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 Editorials | At Issue
AT&T Sued over NSA Spy Program
 Declan McCullagh
AT&T has been named a defendant in a class action lawsuit that claims the telecommunications company illegally cooperated with the National Security Agency's secret eavesdropping program.more »»»
What Really Happened
 Cindy Sheehan
As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union address last night. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.more »»»
Where's the Budget Outrage?
 E.J. Dionne Jr.
This week the Republican Party hopes to escape its immediate past. House Republicans will elect new leaders. They hope that the party's corruption scandal will be forgotten and that the names Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff will become as unmentionable in their world as Lord Voldemort's is in Harry Potter's.more »»»
US Pentagon Can Now Fund Foreign Militaries
 Bradley Graham
Congress has granted unusual authority for the Pentagon to spend as much as $200 million of its own budget to aid foreign militaries, a break with the traditional practice of channeling foreign military assistance through the State Department.more »»»
Song of Myself
 Francis Wilkinson
If there is a bandwagon in the works to eliminate the president's State of the Union address, I'm jumping aboard. There has always been something uncomfortably imperious about the speech.more »»»
US Plans to 'Fight the Net' Revealed
 Adam Brookes
A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks.more »»»
Forum Spotlights Problems of Poor Women
 Natalie Obiko
Activists at the World Social Forum turned their attention Thursday to obstacles faced by poor women in Latin America, whom they called the primary, and often unheard, victims of globalization.more »»»
Hunger on the Border - An Interview with Julia Quiñones
 David Bacon
Today the US/Mexico border is the subject of intense controversy and debate. Most of the fireworks focus, however, on the idea that more enforcement can keep people from crossing the border. Lost in this hysteria is the reality that the border is a huge place, where millions of people live and work.more »»»
You've Got Jail
 Robert Scheer
In case someone in the Justice Department is reading this, let me hasten to explain why I just clicked on the Victoria's Secret online catalog photo featuring a certain "Very Sexy Lace & Mesh Garter Belt." AOL made me do it.more »»»
Some US Church Leaders Step Up Anti-War Moves
 Michael Conlon
Some US religious leaders are stepping up pressure on Washington to end the nearly 3-year-old Iraq war. But the influence of those who oppose the conflict has been weak so far and the faith community, and like US public opinion, is divided.more »»»
Fidel Castro: US Gov´t Insults Cuban Sovereignty
 Prensa Latina
Cuba will never accept insults to her dignity and sovereignty, and the US president George W. Bush knows it very well, Fidel Castro told Tuesday a huge rally in Havana.more »»»
Mexican Political and Campaign Strategies
 Enrique Andrade González
With the official beginning in January of Mexico’s 2006 presidential campaigns, certain things remain to be seen before possible future scenarios can be forecast, although three facts can be assumed.more »»»
Gay Marriage: Taking the Battle to the States
 Maria Godoy
Supporters of legalizing same-sex marriage have largely eschewed a federal battle, choosing instead to focus their efforts on a case-by-case basis in state courts around the country.more »»»
The Other Campaign: Zapatistas Seek United Left
 David Van Deusen
Deep in the Mountains and jungles of Chiapas, populated primarily with indigenous peasants, stirs a force which is seeking to upstage the high financed drama of the 2006 Mexican presidential election.more »»»
Women Making History as Prez
 Prensa Latina
Michelle Bachelet on Sunday and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Monday made history in two different continents: The former was elected as Chile´s and Latin America´s first woman president-elect and the latter was inaugurated as Liberia´s and Africa´s first female Head of State.more »»»
More Mexican Minors and Women Migrate North
 Frontera NorteSur
In their report "The Truncated Hope," Mexican researchers Blanca Villaseñor and Jose Moreno Mena provide additional evidence about the increased migration of Mexican women and youth to the US.more »»»
The Year of Living Dangerously: Bush v. Reality
 Tom Engelhardt
2006 is sure to be the year of living dangerously - for the Bush administration and for the rest of us. In the wake of revelations of warrantless spying by the National Security Agency, we have already embarked on what looks distinctly like a constitutional crisis.more »»»
Christian Right Sees Judge as Saviour of Religious America
 Thomas Edsall
Leaders of the Christian right gathered in a Philadelphia church on Sunday night to build support for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on the eve of his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.more »»»
Media's War Images Delude Instead of Inform
 Norman Solomon
The picture was perfect. It provided a moving portrait, an image that journalists called "iconic." It was true to the moment. Yet the photograph was deceiving in a way that media images often are - showing us what's more apparent than real.more »»»
Killing Fuels Mexican Anger Over US Immigration Policy
 Bill Van Auken
The fatal shooting of 18-year-old immigrant Guillermo Martinez Rodriguez by a US Border Patrol agent last week has fueled popular anger in Mexico over an increasingly repressive and xenophobic immigration policy that is being crafted in Washington.more »»»
