Es imposible leer el recién publicado informe de la CIA sobre la tortura de prisioneros musulmanes sin pensar en el Tercer Reich por Ted Rall 3 de septiembre, 2009 Al diablo con la Ley de Godwin – Es imposible leer el recién publicado informe de la CIA sobre la tortura de prisioneros musulmanes sin pensar en el Tercer [...]

El aval a Ley de Propiedad Intelectual dependerá de una modificación a la agenda legislativa 3 de septiembre, 2009 A 120 días para que finalice el año y para que el reloj marque el momento en que Costa Rica debe estar lista para la entrada en vigencia del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Estados Unidos y Centroamérica [...]

por Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA, 3 sep (IPS) – La condena de 150 años de prisión para el ex paramilitar Felipe Cusanero por el secuestro y desaparición de seis indígenas entre 1982 y 1984, alienta la idea de que podría funcionar la justicia en Guatemala, donde la impunidad cobija a 98 por ciento de los delitos. El fallo, [...]

by Ken Boehm August 31, 2009 NLPC has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include [...]

The facilities were never meant to be ‘ordinary prisons,’ recently released documents reveal in meticulous detail. by Greg Miller August 31, 2009 Their transformations took place in a sensory cocoon: aboard a CIA aircraft, shackled in place, deprived of sight and sound by blindfolds, headsets and hoods. They emerged into an existence that was hidden for most of the [...]

Frente a la criminalización o a la fragmentación Entrevista a Wladimir Painemal, cofundador del periódico mapuche Azkintuwe por Franck Gaudichaud y Rocio Gajardo 1 de setiembre, 2009 En varias partes del Sur de Chile, la represión en contra de las luchas del movimiento mapuche sigue e incluso se ha agudizado en los últimos meses. Desde el fin de la [...]

by Adam Goldman and Pamela Hess August 30, 2009 WASHINGTON – When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA. With Blackwater’s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of [...]

by Jeff Huber August 29, 2009 A singular absurdity of the 21st century is that the nation that spends more on defense than the rest of the world combined needs to hire mercenaries to fight wars against enemies who have no defense budget at all. An August 19 New York Times article revealed that in 2004 the CIA [...]

ver también Resistir nuestra seguridad: los ojos de vidrio by Declan McCullagh August 28, 2009 Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a [...]

There was nothing natural about the disaster that befell New Orleans in Katrina’s aftermath. by James Ridgeway August 28, 2009 Confronted with images of corpses floating in the blackened floodwaters or baking in the sun on abandoned highways, there aren’t too many people left who see what happened following Hurricane Katrina as a purely “natural” disaster. The dominant [...]