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Cindy Has Earned a Rest
 William Rivers Pitt
Cindy has done enough. She has done more than anyone else to end this war. She has honored her son, changed the way this nation looks at this war, she has inspired, and that is enough. Those who rallied to her banner, who still consider her a hero, will take it from here as best they can.
When Common Sense Is Not All That Common
 Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III
The problem with the immigration debate is that both sides are so focused on their own principles and ideals that neither side can be intellectually honest and deal with the realities and practicalities of the issues.
Dancing With Fear
 Robert C. Koehler
When chubby 9-year-olds are inspiring the language of Guadalcanal and 9/11, maybe as a nation it's time to rethink our rhetorical default settings. Maybe it's time to stop regarding every challenge, danger, obstacle, mystery and fear we encounter as a military operation, to be won or lost.
War Without End
 The New York Times
Never mind how badly the war is going in Iraq. President Bush has been swaggering around like a victorious general because he cowed a wobbly coalition of Democrats into dropping their attempt to impose a time limit on his disastrous misadventure.
Mexico Wary of Immigration Reform in US
 Marion Lloyd
After years of lobbying Washington for an overhaul of immigration laws, Mexico's government is keeping a wary distance as the U.S. Senate takes up one of the most comprehensive proposals on the topic in years. The reason: Mexico has been burned before.
An Italian-American for President?
 Domenico Maceri
If Giuliani manages to win the GOP nomination, we could have the first Italian-American residing in the White House. But before taking his case to all to Americans, he’ll have to win the Republican nomination.
A Drive for Global Domination Has Put Us in Greater Danger
 Al Gore
The pursuit of "dominance" in foreign policy led the Bush administration to ignore the UN, to do serious damage to our most important alliances, to violate international law, and to cultivate the hatred and contempt of many in the rest of the world.
Deadly Illusions, Rest in Peace
 Norman Solomon
This week's cave-in on Capitol Hill - supplying a huge new jolt of funds for the horrific war effort in Iraq - is surprising only to those who haven't grasped our current circumstances.
Catholic Mexico’s Best Kept Secret
 Louis E.V. Nevaer
Emerging from seven decades of authoritarian rule, Mexican society has seen a relaxing of its once strictly conservative social mores. Even the Catholic church can do little to stop it. Will this be the year Mexico experiences its own "summer of love?"
NAFTA: Kicked up a Notch
 Laura Carlsen
The North American Free Trade Agreement is the world’s most advanced example of the U.S.-led free trade model. The expansion of NAFTA into the Security and Prosperity Partnership reveals the road ahead for other nations entering into free trade agreements. It is not a road most nations - or the U.S. public - would take if they knew where it led.
Mexico’s Drug War: A Society at Risk
 Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Today, Calderón faces the hard fact that both Mexico and its drug cartels each have their own professionally-trained militarized forces. It is certain that the death toll on both sides will continue to mount while the ultimate victor is not at all clear. What is clear is that the viability of the Mexican state is now at risk.
Sarkozy and Brown: New Leaders Will Give Europe a New Dynamic Image Abroad
 Michael Werbowski
Last week, new French President Nicolas Sarkozy came to power in France. Across the English Channel, already-anointed leader Gordon Brown is on the verge of entering the prime minister's official residence.
Macho Mistakes at Ground Zero
 The New York Times
As more and more workers who inhaled the dust at ground zero fall ill, it has become increasingly clear that much of the problem can be traced to the Giuliani administration's failure to insist that all emergency personnel and construction workers at the site wear respirators.
Mexico Goes to War
 Jorge Castañeda
Felipe Calderon is on a roll these days. Mexico's young president has an approval rating of between 57 percent and 68 percent, according to various polls: twice his score in last year's election. The reason is his war on drugs, which has convinced most of his countrymen and the "commentocracy" that he means business.
The Immigration Deal
 The New York Times
The immigration deal announced in the Senate last week poses an excruciating choice. It is a good plan wedded to a repugnant one. Its architects seized a once-in-a-generation opportunity to overhaul a broken system and emerged with a deeply flawed compromise.
The ‘Cockroach Effect’: Narco-Violence Spreads in Mexico
 Gardenia Mendoza Aguilar
In what is known as the “cockroach effect,” the deployment of federal troops to Mexico’s drug trafficking hot spots are only pushing organized crime into other areas of the country.
Caller ID: What Did Bush Know, and When?
 Washington Post
It doesn't much matter whether President Bush was the one who phoned Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's hospital room before the Wednesday Night Ambush in 2004. It matters enormously, however, whether the president was willing to have his White House aides try to strong-arm the gravely ill attorney general into overruling the Justice Department's legal views.
