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 Plan Mexico and the U.S.-Funded Militarization of Mexico
 DemocracyNow
Video broadcast of a report from Mexico produced by “Inside USA” (Al Jazeera English) on the U.S. role in Mexico’s growing drug war.
Columbus Debunker Sets Sights on Leonardo da Vinci
 Tim Castle
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book.
Mexico Says Reform Won't Reverse Oil Woes Fast
 Jason Lange
It will be hard for Mexico to restore flagging oil output before 2020 to recent levels of 3 million barrels per day, even if the government pushes through a plan to boost foreign investment in production efforts, a top energy official said this week.
The Wave of "Capitol Crimes" Continues
 Bill Moyers & Michael Winship
Like the largesse he spread so bountifully to members of Congress and the White House staff - countless fancy meals, skybox tickets to basketball games and U2 concerts, golfing sprees in Scotland - Jack Abramoff is the gift that keeps on giving.
Split Decision
 Deanna Darr
Mention the word "immigration" and you feel a tremor as the ideological split creates a chasm, widened by raw emotions — love, fear, anger and hope. But there are those who end up at the bottom of that chasm through no fault of their own. They are children, United States citizens, who live with the very real possibility of being separated from their parents who are here illegally.
Mexico's Drug Cartels Take Barbarous Turn: Targeting Bystanders
 Manuel Roig-Franzia
Recent killings in Sinaloa - a massacre of eight people who were not suspected of drug-trafficking ties - punctuated a vicious turn in Mexico's drug war, a savage conflict between rival cartels and the federal government that has taken more than 7,000 lives in the past 2 1/2 years.
Radovan Karadzic: One Way Ticket to The Hague
 Ivan Simic
The former 1st President of Republika Srpska, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested in Belgrade by the Serbian Authorities on July 21, 2008 after an alleged tip-off from a foreign intelligence service.
North American Union: The Dream 'Is Dead'
 Jerome R. Corsi
The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is dead, says Robert A. Pastor, the American University professor who for more than a decade has been a major proponent of building a North American Community.
Latin America: AIDS Threat Still Looming
 Emilio Godoy
The HIV/AIDS epidemic remains stable in Latin America and the Caribbean, mainly affecting high-risk groups like gay men and sex workers, according to the UNAIDS report for 2008, released Tuesday.
Is It Time for Bush to Pay for His Many Crimes?
 Laurie Kellman
Across Capitol Hill, Democratic-led committees are considering punishments for past and present Bush administration officials for a range of alleged misdeeds, from discriminating against liberals at the Justice Department to blowing off subpoenas and lying to Congress.
Another Record US Deficit
 Dale McFeatters
The White House has disclosed that the Bush administration will be leaving behind a nasty house-warming gift for the next president: a record budget deficit of $482 billion in fiscal 2009.
Unequal America
 Elizabeth Gudrais
The United States no longer boasts anywhere near the world's longest life expectancy. It doesn't even make the top 40. In this and many other ways, the richest nation on earth is not the healthiest.
U.S. Recession, Drug War Violence Cause Crisis in Mexico Tourism
 Kent Paterson
At first, a song about the Mississippi Delta belted out on the moonlit shore of Zihuatanejo Bay, Mexico, seemed out of place. But the bluesy tune performed by U.S. musicians at this year's Zihuatanejo International Guitar Festival struck a chord in the Mexican town. These days, many locals know the blues very well.
Return of the Gunboat
 John Ross
The resurrection and imminent dispatch of the United States Fourth Fleet to patrol the coasts of Latin America invokes the bad old days of Monroe Doctrine impositions and gunboat diplomacy for many citizens of those southern latitudes.
Massive Economic Disaster Seems Possible - Will Survivalists Get the Last Laugh?
 Scott Thill
With multiple crises on the horizon, survivalist views don't seem as marginal as they did before. Author, social critic and overall hilarious dude James Kunstler tackles an incoming post-oil dystopia in his recent novel, World Made by Hand.
Suicide Hot Line Got Calls From 22,000 Veterans
 Katharine Euphrat
More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says.
Obama Sells Europeans on Afghan War
 The Real Network
European public hails Obama as the anti-Bush, but politicians cool to idea of more troops in Afghanistan.
