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 Editorials | At Issue
Why We Fight: A Mother's Guide to Civil Disobedience
 Elaine Brower
While my son is fighting for his life in Fallujah, under some false pretense that we are "defending democracy" or "killing terrorists," I decided to take up the fight at home. Very few here are left defending our Constitutional rights. Those who are trying are getting exhausted.more »»»
Town, Church Decide Sanctity Trumps Security
 Stephanie Innes
A border community outside El Paso recently gave a firm "no" to a plan to add the security of the National Guard, deciding a statue of Jesus on the cross is protection enough.more »»»
A Flawed Bill on Rape
 NYTimes
In recent decades, women's advocates and human rights activists have made huge progress on the issues of rape and sexual assault. You'd think this was a settled issue. But it's been opened up again in the bill on terror suspects that President George W. Bush is trying to ram through the U.S. Congress in a pre- election rush.more »»»
American Dream Can Become Nightmare
 Adam Parker
Wage disputes and on-the-job injuries are on the rise at construction sites populated by low-wage Hispanic workers, many of whom are illegal immigrants and some of whom are underage. State agencies and advocacy groups are reporting more problems even as home builders say they operate legally.more »»»
Rich and Varied 'Hispanic Heritage' Not Easy to Define
 Steven Winn
As if in some alternative parallel universe, we live in a country so profoundly and intimately shaped by Latino life at so many levels that we don't fully or consciously register it happening.more »»»
Sense of Urgency Dominates Debate
 Kelly Arthur Garrett
Private citizens and public officials from across the political spectrum pressed Tuesday for a quick solution to the Oaxaca teachers strike, as fears of widening unrest and possible violence lent a new sense of urgency to the four-month-old crisis.more »»»
Barriers Have Failed Before
 Brady McCombs
History offers little hope for a nation attempting to seal its southern border. The government slowed illegal crossings to a trickle in targeted areas of El Paso and San Diego. So illegal entrants shifted their routes to Arizona and New Mexico. Now they're shifting back.more »»»
Universities, Army Lead Ranking in Mexico
 Angus Reid
Mexican adults appear more satisfied with their country’s institutions, according to a poll by Consulta Mitofsky. Asked to rate their confidence on specific bodies and persons on a scale of one to 10, respondents gave universities a grade of 8.0 points.more »»»
Falwell Says Faithful Fear Clinton More Than Devil
 Peter Wallsten
Nothing will motivate conservative evangelical Christians to vote Republican in the 2008 presidential election more than a Democratic nominee named Hillary Rodham Clinton - not even a run by the devil himself.more »»»
MEXICO: National Democratic Convention Aims to Move Struggle Forward
 Peter Gellert
A new stage in Mexican political life was opened last weekend with the National Democratic Convention, which brings together the broad array of political and social forces that have fought against alleged electoral fraud in the July 2 presidential elections.more »»»
NAFTA Highway or New Silk Road?
 William Hawkins
A flurry of articles over the summer painted the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America as a step toward a North American Union that would submerge national sovereignty and open the United States to mass migration and political corruption. Human Events launched the story from the right, but it spread across the spectrum to the Daily Kos on the left.more »»»
Getting a Green Card is Impossible
 Mike Madden
Every year, millions of people around the world apply for permission to move to the United States. For about 50,000 of them, success comes down to sheer luck. Since 1995, the State Department has run an annual lottery to award roughly 50,000 "green cards" - visas allowing foreigners to live and work as permanent legal residents.more »»»
Immigration Work Force Fights Corruption
 Pauline Arrillaga
A dilemma confronts the nation's immigration work force, one that goes far beyond sealing borders to would-be terrorists, drug smugglers and undocumented migrants, one that is particularly unsettling in a post-Sept. 11 world.more »»»
Hassled for a Bribe? Press the Panic Button
 Reuters
In a country where minor corruption is commonplace, Mexican water consumers are reaching for the panic button to sound the alarm when municipal officials demand a bribe.more »»»
Audit Finds US Education Dept. Missteps
 Ben Feller
A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.more »»»
Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism
 Robert Parry
Chilean investigators say the Bush administration is undercutting their case against former dictator Augusto Pinochet for his alleged role in the terrorist assassination of a political rival on the streets of Washington three decades ago, a crime that then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush appears to have tolerated and then helped cover-up.more »»»
Pakistan Bid to End Abuse of Women Reporting Rape Hits Snag
 Carlotta Gall & Salman Masood
The Pakistani government has run into difficulties in its efforts to pass a law to end the worst abuses suffered by women who report rape or are accused of adultery under an Islamic ordinance.more »»»
Chavez Address to the United Nations
 Common Dreams
The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the US and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads.more »»»
Calderon Sees Oaxaca as Mexico's Main Problem
 Reuters
Mexican President-elect Felipe Calderon views violent disturbances in the tourist city of Oaxaca, where protesters are trying to oust the governor, as the country's biggest challenge.more »»»
Control the Dictionary, Control the World
 Bernard Weiner
According to the infamous 2002 torture memos, which effectively set the policy, torture no longer means what we all understand that term to mean. No, the internationally-understood definitions have become, under Bush&Co., "quaint" remnants from an earlier era.more »»»
