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Global Food Bubble On the Way?
 The Real News Network
From 2007 to 2008 the price of maize in Ethiopia went up 141 percent, retail wheat flour in Peshawar, Pakistan, went up 82 percent, rice in Thailand up 73 percent, and so it went throughout the world. Dr. Jayati Ghosh believes we're at the start of another surge in global food prices.
On a Border Near Arizona: How Police Can Protect Immigrant Women
 Laura Tillman
As the Arizona governor tries to push back criticism of the new immigration law, other Southwest communities concentrate on fighting actual criminal behavior. The author describes a case in point in Brownsville, Texas.
Pope Rewrites Epitaph for Legion of Christ Founder
 Emilio Godoy
The Vatican's decision to appoint a special delegate to run the Legion of Christ and to set up a commission to look into the order after more than a decade of allegations of sexual abuse by its founder has shaken the powerful ultraconservative Catholic order established in Mexico.
Mexico Army Handling of Civilian Death Inquiries Questioned
 Tracy Wilkinson
A military-led inquiry and another by the attorney general find the army not responsible in recent cases of civilians being killed amid the war on drug cartels. But their credibility is questioned.
Can Brazil Save the World From War With Iran?
 Robert Naiman
We are now at a new moment in international relations, in which countries outside of the permanent members of the Security Council and their handpicked allies are insisting on having some meaningful input into global issues of war and peace. Brazil has been a leader in these efforts.
US Anti-Choice Groups Condone "Biblically Justified" Violence Against Gays, Women
 Wendy Norris
Army of God adherent and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Neil Horsley is under arrest for a series of bizarre diatribes against pop star Elton John.
 Media Glosses Over New Kent State Smoking Gun
 Steve Watson
Newly released audio evidence provides definitive proof of government order to shoot Ohio anti-war protestors dead.
U.S. Consulate Worker in Juarez Was Targeted for Assassination
 Bill Conroy
The U.S. consulate worker murdered in Juarez in mid-March was approached in the days prior to her death by a man seeking to get her to sign off on an official document absent the proper paperwork. Her refusal to cooperate with the man led to an order for her assassination from the top level of the Sinaloa drug trafficking organization.
 US Supported Economics Spurred Mexican Emigration
 The Real News Network
Dan La Botz: Decades of neo-liberal reforms waged an attack on workers standard of living.
Arizona Law Sparks Anger, Resignation in Mexico
 Olga R. Rodriguez
Resentment has erupted throughout Mexico over the immigration law in Arizona that is considered racist here. But crossing back and forth between the countries is so intrinsic to their lives that many Mexicans find it hard to give it up despite calls by immigration activists for a boycott of Arizona.
Report: US Immigration Laws Put 5 Million Children at Risk
 Michelle Chen
Children are the hidden casualties of America’s war on immigrants, and the passage of Arizona’s new racial profiling legislation could open up countless opportunities for local law enforcement to break up families by putting undocumented parents on the fast-track to deportation.
Washington’s Invented Honduran Democracy
 The Council on Hemispheric Affairs
President of Newspaper Guild joins The Center on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) in expressing their extreme concern over the ongoing massacre of Honduran journalists.
U.S. to Face Litany of Complaints at UN Human Rights Council
 William Fisher
Human rights groups are telling the United Nations that the United States is failing to hold corporations, including private government contractors, accountable for human rights abuses ranging from human trafficking to murder.
National Institutes of Health has Given Priority to Bioweapons Research
 Sherwood Ross
The priorities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the area of bacteriology have been “catastrophically re-ordered” by emphasizing bioweapons research over non-bioweapons research, a prominent authority states.
The War on Drugs: A Pan-Regional Fight
Robert Valencia
The drug and gang war goes binational as Washington turns in its observer status in favor of a full combatant’s role.
Press Freedom Falls Around the World
 Howard LaFranchi
There are bright spots regarding press freedom, but there's been an overall decline for eight straight years, according to a new report. Other political and social freedoms may be waning, too.
 Boycotts Against Arizona: An Effective Strategy for Social Change?
 Rose Aguilar
On Your Call, we'll talk about the history and present use of boycotts as protest.
