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The Deadly Shot
 NYTimes
Millions of people in poor countries get sick and die from a common tool for getting well: the hypodermic syringe. In some countries, most injections are done with needles that are reused without sterilization. And the biggest problem is that many poor countries are injection-crazy.more »»»
Venezuela´s Chavez Has US in a Tizzy
 Circles Robinson
On Tuesday November 22, the New York Times published an article titled: "Q and A: U.S.-Venezuelan Relations." The following piece asks the same questions but the answers are different.more »»»
The United States Needs Bridges, Not Walls
 Jim Wright
The terrorists who wish us ill would like nothing better than to transform our confident, friendly, outgoing people into a panicky heap of paranoid xenophobes. Their prime objective, obviously, is irrational fright.more »»»
For Mexico, Open Records Unlock Doors
 S. Lynne Walker
It was another one of those days for President Vicente Fox. Mexico's chief executive was being asked to disclose every flight his eight presidential planes had made since he took office five years ago. Fox had no choice but to surrender the information.more »»»
It's the Same Old Business When It Comes to Immigrants
 Yolanda Chavez Leyva
President Bush is bowing to conservatives again, this time on immigration. On Oct. 18, Bush signed the fiscal 2006 Homeland Security Appropriations Act. The budget earmarks $7.5 billion for immigration and customs enforcement in order to "find and return the illegal immigrants who are here," according to the president.more »»»
Phony Theory, False Conflict
 Charles Krauthammer
Because every few years this country, in its infinite tolerance, insists on hearing yet another appeal of the Scopes monkey trial, I feel obliged to point out what would otherwise be superfluous: that the two greatest scientists in the history of our species were Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, and they were both religious.more »»»
The Zapatistas: A New Strategy in Mexico
 Andrew Flood
Over the summer the Zapatistas announced a new strategy - but what was it and what does it mean? On the global level the the rebellion in Chiapas was both an inspiration and organisational model for new a generations of anti-capitalist activists. This change in direction will have repercussions that stretch far beyond Mexico.more »»»
Migration Can Enrich all Sides if Interests are Shared
 Francois Bourguignon
Migration, though it has been with us for millennia, has only recently emerged as a way to reduce poverty in developing countries. The recent report by the Global Commission on International Migration urged that the role of migrants in economic growth and development be "recognised and reinforced."more »»»
There is No "I" in TEAM
 Peter Wells Scott
Some athletes learn the easy way, others learn the hard way, or not at all. Shaquile has learned the easy way. Keep your mouth shut and go about your business.more »»»
Kansas School Board OKs Evolution Approach
 John Hanna
Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.more »»»
Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning
 Patricia Ward Biederman & Jason Felch
The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election.more »»»
Mexican Drug Lords Increasingly Powerful
 Olga R. Rodriguez
The openness with which they operate - in Miguel Aleman and countless other towns across Mexico - reflects the drug cartels' grip on this nation of nearly 100 million people, and the power they have gained as the top supplier for Americans' $65 billion illegal drug habit.more »»»
The Case of Behe vs. Darwin
 Josh Getlin
As he took the witness stand in a packed courtroom, ready to dissect Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, biochemist Michael J. Behe looked confident and relaxed. Then he learned what it felt like to be under a microscope.more »»»
Prosecuting Smugglers a Challenge
 Francisco Gómez & Silvia Otero
The package was comparable to some luxury travel deals, including airfare to Mexico, meals, reception at the airport and hotel accommodations. Once arriving at the United States border, however, the migrants were on their own.more »»»
Big Easy Uneasy About Migrant Wave
 Michael Martinez
Every day throughout the French Quarter and downtown, the ranks of deeply tanned, Spanish-speaking men in soiled clothing grow and become more visible amid the ruin. "They're coming from all parts" of Mexico, one man said of his compatriot illegal migrants.more »»»
Bigger than Watergate
 Ted Rall
To weigh the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame against historical standards, consider that no leader of the Soviet Union - including that master of ruthlessness, Josef Stalin - ever arranged for the name of a KGB operative to appear in a newspaper.more »»»
At 2,000, Iraq's Military Deaths Got the Media's Full Attention
 Katharine Q. Seelye
Papers that had dutifully acknowledged the first 1,000 dead seemed to give greater emotional weight to the loss of the second 1,000, while single columns gave way to feature layouts.more »»»
Mexican Rights Group Exposes Government’s Whitewash of Student Massacres
 Rafael Azul
On October 19, the Committee of 68 led a rally in front of Mexico’s Supreme Court in Mexico City to demand an independent investigation into the student massacres of 1968 and 1971 and the “dirty war” of which these two events were a part.more »»»
Is US Becoming Hostile to Science?
