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Decoding Encryptions
 The News
Encrypted messaging may be new to some gizmo addicts in the e-age, but for Mexican politicians, it has always been there. And these are particularly eclectic times, especially after the July 5 midterm elections in which voters decided to bring back the once hated and discredited PRI to rule the Chamber of Deputies.
A Blow to the Head and the Health
 Michael Staples
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to arrive at the conclusion that pounding on someone's head has the potential to cause some pretty bad damage. But yet we see it constantly at live events and on television these days in the form of organized fighting.
US Health Care Reform Getting "Meager"
 The Real News Network
Richard Wolff: Obama must create the support needed to reform health care.
Conscience or Career?
 Alan Burkhart
More and more often we encounter news of an employee forced to choose between his or her job and performing an act which that person finds morally reprehensible. This occurs most frequently in the medical and pharmaceutical professions.
Honduras Dispute Spills Over Into Mexico
 Allan Wall
On June 28th, 2009, Honduras President Jose Manuel Zelaya was arrested by the military and expelled from the country. On June 29th, Mexican President Felipe Calderon jumped on the pro-Zelaya bandwagon, but is it really in Mexico's interests to get involved in Honduran politics?
Washington Post Editorial Calls for a Prosecutor
 IndictBushNow.org
We will succeed! The indictment and prosecution of those who committed crimes during the Bush era will soon become a reality. Nothing is more important to restore the Constitution.
Is the Party Over for the Republicans?
 Rupert Cornwell
The White House is lost, scandal is rife and a certain lady in Alaska has resigned her governorship. The Republican Party is, by any measure, a mess. Can it bounce back?
Obama's Health Care Struggle: Waterloo or Water Down?
 Bill Moyers & Michael Winship
Push finally came to shove in Washington this week as the battle for health care escalated from scattered sniper fire into all-out combat. If it all seems to be getting more and more confusing, join the club. It's hard to see what's happening through all the gun smoke.
One Percenters Enjoy Unprecedented Protection
 David Sirota
According to government figures, 1 percenters' share of America's total income is the highest it's been since 1929, and their tax rates are the lowest they've faced in two decades.
The Great Tax Con Job
 Thom Hartmann
Today the uber-rich are spending hundreds of millions to make sure words like "burden" are always associated with the word "tax," and to convince average working people that they should throw out of office any politicians who are willing to raise taxes on the rich.
Is Mexico Under Attack By Its Military?
 Los Angeles Times
Some drug war troops are accused of human rights abuses, and the U.S. needs to take a stand for justice.
The High-Powered Hidden Support for Honduras's Coup
Mark Weisbrot
The country's rightful president was ousted by a military leadership that takes many of its cues from Washington insiders.
Cronkite's Unintended Legacy
 Robert Parry
With his measured calm and seriousness of purpose, Walter Cronkite set a high standard for television journalism that has rarely been met since his retirement in 1981. But the legendary CBS anchorman who died Friday also may have unintentionally contributed to the American Left's dangerous complacency about media.
A Day to Remember... and Cherish
 Doug Thompson
July 20, 1969: I remember every detail of that day. We felt pride in our country, in the accomplishment of putting a man on the moon, fulfilling a goal set by President John F. Kennedy earlier in the decade.
From Tax Breaks To Tax Hits
 Sam Pizzigati
In the struggle for a less unequal America, could the US House health care surtax on the wealthy turn out to be a game-changer?
Sadly, US Remains a Society of Secrets
 Ann McFeatters
Just when you think you know what's going on in Washington under President Obama's new open-government policy, you find out the place is still riddled with secrets
Mexico Drug War Questions for Calderon
 Abdul Brinson
President Calderon has criticized politicians who tolerate gang behavior. He has said that the country has seen more than 10,800 deaths in organized crime since 2006 and that drug cartel and crime gangs are recruiting young people without hope, opportunities, futures, beliefs or convictions.
Obama Is Not Roosevelt!
