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 McNamara Deceived LBJ on Vietnam
 The Real News Network
Gareth Porter reveals former Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, who died Monday, misled LBJ on Gulf of Tonkin attacks.
US Aid Linked to Rights Progress
 Steve Fainaru & Willam Booth
Under the Merida Initiative, a $1.4 billion counter-narcotics package that President George W. Bush requested in June 2007, 15 percent of the money cannot be released until the secretary of state reports that Mexico has made progress on human rights.
IRS Role in Madoff Scandal Bears Examination
 Sherwood Ross
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has collected "untold billions" of tax dollars from investors swindled by fraudster Bernie Madoff's Ponzi based on "earnings" that never existed.
Lawmaker Won’t Deny Secret CIA Program was ‘Cheney Assassination Ring’
 Raw Story
Early Friday morning, MSNBC followed up on a theory posted Thursday on the Huffington Post which alleged that a secret CIA program shut down in June by director Leon Panetta could have been related to a purported effort led by Vice President Dick Cheney to assassinate intelligence targets abroad.
Independents Backing Away From Obama
 Doug Thompson
Independent voters are taking a second look at President Barack Obama and they don't like what they see.
Mexico: Economics and the Arms Trade
 Scott Stewart & Fred Burton
STRATFOR has been closely following the cartel violence in Mexico for several years now, and the events that transpired in Apaseo el Alto last month are by no means unique.
Mexico's Drug War
 CBS News
Drug-cartel fueled violence has turned into a war in Mexico, with thousands of deaths and the government battling well-armed gangs whose military-quality weapons come mostly from U.S. dealers. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.
Drug-related Killings in Mexico on Course to Top Last Year's Numbers
 Mike M. Ahlers
Despite massive security efforts north and south of the border, the drug-fueled killing spree in Mexico is continuing and is on course to surpass last year's record toll, federal officials told Congress Thursday.
H1N1 Flu Puts Cheek Kiss Greeting on Hold
 Marcela Valente
These days, people in the Argentine capital are largely avoiding the traditional greeting: a peck on the cheek. Doctor's orders, amidst the fast spread of the H1N1 influenza virus, otherwise known as swine flu.
How Safe is Travel to Mexico?
 Dennis D. Jacobs
Your odds of dying from other than natural causes on a trip to Mexico are pretty low - around 1 in 100,000. But how does that compare to other popular destinations for Americans traveling abroad?
Support U.S. Health Reform NOW!
 Paul Krugman
American economist, columnist, intellectual and author, Paul Krugman, gives us the latest on US health care reform, and an explanation of why the 10-year cost dropped from previous Congressional Budget Office predictions.
Narcocorridos and Nightlife in Mexicali
 William Booth & Travis Fox
Mexicali, Mexico used to be a swell city for binational cantina crawling, but the violence of the drug war has quieted the nightlife down. The tourists are spooked. Still, the locals are keeping the lights on.
DOJ Reveals Details About Cheney's Interview With Patrick Fitzgerald
 Jason Leopold
Though the Obama administration continues to balk at releasing the full contents of the Cheney interview, it did reveal that Bush and Cheney were in contact about the scandal, including what is described as "a confidential conversation" and "an apparent communication between the Vice President and the President."
So-Called "Charitable" Hospitals Providing Very Little "Charity"
 Sherwood Ross
If President Obama wants to "squeeze billions of dollars from (healthcare) spending," as Associated Press reports, he could begin by administering a dose of fiscal reality to for-profit hospitals masquerading as charitable institutions.
Is America Moving Back to the Right?
 Doug Thompson
A new Gallup poll shows Americans, by a 2-1 margin, are moving to the right politically and that shift could spell trouble for President Barack Obama and Democrats.
Honduran Violence, US Aid Tests Obama's Global Image
 Roberto Lovato
While English language television in the United States mined the minutiae of Michael Jackson's upcoming funeral, millions watching Spanish, Portuguese and French language media in the rest of the Americas were transfixed by live broadcasts of the Honduran military shooting and killing a 10 year-old boy and other protesters.
Cheney Discussed CIA Leak with Officials
 Nedra Pickler
Vice President Dick Cheney talked with top White House officials about how to respond to reporters' inquiries into who leaked the identity of a CIA operative, according to a court filing.
