Fuente: La Jornada por Immanuel Wallerstein 20 de febrero, 2010 Uno sabe que está viviendo una situación caótica cuando: (1) los principales medios se sorprenden constantemente por lo que ocurre; (2) las predicciones de corto plazo de los variados expertos van, de un modo radical, en diferentes direcciones y son expresadas con muchas reservas; (3) el establishment se [...]

Source: GRITtv February 25, 2010 The Bush administration thrived on secrecy; Obama promised more transparency, but has yet to really deliver. What’s more, when information does come out, it seems that accountability is nearly impossible to get: the torture memos were released, but there will be no trials. We ask Daniel Ellsberg, one of the world’s most famous [...]

Fuente: Público Más de 25.000 personas protestan en Atenas contra los recortes sociales impuestos por la UE para reducir el déficit por Yorgos-Byron Davos 25 de febrero, 2010 “No seremos nosotros los que paguemos la crisis de los ricos”. Con ese objetivo en mente coreado en manifestaciones, escrito en pancartas y octavillas, pintado sobre muros y bancos de Atenas [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell As Haiti moves forward from the current point of devastation of its population, capitol city, and economy, what could a different nation look like? Who knows better than the Haitian majority?  Why not ask them what they need and want? Their perspectives have been sorely lost from [...]

Fuente: Palestine Think Tank Traducción: Loles Oliván, Rebelión por Tariq Shadid 12 de febrero, 2010 No maten nuestra independencia antes de que nazca La lucha por la liberación de Palestina ha alcanzado una de sus fases más difíciles hasta el momento. La compleja situación actual muestra cambios positivos y negativos que deben ser sopesados en su justa medida. Una cosa, [...]

Source: Real News Network Engdahl: Goldman helped create Greek financial crisis and now EU and IMF want people to pay

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell People have all kinds of things to say about where Haiti should go from here, and how it should get there. It’s an old story, that of being sure what’s best for the Haitian people, trying to remake Haiti in one’s own image. In this case, [...]

Source: Democracy Now! February 9, 2010 The Obama administration has acknowledged it’s continuing a Bush-era policy authorizing the killing of US citizens abroad. The confirmation came from Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in congressional testimony last week. Blair said, “Being a US citizen will not spare an American from getting assassinated by military or intelligence operatives [...]

Source: The Nation by William Greider January 28, 2010 When citizens shake off their resignation and rebel against the political elites, Washington reacts as if a dread new disease has risen from the swamp of public opinion. Spin doctors are on the case, prescribing various “cures” to inoculate the governing order against this virulent strain of flu. The [...]

Fuente: Argenpress por Homar Garcés 4 de febrero, 2010 Para los reformistas, la revolución socialista siempre consistirá en el monopolio creciente de cargos gubernamentales o de elección popular, de manera que puedan ejercer un control absoluto en todos los poderes públicos. Todo esto pudiera justificarse, oponiendo a la hegemonía de las clases dominantes la necesidad de la hegemonía revolucionaria, [...]