El mandatario constitucional anuncia que regresará a su país el jueves, luego de ir a EU Inmediaciones de la Casa Presidencial, escenario de la represión; soldados usan gas lacrimógeno Civiles responden con piedras; militares dispersan a manifestantes con disparos al aire

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

June 29, 2009 Thousands of Pakistanis march in the southern port city of Karachi to denounce the ‘unwelcome’ influence of the US in the nuclear-armed country. About 10,000 participants, holding party flags, banners and placards, chanted anti US slogans and demanded the government to condemn Washington’s policies on Sunday.

Rural residents organize to keep their water out of corporate water bottles. By Jenny Tomkins June 26, 2009 When Nestlé Waters North America, the world’s largest bottler of water, comes a-courting, promising jobs and increased tax revenues in exchange for local water rights, many small, rural towns get nervous. Deborah Lapidus, an organizer with the Think Outside the Bottle [...]

By Margaret Wheeler Johnson June 13, 2009 Author Matthew Crawford publishes a jeremiad against white-collar culture and the educational system designed to populate it. Children of the ’60s and ’70s may remember Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” Over the course of a 17-day motorcycle trip across the northern United States, Pirsig’s narrator uses the [...]

Time to Change the Story By Ira Chernus June 25, 2009 The Israel Project hired pollster Stanley Greenberg to test American opinion on the Middle East conflict — and got a big surprise. In September 2008, 69% of Americans called themselves pro-Israel. Now, it’s only 49%. In September, the same 69% wanted the U.S. to side with Israel; [...]

por Giorgio Trucchi 27 de junio, 2009 Con Carlos H. Reyes Decenas de miles de personas se han movilizado en todo el país para garantizar el orden democrático que en los días pasados se ha visto amenazado por un intento de golpe de estado contra el presidente José Manuel Zelaya, y por obscuras maniobras que tenían el objetivo [...]

By Colum Lynch UNITED NATIONS, June 24 — The United Nations’ top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try them in a court of law, and said officials who authorized the use of “torture” must be held accountable. In her most detailed statement on U.S. [...]

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]

By Robert Scheer June 24, 2009 It’s not working. The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis is a huge bust. The financial moguls, while tickled pink to have $1.25 trillion in toxic assets covered by the feds, along with hundreds of billions in direct handouts, are not using that money [...]