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US Federal War Spending Exceeds State Government Outlays
 Sherwood Ross
The U.S. spends more for war annually than all state governments combined spend for the health, education, welfare, and safety of 308 million Americans.
 Is War Necessary for Progress?
 The Real News Network
Robert Pollin: It's not war that creates technological development, it's the state investment.
Revenge in Drug War Chills Mexico
 Elisabeth Malkin
Prosecutors, police chiefs and thousands of others have been killed in the violence gripping Mexico, with whole families sometimes coming under attack during a cartel’s assassination attempt. But going after the family of a sailor who had already been killed is an exceedingly rare form of intimidation, analysts say.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has Network of Secret Detention Centers
 Sari Gelzer
A chilling report from The Nation reveals that in addition to immigration detention centers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is confining immigrants in 186 unlisted and unmarked subfield offices.
More Mexicans Returning Home to Poverty
 Dudley Althaus
Not so long ago, grateful villagers who fled to jobs across the United States erected a monument to the dollar bill in this community of dirt farmers staked to the barren highlands of central Mexico. Today, many of those same migrants have returned home for good to the hunger they'd hoped to escape.
Mexico City's Revolutionary First: Gay Marriage
 Ioan Grillo
The effect of Monday's landmark vote was rapidly felt across the continent, from Patagonia to the Rio Grande, where other groups have been campaigning for gay marriage rights. Mexico City's precedent, the activists hope, will have a domino effect across the hemisphere.
Under the Radar, Obama Pushes for Patriot Act Renewal
 Richard Moore
With key sections of the U.S. Patriot Act set to expire Dec. 31, the Obama administration - essentially tiptoeing through the corridors of Congress and using the raucous health care debate as cover - has quietly maneuvered for renewal of the controversial provisions, which he opposed as a senator.
Is War the Answer to a Depression?
 The Real News Network
Robert Pollin: It wasn't war that ended the 1930s Depression, it was massive government spending.
Bolivia: Native People Take First Steps Towards Self-Government
 Franz Chávez
Indigenous people, who make up more than 60 percent of the population in Bolivia, South America's poorest country, are taking their first steps towards self-government under their own cultural traditions that date back to pre-colonial times.
Modern-Day Slavery in Mexico and the United States
 Megan McAdams
Human trafficking is the fastest growing illegal industry in the world and, by 2010, it is predicted to surpass the illicit drug trade, which will make it the world’s largest criminal activity.
Mexico: Green Light for Gay Marriage, Adoption in Capital
 Emilio Godoy
The Mexican capital's local parliament has authorised marriage between same-sex partners, a measure covering the eight million people in Mexico City proper. Adoption by gay couples will also be allowed.
Sex Slaves Victimized Twice in US Trafficking War
 The Real News Network
When the United States took a global stand on human trafficking in 2000, lawmakers wanted to rescue foreign-born women turned into American sex slaves. In too many cases, though, that hasn’t happened.
Top Cuban Official: Obama Lied During Copenhagen
 Will Weissert
Cuba's foreign minister called President Barack Obama an "imperial and arrogant" liar Monday for his conduct at the U.N. climate conference, a reflection of the communist island's increasingly fiery verbal attacks on the U.S. government.
Mexico Conference 'Has Got To Achieve'
 Frank McDonald & Harry McGee
Next year’s global climate conference in Mexico “has got to achieve... all the things we were supposed to achieve here”, UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said in the wake of the Copenhagen summit’s failure to reach agreement.
CPJ Survey Finds at Least 68 Journalists Killed in 2009
 Committee to Protect Journalists
At least 68 journalists worldwide were killed for their work in 2009, the highest yearly tally ever documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the organization said in its year-end analysis.
U.S. Anxiety Due to Mexico's Expanding Drug Violence
 Jerry Brewer
A revamping of initiatives, as is now apparent in the targeting of drug cartels and their kingpin hierarchies by law enforcement authorities, is an action that can bring about intense reactions by U.S. law enforcement personnel and their facilities.
The US-Colombian Military Agreement
 The Real News Network
In October, the US and Colombia signed a defense cooperation agreement. Sold as US support for the war on drugs, why has it caused outrage in South America?
Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
 Jeremy Scahill
A hearing in Sen. Claire McCaskill’s Contract Oversight subcommittee on contracting in Afghanistan has highlighted some important statistics that provide a window into the extent to which the Obama administration has picked up the Bush-era war privatization baton and sprinted with it.
Mexico Deals a Blow to a Cartel but Warns of Continued Drug-Related Violence
 Elisabeth Malkin
Even by the gruesome standards of Mexico’s drug lords, Arturo Beltrán Leyva’s capacity for violent revenge was especially brazen, officials in both the United States and Mexico say. His enforcement arm, called the Fuerzas Armadas de Arturo, or the Armed Forces of Arturo, is considered one of Mexico’s most ruthless.
Mexico: 5,000 Migrants Died on Way to US Since '94
 Associated Press
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says more than 5,000 Mexican migrants have died in deserts, rivers and mountains trying to reach the U.S. since 1994.
Rights Court Holds Mexican State Responsible in Forced Disappearance
 Emilio Godoy
Tita Radilla's last memory of her father Rosendo was when he came to say good-bye, because he was leaving for a nearby city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. The next day he disappeared at a military checkpoint. That was in August 1974.
Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression
 Bruce E. Levine
A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?
Russian Blames West For Heroin Rise
 Amanda Walker
Russian authorities have told Sky News that Western forces in Afghanistan are to blame for the country's status as the world's biggest heroin consumer.
Rights Court Condemns Mexico in 'Dirty War' Case
 E. Eduardo Castillo
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Mexico on Tuesday for failing to adequately investigate the 1974 disappearance of a guerrilla sympathizer during the country's "dirty war."
US Defense Contractors Operating Freely In Latin America
 Eva Golinger
In early 2008, the U.S. Army Missile Command and Space Defense awarded contracts in the amount of 15 billion dollars to a group of private contractors, including Blackwater. The contract, which includes intelligence operations, espionage and reconnaissance, among other things, faces two countries in Latin America, Mexico and Colombia.
Honduran Coup Regime Erects Superficial Reality Around Elections
 Belén Fernández
The fact that slogans like "NO TO ELECTIONS" still abounded on the façades of voting centers on election day suggests that a regime that is not capable of erasing graffiti will be even less adept at erasing a collective experience of resistance.
How the Free Market Leads to Famines
 Laurent Pinsolle
The Economist's latest article on global developments in agriculture involuntarily provides arguments for critics of free trade: the stampede for poor countries' lands, price volatility and, above all, the success of national policies for food self-sufficiency. Laurent Pinsolle tells you more about it.
The Myth that No Place in Mexico is Safe
 Sylvia Longmire
Thanks to the bloody drug battles being waged on a daily basis in so many Mexican cities and towns, the country has acquired a terrible reputation as a travel destination in the last few years. While some areas in Mexico definitely need to be avoided by tourists, there are several areas where this reputation is completely undeserved.
Drug War Sea Change in the US Congress?
 Kristin Bricker
The United States Congress set its sights on the drug war this week. Legislators have or will consider several important bills that address the drug war at home and abroad. According to decriminalization advocates, the news is mostly good.
US Protesters Seek New Anti-War Movement
 Nico Colombant
Saturday's demonstration closely follows President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, in which he said war is sometimes needed to establish lasting peace. Demonstrators in Washington opposed this view, as well as the president's request for 30,000 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Veterans Group Calls on Soldiers to Refuse Orders to Deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq
 Dahr Jamail
In response to President Barack Obama's announcement on December 1 to deploy 30,000 additional troops to the occupation of Afghanistan, the organization March Forward!, with comprising both veterans and active-duty members of the US military, has called on all soldiers to refuse their orders to deploy.
US Female Combat Vets: Outside Looking In
 Kimberly Hefling
More than 230,000 American women have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan and at least 120 have died doing so, yet the public still doesn't completely understand their contributions on the modern battlefield.
American Casino
 The Real News Network
Andrew Cockburn co-producer of the documentary "American Casino" talks about the sub-prime crash.
Retrofitted Vehicles Offer Window Into Mexico’s Cartels
 Marc Lacey
It turns out that much can be learned about the drug traffickers that the Mexican Army is combating by examining the 765 vehicles crowding the military base here awaiting disposition from the courts. If you are what you drive, drug dealers are devious, malicious, extravagant and quite conscious about security.
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