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 Editorials
The American Empire: Conquest Through NAFTA
 XicanoPwr
In past few months there has been a lot of talk about how there is a secret plan to create a North American Union by dismantling of the borders between Canada, Mexico and the United States, and creating a deeper North American economic integration other wise known as "Deep Integration."more »»»
Columbus Day No Reason to Celebrate
 Mary Annette Pember
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue on a mission of plunder for Spain. When he arrived here, he commenced the virtual annihilation of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.more »»»
Impeachment Anyone?: The Case for Taking the Tape Off Our Mouths
 David Swanson
Never before has the system of government established by the U.S. Constitution been as seriously threatened; never before has the built-in remedy for the sort of threat we face been as badly needed; never before have we had as good an opportunity to use that remedy exactly as it was intended.more »»»
The Mexican Border Fence Hoax
 Vincent Gioia
Having mollified conservative critics with "border protection first," Congress and the president consider themselves free to deal with illegal immigration as they wanted to in the first place without opposition by those who want to protect our borders before addressing the problem of illegal immigration.more »»»
Yanquis Go Home!
 Mike Davis
Urban theorist and author Mike Davis warns that all the retiring baby boomers streaming into low-cost Mexico will exacerbate social divisions and put serious stress on the environment.more »»»
Mexican Magnates Make More Money
 Allan Wall
By world standards Mexico is not that poor but compared to the United States it is. About half the country lives below the poverty line. It’s not because there’s no money here in Mexico. There’s a lot.more »»»
Mommy, What's Waterboarding?
 David Swanson
Remember the great harm done to the moral core of our nation when, according to the excited news reports following Kenneth Starr's great work in life, children were asking their parents what oral sex was? Neither do I. But children can now ask their parents what torture is, how waterboarding works, and when exactly torture is a good thing.more »»»
Latin America Declares Independence
 Noam Chomsky
Five centuries after the European conquests, Latin America is reasserting its independence. In the southern cone especially, from Venezuela to Argentina, the region is rising to overthrow the legacy of external domination of the past centuries and the cruel and destructive social forms that they have helped to establish.more »»»
U.S. Engagement with a Post-Castro Cuba
 Philip Peters
If Cuba’s government were teetering, if Cuba were in economic crisis, and if Cuba’s dissidents constituted a broad-based political movement, then a U.S. policy that shuns engagement with Cuba might make sense. But none of these conditions describe Cuba today.more »»»
Protests, Passion Part of Mexican Culture
 Maribeth Mellin
With reports of growing political unrest and drug violence, why in the world would anyone travel to Mexico in this time of upheaval and uncertainty?more »»»
Lift Your Head
 Cindy Sheehan
Here are recent headlines which show that North Americans, citizens of the USA, are getting fed up with bowing their heads to the criminals du jour who inhabit our White House.more »»»
World Leaders Should Fight Government Corruption
 Nuestra Comunidad
Just as worldwide campaigns against drug trafficking and terrorism are orchestrated, why not launch a direct campaign against corruption, fraud and other blights?more »»»
The US and Mexico – Walling Out Understanding
 Enrique Andrade González
Approval by the US House of Representatives, and the expected authorization in the US Senate to build a 700 mile long fence on the southern border, is the beginning of a new stage in United States-Mexico bilateral relations.more »»»
Bush's "Dirty War" Amnesty Law
 Robert Parry
The United States is following the lead of "dirty war" nations, such as Argentina and Chile, in enacting what amounts to an amnesty law protecting U.S. government operatives, apparently up to and including President George W. Bush, who have committed or are responsible for human rights crimes.more »»»
Immigration Tipping Point?
 Ernest W. Lefever
Left unchecked, some observers believe immigration, especially from Mexico, could eventually lead to the undoing of the American idea and ethos we have long taken for granted.more »»»
Will the Next US Election Be Hacked?
 Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
You do not have to believe in conspiracy theories to fear for the integrity of our electoral system: The right to vote is simply too important - and too hard won - to be surrendered without a fight. It is time for Americans to reclaim our democracy from private interests.more »»»
Keep Away the Vote
 New York Times
One of the cornerstones of the Republican Party's strategy for winning elections these days is voter suppression, intentionally putting up barriers between eligible voters and the ballot box.more »»»
Border Invaders: The Perfect Swarm Heads South
 Mike Davis
What few people - at least, outside of Mexico - have bothered to notice is that while all the nannies, cooks, and maids have been heading north to tend the luxury lifestyles of irate Republicans, the Gringo hordes have been rushing south to enjoy glorious budget retirements and affordable second homes under the Mexican sun.more »»»
Tribunal Fails Mexico's Nascent Democracy
 Aldo Nicolás Mena
Regardless of whether you supported the candidacy of Felipe Calderón of the Partido de Accion Nacional [PAN] or the candidacy of Andres Manuel López Obrador of the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica [PRD], it's hard to feel optimistic about recent developments in the Mexican political system.more »»»
Dissidents Going for a "New Republic" in Mexico
 Barnard R. Thompson
On Saturday, September 16 – Mexican Independence Day, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Party of the Democratic Revolution-led "For the Good of All" coalition will hold a so-called National Democratic Convention in Mexico City.more »»»
The Phony War
 Robert Dreyfuss
President Bush not only created a fake "War on Terror" to scare voters into supporting his policies - he is failing to address the real threat facing America.more »»»
It's the Poverty: Close Mexico's Wealth Chasm
 Stephen Zamora
