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 About as United as Democrats Get
 Dale McFeatters
The Democrats, for whom turmoil is a way of life, seem to have pulled off a near flawless convention with excellent primetime speeches by the principles and plenty of feel-good moments, even if they were scripted.
Johnson's Dream, Obama's Speech
 Robert A. Caro
As I watch Barack Obama's speech to the Democratic convention tonight, I will be remembering another speech: the one that made Martin Luther King cry. And I will be thinking: Mr. Obama's speech - and in a way his whole candidacy - might not have been possible had that other speech not been given
Mexico's Challenges Run Deep
 Tad Trueblood
Even though American drug use is certainly a major contributing factor to the burgeoning narco-insurgency, it is not a foundational cause of Mexico's ills. Other, deeper factors shape the unsteady foundations of our southern neighbor.
The Speech Progressives Have Been Waiting For?
 Paul Waldman
In Obama's much-anticipated address tomorrow, we can expect soaring rhetoric infused with a sense of history. Let's hope he also includes a full-throated endorsement of progressivism as an ideology.
Can Mexico Solve its Continuing Crime Problems?
 Carlos Luken
I often try to believe and transmit my firm premise that with all its problems and idiosyncrasies, Mexico is a country slowly inching its way toward a better lifestyle.
Mexico: The Winds of Revolt
 Walter Molano
With less than two years to go until the 10th year of the new millennium, history suggests that another bloody revolution may be somewhere on the horizon.
Continental Union Conspiracy Theories Just Won’t Go Away
 Dave Russell
Back in June 2007, Jerome Corsi published the book, “The Late Great U.S.A.,” and came up with another one of those conspiracy theories that just won’t die. Corsi outlined a plan for a new continental government combining the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
VP Candidate Alexander Wants $300 Billion for Automakers
 Socialist Party USA
The Big Three U.S. automakers recently announced plans to seek $25 billion in federal loans that will help bailout the struggling automobile industry as declining sales continues to rack up record losses on a battered industry. Stewart Alexander is convinced that $25 billion will only provide a temporary fix.
Mexican Teachers' Poor Test Scores May Be Good News
 Andres Oppenheimer
Many Mexicans reacted with shock and dismay when it was announced recently that nearly 70 percent of teachers had flunked a new nationwide test to measure whether they had the basic skills to be educators. I, for one, celebrated the news.
NIST's Laughable WTC-7 Conspiracy Theory
 Lee Rogers
The conspiracy theorists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST recently issued a report claiming that WTC-7 a 47-story building that fell on September 11th, 2001 collapsed as a result of fire damage. The report cites a new phenomenon called thermal expansion.
Veepstakes: Obama-Biden
 John Nichols
And the winner is: Joe Biden. It did not take a newfangled text message, just an old-fashioned leak, to identify Barack Obama's running mate.
Pepe Escobar: Welcome to the New Cold War
 The Real Network
These last few days, the Persian Gulf became a sideshow. Exit evil Iran and a phantom al-Qaeda; enter the remixed Evil Empire - Russia, a real-life superpower complete with nuclear weapons.
New Rush to Spy
 The New York Times
There is apparently no limit to the Bush administration's desire to invade Americans' privacy in the name of national security. According to members of Congress, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is preparing to give the F.B.I. broad new authority to investigate Americans - without any clear basis for suspicion that they are committing a crime.
Is Faith Really That Important?
 Ben Boychuk & Joel Mathis
Americans' eyes are turning to Denver for the Democratic National Convention, but the presidential forum at Southern California's Saddleback Community Church on Aug. 16 is still resonating.
Apocalypse Later: A Futurologist Looks Back at 2008
 John Feffer
Being a futurologist means never having to say you're sorry. Our predictions always come true eventually - or, if they don't, well, how quickly people forget. Never apologize, never look back: that's our motto.
Bush Has No Right to Lecture About Human Rights
 Ramsey Clark
A price the American people are paying for the failure of the House of Representatives to impeach Bush, Cheney and their cabal for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity - the greatest assaults on peace and human rights of this century - is the Bush Administration’s bellicose drum beat for war against a widening circle of chosen enemies.
Obama and the Paris Hilton Factor
 Jay Ambrose
It's the eve of the Democratic National Convention, and the Republican John McCain is suddenly catching up with Barack Obama in the polls, even coming out five points ahead in a Reuters/Zogby survey. I am not sure we should make a lot of this, but can't resist wondering what some acquaintances think of that Paris Hilton video now.
The Mexico City Pink Line
 Ted Kerr
Even in the face of machismo, LGBT rights and culture are flourishing in Mexico. The Mexican Constitution was amended in 2001 to prohibit discrimination against sexual minorities, and in 2006 civil unions were legalized in Mexico City. Part of legislative changes and progressing governments is how people act out their lives on the street, and I had a chance in Mexico City to witness a small glimpse of Mexican LGBT life.