 Alan Elsner
A bitter debate about how to teach evolution in U.S. high schools is prompting a crisis of confidence among scientists, and some senior academics warn that science itself is under assault.more »»»
Stain on the White House
 Nat Hentoff
June 26 was the 20th anniversary of the Center for Victims of Torture, which provides technical assistance and training to more than 30 torture treatment centers in the US and 15 others on five continents. The center also works for worldwide abolition of torture.more »»»
Plame Games
 Michael Scherer
Later this week, the most powerful men and women in the country will sit helplessly on the sidelines as Fitzgerald decides whether to indict White House officials in the case of Valerie Plame, a clandestine CIA agent whose identity was leaked to the press by the Bush administration.more »»»
Report: Women Account for Nearly 1 in 4 US Arrests
 AP
Women made up 7 percent of all inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly 1 in 4 arrests, an upswing in the rate of arrest for women in drug crimes, violent crimes and fraud.more »»»
'Intelligent Design' Compared To 'Big Bang' Theory
 Reuters
Michael Behe, a biochemistry professor at Lehigh University, compared intelligent design - which holds that nature is so complex it must have been the work of a creator - to the "Big Bang" theory.more »»»
Halliburton's New Low in Treachery
 Dave Zweifel
The Chicago Tribune produced an incredible story last week detailing how unsuspecting young men from poor countries are tricked into working in dangerous jobs for a Halliburton subsidiary in Iraq.more »»»
Most in Arizona Poll Would Let Immigrants Stay
 Susan Carroll
Despite their belief that undocumented immigrants are an economic drain on the state, most Arizona voters do not want to force them to leave the United States if they are established in communities and have no criminal record, according to a poll by The Arizona Republic.more »»»
Beyond the Miller-Libby Game: People Died
 Sydney H. Schanberg
Six weeks ago, former Secretary of State Colin Powell said publicly that the pre-war speech he gave to the United Nations in early 2003 claiming vast evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that turned out to be nonexistent was a "painful" and lasting "blot" on his career. more »»»
10 Pledges to Demand from Democrats
 Stephen Pizzo
If Dems win in the 2006 and 2008 elections, but fail to define what they stand for, the country will be no better off. With there being no realistic hope a viable progressive third part will emerge, progressive thinkers have been trying to figure out how to round up our wayward mule team and get it hitched back to the right wagon.more »»»
Who Will Be Indicted, and When?
 Sidney Blumenthal
As the inquiry of independent counsel Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity approaches its deadline of Oct. 28, the cast of characters appears for final performances before the grand jury.more »»»
Spain Asserts Right to Try Genocide Crimes Committed Abroad
 Agence France-Presse
Spain's courts may try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity committed outside the country, whatever the nationality of the victims, the country's Constitutional Court said in a ruling hailed by rights activists.more »»»
Mexican Brothers Live Torture, Court Nightmare
 Lorraine Orlandi
Psychology professor Enrique Aranda had never crossed paths with Mexico's police and courts until an evening out with his brother nine years ago gave him a taste of hell.more »»»
Mexicans on NFL in Mexico City: So What?
 Kirk Mitchell
As the Arizona Cardinals and the San Francisco 49ers made history by playing the first NFL regular-season game outside the United States, the men packing Mi Oficina sports bar sat and attentively watched a big-screen TV.more »»»
The Hammer Falls
 Michael Scherer
At its height, the first great political machine of the 21st century worked like this: In Congress, Texas Rep. Tom DeLay controlled the votes like a modern-day Boss Tweed. He called himself "the Hammer."more »»»
Katrina Takes a Toll on Truth, News Accuracy
 Susannah Rosenblatt & James Rainey
Maj. Ed Bush recalled how he stood in the bed of a pickup truck in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a megaphone and scant information, he might have been shouting into, well, a hurricane.more »»»
Mexican Courts Lacking Justice
 Ginger Thompson
Victor Javier Garcia still has a dozen marks across his abdomen and genitals from the burning cigarettes the police used to torture him into falsely confessing to being a serial killer.more »»»
The News Media and the Anti-War Movement
 Norman Solomon
Even without dramatic natural disasters, the news media are ready, willing and able to downplay news about war - and the antiwar movement - for any number of reasons. Conventional wisdom on Capitol Hill or in newsrooms can tamp down media coverage of a surging movement.more »»»
U.S. World Position in Education Slipping
 Associated Press
The United States is losing ground in education, as peers across the globe zoom by with bigger gains in student achievement and school graduations, a study shows. Among adults age 25 to 34, the U.S. is ninth among industrialized nations in the share of its population that has at least a high school degree.more »»»
New Evolution Spat In U.S. Schools Goes To Court
 Jon Hurdle
A new battle over teaching about man's origins in U.S. schools goes to court for the first time next week, pitting Christian conservatives against educators and scientists in a trial viewed as the biggest test of the issue since the late 1980s.more »»»
Mexico Takes Pride in Helping U.S.
