La ilusión de un mandatario todopoderoso Fuente: Le Monde Diplomatique Chile Traducción: Lucía Vera por Serge Halimi Enero 2010 Las expectativas desmesuradas de los sectores progresistas que vieron en la elección de Barack Obama una revolución en la política de Estados Unidos comienzan a trocarse en desconcierto y hasta decepción. Por otro lado, la derecha republicana, histérica y cada vez [...]

Source: Free Speech for People January 22, 2010 Congresswoman Donna Edwards and constitutional law professor Jamie Raskin speak out against the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC and call for a mass movement of people to support a constitutional amendment. Visit FreeSpeechforPeople.org to learn more and get involved! On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

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 [...]