by James Bovard July 2009 Few federal agencies have as much bipartisan support as the National Endowment for Democracy. Created in 1983, NED’s stated mission is to “strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.” In actuality, NED allows U.S. politicians to meddle in foreign elections at the same time they pretend to be spreading democracy. The [...]

por Gustavo Duch Guillot 14 de octubre, 2009 El próximo 16 de octubre llegamos a una de esas fechas señaladas desde las Naciones Unidas –el día Mundial de la Alimentación– que este año se presenta con un dato, mejor dicho, con una bofetada escandalosa: 1.020 millones de personas en el mundo sufren hambre y desnutrición. Más que [...]

by Patti Lynn October 14, 2009 Things aren’t looking pretty for drinking water these days. Recent articles from The New York Times and the Associated Press have exposed unchecked pollution, grave gaps in oversight, decaying infrastructure, and concerns about emerging contaminants. Yet one voice sees the decay of our water infrastructure through a rose-colored glass. “We’re bullish on [...]

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 [...]

English (original) version below Londres, 1898; Kabul, 2009 por Tom Engelhardt 8 de octubre, 2009 Un párrafo común y corriente en un artículo en mi periódico local me llamó la atención hace poco. Llevaba el título “Casa Blanca cree que Karzai será reelegido,” pero a medio camino Helene Cooper y Mark Landler del New York Times se volvían a [...]

Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform by Keith Olbermann October 7, 2009 Since August 23rd of this year I have interacted daily with our American Health Care system and often done so to the exclusion of virtually all other business. It is not undercover reporting, and it is not an expert study [...]

by David Michael Green October 2, 2009 What if the Russians invaded? It’s not so far-fetched an idea, you know. We spent half a century and trillions of dollars to make sure that it would never happen, so it’s really not such a strange notion. So what if the Russians invaded? What if they came and stole all of our [...]

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), [...]

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 [...]

por Vicenç Navarro 24 de septiembre, 2009 La idealización del sistema democrático de EEUU, en la que se presenta al Congreso de EEUU como la cámara legislativa que refleja el sentido popular de la población estadounidense, explica que muchos medios de información españoles presenten las dificultades que encuentra la reforma sanitaria para su aprobación en el Congreso [...]