Blackwater’s web of connections includes a Who’s Who of former Bush-era CIA officials. And that’s just one company in a sea of “private contractors” by Jeremy Scahill August 30, 2009 Some parts of Blackwater’s clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy. The company’s role in the secret assassination [...]

por Leonardo Boff 29 de agosto, 2009 Mirando a mis nietos jugando en el jardín, saltando como cabras, rodando por el suelo, y subiendo y bajando de los árboles, me surgen dos sentimientos. Uno de envidia, pues ya no puedo hacer nada de eso con las cuatro prótesis que tengo en los miembros inferiores. Y otro de [...]

by Adam Goldman and Pamela Hess August 30, 2009 WASHINGTON – When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater’s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of [...]

por Alfredo Jalife-Rahme 30 de agosto, 2009 La revista Fortune (20/7/09) publica anualmente la lista de las primeras 500 empresas globales según sus ingresos. Existen otras publicaciones anglosajonas que realizan taxonomías fundadas en otros rubros: ganancias, ventas y capitalización de mercado (el valor total de las acciones que cotizan en bolsa) y donde variarían significativamente los rankings de [...]

International aid agencies fear that the levels of death and starvation last seen 24 years ago, are set to return to the Horn of Africa. by Paul Rodgers August 30, 2009 The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it [...]

por Raúl Zibechi 17 de agosto de 2009 El llamado “milagro chileno” se asienta en tres pilares: los altos precios del cobre, la producción de celulosa impulsada por la dictadura de Pinochet, y la industria del salmón, expandida en plena democracia. Pero la sobreexplotación ha provocado una grave crisis sanitaria, ambiental, social y económica. Poco más de mil [...]

Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations by Gethin Chamberlain August 30, 2009 Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these [...]

by Howard Zinn Narrated by Viggo Mortensen Art by Mike Konopacki Video editing by Eric Wold Fuente: TomDispatch Read the essay below by Howard Zinn April 1, 2008 With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American [...]

by Jeff Huber August 29, 2009 A singular absurdity of the 21st century is that the nation that spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined needs to hire mercenaries to fight wars against enemies who have no defense budget at all. An August 19 New York Times article revealed that in 2004 the CIA [...]

ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio by Declan McCullagh August 28, 2009 Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a [...]