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 Globalization, a "Devastating Success" Part 3
 The Real News Network
Paul Jay speaks with Jomo K.S. about the change in production patterns all over the world as a result of globalization.
Latin America's Poor Response to Global Call Against Poverty
 Mario Osava
The creative approach of using football matches, student gatherings, shows or events indirectly related to the issue of poverty enabled GCAP activists to reach a wide variety of audiences in Latin America with their message. However, as in previous years, there was little specific mobilisation in the region.
Globalization, a "Devastating Success" Part 2
 The Real News Network
Paul Jay speaks with Jomo K.S. about the change in production patterns all over the world as a result of globalization.
US to Stop Medical Marijuana Prosecution
 Associated Press
Federal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.
Internet, the Vote and Social Networks in Mexico: US Experience to be Shared
 Guillermo Ramón Adames y Suari
One of the problems that Mexico will have to face in the next 2012 elections is the Internet's Social Network component. This system will be used by the political parties to gain votes altogether and particularly for the Presidential Elections.
In Pursuing Human Rights, Argentina Displays a Broken Justice System
 Sam Ferguson
Over 30 officials from Argentina's notorious Naval Mechanic's School, or "ESMA," have been indicted for their responsibility in the kidnapping and torture of about 900 people during Argentina's last military dictatorship, which ruled from 1976 to 1983. For human rights groups, it is a symbol that "the impunity" has ended.
NY Times: Is the CIA Still Hiding JFK Assassination Secrets?
 Muriel Kane
The CIA is fighting to prevent the release of hundreds of documents involving its funding of an anti-Castro group in New Orleans that engaged in well-publicized clashes with Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963.
Can Canadians Escape Mexico's Drug Wars?
 Oakland Ross
The recent deaths of Gordon Kendall and Jeffery Ivans are another sign that what began as a Colombian disease and then morphed into a Mexican malady is now on its way to becoming something of a Canadian condition, too.
Latin Americans Need Professionalized Spy Agencies
 Jerry Brewer
Espionage operations throughout Latin America, although overwhelmingly massive in nature, are inundated with clear and present dilemmas.
US Bailouts Helped the Rich Get Richer
 Capitol Hill Blue
It wasn't supposed to work this way: Taxpayers bail out huge financial institutions and those bailouts help the institutions get richer while average Americans get poorer.
In Mexican Drug War, Investigators Are Fearful
 Marc Lacey
Mexico has never been particularly adept at bringing criminals to justice, and the drug war has made things worse. Investigators are now swamped with homicides and other drug crimes, most of which they will never crack.
The Young Honduran Revolution
 Johannes Wilm
In this documentary, Johannes Wilm shows his conversations with students fighting against the military coup in Honduras.
Many Mexican Migrants Stay Put in U.S. Despite Crisis
 Patrick Rucker
Mexican workers in the United States have lost jobs and faced a crackdown on illegal immigration but are not heading home in droves despite the worst recession in decades, officials and researchers say.
Calderon Tries to Turn Out the Lights on Mexico's Unions
 Michael E. Miller
Controversial and possibly unconstitutional, Calderòn's decree on Luz y Fuerza was the first step towards what many Mexicans fear is the privatization of yet another of their country's key industries. But some wonder if the shutdown isn't something larger: a warning to unions across the country to cooperate, or else face elimination.
Bush Memoirs to Haunt GOP
 Andie Coller
For Republicans looking forward to the first Bush-free election in a decade, the book publishing schedule is the bearer of bad news: Between New Year’s Day and next November, as many as five Bush administration officials — including the former president himself — will rehash history in hardback.
Mexican Girl: Smuggler Ignored Plea to Save Family
 Elliot Spagat
Cecilia Cid-Contreras remembers waking up underwater, unable to breathe. A migrant smuggler had just plunged a GMC Suburban packed with about 20 suspected illegal immigrants into a canal, including Cid-Contreras' parents and 10-year-old brother.
Mexico: Human Rights Defenders Under Attack, UN Warns
Emilio Godoy
Gustavo de la Rosa, head of the Ciudad Juárez office of the Chihuahua State Human Rights Commission in northern Mexico, was forced to flee to El Paso, across the border in the United States, and take refuge there for nearly a month, because of death threats related to his work.