Mexico's Elections and the Deepening Crisis of Political Legitimacy
 Kent Paterson
On July 5, nearly 77.5 million Mexicans will be eligible to cast ballots for a new federal Congress and local governments in some states. The big issue hanging over this year's election is whether many people will even bother to vote, and how many of those who do turn out will cross out their ballots or opt for write-in candidates.
Escalating Afghan War Will "Destroy" Obama
 Sherwood Ross Associates
Escalating the war in Afghanistan will destroy the Obama presidency "almost as surely as (Viet) Nam and Iraq destroyed Johnson's, Nixon's and Bush II's," a noted law dean warns.
North American Integration: Deep-Rooted Agenda Continues
 Dana Gabriel
North American integration is a deep-rooted agenda that continues on many different fronts. This has not changed under an Obama administration.
Extra Troops Fail to Staunch Mexico Bloodshed
 Oscar Laski
Scorched by a blistering desert sun, military troops here form the frontline security cordon in a bitter battle against crime playing out in the heart of Mexico's bloody drug wars.
Global Downturn Hits Mexico Harder Than Most
 Jason Beaubien
In English, you might call what's happening to Mexico's economy a "perfect storm." The crisis has hit many nations hard, but Mexico's problems are compounded by factors that leave it facing its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
With Mexico's Violence, Nothing is Sacred
 Dudley Althaus
A Roman Catholic priest described as a self-effacing servant of God has joined the more than 11,000 people slaughtered in Mexico, shot in the back by marauding gunmen.
Renters Hit by US Foreclosure Crisis Too
 Martha C. White
While the plight of homeowners affected by the real estate meltdown has been well-documented, renters too often fall under the radar.
US Cuts Bolivian Tariff Exemptions on Drug Efforts
 Frank Bajak
The U.S. government says it will end valuable tariff exemptions for Bolivia because the world's No. 3 cocaine-producing country is not adequately prosecuting the war on drugs.
Judges Move to Reign in Obama's Abuse of Power
 Doug Thompson
We've been here before: A President believes the so-called "war of terror" gives him the right to do whatever he wants, even if it means ignoring the Constitution, without any checks and balances on his abuse of power.
'Evil' Madoff Gets 150 Years in Epic Fraud
 Robert Frank & Amir Efrati
Bernard Madoff, the self-confessed author of the biggest financial swindle in history, was sentenced to the maximum 150 years behind bars for what his judge called an "extraordinarily evil" fraud that shook the nation's faith in its financial and legal systems and took "a staggering toll" on rich and poor alike.
Honduras: Old Coup Strategy, Different Stage
 Michael Fox
The Presidential residence is surrounded; the president is kidnapped and flown out of the country. Thousands take to the streets, but the mainstream television stations report nothing. No, this is not Venezuela in 2002. Nor is it Haiti, 2004. It’s Honduras, 2009, but roughly the same story is once again being told, on a different stage with different actors. But that difference could mean everything.
Infrastructure is Vital for Chiapas
 RUMBO de Mexico
One of the poorest states in the country, has long suffered from crumbling infrastructure. But one of the best ways to propel the southern state into modernity is by repairing and building new roads and highways, water and electricity systems and creating public projects, Governor Juan Sabines Guerrero said.
US Democrats Miss Bull's Eye on Arms Trafficking Reform
 Mike Lillis
Earlier this year, as the violence on the Mexican border had crescendoed into national headlines, the state of California contacted federal firearms officials with a seemingly innocuous request: Would the federal government lend state law enforcers details on the thousands of crime guns seized in Mexico and traced to California?
US Torture Accountability Action Day
 The Real News Network
A day before the Obama administration came out with an executive order, which will allow to incarcerate terror suspects indefinitely, people across the US gathered to demanded legal action against senior Bush administration officials for authorizing torture.
CIA's Panetta Won't Penalize Torturers, Okays Renditions
 Sherwood Ross
CIA Director Leon Panetta says he is not going to penalize agents who tortured prisoners if they "were doing their duty," explaining, "If you have a President who exercises bad judgment, the C.I.A. pays the price."
Jalisco's Anti-Abortion Governor Accused
 Notimex
Jalisco state governor Emilio González Márquez, who refuses to authorize hospitals to practice abortions on women who are rape victims, was denounced by female federal deputies who demand a political trial.
Special Report: Reporting, and Surviving, in Ciudad Juárez
 Mike O’Connor
In one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities, reporting the news requires extreme caution. Self-censorship and manipulation of the news are constants.
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