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
 Reg Henry
With the Democratic Convention starting in Denver next week, it is a timely moment to suggest to Barack Obama and other party luminaries on how they can best avoid criticism by the right-wing propaganda machine. My advice is: Stay home. Stay in bed (not with anyone named Rielle).
Tijuana: Empire's Slum?
 Rocky Neptun
The outlook is bleak for Tijuana; it is controlled by corporate interests not its people. The corrupt political system, the U.S. dominated economy, the lack of strong unions or effective civic organizations makes fundamental change near impossible. Yet, deep within the Mexican chest, beats the heart of a potential liberationist; a potential Flores Magon.
PETA Does It Again
 Miriam
Just when you think PETA couldn't get any worse, they take their ad campaigns to another level. Apparently PETA is petitioning to buy ad space on the fences that are being constructed along the US/Mexico border to display these racist and offensive ads.
Cuban Espionage Continues to be a Threat to the Americas
 Jerry Brewer
Totalitarian dictatorships still exist and, as a matter of fact, they are very much alive in Latin America. Democracies throughout the Americas must immediately address their governments' counterintelligence missions, and their strategic long and short range vision to monitor aggression and other forms of insurgency within their homelands.
The Candidate We Still Don’t Know
 Frank Rich
As I went on vacation at the end of July, Barack Obama was leading John McCain by three to four percentage points in national polls. When I returned last week he still was. But lo and behold, a whole new plot twist had rolled off the bloviation assembly line in those intervening two weeks: Obama had lost the election!
Pelosi Puts Politics Over Principle
 Dan K. Thomasson
Never let it be said that Nancy Pelosi isn't principled. Actually, her main principle seems to be that when politics dictate, give up the principles and go with the politics.
Can Obama Bridge America’s Wall of Ignominy?
 Robert Weitzel
Obama’s good looks and charisma and cadenced speechifying cannot help but remind one of John Kennedy. Hopefully, before he makes another speech about tearing down walls he will read Kennedy’s “Alliance for Progress” and begin building bridges so that its vision of a “hemisphere where all men can hope for a suitable standard of living and all can live out their lives in dignity and in freedom” has a chance to finally be realized.
Lessons Not Learned at the Bay of Pigs
 Howard Jones
The question is, what lessons can be extracted from a fiasco of nearly half a century ago? The short answer is that “regime change” has remained a central part of American foreign policy, meaning that the White House failed to learn anything constructive at the Bay of Pigs.
The Dirty Wars of Bush and Calderon
 Carlos Fazio
"The goal of the United States is to plunge the country into chaos and destabilization, in order to penetrate [Mexico's] States security institutions, further weaken national sovereignty and accelerate dependency. To accomplish this, Washington and its local accomplices are deploying far-reaching psychological warfare and resorting to media terrorism."
Mexico Imploding
 F. Andy Messing & Annie Rohrhoff
Americans have a surreal view of Mexico based on glittering tourist hot-spots such as Cancun, Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta. However, in reality, many places in Mexico are imploding with strife because of the influence of criminal organizations.
BBC Video Proves Georgia to Blame for Hostilities
 Kurt Nimmo
The BBC video here was aired two days before Russia intervened to stop Georgia’s ethnic cleansing operation in South Ossetia. It needs to be viewed by Bush, Condi, Robert Kagan, Charles Krauthammer, little Billy Kristol and all the neocons.
Brenda Martin Ungrateful
 Victoria Macintosh Frankford
I felt sorry for Brice McVicar and appalled by Ms. Martin's choice of words. She described her stay in Trenton as "quite boring". Why not reflective? Insightful? Enjoying the company of her mother or in appreciation of the everyday things she use to take for granted? I wouldn't trade any of it for time spent in that Mexican prison.
The Myths About Obama
 Ed Tasca
Most of what has been written and disseminated by Obama's detractors are misstatements, others are half-truths, and still others are vicious misrepresentations aimed at characterizing Obama in a way that is anti-American.
Politics Versus the Mexican Military's War Against Crime
 Carlos Luken
Mexico’s violent and bloody war against drug cartels, in Baja California, claimed its latest and most prominent victim last week as the military strongman who led the no-nonsense campaign against organized crime was unceremoniously ousted.
Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?
 Robert Scheer
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
Where, Oh Where, Are the Issues?
 Doug Thompson
As the two political party conventions approach and the never ending 2008 Presidential campaign drones on and on, both candidates for the top job in the land continue to avoid dealing with any of the real issues that face America.
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