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The Missing Discourse in Immigration Reform
The immigration reform bills presently under consideration ignore how US policy has caused Mexican immigration.
Noam Chomsky: “Bradley Manning Should Be Regarded as a Hero”
Laura Flanders interviews Noam Chomsky about Manning, the TransPacific Partnership and the wisdom of the indigenous.
What the Empire Didn’t Hear: US Spying and Resistance in Latin America
In all of the data the US gathered, it missed one crucial fact: that Latin America is no longer Washington's backyard.
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Snowden Asylum: Where’s the “Irony”?
A group of Latin American scholars and professors have sent out a letter to media outlets across the United States addressing the media's portrayal of Bolivia, Ecuador and …
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Brazil’s “Other” Protesters
As trade unions join protests in Brazil, there is fear among the younger generation that their movement will be co-opted.
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The Snowden Accompaniment Flytilla to Political Asylum in Venezuela
By offering Edward Snowden asylum, Venezuela President Maduro has invited Americans to live in a new world in which the US government's power is limited; a
An Autogestión Alternative to Austerity: Occupy, Resist, Produce!
Austerity policies continue to deliver pain to populations the world over, but shifts toward democratic self-direction deliver much-needed hope.
Ecuador’s New Communications Law: A Democratic Model?
The law guarantees for diversity and plurality and the need to regulate the media in the public interest.
Capitalism’s “One-Track Mind” for Profits
The policies President Obama and the US are proposing as ‘solutions’ to poverty and the drug trade in Central America exacerbate their root causes.
Questions Surround the Kidnapping of Two Jesuit Priests in Argentina
It is unlikely that the questions and uncertainty swirling around Pope Francis's role in the kidnapping of two Jesuit priests during the Argentine military dictatorship will ever be definitively …