versión en español abajo by Noam Chomsky July 9, 200 June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.

por Diana Cariboni MONTEVIDEO, 11 jul (IPS) – Los acontecimientos que se desataron en Honduras hace dos semanas han puesto sobre la mesa la cuestión de los resortes que una democracia se da para punir actos violatorios de la Constitución sin pisotearla.

by Sophia Gardner July 3, 2009 A politician who has been described as “the bravest woman in Afghanistan” says that military intervention is not the way to find democracy in the war-torn county. Malalai Joya gained international attention for standing before Afghanistan’s constitutional grand assembly and accusing her country’s leaders of war crimes, human rights violations and supporting [...]

por Ernesto Wong Maestre Sentir en la propia mejilla, el golpe dado a la mejilla de otro, esté donde esté, es andar junto al Che Guevara en cualquier rincón del mundo en que ocurra una injusticia. Hoy en el Congo las transnacionales cometen miles de injusticias.  El Che fue precisamente en 1964 al Congo, recien liberado [...]

by Salman Masood and Pir Zubair Shah July 7, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two missiles fired from a remotely piloted American aircraft struck a militant base on Tuesday in the South Waziristan tribal region, killing 16 militants, according to intelligence officials and residents reached by telephone.

por Andy Worthington 1 de julio, 2009 En estos últimos días se ha estado discutiendo mucho acerca de la publicación, largamente esperada (y dos veces retrasada), del Informe de 2004 del Inspector General de la CIA, que, como Glenn Greenwald explicó el martes [30 de junio], “cuestiona con toda firmeza la eficacia y la legalidad” de las [...]

by William Fisher NEW YORK, Jul 7 (IPS) – New charges filed against private security contractor Blackwater accuse the company of murder, destruction of audio and videotaped evidence, distribution of controlled substances, tax evasion, child prostitution, and weapons smuggling.

por Frida Modak 6 de julio, 2009 El golpe de Estado en Honduras es una advertencia que no se puede ignorar ni minimizar considerándolo como un hecho aislado ocurrido en un país pequeño y pobre. El golpe se dio en Honduras, pero afecta a toda América Latina y el Caribe porque nos está indicando que ese pasado ominoso [...]

by Gideon Levy July 6, 2009 Combat is the best, my brother, as the famous bumper sticker reads. It’s a good thing we have Shayetet 13. Operating at the crack of dawn – or was it before nightfall? – the daring naval commandos fearlessly took control of a rusty, rickety, unarmed boat bobbing in the middle of [...]

Unmanned drones could be banned from use in conflicts, Lord Bingham, one of Britain’s most senior judges has suggested. by Murray Wardrop July 6, 2009 Lord Bingham, who retired last year as a senior law lord, said the aircraft could follow other weapons considered “so cruel as to be beyond the pale of human tolerance” in being consigned [...]