Why the Pentagon Can’t Put America Back to Work by Frida Berrigan, Tom Dispatch It’s the magic incantation to fix our economic woes. Many states and federal agencies have already gone from scouring their budgets for things to cut to… Read moreIS THE DEFENSE BUDGET A STIMULUS PACKAGE?
Continue ReadingIS THE DEFENSE BUDGET A STIMULUS PACKAGE?Zapotec leader calls for withdrawal of US military-funded mapping project from rural Oaxaca communities, accusing geographers of counter-insurgency activities by Ramor Ryan, Upside Down World When the Union of Social Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca (UNOSJO) released a… Read moreMAPPING CONTROVERSY IN OAXACA
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Tensions are fast mounting in Mexico's conflicted southern state of Chiapas following a new outbreak of paramilitary violence. Protests have been held in the state capital Tuxtla Gutierrez over the past weeks to demand the return alive of 21 residents of the highland village of Pantelhó, who were abducted in July amid raids by a self-proclaimed "self-defense force" in which houses and vehicles were also set on fire. The state prosecutor who was assigned to investigate the case was himself gunned down on a street in the highland city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) issued a communiqué warning that Chiapas is at "the brink of civil war." (Photo: Chiapas Paralelo)
by Jane Guskin, Huffington Post Most analysts agree that the chances of immigration reform in the first year or two of Obama’s administration are extremely slim. We can’t expect politicians and policymakers to take action. The change we want to… Read moreAMNESTY NOW: HOW AND WHY
Continue ReadingAMNESTY NOW: HOW AND WHYby Julianne Ong Hing, Color Lines Dan Millis is a volunteer with the border humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, which regularly leaves water and sets up aid camps in the Arizona desert for immigrants. In February 2008, Millis was… Read moreTHE CRIME? HUMANITARIAN AID
Continue ReadingTHE CRIME? HUMANITARIAN AIDMexico’s Internal “Surge” on the Rio Grande from Frontera NorteSur In an operation reminiscent of the US military surge in Iraq two years ago, thousands of Mexican soldiers and federal police are swarming the streets of Ciudad Juárez. On a… Read moreCIUDAD JUÁREZ MILITARIZED
Continue ReadingCIUDAD JUÁREZ MILITARIZEDCrusading Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon has asked prosecutors to investigate the US lawyers reportedly behind the establishment of the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
A US judge in New York March 27 ordered the CIA to release reports on the destruction of 92 videotapes of terrorism suspect interrogations within 30 days or explain why it should not do so.
