LONDRES – Hay que adorar el sonido de un caza jet Mirage 2000 francés por la mañana. Huele como… un delicioso desayuno neocolonial en salsa Hollandesa. Digamos salsa de cenagal.

Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Mali, Somalia and Algeria, drone strikes, indefinite detention and torture, secret operations – all of these controversies and more are connected by a “shadow war” and cannot be resolved without a departure from or change in its guiding doctrine; nor can the Central and Latin American drug wars, which derive from [...]

Seguir la historia chilena contemporánea es como ingresar en un territorio oscuro, cerrado; se repiten los personajes y la trama se acerca a la tragedia. La historia de Chile de los últimos cincuenta años tiene, como las grandes tragedias, un sentido oculto, incluso más duro y cruel que el dolor y la sangre que baña [...]

“We as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values…when machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” – Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967 While the US celebrates the re-election of its first African American [...]

Balance y perspectivas El pasado 7 de enero del 2013, Argentina promulgó, después de un amplio, largo y arduo proceso de consulta nacional, la ley 26.827 que establece el Sistema Nacional de Prevención de la Tortura: esta nueva ley le permite contar con un mecanismo nacional que pueda prevenir los malos tratos (y no solamente la [...]

The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever conceived: the creation of money by sovereign governments, debt-free.  Last week on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart characterized the proposal that the White House circumvent the debt ceiling by minting a trillion dollar coin as an attempt to “just [...]

For Washington, There Is No Arms Control Abroad Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is?  Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style mass killings, or noted that there are barely more gas stations nationwide than federally licensed firearms dealers, or heard the renewed debates [...]

A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration four years ago — but since then, in word and deed, the president has done much to distinguish himself from the [...]

Seven Easy, Onscreen Steps to Making U.S. Torture and Detention Policies Once Again Palatable On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply flawed movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, opens nationwide. The filmmakers and distributors are [...]

Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being [...]