Leer también Chile: el original y la copia en la parte de abajo Fuente: Argenpress por Ernesto Carmona 18 de enero, 2010 Sebastián Piñera obtuvo medio millón de votos más que en la primera vuelta, pese a que el total de votantes disminuyó en 34.161 electores respecto a diciembre. Eduardo Frei añadió 1,3 millones a sus resultados de diciembre [...]

Published in Amauta with special permission from the author by Harvey Wasserman Massachusetts again reminds us why the Democrats are such losers. They are terminal schizophrenics, driven mad by the corporate dominance of American politics. They cannot govern and make significant change at the same time because the system is geared to make this impossible. Somehow, this core [...]

Read also Wisdom at 100: Defend Democracy Against the Corporate State below Source: Reuters January 21, 2010 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court struck down on Thursday long-standing limits on corporate spending in U.S. political campaigns, such as this year’s congressional races and the 2012 presidential contest. The ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration and the campaign [...]

Source: The Guardian Ten years after the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein switches her attention from the mall to Barack Obama and discovers that corporate culture has taken over the US government by Naomi Klein January 16, 2010 Extracted from a 10th anniversary edition of No Logo to be published by Fourth Estate on 21 January. In May 2009, [...]

Source: Al Jazeera English January 14, 2010 Haiti’s place as one of the poorest countries in the hemisphere was not inevitable. Its history has been marked not only by natural disasters, but by political and economic conflict. It is a story of international intervention that has left the country particularly vulnerable. Al Jazeera’s Avi Lewis reports.

Source: Democracy Now! Part 2 and 3 below January 13, 2010 Haiti has been devastated by a massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest to strike the Caribbean nation in more than two centuries. Buildings have collapsed. Fires rage in the streets. The extent of the disaster is still unknown, but there are fears thousands of people may have died [...]

Source: The Indypendent by Arun Gupta January 8, 2010 If one case encapsulates the disaster that is the Obama administration, it may be the dustup over the A.I.G. bonuses last March. Recall that extreme gambling by A.I.G. Financial Products nearly crashed the world in 2008, necessitating a taxpayer bailout of $182.3 billion (and counting). Following this, A.I.G., now [...]

Fuente: IPS por Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, ene (IPS) – El gobierno de Barack Obama no ha cambiado la forma habitual que tiene Estados Unidos de relacionarse con América Latina y las esperanzas surgidas en ese sentido cuando asumió hace casi un año se han desvanecido. La peor crisis económica desde la Gran Depresión de los años 30, una [...]

Los límites del sistema representativo Las nuevas tecnologías posibilitan la creación de institutos como revocatoria de mandatos y asambleas populares. Recomponer la relación entre sociedad y política. La mirada de Roberto Follari, destacado académico argentino. por Natalia Brite 22 de octubre, 2009 Una reforma política profunda debería contemplar el establecimiento de mecanismos de cierta democracia directa, como los son [...]

Fuente: CEPRID por Alberto Cruz 25 de diciembre, 2009 Los maoístas nepalíes han recuperado la iniciativa política en Nepal después de haber sido desalojados del Gobierno el pasado mes de mayo por una coalición de 22 partidos, sumisos a las presiones de India, ante la pretensión de que abandonase la jefatura del Ejército un general que sistemáticamente se [...]