Mexican Authorities Investigate Left-Wing Groups Tied to Candidate
 Deutsche Presse Agentur
Mexican authorities said they were investigating alleged violent acts planned by radical groups that support leftist politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whose supporters last weekend proclaimed him the country's "legitimate president."more »»»
Silence in the Fields
 Barry Yeoman
The U.S. government is allowing farmers to fill thousands of jobs with foreign 'guestworkers.' The conditions are hardly hospitable - but those who speak out can be sent straight back home.more »»»
Free Flights Don’t Stop Migrant Deaths
 Susan Carroll
The Department of Homeland Security has given more than 12,000 undocumented immigrants free flights into Mexico City since early July as part of a program officials have credited with saving lives in the desert. But a new General Accountability Office report found no direct correlation between the number of border deaths and the "interior repatriation program."more »»»
In Mexico, a Real Drug War
 Frontera NorteSur
The news reports are graphic: "7 Bodies Found," "Attack with Grenades," "Three Kidnapped and Others Murdered," "Two De-Quartered Bodies Found." Iraq? Afghanistan? Guess again. The death toll and motives might be different, but the newspaper headlines in question actually hail from Mexican newspapers.more »»»
A Strike by Teachers in Oaxaca Snowballs into Raging Rebellion
 Chris Hawley
This is a city on the edge of anarchy. Militants with clubs roam Oaxaca, raiding government offices and dragging out employees who refuse to leave. Barricades and torched vehicles block the streets. Police have fled the city, and the governor is in hiding. The once-beautiful downtown is covered with revolutionary graffiti.more »»»
Analysts See Shrewd Strategy in Mexico
 S. Lynne Walker
Mexico awoke yesterday with a new political dilemma: The country now has two presidents-elect, one of them chosen at the ballot box and the other self-anointed.more »»»
Deeply Divided Mexico Marks Independence Day
 Alexandre Peyrille
Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans turned independence day into a protest for a losing presidential candidate in Mexico City, while President Vicente Fox and the president-elect celebrated outside the capital citing fears of violence.more »»»
Mexican Election Still Causing Conflict
 Lisa J. Adams
President Vicente Fox celebrated Independence Day at the traditional military parade Saturday, while supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador massed at an outdoor gathering expected to acclaim him leader of a "parallel government."more »»»
New Clues in the Plame Mystery
 Robert Parry
A well-placed conservative source has added an important clue to the mystery of the Bush administration's "outing" of CIA officer Valerie Plame after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, became one of the first Establishment figures to accuse George W. Bush of having "twisted" intelligence to justify the Iraq War.more »»»
One Mexican Judge Takes the Lead in Beating Back Graft
 Sara Miller Llana
In a country where payouts and bribes have long supplemented salaries and simply been the way things get done, Judge Marcos Aguilar says not everyone was thrilled by his idea: to form a court that punishes public servants accused of corruption.more »»»
Obrador Must Decide on Post-Election Tactics
 Alistair Bell
Mexican leftists decrying election fraud will decide on Saturday whether to make their fight with President-elect Felipe Calderon a radical struggle on the streets or to adopt a less confrontational stance.more »»»
New Mexican Leader's Aims Unclear
 Jo Tuckman
Since being declared president-elect a week ago, Felipe Calderón, the conservative leader of the governing National Action Party, is spreading a message of conciliation and tolerance as he confronts a charismatic leftist opponent who insists that the election was rigged and who refuses to concede defeat.more »»»
Real Link Between 9/11 and Iraq (Finally) Revealed
 Tom Engelhardt
You've heard the President and Vice President say it over and over in various ways: There was a connection between the events of September 11, 2001 and Iraq. Let's take this seriously and consider some of the links between the two.more »»»
Ten Big News Stories You Aren't Hearing
 Thomas Kostigen
The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has printed a list of stories we in the media seem to have largely ignored over the past year. The story is gleaned from an annual list developed by Project Censored, a media research group that tracks the news published in independent journals and newsletters.more »»»
Danger, Disorder in Patrol of South Border
 Nicole Gaouette
Mexican soldiers and police officers made more than 200 unauthorized incursions into U.S. territory from 1996 to Sept. 30, 2005, according to internal Homeland Security intelligence reports.more »»»
Gaping Holes in the 9/11 Narrative
 Robert Scheer
Five years out from the attacks, why do we still no so little about what really happened that day? What we still don't know about 9/11 could kill us.more »»»
Border Security: Line Blurs on Terrorism
 Claudine LoMonaco
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 cast a new and threatening shadow on the porous Arizona-Mexico border: If millions of illegal immigrants cross so easily, what's to stop terrorists?more »»»
Mexico Tries to End Grip of Bribery
 Sergio Solache
In Mexico, they call these little bribes mordidas, or "bites," the little payoffs and kickbacks that people give to police officers, teachers and bureaucrats just to get on with their lives. By the time they die, 87% of Mexicans will have paid some sort of bribe.more »»»
The Conspiracy to Rewrite 9/11
 Jonathan Curiel
According to a poll by Ohio University and Scripps Howard News Service, 36 percent of Americans believe that government officials "either assisted in the 9/ 11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the US to go to war in the Middle East."more »»»
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