Indigenous Peoples Southern Border Rights Campaign
 Brenda Norrell
In the new Southern Border Rights Campaign, the Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras/Indigenous Alliance Without Borders, is working toward national guidelines to ensure border rights for Indigenous Peoples in their homelands, from California to Texas.
The US Immigration Debate
 The Real News Network
Paul Jay speaks with Ali Noorani about the battle over immigration reform, and the economic significance of immigration in the US.
Lawyers-Turned-Filmmakers Aim Cameras at Injustice
 John Hecht
When two lawyers were filming a retrial of a Mexico City street vendor falsely imprisoned for murder, Mexico's archaic judicial system had no place to hide.
World's Hungry Reaches More Than 1 Billion in '09
 Reuters
A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, United Nation agencies said Wednesday, speaking from at a two-day forum in Rome, confirming a grim forecast released earlier this year.
Important to Raise Environmental Awareness among New Generations: President Calderón
 Suzanne Stephens Waller
President Felipe Calderón declared that this generation has the enormous challenge of repairing the damage humans have caused the Earth by guaranteeing a world and a Mexico that will last forever.
US-Mexico Groups Urges New US Assault Weapons Ban
 Catherine E. Shoichet
The United States should reinstate a Clinton-era ban on assault weapons to prevent such guns from reaching Mexican drug cartels, former officials from both countries said in a report released this week.
Mexico: Disappeared Anti-Mining Activist is Back Fighting
 Dominique Jarry-Shore
On August 17, 2009, masked men carrying high caliber rifles forced anti-mining activist Mariano Abarca, 52, into an unmarked car as he was leaving the primary school in his hometown of Chicomuselo, Chiapas. Held without contact to his family, it was feared he had been kidnapped.
Truthout Interview With Ralph Nader: "Only the Rich Can Save Us"
 Jason Leopold
Ralph Nader will always be remembered by his critics as the man whose bid for the White House in 2000 gave us eight years of George W. Bush. The disdain many liberals have for Nader still runs deep nearly a decade later.
Latin America: Big Gender, Ethnic Gaps in Wages Found
Jim Lobe
Indigenous people, descendants of Africans, and women in Latin America earn significantly less money than their predominantly white male peers of similar age and education levels, according to a recent study released by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Mexico's Rising Drug Use and Addiction - Who is to Blame?
 Sylvia Longmire
Over the past year, several media reports have detailed the exploding domestic drug market in Mexico, as well as soaring drug dependency rates. The reasons for Mexico's transition from being mainly a "transport country" to becoming a "consumer country" are rather simple.
Obama Administration Accused Again of Concealing Bush-Era Crimes
 Matt Renner
President Obama promised to usher in a new era of government transparency when he was sworn into office nine months ago. But since that time, the Obama administration has sought to conceal information in several high-profile court cases, in an effort that civil libertarians say amounts to covering up crimes committed by the Bush administration.
Questions Remain for Survivors of Massacres at Mexican Rehabilitation Centres
 Hannah Strange
The authorities claim that the killings are carried out by drug cartels because the centres are harbouring rival gang members, but this is denied vehemently by the victims.
"Anarcho-Bombings" Spark Student Witch Hunt
Kristin Bricker
Throughout the month of September, over ten bombs were placed in banks, a car dealership, a luxury clothing store, a small police station, and an animal testing laboratory in Mexico City and the states of Guanajuato, Nayarit, and Jalisco. Most exploded; no injuries were reported.
What's With All the @#%! Language?
 Kenneth P. Vogel
Those who pay attention to political rhetoric say an unusual amount of profanity has emanated from this White House – even without counting famously colorful White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Mexico's 'Narco-Lawyers' Risk Everything
 Ken Ellingwood & Tracy Wilkinson
One 'Bulletproof Lawyer' survived four assassination attempts before being gunned down. Such unsolved killings highlight the violence within a judicial system manipulated by powerful drug cartels.
Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
 Ryan Singel
The Department of Justice has finally admitted it in court papers: The nation’s telecom companies are an arm of the government — at least when it comes to secret spying.
2012 Isn't the End of the World, Mayans Insist
 Mark Stevenson
Archaeologists, astronomers and modern-day Mayas shrug off the popular frenzy over the date of 2012, predicting it will bring nothing more than a meteor shower of new-age "consciousness," pseudo-science and alarmist television specials.
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