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A Wave of Addiction and Crime, with the Medicine Cabinet to Blame
 Abby Goodnough
US Police departments have collected thousands of handguns through buy-back programs in communities throughout the country. Now they want the contents of your medicine cabinet.
Mexico Journalists Debate Cartels, Self-Censorship
 Katherine Corcoran
The threats came to reporters at Imagen, a daily newspaper in the once-quiet state of Zacatecas where drug cartels have taken over in just the last few years. Then editor Patricia Mercado got a phone call ordering her to print a prepared article or she would be kidnapped.
Virginia's Execution of a Woman May Signal Shift in National Thinking
 Carol J. Williams
Her death breaks with traditional queasiness over such punishment for female criminals. Legal scholars say fewer women are given capital sentences because they are less likely to kill.
Mexico: Guns From the U.S., Not Illegal Immigrants, are Real Problem
 Arthur Brice
Violence in the United States is not related to illegal Mexican immigrants, but violence in Mexico is connected to vast shipments of weapons from the United States, Mexico's foreign minister said this week.
Angry Independents Add Up to Doom for Democrats
 Doug Thompson
For the upcoming midterm elections, the theme is — once again — change but the change voters want is something Democrats ain’t offering.
 The Save-the-World Clock
 Elizabeth Dickinson
Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly - including an estimated 140 heads of state - will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.
Mexican Drug Cartels: You Want Silver or Lead?
 Chad Deal
The Mexican Drug War is an armed conflict taking place among rival drug cartels who fight for regional control, and between the drug cartels and the Mexican government, which seeks to reduce drug trafficking and consumption in the country.
Five Million Women Have Fallen Prey to Trafficking Networks
 Emilio Godoy
The fight against human trafficking in Latin America is ineffective and has led to the emergence of intra-regional markets for the trade, according to experts and activists meeting in Puebla, Mexico this week.
Juarez Editorial Ignites a Beleaguered Mexico
 Katherine Corcoran
A newspaper's stunning, front-page editorial of seeming surrender to drug capos has set off a national debate from the presidential palace to Mexico's equivalent of the water cooler - its ubiquitous town squares.
Price Spikes Raise Specter of Another Food Crisis
 Matthew O. Berger
While global food prices declined for the first half of this year, they have spiked in recent months, according to a new World Bank publication, and this volatility could in turn push up the local food prices of the world's poorest and most malnourished countries.
Autonomous Authorities Order Total Evacuation of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca
 Kristin Bricker
Authorities of the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, have ordered the total evacuation of the town, which has been under siege since February of this year.
Obama's Latino Stategy Faces Voting Barriers in Swing States
 Art Levine
Democrats are hoping that even the fight for the DREAM Act's passage - and the demonizing of the GOP opposition among Latinos - will help energize a previously disaffected Hispanic community that voted in record numbers for President Obama in 2008.
New Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic
 Tom Oswald
Using digital evolution techniques that give scientists the ability to watch evolution in action, Michigan State University researchers have shed new light on what it is that makes species altruistic.
 Drugs and Murder in Afghanistan
 The Real News Network
Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club Pt. 2 - Is Army culture to blame for the crimes?
Will the US and China Be Locked in a Global Battle Over Oil?
 Michael T. Klare
China has overtaken the United States to become the world's number one energy consumer, a development that signals a massive global power shift.
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child?
 UdeMNouvelles
Grabbing a child firmly by the arm, yelling and repeatedly punishing him or her may not be without long-terms risks, according to researchers from the Université de Montréal. They are studying how this harsh parenting can impair the emotional development of a child, possibly leading to anxiety disorders such as social phobia, separation anxiety and panic attacks.
US Feds: Privacy Does Not Exist in ‘Public Places’
 David Kravets
The Obama administration has urged a federal appeals court to allow the government, without a court warrant, to affix GPS devices on suspects’ vehicles to track their every move.
 Slaying Prompts Juarez Paper To Weigh Coverage
John Burnett
The leading newspaper in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, published an extraordinary editorial after one of its young photographers was slain last week.