The Opposite of Good Is Apathy
 Cindy Sheehan
Now, counting the 11 American soldiers who were pointlessly killed in George's unconscionable and brainless war of terror in the Middle East, the American "official" death toll is up to 2193: 200 more families ruined in less than three months!more »»»
The Zapatistas’ New Direction: Institution Building and Other Campaigns
 Chris Arsenault
After a few years of relative quiet, relegated to their misty mountain strongholds in southern Mexico, Zapatista rebels recently tried to re-assert their presence on the international stage, continung a unique military strategy based more on words than weapons.more »»»
The Sago Mine Disaster
 NYTimes
In the long history of coal mine tragedies in Appalachia, few have borne the compound misery suffered in Sago, W.Va., where a dozen families were plunged from exultation to furious grief by a false report that their loved ones had survived a deadly mine explosion.more »»»
Cuba Begins to Think About Life After Castro
 Marc Frank
With the Cuban revolution passing its 47th anniversary at the weekend and Fidel Castro heading towards his 80th birthday, Havana and Washington have begun jousting in earnest in advance of what will surely be one of the most difficult moments in the island’s history – the iconic leader’s incapacitation or death.more »»»
Fox's Unfulfilled Promise
 S. Lynne Walker
Five years ago, Mexicans voted for a savior. What they got was a man. A big, straight-taking, charismatic man. His strengths have made him one of the most popular presidents in Mexican history. His weaknesses have prevented him from living up to the expectations of millions of people who believed he could radically change their country.more »»»
Bush Says, Bring It On; The Critics Will
 Karen Tumulty & Mike Allen
Up until a couple of weeks ago, George W. Bush's script to put the misery of 2005 behind him had seemed destined for a smooth rollout. But the revelation that his Administration has been spying in this country without warrants - illegally, critics say - may have put a crimp in Bush's plan to climb back on top of the agenda as the new legislative session begins.more »»»
Making Poverty History in 2006
 NYTimes
It was a banner year in 2005 for big speeches from global leaders about fighting third-world poverty. But if any of their promises are going to come close to being kept, 2006 must be a year of action.more »»»
Holes in Fence
 Waco Tribune
Not only would a border wall or fence waste a fortune in taxpayers' money, it also would send the world a message of United States paranoia, intolerance and foolishness. Enforcement is only one part of the solution; we also need to address the underlying reasons for illegal immigration.more »»»
Global Migration Coursing Through Mexico
 Michael Flynn
President Bush’s “comprehensive strategy” on border security aimed at preventing “people from coming here in the first place,” does nothing to address the growing phenomenon of global migration. What’s more, it leaves Mexico to clean up a mess it didn’t make.more »»»
Mexican Homecomings Change Workers Into Heroes
 Dane Schiller
While living in the shadows inside the US, Mexican immigrants stoke controversy from the Rio Grande to Washington. But when they return home, they're hailed as heroes. They're seen as triumphant soldiers who have risked their lives in the war against poverty.more »»»
Capitol's Pariah on Immigration Is Now a Power
 Rachel L. Swarns
For nearly a decade, Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican of Colorado, has been dismissed by his critics as little more than an angry man with a microphone, a lonely figure who rails against immigration and battles his own president and party. But last week, the man denounced by critics on the left and on the right suddenly emerged as an influential lawmaker.more »»»
Mr. Cheney's Imperial Presidency
 NYTimes
George W. Bush has quipped several times during his political career that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship. Apparently he never told his vice president that this was a joke.more »»»
DPIC's Year End Report Reveals Record Low US Death Sentences
 Bowser Soder
As the United States' use of the death penalty continues to decline and support for the alternative sentence of life without parole increases, the Death Penalty Information Center's (DPIC) 2005 Year End Report projects that fewer than 100 death sentences will be handed down in the United States during 2005.more »»»
Evo Morales Has Plans for Bolivia
 America Vera-Zavala
Evo Morales is a polarizing figure in Latin American politics: a proudly left-leaning indigenous activist who defends the traditional rights of peasants to grow coca and describes the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas as "colonization."more »»»
Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World
 Kurt Eichenwald
The 13-year-old boy sat in his California home, eyes fixed on a computer screen. He had never run with the popular crowd and long ago had turned to the Internet for the friends he craved. But on this day, Justin Berry's fascination with cyberspace would change his life.more »»»
Analysts: Crackdown Won't Halt Immigration
 Michael A. Fletcher & Darryl Fears
The bill passed by the House late Friday to step up border enforcement and crack down on the millions of undocumented workers in the country would be doomed to failure if enacted because it does not acknowledge the inexorable economic forces that drive illegal immigration, according to many analysts.more »»»
