by Chris Hedges July 6, 2009 Tearyan Brown became a father when he was 16. He did what a lot of inner-city kids desperate to make money do. He sold drugs. He was arrested and sent to jail three years later for dealing marijuana and PCP on the streets of Trenton, N.J., mostly to white kids driving [...]

por Francisco Palacios Romeo 3 de julio, 2009 Existe una casi sospechosa unanimidad en condenar la factura del golpe de Estado en Honduras. Esta actitud viene facilitada por la nueva estrategia de la presidencia estadounidense.

by Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola July 2, 2009 Manifest Destiny In 1845, an American columnist, John O’Sullivan, writing about the proposed annexation of Texas, claimed that it was America’s “manifest destiny to overspread the continent.” Later in the same year, referring to the ongoing dispute with Great Britain over Oregon, he wrote that the United States had [...]

by Frida Berrigan June 30, 2009 The phrase “Obama has a lot on his plate” is the understatement of the year. The president has a to-do list a mile long, and every day a new crisis (like the coup in Honduras) gets added to the list. Can we really fault him if he sneaks the occasional smoke?

By Dahr Jamail June 30, 2009 [Research support for this article was provided by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute.] On May 1st at Fort Hood in central Texas, Specialist Victor Agosto wrote on a counseling statement, which is actually a punitive U.S. Army memo: “There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation is [...]

Greetings my friends and relatives, I want to start off this statement or speech or whatever you want to call it by saying again as I’ve said before thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me and for standing up for right wherever you are. I can’t express to [...]

By PIR ZUBAIR SHAH and ALAN COWELL Published: July 3, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 13 people were killed Friday in what was suspected to be an attack by an American drone in a remote village stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, according to two residents reached by telephone.

por Eva Golinger 2 de julio, 2009 El Presidente Manuel Zelaya fue secuestrado y llevado forzadamente por militares encapuchados desde la residencia presidencial en Tegucigalpa durante la madrugada del domingo, 28 de junio. Fue trasladado a la base militar de Hernán Acosta Mejía en las afueras de Tegucigalpa. Luego de permanecer durante un tiempo en la base [...]

by Jason Leopold July 3, 2009 Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain “a prisoner of its energy dilemma” as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

por Kent Paterson 30 de junio de 2009 Hoy de edad mediana y con una familia que sostener, el empleado gubernamental Gerardo González González ha seguido una estrategia económica personal que se ha vuelto familiar para incontables mexicanos. Recurriendo a las tarjetas de crédito para compensar los salaries estancados, González ha hecho malabares con múltiples cuentas, ha [...]