english (original) version below por Noam Chomsky 23 de julio, 2009 Se libra un debate en la Organización de Naciones Unidas (ONU) sobre una política que podría parecer indiscutible: un marco internacional para evitar crímenes graves contra la humanidad.

by Jeremy Scahill August 7, 2009 Just days before two former Blackwater employees alleged in sworn statements filed in federal court that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” the Obama administration extended a contract with Blackwater for more than $20 million [...]

La guerra, desde su preparación hasta sus secuelas, ha definido tanto la naturaleza esencial de las principales naciones capitalistas como su poder relativo desde por lo menos 1914. La guerra se convirtió en el mayor catalizador de cambio en movimientos revolucionarios en Rusia, China y Vietnam. Aunque las guerras también crearon partidos reaccionarios y fascistas, particularmente en el caso de Italia y

by Naomi Wolf July 25, 2009 There’s a McDonald’s on the high street, suburban houses, rats the size of dogs and 229 of the world’s most high-profile prisoners. Six months after President Obama declared that he would close it down, Naomi Wolf heads to Guantánamo Bay to see whether anything has changed.

por Eva Golinger 1 de agosto, 2009 * El Presupuesto de la USAID y el Departamento de Estado aumenta el 12% para el año 2010, con 2,2 mil millones de dólares destinados a América Latina * 447,7 millones de dólares son para “promover la democracia” en América Latina * 13 millones de dólares para “promover la democracia” en Venezuela * [...]

by Jim Wolf August 3, 2009 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon is seeking to speed deployment of an ultra-large “bunker-buster” bomb on the most advanced U.S. bomber as soon as July 2010, the Air Force said on Sunday, amid concerns over perceived nuclear threats from North Korea and Iran.

And Ten Steps to Take to Do So by Chalmers Johnson July 30, 2009 However ambitious President Barack Obama’s domestic plans, one unacknowledged issue has the potential to destroy any reform efforts he might launch. Think of it as the 800-pound gorilla in the American living room: our longstanding reliance on imperialism and militarism in our relations with [...]

by John Markoff and Tom Shanker August 1, 2009 It would have been the most far-reaching case of computer sabotage in history. In 2003, the Pentagon and American intelligence agencies made plans for a cyberattack to freeze billions of dollars in the bank accounts of Saddam Hussein and cripple his government’s financial system before the United States [...]

english (original) version below El problema con la Responsabilidad de Proteger por Jean Bricmont 28 de julio, 2009 El 23 de julio, un debate sobre la Responsabilidad de Proteger tuvo lugar ante la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas. La Responsabilidad de Proteger (RdP) es un concepto adoptado por los líderes del mundo en 2005, que hace a los [...]

Increasingly frozen out by the U.S. military, KBR concedes the Afghan battlefront. by Nathan Vardi July 31, 2009 DynCorp International, the Falls Church, Va., provider of mission critical services to the U.S. military, got good news Thursday from Houston rival KBR, which said it would not be protesting the recent loss of work supporting American troops in Afghanistan [...]