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U.S. Election 2012: Stewart Alexander Says Ben Bernanke Should Resign
 Socialist Party USA
Last Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke during the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; the speech was suppose to offer a snap shot of the economy and financial developments of the preceding year, according to Mr. Bernanke.
Clinton Says Mexico Drug Wars Starting to Look Like Insurgency
 Paul Richter & Ken Dilanian
Her comments reflect a striking shift in public comment by the Obama administration about the violence and come as U.S. officials weigh a large increase in aid to Mexico to help fight the cartels.
 Collapse of American Liberalism
 The Real News Network
Chris Hedges: "When you have bankrupt liberalism you descend into moral nihilism."
Mariachi Fights for Its Place in Mexico
 Kevin Baxter
A style emblematic of its homeland contends with a crowded Spanish-language musical landscape dominated by youth-oriented genres.
A Cemetery Without Tombstones or Epitaphs
 Danilo Valladares
Thousands of Latin American migrants, mainly from Central America, die of thirst and exposure in the desert or at the hands of youth gangs or drug traffickers every year, without anyone ever finding out what happened to them.
Press Group: Attacks on Press in Mexico "a Crisis"
 Associated Press
The Committee to Protect Journalists says attacks on the press in Mexico represent a "national crisis" that demands "a full-scale federal response."
Mexico's Drug War Leaves Marijuana Growers to Thrive
 Tim Johnson
Times are good for the dope growers of the western Sierra Madre mountains. The army eradication squads that once hacked at the illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by the drug war that's raging elsewhere in Mexico.
Americans Drowning in Prescription Drugs
 Mike Adams
Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released (1). Nearly a third of Americans use two or more drugs, and more than one in ten use five or more prescription drugs regularly.
Financial Depression Spreads Among US Seniors
 Sherwood Ross
President Obama has U.S. taxpayers paying billions to meet the costly payrolls of 50,000 troops and 190,000 contractors in Iraq while 20-million-plus jobless are looking for work in USA and can't find it.
Mexico Massacre Galvanises Migrant Rights Activists
Emilio Godoy
Activists in Latin America have been galvanised by atrocities like the recent massacre of 72 migrants near the U.S. border to step up their efforts on behalf of migrant rights.
U.S. May Drastically Boost Funding to Aid Mexico's War on Drug Gangs
 Paul Richter
The Obama administration is considering a substantial spending increase on the Mexican drug war, the latest sign of its growing concern about the rampant violence incited by narcotics cartels in Mexico.
It is Time to Reflect On Our Future: Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
President Felipe Calderón declared that the Bicentennial Generation has the opportunity to change Mexico, since it is time to reflect on our future and ask how we want to be remembered.
Behind Mexico's Bloodshed Pt. 2
The Real News Network
In part two of our interview with investigative journalist Bruce Livesey, we discuss the violence in Ciudad Juarez, the murder capital of Mexico, where the military is picking winners amongst cartels.
For Calderon, Cartels Aren't Only Concern
 msnbc.com
Mexican President Felipe Calderon prepared to deliver what's akin to a state of the union speech on Thursday, and ahead of that he released several video clips touting his priorities — yet none refer specifically to his war on drug cartels.
Mexico's Gays Live in a Bell Jar
 Michael Stuerzenhofecker
Attacks on gays and lesbians are not frequent in Mexico, but only a few homosexuals display their sexual preference openly. There is still great prejudice in this country where the majority of the population is Roman Catholic.
A Speech for Endless War
 Norman Solomon
While now trumpeting the nobility of an Iraq war effort that he'd initially disparaged as "dumb," Barack Obama is polishing a halo over the Afghanistan war, which he touts as very smart. In the process, the Oval Office speech declared that every US war - no matter how mendacious or horrific - is worthy of veneration.
Behind Mexico's Bloodshed
The Real News Network
Flourishing drug demand in the U.S. and Canada has combined with the destruction of Mexico's traditional economy to increase the power of the Mexican drug cartels
Facts On Iraq War Don’t Match Obama’s Spin
 Calvin Woodward & Robert Burns
In asserting the U.S. has met its responsibilities in Iraq, the president opened the door wide to a debate about the meaning of success in the muddle that most — but not all — American troops are leaving behind.
