Source: Salon by Glenn Greenwald February 4, 2010 Last week, I wrote about a revelation buried in a Washington Post article by Dana Priest which described how the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy of targeting selected American citizens for assassination if they are deemed (by the Executive Branch) to be Terrorists.  As The Washington Times‘ Eli [...]

Source: Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald January 27, 2010 The Washington Post‘s Dana Priest today reports that “U.S. military teams and intelligence agencies are deeply involved in secret joint operations with Yemeni troops who in the past six weeks have killed scores of people.”  That’s no surprise, of course, as Yemen is now another predominantly Muslim country (along with [...]

Fuente: Aporrea por Javier Biardeau R. 4 de enero, 2010 Las revoluciones democráticas y socialistas se definen por la participación de las multitudes, por el empoderamiento popular, por el protagonismo de las mayorías en las decisiones fundamentales que permiten superar las condiciones de explotación, coerción, hegemonía, exclusión y negación cultural. Una revolución democrática y socialista se desnaturaliza y [...]

Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges December 28, 2009 Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo [...]

Fuente: Nuestro País por Álvaro Montero Mejía 16 de diciembre, 2009 Acaba de ser elegida por la Asamblea Legislativa, al cargo de Defensora de los Habitantes, la señora Ofelia Taitelbaum, miembra de la bancada del gobernante Partido Liberación Nacional. Este nombramiento, es una muestra más, entre las que se han producido y las que vendrán, de la absoluta [...]

What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness — Bush’s NSA program — is now deemed a vital state secret. by Glenn Greenwald November 1, 2009 The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among [...]

Hay que revertir el despotismo oficial con un frente nacional: SME Decenas de organizaciones analizarán si van a una huelga general con los electricistas Miembros del sindicato de LFC apremian a sus dirigentes a preparar acciones más contundentes por Fabiola Martínez 25 de octubre, 2009 El Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME) convocó a integrar un frente nacional de lucha con [...]

by Robert C. Koehler October 29, 2009 “What is seen with one eye has no depth.” I’m thinking, as I ponder the wisdom of Ursula LeGuin, that American culture is at the end of what it can accomplish with its single-eyed vision. For all our material progress, for all our ability to dominate just about anything or anyone [...]

Some agencies deem the database system so valuable they have been making deals with offenders in exchange for a DNA sample by Patrick Kollman October 22, 2009 Since its discovery a quarter century ago, the DNA fingerprint has been hailed as a pivotal tool in solving crimes and exonerating those wrongly convicted. But as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, [...]

Filósofo. Publica ‘Elogio de la Política Profana’, en el que traza las líneas de futuro para el “nuevo radicalismo” por Andrés Pérez 2 de octubre, 2009 El filósofo francés Daniel Bensaïd acaba de publicar su Elogio de la Política Profana (Península), una obra densa y compleja, con la que este pensador espera contribuir a un contraataque de la [...]