Source: Salon by Glenn Greenwald January 15, 2010 Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants.  Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama’s head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for “overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, [...]

Fuente: Santo Fraude Documental que narra el miedo, la coerción, la mentira y el chantaje que se esconde detrás del triunfo del Si al TLC, ocurrido el 7 de octubre del 2007. SANTO FRAUDE es un testimonio audiovisual construido sobre la base de decenas de testimonios y cientos de horas de material de archivo, la mayoría de [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Also read below: New Defense Strategy Envisions Multiple Conflicts by Norman Solomon This isn’t “defense.” The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day. Foreclosing the future of our country should not be confused with defending it. “Unless miraculous growth, or miraculous political [...]

Fuente: Público Los cuerpos sin identificar han sido depositados por el Ejército a partir de 2005 por Antonio Albiñana 26 de enero, 2010 En el pequeño pueblo de La Macarena, región del Meta, 200 kilómetros al sur de Bogotá, una de las zonas más calientes del conflicto colombiano, se está descubriendo la mayor fosa común de la historia reciente [...]

Fuente: Rebelión por Rodrigo Moreno Planisolis 17 de enero, 2010 Los Estados Unidos (EEUU) desde su existencia son defensores de los derechos humanos: 1. Después de la larga imposición de los derechos humanos desparecen del territorio de los Estados Unidos los diferentes pueblos indígenas. 2. EEUU ha exportado los derechos humanos 66 veces a países del centro y sur de [...]

Fuente: Too Much Traducción: Anna Maria Garriga Tarrés, Sin Permiso por Sam Pizzigati 10 de enero, 2010 Puede que el Congreso esté paralizado pero la administración Obama tiene el poder, incluso sin la intervención del Congreso,  de actuar con respecto a los presidentes y altos ejecutivos de las corporaciones y sobre las lluvias de dinero que tanto enfurecen al [...]

Source: The Guardian Ten years after the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein switches her attention from the mall to Barack Obama and discovers that corporate culture has taken over the US government by Naomi Klein January 16, 2010 Extracted from a 10th anniversary edition of No Logo to be published by Fourth Estate on 21 January. In May 2009, [...]

Source: Democracy Now! January 19, 2010 “There are no security issues,” says Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health, reporting from the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, where 1,000 people are in need of operations. Lyon said the reports of violence in the city have been overblown by the media and have affected the delivery of [...]

Source: Socialist Worker A report on the desperate conditions in Haiti and the failure of governments like the U.S. to respond. by Roger Annis January 15, 2010 Evidence of monstrous neglect of the Haitian people is mounting following the catastrophic earthquake on January 12. As life-saving medical supplies, food, water purification chemicals and vehicles pile up at the airport [...]

Source: RaceWire by Michelle Chen January 18, 2010 For those who know how race and media intersect in times of crisis, the earthquake in Haiti has probably sent a bump through your pop-cultural seismograph. Now it’s becoming a flashpoint. Following an initial wave of sympathy, the corporate media has turned an alarmed eye to the increasingly desperate masses. We [...]