by Guillermo Contreras June 4, 2009 Six people from Texas, including some soldiers, who claim they were poisoned by toxins and emissions from burn pits at U.S. camps in Iraq and Afghanistan are suing contractors KBR and Halliburton. The suit, moved to federal court in San Antonio from state court last week, alleges the companies operated the large [...]

Carlos Angulo Rivas 10 de junio, 2009 La diferencia no es muy grande, sólo los seres humanos masacrados han cambiado. La sed de sangre de Alan García Pérez es inagotable. Repite su historia del pasado, la de ordenar matanzas humanas como las de El Frontón, Lurigancho, Los Molinos y las de las comunidades andinas. No le importa [...]

By JAD MOUAWAD June 8, 2009 Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given that the company has denied any wrongdoing.

Por Fabiana Frayssinet RÍO DE JANEIRO, 26 may (IPS) – Ambientalistas, activistas humanitarios y otras organizaciones sociales se movilizan en Brasil por el esclarecimiento del asesinato de Paulo Santos Souza, un sindicalista de la pesca que denunciaba irregularidades en la construcción de un gasoducto para Petrobras.

Por Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras (OFRANEH) La Ceiba, 28 de mayo, 2009.- Como parte de la ofensiva neoliberal en contra de los pueblos indígenas del continente, se han elaborado y se están poniendo en práctica leyes relacionadas con el manejo de los territorios y sus recursos naturales, cuyos remanentes en su mayoría se encuentran dentro [...]

by Dahr Jamail May 27, 2009 Transgress The geo-strategic expansion of the American empire is an accepted fact of contemporary history. I have been writing in these columns about the impact of the US occupation on the people of Iraq in the wake of the “hard” colonization via F-16s, tanks, 2,000-pound bombs, white phosphorous and cluster bombs. Here I [...]

Or How to Stay Out of Sight While Profiting From the War in Iraq By Pratap Chatterjee 31 de mayo, 2009 The Houstonian Hotel is an elegant, secluded resort set on an 18-acre wooded oasis in the heart of downtown Houston. Two weeks ago, David Lesar, CEO of the once notorious energy services corporation Halliburton, spoke to some [...]

El líder indígena aseveró que el gobierno de Alan García dio un trato de ”delincuentes” a los nativos que habitan en la Amazonía peruana. Por TeleSUR 6 de junio, 2009 El gobierno de Perú alzó sus armas en contra de las comunidades indígenas y con ello cometió el peor genocidio de la población aborigen que habita en [...]

Palestinians losing out in access to vital shared aquifer in the occupied territories By Rory McCarthy (in Jerusalem) May 27, 2009 A deepening drought in the Middle East is aggravating a dispute over water resources after the World Bank found that Israel is taking four times as much water as the Palestinians from a vital shared aquifer.

Inside the dark art of saving consumerism—and ad agencies. By Ted Genoways May/June 2009 WHEN THE 1981-82 recession put a dent in steak sales, things could have gotten dicey for A1 Steak Sauce. Yet the 100-year-old brand turned adversity into great advertising. You might remember the TV spot: As a family sits around the dinner table, an incredulous [...]