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Peace (Keepers) Prize
Thomas L. Friedman

The Nobel committee did President Obama no favors by prematurely awarding him its peace prize. As he himself acknowledged, he has not done anything yet on the scale that would normally merit such an award - and it dismays me that the most important prize in the world has been devalued in this way.

Big Problems with Electronic Voting in the US for 2010
Guillermo Ramón Adames y Suari

It looks that the next "Florida" is going to be "Ohio." In the 2004 elections, most American voters were very annoyed with the politics and the polls in Florida. They seem to be very distrustful to all that has brought up this uneasiness: The "responsible one" seems to be the electronic vote.

It's Time for Holder to Go After the Big Fish
IndictBushNow.org

A large coalition of human rights organizations and prominent lawyers sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder last week urging him to hold firm against pressure from Dick Cheney and others to narrow the scope of a Special Prosecutor investigating Bush-era crimes.

Nobel Prize for Promises?
Howard Zinn

I was dismayed when I heard Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize. A shock, really, to think that a president carrying on wars in two countries and launching military action in a third country (Pakistan), would be given a peace prize. But then I recalled that Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Kissinger had all received Nobel Peace Prizes.

Politics - Not Economics - Sinking Mexico
Andres Oppenheimer

Everything that could possibly go wrong seems to be going wrong for Mexico, Latin America's worst performing economy this year. But a new government idea could put this country back on the road to prosperity for decades to come - if government officials really are serious about it.

Nobel Committee, Strategic as Ever, Taps Obama for Peace Prize
Robert Naiman

Some initial commentary has called the award unprecedented and wondered why the committee would give President Obama the award when he "hasn't done anything yet." But anyone who thinks this award is unprecedented hasn't been paying attention.

The Law Versus the Kidnappers
The News

The nation's Senate agreed to begin discussions to implement a new law to be applied specifically against the worst scourge the nation has faced in its history, which is the cadre of kidnappers beleaguering the citizenry nowadays.

Let's Face It: Obama is a Failure
Doug Thompson

Originally, the promise was universal health care for all Americans but not one bill in the House or the Senate provides that and the main Senate bill mandates health care for all Americans whether they can afford it or not. Those who can't face a fine...or maybe even jail.

Special Treatment
Pablo Trejo

To combat tax evasion and tax avoidance, the Secretariat of Finance presented a new proposal for revenue collection, but instead of tackling the problem, they are flexing their executive muscles and complicating the lives of the moral people who pay their taxes.

Olbermann's Special Comment on Health Care
Capitol Hill Blue

MSNBC's Keith Oblermann devoted his entire program Wednesday night to a "special comment" on the sorry state of health care and the debacle over "health care reform."

Obama Efforts to Placate Right Wing Backfire
Sherwood Ross

What President Obama has gotten for his troubles "to placate the right wing" is "bailed out banks that wouldn't lend, huge bonuses paid to Wall Streeters, tens, scores or more thousands of people losing their homes, an ever bigger, ever more disastrous war, and solid, rocklike Republican opposition on health care," essayist Lawrence Velvel writes.

10 Steps to Victory in Afghanistan
New York Times

Counterinsurgency is only as good as the government it supports. NATO could do everything right — it isn’t — but will still fail unless Afghans trust their government.

Mexico's Real War: It's Not Drugs
Joel Kotkin

Balding, affable and passionate, Uranio Adolfo Arrendondo may not be a general or political leader, but he stands on the front lines of a critical battle facing Mexico in the coming decade. This struggle is not primarily about the drug wars - it concerns the economic and political forces stunting the aspirations of its people.

"So Let Us Begin Again"
t r u t h o u t

William Rivers Pitt delivered the keynote address at the Jefferson County Democrats 35th Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Awards Dinner in Colorado on September 19, 2009. Here is a transcript of those remarks.

Nobody Likes US? Who Cares?
John R. Miller

In 1926, a time of peace, Edwin James wrote in The Times Magazine: “Of all the peoples in the world, the Americans are the least loved. That is one way of saying that the United States of America is the most unpopular nation on the face of the earth.” This should help put into perspective current American concerns about negative international public opinion.

The Crisis and Democracy
Guillermo Ramón Adames y Suari

What is the impact of the economic crisis on democracy? First and foremost, the need for survival is beyond anything else; we cannot ask anybody for democracy or rights of any sort if basic survival is simply not met.

Local "Desinforme"
Obdulio Avila

For three years, the Mexico City Government (GDF) has practiced the politics of potholes. But while one pothole is covered, dozens more open up, and I'm not just talking about potholes in the streets, but also legal, economic and political potholes that have left the city all broken and patched up.

