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Arizona Immigration Law: Will it Hurt Mexico's Drug War, as US Lawsuit Says?
 Nacha Cattan
Mexico’s government applauded an Obama administration lawsuit brought Tuesday against the Arizona immigration law. Some analysts here agree with the lawsuit that argues the Arizona law undermines the drug war. But others say the suit diverts attention away from a more important goal for most Mexicans: US immigration reform.
Elections Send Message of Rejection of Violence: President Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
After admitting that Sunday’s voting took place in at atmosphere of peace, order and civility, President Felipe Calderón said that the elections sent a clear message about society’s rejection of violence and those attempting to act outside the law, as well as an expression of plurality.
PRI Defeated in July 4 Election in Oaxaca
 Nancy Davies
The people of Oaxaca swept away 81 years of misrule by the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) with a massive voter turnout for the election on Sunday.
The Poverty Solution: Just Give Money to the Poor
 Melinda Burns
In an urgent new book, Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South, three British scholars show how the developing countries are reducing poverty by making cash payments to the poor from their national budgets.
PRI Victories No Assurance for 2012
 Arthur Brice
Mexico's leading opposition party captured most of the 12 governorships at stake in Sunday's elections, but that doesn't mean the party is assured of victory in the 2012 presidential election, analysts say.
Mexico's Distressed-Migrant Visas Reach Few Women
 Amy Lieberman
Central American female migrants seeking a better life in the United States risk huge dangers as they pass through Mexico. Human rights researchers say their chances of getting a humanitarian visa for what they suffer are almost non-existent.
8th World Day Against the Death Penalty: USA
 Aurélie Plaçais
On 10 October 2010, the 8th World Day Against the Death Penalty will be dedicated to the USA which executed 52 people and handed down 106 death sentences in 2009.
U.S. Doctors Approved Torture and Denied Medicine to Captives
 Sherwood Ross
American doctors in the Middle East routinely approved the torture of captured suspects and denied them critical medications such as insulin, sometimes with lethal consequences, according to a documented report published in the “Utne Reader.”
 Americans Are NOT Stupid
 eroncoelho
So what if they don´t know how many sides a triangle have? Or who Tony Blair is? That is not fair... it doesn´t mean they´re all like that.
Autonomous Triqui Community Wary of New State Government
 Emilio Godoy
The autonomous indigenous Triqui community of San Juan Copala, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, is maintaining a cautious attitude towards the state government to take power after winning Sunday's elections.
Canada Obliges a New Level of U.S. Paranoia
 Calgary Herald
The American obsession with security has literally reached new heights of paranoia, with the Harper government's quiet acquiescence.
Vote Shows Mexicans Have Little Faith in Any Party
 Olga R. Rodriguez & Alexandra Olson
After a Super Sunday of elections across Mexico that was widely seen as a test for the 2012 presidential race and the nation's future, the winner turns out to be - well, not really anyone.
Locked Out: The 12 Million People Without a Country, and Their Need to Become a Citizen
 Stephanie Hanes
Statelessness has nudged in alongside better-known issues such as access to clean water, refugee rights, and education as a top priority on the global humanitarian agenda of the United Nations, governments, and advocacy groups.
Restoring the Fourth Amendment: How We, the People, Can Win Over Washington
 Shahid Buttar
Despite promises of change, the Obama administration has proven itself either unwilling - or unable - to shift the paradigm driving increasingly invasive surveillance or increasingly pervasive profiling according to race, religion and national origin.
Pentagon Ban on Guantanamo Reporters is Illegal, Group Says
 Lesley Clark
A coalition of major news organizations is challenging as unconstitutional Pentagon rules that were used in May to ban four reporters from covering military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
G-20 Commits Itself to More "Neoliberalism"
 The Real News Network
Leo Panitch: Free movement of capital and strengthening power of global elites G-20 objective.
Video Captures Another Border Killing
 Dennis Bernstein
It's a muddy cell phone video, taken from a difficult angle, but the audio recorded on the modest device, is both revealing and chilling: the contents cast doubt on claims by the U.S. Border Patrol, regarding the death of a Mexican national who died in custody after being beaten and electric-shocked by federal agents on May 28.