Capitalism: When Workers are Objects
 Domenico Maceri
After twenty years of working for Circuit City in Roanoke, Virginia, Bobby Young was fired. He was not the only one. Three other workers were fired in Oxnard, CA. Their ages were 57, 59 and 66 - all senior employees who were making too much money.
Mr. Gonzales's Incredible Adventure
 NYTimes
There were many fascinating threads to the testimony on Tuesday by the former deputy attorney general, James Comey, who described the night in March 2004 when two top White House officials tried to pressure an ailing and hospitalized Attorney General John Ashcroft into endorsing President Bush's illegal wiretapping operation.
Drugs Fuel Crime Wave in Mexico
 sharedresponsibility.gov.co
Last year, 2,000 Mexicans were murdered by drug-related violence, but with 1,000 murders so far this year, 2007 may prove to be even deadlier.
Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?
 Chalmers Johnson
In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills.
Scandal Again Looms Over Mexico’s Oil Company
 Enrique Andrade González
The Calderón administration has to readdress matters left pending with respect to alleged abuse by public officials during the past government.
Starving the Poor
 Noam Chomsky
The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come into play in the ungrand scheme of things.
The Millions Left Out
 Bob Herbert
The United States may be the richest country in the world, but there are many millions - tens of millions - who are not sharing in that prosperity.
Mexico and the American Dream
 Rosa Martha Villarreal
Perhaps it is only appropriate to begin a conversation about the future of illegal immigrants in America with a reference to the Mexican anthropologist Guillermo Bonfil Batalla and his insights about what constitutes a "civilization project."
Canadian Plague on the Playa
 Todd Babiak
Like Canada, Mexico is a safe place. Also like Canada, it can be a very dangerous place. The factors that make Mexico dangerous, for Mexicans and tourists alike, are the same factors that make Canada dangerous: alcohol, drugs and organized crime.
Alberto Gonzales, Zen Master
 Dahlia Lithwick
Gonzales has made himself immortal by merely willing himself to be so. It's an ingenious strategy. Instead of letting the president throw him under the bus to protect Karl Rove, Gonzales just lies down in the road, then giggles as the bus runs over his head.
Presidential Candidate: Senator Reid was Right, War is Lo
 Peace and Freedom Party
During the month of April 2007 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told President Bush and the nation “That this war is lost,” referring to the Iraq War; April was one of the deadliest months since the 2003 U.S. lead invasion into Iraq.
Richardson: El Presidente USA?
 Domenico Maceri
Although members of minority groups have run for president of the U.S., their chances of winning the White House were always very small. In the 2008 election it is going to be different since several candidates belonging to “disadvantaged” groups are serious contenders.
As Pope Heads to Brazil, a Rival Theology Persists
 Larry Rohter
When Pope John Paul II wanted to clamp down on what he considered a dangerous, Marxist-inspired movement in the Roman Catholic Church, he turned to a trusted aide: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. Now Cardinal Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI, and when he arrives here for his first pastoral visit to Latin America he may be surprised at what he finds.
Migrants: Globalization's Junk Mail?
 Laura Carlsen
The titles that Immigrations & Customs Enforcement attaches to its operations reveal a great deal about the logic behind current US immigration policy. Among the most suggestively titled is the ongoing Operation "Return to Sender," one of the largest such operations in US history.
President Felipe Calderon and the PRI in Mexico
 Allan Wall
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has now completed his first five months in office, and it’s been anything but a vacation. As nobody can deny, the challenges Calderon and Mexico face are enormous.
Spying on Americans
 The New York Times
For more than five years, President Bush authorized government spying on phone calls and email to and from the United States without warrants. He rejected offers from Congress to update the electronic eavesdropping law, and stonewalled every attempt to investigate his spying program. Suddenly, Mr. Bush is in a hurry.
A Veto Inked in Blood
 William Rivers Pitt
Four years after a humiliating strut across the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, four years after declaring major combat operations in Iraq ended and the mission accomplished, four years and more than three thousand dead American soldiers later, four long years to the day, George W. Bush delivered a veto that only ensures more wretched and bloody carnage.
Dealing With the Devil
 Marc Ash
The Marines have a rule: they never, ever leave fallen Marines on the battlefield. No such call to honor and duty concerns our political leaders. Those now seeking the latest one hundred billion dollars say that the money is needed to support our troops. That is not true.
Dying for W
 Robert Parry
George W. Bush admits he has no evidence that a withdrawal timetable from Iraq would be harmful. Instead, the President told interviewer Charlie Rose that this core assumption behind his veto threat of a Democratic war appropriation bill is backed by "just logic."
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