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Flu Shouldn't Close Mexico Border
 Carlos del Rio
Dr. Carlos del Rio says U.S. and Mexican authorities deserve credit for their responses to the swine flu outbreak.
Waterboarding the Rule of Law
 Steve Weissman
Should a special prosecutor hold Bush, Cheney, Rice and Rumsfeld accountable for violating the law against torture when they specifically authorized waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and sexual humiliation of detainees?
On Buying Dollars Cheaply
 Edgar Amador
Mexicans will be offered a relatively cheap dollar for some time, but the truly big question is; what will happen next?
Obama Draws Fire from Socialists and Conservatives
 Stewart A. Alexander
Shortly after the 2008 elections, President Barack Obama told the nation that things would get worse. Now approaching the end of his first 100 days in office, millions of Americans are now realizing first hand that President Obama was right, things are getting worse.
Do Not Break The Nucleus
 Shobha Shukla
Twenty three years ago, in the early hours of 26th April, 1986 (precisely at 01.24 a.m.), the world witnessed one of its worst nuclear disasters. Reactor number 4 of Chernobyl power station, situated near Pripyat in Ukraine, exploded.
Columbine Plus 10
 New York Times
It is impossible to view this month’s killing of 13 people in Binghamton, N.Y., in isolation. April 20th was the 10th anniversary of the massacre at Columbine High School and the second anniversary of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech.
The Politics of Torture
 Dale McFeatters
President Obama says the government will not prosecute CIA interrogators who used harsh interrogation techniques amounting to torture but left the door open to prosecuting the top Bush administration legal officials who authorized them.
BushCo: Tide Turns Towards Prosecution and Investigation
 IndictBushNow.org
The government's effort to stop prosecution has backfired. In the last few days the demands from people around the country and the world for the investigation and prosecution of Bush Administration torture officials has caused a dramatic shift in the U.S. political scene.
 When Racists Control a Racism Conference
 Dale McFeatters
President Obama has been accused of being too accommodating and too willing to please in foreign affairs. But he was quite direct in announcing over the weekend that the United States, "with regret," would boycott the U.N. conference on racism in Geneva this week.
Mixed Feelings About Obama's First Meeting with Hemispheric Leaders
 Mario A. Murillo
Of all the memorable statements coming out of the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad this weekend, the one that stood out the most for me was President Barack Obama’s public expression of how he intended to approach his first major meeting with his hemispheric counterparts.
US Future Depends on Torture Accountability
 Keith Olbermann
As promised, a Special Comment now on the president's revelation of the remainder of this nightmare of Bush Administration torture memos. This President has gone where few before him, dared. Mr. Obama deserves our praise and our thanks for that. And yet he has gone but half-way.
Jokes and Charades
 Fernando Dworak
One of the many things Mexicans feel chauvinistically proud of is our witty, sharp and often cruel sense of humor. We have long been prone to creating jokes about anything from foreigners to national disasters and laughing about them all.
How The Nation Magazine Saved the American Empire: What Can Obama Do in Latin America?
 Greg Grandin
What if Barack Obama had picked the Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel or Democracy Now! anchor Amy Goodman to advise him at the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago this week? Unlikely, to say the least, but 75 years ago President Franklin Delano Roosevelt did something just like that.
Can Obama Clean Up in Latin America?
 Simon Tisdall
Barack Obama's new broom has been working overtime since he took office, trying to tidy up George Bush's mess in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Russia. But nowhere is there more clearing up to do than in Latin America, once superciliously dubbed America's backyard.
Take Action: Demand Justice for Torturers
 IndictBushNow.org
It has been the massive pressure from the people that has put the prosecution of Bush-era officials on the agenda. As expected, there is a countervailing campaign from the neo-cons and their apologists. Now, the Obama administration has opted to try to shield Bush administration officials who are guilty of torture and war crimes. We cannot and will not let up.
When the Mexican Drug Trade Hits the Border
 Fred Burton & Ben West
In December, our cartel report assessed the situation in Mexico, and two weeks ago we looked closely at the networks that control the flow of drugs through Central America. This week, we turn our attention to the border to see the dynamics at work there and how U.S. gangs are involved in the action.
A Black Market in Children
 William Saletan
If the government stopped you from bearing a child, would you buy one instead? Before you say no, look at what's happening in China.
