Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso y por medio de Rebelión por Mariano González “La que llora es la niña de siete años. La que ya no pudo abrazar a su papá. La que tuvo que hacer de mamá a esa edad”. La mujer, indígena guatemalteca, madre y estudiante universitaria, lo narra llorando. No puede decirlo de [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell “The way you saw the earth shake, that’s how our bodies are shaking now,” said a member of the grassroots anti-violence group Commission of Women Victim-to-Victim (KOFAVIV by its Creole acronym). She was speaking at a meeting about violence against women and children since the [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the authors by Clare Bayard & Sarah Lazare Think back seven years ago to this day. Where were you on March 19th, 2003, when the invasion began? Did you see “Shock and Awe” footage of the orange explosions in the clear Baghdad sky, piped in grainy TV shows, lit at [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author Source: The Independent Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to the US request with a big concrete slap by Johann Hari March 12, 2010 Could the Israeli government make it any more obvious they have no intention of sharing the Over-Promised Land with its other inhabitants? This week the Obama administration – who give [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from TomDispatch and the author Source: TomDispatch by Tom Engelhardt Hubris?  We’re bigger than that! We’ve now been at war with, or in, Iraq for almost 20 years, and intermittently at war in Afghanistan for 30 years.  Think of it as nearly half a century of experience, all bad.  And what is it [...]

Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso del autor Fuente: The Guardian Traducción: Andrés Prado, Rebelión por Mark Weisbrot 5 de marzo, 2010 El tour de Hillary Clinton por Latinoamérica está resultando tan exitoso como la visita de George W. Bush en 2005, cuando terminó marchándose de Argentina un día antes de lo planeado simplemente para largarse cuanto antes del país. [...]

Fuente: Rebelión por Ilaria Arienta El pasado 3 de noviembre, los gobiernos de Colombia y Estados Unidos firmaron un acuerdo para permitir la instalación de tropas estadounidenses en siete bases militares colombianas. Ambos países han aclarado que se trata de un nuevo capítulo de la lucha contra el narcotráfico y el terrorismo, lucha que Estados Unidos ya [...]

Source: t r u t h o u t by Henry A. Giroux March 4, 2010 The absolute … spells doom to everyone when it is introduced into the political realm. - Hannah Arendt [1] Democracy in the United States is experiencing both a crisis of meaning and a legitimation crisis. As the promise of an aspiring democracy is [...]

Artículo publicado en Amauta con permiso del autor por Andrés Sorel No hablamos de las consignas de un partido político, de las normas a las que ha de adaptarse un militante al que se le exige a atenerse a unos estatutos y obedecer las leyes del centralismo democrático, y menos aún de las señas de identidad de [...]