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 The Right to Stay Home - Derecho de no Migrar
 David Bacon
This June in Juxtlahuaca, Mexico - in the heart of Oaxaca’s Mixteca region - dozens of farmers left their fields, and women weavers their looms, to declare their right to stay home.
Mexico Environmentalists Fear Deforestation To Go Unabated in U.N. World Heritage Site
 Mark Stevenson
Environmentalists fear the decision to list Mexico's wintering grounds of the Monarch butterfly as a U.N. world heritage site may do little to halt deforestation that threatens the butterflies.
Comic Draws Charges of Racism
 Leslie Casimir
Beloved by Mexicans for his dim wits, street smarts and playful disposition, long-running comic book character Memín Pinguín — a little black boy whose face resembles a monkey — is at it again.
 Why Does US Need Military Bases Around the World?
 The Real Network
Aijaz Ahmad: What would a rational American foreign policy look like? Part 2
9/11 Third Tower Mystery 'Solved'
 Mike Rudin
The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center. Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse.
Oaxaca's Government Land Grab
 Theresa Kleinhaus & Maya Schenwar
In villages across Oaxaca, where land has been owned communally for centuries, paramilitary groups are doing their bloody part to change the scene.
Company that Led Training in Torture Techniques for Mexican Police Is Risks Incorporated of Miami, Florida
 Kristin Bricker
The foreign company captured on video training police in León, Mexico, in torture techniques is Risks Incorporated of Miami, Florida, and Great Britain, Narco News has learned.
In the Face of Death
 Alex Kotlowitz
Over the past few years, detective work and advances in DNA technology have uncovered a frighteningly high number of wrongfully convicted, especially on death row. But there may be another, albeit quieter, revolution taking place, out of view, in jury rooms.
What's a Rational American Foreign Policy?
The Real Network
Aijaz Ahmad: Start with the question, why does the US have to be the most powerful country on earth?
Grand Prix Brought Human Trafficking and Sex Trade to Montreal: Activists
 Canadian Press
The Canadian Grand Prix weekend means big business for Montreal's sex trade as partying race fans roar into the city on their annual pilgrimage. Experts say major international sporting events, such as the World Cup and the Olympics, up the demands for young, female prostitutes.
The Truth Is Out on CIA and Torture
 Milt Bearden
Over the last several months, there has been a gradual, but unrelenting, outing of the highest level U.S. government involvement in the sordid business of torture.
Reporters Covering Mexico Drug Wars Risk Their Lives
 Ken Ellingwood
In many ways, Mexico's democratic evolution has afforded the news media greater freedom than at any time in modern history. But at the same time, reporters are working on a battlefield: Mexico is considered the most dangerous Latin American nation in which to be a journalist, and one of the riskiest in the world.
Is Obama Blowing It?
 Jennifer Loven
Is Barack Obama close to being shadowed by giant flip-flops and, worse, having the image stick with people all the way to the voting booth?
US Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps
 Eric Lichtblau
A federal judge in California said this week that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the "exclusive" means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government's claim that the president's constitutional authority as commander in chief trumped that law.
Ransom Claim in Ingrid Betancourt Release
 Haroon Siddique
Ingrid Betancourt arrived in France this week after being held captive for six years in the Colombian jungle, amid claims that a ransom was paid to free her.
Is Betancourt Release the End of FARC?
 The Real Network
The recent liberation of Ingrid Betancourt and other hostages from the FARC rebels in Colombia seems to put President Alvaro Uribe in the driver's seat. Does this mean that the FARC can be wiped out militarily or is this a good time to negotiate a peaceful settlement after decades of civil war.
Amnesty International Presses Mexican Court to Accept abortion
 Phil Lawler
AI, which officially abandoned its neutrality on abortion in 2007, has authored a pro-abortion legal memorandum addressed to the Supreme Court of Mexico asking the high court to uphold liberal abortion in Mexico City, report Piero A. Tozzi and Juan Carlos Perez in C-Fam's Friday Fax.