Mexico and The Art of Creative Begging
 Doug Bower
Not only do Mexican landlords give every impression their American tenants exist to be taken advantage of, Mexican beggars also plug into this mentality. They think every American lights his or her cigars with $100.00 bills. This is no generalization. I have evidence.more »»»
'78 Law Sought to Close Spy Loophole
 David G. Savage
In 1978, Congress thought it had closed a loophole in the law when it passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The loophole concerned secret spying authorized by the president on grounds of national security. On Friday, many in Washington were surprised to learn that despite the 1978 law, President Bush and his advisors had claimed the power to authorize secret spying within the United States.more »»»
The Guerrilla War against Cheap Lettuce
 Ben Ehrenreich
If you drive far enough south in Douglas, Arizona, you eventually hit the wall. You'll pass through tidy avenues lined with new ranch homes and the stately old brick houses built for mining officials back when Douglas was a company town, when there were jobs here besides those offered by the Border Patrol, Wal-Mart, and the prison up the road.more »»»
Latinos At War
 Saul Landau
In the faculty dining room at the California State University where I teach, a Mexican-American woman places thin slices of turkey on bread. Stress lines radiate down from her high cheekbones. One of her sons left last week for Iraq.more »»»
Defining Torture in a New World War
 Paul Reynolds
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has sought to clarify US policy towards torture - saying that all American personnel are covered by a UN convention - but the issue still remains clouded.more »»»
New Tests Fuel Doubts about Vote Machines
 Marc Caputo & Gary Fineout
A political operative with hacking skills could alter the results of any election on Diebold-made voting machines - and possibly other new voting systems in Florida - according to the state capital's election supervisor, who said Diebold software has failed repeated tests.more »»»
Meet the New Boss
 William Rivers Pitt
There is an election taking place in Iraq on Friday. According to those who still maintain some kind of hope that the wretched situation over there can be salvaged at the ballot box, this election will be a turning point, and a "real chance that the insurgent violence and the sectarian rivalries that are pushing the country close to civil war will abate." more »»»
Where Is the Democracy?
 Jean-Marcel Bouguereau
Can the greatest democracy in the world, the one that has appointed itself the messianic objective of bringing the benefits of democracy to the whole world, trample the principles of law and of habeas corpus which, specifically, were supposed to be the basis of its moral superiority over all dictatorships, both ideological and religious?more »»»
Killing of Ex-President's Brother Is Still a Mystery
 James C. Mckinley Jr.
It has been a year since the brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari was found suffocated, but the state and federal authorities have yet to untangle the motives for his killing, much less arrest his killers and their accomplices.more »»»
Air Marshals Trained to Handle Deadly Threats
 John J. Nance
For many decades, Americans have understood that bombs, when mixed with civilian airplanes, are an unquestionable threat to public safety. This is why we've long been willing to prosecute, fine and sometimes jail people who merely uttered the wrong words in the wrong place.more »»»
Donald Rumsfeld's War
 Jason Leopold
The US military death toll in Iraq surpassed 2,100 soldiers last month, and despite the fact that there is a strong debate about permanently pulling troops out of the country, there are still unanswered questions as to whether there are actually enough ground forces to deal with insurgents.more »»»
Hidden in Plane Sight: US Media Dodging Air War in Iraq
 Norman Solomon
Major US news outlets are dodging the extent of the Pentagon's bombardment from the air, an avoidance all the more egregious because any drawdown of US troop levels in Iraq is very likely to be accompanied by a step-up of the air war.more »»»
Expatriates Show Little Interest in Mexico Vote
 Thomas D. Elias
Maybe, just maybe, Mexico's decision to let all its expatriates now living in the U.S. vote in Mexican elections won't matter very much. Maybe all the questions about dual loyalties among immigrants will become moot.more »»»
US Sidestepping Courts in the War on Terrorism
 Richard B. Schmitt
The timing of the government's indictment last week of terror suspect Jose Padilla, after holding him more than three years without charges, seemed hardly coincidental. The Supreme Court was being asked to review the Padilla matter, which has sparked a national debate over the treatment of terrorism suspects who are US citizens.more »»»
Political Islam vs. Democracy
 Robert Dreyfuss
Nearly three years into the war in Iraq, the Bush administration tells us that it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction or Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, but about America's holy mission to spread democracy to the benighted regions of the Middle East.more »»»
Life is a Beach? Not in Cancun
 Marla Dickerson
This resort city was built on crystalline beaches, turquoise waves and people like Margarita Rojas, who has seen once-sleepy Cancún become one of Mexico's fastest-growing regions.more »»»
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