial photos were published showing U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of insurgents.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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By John Donnelly —
Craig Timberg and Daniel Halperin suggest in their new book, “Tinderbox,” that colonialists’ aggressive trade practices opened new travel routes in central Africa that helped spread a disease rooted in a dense forest to the world beyond.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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A new vice presidential poll shows Republicans and conservative-leaning independents favor former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be Mitt Romney’s running mate.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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U.S. Senate candidate John Raese, a West Virginia Republican, thinks banning smoking is the “same thing” as Adolf Hitler’s policy of forcing Jews to wear the Star of David.
Posted on Apr 19, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — 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.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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By Joe Conason — With the Republican primary contest over and the general election under way, Mitt Romney faces a voting public whose disdain for him has reached levels that pollsters describe as “historic.”
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Instead of fighting a phony mommy war over what Hilary Rosen said about Ann Romney, we should face the fact that most families these days cannot afford to have one parent stay home with the kids.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — The men most responsible for the collapse of the American dream are heaped with honors at the highest levels of society.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Dr. Robert Spitzer, the psychiatrist who published a study in 2001 that claimed it was possible to “cure” homosexuality, has renounced his controversial work.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Early in the 20th century, Ayn Rand admired serial killer William Hickman from afar. Today, 23-year-old Massachusetts resident Kevin Forts has found his own murderous darling in the figure of accused terrorist Anders Breivik.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has infuriated Spanish oil barons by proposing a bill that would recover a majority share of a petroleum company from a foreign firm that has owned it since the early ’90s.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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The British government’s plan to turn the Internet into a national intelligence cache that stores data on every U.K. Web surfer was frustrated Tuesday when Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, condemned such a move as a “destruction of human rights.”
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Months after U.S. Marines were videotaped urinating on Afghan corpses comes the latest scandal: photographs of American soldiers posing with the remains of Afghan insurgents.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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Robert King, one of the “Angola 3,” spent three decades in prison—most of them in solitary confinement—for activities involving the Black Panthers. He was released in 2001, but the others remain. One week before the 40th anniversary of their incarceration, he told the ACLU what doing time did to him.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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By Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch —
Why has the Obama administration committed itself to releasing more than $1 billion to a government that has challenged its attempt to bring to justice an alleged mastermind of cross-border terrorism?
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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The number of significant earthquakes in the Midwest has increased almost fivefold in the last four years. Researchers with the United States Geological Survey set out to discover why.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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As Chris Hedges reported Monday, American Muslims are being dragged into jail on dubious and unclear connections to terrorism. Meanwhile, the president retains the authority to kill U.S. citizens without trial. But most Americans aren’t speaking up. Salon blogger and constitutional lawyer Glenn Greenwald discusses why.
Posted on Apr 18, 2012
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