Mexican Murder Suspect: US Consulate Infiltrated
 Morgan Lee
The drug-cartel enforcer told an unsettling story: A woman who worked in the Mexican border's biggest U.S. consulate had helped a rival gang obtain American visas. And for that, the enforcer said, he ordered her killed.
Study: US Media Redefined Torture After US Started Practicing It
 Daniel Tencer
The US news media radically changed how it reported on the issue of waterboarding after it emerged that US forces had used the practice, says a new study from Harvard University.
Key Political Risks to Watch in Mexico
 Robin Emmott
Raging drug violence, a tepid economic recovery, flagging momentum on economic reforms and declining oil output are all risks to watch for this year in Mexico, which needs to keep up investor confidence to maintain its debt ratings and emerge from recession.
Another US Immigration Policy Is Possible!
 David Bacon
Thousands of left-wing activists just spent a week at the US Social Forum in Detroit, gathered again under the banner "Another World is Possible." Among them hundreds added a new subtext: "Another Immigration Policy is Possible!"
Mexico's Opposition May Win State Governments in Vote Marred by Violence
 Jens Erik Gould & Jonathan J. Levin
Mexico’s largest opposition party may broaden its control of state governments in this weekend’s election as mounting drug-related violence and the killing of a top candidate threatens to reduce turnout at the expense of President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party.
RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism
 theRSAorg
In this RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?
Torontonians Gather at Police HQ to Condemn Abuses
 The Real News Network
Toronto is just starting to deal with the aftermath of the events that took place during the G20 world leaders summit. For days, basic human rights protections were suspended, as police subjected people subjected to searches, excessive use of force, detention without due process, and other violations.
Why Busy Obama is Focusing on Long-Shot Issue of Immigration Reform
 Linda Feldmann
President Obama gives a speech Thursday on the need for federal immigration reform. He may be directing attention to the issue in a bid to turn up the heat on Congress to act, some analysts say.
Banks Financing Mexico Gangs Admitted in Wells Fargo Deal
 Michael Smith
Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers - including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine.
Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds
 Vigilant Citizen
Is there a deliberate effort by the government to dumb down the masses? The statement is hard to prove but there exists a great amount of data proving that the ruling elite not only tolerates, but effectively introduces policies that have a detrimental effect on the physical and mental health of the population.
U.S. Social Forum a Mechanism for Change
 Marc Becker
Fifteen thousand social movement activists descended on Detroit during the fourth week of June for the second United States Social Forum (USSF) to discuss and debate proposals for how to build a better world.
Doctor Testing Dangerous Drug to 'Prevent' Lesbianism?
 John Byrne
Afraid your daughter may be queer, or not be interested in becoming a mom? Medical researchers think they have a cure for her - a dangerous steroid you take while pregnant.
Mexico's Laws Criminalising HIV Transmission Are Discriminatory
 Emilio Godoy
In 30 of Mexico's 32 states there are laws penalising transmission of HIV, the AIDS virus, which are regarded by experts as discriminatory and ineffective in curbing the epidemic.
Can Obama Restore Consumer Confidence in Economy?
 Julie Pace
A day after consumer concerns about the economy sent stocks sliding, President Barack Obama is trying to assure the American people that the economic recovery is headed in the right direction.
Worst Flashpoints in Mexico's Drug War
 Robin Emmott & Sean Mattson
An opposition candidate pegged to win a July 4 gubernatorial election in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas was killed by suspected drug hitmen on Monday in the worst sign so far of political intimidation by cartels.
A Reform Movement by and for Undocumented People
 Valeria Fernández
Hundreds of grassroots organisations came together at the U.S. Social Forum here to discuss strategies in the fight for immigration policy changes that would put an end to criminalisation and the militarisation of the border with Mexico.
Mexican State Security Minister Can't Trust Her Own Police
 Tracy Wilkinson
Minerva Bautista and her entourage were attacked by gunmen in Michoacan, turf of La Familia drug gang. The chief suspects are well known to her.
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