by Sandy LeonVest October 23, 2009 It was only a matter of time before the nation’s skyrocketing unemployment translated into new recruits for the most powerful military force in the world. With the official US unemployment rate at 10 percent and climbing (that’s more than 15 million people struggling to put food on the table) and nearly double [...]

Para el presidente de Costa Rica no es fácil mantenerse “Verde” 14 de octubre, 2009 San José (elpais.cr) – La doble moral o doble discurso del presidente de Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, en materia ambiental, principalmente en su Iniciativa Paz con la Naturaleza, fue denunciado por la revista estadounidense Time, en un reportaje publicado en su edición [...]

Or Are We All Just Getting a Lot More Gullible? by Barbara Ehrenreich October 13, 2009 Feminism made women miserable. This, anyway, seems to be the most popular takeaway from “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” a recent study by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers which purports to show that women have become steadily unhappier since 1972. Maureen [...]

El costarricense es racista, sexista, homofóbico y xenófobo por Jacques Sagot 13 de agosto, 2009 El costarricense es ladino. Estamos envenenados por el prejuicio. Más que la mayoría de los pueblos que, hoy por hoy, alientan sobre la faz del planeta. Lo digo como lo veo. Lo digo como lo siento. Lo digo como lo constato día tras [...]

«He visto hombres cheles tipo yanki ordenando reprimir», atestigua empresario por Arquímides Alfaro Riestra 12 de octubre, 2009 Carta abierta de un empresario hondureño. Soy Arquímedes Alfaro Riestra, empresario hondureño dedicado a la producción industrial de utensilios de cocina, miembro del Concejo Superior de la Empresa Privada de Honduras y quiero hacer saber al mundo lo que en mi [...]

by Neal Gabler October 13, 2009 The hoariest and most oft-repeated cliche in American politics may be that America is the greatest country in the world. Every politician, Democrat and Republican, seems duty bound to pander to this idea of American exceptionalism, and woe unto him who hints otherwise. This country is “the last, best hope of [...]

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 [...]

The plastic bag levy must be extended to the containers holding the 130 million litres of water we drink annually, writes JOHN GIBBONS by John Gibbons October 15, 2009 Here’s a variation on the “waiter, there’s a fly in my soup” gag. The question is how would you persuade people to knowingly drink water from a bottle [...]

by Jeremy Scahill October 5, 2009 In the wake of the Congressional witch hunt against the community organization ACORN, initiated by Republican minority leader John Boehner and supported by all but seventy-five Democrats in the House and ten in the Senate (Independent Bernie Sanders also voted no), a small number of Democratic lawmakers are pushing back. Last [...]

by Andy Worthington September 30, 2009 In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism, I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release [...]