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50% of the 99%

by Laura Carlsen

Honduras Weekly, May-17-2012 | Article

The movement of the 99 percent that began in the United States made visible the human beings who suffer the brutal inequality and injustice of an economic system that, in crisis, required them to sacrifice even more... Read More »

More Chicanery in the Cases of the Cuban Five

by Wayne Smith

Radio Cadena Agramonte, Apr-29-2012 | Article

Many Americans seem to believe the now-famous Cuban Five were spies working for Havana against the United States and therefore deserve what they got – years in prison. But that is far from the truth... Read More »

Mexico's False Dilemma

by Laura Carlsen

Counterpunch, Apr-20-2012 | Article

Mexico is currently confronting a human rights crisis. Headlines document the overt violence that has claimed more than 50,000 lives since December 11, 2006 when President Felipe Calderón launched the war on drugs. Yet beneath the bloodshed... Read More »

A Sotol Story

by Tom Barry

Desert Exposure, Apr-02-2012 | Article

Tom Barry explores the story of sotol, a classic Mexican liquor, on a trip to the U.S. - Mexican borderlands... Read More »

Predators on the Border, Hawks Across the Border and a Homeland of Drones

by Tom Barry

Truthout, Mar-23-2012 | Article

Drones are proliferating. First, the Pentagon joined with military contractors to breed fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as airborne drones are formally called... Read More »

Republican Plan: Throw Money at the Pentagon

by William D. Hartung

Americas Program, Mar-21-2012 | Article

In the Washington debates about how to reduce the U.S. budget deficit, one agency is trying to get a free ride: the Pentagon. The arms lobby has been running a fear campaign designed to stave off cuts in military spending... Read More »

The G20 Under the Mexican Presidency

by Laura Carlsen

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 »

Honduras: When Engagement Becomes Complicity

by Laura Carlsen

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 »

Doing Biden’s Bidding

by Laura Carlsen

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 »

Genocide on Trial in Guatemala

by Laura Carlsen

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 »

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