Mexico Says Oil Woes Hurting It and World
 Catherine Bremer
A steady drop in Mexico's crude oil output is threatening the nation's energy security and means jittery world oil markets cannot look to it for reassurance, Energy Minister Georgina Kessel said on Thursday.
No Privacy at Passport Agency
 Capitol Hill Blue
As America celebrates its birthday, new disclosures showcase just how disposable privacy has become in what used to be the home of the brave and the land of the free.
Mccain's "War On Terror" Remix
 The Real News Network
The Real News Network does a first take on McCain's foreign policy.
Harper’s Free Trade Mantra: Hush, Rush, and Sign
 Dawn Paley
This January, after little more than 6 months of negotiations, the Canadian Government announced the completion of negotiations of the Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Six months later, on June 7, 2008, Canada announced that negotiations for a controversial Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia were finalized.
Racism Will Dominate US Election
 Capitol Hill Blue
America is, by and large, a nation dominated by racists and racism is expected to play a huge role in the upcoming Presidential elections.
Immigrant Groups Strategize for Presidential Campaign
 New America Media
The presidential campaign provides immigrant groups an opportunity to really monitor what political candidates are saying on immigration as they address different constituencies. It’s also a chance to push through some bipartisan bills, reports NAM contributor Melanie Reynard.
Mexican Human Traffickers Behead Young Girl In Florida For Resisting Rape
 Sue D.
One has to wonder why this hasn't been reported by the major news outlets, why outrage hasn't been expressed, and why it took a blogger to bring the Florida House of Representatives -State Affairs Committee video segment to our attention?
President Calderón Urges Women Not to Tolerate Abuse
 Presidencia de la República
As part of his tour of Mexico State, President Felipe Calderón directed the More Opportunities for Women Event, in which he urged all the women in the country not to tolerate domestic abuse.
Markets for the Poor in Mexico
 Mary Anastasia O'Grady
Helping the poor may be virtuous, but when the poverty industry starts losing "clients" because the market is performing good works, watch out. Compartamos Banco knows what it's like to have a tarnished halo.
McCain's Delicate Immigration Dance
 Michael Scherer
Many are unclear about McCain's immigration position after the contentious primary campaign, in which the issue regularly polled as the second most important among likely Republcian voters, next to the Iraq war.
The Good News in Iraq (Don't Count on It)
 Tom Engelhardt
On March 19, 2003, as his shock-and-awe campaign against Iraq was being launched, George W. Bush addressed the nation. "My fellow citizens," he began, "at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger." Within weeks, of course, that "great civilization" was being looted, pillaged, and shipped abroad.
Ron Paul's Grave Warning On The Coming Iran War
 Youtube
Ron Paul discusses rising energy costs and Iran.
Homelessness Brought To US Middle Class
 Dan Glaister & Anna Bruce-Lockhart
Homeless people living in cars and mobile homes across the US are being joined by a new breed: the middle-class. As mortgage foreclosures continue rising month on month, growing numbers of middle-class professionals are losing their homes and downsizing from four bedrooms to four wheels.
Mexico Cheers US Aid for Drug War, but Rights Groups Worry It Gives Abusive Soldiers Free Rein
 Morgan Lee - Associated Press
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Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has documented 634 cases of alleged abuse by the military since President Felipe Calderón sent more than 20,000 soldiers across the nation to take back territory controlled by drug traffickers.
It Was Oil, All Along
 Bill Moyers & Michael Winship
Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be ... the bottom line. It is about oil.
Child Detainees Battle System Alone
 Maya Schenwar
Detained children often face harsh conditions while struggling against a legal system over which they have little hope of triumphing.
Iraq Story Buried by US Networks
 The Real Network
The three major US networks spend on average 2 minutes per week covering the Iraq war, this according to the New York Times. Lara Logan of CBS joins critique.
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