Michael Moore's Self-Serving Propaganda
Dan K. Thomasson

Michael Moore, the overweight, unmade bed of a filmmaker who fashions himself the conscience of America, has laid down the law to Congress - adopt a public option in health-care reform or he will personally see that those who opposed it will pay the price in next year's midterm balloting.

Gore Vidal: ‘We’ll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US’
Tim Teeman

The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don’t expect Barack Obama to save it.

Michael Moore Tells Democrats: "Find Your Spine" on Health Care
Markham Heid

Sans video camera, filmmaker Michael Moore on Tuesday turned his megaphone on the current health care system and those Blue Dog Democrats he claims are "dogging" the health care debate.

The "Public Option" Is Not Dead
Scott Galindez

I would not be honest if I said the "public option" is alive and well. It is clearly in critical condition, but all hope is not lost.

The Importance of Being Centrist? Part 2
The Real News Network

Paul Jay speaks with Benjamin Jealous at the Tides Foundations' Momentum conference in San Francisco about the fight of the progressive community.

Afghanistan: Forgetting the Lessons of Vietnam
John M. Crisp

Anyone who has paid much attention to 20th-century warfare should be getting nervous about Afghanistan. The war there is developing the ominous characteristics of other modern unconventional conflicts. These wars have little in common with traditional ones, the kind where the proper objects of military action are straightforward targets like beachheads and bunkers.

Mexico’s Security – a Declining World Topic of Priority
Jerry Brewer

In a true perversion of justice and truth, many are failing to see Mexico’s security dilemma in the Western Hemisphere. The political antics of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez and other leftist leaders, as well as the tribulations of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, appear to take center stage in a theater of life and death reality with our immediate neighbors to the south.

It's Not Just About Waterboarding
Lt. Col. Barry Wingard

In a speech earlier this year, former Vice President Dick Cheney said waterboarding and other brutal torture techniques were only used on detainees of the highest intelligence value - the so-called worst of the worst. But Cheney's claims are untrue.

The Importance of Being Centrist
The Real News Network

Paul Jay speaks with Benjamin Jealous at the Tides Foundations' Momentum conference in San Francisco about the fight of the progressive community.

Electronic Voting: Similarities and Differences Between the US and México
Guillermo Ramón Adames y Suari

The comparisons in this article are intended to be constructive and beneficial to the development of both democracies. A typical UN approach is to compare results to enlighten both parties and it is its sole purpose.

Are Mexican Cartels Expanding for Profit or Survival?
Sylvia Longmire

Just like McDonald’s cropped up in Moscow as soon as it was humanly possible after the end of the Cold War, Mexican cartels will work their way into any profitable niche on any continent.

Anonymous Heroes
Maria del Carmen Segura

Last week's deadly shooting in Mexico City's Balderas Metro station raises many questions and brings to light a gap in security in the rapid transit system that moves more than 5 million people each day through its 175 stations. Why does it take something like this, when two people were killed and eight others were injured, for authorities to begin random security checks on riders?

Alexander: Electric Vehicles Could Save Jobs for Auto Workers
Peace and Freedom Party

The day when Toyota closes the Fremont, California plant, 4,700 auto workers will be added to California's unemployment lines and tens of thousands of additional workers that supply parts for the plant will also be out of work. Now there is a seed of hope that the NUMMI auto workers may keep their jobs manufacturing electric cars.

Your Electronic Vote in the 2010 Election Has Just Been Bought
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

Unless US Attorney General Eric Holder intervenes, your electronic vote in 2010 will probably be owned by the Republican-connected ES&S Corporation. With 80% ownership of America's electronic voting machines, ES&S could have the power to shape America's future with a few proprietary keystrokes.

Non-Violent Responses Must be Considered to Prevent Aggression
Sherwood Ross

People the world over must find non-violent ways to oppose American military force lest they suffer the fate of the Vietnamese and the Iraqis.

Border Czar Shows Misguided US Understanding of Mexico
Patrick Corcoran

In a recent interview for The New Republic's website, U.S. border czar Alan Bersin spoke about American counter-narcotics policies. Such interviews with drug warriors are relatively rare, and this one provided a valuable window into the outlook of one of the government's most prominent anti-drug officials.

Mexico's Hypocritical Tobacco Laws vs. Allowed Drug Use
Bernd Debusmann Jr

Last month, the Mexican government adopted a law that decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of drugs. Little attention, however, has been paid to the fact that as far as tobacco is concerned, the Mexican government is going in the opposite direction.


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