Amauta

La cumbre de la ultraderecha mundial en Buenos Aires revela varias cosas. Por un lado, la creciente desesperación del imperialismo para “reordenar su tropa” y tratar de retomar el control absoluto de este continente. La heroica resistencia de Cuba (en donde el VI° Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba acaba de [...]

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Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch
Source: TomDispatch
by Chip Ward
What if the Tea Party ruled?  Imagine a land, let’s call it Glennbeckistan, where white, patriarchal, religiously zealous, Tea Party-type patriots hold a super-majority in both houses of the legislature, sit in the governor’s mansion, and control most local governments. It’s a place so out [...]

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A packed house hears a left-wing critique of Obama
by Seth Rolbein
October 29, 2009
BOSTON UNIVERSITY – With the Tsai Performance Center filled to its 500-seat capacity, many in the audience remembered when that hall was named Hayden, the University was in turmoil, and Howard Zinn was both lightning rod and radical catalyst.
Much has changed. The Howard [...]

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Lo acusan de fomentar la creación de un grupo paramilitar
por Antonio Albiñana
20 de octubre, 2009
La Fiscalía General de Colombia decidió ayer reabrir la investigación contra el vicepresidente de la República, Francisco Santos, por supuesta alianza con grupos paramilitares para formar un escuadrón armado en la capital del país. La causa judicial fue archivada precipitadamente hace [...]

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by James Bovard
July 2009
Few federal agencies have as much bipartisan support as the National Endowment for Democracy. Created in 1983, NED’s stated mission is to “strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts.” In actuality, NED allows U.S. politicians to meddle in foreign elections at the same time they pretend to be spreading democracy.
The [...]

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by Henry A. Giroux
October 1, 2009
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, echoing the feelings of many progressives, recently wrote in The New York Times about how dismayed he was over the success right-wing ideologues have had not only in undercutting Obama’s health care bill, but also in mobilizing enormous public support against almost any reform [...]

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por Enrique González-Manet
25 de septiembre, 2009
Expertos lingüistas afirman que para que un idioma sobreviva necesita ser hablado por más de 100.000 personas.  Esto plantea un difícil problema, pues de las 6.000 lenguas existentes, la mitad es hablada por menos de 10.000 individuos y un cuarto por menos de 1.000.  En cambio, unas veinte concentran millones [...]

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por Nazanin Amirian
30 de septiembre, 2009
Sería un error descifrar la fijación de Mahmud Ahmadineyad por Israel en clave religiosa, por su compromiso con la causa palestina o en el marco de la disputa que libran Teherán y Tel Aviv por la hegemonía de uno de los enclaves más estratégicos del mundo. Sus motivos van por [...]

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US war on crime has nothing to do with crime

One in 35 Americans are caught up in the corrections system and incarceration is on the rise. Why is this when the US crime rate has dropped so remarkably?
by Andrew Oxford
September 2009
The United States incarcerates more of its own citizens than any other nation. It has [...]

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Should Judge Laurence Silberman have recused himself from a case involving alleged torture for which his buddies were ultimately responsible?
by Jeremy Scahill
September 14, 2009
On September 11, the US appeals court for the District of Columbia announced in a 2-1 decision that it was throwing out a lawsuit against CACI International and L-3 Communications Titan unit, [...]

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