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Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding Empire Building With Costa Rica?
 Michael Edwards
The recent announcement that a flotilla of warships and troops will be sent to Costa Rica would ordinarily be laughable for its wastefulness, but with America experiencing an unemployment rate north of 20% and the median duration of unemployment at the highest in the last 50 years, this should be no laughing matter.
 The Fall of the US Empire - and Then What?
 The Real News Network
Johan Galtung and Dennis Kucinich discuss the proposal for a Department of Peace.
Misguided U.S. Economic Policies Drive Many Mexicans to Come Here
 Manuel Pérez-Rocha
The U.S. immigration debate tends to ignore a fundamental question: Why do so many people migrate here from Mexico and other countries in Central America? The answer is that they need to look for jobs because there aren't enough jobs at home.
Blessed Are the Peacemakers... But Not in America
 James E. Jennings
It now appears that the Obama neocon "Justice" Department is worse than the Bush-Cheney one because it is less obvious, but follows the same track - while Obama himself in his rhetoric and troop deployments imitates every aspect of the specious war on terror.
President Obama's Most Inexplicable Failure
 Melvin A. Goodman
President Barack Obama has been a major disappointment to a liberal community that rallied to his call for genuine change.
Wanted: Some Journalists With Guts to Take on the Government and BP!
 Dave Lindorff
The Obama administration and BP have clearly been conspiring to hide the magnitude of the Gulf oil catastrophe from the public. One way they're doing this is by threatening jail terms and $40,000 fines against those who go to document the fiasco.
The Price Mexico Pays for America's 'Insatiable' Demand for Drugs
 Deni Carise
The recent massacres at drug rehabilitation centers in Mexico represent yet another tragic result of what Hillary Clinton has called America's "insatiable" appetite for illegal drugs.
“Deepwater Horizon” Oil Rig: The Well From Hell
 Salbuchi
The Deepwater Horizon False Flag Event threatens to explode into an unprecedented catastrophe of planetary proportions.
Who Commanded the G20 Commander?
 Paul Jay
It may have been Toronto police on the streets, but the Feds ran the show. It had been that way from the start. It was the Prime Minister that insisted, over Toronto's objections, on holding the G20 at the Convention Centre.
An Open Mind on Climate
 Eugene Robinson
It's odd how little we've heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What's the matter, people? Heat stroke?
The Brits Did It Now…
 Guillermo Ramon Adames y Suari
But we Mexicans did not do it. We had elections in Mexico last July 4… and we did not do it. As usual Mexicans arrive late and election procedures are not any different. Methods are no excuse and whatever is no excuse. We simply get there late.
An Anti-Incumbency Wave — in Mexico
 Enrique Krauze
The homicide rate in Brazil is twice that in Mexico, but it is my country that is portrayed as lawless and violence-ridden. So it is important to note some sudden good news: On Sunday, in 14 of Mexico’s 32 states, millions of citizens went to the polls and, defying the threat of violence from drug cartels, decisively consolidated our young democracy.
Mexico's a Victim of America's Addiction to Drugs
 Neal Peirce
America's drug habit is killing its neighbor to the south. If the United States were to decriminalize drugs, prices would plummet. This means that the massive profits the Mexican druglords reap would literally evaporate.
Common Sense Immigration Reform - Politicians Go Home
 Rustyn Rose
The subject of illegal immigration in America is one of the more divisive in recent memory. Regardless of party affiliation most Americans would agree that the current plan, which is no plan at all, is not working.
Mexico: Has the Narco State Arrived?
 Michael Collins
As power shifts in Mexico from the ruling elite to the nouveau riche narco cartels, the implications for the U.S. are significant. The reasons are obvious.
A Nation at the Crossroads
 Alan Burkhart
There was a time when America was a nation that, for the most part at least, respected its own laws. Those days seem to be fading. In more recent times laws seem to be open to interpretation by whoever happens to be in power at the time.
Cowardice, American Style
 Sherwood Ross
Too little has been written about the cowardice of CIA and Pentagon torturers and even less about the stoic courage of their victims. Irrespective of what they might have done, there can be no question that those suffering illegal and criminal tortures are, in fact, more courageous than their tormentors.
The Lottery Nobody Wins: Child Care Subsidies in America 2010
Mary Sojourner
We are an addicted society - hooked on short-term fixes, hooked on not noticing that the enormous wealth in this country keeps recycling back to the wealthy.
