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 Racism, Obama and Healthcare - Part 2
 The Real News Network
Glen Ford: The black left has been comatose since Obama became President but "Black is Back."
Official Immunity and Mexico's Fight Against Corruption
 Sylvia Longmire
All Mexican elected officials, including the president, legislators, governors and mayors, enjoy the privilege of immunity from having criminal charges brought against them while in office.
Racism, Obama and Healthcare
 The Real News Network
Paul Jay speaks with Glen Ford about the underlying issues of the health care reform opposition, who suggests the opposition wants the state to serve the poor white people while denying the non-white.
In Mexico City, a Political Deal Redone
 Marc Lacey
Back-room deals have long been a staple of Mexican politics, but no one has focused more attention on what goes on in the country’s smoke-filled rooms than a political neophyte who goes by Juanito.
US Senate Committee Rejects Public Option
 John Whitesides & Donna Smith
A Senate panel on Tuesday rejected a government-run "public" insurance option as part of a broad healthcare overhaul, handing insurers an early victory and setting the stage for a long fight over one of the bill's most contentious issues.
Lessons on Health Reform From Latin America
 Carmelo Mesa-Lago
It would benefit the United States to consider the example of Latin America, where all of the countries have enacted some form of health care reform, beginning with Chile under the reign of Pinochet in 1980 and spreading throughout the region in the following two decades.
The Mothers of Plaza Tijuana and Mexico's 'Disappeared'
 Frontera NorteSur
Taking a cue from Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, relatives of "disappeared" persons staged a loud demonstration in Tijuana. Banging pots and pans, protesters gathered outside the Baja California state government building to demand answers about the whereabouts of 320 people forcibly disappeared or kidnapped.
Bill Clinton Basks in Role of World Savior
 Agence France-Presse
World leaders gathering in New York to resolve global problems? Sounds like the UN General Assembly - well, except when they're all across town with Bill Clinton.
Flake or Not, Palin is Still Popular in GOP Rank
 Doug Thompson
For reasons that defy logic, political reality and common sense, Republicans still back former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the soap opera that surrounds her.
Pair Slain in Mexico Known to Police in B.C.
 Timothy Appleby & Ian Bailey
Tiny fish swimming in a tank full of piranhas. That looks to be the likeliest scenario in a blood-soaked double homicide that left two Canadians dead in the sunny Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta.
Same-Sex Marriage Activists Seek Repeal of California’s Proposition Eight
 Daniel B. Wood
The battle is on to repeal California’s Prop. 8 — which activists hope starts a national domino effect in the nearly 30 states that have banned same-sex marriage.
Most Mexicans See Better Life in U.S. - One In Three Would Migrate
 PewGlobal.org
Facing a variety of national problems - crime, drugs, corruption, a troubled economy - Mexicans overwhelmingly are dissatisfied with the direction of their country.
Latin America: Strides and Setbacks for Domestic and Rural Workers
 Daniela Estrada
In the last few years, several Latin American countries have attempted to improve labour conditions for rural workers and domestics, whose labour rights have long been ignored. But the new laws, even those with limited scope, are not always enforced.
Obama Builds His Own 'Imperial Presidency'
 Capitol Hill Blue
Candidate Barack Obama promised to eliminate the imperial Presidency of George W. Bush but President Obama has become an extension of the expanding power of the executive branch.
Mexico's Bloody Drug War
 Jaime Daremblum
"We face a defining moment," Mexican president Felipe Calderón said earlier this month in his third state of the union address. While he was talking about more than just the war on drugs, that is clearly the paramount security challenge facing Mexican authorities.
Bill Clinton: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy is Back
 Associated Press
Bill Clinton says a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Barack Obama.
35 Million Americans on Food Stamps
 My Budget 360
There are a few statistics that you can look at to see actual human pain in the real economy. Looking at food stamp participation from the United States Department of Agriculture shows us a very disturbing picture.
ProtectYouth: Texas Keeping Parents in the Dark
 Craig Johnson
If parents are the anti-drug, why is the State of Texas keeping them in the dark about student drug use?