 Pascal de Lima & François Ladsous
Although responsible for the present crisis, the United States remains for good and for sure the premier economy, the premier destination for investment capital, and, as a matter of course, the biggest market for financial products!
Bush, Cheney, Told Lawyers to Give Them Criminal Advice
 Sherwood Ross
Torture instigators George Bush and Dick Cheney should not be allowed to evade prosecution on grounds they acted in good faith on their lawyers' advice because they told their lawyers what advice to give.
How Did I Get Here?
 Alan Burkhart
How did I get here? That has to be the question Staten Island teen Alexa Longueira was asking when she suddenly found herself down a New York City manhole. Seems the young lady was too busy texting to pay attention to where she was going.
Congress Objects to CIA Lies, But Not Torture and Murder?
 Sherwood Ross
Why are some members of Congress suddenly upset the CIA lied to them when the Agency has been guilty of innumerable crimes that are far worse?
Bush & Cheney are Traitors: Treat Them as Such
 Doug Thompson
Forgive and forget my ass. It's time to investigate, prosecute and jail former President George W. Bush, former Veep Dick Cheney and other co-conspirators of the most corrupt, scandal-ridden administration in history.
CIA's History of Lying to Congress
 Lisa Pease
On TV last week, with a measure of disbelief in their voices, the pundits ask, did the CIA lie to or deliberately mislead Congress? How is that not a rhetorical question?
U.S. Needs to Listen To Arias on Latin American Issues
 Sherwood Ross
Oscar Arias, the president of Costa Rica and the man who will serve as mediator of the crisis in Honduras, writes in an OpEd piece in the Miami Herald, "This coup demonstrates, once more, that the combination of powerful militaries and fragile democracies creates a terrible risk."
Sustainable Development: Less Is More for the Modern Day Wage Slave
 Michael Vail
The basic tenets of conservation movement were sound before it was turned into a rabid fundamentalist religion. Everyone wants clean air, water and good food and that has nothing to do with governments or its policies.
Fuel for a Coup
 Oscar Arias
The recent coup d'etat in Honduras, which has embroiled that country in a constitutional crisis, has provided a sad reminder that despite the progress our region has made, the errors of our past are still all too close
For Palin, Rules Have Never Applied
 Matthew E. Berger
Standard Washington political rules state that any presidential aspirants must finish out their term, write a book, travel to Iowa and New Hampshire, and start talking policy. Any deviation from the norm suggests political suicide, and many analysts have spent the past few days writing Sarah Palin’s political obituary.
High Stakes for Honduras
 Benjamin Dangl
Given that it was the call for the constituent assembly that led to the coup, it appears that the coup leaders are more worried about an assembly in which the people could re-write their own constitution, than Zelaya himself.
A Coup for Democracy
 Edward Schumacher
Honduras is guilty of two sins: impatience and size. The rest of the world is committing two more: hubris and hypocrisy.
This July 4th, Rebel and Agitate for Change
 Jim Hightower
Are you an agitator? You know, one of those people who won't leave well enough alone, who's always questioning authority and trying to stir things up.
Obama has No Legal Authority to Escalate Afghan War and is Creating "Humanitarian Catastrophe" in Pakistan
 Sherwood Ross
President Obama has no legal authority either from the United Nations or the U.S. Congress under the War Powers Resolution (WPR) to escalate the war in Afghanistan, a distinguished professor of international law says.
When Mexico Sneezes... Global Economy Catches the Flu
 Dawn Kristof Champney
I just completed a week of therapy... in Puerto Vallarta! What was anticipated to be a long overdue rest from the hectic pace of life turned into a state of frenzy as the stories of swine flu outbreaks dominated international news.
Is America Still a Free Country? Good Question
 Ben Boychuk & Joel Mathis
As the country celebrates another Independence Day weekend, it's worth stepping back from our hot political debates to ask a question: How free is America?
It is Independence Day as We Become More Dependent
 Danny Schechter
As Independence Day approaches, the question of the day remains — how Independent are we? Our Declaration signed on a July 4th declared us so to be. And, dutifully, generations of Americans have believed we were and always would be.
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