In a country plagued by economic inequality, Andrés Manuel López Obrador's platform of "economic justice for all" strikes a resounding chord, and the perredistas have always seen more cause for hope in López Obrador than they do in Felipe Calderón.more »»»
September 11, Permanent Fear
 Jean-Pierre Stroobants
Five years after September 11, 2001, the world is not safer, and al-Qaeda has not achieved its political and religious objectives. As for the "war" against terrorism, it has created innumerable victims. Thousands dead and freedoms sacrificed just about everywhere in the world to the benefit of the establishment of a climate of generalized fear and demand for security.more »»»
Armitage Shmarmitage
 Jason Leopold
In April, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald filed a court document in the CIA leak case claiming his staff had obtained evidence during the course of the three-year-old probe that proves "multiple" White House officials were engaged in a coordinated effort to discredit former ambassador Joseph Wilson for his public criticism of the Bush administration's use of pre-war Iraq intelligence.more »»»
A Sudden Sense of Urgency
 New York Times
US President George Bush wants to rewrite American law to create a glaring exception to the Geneva Conventions, to give ex post facto approval to abusive interrogation methods, and to bar legal challenges to the new system.more »»»
Long History of Vote Fraud Lingers in the Mexican Psyche
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
Felipe Calderón was named the next president of Mexico by a tribunal that confirmed that the vote was basically free and fair. Yet a significant slice of the voting public still believes that the election was marred by fraud and that the country’s electoral institutions are corrupt.more »»»
Lopez Obrador's Continuing Fight Frustrates Many
 Tracey Eaton
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is continuing his quest for revolution and promises to set up a shadow government aimed at toppling Calderon. Whether Emiliano Zapata and other historic Mexican revolutionaries would be sharing afterlife tequila shots in the leftist's honor — or spinning in their graves — is uncertain.more »»»
Felipe Calderón: A Politician at Birth
 Marc Lacey
To call the balding and bespectacled Mr. Calderón a career politician would be something of an understatement. His first campaign came in 1962 when he was still in the womb. It was a governor’s race in Michoacán State that his father, Luis Calderón Vega, was managing. His pregnant mother was pitching in, as well.more »»»
Oaxaca's Dangerous Teachers
 David Bacon
Mexico is approaching a situation of ungovernability, which is spreading to all parts of the country. A tiny group is trying to hold onto power by increasingly violent and illegal means.more »»»
The Bush-Is-an-Idiot Camp Grows
 David Corn
The other day I crossed paths with a conservative talk show host. We chatted about current events. He noted that he was quite pissed off at the neocons for suggesting that American blood should be spilled to benefit the Iraqis. Let the Iraqis take care of themselves, he huffed. I asked, "Are you in the Bush-is-an-idiot camp?"more »»»
The Final Days of President Vicente Fox
 Enrique Andrade González
As with many earlier Mexican presidents, like Gustavo Díaz Ordaz or Carlos Salinas de Gortari, history will judge Vicente Fox, and it will be more on his final year in office then the first five.more »»»
The Cheney Presidency
 Robert Kuttner
George W. Bush has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers. It doesn't much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney.more »»»
Lopez Obrador's Last Stand
 SFGate.com
As the head of a government that purports to support democracy around the world, George W. Bush has completely ignored democracy's struggle for survival right next door, in Mexico. But many Mexicans have noticed Washington's deafening silence.more »»»
How to Look Like a Failure
 Sidney Blumenthal
Each Bush presidency is unhappy in its own way. George W has contrived to do the opposite of his father, as if to provide evidence for a classic case of reaction formation.more »»»
West Promoting 'People Power' When It Suits
 Mark Almond
The US and the Western media back protests over controversial elections when it is convenient to their interests, but they are keeping silent about the current situation in Mexico.more »»»
Is Bush a Clear & Present Danger?
 Robert Parry
Faced with George W. Bush's disastrous policies in the Middle East and his adamant refusal to change course, the question now arises whether the President has become a "clear and present danger" to the security of the United States and, indirectly, to Israel.more »»»
Why They Hate US
 Julia E. Sweig
America's moral standing in the world has precipitously declined since 2001. For starters, blame the Bush administration's go-it-alone tough talk after 9/11, contempt for the Kyoto accord, war and then chaos in Iraq, secret prisons in Europe and alleged use of torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.more »»»
Five Years After 9/11, Fear Finally Strikes Out
 Frank Rich
The results are in for the White House's latest effort to exploit terrorism for political gain: the era of Americans' fearing fear itself is over.more »»»
Mexican Electoral Fraud Wins Round One - Round Two Now Begins
 Stephen Lendman
It was no surprise on Sunday that the Mexican Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) ruled its partial recount of about 9% of the ballots cast in the disputed presidential election held on July 2 showed ruling National Action Party (PAN) candidate still the winner.more »»»
Ruling for the Law
 NYTimes
Ever since President Bush was forced to admit that he was spying on Americans' telephone calls and email without warrants, his lawyers have fought to keep challenges to the program out of the courts. Last week, that plan failed.more »»»
Oliver Stone, 9/11, and the Big Lie
 Ruth Rosen
When World Trade Center ended, I left the theater tense, my muscles aching. The superb directing and acting, coupled with still hardly imaginable scenes of death and destruction, had sent painful muscle spasms up my back, evoked tears, and left me, yet again, with searing and indelible images of that hellish morning.more »»»
Towards Armageddon and After
 John Ross
They carried the coffin of Jose Jimenez Colmanares on their shoulders through the narrow streets of Oaxaca city into the old colonial plaza they had occupied for months and deposited it outside the state government offices. There his comrades mourned the fallen car mechanic with furious epithets and accusations.more »»»
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