 The Ledger
Among the 94 countries that have offered aid to the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, none is more symbolic of a difficult friendship than Mexico. Katrina forced the United States and Mexico to cross years and miles of border resentment and suspicion.more »»»
Happy Media Accountability Day!
 Molly Ivins
What we need in this country - along with a disaster relief agency - is a Media Accountability Day. One precious day out of the entire year when everyone in the news media stops reporting on what's wrong with everyone else and devotes a complete 24-hour news cycle to looking at our own failures. How's that for a great idea?more »»»
Carter/Baker Report Can't Face How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election and Is Rigging 2008
 Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
The stolen elections of 2000, 2002 and 2004 are nowhere to be found in the milquetoast Carter-Baker Report now passing for wisdom on America's broken electoral system. And unless the public is ready to face the reality that we no longer live in a nation with credible elections, the 2008 balloting is all but over.more »»»
The Probability of Immigration Reform: Less than Zero
 Jon Garrido
The reality of the situation is: the probability of immigration reform is for all practical purposes - dead in the water. Less than zero. All due to a woman passing in the night.more »»»
What Noble Cause?
 Cindy Sheehan
It has been one month, one week, and 4 days since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Texas. My request was very simple: I wanted to speak to the man who has sent over a million of our young people over to fight, kill, and die in a country that was absolutely no threat to the United States of America.more »»»
Controversy Roils Over Mexican ID
 William Finn Bennett
Rarely has a single piece of plastic ignited such ire or drawn such support as the Mexican consular identification card, a document the Mexican government issues its citizens who are living abroad.more »»»
CIA Leak Probe May Be Nearing End Game
 Reuters
New York Times reporter Judith Miller, locked up for refusing to reveal who told her a covert CIA operative's name in a probe that may be nearing a conclusion, works part time at the jail laundry helping clean fellow inmates' green jumpsuits and dirty linens.more »»»
Censored!
 Camille T. Taiara
Here's a list of the 10 biggest stories that the mainstream media ignored, blacked out, or underreported over the past year, according to Project Censored, a media watchdog group based at California's Sonoma State University.more »»»
Tragedy in New Orleans, Torpor in Washington:
Katrina Exposes Ugly Aspects of Bush and America
 Max J. Castro
On average, and from the moment of birth, minorities and the poor in the United States are more likely to die prematurely - no matter the weather. Katrina amplified this brutal social fact amply confirmed by myriad studies, the strong correlation between social stratification and the odds of life and death.more »»»
US Court's Balance Should Be Retained
 The San Jose Mercury News
The stakes are high: Senate Democrats and moderate Republicans must not waiver or compromise. They must warn Bush: They will not confirm an ideologue to the court or elevate a conservative activist - justices Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas - as chief justice.more »»»
John Roberts: Uncompassionate Conservative
 Marjorie Cohn
George W. Bush has nominated John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. Bush lauded Roberts for his "goodwill and decency toward others." Yet Roberts' record reveals a callous disregard for the rights of people very much like the tens of thousands who have died and been rendered homeless by Katrina.more »»»
Who Will be the Next Chief Justice?
 Associated Press
The death of William H. Rehnquist opens up the chief justice seat on the Supreme Court for the first time in two decades. How President Bush fills that opening raises some interesting questions.more »»»
Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum
 Harold Morowitz, Robert Hazen & James Trefil
Scientists who teach evolution sometimes feel as if they are trapped in an old horror film - the kind where the monster is killed repeatedly, only to come to life in a nastier form each time.more »»»
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