Great Recession Ended in June 2009, But Who Knew?
 Kevin G. Hall
With little fanfare, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared Monday that the so-called Great Recession is over, determining that the U.S. economy hit bottom in June 2009 and began a long, sluggish rebound.
Social Engineering Bill In Senate Will Force You Into City
 Bob Livingston
A social engineering bill to restrict residence in the suburbs and rural areas and force Americans into city centers has passed the United States Senate Banking Committee and is on the fast track to passage in the Senate.
In Mexico, Gender Violence Hits Behind the News
 Daniela Pastrana
In this Latin American country of 108 million people, there are 18.4 million boys and 17.9 million girls under 18. Violence against children occurs in one-third of households, despite the many institutions across the country entrusted with protecting their well-being.
U.S. Socialist Alexander: NBER Offers Christmas Report Regarding U.S.
 Socialist Party USA
Stewart Alexander: The Great Recession lingers on for working people. They have seen no signs of an economic recovery since the beginning of 2007.
Borderland Comic Tells Seven Stories of Human Trafficking Survivors
 Olga Trusova & John S. Knight
We would like to create and publish a 36 page comic book about human trafficking based on real events set around the world. From a pastry maker in Warsaw to a waitress in Istanbul, the underground world of human trafficking is deep and dark, yet touches almost all.
The Food Industry, Like Big Pharma, Controls the FDA and USDA
 Jonathan Benson
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) recently released a report highlighting the widespread influence of the food industry over food safety policies.
Mexico Govt Rejects Call for Truce in Drug War
 Agence France-Presse
Mexico's government has scoffed at the idea of a truce in the country's raging drug war as a Ciudad Juarez newspaper pleaded with drug cartels after one of its photographers was slain.
US Military’s Gay Ban: Hot Issue in a Hot Campaign Year
 Anne Flaherty
It’s John McCain versus Lady Gaga on Tuesday as the Senate takes up the emotional issue of repealing the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Mexico Abortion Sentences Reveal Social Collision
 Caroline Stauffer
Authorities in almost all of Mexico's conservative states have fought back against Mexico City's abortion policies, among the most permissive in largely Catholic Latin America, by making examples of specific women and tightening laws.
Did U.S. Soldiers Create Afghan Killing Club?
 The Real News Network
U.S. soldiers charged with targeting Afghan civilians; Army ignored pleas by soldier's father.
FDA Won’t Allow Food to be Labeled Free of Genetic Modification: Report
 Raw Story
That the US Food and Drug Administration is opposed to labeling foods that are genetically modified is no surprise anymore, but a report in the Washington Post indicates the FDA won't even allow food producers to label their foods as being free of genetic modification.
Our 'War on Drugs' Has Been an Abysmal Failure. Just Look at Mexico
 Simon Jenkins
The west's refusal to countenance drug legalisation has fuelled anarchy, profiteering and misery.
Narcotrafficking in Mexico: Neoliberalism and a Militarized State
 Upside Down World
In an interview with La Jornada Michoacán, Daniela Morales talks to British academic, Peter Watt, who argues that neoliberal policies and the war on Mexican drug cartels are part of the same project; to maintain a weak democracy and a militarized state with the purpose of preserving economic and political control of the United States in the region.
Debate Percolates on Legalization of Drugs in Mexico
 Tim Johnson
A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs — once a taboo suggestion — is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war.
The Int'l Effort to Criminalize War
 The Real News Network
At the end of August prosecutors from international tribunals met in Jamestown, NY for the 2010 International Humanitarian Law Dialogues. The main issue was the definition of the crime of aggression. If the International Criminal Court is given jurisdiction to prosecute it, it would essentially make all acts of aggressive war illegal.
Mexico: Requiem for Triquis
 Nancy Davies
In order for the governor of Oaxaca to present a successful Grito in observance of the 200th anniversary of Mexico's revolt against Spanish rule, the Oaxaca zócalo was protected by almost 2,000 armed men, state and local police, who set up iron fences to keep out any trouble.
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