Beware of Drug-Cartel Corruption
 Joan Neuhaus Schaan
While the violence in Mexico, and increasingly in the United States, is symptomatic of much broader issues for both countries, true progress in combating the cartels cannot be achieved without acknowledgment and recognition of the central role played by corruption.
This Isn't Working
 Marc Ash
Still well short of the Obama administration's 100th day in office, substantive judgment would normally be premature at best, but these are extraordinary times. The raging inferno of corruption that began in the Bush years burns out of control now, and time is of the essence.
G-20 Ignored Social "Havens"
 Sylvain Lapoix
While the G-20 has bragged about dismantling tax havens, social "havens" - where minimal labor costs facilitate factory transfers - persist across the world: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mexico... Some have even been inserted into the European Union with complete impunity!
Getting a Death Grip on Memory
 Norman Solomon
A headline in The New York Times announced a few days ago: "Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory." This news ran above the fold on the front page. Big deal. American media outlets have been pulling off such feats for a long time.
From Pinochet to Bush, the Path to Prosecution
 IndictBushNow.org
The imminent indictment in Spanish courts of former officials of the Bush Administration is being applauded by civil and human rights organizations and legal scholars. The popular wave of support for indictment of Bush officials will inevitably lead to Bush himself.
Should Bush & His Administration Face Prosecution?
 Ben Boychuk & Joel Mathis
Should prosecutions happen? Or would that criminalize policy differences in the fight against terror? Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk, the RedBlueAmerica columnists, debate the topic.
Mike Farrell on Taking a Stand
 The Real News Network
Actor Mike Farrell talks about why he 'sticks his neck out' as a political activist.
Humanity Even for Nonhumans
 Nicholas D. Kristof
One of the historical election landmarks last year had nothing to do with race or the presidency. Rather, it had to do with pigs and chickens — and with overarching ideas about the limits of human dominion over other species.
Obama's Socialism is Not the Answer
 Jay Ambrose
You write columns, you get emails, and what some tell you is that capitalism is a failure, that people are suffering and what we need is Obama-style socialism - virtually unfettered government taking over everything that moves and spending at a rate that could add something like $9 trillion to our debt over the next decade.
Helping Mexico Fight Drugs
 Silvestre Reyes, Ike Skelton & Howard L. Berman
Talk of Mexico as a failed state is nonsense. Saying so caricatures the fight and sacrifice being waged every day by our neighbors. And it undermines the obvious need to work together with our Mexican partners in what is clearly a shared Mexico-U.S. responsibility to face down this threat.
The Two Faces of Mexico
 Erick Prado
Mexicans are struggling to create a better country. The country is an attractive place for foreigners who either want to travel to the gorgeous colonial towns or the delightful beaches on the coast.
Calling in the Army Won't Stop the Violence Plaguing Mexico
 Andrew Hunt
Ciudad Juárez, a troubled city on the Mexican side of the Texas-Mexico border, is plagued by excessive violence, drug wars and extreme poverty. These problems, not new by any stretch of the imagination, mirror deeper social ills so prevalent in Mexico.
An Unexpected Voice on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death
 James Rucker
Yesterday, an unexpected voice emerged to reflect on the 41st anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death - Mychal Bell's. Mychal is one of the Jena 6, six black students charged with second-degree attempted murder for their alleged role in an attack on a white student at their high school in Jena, Louisiana.
Today's America: A Socialist State
 Deroy Murdock
Anyone who doubts that the Bush and Obama administrations collectively transformed America into a socialist state should consider this: For every dollar American citizens generated last year, the federal bailout consumed more than 90 cents in outlays, loans, and commitments.
Mexico: Too Much Violence, Too Few Agents
 Dan K. Thomasson
The startling rise of violence in Mexico and along the southwest border of the United States has sharpened the focus on a long-existing problem neither Congress nor a succession of presidents has been willing to resolve - the startling lack of manpower in a key agency in what promises to be a long battle.
Sometimes, Abortion Becomes a Necessity
 Bonnie Erbe
The recession is driving American demand for contraception and for abortions. The media have been riven this past week with stories about the rising number of couples and single mothers doing the math and deciding this is no time to bring a child into the world.
Noam Chomsky on the Economy and Democracy
 The Real News Network
Noam Chomsky speaks to Paul Jay on the Obama - Geithner plan. Chomsky says that "they're simply recycling, the Bush-Paulson measures and changing them a little, but essentially the same idea."
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