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Americas Program, Mar-16-2012 | Article
Mexico took on the presidency of the G20 in December 2011 at a moment of multiple crises. The nation shares the presidency with a “three-member management Troika of past, present and future chairs”, this year, France and Russia.... Read More »
Foreign Policy in Focus, Mar-15-2012 | Article
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden traveled to Honduras on March 6 with a double mission: to quell talk of drug legalization and reinforce the U.S.-sponsored drug war in Central America, and to bolster the presidency of Porfirio Lobo... Read More »
by Tom Barry
AlterNet, Mar-12-2012 | Article
Roy “Mac” Sikes wasn’t wearing a white 10-gallon like the other top Texas Rangers attending the 2010 Texas Border Sheriffs Coalition meeting in El Paso. Mac, as the Texas Rangers and sheriffs call him, was going hatless. But that may have been because it’s not entirely clear which hat Mac should have been wearing – ranger, cop, or consultant? ... Read More »
CounterPunch, Mar-06-2012 | Article
Vice President Joe Biden landed in Mexico City last night and he’s left little doubt about his mission—to lock in the regional drug war... Read More »
The Nation, Feb-29-2012 | Article
Victims and human rights activists cheered when, on January 26, a Guatemalan court charged Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt with genocide and crimes against humanity. The decision to bring the 85-year-old former dictator to trial is the latest stage in a long odyssey, stretching back to the early 1980s, when Guatemala experienced the bloodiest repression of its thirty-six-year civil war.... Read More »
Think Progress, Feb-16-2012 | Article
The Obama administration has announced its support for the junta that ousted democratically elected Maldives president and climate hero Mohamed Nasheed in a military coup. Even though President Nasheed was apparently forced to resign at gunpoint, the State Department has continued to address the coup-makers as the “legitimate government”... Read More »
Huffington Post, Feb-14-2012 | Article
Corruption and secrecy in the oil, gas and mining industries takes a serious toll on developing and emerging economies. It negatively affects human rights, governance, global development and security. A provision of the new Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation shines a light on the deals that oil, gas and mining companies make with foreign governments, however oil executives... Read More »
The Sacramento Bee, Feb-10-2012 | Article
On Feb. 13 the Obama administration will release the full details of its Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal. Advocates of higher military spending are already spreading cries of alarm... Read More »
by Matthew Hoh, John Isaacs
The Hill, Feb-08-2012 | Article
Two lengthy and devastating wars separated by three decades. One fought in the jungles of Vietnam and one in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan... Read More »
by Matthew Hoh
Huffington Post, Feb-06-2012 | Article
In late December, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta assured Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) that the United States was "making undeniable progress" in its war in Afghanistan and that a congressionally mandated, independent assessment of the war was "not necessary." However, recent media reports of internal Department of Defense and Intelligence Community assessments of the war contradict, again, claims of progress... Read More »
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