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Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone
 David Sirota
If you're having trouble remembering what the recent election was all about, rest easy: you're probably not going senile - you're likely experiencing the momentary effects of brainwashing.
Messenger, Killed: Slaying of Mexican Journalist Muzzles Whole Society
 Houston Chronicle
Armando Rodriguez said goodbye to his wife and two of their children, climbed into the car with his oldest girl, Ximena, and paused before heading to Ximena's school and then his office. An ordinary day in the life of a reporter. But in those few moments, as Rodriguez warmed up his car, an unknown gunman fired repeatedly into his body.
Never Forget
 Marc Ash
When they say to you that "mistakes were made," never believe that. Mistakes are always made, but mistakes did not lead us on the road to Baghdad. We were taken to Iraq by those who knew exactly, precisely what they were doing. Or believed so anyway.
The Wrong Message in a Bottle
 Roger Bate
If aid organizations are serious about combating the spread of deadly diseases in the developing world, they must do more to ensure the safety and quality of drugs.
Mexico's Drug War Can No Longer be Ignored
 SFGate
When the house next door is on fire, it's hard to ignore. Yet during a long American presidential campaign, Mexico's besieging drug war and its links to the United States drew little notice.
The Jubilant Birth of the Obama Era
 Rebecca Solnit
Citizenship is a passionate joy at times, and this is one of those times. You can feel it. Tuesday the world changed. It was a great day.
What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
 Dale McFeatters
America's longest, most expensive, most polled, most scrutinized, most studied presidential campaign comes to an end Tuesday with unexpected candidates on the ballot.
Reversal of Fortune
 Joseph E. Stiglitz
Describing how ideology, special-interest pressure, populist politics, and sheer incompetence have left the US economy on life support, the author puts forth a clear, commonsense plan to reverse the Bush-era follies and regain America's economic sanity.
 This Year's Butterfly Ballot
 The New York Times
Following Florida's "butterfly ballot" debacle of 2000, there was a lot of talk about improving ballot design. Eight years later there are still far too many badly done ballots.
The Useless Cuba Embargo
 LATimes
Among New York's rites of autumn - the marathon, the rainbow of leaves in Central Park, the sudden profusion of wool overcoats - a new one has emerged at the United Nations. In each of the last 16 years, the General Assembly has voted to condemn the United States for its embargo of Cuba.
Democracy Under Construction
 Jason Lakin
On this gloomy Monday, overshadowed by the disillusion of new corruption allegations, the country’s leadership may look down, but I wouldn’t count them out.
Barack Obama for President
 The New York Times
As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.
F Is for Failure: The Bush Doctrine in Ruins
 Tom Engelhardt
At the moment, only 7% of Americans believe the country is "going in the right direction," Bush's job-approval ratings have dropped into the low 20s with no bottom in sight, and North Dakota is "in play" in the presidential election. Think of that as the equivalent of a report card on Bush's economic policies.
Welcome to the Revolution
 Steve Weissman
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States proclaimed itself the world's only super-power and hawked American-style capitalism as the only economic system worth considering. How the mighty have fallen.
Independence Day Attack Unifies Mexico Against Drug Violence
 Marcelo Ballvé
Mexico's drug violence reached a peak on Sept. 15, the eve of Independence Day, when a grenade attack on civilians bloodied a historic plaza in Morelia, capital of Michoacan state. But the very ferocity of the attack has managed to unite Mexican society against organized crime to an unprecedented degree.
Mexican Violence Forcing Families to Migrate
 Lydia Cacho
Extreme poverty isn't the only reason people are fleeing Mexico these days. As more Mexican cities start to look like Ciudad Juárez, where kidnappings and femicide are becoming commonplace, some families are choosing to flee the country to save their daughters.
Does This Sound Familiar?
 Paul Brinkley-Rogers
The terrible state of the economy in the United States should make anyone trying to make a life here as an undocumented person think carefully before deciding that the USA is a better choice than Mexico or Central America.
The Ideology Gap
 Paul Waldman
The current financial crisis reveals how inadequate McCain's conservative ideology is for our interconnected economy and gives Barack Obama a chance to build a progressive consensus not seen since FDR.