Massacre Reveals Hidden Toll of Central American Migrants Killed Crossing Mexico to the US
 Diego Mendez
Paula Cruz wept quietly at the foreign ministry office in El Salvador's capital after reporting that her son was missing — apparently kidnapped — in Mexico.
Confessions of a Mexican Narco–Foot Soldier
 Ioan Grillo
For a confessed drug-cartel hood whose alias is "The Nut Job," Marco Vinicio Cobo is remarkably calm and plain-looking. Sitting in the blue-walled interrogation room of a Mexican army base, the chubby, goateed 30-year-old coolly describes his work for the Zetas, a feared paramilitary force responsible for thousands of brutal murders.
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
 John Cloud
One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do.
NY Rights Groups Sue in DC, Say Targeted Killings of US Citizens Overseas Unconstitutional
 Larry Neumeister
Two civil liberties groups sued the federal government on Monday to try to block its targeted killing overseas of a U.S.-born cleric believed to have inspired recent attacks in the United States.
Mexico to Announce Plan to Protect Migrants
 Arthur Brice
Mexico's government will present a new strategy for preventing the kidnapping of migrants Tuesday, the nation's interior ministry said. The announcement comes a week after the bodies of 72 slain migrants from Central and South America were found in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas.
Latest Victims of the America's Drug War
 Laura Carlsen
When will the increasing toll of civilians finally reach a point where leaders in Mexico and the United States admit that the drug-war strategy has dragged us into a downward spiral that must be reversed now before more innocent people die?
The Death Of Cash?
 Michael Snyder
Are we witnessing the slow but certain death of cash in this generation? Is a truly cashless society on the horizon? Legislation currently pending in the Mexican legislature would ban a vast array of large cash transactions, but the truth is that Mexico is far from alone in trying to restrict cash.
Is Subcomandante Marcos Behind Mexico’s $30 Million Kidnapping?
 John Ross
Subcomandante Marcos, the mouthpiece for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) who has not been seen in public for the past 19 months, has emerged as a possible suspect in the kidnapping of powerful right-wing politico Diego Fernandez de Cevallos.
Catholic Church Defends Male-Only Priesthood
 CNN
Barring women from being Catholic priests is not the result of sexism 2,000 years ago, it's because women cannot fulfill a basic function of the priesthood, "standing in the place of Jesus," a leading British Catholic thinker argued Monday.
Pachamama and Progress: Conflicting Visions for Latin America's Future
 Benjamin Dangl
A recent showdown in Potosí, Bolivia is similar to conflicts across Latin America between the promises of left-leaning governments, the needs of the people and the finite resources of Pachamama (Mother Earth).
Anger Floods the Mall Along with Glenn Beck
 Deb Weinstein
The crowds that descended on the Mall Saturday for the Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally were clear about several things: what they wanted to eat (sandwiches brought from home, chips), that they wanted to be in the shade and that they wanted a dry place to sit.
Momentous Day in East L.A.
 Los Angeles Times
Forty years after the Chicano Moratorium, Latino political power is no longer just a dream.
Families Of Massacred Migrants Couldn't Pay Ransom
 Associated Press
Their families pleaded with them not to leave, fearful of the growing danger that faces migrants trekking through Mexican territory where brutal drug gangs hold sway. But the young migrants from across Latin America insisted on going. They met their ends together, among 72 migrants massacred just 100 miles from the U.S. border.
Body Scanners in Courtroom, on Street, Continue to Raise Privacy Concerns
 Yana Kunichoff
Despite previous assurances by federal agencies that images from body scanners were not saved or recorded, fears of indiscriminate scanner use rise as the US Marshal Service admits that it stored more than 35,000 body scan images collected from a security checkpoint.
Wanted: Non-Punitive Approach to Drug Policy
 Fabiana Frayssinet
Experts from 13 Latin American countries called for a shift in counter-drug policies from a punitive to a public health-based approach for users, in order to reduce drug-related violence, on the argument that the current "war on drugs" has been lost in the region.
What's Behind Mexican Migrant Killings Still Unclear
 Tim Johnson
President Felipe Calderon on Friday accused the gunmen who killed 72 illegal migrants in northern Mexico this week of "incalculable savagery" as his government attempted to depict the major drug gang implicated in the slaughter as weakened and desperate.
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