A Life-Changing Foreign Investment
 Maria Elena Salinas
During a visit to Mexico City in 1997, Christel DeHaan, a wealthy American businesswoman-turned-philanthropist, was touring several orphanages when she decided that the best way to share her money was to create Christel House, where orphaned, abandoned and disadvantaged children would have an opportunity to become self-sufficient, contributing members of society.
Mexico's Version of La Cosa Nostra Spreads Like a Virus
 Jim Kouri
The Castorena Family Organization is a large-scale criminal organization with more than 100 key members who oversee cells of 10 to 20 individuals in cities across the United States, according to public court documents filed by the US government in Colorado and in other judicial districts around the country.
Esequiel Hernández, Jr. and the Making of the US-Mexico Borderlands
 Joseph Nevins
Esequiel Hernández Jr. was only 18-years-old when Clemente Manuel Banuelos, a U.S. Marine corporal, shot and killed him in Redford, Texas in May 1998. Hernández, a high school student, was the first civilian killed by U.S. troops within national territory since the 1970 Kent State massacre.
The Company We Keep
 Michael Winship
At one point during the five and a half years John McCain spent as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, he was tortured and beaten so badly he tried to kill himself. After four days of this brutality, he gave in and agreed to make a false confession, telling lies to end the unbearable pain. Later, he would write, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."
4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images
 Michael Kamber & Tim Arango
The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the American military to control graphic images from the war.
Mexican Military Losing Drug War Support
 Dan Keane
A hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived four months ago to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street. But then the soldiers themselves turned violent, townspeople say, ransacking homes and even torturing people.
Dam Breaks As Media Covers Impeachment Hearing
 Prisonplanet.com
The House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Bush Administration’s use of executive power has finally been covered by the corporate media.
US Military Recruits Children: "America's Army" Video Game Violates International Law
 Michael B. Reagan
In May of 2002, the United States Army invaded E3, the annual video game convention held in Los Angeles. At the city's Convention Center, young game enthusiasts mixed with camouflaged soldiers, Humvees and a small tank parked near the entrance.
Immigrant Rights Groups Challenge ID Theft Arrests
 Jennifer Ludden
For years, the chief punishment for immigrants caught working illegally in the United States has been deportation. But prosecutors are now bringing criminal charges that include aggravated identity theft, which can bring a hefty prison sentence. Immigrant rights groups and some members of Congress are challenging the practice.
New Torture Memo Shields Interrogators
 Spencer Ackerma
One of the most important building blocks in the Bush administration's apparatus of torture became public this week. An Aug. 1, 2002 memorandum from the Justice Dept.'s Office of Legal Counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency instructed the agency's interrogators on specific interrogation techniques for use on Al Qaeda detainees in its custody.
What Is Behind the Struggle in Colombia?
 Gloria La Riva
Colombian trade unionists and peasant leaders continue to be gunned down in record numbers by a death-squad government that is armed and financed by the Bush administration. More trade unionists are assassinated every year in Colombia than anywhere else in the world.
Lucio, The Good Bandit: Reflections of an Anarchist
 Marie Trigona
Lucio Urtubia could be described as a modern day Robin Hood, a man who stole from the rich to give to the poor. Lucio, a 76-year old Spanish anarchist and retired bricklayer carried out bank robberies, forgeries and endless actions against capitalism.
Navy Prosecutor in Gitmo Case: Fourth Plane Shot Down
 Steve Watson
Though the trial the man, dubbed “Osama bin Laden’s driver”, is primarily functioning as a show piece for the Bush administration’s “war on terror”, some interesting information emerged from the Guantanamo Bay naval base yesterday in the form of a direct admission from a US prosecutor that the fourth plane was “shot down”.
Mexico Hot Under the Collar at US Pepper Scare
 Mica Rosenberg
Mexicans are jumping to the defense of the jalapeno pepper, maligned by U.S. health inspectors in a salmonella scare but loved by millions in its ancient home and growing in popularity north of the border.
Airport Scanners See Through Clothes
 Ina Paiva Cordle
Travelers, be aware: Your full-blown image - private parts and all - could soon be visible to a security officer, on-screen, at an airport near you.
Court Rules Lesbians Are Not Just From Lesbos
 Daniel Flynn
A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the Aegean island of Lesbos to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women, according to a court ruling made public on Tuesday.
Cartels Have Mexican Civilians Trembling
 Dudley Althaus
The narcotics trade has long been a winked-at way of life for many in this market town on the fertile coastal plains of northwestern Mexico. It's also become a terrifying way of death.
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