Two Presidents, Three Gritos
 Alejandra Gomez
This year, just like there are two presidents, there were three different “Gritos” at the Zocalo. One by the governor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, who people speculate will be a candidate for president in 2012, the other one by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and the third one by Felipe Calderon.
Not Safe Enough
 New York Times
We could not agree more strongly with President Bush that this country must do everything it can to keep weapons of mass destruction out of terrorists’ hands. If this truly reflects his thinking, why does the United States government get only a “C” grade for its efforts to prevent nuclear, chemical and biological terrorism?
US Should Disclose Its Funding of Opposition Groups in Bolivia and Other Latin American Countries
 The Center for Economic and Policy Research
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) called on the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other agencies to release information detailing whom it is funding in Bolivia and other Latin American countries including Venezuela.
The Real John McCain
 New York Times
By the time John McCain took the stage on Thursday night, we wondered if there would be any sign of the senator we long respected — the conservative who fought fair and sometimes bucked party orthodoxy. Certainly, the convention that nominated him bore no resemblance to that John McCain.
That's a Negative
 The Boston Globe
The best way to watch a political convention is on C-Span. That way Americans can make their own judgments unfiltered, without being told what to think by the nattering nabobs of TV commentary.
Fight AIDS at Home, Too
 Kai Wright
This August will be remembered as a defining moment in America's history with AIDS - a time when we simultaneously realized our potential to impact the global epidemic and learned of our dramatic failure to control it at home.
Skeletons In the Closet
 Dale McFeatters
The presence of presidential-level relatives who are long lost, awkward, embarrassing or slightly shady is a tradition in American politics.
Mexico's Boiling Point
 Houston Chronicle
When the United States sneezes, Mexico gets sick. Conversely, a spike in organized crime and kidnappings across our southern border provokes a shiver of apprehension in the United States.
Searching for Paradigms and Parallels in Mexico's Cartel War
 Allan Wall
There's more bad news here in Mexico, as the casualties in the drug cartel wars continue to mount. According to a July 18th calculation by the Reforma newspaper, the narco-related body count had surpassed 2,300.
International Law? Not in Texas
 Emile Schepers
The World Court has issued a ruling demanding that the United States live up to one of the most important treaties to which it is signatory, the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The demand by the World Court is likely to fail because of a bizarrely arrogant stance taken by the state of Texas, but U.S. voters could make sure that the circumstances which led to this case never happen again.
After the Housing Bill: Time to Address Foreclosures
 Dean Baker
Last week Congress finally passed its long-debated housing bill. In addition to securing the multimillion-dollar salaries of the top executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and protecting their shareholders from facing the full consequences of their bad stock picks, the bill also provided funds for guaranteeing new mortgages for homeowners facing foreclosure.
US Plan to Fight Drugs in Mexico Bound to Falter Without Changes
 Hal Brands
If American policy-makers can seize on the launching of Plan Merida to achieve a more equitable balance between security, development and human rights, they may well make real progress in curbing the drug trade. If not, they will simply pass this problem along to future generations.
Impeachment Hearings Are the Appropriate and Necessary Next Step
 John Nichols
As the House Judiciary Committee took up the question of how best to address what its chairman described as "the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush," it was the ranking Republican in the room, Iowa Congressman Steve King, who observed that, "We are here having impeachment hearings before the Judiciary Committee. I never imagined I would ever be sitting on this side when something like this happened."
Close Wage Gap That Hurts Women and Undercuts Principle of Equality
 Representative Louise Slaughter
As we celebrate the 160th anniversary of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, we must remember that we are still struggling to achieve equality. Among the most distressing disparities between men and women is the significant pay gap for the same work.
Mexico: A Little Vitamin C
 Walter Molano
There is a saying that goes, ‘When the U.S. sneezes, Mexico catches a cold.’ However, the U.S. economy is coughing, but Mexico is hale and hearty.
Help for Victimized Children
 New York Times
Congress must rework the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act to make sure that states and localities provide sexually exploited children born in this country with the same protections and services that are routinely granted to international victims.
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