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The New Global Capitalism and the War on Immigrants
The larger story behind immigration reform is the worldwide reorganization of the system for supplying labor to the global economy.
Homeland Security Taps Generals to Run Domestic Drone Program: The Rise of Predators at Home
Drone proliferation at home will likely increase from a spending surge to boost “border security.”
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No Justice in Sanford, No Peace in the Borderlands: Stand Your Ground, Border Policing and the Mass Production of Corpses of Color
In light of the Zimmerman verdict, the Border Patrol shooting of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez in October 2012 is emblematic of another form of one-sided violence likely to intensify …
Senate Immigration Bill: More Militarization of the Border, No Real Path to Citizenship
Immigration attorney Isabel Garcia: New legislation will increase deportations, beef up police while worker status will help provide cheap labor for businesses but make citizenship almost impossible to attain.
Fear, Corporate Profiteering, and Government Expansion of the Security Surveillance State on the US Borderland
Private security companies are making a profit from turning the US/Mexico border into a military zone. Mark Karlin reports.
The 1% Connection: Mexico and the United States, Crony Capitalism and the Exploitation of Labor Through NAFTA
Slim obtained (with some other backers) a monopoly on the telephone system in Mexico, guaranteed for years
Turkey Says It May Target Any Syrian Forces Nearing Border
Turkey Says It May Target Any Syrian Forces Nearing Border
How the US Government, Banks, Prison-Industrial Complex, Corrupt Officials, Businesses, Law Enforcement, Racists and the CIA Profit From Illegal Drugs
While cocaine production ravages countries in Central America, consumers in the US and Europe are helping developed economies grow rich from the profits.
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The School of the Americas, the CIA and the US-Condoned Cancer of Torture Continue to Spread in Latin America, Including Mexico
Harbury's request was simple: she wanted the State Department or CIA to tell her what had happened to her husband. But both agencies didn't acknowledge they knew of his …
Bringing the Battlefield to the Border
Arizona leads the American Border War—a movement that has increasingly moved from the fringe to the mainstream in the southern US.