Entrevista a la periodista, feminista y activista Barbara Ehrenreich Fuente: In These Times Traducción: Camila Vollenweider, Sin Permiso por Anis Shivani 4 de noviembre, 2009 “Si quieres tener una población conformista, ¿qué mejor que decirle a todo el mundo que tienes que pensar positivamente y aceptar que cualquier cosa que vaya mal en sus vidas es por su propia culpa?” En [...]

by Noah Shachtman October 19, 2009 America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s [...]

por Sara Flounders (WORKERS WORLD NEWSPAPER), Ann Wright (COMMON DREAMS), PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK y THE COALITION OF WOMEN FOR PEACE 15 de octubre, 2009 Las corporaciones transnacionales e israelíes están directamente involucradas en la ocupación de Palestina. En una fusión de intereses políticos, geopolíticos y religiosos, la ocupación israelí de Cisjordania, Gaza y Altos del Golán está [...]

ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio Diferentes grupos defensores de los derechos civiles han mostrado su preocupación ante el Proyecto Indect, que pretende crear una red automatizada de vigilancia en toda Europa por Baquía 23 de septiembre, 2009 Según un reportaje publicado por el diario británico Telegraph, la Unión Europea ha invertido 11 millones de euros [...]

by Elizabeth Goitein October 2, 2009 Suppose you’re returning home from a vacation in Cancun. A customs agent asks you to open your suitcase so he can check its contents. So far, so good. Now, the agent asks you to log on to your laptop so he can read your e-mails and personal files and examine which Web [...]

by David Kravets October 8, 2009 A deeply divided Senate committee on Thursday forwarded legislation to the full Senate that reauthorizes three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act hastily adopted in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks. The measures greatly expanded the government’s ability to spy on Americans in the name of national security. Thursday’s 11-8 vote by [...]

versión en español abajo by Paul Krugman October 8, 2009 If you had to explain America’s economic success with one word, that word would be “education.” In the 19th century, America led the way in universal basic education. Then, as other nations followed suit, the “high school revolution” of the early 20th century took us to a whole [...]

by Henry A. Giroux October 8, 2009 On May 20, 2009, Marshawn Pitts, a 15-year-old African-American boy, who is also a special needs student, was walking down the corridor of the Academy for Learning High School in Dolton, Illinois. A police officer in the school noticed that the boy’s shirt was not tucked in and started shouting [...]

by Lisa Pease September 16, 2009 While we’ve been concentrating on the healthcare debate, the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, another story important to American democracy has gotten inadequate attention: a single company is poised to monopolize the counting of over 75 percent of the nation’s votes. Earlier this month, Election Systems & Software (ES&S), [...]

versión es español abajo Of Nearsighted Progress, Feral Howls, Consensus, Chaos, and a New Cold War in Kashmir by Arundhati Roy September 27, 2009 While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By “democracy” I don’t mean [...]