G20: Leaders Agree on Reforms, Poor Still "Out in the Cold"
 Eli Clifton
World leaders at the two-day G20 Summit in the U.S. city of Pittsburgh agreed to work cooperatively to recover from the global economic crisis and create structural reforms with long-term growth as the goal.
Cronkite Records Destroyed by FBI
 USA Today
The FBI destroyed its files on former CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite two years ago under a policy that has been criticized by researchers for allowing potentially valuable records to be wiped out.
Divorce, American Style
 Tamara Lush & Deanna Martin
Divorce is as common in the Florida Keys as fresh grouper and cold beer. Census statistics released this week show that Monroe County — which includes the cluster of 1,700 islands floating off South Florida — has the second-highest proportion of divorced residents.
No Money for Wrongly Jailed Otomi Woman
 Associated Press
Authorities said there would be no compensation for an Indian market vendor who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and spent three years in prison in a case that provoked an international protest.
Newly Declassified Files Detail Massive FBI Data-Mining Project
 Ryan Singel
A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, and now contains tens of thousands of records from private corporate databases, including car-rental companies, large hotel chains and at least one national department store, declassified documents obtained by Wired.com show.
Survey: 75% of Mexicans Unhappy with Country
 Catherine E. Shoichet
Mexico City — Mexicans are overwhelmingly unhappy with the direction of their country, and one in three would immigrate to the United States if they could, a Pew Research Center survey said Wednesday.
Overshadowed by Tea Party Movement, the Christian Right Scrambles to Claim It Isn't Racist
 Adele M. Stan
The Tea Party movement has the juice as the religious right is on the wane. Survival may mean joining up, but that presents an image problem for Christians.
Justice for Latin America's Disappeared?
 Sam Ferguson
In the 1970s and early 1980s, eight of South America's ten largest countries were ruled by dictatorships. These governments committed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, and created a new type of international crime: the forced disappearance.
For Mexico and Canada, the 'War on Terror' is Over
 Louis Nevaer
On the eighth anniversary of the United States declaring a global “war on terror” this September, America’s continental neighbors – Mexico and Canada – have had enough.
A New Start in Mexico: Leaving Domestic Violence Behind
 Mariana Echandi
40-year-old Rebecca was a long-term victim of domestic violence, but, unlike most women abused in the home, she fled to another country because she felt there was no person or organization she could turn to in her native Nicaragua.
Waterboarding Doesn’t Work, Scientists Say
 Brandon Keim
Severe interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and the exploitation of phobias aren’t just morally reprehensible, they’re based on bad science, destroying the very memories they’re supposed to recover.
University of New Mexico Pays Ex-Mexican President $25,000 for Lecture
 Pat Lohmann
UNM is paying former Mexican president Vicente Fox $25,000 to speak on campus this week, to the dismay of some students and faculty members.
Latin America Pioneers an Anti-Poverty Program That Works
 Tyler Bridges
This popular anti-poverty program, which has spread throughout Latin America and even to New York City, requires that children stay in school. The children also must have twice-a-year health exams and be vaccinated against diseases.
As ACORN Grew, so Did Its Clout and Its Problems
 Barbara Barrett
Long before two conservative young activists strode into an ACORN office wearing a hidden camera, the grassroots organization had been racking up kills in its decades-long quest to protect working-class people from what it saw as wrongheaded corporate interests.
Central American Independence Day; Neocolonialism Meets Resistance in Honduras
 Tom Loudon
The massive resistance movement in Honduras continues to grow, denouncing the violent coup as an illegal takeover on the part of neocolonial economic and military interests.
 Honduran Lobster Divers: Risking it All in the Hunt for 'Red Gold'
 Kate Warburton
Caribbean spiny lobster has for decades been the source of income for the population along Honduras' Mosquito Coast, yet whilst it's provided wealth for the region it has also been a curse for the hundreds of lobster divers injured whilst sourcing the delicacy.
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