US Dems Spark Alarm with Call for National ID Card
 Alexander Bolton
A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation’s immigration laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it this week.
Obama Wants New Restrictions on Campaign Finance
 Darlene Superville
President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed Congress for swift action on measures to restrict political advertising by corporations and labor unions, saying that “no less than the integrity of our democracy” is at stake.
Why Mexico Opposes the Arizona Immigration Law
 Sara Miller Llana
Some Mexicans have more at stake on this issue than others. But almost to a person, they say that the move – which Arizona implemented to deal with an unabated tide of illegal immigration – is not just discriminatory but counterproductive because so much of the US economy depends on cheap Mexican labor.
Will Hawaii Gov. Sign Civil Union Bill?
 Mark Niesse
Hawaii is a step closer to joining a small group of other states in allowing same-sex civil unions. In a move that still needs the governor’s signature to become law, the House of Representatives Thursday night approved a measure that has drawn some of the state’s biggest protest rallies.
Terror Returns to Oaxaca
 Kristin Bricker & Emilio Godoy
A violent incident in which two activists were killed in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has raised fears among human rights groups of a return to the unrest and severe clashes between protesters and police that virtually paralysed the state in 2006.
Why Americans Get Upset Over “Historical Revisionism”
 Sherwood Ross
Americans run into trouble evaluating their past “when cherished stories that are part of our identity are investigated and made more complex,” distinguished historian Edward Linenthal says.
Mexico, Journey of Terror for Central American Migrants
 Emilio Godoy
Irregular migrants are at serious risk of widespread abuses in Mexico. Marginalised from mainstream Mexican society, irregular migrants remain largely invisible, their voices rarely heard.
Immigration Law Ignites Fury In Mexico
 Jason Beaubien
Mexico's government has strongly condemned Arizona's controversial new anti-illegal-immigration law. Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the measure will open the door to "intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse" of Mexican citizens.
Arizona Immigration Law Ripe for Abuse
 Michael Gass
Immigration is a sensitive issue, but the immigration bill that passed the Arizona legislature is the wrong way to try to solve it. The new law gives Arizona law enforcement broad new authority to enforce federal immigration laws. It is so broad, not to mention vague, that abuse of this new authority by law enforcement is assured.
Third Political Party Urgently Needed to Stop U.S. “National-Security State”
Sherwood Ross
As both the Republican and Democratic political parties are locked into a national security state that is perpetually at war, Americans urgently need to create a third political party, a law school dean writes.
Mexico Migrants Face Human Rights Crisis, Says Amnesty
 BBC
Migrants in Mexico are facing a "major human rights crisis" as the authorities fail to tackle widespread abuses, Amnesty International has warned.
Study Links Drug Enforcement to More Violence
 Martha Mendoza
The surge of gunbattles, beheadings and kidnappings that has accompanied Mexico's war on drug cartels is an entirely predictable escalation in violence based on decades of scientific literature, a new study contends.
Mexico Issues Travel Warning over Arizona Immigration Law
 Sara Miller Llana
One day after Mexican President Felipe Calderón condemned the new Arizona immigration law, Mexico issued a travel warning that "all Mexican citizens could be bothered or questioned without motive at any moment."
Bitter Taste in Mexican Coffee Farmers' Mouths
Emilio Godoy
A Turkish proverb says "coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love." But growers of the more expensive arabica coffee beans in Mexico are more concerned with a government plan to promote the cheaper robusta beans than with poetic maxims.
The Politics of US Immigration
 Liz Sidoti
Arizona’s tough new immigration law swiftly reconfigured the national political landscape in an already high-octane election year. It creates peril for Democrats and Republicans on a divisive issue with implications for national security, states rights and race.
How the Mexican Media Became Quasi-Public Servants
 George Baker
From the 1930s to the present, the federal government has been able to shape the course of press reporting in Mexico, especially in the energy sector.
Police State Canada 2010 and the G20 Summit
 Dana Gabriel
The G20 summit will be held on June 26-27 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre preceded by the G8 summit which will take place in Huntsville, Ontario. It will be the largest security event in Canadian history exceeding the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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