Vandalism, a Dead-End Tactic at Toronto G20 Demonstrations
 Bryan Farrell
In the weeks before the summit, Canada was busy building what The Guardian called “the toughest security cordon in the history of the summit,” spending an estimated $1 billion dollars and bringing in 19,000 police officers. So, clearly it was ready to use them. But more importantly, why was it so ready to use them?
"We're F*#!ing Losing This Thing"
 Derrick Crowe & Robert Greenwald
With all the drama around General McChrystal’s resignation, the media missed the real story in the explosive Rolling Stone article.
The Dead Hand of Ronald Reagan Rises in the Gulf
 Dave Lindorff
As the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew out ever more toxic oil and methane into the sea, and as floating toxic sludge, by the millions of gallons, starts destroying the wetlands across the American Southeast, the dead hand of President Ronald Reagan is at work, making sure nothing is done to prevent yet another such disaster from occurring.
Mexico's War on Impunity
 David Perez
President Calderon's real motive for cracking down on the drug cartels was to finally put an end to the lawlessness that reigns supreme throughout Mexico.
Obama’s Only Choice
 Steven R. Hurst
President Barack Obama had little choice. Already weakened by the seemingly insolvable Gulf oil spill and his party’s dicey prospects in the coming congressional election, Obama could not afford to give his Afghanistan commander a pass for his inflammatory public words.
Sick of Politics? Get in Line
 Doug Thompson
Politics, at its best, is a dirty, rotten business and our political system today is far from its best. As voters, we become accustomed to disappointment, disillusionment and disenfranchisement. We expect to be disappointed and, even then, are disappointed when our expectations are met.
Getting Profiled, Staying Safe and the World Cup - A Visit to Mexico
 Allan Wall
I resided for a decade and a half in Mexico, where I met and married my wife. Recently I was offered a job in the US and moved back. However, since my wife is from Mexico we have already made several visits to Mexico and plan to continue. So I currently write from Mexico, where we are visiting.
Telling the Truth on Drugs, Border Issues
 Michael Cook
Mexico is coming perilously close to being a failed state, and President Calderon is, no doubt, putting his life, and the life of his loved ones, in grave danger by taking the fight to the cartels as he struggles to keep his country from falling totally into the abyss.
A Dad's Point-of-View: Father's Day, 2010
 Bruce Sallan
Father's Day for me is now a melancholy experience. While I certainly appreciate all the attention that I get from my two boys and my wife, I also get melancholy over the memory of my late father, a wonderful man whom I always want to keep in my mind and the minds of my boys.
Mexico Drug War: Has Felipe Calderón Lost Control?
 Sara Miller Llana
June could turn out to be one of the most violent months Mexico has faced since President Felipe Calderón took office in December of 2006, dispatching the military to fight organized crime.
Gulf War Syndrome
 Eugene Robinson
It's great that President Obama and his advisers finally seem to understand the atmospherics of responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Now if they'd only get the policy right.
American Politics: The Art of the Con
 Doug Thompson
Politics has long been the last refuge of con artists, scoundrels and crooks but the rise of scam professionals like Sarah Palin, Ron Paul and Barack Obama has completely infiltrated our system of government and the political circus that controls it.
Note to Media: Stop Calling it an “Oil Spill”; It’s a Disaster
 Colby Hall
Roughly two months ago an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11, spewing countless barrels of oil into the ocean and causing unknown harm to a fragile environment. Since then the media has used “Gulf Oil Spill” and “BP Oil Spill” as shorthand to describe the story. But the events in the Gulf that started as “a spill” have evolved to something much greater in scale.
Utah Should Shun Arizona's Immigration Law
 Mark Alvarez
Arizona's new immigration law is logical but cruel. Public support of the law is understandable: The federal government has dropped the ball on immigration and someone must act. But should government act in this way?
The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again
 Michael Winship
We need a constitutional amendment rejecting the anti-democratic course this Supreme Court has chosen. An amendment that establishes an equitable, public campaign financing system that levels the playing field for anyone who wants to run for office.
How Can America's 'War on Drugs' Succeed if Their Prohibition Laws Failed?
 Johann Hari
America's Prohibition laws were meant to cut crime and boost morality – they failed on both fronts. So how can the 'War on Drugs' ever succeed? It can't.
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